Be Excellent To Each Other

I agree with Mr Dave.

I'm beginning to suspect that I am the only English speaking adult male to use the bus in Liverpool.

I thought you spoke scouse too?

I get by. Phil Collins belting full blast out of a Mini next to bus. Dude's got balls!

I really enjoyed today.

Among the assorted flyers in the post waiting for me today (I never realised I had so many takeaways round here) was one for Lidl. It was about to go in the bin, but on the back it mentions LidlMovies which is cheaper than Lovefilm etc. Might as well give the free trial a go I guess.

Am I imagining things, or was this already posted?

With bonus unicorn comment? I may be going insane.

That would have been me

That's brilliant by the way.

Awww, no-one told me Masterchef Professionals was back. I've missed 20 minutes of shouting at people who should know better.

The chips were soggy!

Hook Norton's Haymaker ( a PA), Twelve Days and Bitter are lovely. The Double Stout is good, as is Old Hooky, but I find the latter a bit sweet. The Dark ( a mild) is good. I'm not sure about the Gold, though, as MrsA drank my bottle of it, and the hops are from dirty foreign Merkinania.

More work again tomorrow, which I am looking forward to.

My taste for ale is growing. I am still a beginner.

My little brother's in hospital with a hand injury. Apparently some wee cunt at school pushed him down some stairs, and he got up and decked him. Crazy!

Ale is best served at room temperature. When in a pub, it is best when served without a sprinkler/sparkler as this forces the beer out at a higher pressure and you don't get as much of the aromatic compounds hitting your nose. Northerners disagree, however and complain when there is no sprinkler/sparkler. They are wrong.

Room temperature, eh? Will do.

Yes. I can't stand chillled ales.

Depends, All Bar One serve London Pride through a Nitrogen cooled chiller. It changes the flavour considerably and is an almost European style. I generally prefer ale to be aley, but it depends on the mood. Also, some beers are good chilled, because obviously this affects the size of the bubbles, which affects the "mouth feel". Generally though (IMO), the darker the beer, the warmer it should be served (within reason, don't boil your porter kiddies)

This has probably been posted before but it's funny.

I am giving serious thought to spending £175 on six 1.5l bottles of old-formula Sailor Jerry's rum.

"old formula"?

It's the meths that makes it.

Where the hell is Zardoz. Is he OK?

Not sure if he's back from Dubai yet.

Oh yeah, duh, I forgot. They obviously don't have internet in Dubai prisons.

You're only allowed to do this if you get them in time for Derby.

They changed the recipe earlier this year for a much blander one with less vanilla and lime.

Yeah, like I'd share my R@RE! booze.

Well, Pimp That Rum!

I thought about doing this on the weekend, I was a massive fan of the old style Sailor Jerry's. New style is nowhere near as tasty. I was considering tinkering with varying degrees of a home made vanilla and lime syrup as a mixer. I gave up thinking about it in the end as it was 10.30 on a Sunday morning and therefore, not the best time to be experimenting with neat spirits.

Are they tying to do a 'new coke'?

Apparently they adjusted the recipe as bar tenders were finding it difficult to mix.

I think they should have left it alone. No need for anything special, either drink it with Coke or neat with ice and a splash of lime.

I didn't like the old Sailor Jerry's but the new one just tastes like shite spiced rum.

Btw, some of the homemade spiced rum recipes are worth trying out, works fine with supermarket shite too

I've been for 2 job interviews today. One at a big company where it was all stock, competency questions and the second at a smaller family run firm where it was all odd questions.

That really threw me but fingers crossed! The second one is only 3 miles away. That would be ace!

What were the odd questions?

The first, third and fifth.

Seven bananas.

Nice one Gill!

They were only odd I suppose because I wasn't used to them. The only interviews I've done recently have been competency based where I can draw on examples and such like.

In the 2nd one today, he started questioning my career choices and saying that they seemed odd and how I trained for them etc. It just threw me a little bit.

oooh topical

My CV is a rather interesting read so I am always ready for a question like that and indeed often hope for it so I can make it appear a bit better than 'I liked earning lots of money for six months then dossing around in jobs that meant nothing to me for six months'. Even if that is actually the truth

I hope you managed to handle it well enough, it's always unsettling when you're easked a question you've never had before in an interview but the best thing to do is take a breath and a moment to consider what you're going to say. Taking a second to collect your thoughts looks better than blabbering nonsense that doesn't answer anything.

Good Luck!

My job is very much like repeatedly banging my head against a brick wall. Certainly I leave the office each day with a headache.

Sounds like my job at times!!

The way this company is organised is staggering. Simply staggering. They appear to be in business by virtue of having no serious competitor.

Hmm, are they looking to take over the running of large parts of the government perchance?

Heh, no nothing like that. I work for a company in the travel industry.

This amuses me.

And me.

I don't get it