Beer And Beer Drinking

[version]

There's still quite a lot of older people here who are well into Franco, it's really weird. I was a bit alarmed when that old guy started ranting the other day in the bar, but no one else batted an eyelid.

Yeah, I remember reading about people having pictures of him and stuff. Imagine you went to Germany and someone had a pic of Big Adolf in their cafe. Absurd.

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"... a unique Spanish restaurant where you can enjoy great food, fine wines, and relive the glory of General Franco’s brutal fascist dictatorship."

 

[Benny Bunter]

Yeah exactly.

I haven't seen any pictures of him anywhere, but he's still there lurking in the background.

I think there's still statues of him up in some places in spain

 

[version]

Just touched down in Madrid

Gracias por favour adiós denada

 

[version]

Jack getting a pic doing a thumbs up next to a Franco statue.

 

[Murphy]

So wine makes you fat as well?

I do a fair bit of exercise so it's not so much the calories I'm worried about, it's just beer seems to go straight to your belly. Is there such thing as a wine belly?

beers are carby, red wine in moderation can lower blood sugar

if I was going to drink anything now it would be grain alcohol, even then it’s only used as a carrier for making tinctures and oils or slowly dissolving hashish into tinctures as a boost and to remove certain impurities

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[Mr. Tea]

Yeah, I remember reading about people having pictures of him and stuff. Imagine you went to Germany and someone had a pic of Big Adolf in their cafe. Absurd.

This Restaurant Is Nostalgic for Fascist Spain

Do you miss General Franco? Then head to Casa Pepe.

www.vice.com

"... a unique Spanish restaurant where you can enjoy great food, fine wines, and relive the glory of General Franco’s brutal fascist dictatorship."

Ha, but of course it's called Casa Pepe.

 

[wg-]

I was in Cologne years ago and were sitting in the flat of a lad we bought from when he brought out a Hitler sticker album from the 30s that he'd bought at a second hand market.

Weird atmosphere, I think he had assumed we were something we weren't - I was just going bald, not a skinhead. Anyway strange atmosphere

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Yeah, I remember reading about people having pictures of him and stuff. Imagine you went to Germany and someone had a pic of Big Adolf in their cafe. Absurd.

 

[wg-]

Going to do some old fashioned fat belly beer drinking today

 

[Mr. Tea]

A very long time ago, IdleRich and his then gf put on a night in a tiny basement bar in Soho that was allegedly run by mobsters, and you could buy red wine by the glass from bottles branded with the name and likeness of Hitler and Mussolini. Which I found a bit odd, I must confess.

 

[Benny Bunter]

They tried slimming him down over the years but the original fat-bellied Falstaffian Cruzcampo guy is back

 

[Benny Bunter]

Later in red and white cans.

Red stripe. Budvar. Budweiser. Zyweic. Tyskie. What else?

www.dissensus.com

 

[Corpsey]

I'm drinking some beer in preparation for visiting the barbers

I discovered this life hack by accident recently

Find it awkward talking to the barber? Have a pint beforehand and you'll be making HIM yearn for silence

 

[Corpsey]

Apparently there's no museums about the Spanish civil war in Madrid

They refer to it as "la gran pelea educada", which to me feels like they're downplaying it slightly

 

[Benny Bunter]

The lowest of the low is the 'litrona', a litre of Cruzcampo which you see homeless people drinking in the street cos its so cheap (1.50 euros). As soon as you open it all the gas escapes so you're left with a whole litre of rapidly warming lifeless liquid to get through.

 

[Corpsey]

Really takes me back this, to the teenage years, nervously trying to polish off a can of disgusting kronenberg before I get to the pub or whatever

 

[Corpsey]

Speaking of Kronenberg, did I mention how I had one of the most refreshing pints ever in Paris?

Can't decide if it's that they do kronenberg better there or I was just hot and thirsty and with work colleagues so dying for a drink

 

[Mr. Tea]

I'm drinking some beer in preparation for visiting the barbers

I discovered this life hack by accident recently

Find it awkward talking to the barber? Have a pint beforehand and you'll be making HIM yearn for silence

Or you realise you need a piss a few minutes after he starts snipping and spend the rest of the haircut squirming in discomfort.

Maybe a couple of shots would be better?

 

[Benny Bunter]

Really takes me back this, to the teenage years, nervously trying to polish off a can of disgusting kronenberg before I get to the pub or whatever

Ever swigged from a warm can at a party that someone's put a fag out in?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Ever swigged from a warm can at a party that someone's put a fag out in?

I think this is a coming-of-age thing. You can't officially graduate to manhood unless this has happened to you at least once.

 

[version]

My mate once did it with his own empty beer just sat in his bedroom with a couple of us. He'd been ashing joints and cigs into it all night and had the one he was drinking from next to it. A disaster waiting to happen.