alcohol & booze

The Fortean drink of choice? https://newatlas.com/lifestyle/powdered-beer

[Mods please put into the thread on Borders and Territories which I cannot find.] The Whisky War between Canada and Denmark is over. The two countries have been at dispute for decades over a rock called Hans Island. They settled it by swapping bottles of booze, and agreeing to split the...

The only comment posted so far suggests the cavemen were making beer.

Apologies if there are other george best threads but I'm just curious about how much Best has been drinking for the last 30 years. I mean I drink 4 pints of 4% lager every night, maybe 6 at weekends. I know that is more than the recomended daily amount of 1ml, but I'm sure there are people...

ananova.com/news/story/sm_829709.html?menu=news.quirkies Link is dead. The MIA article (quoted in full above) can be accessed at the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20031203052024/http://www.ananova.com:80/news/story/sm_829709.html?menu=news.quirkies

Did anyone else receive one of those scanned newspaper clippings by email. It was something about a guy that ate his underpants in order to avoid failing a breathalyzer. No, I don't know either, but a Google merely turns up German erotic wrestling, so if anyone can provide details do let us...

The "human brain found on the way home from the pub" story reminded me of some of my own exploits after closing time. As a student (or just a pisshead) it was customary to nick something on the way home, which in the cold light of the morning in some cases seemed very odd indeed. My favourite...

You know, if we just went by local newspaper reports, it would seem that most ghosts prefer to haunt pubs. How curious.:rolleyes: -Justin.

This pub has received a lot of publicity recently (I forget exactly why...) I consider myself a minor expert on English pub names, but this was a delightful new surprise to me. There must be lots of fascinating pub names out there - One from Cornwall is the Bucket of Blood, near Hayle...