Edmond Dantes wrote:

Grown men , meant to be adults,  wearing strips to matches.

If they have a players name on the back-get them medical attention.

That shit is for wee boys.

 

Grown men wearing another man's name on their back is tantamount to a civil partnership imo.
 

Edmond Dantes wrote:

Trap_6 wrote:

Ouch, craft beer getting quite the kicking!

FWIW, I hate the term 'craft beer'. There's good beer and there's bad beer. Totally subjective.

For me,

Good beer - Four ingredients (Malt, hops, water, yeast), no artificial preservatives, tasty.

Bad beer - preservative-laden, uses fish guts to filter, tastes bad or bland.

I've had many craft beers that fail the one true test - taste.

I've never had a 'big' brewery beer that passes all my good beer requirements.

why is it so fucking dear then?

me and yer man hunted were getting robbed blind drinking the stuff yesterday on the Great western road -gie me the preservative shit at a fraction of the cost anyday.

Bring the price down i might get in to it.

Overpriced.
 

Ok, cue bore mode.

It tends to be stronger. More malts required, more expense.

Stronger beer gets hit with heavier tax. Brew a beer over 5% and you'll pay a good hit more to the UK taxman - see UK Stella, now sub 5%. Keeps down costs.

Artificial preservatives are far cheaper than natural preservatives (hops). A pint of Punk uses 40 times more hops than a commercial lager. That costs.

Even given all that, it isn't even more expensive. It's a myth. In Dundee city centre, a pint of Punk costs £4.30 and is 5.4%, or 79.6p per unit of alcohol. A pint of Tennent's costs £3.30 and is 4%. That's 82.5p per unit. 

Factor in the fact that it's those artificial preservatives that are giving you the most brutal hangovers every Sunday morning and it's a no contest.

'Craft' all the way.

Edmond Dantes wrote:

Trap_6 wrote:

Edmond Dantes wrote:

why is it so fucking dear then?

me and yer man hunted were getting robbed blind drinking the stuff yesterday on the Great western road -gie me the preservative shit at a fraction of the cost anyday.

Bring the price down i might get in to it.

Overpriced.
 

Ok, cue bore mode.

It tends to be stronger. More malts required, more expense.

Stronger beer gets hit with heavier tax. Brew a beer over 5% and you'll pay a good hit more to the UK taxman - see UK Stella, now sub 5%. Keeps down costs.

Artificial preservatives are far cheaper than natural preservatives (hops). A pint of Punk uses 40 times more hops than a commercial lager. That costs.

Even given all that, it isn't even more expensive. It's a myth. In Dundee city centre, a pint of Punk costs £4.30 and is 5.4%, or 79.6p per unit of alcohol. A pint of Tennent's costs £3.30 and is 4%. That's 82.5p per unit. 

Factor in the fact that it's those artificial preservatives that are giving you the most brutal hangovers every Sunday morning and it's a no contest.

'Craft' all the way.

I can procure Tennents for a lot less than £3.30 in the Hilltown
,no wonder i don't frequent the 'toon' the 'perth road'

sure i got stiffed in the DCA with some poncey £4.60 shit last night also.

the town centre is fucking robbery.

Do me an IPA for £2.95 -and i'm game.

 

You can also get a pint of Punk for less than £4.30 if you're willing to scrape the barrel.

Point stands. Good beer = good value. Not just financially.

If it's pint after pint after pint you want, you're right, Brewdog aint for you.

Pint of lager is £4.15.

But you wouldn't catch me throwing back pints of that all night.

I'll spend £40 on a good sesh in Brewdog. I'll drink no more than five pints of beer all in though. That'll be around 8-10 different drinks.

It all depends what you're after from a night out I suppose.

It's no poncey though. Proper Dundee boys coming in every weekend getting on board the good beer train.

Are we off the beer chat now then?

Ok, nae worries.

Think I proved it isn't Dick Turpin prices. You're mind's clearly made up though...

Trap_6 wrote:

Ouch, craft beer getting quite the kicking!

FWIW, I hate the term 'craft beer'. There's good beer and there's bad beer. Totally subjective.

