Anyway, girls like men dirty
*ahem* Weinstein *ahem*
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Tonic wine [b]was [/b]15% alcohol. Which would take the edge of things, I'd expect.
theres no 'was' - bafflingly you can still buy it. The 'added iron' and syrupy texture makes it taste a bit like you've been punched in the mouth. Despite being pretty strong booze (compared to most wines back in the day) the 'tonic' aspect meant that it was sold in chemists rather than off licenses. Back when licensing laws were stricter it meant you could buy it during the day when the pubs were shut. The perfect Tramp Drink (Buckfast was marketed the same way - it became the go to jakey drink - Sex on the Bench - because you could buy it when off-licenses were closed)
My friends mum when I was at school used to buy Sanatogen for the presumed health benefits, not really away of the booze content she was half cut pretty much all the time.
Paul and his mate eventually fell in love whilst restoring a Norton. It’s a romantic tail similar to broke back mountain but set in port talbot
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maccruiskeen - Member
Tonic wine was 15% alcohol. Which would take the edge of things, I'd expect.theres no 'was' - bafflingly you can still buy it. The 'added iron' and syrupy texture makes it taste a bit like you've been punched in the mouth. Despite being pretty strong booze (compared to most wines back in the day) the 'tonic' aspect meant that it was sold in chemists rather than off licenses. Back when licensing laws were stricter it meant you could buy it during the day when the pubs were shut. The perfect Tramp Drink (Buckfast was marketed the same way - it became the go to jakey drink - Sex on the Bench - because you could buy it when off-licenses were closed)
My friends and I were big into Buckfast during our student days - it's a cult drink in Ireland. It held a kind of self destructive fascination for us. If I drank a full bottle of it I would completely lose all memory of a night out. Everything gone. But you could be certain some seriously ropey hijinks would have taken place.
It has so much caffeine and taurine and various other chemicals in it that (imo) you can be brain dead drunk, but still ambulatory, energetic even. In order to prevent blacking out I used to mix half a bottle of buckfast with vodka and redbull as a carryout. I've never taken speed but a friend of mine who did compared my Buckfast and vodka/redbull cocktail to speed without the peak.
In retrospect I think we may have partied a little too hard during our student days 😕
Proper drugs were a bit hard to come by, presumably...
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Seems hard to believe I once spent my working day crawling around underground in the dark.
I suspect that, metaphorically at least, most people spend most of their time at work in that ^^ state....... 😆
jimjam - MemberMy friends and I were big into Buckfast during our student days - it's a cult drink in Ireland. It held a kind of self destructive fascination for us. If I drank a full bottle of it I would completely lose all memory of a night out. Everything gone. But you could be certain some seriously ropey hijinks would have taken place.
If you go to T in the Park, there's empty 2 litre glass bucky bottles everywhere. But you can't buy it onsite, and I can't even get in with a bottle of water. So the only conclusion is that these are all being smuggled in internal cavities. Don't get me wrong, I like a drink but these bucky drinkers are more commited than I.
Probably just lobbed them over the fence in the general direction of where they would want to stand. I have mixed emotions about my memories of sucking warm buckfast through a tube, which was connected to a bladder which my mate had taped to his upper thighs in an effort to smuggle bucky into Black Sabbath. Or Maiden. Or some band I think 😆
I was far more civilised, two litres with some ice in my camelbak Havoc - straight passed the Garda at Ozzfest. I even carried some decoy lager so they wouldn't search any further #genius.
