ErnestTurnip Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 For the sake of clarity, was the 'Craftanoon' everyone sat around drinking craft ale or was it more like a knitting circle ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted February 3, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2021 Craftanoon. I need time to compute this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Traf Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 14 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said: I know. But it is a visual arts place. We also get an art afternoon once a month. Didn't take mine for Jan, but its good when places are open as you get to see stuff, get paid and get the cash for any paid entry up to £200 a year. That sounds decent to be fair. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 3 minutes ago, ErnestTurnip said: For the sake of clarity, was the 'Craftanoon' everyone sat around drinking craft ale or was it more like a knitting circle ? Knitting circle I believe. In fact I think most of the staff didn't attend. Although we do have a group of us that finishes at 5 on a friday and has a few beers. Strictly invite only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 1 minute ago, Traf said: That sounds decent to be fair. It is - they do take staff support really seriously and I suppose if you are a national organisation and your job is to be aware of what is happening across the UK, then its a benefit to the staff and the organisation. So if it is free entry the £200 can go towards travel expenses and that can be used anytime - not just in the art afternoon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErnestTurnip Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 Wouldn't knock anyone trying to make things more bearable for staff, some ideas might not be for everyone but at least they're having a go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 If I was boss I'd insist on a '2a.m. Turps-athon' - everyone must be mindless pissed, loudly playing music and drunkenly singing along and berating their wives/husbands/partners/children etc. as 'miserable c*nts' if they come to complain... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) In reality I don't get owt like zoom pissups or 'gigs', 'raves', quizzes etc. Similarly (in normal times too) - ringing wanklines/'babe' channels or watching/interacting with webcam girls...* (* that is especially frustrating I imagine). All this type of things are akin to being starving and having someone read you menus. If the pubs are shut they're shut. If you're wankbound and birdless (or blokeless) it's the bedsock again (or Ann Summers)... Edited February 3, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QFPants Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Rivington - Cloudwater collab available now. £6 a tin, fill your boots @Youri McAnespie Edited February 3, 2021 by QFPants Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted February 3, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2021 14 minutes ago, QFPants said: Rivington - Cloudwater collab available now. £6 a tin, fill your boots @Youri McAnespie I'm walking past Wrights in 30 minutes The owner will be lurking in the window like a grinning crack dealer I may have to take a different route Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 13 minutes ago, QFPants said: Rivington - Cloudwater collab available now. £6 a tin, fill your boots @Youri McAnespie £6 a fucking tin? Six quid could buy 5.65 cans of McEwans Export... 'Craft' ale, cider, gin etc. is just a bullshit facade to legitimise pissheadery that verges on emulating a hobo's supping habits. Except the rocketfuel favoured by gentlemen of no fixed abode is considerably cheaper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmjhb Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Why would you want to drink the same beer more than once in an evening though? Gone are the days of drinking 5-6 pints of gassy pig swill. I pity the ones who still do Edited February 3, 2021 by jmjhb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Because your palate is fucked after two regardless..? I dread to think of how many aldehydes are in 'craft' - no wonder Casino's LFT came back with a 'dodgy' tag. Just because we aren't blinded by the blaggers making a mint off this craze doesn't mean we're supping Carling or Bolty's go-to tipple - Fosters. Mcewan's and Guinness are fine drinks at a sensible price. And the Jocks and Padraigs know their booze, intimately. Edited February 3, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmjhb Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 That's what palate cleansers are for. Give me three handpumps in a pub and I'll try them all. Usually cheaper than the pig swill too. Cloudwater/Riv I wouldn't really want to try outside of draught, even if it is bankruptcy-inducing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) I've no truck with reasonably priced small producer draft in pubs. Bit this £7 a can nonsense, half of which is made by some braces, beard, brogues, been brewing 'bout two months hipster git. Nay. They're laughing all the way to their Swiss banks. 300% markup - fact. Edited February 3, 2021 by Youri McAnespie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Casino Posted February 3, 2021 Moderators Share Posted February 3, 2021 110 quid for 20 cans inc fog and the collab Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Supporter Spider Posted February 3, 2021 Site Supporter Share Posted February 3, 2021 Is the collab called Bernies Flex? 8.2% sheesh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 47 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said: I've no truck with reasonably priced small producer draft in pubs. Bit this £7 a can nonsense, half of which is made by some braces, beard, brogues, been brewing 'bout two months hipster git. Nay. They're laughing all the way to their Swiss banks. 300% markup - fact. Each to their own, though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not in Crawley Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 I quite like the zoom pissups. Its not the same but it's ok. Some have been a laugh, some have been a bit shit. Also the music quizzes on a saturday night are good fun with a few drinks in you. WW zoom quiz? 😁 Round One - Brexit Round Two - Historic Threads Round Three - BLM etc Picture round - Battle nips Writes itself.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Zico Posted February 3, 2021 Moderators Share Posted February 3, 2021 1 hour ago, Spider said: Is the collab called Bernies Flex? 8.2% sheesh Just ordered 5 plus 7 others They'd best arrive Friday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kane57 Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 (edited) Got my vaccine today so on the way home (had it at Salford Royal, or Hope Hospital to me) stopped at Leyland BB. Two Bernie, two fog, a Milk Foley (twisted wheel), two of the other new Rivi raspberry and vanilla one (can't remember the name) and two Beach House. Sorted. Edited February 3, 2021 by Kane57 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
green genie Posted February 3, 2021 Share Posted February 3, 2021 5 hours ago, Youri McAnespie said: I've no truck with reasonably priced small producer draft in pubs. Bit this £7 a can nonsense, half of which is made by some braces, beard, brogues, been brewing 'bout two months hipster git. Nay. They're laughing all the way to their Swiss banks. 300% markup - fact. ...and they're all listening to Mumford and Sons while they're at it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 9 hours ago, green genie said: ...and they're all listening to Mumford and Sons while they're at it. Nah, that pigswill is too commercial - any of those public schoolboy pretend pikeys ditties can be downloaded off iTunes or Amazon for as little as a quid... The hardcore craft lot are currently supping to the sounds of The Ned Beatty Experience's new 12 song opus 'Squeal Like a Pig, Boy'... Only available on Limited edition 'virtual' white label - only £119.89 to download the full eighteen minute album. Use a VPN to access the darkweb and search for Fakker's Folky Wets Music, this is the only place it's for sale, for 36hrs - chose at random and unpublicised, sometime between noon today and June 2nd... 2022. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Youri McAnespie Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 13 hours ago, boltondiver said: Each to their own, though? No. Not if I were dictator. All breweries would be turned over to production of Mcewan's Export Ale. Guinness could continue to export here also. Anyone who'd, before the revolution, been duped into purchasing wildly overpriced gnatpiss (by Tommy Handley) would be sent to a re-education camp just outside Govan. Handley himself would be liquidated after facing charges of ale-based extortion of the proletariat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 4, 2021 Share Posted February 4, 2021 12 minutes ago, Youri McAnespie said: No. Not if I were dictator. All breweries would be turned over to production of Mcewan's Export Ale. Guinness could continue to export here also. Anyone who'd, before the revolution, been duped into purchasing wildly overpriced gnatpiss (by Tommy Handley) would be sent to a re-education camp just outside Govan. Handley himself would be liquidated after facing charges of ale-based extortion of the proletariat. And forced to drink 8 pints/day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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