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Applying for some weekend bar work in a pub, so that hopefully I'll be bar trained by the time I go to university, which will increase my employment prospects while I'm there. It'll be weird to be on the other side of the bar though :/

At 7/10/08 08:30 AM, FC-Thun-Fan wrote: Yeah I agree I've never thought drinking was exciting (like some other illegal stuff is) even though I am Underage. Maybe it depends what type of person you are or if you're use to doing stuff that's against the law. I used to get excited about doing stuff like stealing Mercedes-Symbols, but now I don't, might be a matter of getting used to it.

Yeah, the daily routine is never TOO exciting. I never found stealing car parts really exciting either, but I did enjoy stuff like provoking into a fight with a friend and gay stuff like that. Alcohol might have been exciting the few first times, at age 14 when you went to the dispenser at 10 pm to drink a can of beer...

At 7/10/08 09:03 AM, JustAnotherUser wrote: well, i'm reacting allergic to water, so i have to drink alcohol to survive. Of course i use alcohol for washing, cooking and showering, but since i'm living in germany, it's no problem...

Welcome to the club, I say! What are you doing tonight?

At 7/10/08 10:46 AM, Westwastingtime wrote: yeah i drink whatever my parents have which is usually
Sam adams light
Corona Extra
and SOCO(drink that shit strait)
im also kinda young...

Also welcome I'd say... Keep posting though, because everyone seems to join without further reactions afterwards, which is kinda stupid.

At 7/10/08 11:55 AM, DannyIsOnFire wrote: The weekend is nearly upon us and I can't wait. The usual Friday night in (work in the morning), which means I'll have half a bottle of Southern Comfort and be just about fine in the morning. Saturday afternoons when the fun really begins. Couple of mates back to mine, currently got nine cans and half a bottle of vodka. Then hit the pub for mass drinking of pintage.

Hahaha, it's been holidays for a week or two here already, and I've been drinking most evenings, obviously. Some were more loaded than others, but I think my average per day might be on the right way for the moment: up. Also your Saturday night sounds pretty fucking awesome. It's what I also do =D

Got a bottle of Micky Fins from Tesco today as well. 15% and it looks so downable. Saturday will be fucking great :) That and the pretty bottle and colour helped make up my mind :P

I'm not much for the bottles, but enjoy yours! =]

At 7/10/08 12:29 PM, NEVR wrote: Applying for some weekend bar work in a pub, so that hopefully I'll be bar trained by the time I go to university, which will increase my employment prospects while I'm there. It'll be weird to be on the other side of the bar though :/

I could never work in a bar. I worked at a few parties and stuff, but those were organized by my youth club so drunkenness was allowed for us. Otherwise, it would've been impossible, I think. Serving alcohol to people all night without touching it... :O

I have a free house this weekend.

'sgonna be goooooood

I've treated myself to a drink, despite it only being Thursday. Reason being, I've got a slight headache and one drink often puts that right :)

At 7/10/08 12:29 PM, NEVR wrote: Applying for some weekend bar work in a pub, so that hopefully I'll be bar trained by the time I go to university, which will increase my employment prospects while I'm there. It'll be weird to be on the other side of the bar though :/

All the same, you stand to make some decent tips when you work. Not sure how different it is over there, but here people feel obligated to tip the bartender at least a dollar per order. And if you don't get good tips then maybe you still get to take some beers home with ya.

Ahh, finally a thread with the same like minded people as me. =D

Well, favorite drinks, Canadian, Colt 45, Baileys, any Vodka, and last but not least Havana Club (amazing rum)

What about mixes? Anybody have any favorites?

At 7/10/08 07:07 PM, 36Holla wrote: All the same, you stand to make some decent tips when you work. Not sure how different it is over there, but here people feel obligated to tip the bartender at least a dollar per order. And if you don't get good tips then maybe you still get to take some beers home with ya.

Actually, tipping over here are much less of a big deal then it is in a lot of other places. Whenever I go to a restaurant or something, though, and my waiter/waitress is particularly good, I'll feel obliged to tip them a reasonable amount. If the service is poor, I'll only tip a little bit.

With bartenders, though, it's quite rare that the customer will tip them. Occasionally someone will tell them to keep the change from whatever bank note they're handing over, but it often won't be much. I suppose that's a tip in a way, though.

Nevertheless, tipping is much better in the restaurant business than in the pub/bar/club business. I there aren't really any standard tipping guideline rates over here, which I believe there are in the US?

Still, I'll probably be getting a fair amount of free/cheap drinks, and being bar-trained is a good thing to have under your belt when you head off to university, as it means that you can be out at the bar, still meet people, and be getting paid for it. Sure, you're not drinking, but if someone offered to pay me not to drink for a few hours a week, pretty easy money. ;P

I have never tipped barstaff, except for once in Madrid, and that was an exception, since they did food too, and they deserved it for the amaazing prices they gave us.

Apart from that, I have never ever tipped barstaff, and I am certainly not alone in this. Tipping barstaff just isn't done in england. Either you say 'keep the change' or 'buy yourself a drink' but apart from that, nothing happens. At resturants, 10% is often expected, but nothing is set in stone there either, and it's entirely up to the customer.

At 7/10/08 07:38 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: I have never tipped barstaff

Likewise. Like you said, I think the closest I've came is saying "keep the change" if it isn't worth sticking around for.
Us Englishmen are tight bastards :P

I haven't really given this Weekend any thought when it comes to drinking. I'll probably just buy some Beers at the Denner and go for a nice drinking Session up in the Forest at the Fireplace. I love that Spot there's everything you could want: a Fountain to cool the Drinks in, a Fireplace to be warm and cook Sausages and last but not least a great View of the Lake and the Mountains. Which brings me to a Question what are you're favourite dinking Spots and why?

