Another pointless thread

The proper way to drink gin is Pink Gin. A dash of Angostura bitters mixed with the gin over ice. The bitters is highly alcoholic too but wont stop you getting malaria as tonic was always reputed to.

I must admit I quite like absinthe too, but it can be very peculiar stuff, which was probably why it was banned for so long. i certainly wouldn't touch it within a few days of having to go to work. At 80 per cent ABV in the stronger ones you get lots of bang for your buck.

Funny how alcohol triggers numerous pages of drinking advice. And I thought this was a pointless thread

PS. A teetotaller myself I cannot participate in this discussion.

Sadly, my pub refuses to stock WD-40 as a mixer. This is even after I took the time to correct their No Smoking sign, which originally read: "These are no smoking premises." When they told me that "no" was not being used as a Scottish equivalent of "not" but in the conventional English way, I scanned the sign, added a hyphen where it was clearly needed, printed out the corrected version and stuck it up on the wall. The Old Mill Inn at Maryculter, Aberdeenshire, remains the only bar in the country, I suspect, with a properly punctuated No Smoking sign. What thanks do I get? Not even WD-40 to mix with the overproof dark rum.

Al

According to the bottle in my fridge George it still does.

Please can we separate %ABV from proof.

(George - see me in my study afterwards for starting a paragraph let alone a sentence with "And".)

Tried Lapsang Souchong once, it was like drinking burnt rubber!

Enough to drive a man to drink...

...but not Lapsang Souchong!!

Looked Lapsang Souchong up with google and wiki says it goes well with a whisky so you're right

Just as learner drivers are not permitted to do certain things, so students of our mother tongue are not permitted to start a sentence with a conjunction.

But once a certain proficiency has been attained, modern grammarians tolerate initial conjunctions. And I would have you know that even good old HGF himself approved the use of an initial conjunction on occasion. Since he is generally regarded as the ultimate authority on these questions, I am happy to commence even paragraphs with conjunctions when the subject of the discussion is clear.

Unless you are yourself confident of your ability to use a conjuction correctly, you should refrain from following my example. Or, in other words, don't start a sentence with And, But, Because, However, Or, Unless, or Since. However, I am sure you are quite capable of conjoining with aplomb.

Because I am a stickler for correct English, I thought I should make these points clear.

G

My father used to drink rum and orange when he got together with his ex navy mates.

K.

Thank you George, it's so refreshing to have a conversation with somebody who appreciates the finer points of the English language.

I get annoyed at constantly hearing 'init' 'nowotameen' 'wikeed' and other slang and pointless phrases, some, not all, originating from American gang culture.

The bulk of youths that use them are usually too thick to remember their names!

This rant coming from a Yorkshireman as well!!

Hmmm. The old "Do as I say, not as I do" defence.

I had expected better of you George, but---


That's going back a few years.

Already beat you to the draw on the cricket aspect Steve (we deserved it this time).

As to the beer though, there's not always a choice: There's been more than one occasion when I've been roughing it 'out bush', and the beer gets impressively chilled just by sitting outside. No fridge needed

PS - do you get a 'Guiness'-styled stout over there called Murphy's?

Murphy's, from Cork, is now owned by Heineken, which is why you get it in Oz.
Again it is better in Cork than elsewhere.
Stouts don't travel well, nor do they taste the same when brewed away from their home brewery.

It's the water Gwyn - that alters the taste