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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 18, 2022 15:13:40 GMT
We've not been able to buy alcohol at grounds since 1980. Next time you're at the game and your team is losing, imagine how much fun it is watching Scottish football sober.
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 18, 2022 15:35:53 GMT
I usually drive to games, so sober is the default choice.
It takes about 40 minutes by car, but up to a couple of hours by public transport.
For night matches I'd have to choose a bus which is unreliable or the train which is reliable but drops me a £12+ taxi ride from home (and too late to go to the pub anyway).
I live at a point which is terribly served for public transport. Especially considering it is part of a big city.
I have been to pretty much every pub near the ground. They are almost all awful and full of our fans.
I sometimes go to away games with my dad. I have to drive back then as he dozes in the car after games.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 18, 2022 15:39:36 GMT
I live quite near to a road in London that the pm’s dad heard was being bought up by ‘the Qataris’. This was a while ago. I think it is happening - a big redevelopment. Anyway there used to be a pub on the corner and ‘the Quataris’ (apparently) bought that too - not because they wanted to redevelop it but because they didn’t like booze.
I’m starting to question it now I see it written down but the news about the no beer near football stadiums has brought it back.
Am I perpetuating a monstrous cultural stereotype?
I don’t know. Maybe? I hope not. It’s possible.
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 18, 2022 15:41:18 GMT
Our little Greta was telling me on the way home from school that when discussing the world cup today in class, she pointed out about the human rights violations in Quatar.
Thanks John Craven.
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 18, 2022 15:46:53 GMT
Our little Greta was telling me on the way home from school that when discussing the world cup today in class, she pointed out about the human rights violations in Quatar. Thanks John Craven. It is against human rights to only sell Budweiser. |
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Post by amipal on Nov 18, 2022 15:48:47 GMT
I live quite near to a road in London that the pm’s dad heard was being bought up by ‘the Qataris’. This was a while ago. I think it is happening - a big redevelopment. Anyway there used to be a pub on the corner and ‘the Quataris’ (apparently) bought that too - not because they wanted to redevelop it but because they didn’t like booze. I’m starting to question it now I see it written down but the news about the no beer near football stadiums has brought it back. Am I perpetuating a monstrous cultural stereotype? I don’t know. Maybe? I hope not. It’s possible. In Brighton, a load of new “apartments”* went up down the Marina. Most of them are empty through large chunks of the year, allegedly owned by f’rerners. Where will little Homer live? *flats |
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Post by muffrat on Nov 18, 2022 15:49:02 GMT
Afternoon gents
Lunch was reheated chicken tikka biryani with vindaloo sauce. Delicious.
Had 2 jobs today: board out enough of the unused space in the loft, so as to be able to shift enough shit out of the garage up there, to finally be able to open/close the garage door. Smashed it. I'm scratched to all fuck from glass fibre insulation and sticking-out nails and I'm knackered, but at least I can start filling the garage up with shit again.
Other job was to buy some booze for my daughter and her friends - this is a first. PM had a hand-wringing telephone conversation with her mate's parents over whether they should be 'allowed' - I'm firmly of the opinion that a bit of supervised alcohol use is a good thing (they're 15/16). The French seem to do OK with it, although probably not with blue WKD. I'm locking any opened bottles of spirits from the cupboard away though, I'm not daft
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 18, 2022 16:00:43 GMT
At least 1 15 year-old will get very drunk early doors and you will have to deal with the resulting mess. If you are lucky there will just be vomit everywhere.
If you are unlucky there will be a lot of tears as well and you'll end up apologising for her emotional instability.
You'll need all the spirits you can hide.
You need some ribena and traffic light bacardi breezers as well as WKD Blue. If you are going for awful drinks might as well go the whole way.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Nov 18, 2022 16:03:06 GMT
10.1% increase to State Pension. I know others may think differently but that seems excessive when taxes are going up across the board.
A one-off payment to pensioners would have made more sense perhaps.
