The grumpy thread

[The Reverend Bluejeans]

Dunno what it is about some lagers - I can drink shit like Carling all day and night and feel fresh the next day but stuff like Moretti, Hop House 13, Staropramen and I’m fucking dying even if I only have a few.

 

Not even strength - other 5%+ lagers than the ones mentioned are fine

 

 

Yep. One Moretti and onto The Artois from there. My local serves FELS, a proper Bavarian brew that goes down like a twenty quid whore yet doesn't leave you like a bear with a sore arse the next day.

 

Carling? 

[DodgeRover]

Dunno what it is about some lagers - I can drink shit like Carling all day and night and feel fresh the next day but stuff like Moretti, Hop House 13, Staropramen and I’m fucking dying even if I only have a few.

 

Not even strength - other 5%+ lagers than the ones mentioned are fine

 

Try adding special K or white lightening 50/50 with the lager.

[pandamonium]

Oh can we just stop with this old crap? I know it's just having a laugh in a difficult situation, but it really isn't a helpful comment. A few nutcases do their best to ruin things for any group.

True. I've only encountered one crazy one in my life, unfortunately she's the one holding all the cards in my life because she has my son and knows how to hurt me.

 

But I've got the most amazing and supportive girlfriend who has been amazing these past few years in spite of my ex's mentally messed up ways.

 

It's been tough as I suffer from anxiety and depression, and the past 24 hours or so I've ranged from crippling chest pains, to utter despair, to even considering the unthinkable.

 

I'm glad Claire is there to keep me focused and sort of sane.

 

 

Anyway, back to cars eh? At least my car is OK. :/

[Timewaster]

Dunno what it is about some lagers - I can drink shit like Carling all day and night and feel fresh the next day but stuff like Moretti, Hop House 13, Staropramen and I’m fucking dying even if I only have a few.

 

Not even strength - other 5%+ lagers than the ones mentioned are fine

Ah! Last few times I've been out on the beer has involved several Hophouse 13s.

 

I though I was just out of practice and generally past it.

 

Maybe it was poor choice of beers.

I've never been able to drink Stella, Grolsh or Kronenberg.

 

Any of those I would be better off pouring the beer on my shoes and smashing the glass over my head.

[cobblers]

Take this with a massive pinch of salt because I'm just going off what a man in a brewery told me, but he reckoned a lot of cheap mass produced beers overstate their % vol - I was the regulations allow a very wide tolerance from the advertised number to give smaller producers some leeway, but the big guys doing thousands of gallons per day can save money by advertising a 4% ale but consistently deliver them at the bottom of the tolerance, maybe  nearer 3% to save on materials.

So what we get used to as a normal lager might actually be much weaker.

 

 

On the other hand, I do agree that any supermarket 640-660ml bottle of lager seems to cause twice as much damage as anything else with the same %. 

[Kiltox]

Ah! Last few times I've been out on the beer has involved several Hophouse 13s.

 

I though I was just out of practice and generally past it.

 

Maybe it was poor choice of beers.

I've never been able to drink Stella, Grolsh or Kronenberg.

 

Any of those I would be better off pouring the beer on my shoes and smashing the glass over my head.

Hop House is definitely the worst for hangover for me - it’s a lovely drop but it’s fucking lethal the next morning

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I no longer drink Port after my Fresher’s week at Uni and it being on offer in the local Sainsbury’s. That was almost exactly 10 years ago and the smell of the stuff makes me feel sick even now...

[Richard]

"Oncoming vehicle" is quite low on the list of things you want to see on a motorway gantry sign. 

[Eddie Honda]

Take this with a massive pinch of salt because I'm just going off what a man in a brewery told me, but he reckoned a lot of cheap mass produced beers overstate their % vol - I was the regulations allow a very wide tolerance from the advertised number to give smaller producers some leeway, but the big guys doing thousands of gallons per day can save money by advertising a 4% ale but consistently deliver them at the bottom of the tolerance, maybe  nearer 3% to save on materials.

So what we get used to as a normal lager might actually be much weaker.

 

The Food Labelling Regulations 1996, stipulates the positive/negative tolerance on the figure given.

 

For a beer up to 5.5%/vol it's plus or minus 0.5%. For a beer over that it's plus or minus 1.0%

[busmansholiday]

[bramz7]

To be fair...poor rail adhesion does make it pretty tough on the railway. I think a train slid something like 230m through a signal a little while ago down here.

