The tides are turning

[Nick]

I'm home from the Devon / Cornwall border having drunk enough gin to pickle my internal organs for a month.


But it was fun.


Cheers......

Gin is also one of my tipples, had a couple of pints early on 😂

[johnofgwent]

Strangely enough, I'm up in Edinburgh this weekend on the lash, but no, I'm a red wine drinker.

I'm home from the Devon / Cornwall border having drunk enough gin to pickle my internal organs for a month.


But it was fun.


Cheers......

[Nick]

Wee nipper as in consumer of spirits north of Gretna ??


Assuming you really don't know, weights and measures now trading standards require pubs to serve pints in glasses bearing a calibration which when I was pulling pints was a "lion" mark similar to that used on eggs. I was unaware it ever went away as all the glassware in the pub still has it.

Strangely enough, I'm up in Edinburgh this weekend on the lash, but no, I'm a red wine drinker.

[Borchester]

Being a wee nipper I haven't the foggiest what you're on about 😂

HB is referring to the rise of Totalitarianism.

"A 'alf litre ain't enough. It don't satisfy. And a 'ole litre's too much. It starts my bladder running. Let alone the price."

Of course, to most of us a litre is barely a dirty glass, but Orwell was a wine drinker so to him a pint and three quarters was serious drinking.

[johnofgwent]

Being a wee nipper I haven't the foggiest what you're on about 😂

Wee nipper as in consumer of spirits north of Gretna ??


Assuming you really don't know, weights and measures now trading standards require pubs to serve pints in glasses bearing a calibration which when I was pulling pints was a "lion" mark similar to that used on eggs. I was unaware it ever went away as all the glassware in the pub still has it.

[Nick]

Being a wee nipper I haven't the foggiest what you're on about 😂

[cromwell]

In contrast I remember it well but that's because I worked pulling pints for a time ....

Well whilst I've done that too I've sunk a fair few,difficult to miss them.....hic.

[johnofgwent]

I can't remember ever noticing a crown stamp on 0.568 litre beer glasses in the past. I knew there was a mark of some sort but I was aware of a mark of some sort.

And if the tides are indeed turning, which tides and on whom?

In contrast I remember it well but that's because I worked pulling pints for a time ....

[HDQQ]

I can't remember ever noticing a crown stamp on 0.568 litre beer glasses in the past. I knew there was a mark of some sort but I was aware of a mark of some sort.

And if the tides are indeed turning, which tides and on whom?

[papasmurf]

After fifteen years of pain, the crown stamp is returning to our pint glasses 

It never went away.

[HallowedBrexit]

After fifteen years of pain, the crown stamp is returning to our pint glasses 

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1489841/brexit-news-european-commission-pint-glasses-eu-latest

The dark days of the EU is over and the sunlit uplands are about to become reality.