Comments on: Lonely man can’t even drown his sorrows

By: ermintrude

ermintrude — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:28:52 +0000

Off topic. Excuse me.

Many years ago, I stood in a local pub somewhere in the West Country where scrumpy and Double Diamond were all the rage (perhaps showing my age). In walked a couple of strangers (who b’aint be from round ‘ere), and asked for gin and tonics – which were unceremoniously slammed down on the counter in front of them, sans ice and lemon. Asked one of the two Outsiders – “May I have ice and lemon in these drinks, please?” Came the response from the landlord: “You ain’t in London now, s’know.” (s’know = dost thee know).

By: Old Sailor

Old Sailor — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:16:26 +0000

Actually banning Cyclops sounds like a first class business move.

Yonks of free publicity, customers releaved thay they don’t have to mix with a proponent od a fatally obnoxious political line.

Its fine by me and any other profesional drinker !

Old Sailor

By: Monty

Monty — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:03:27 +0000

Many years ago I worked in a pub that was right out on the headland overlooking the North Sea. The lifeboat crew made our pub their special stamping ground. If they were taking on a new recruit, or a trainee, one of their tricks was to order him a whisky and water. Of course, the water was seawater.

Then when he had downed his RNLI cocktail, they would put him in the boat, take him out to the breeches buoy, and leave him stranded there until chucking out time.

By: Lupin Pooter jnr

Lupin Pooter jnr — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:40:09 +0000

“However, on March 8, 1989, while speaking in London’s Regents Park Mosque, Yusuf Islam was asked by a Christian Science Monitor reporter how he would cope with the idea of killing a writer for writing a book. He is reported to have replied, “In Islam there is a line between, lets say freedom and the line which is then transgressed into immorality and irresponsibility and I think as far as this writer is concerned, unfortunately, he has been irresponsible with his freedom of speech. Salman Rushdie or indeed any writer who abuses the prophet, or indeed any prophet, under Islamic law, the sentence for that is actually death. It’s got to be seen as a deterrent, so that other people should not commit the same mistake again.” Two months later Yusuf Islam appeared on a British television court-room style program, Hypotheticals. In the episode, A SATANIC SCENARIO, Stevens/Islam is videoed having this exchange with the moderator and Queen Counsel Geoffrey Robertson . .
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By: Israelinurse

Israelinurse — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:32:36 +0000

Socialrepublican -in the pub I used to run there was a total ban on asking for ice or, heaven forbid, any other liquid addition in malt whisky other than a small amount of room temperature water in extenuating circumstances.

By: Lynne T

Lynne T — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:01:31 +0000

Alan Stoddart
9 July 2009, 11:41 pm

and

John P.
10 July 2009, 2:29 pm

Didn’t the composer of “Peace Train” (a song that was so saccharine it made me gag long before CS became YI) also later offer a recant of sorts re: the fatwa issued on Rushdi’s life?

Regardless, somewhere back in the mists of memory, around the time CS/YI was denied entry into the USA, a British journalist, female published an account in a Brit forum recalling her interivew with CS/YI either in the PA-territories or Israel. CS/YI was in the proud company of young men who were, judging by the conversation, being recruited as potential suicide martyrs for Hezbollah. She said it was one of the most disturbing hours she’d ever spent.

By: socialrepublican

socialrepublican — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:10 +0000

Ben

Heaven help you, mind, if you aren’t out by twenty past time

As some of those who have been amongst that dextrous and handsome elite fraternity of bar staff know, NEVER EVER EVER ORDER GUINNESS AT THE END OF A ROUND.

By: venichka

venichka — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:19:50 +0000

Do you really think there are any pubs (that he has already been in once) that haven’t barred Will?

By: sackcloth and ashes

sackcloth and ashes — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:17:38 +0000

Talking of lonely people, I wonder what Will’s like in his pub?

By: Amused

Amused — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:03:29 +0000

The shops, cafes, restaurants and bars are not in the private domain when it comes to the reach of the law

This is just it, this particular establishment is not breaking the law.