[dozeydustman]

Dunno what it is about some lagers - I can drink shit like Carling all day and night and feel fresh the next day but stuff like Moretti, Hop House 13, Staropramen and I’m fucking dying even if I only have a few.

 

Not even strength - other 5%+ lagers than the ones mentioned are fine

 

 

Lager is the work of Satan. I don't know how anyone can drink something so unpleasant tasting. I've never also found one that doesn't give me a raging headache within a few mouthfuls.

[gm]

there's football on today and the pub is full of arseholes already

 

is the game so dull that they need to get drunk before kickoff ?

[Richard]

Yes.

[LightBulbFun]

there's football on today and the pub is full of arseholes already

 

is the game so dull that they need to get drunk before kickoff ?

 

any invacars on the pitch at least?

 

that would be fun to take an invacar to a football match and see how they react/if they let you in 

[D Spares & Tyres]

Moderators deleting comments without explanation...

 

Please pm me if you have an issue

 

Cheers

[chaseracer]

Would've sent you a PM, given the chance.  Ad hominem attacks are unwelcome here.

 

Anyway, it's only hidden - you want the opportunity to edit?

[wuvvum]

To be fair...poor rail adhesion does make it pretty tough on the railway. I think a train slid something like 230m through a signal a little while ago down here.

The EMT 158 I went to Peterborough on yesterday was wheelspinning quite impressively out of some of the stations.

[chaseracer]

^ Wrong kind of leaves...? 

[bramz7]

All leaves are the wrong kind.

[D Spares & Tyres]

Would've sent you a PM, given the chance.  Ad hominem attacks are unwelcome here.

 

Anyway, it's only hidden - you want the opportunity to edit?

Not really, thanks I can't be arsed. I'm off out to service the car. It's a lovely day, too nice for getting into online squabbles.

 

Over and out

[Timewaster]

Not really, thanks I can't be arsed. I'm off out to service the car. It's a lovely day, too nice for getting into online squabbles.

 

Over and out

Better hurry. Will be dark unnervingly early today

[kirton]

Lager is the work of Satan. I don't know how anyone can drink something so unpleasant tasting. I've never also found one that doesn't give me a raging headache within a few mouthfuls.

I tried the no alcohol beers twice, the second time was to test that the first was a one off, thumping headache both times. Lesson learnt.

[Cavcraft]

Lager is great! Just take some vodka with it later in the night.

[meggersdog]

A few days ago the Discovery turned over slowly as I tried starting it first thing.The battery is old but with the charger on the next morning it struck up straight away. I've still got the new one I bought for the diesel c-max back in January I'll fit that.Hmm, terminals are the wrong way round.The positive will fit but not the negative.No problem I can make a new earth lead.Ah this battery is smaller and the positive cable will be resting on the air-con metal pipe.Not good.So block of wood under the battery before clamping it down.Works a treat.

 

Yesterday morning struggled to turn over and only just started.Bugger the smaller battery obviously doesn't have the cranking amps.After work a brand new battery was purchased at great expense.Old earth lead back on and away we go.Except..........turned over slow again this morning.

Investigate starter motor when time allows then. 

[Bren]

Been at the caravan for a few days. Drink very little because my youngest does'nt sleep the same as when he is at home. Back in work tomorrow so I will be drinking tonight as I will be home shortly.

[richardmorris]

Be careful of so called “ banter”, it’s already cost Philip green several million in hush money and maybe a lot more to come ( given that he owns nothing- it’s all in his wife’s name)

[GrumpiusMaximus]

I am back in the UK from the USA.  I got home at about 4PM.

 

Work starts at 8AM.  At least, however the clocks went back so I'm only 4 hours out of whack...

[Aston Martin]

I only watched the ending. They were robbed.

 

https://twitter.com/ink4ddict/status/1056600011465768965?s=21

[D Spares & Tyres]

Would've sent you a PM, given the chance.  Ad hominem attacks are unwelcome here.

 

Anyway, it's only hidden - you want the opportunity to edit?

It wasn't meant to be an attack. I was amused by the irony of someone going onto a grumpy old man thread to complain about a grumpy man venting.

 

I do think that in this day and age that having a grumpy old man thread is sexist. I am offended. It should be called the grumpy person thread.