The Great NSG Drinking Thread - Pick your Poison

[St George of England]

The presence of dark people for the likes of Alibhai-Brown to coo over does not make a city great. Where I live is 95% (or something like that) White and yet for all its provincial, hideously White squalor, is still one of the most interesting places in the UK.

I actually live in the provinces....

Huge packed crowds, having to go underground and pay a fortune to stand in a sardine can so you can go anywhere, homicidal pigeons and overpriced everything are fantastic? Eh I'll stick with places I can happily meander around.

Except when I go to London I walk everywhere, it's great.

We have restaurants from many nationalities in the provinces too you know.

I've yet to find a restaurant anywhere to rival Christophers in/near Covent Garden.

A giant fucking ferris wheel next to Parliament? Hardly better than Boston's skyline (never been there but hope to one day).

Why not? One's a circus, the other's ride.

[Horsefish]

I'm a somerset boy, so it has to be cider.
That or vodka.

[Post-Unity Terra]

My father's girlfriend buys me some Russian vodka on her trips to Russia.

It doesn't actually have a brand, it's just some mom & pa brewery that makes the best damn vodka I've ever had.

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

[Innsmothe]

My father's girlfriend buys me some Russian vodka on her trips to Russia.

It doesn't actually have a brand, it's just some mom & pa brewery that makes the best damn vodka I've ever had.

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

Yeah.
I don't get the hype, you have to mix it with something, or you just get sick.

[Horsefish]

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

Yeah.
I don't get the hype, you have to mix it with something, or you just get sick.

Only if your a pussy

[Tokos]

I actually live in the provinces....

Then I do not understand why you are so enthusiastic about London. Londoners themselves have enough regard for their city to power a small country; you don't need to encourage them.

Except when I go to London I walk everywhere, it's great.

Takes a long time to get anywhere, no? It's not as if you can wander the city centre in an hour or so. Especially with the bloody crowds.

I've yet to find a restaurant anywhere to rival Christophers in/near Covent Garden.

Any amount of proper food-serving pubs on the Cornish coast. Depends what kind of cuisine you mean though. I heard Christopher's was a bar and grill so that's why I compare the pubs. I could just as easily say you can't find proper seafront ale, fresh-caught fish and chips in London.

Why not? One's a circus, the other's ride.

Touché.

However you do not have a cathedral modelled on Sauron's castle from LOTR.

[Post-Unity Terra]

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

Yeah.
I don't get the hype, you have to mix it with something, or you just get sick.

I may be a little biased by my one experience with cheap Asda vodka. The one time I really went at it I ended up rushing to the nearest bathroom and blocked a sink. I don't know why I did that with a toilet two feet away.

As for what I do like, the last couple of years making regular trips into Leeds (may it sink into the ground) has left me quite partial to John Smith's.

[Innsmothe]

Yeah.
I don't get the hype, you have to mix it with something, or you just get sick.

Only if your a pussy

I drink Raki straight, bitch.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rak%C4%B1

Raki has 90% alcoholic content.

[Tokos]

As for what I do like, the last couple of years making regular trips into Leeds (may it sink into the ground) has left me quite partial to John Smith's.

The smooth or original? The original, in the red cans, though it's cheap and pleasant, has a catch - it's rather rough on the stomach.

Not criticising your choice - I'm a student, I have a love of cheap beer…

[The Nuclear Fist]

Hmm. Am I really the only person on NS who has a passion for Georgian Wine?

[Horsefish]

Only if your a pussy

I drink Raki straight, bitch.

Touche
But then why do you feel sick when you have vodka?

[Post-Unity Terra]

As for what I do like, the last couple of years making regular trips into Leeds (may it sink into the ground) has left me quite partial to John Smith's.

The smooth or original? The original, in the red cans, though it's cheap and pleasant, has a catch - it's rather rough on the stomach.

Not criticising your choice - I'm a student, I have a love of cheap beer…

The smooth stuff, as a mostly unemployed musician it fuels me.

[The Deleted Chris]

My father's girlfriend buys me some Russian vodka on her trips to Russia.

It doesn't actually have a brand, it's just some mom & pa brewery that makes the best damn vodka I've ever had.

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

It tastes less like paint thinner maybe?

Can't stand the stuff personally; if I need something to warm me up, sloe gin in a hipflask is far better.

[Sun Aut Ex]

We already have a booze thread.

[Post-Unity Terra]

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

It tastes less like paint thinner maybe?

Can't stand the stuff personally; if I need something to warm me up, sloe gin in a hipflask is far better.

It's also a thousand times classier.

[Innsmothe]

I drink Raki straight, bitch.

Touche
But then why do you feel sick when you have vodka?

It has no taste.

It felt wrong.

[Tokos]

Vodka has that weird aftertaste which is like Satan himself pissing into your mouth.

[Old Erisia]

Vodka's not bad... unless its been sitting in a car in water bottles for a while. I also do not suggest drinking cheap tequila after its seal has broken and it has been "aged" in someone's room for a year >_>

Erm... Also can't stand watermelon vodka.


Vodka is tame compared to things like absinthe and tequila. There's also some disagreeable "wine" sold in forties...

[Minoriteeburg]

My father's girlfriend buys me some Russian vodka on her trips to Russia.

It doesn't actually have a brand, it's just some mom & pa brewery that makes the best damn vodka I've ever had.

Oh gosh, I just don't get vodka. What makes good vodka good? It's mostly ethanol and water, isn't it?

mmmmm ethanol.

[Minoriteeburg]

Vodka has that weird aftertaste which is like Satan himself pissing into your mouth.

[St George of England]

I now hate strongbow.

[Old Erisia]

I now hate strongbow.

And I hate amaretto even more than i did... and that "last call" effects businesses here >_>

[The Blue Helmets]

Rum, about 3 months ago...

[Minoriteeburg]

Drinking some blue moon right now......good stuff.

[Lord Tothe]

Pipeline Porter. next drink is gonna be something like a four-Loko or Sparks just to flip off the nanny state, even though they taste like piss. I have no idea how people can drink this stuff enough to be harmed like the snooze reports warn. http://abcnews.go.com/Health/fda-weighi ... d=12160466