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Post by Shenguin on Nov 18, 2022 16:07:06 GMT
At least 1 15 year-old will get very drunk early doors and you will have to deal with the resulting mess. If you are lucky there will just be vomit everywhere. If you are unlucky there will be a lot of tears as well and you'll end up apologising for her emotional instability. I assume Sheeps hasn't been hosting parties of teenagers recently, and as a character witness for his defence, I can confirm this is a pretty accurate description of his emotional behaviour at parties in his teens. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Nov 18, 2022 16:19:34 GMT
At least 1 15 year-old will get very drunk early doors and you will have to deal with the resulting mess. If you are lucky there will just be vomit everywhere. If you are unlucky there will be a lot of tears as well and you'll end up apologising for her emotional instability. I assume Sheeps hasn't been hosting parties of teenagers recently, and as a character witness for his defence, I can confirm this is a pretty accurate description of his emotional behaviour at parties in his teens. In my teens? I am insulted. Have you never seen me at a party as an adult? I will admit the last party I was at where there were teenagers (earlier this year) they were embarrassingly and inappropriately sober for the most part. Unlike the adults. |
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 18, 2022 17:22:48 GMT
Muffrat is the party in your gaff?
My pals mum at that age used to buy us cider. We would also buy other booze to top this up.
There would be parties at his place. High rise flat, his parents in the tiny kitchen. His dad after a couple of drinks would be asking folk if they were at school with his son. Which was his way of finding out if they were Catholic or not. God bless the West of Scotland.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 18, 2022 17:39:27 GMT
When I was 15, at the end of each term we would go to a supermarket and buy lots of snacks and chocolate. Then we’d go back to a friend’s house to eat it.
No booze. Maybe watch Star Wars or a Pet Shop Boys video.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 18, 2022 17:43:38 GMT
A Big Feast we’d call it. It was quite exciting.
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Post by Tuffers on Nov 18, 2022 17:54:34 GMT
It's a sin.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Nov 18, 2022 18:07:33 GMT
What's wrong with sitting in your bedroom alone, playing Lords of Midnight? The kids these days don't know they're born.
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Post by BabyfarkmcGeezak on Nov 18, 2022 18:33:41 GMT
Bunch of losers. At 15 I was smoking squidgy black and riding motor cross bikes at 80 mph down country roads.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 18, 2022 18:38:02 GMT
And this, gentlemen, is how Britain became broken.
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 18, 2022 18:51:38 GMT
Amazon have got a coffee grinder on subscribe and save. How much coffee do you drink that you're going to be going through grinders?
I'm not Kane. No offence.
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 18, 2022 18:53:40 GMT
At 14 I was passed a pipe full of red leb. Hadn't realised said metal pipe would be hot and dropped the fucker. Hash everywhere. Instantly blackballed.
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Post by lazybones on Nov 18, 2022 19:06:18 GMT
I have now been reminded of some more ‘fun’.
At the age of 17 my parents were away and some friends came round to my house.
We had a ‘Big Feast’, we watched ‘Evil Dead 2’, we carved a pumpkin then took it out to a country lane where we placed it and hid in a bush to watch the effect it would have on horrified drivers.
The effects were a bit underwhelming. I think we went back and got in a friend’s car and drove down the lane to see what other drivers saw. It was just a vegetable in the road.
I think, in the end, we went to a local ‘haunted wood’, and hid in some bushes, then we wandered out in front of a car as if we were ghosts ... The car stopped and people got out. Were we being chased? It’s hard to say …
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Post by crankcaller on Nov 18, 2022 19:08:12 GMT
It was just a vegetable in the road. BabyFark had come off his trail bike stoned out his head? |
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Post by scubar on Nov 18, 2022 19:21:29 GMT
Is this it? Is this the end of amipal? We can only hope. |
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Post by muffrat on Nov 18, 2022 20:08:35 GMT
There's three of them, and they've got 8 bottles of 4% wkd blue between them. I'm confident I can manage the fallout, but watch this space. The 2 other girls are sleeping over and the rowdiest it's got so far is making tik tok videos on the trampoline outside. If they've got weed I've not smelled it and they're not sharing
I was always allowed to drink in moderation, in company, at family gatherings. A few cans of low % beer, whatever I could minesweep off the tables, and the odd drink nudged towards me by a drunken uncle with a conspiratorial wink. Other than the Advocaat incident of '88 it seemed to work out quite well
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Post by Shenguin on Nov 18, 2022 20:16:29 GMT
Can the Designated Safeguarding Officer please check Muffrat's posting history to see if he admits to an Xbox?
Does his uncle also post here?
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