ariotofmyown Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Not like the ones I used to know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carl Sagan Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Used to know! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Where the treetops glisten... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIMBAUD Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 And children listen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbob Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 To hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 Derby, Derby, DERBY, DERBY................ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Philmycock Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 7 minutes ago, Inverurie Ram said: Derby, Derby, DERBY, DERBY................ Huh, sleigh bells in the snow you crazy baffoon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 14 minutes ago, philmycock said: Huh, sleigh bells in the snow you crazy baffoon This is the Mild version..........get with the ball game son! And I'm sure the White version don't mention you crazy baffoon in it either! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DesertRam Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I've forgotten what a white Christmas is like, its been about 34 Years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimRam Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 My brothers and me made up this as kids...hours of laughing with this one... I'm dreaming of a brown and steamy Christmas Just like the ones I used to know Where treetops died and children go "Phooorrr!" To hear the thing going...*phhharrrrtttt* That last bit was the cue for all 3 of us to make louding farting sounds. Oh the wonders of Christmas. Everyone thought we were mad...we still are ha ha! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Walks slowly away from the thread...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 7 minutes ago, eddie said: Walks slowly away from the thread...... Do you like mild beer Eddie, when I started drinking it was virtually the only draught beer , very few pubs had bitter,, never mind people drinking it. The only lager was Carlsberg, and that was bottled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 2 minutes ago, Ovis aries said: Do you like mild beer Eddie, when I started drinking it was virtually the only draught beer , very few pubs had bitter,, never mind people drinking it. The only lager was Carlsberg, and that was bottled. There was Carling Black label and Harp as well in the early 60s. And brown ale. Mild beer hardly exists down here in London land apart from a few craft microbreweries. My old Dad and his fellow cronies told me when they were in their dotage, that in their youth they all started with mild then progressed to bitter (always Bass) and then gradually moved back to mild when they grew ancient through variations such as brown and mild, mild and pale ale, light and mild, or half and half (mild and bitter) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 7 minutes ago, Ovis aries said: Do you like mild beer Eddie, when I started drinking it was virtually the only draught beer , very few pubs had bitter,, never mind people drinking it. The only lager was Carlsberg, and that was bottled. My father's pub was an Ind Coope house - we served XXX Mild, Ind Coope Best Bitter, Double Diamond and Skol lager on draught. That was around 1967 when he took his first pub - the mild and the bitter were cask-conditioned (36 gallon tubs) whereas the DD and Skol were 'keg'. Later we started to sell Draught Guinness. Bottles were (IIRC) Guinness, Mackeson, Skol, Double Diamond, Light Ale, Brown Ale, Gold Label (Barley Wine) and a stronger lager in nips called Skol Liqueur (a bit like Carlsberg Specal Brew). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie20 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders etc etc . great name - crap beer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 1 minute ago, Wolfie20 said: Double Diamond works wonders, works wonders etc etc . great name - crap beer. It was the original 'chemical beer' and christened 'Eurofizz' alongside the likes of Whitbread Tankard, Worthington E and the like. There was a proper conspiracy amongst the big 4 brewers to adjust their brews until they all tasted pretty well the same - their aim was so that you could go anywhere in the country and have a pint just like you had at home. Luckily, CAMRA came along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfie20 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm no expert on ale - I like what I like and think this 'real ale' business is a lot of tosh! Taste & flavours are individual and my favourites have been Irish stouts in Irish pubs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Inverurie Ram Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Back in the olden days. Up here in the North East of Scotland, Aberdeenshire, most pubs had the choice of Tennents Lager or McEwan's Scottish Ale (Heavy) on draught, with Guinness and Best also served up in the posh pubs! Some of only just got round to putting in Ladies toilets! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ovis aries Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'm a bitt earlier 1960 my first legal drink, I started on Kimberly and Shipstones mild and as I say in some pubs only mild was on draught. Strange thing happened in one budget around that time, they actually took a penny a pint OFF beer , down to 1s1d from 1s2d. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 25 minutes ago, Wolfie20 said: I'm no expert on ale - I like what I like and think this 'real ale' business is a lot of tosh! Taste & flavours are individual and my favourites have been Irish stouts in Irish pubs Thanks for your opinion - I'd like you to know that it's as welcome and valuable as anybody else's, no matter how utterly wrong and pig-ignorant it may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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