Lock Down?

[The avantgardener]

2 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Since having a rather horrendous experience with whisky as a Boy soldier being Coerced into carrying out waiting on duties for the seargeants mess summer ball at the guards depot in pirbright many years ago that culminated in me waking up in the glass house with zero recollection of anything and then spending the next 6 hrs being rifted around the depot by some pissed off regimental policeman with a floor bumper above my head just the smell of it makes me wretch??

I’ve had a very similar experience with copious amounts of cheap whiskey minus the military connection. It is one of the things I do regret. I would like to get my nose into some decent single malts but I wretch at the thought of it.

Fortunately I found Brandy a good substitute, got a very good bottle of Hinde in the go at the minute, after a long, cold, wet day in the woods its warming qualities are like Opium in a glass.

[Mick Dempsey]

Same as me and vodka, stole a bottle with a mate when we were 14, drank a good bit of it, got alcohol poisoning, still can’t drink it 42 years later.

[Johnsond]

5 minutes ago, Big J said:

You just have to work through it! 

 

When I was 17, we had a New Years eve party at my house. I drank half a dozen cans of something awful like Carling, and we got gatecrashed by friends from the other end of the village, so we decided to return the favour. I was drunk-ish, but still responsible enough to lock the door and felt OK. During the 15 minute walk, I somehow drank half a bottle of some awful cheap American whiskey, and the last thing I remember was running down the lane past the church with my trousers round my ankles, falling over in the snow, face first.

Apparently, I somehow made it to my friends house, chundered on the stairs and was promptly evicted, being put outside on the step in the snow. At some point someone called my mum, who was so worried about me that she stayed in my room next to me all night and I couldn't keep water down until 19:00 the next day. I found out that pineapple juice tastes just as nice on the way back up as it does on the way down. Orange juice, not so much.

 

So the moral of the story is that everyone has a "I don't like whisk(e)y because...." origin story. It's how you wean yourself back onto it that is the real measure of a man (or woman!). 

 

For me it was Jura. That's your gateway whisky. Stick to the west coast malts and you'll not go wrong

No thanks J 

Cup of tea does me fine bud ??

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

9 hours ago, Mesterh said:

Well then? Don't say that schools should just concentrate on education.

 

 

Bear with, haven’t had chance to put the thoughts and words together to avoid my usual knee-jerk, flippancy which wouldn’t be appropriate for such a subject

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

9 hours ago, Silverhooker said:

Correct Stere children do get it but they seem to get better quickly, adults are at risk if they are elderly and have major other medical problems especially respiratory.

im not saying this isn’t a major public health issue just we all need to be calm and follow sensible guidelines.

You’ll be thrown out of the NHS if you carry on with that sort of measured, considered, sensible discourse. 
 

Just about every NHS employee wheeled out to talk on the subject is riding the flaming, hysterical, Lefty bandwagon of “down with the Tory scum, hail Comrade Corbyn, we need much more money because the multitude of 6 figured salary ‘managers’ we already have seem to be not managing very well...”

 

 

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

9 hours ago, Big J said:

I was actually using the term in an almost endearing fashion. It's just hilarious how combative you get when you're on your own. I prescribe a course of Ardbeg Uigeadail forthwith!

Like calm things down!

[trigger_andy]

This lock down ain’t so bad.

[the village idiot]

6 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

This lock down ain’t so bad.

Stick the kettle on, I'm coming to stay for a few weeks.

[tree-fancier123]

12 minutes ago, trigger_andy said:

This lock down ain’t so bad.

A bit crazy with WTI crashing to $19 friday night. Read somewhere a trading house saying oil could even go negative if storage used up. Bought some Shell B shares friday for ISA, the 14% divi obviously not safe, but surely these lows wont last as cost of production wont be met anywhere except Saudi?

[trigger_andy]

15 minutes ago, tree-fancier123 said:

A bit crazy with WTI crashing to $19 friday night. Read somewhere a trading house saying oil could even go negative if storage used up. Bought some Shell B shares friday for ISA, the 14% divi obviously not safe, but surely these lows wont last as cost of production wont be met anywhere except Saudi?

Brent Crudes trading at $27 a barrel just now. Norway invested heavily in the kind of tech I do for a job.

 

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Not sure about the UK these days though? Even with the crap conditions and 3x3 rotations the boys have there the UK's break even point is most likely still above $30. In 2016 it was low to mid $40's. 

 

Im putting 10% of my Salary into my Companies Stock as we have a very good deal.