For me,

Good beer - Four ingredients (Malt, hops, water, yeast), no artificial preservatives, tasty.

Bad beer - preservative-laden, uses fish guts to filter, tastes bad or bland.

I've had many craft beers that fail the one true test - taste.

I've never had a 'big' brewery beer that passes all my good beer requirements.

I think it's the whole "scene" surronding craft beers that puts a lot of folk off.  Seems to be a world frequented by bearded, sleeved-tattooed guys who have a penchant for wearing chinos.

I buy some of these beers now and again to drink in the house but I'd never go to one of the pubs that specialise in them, went once after work with some of my colleagues to the Brew Dog place in Edinburgh, couldn't wait to get out.

Trap 6 wrote:

It does have a bit of a hipster tag associated with it unfortunately.

You are gettting it confused with craft beards.

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I quite like a craft beer. Then Caesar Augustas in the Hug and Pint was nice. Normally only drink it in the Hoose though

Eddie Izzard.

huntedbyafreak wrote:

Arabnophobia wrote:

Eddie Izzard.

He's a cunt
 

 
Wife heard me no appreciating his Apollo gig on Saturday and Googled the rambling, self obsessed, annoying, unfunny fuckwit who had been prancing about in a suit with high heels and his usual eyeliner.

She told me he is "nae bufty".  I don't dislike him for any reason other than him being annoying and unfunny but can't get my head round why he or labour would think votes would be won by him coming up here dressed as Ann fucking Widdecombe would have Scots voting labour.

I don't under fucking stand this man in any way shape or humour.

Ban this cunt from my license fees and vision please! 

Arabnophobia wrote:

huntedbyafreak wrote:

Arabnophobia wrote:

Eddie Izzard.

He's a cunt
 

 
Wife heard me no appreciating his Apollo gig on Saturday and Googled the rambling, self obsessed, annoying, unfunny fuckwit who had been prancing about in a suit with high heels and his usual eyeliner.

She told me he is "nae bufty". I don't dislike him for any reason other than him being annoying and unfunny but can't get my head round why he or labour would think votes would be won by him coming up here dressed as Ann fucking Widdecombe would have Scots voting labour.

I don't under fucking stand this man in any way shape or humour.

Ban this cunt from my license fees and vision please!

IMO the whole idea of them sending him up here, especially during the referendum, was to try to provoke a reaction. And by that, I don't mean to his politics. Clearly, he doesn't always cross-dress, so I, for one, am deeply suspicious of the fact that he appeared in a potentially highly charged situation, dressed as a woman. All it would take would be one "Yes" supporter to have lost control for a wee moment and said something unwise and bingo! the unionist papers would have been full of faux-outrage and offence for weeks. And that's what it was all about IMO....  
 

hamishthegoalie wrote:

Arabnophobia wrote:

huntedbyafreak wrote:

He's a cunt
 

 
Wife heard me no appreciating his Apollo gig on Saturday and Googled the rambling, self obsessed, annoying, unfunny fuckwit who had been prancing about in a suit with high heels and his usual eyeliner.

She told me he is "nae bufty". I don't dislike him for any reason other than him being annoying and unfunny but can't get my head round why he or labour would think votes would be won by him coming up here dressed as Ann fucking Widdecombe would have Scots voting labour.

I don't under fucking stand this man in any way shape or humour.

Ban this cunt from my license fees and vision please!

IMO the whole idea of them sending him up here, especially during the referendum, was to try to provoke a reaction. And by that, I don't mean to his politics. Clearly, he doesn't always cross-dress, so I, for one, am deeply suspicious of the fact that he appeared in a potentially highly charged situation, dressed as a woman. All it would take would be one "Yes" supporter to have lost control for a wee moment and said something unwise and bingo! the unionist papers would have been full of faux-outrage and offence for weeks. And that's what it was all about IMO....  
 

 
Possibly bud.  I was baffled more by him arriving in that state than anything related to politics, the referendum or his stand up routines. It was obviously a rare, bizzare stunt that most of us don't get but some thought was a masterclass.
If politicians think the running of the country will be swayed by that sort of stuff they must think we are all big brother watching maniacs.