At 7/11/08 05:08 AM, FC-Thun-Fan wrote: Which brings me to a Question what are you're favourite dinking Spots and why?

My favourite drinking spots are any pub or bar. Why? Because those places have been designed to drink, and because I live in Belgium =P

My watering hole? I have a local pub, and while the beer isn't amazing value or anything, they have carlsberg export on tap, the jukebox is £2 for 9 songs (best value in my town), and the pool table is 50p (best value in town by far)

At 7/11/08 08:00 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: and the pool table is 50p (best value in town by far)

I have a pub next door where the pool table is 50p. Most other places I've been it's either 80p or £1, which I think is a bit much.

It's 3:30am here and I just got back from a house party. Only had three beers over the duration of the night, so I thought I'd drive home and drop off a few friends on the way. Matters weren't helped by the fact that I got into a fight with a good friend of mine, who decided to take a holier-than-thou attitude on my smoking habits for some reason (despite smoking himself during the night?) and wanted to take my 3 remaining cigarettes off me. I told him that if he tried to take them, I'd hit him.

He tried to take them.

At 7/11/08 08:00 PM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: the jukebox is £2 for 9 songs (best value in my town)

Also, the jukebox has a MASSIVE collection of alternative, rock, classic rock, even heavy metal. Whereas the jukebox in the other pub we go to has, for example, no Pink Floyd, and one Who song.

And here in Belgium, the music is free and in the pub I usually go to you can just walk up to the computer and modify the playlist, as long as you don't fuck with it.

And here in my house, the beer is supermarket prices, the music is entirely my pick, and a bunch of my friends are coming round in five hours to share this revalation with me.

I haven't slept in 25 hours and 40 minutes. I drank so many shots last night which was a bad idea mixed in with beer and soco lemon and lime. I'm almost certainly still fairly drunk. I'm scarred to go to sleep because of the horrible hangover i'llget, I;'m considering staying up till i start halluciniating. I likw pie. That is all.

I just got off my ride along patrol for my internship and I got a chance to see a different perspective on people who were drinking. We were doing a premise check on a park that had a bunch of tents in it for an art show over the weekend, and we found these two drunk guys pulling down tents.

The officer I was with gets out of the car and just says 'What the fuck are you doing?' and that immediately wiped the smirks off their faces. And it wasn't like these guys were kids. They were adults being idiots.

We got them for vandalism tickets and made them put the tents back up as we watched in the car. They were really drunk too so they kept messing up and the tent was falling down on top of them. Man that was funny shit. Finally they got it up and the officer told them to get the fuck out of there.

Good shit.

At 7/12/08 08:28 AM, BananaBreadMuffin wrote: And here in my house, the beer is supermarket prices, the music is entirely my pick, and a bunch of my friends are coming round in five hours to share this revalation with me.

Have you guys ever had Dr Peppers? Quarter pint of coke, quarter pint of lager, and then a depth-charge (drop the shot glass into the glass, then neck it so it mixes in your mouth) of amaretto.

Man I got fucked last night on some of them.

My friend did depth charges with whiskey in snakebite. He threw up all over some other guy's bed later that night, which I found fucking hilarious, especially seeing as the vomit was blackcurrent-coloured.

Just posting to tell you you won't see me the next 10 days because I'll be getting drunk on youth club camp. It's going to be awesome.

Nah no Dr. Peppers, but I have had a lunch box which is half beer, half orange juice and a shot of amaretto. Sounds bad I know, but it tastes freaking delicious.

I'm already dreading this Week because all my Friends are on Holiday and the Weather's shit. How am I supposed to get a good Night out under these Circumstances. Unless my Brother lets me hang out with his Group. I just regained a bit of Hope now because one of my main drinking Buddies might still be around, Fingers crossed.

Been trying Gin this evening. I was pleasantly surprised -- it's really nice. Has a hint of citrus, and doesn't taste nearly as strong as it is. Goes down quite easily, I must say. A new favourite, perhaps?

At 7/14/08 10:20 PM, NEVR wrote: Been trying Gin this evening. I was pleasantly surprised -- it's really nice. Has a hint of citrus, and doesn't taste nearly as strong as it is. Goes down quite easily, I must say. A new favourite, perhaps?

Well good for you if you like that stuff, but to me it tastes like a pine tree. It's one of the few hard alcohols I've had that I just hated off the bat. I even tried it with tonic, but it didn't help much. I'm a pansy =(

I had a Coor's the other night while my girlfriend was out drinking for her birthday. Lucky bitch :P jk :) I havn't actually been drinking in a while really. Can't wait till next year though. I'll be 19 and legal to drink :)

Oh man, nothing beats a good G+T on a summers evening.

At 7/14/08 11:51 PM, 36Holla wrote: Well good for you if you like that stuff, but to me it tastes like a pine tree.

LOL! A pine tree, huh? Could be the brand you had, I dunno. The stuff I had was pretty nice, but then, it's all about personal taste.

It's one of the few hard alcohols I've had that I just hated off the bat. I even tried it with tonic, but it didn't help much. I'm a pansy =(

Nah, it's just taste, like I said. For example, I know so many people who love Southern Comfort, but I can't stand the stuff. Just tastes awful to me.

how bad does everyone get beer shits?
id say they are the best form of diaoreah, the cramps aren't to bad, and they slip right out, and aren't even that wet,

Beer shits?

Please, continue.