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Title: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 08, 2007, 04:10:26 PM
Anything you want to tell us old boy?   eyes:

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Police are looking for thieves who stole a lorry containing 15,000 pints of real ale, from a haulier's yard in Lincoln.
The beer was in 18-gallon barrels which brewing industry experts believe will be melted down and sold for scrap.

The lorry, which was due to transport the real ale to London for the Great British Beer Festival, was stolen in the early hours of 4 August.

James Daley from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) said he did not know how the thieves would get rid of the haul apart from trying to sell it to pub landlords.

"I don't know if there are some discerning thieves out there who actually like real ale and have stolen it for their own purposes but 15,000 pints is going to take a few weeks for them to drink," he said.

Tony Eastwood, managing director of wholesale company Small Beer from whose premises the lorry was stolen, said the firm had been supplying the Great British Beer Festival for 20 years and had this year received its largest ever order.

He added: "There's a growing concern in the brewery industry about casks being melted down and sold for their scrap metal value which can be as much as ?30 a cask."
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 08, 2007, 04:39:29 PM
Anything you want to tell us old boy?   eyes:

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Police are looking for thieves who stole a lorry containing 15,000 pints of real ale, from a haulier's yard in Lincoln.
The beer was in 18-gallon barrels which brewing industry experts believe will be melted down and sold for scrap.

The lorry, which was due to transport the real ale to London for the Great British Beer Festival, was stolen in the early hours of 4 August.

James Daley from the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) said he did not know how the thieves would get rid of the haul apart from trying to sell it to pub landlords.

"I don't know if there are some discerning thieves out there who actually like real ale and have stolen it for their own purposes but 15,000 pints is going to take a few weeks for them to drink," he said.

Tony Eastwood, managing director of wholesale company Small Beer from whose premises the lorry was stolen, said the firm had been supplying the Great British Beer Festival for 20 years and had this year received its largest ever order.

He added: "There's a growing concern in the brewery industry about casks being melted down and sold for their scrap metal value which can be as much as ?30 a cask."
Happy Hour is back... whistle:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 08, 2007, 05:26:20 PM
Something tells me that with 15,000 pints happy will be an understatement  eyes:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Bar Wench on August 08, 2007, 05:47:10 PM
Thesh hic not mush left hic
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 08, 2007, 06:26:06 PM
You shure mished a good party
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Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 08, 2007, 06:34:17 PM
As long as bouncer didnt get any, I've seen what a hungover cat is like  scared2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 08, 2007, 06:35:18 PM
I ish smished...  surrender:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Nick on August 08, 2007, 06:36:32 PM
Normal service then
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 08, 2007, 06:37:08 PM
Normal service then

ysh
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 08, 2007, 11:11:09 PM
As long as bouncer didnt get any, I've seen what a hungover cat is like  scared2:

Indeed !!!  A very grim sight that can strike fear into the bravest heart.      violent073:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Mr Happy on August 08, 2007, 11:18:33 PM
Something tells me that with 15,000 pints happy will be an understatement  eyes:

Thanks, a strange compliment but hey...
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Sour Puss on August 09, 2007, 12:02:13 AM
As long as bouncer didnt get any, I've seen what a hungover cat is like  scared2:


O M G  eeek:

http://www.videovat.com/videos/1648/hungover-cat-drinking.aspx


So have I now.  scared2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Bar Wench on August 09, 2007, 07:45:01 AM
Can we all talk very slowly and quietly today please. The staff lock in was rather ummm rowdy. I'm sorry about the state of the toilets.  sick2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 09, 2007, 07:52:52 AM
Your turn to clean them!  point:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Bar Wench on August 09, 2007, 08:09:49 AM
Your turn to clean them!  point:

I don't think I could today.  sick2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 09, 2007, 08:11:01 AM
Your turn to clean them!  point:

I don't think I could today.  sick2:
Oh dear...  happy100
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2007, 08:50:30 AM
As long as bouncer didnt get any, I've seen what a hungover cat is like  scared2:


O M G  eeek:

http://www.videovat.com/videos/1648/hungover-cat-drinking.aspx


So have I now.  scared2:

When I was younger I found out that one of the family cats had a taste for whiskey after she drained my glass at a family get together. We couldnt go downstairs at all the following day as the moment we started to move there would be an evil growl coming from her and none of us wanted to risk getting shredded.  scared2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 09, 2007, 10:25:59 AM
As long as bouncer didnt get any, I've seen what a hungover cat is like  scared2:


O M G  eeek:

http://www.videovat.com/videos/1648/hungover-cat-drinking.aspx


So have I now.  scared2:

Shit!  I thought I had buried that clip  eeek:

PS. to GM  What was her name? I may have known her - er - socially....
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2007, 10:45:51 AM
She was called Kit Bouncer. The first of three cats we got when I was a kid, 'my' cat. Normally she was curious, talkative, bossy, playful and had a tendancy to concuss herself if there were wildlife programs on the TV.

Must be nearly 15 years since she died & I still miss her at times.  sad24:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 09, 2007, 10:56:54 AM
She was called Kit Bouncer. The first of three cats we got when I was a kid, 'my' cat. Normally she was curious, talkative, bossy, playful and had a tendancy to concuss herself if there were wildlife programs on the TV.

Must be nearly 15 years since she died & I still miss her at times.  sad24:

Know what you mean, I had a matching pair of Siamese,  They were the perfect 'old married couple' that bitched and moaned at each other for 15 years.  She had a perchance for cheese biscuits and rice krispies.  If she didn't get her share at the table there was hell to pay!  He never said a word - you couldn't shut her up!  Typical.

Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 09, 2007, 12:02:58 PM
She was called Kit Bouncer. The first of three cats we got when I was a kid, 'my' cat. Normally she was curious, talkative, bossy, playful and had a tendancy to concuss herself if there were wildlife programs on the TV.

Must be nearly 15 years since she died & I still miss her at times.  sad24:

Know what you mean, I had a matching pair of Siamese,  They were the perfect 'old married couple' that bitched and moaned at each other for 15 years.  She had a perchance for cheese biscuits and rice krispies.  If she didn't get her share at the table there was hell to pay!  He never said a word - you couldn't shut her up!  Typical.

I have a feeling that you may be made to regret that last remark.


Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 09, 2007, 12:09:35 PM
She was called Kit Bouncer. The first of three cats we got when I was a kid, 'my' cat. Normally she was curious, talkative, bossy, playful and had a tendancy to concuss herself if there were wildlife programs on the TV.

Must be nearly 15 years since she died & I still miss her at times.  sad24:

Know what you mean, I had a matching pair of Siamese,  They were the perfect 'old married couple' that bitched and moaned at each other for 15 years.  She had a perchance for cheese biscuits and rice krispies.  If she didn't get her share at the table there was hell to pay!  He never said a word - you couldn't shut her up!  Typical.
I have a feeling that you may be made to regret that last remark.

I should never use a post about a deceased pet to make fun. noooo:

Just as I wouldn't ask if "Perchance" should have been "Penchant", perchance. redface:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 09, 2007, 12:17:08 PM
good
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2007, 12:22:19 PM
Judging from the photograph you had a happier hour than some Bouncer  eyes:



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Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 09, 2007, 01:07:35 PM
Judging from the photograph you had a happier hour than some Bouncer  eyes:

I can see I'm going to have to be more careful...



Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 09, 2007, 02:42:44 PM
Blame Barman, he hid webcams all over the pub 

Apparently there is footage of Berek that is truely horrific  sick2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 09, 2007, 04:04:12 PM
Blame Barman, he hid webcams all over the pub 

Apparently there is footage of Berek that is truely horrific  sick2:
There is footage of the toilets that is truely horrific...  noooo:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 09, 2007, 04:10:23 PM
Blame Barman, he hid webcams all over the pub 

Apparently there is footage of Berek that is truely horrific  sick2:
There is footage of the toilets that is truely horrific...  noooo:

I think you are talking of the same thing here.
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 06:36:18 AM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Nick on August 10, 2007, 07:21:45 AM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Nick on August 10, 2007, 07:22:04 AM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:

 point: point:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 07:30:48 AM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:

 point: point:
redface:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 10, 2007, 08:39:48 AM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:

 eeek: The rumours are true, your karma is so low that you have become Nick's sidekick  scared:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 10, 2007, 09:24:41 AM
Errr ~ That may not have been the irrigation system  redface:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 10, 2007, 09:29:06 AM
That may not have been the brightest admission of guilt Snoopy, if Barman is hungover and narked off he's probably going to go and get the shears of neutering the moment he reads it.  point:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 10, 2007, 09:39:31 AM
a particularly peaty Islay single malt?
cloud9:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 10:05:45 AM
Errr ~ That may not have been the irrigation system  redface:
sick2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 10:22:52 AM
a particularly peaty Islay single malt?
cloud9:
Indeed... there is an empty bottle of Ardbeg around here somewhere...  noooo:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Sour Puss on August 10, 2007, 11:24:07 AM
a particularly peaty Islay single malt?
cloud9:
cloud9: cloud9: or Laphroaig  whistle:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Darwins Selection on August 10, 2007, 11:26:04 AM
a particularly peaty Islay single malt?
cloud9:
Indeed... there is an empty bottle of Ardbeg around here somewhere...  noooo:
No point in telling me about the empty one  doh:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 10, 2007, 11:37:27 AM
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Is my favourite ~ SWMBO prefers Jura
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 11:44:12 AM
Look, it was Ardbeg okay? And it is empty...  noooo:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Snoopy on August 10, 2007, 11:47:14 AM
Look, it was Ardbeg okay? And it is empty...  noooo:


Empty is the only bad thing about it.
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Bar Wench on August 10, 2007, 12:39:48 PM
It makes me throw up.  sick2:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: tel on August 10, 2007, 12:43:04 PM
It makes me throw up.  sick2:

An empty bottle makes you puke?
Can'be foot & mouth, they've just cleared Dorking.
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Bar Wench on August 10, 2007, 12:45:40 PM
It makes me throw up.  sick2:

An empty bottle makes you puke?
Can'be foot & mouth, they've just cleared Dorking.

The smell or the taste of whisky not good.
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 10, 2007, 12:54:42 PM
I am hung-over today courtesy of beer, wine and a particularly peaty Islay single malt?

No, it is not a good idea to mix grape and grain.
No, it will not be ?brilliant to sleep in the garden under the stars?.
No, sun beds do not make for a comfortable night.
Yes, the irrigation system does come on at 5am?

 noooo:

Oh dear 

Do we have to whisper today?
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Nick on August 10, 2007, 12:55:26 PM
YES


 drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Barman on August 10, 2007, 01:53:59 PM
YES


 drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll: drumroll:
Angry9:
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Misunderstood on August 10, 2007, 04:16:31 PM
The one thing I have always admired about Nick is his subtle mannerisms... 
Title: Re: Barman, are you getting a special 'discount' for ales perchance?
Post by: Grumpmeister on August 13, 2007, 06:01:19 PM
Is that in the same way I've always admired Berek's gentle nature  happy001