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Happening in my local. 🙄

http://www.greendrinks.org/Start


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:05 pm
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so it's some sort of social in a pub every now and again?


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:07 pm
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I thought this was going to be about creme de menthe


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:08 pm
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so it's some sort of social in a pub every now and again?

With published rules.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:09 pm
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[url= http://www.stonehengeales.co.uk/sign_of_spring.html ]Green beer. Good beer, too! [/url]


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:09 pm
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[i]With published rules. [/i]

well, as long as Mark isn't there moderating 😉


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:11 pm
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Woteva floats your boat, Flashy. It looks like a Fat Frog to me (Smirnoff Ice, orange Breezer + blue WKD)


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:17 pm
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Looks like Toilet Duck to me.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:20 pm
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One of my friends organises our local chapter of 'Skeptic in a pub' talks. Easily the most interesting monday nights you can spend in a pub.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:24 pm
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Pint of Absinthe Flashy? careful now 😉


 
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'Green Drinks is not a channel to circulate announcements or news about environmental issues. Green Drinkers are already deluged with information from thousands of other sources. Green Drinks is a place to go to get away from all that.' 🙄
Err, how about this, if you're interested in environmental issues but need to get away from them, drink with people who aren't? 😆


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:26 pm
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Flashy - a man after my own heart. The Green Monster used to be a first drink of the evening. Back in the days when a strategic vom or two would be par for the course on a night out

1 pint glass
1 bottle of K Cider
1 bottle of Lowenbrau Pils
1 Double Blue Bols
I Double vodka

Result: Bright green pint!

Tally Ho!!!! 😀


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:27 pm
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An advert for those with an eco-living bent to meet up and chat. Seems a bit odd, but each to their own and all that.

Flashy’s pint looks like the green light for a trio of exhibition ciders called a 'traffic light', that are coloured with Bols. Drank one in a The Star of the West pub in Plymouth years back and got mightily pished. You had to sink them quickly one after another.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:28 pm
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It seems a bit like Critical Mass but without the bikes.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:29 pm
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Binners. Fancy a pub ride next Monday? 😀


 
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strategic vom

I'll have you know that it's called a "Tactical chunder".

Uni hall bar used to have a concoction called a Grendel. It was green. WTF was in it I cannot remember. But it certainly got the job done!

Sign of Spring, as per my image above, is a damned fine beer, however. Forged in the mad mind of the marvellous Stig at Stonehenge Ales.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:30 pm
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That's a fine idea. I'm up for that Harry! Who else is in? 😀

As long as we don't have to wear dungarees, that is?


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 4:32 pm
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I'll sort something.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 5:32 pm
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What have we done?

We, as a species, ****ed the planet and keep ****in the planet. This is part of the reaction. Does it particularly offend or are you a Mail knee-jerker to most things?


 
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We, as a species, ****ed the planet and keep **** the planet.

No we haven't. We've ****ed it up [i]for us[/i] - the planet is big enough and old enough to look after itself, and when the time comes it'll shrug off humanity and carry on quite happily.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 5:53 pm
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bencooper.....i like you idea.....ace


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 5:56 pm
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ben - I thought it was general enough and anthropocentric enough for stw. My point still stands - this is part of the reaction to what we as a species keep doing to stuff. Is that OK?


 
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The reaction to global environmental apocalypse is to drink green beer? 😉


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 6:01 pm
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It isn't the cause... it is the fact that they have to publish guide lines to go to the pub.

[i]There is generally no agenda or theme, Green Drinkers mingle and share insights and provoke and exasparate and inspire and delight each other. There are moments of serendipity and a lot of 'oh, you if are interested in X then I must introduce you to that person over there who knows all about it' ...[/i]

What if somebody needs to take a poo? Where are the instructions for that?


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 6:03 pm
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Pah, that's no green pint!

Take one pint glass
Fill it with the lastest release of mountain dew.

That's it, but by Christ it's green! And semi luminous. And delicious 😳

/guilty pleasure


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 6:03 pm
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Uni hall bar used to have a concoction called a Grendel. It was green. WTF was in it I cannot remember. But it certainly got the job done!

Soton Uni / Monte Hall bar?

Blue Bols, Green Bols, Cointreau, 2x vodka (or might have been 4x), 2x advocaat or baileys, something like that, then topped to a pint with lemonade.

Was more turquoise than green. Tasted almost non-alcoholic. Down in one. Then all the shots hit 20mins later.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 7:25 pm
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pah. hoped this was going to be about chartreuse and lime milkshakes.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 8:00 pm
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Soton Uni / Monte Hall bar?

Oh
My
DAYS!

🙂

Yes.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 8:01 pm
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Was a kewl bar that 🙂
Sadly gone now 🙁

Had 2 of those Grendels on my 21st.


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 8:08 pm
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The original, or the newer one when they'd made Monte the size of Paris?

Oh, and, "Stoneham, Stoneham....Where's your bar?" 🙂


 
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Flash & others, round our way it was known as a 'Green Meanie'.

All I know is that it didn't half make me fall over quickly!


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 8:28 pm
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When it was in the Pavilion.

Think the original original was in what became the caretaker's shed round near the railway (end of A block?).

Not sure where the new bar is since the massive expansion. Assume they have one still?


 
Posted : 10/04/2013 8:33 pm