Alex

There’s a lad I went to school with whose mam and dad ran a newsagent’s. Let’s just say he was a popular lad

Dougle describing a completely factual, practically unarguable post as one of the biggest fallacies in football raised a chuckle on a bit of a shitty day

Absolutely. And Geldof’s personal wealth is dodgy as fuck. The self-righteous prick

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b018zv8d The 1977 - Big Hits TOTP thingy I mentioned above (about 1 hour long) has some great stuff on it including some proper actual live performances.

If it was -40c it would also be -40f. But it isn’t, so it’s not

Maybe you should read it rather than just buying it, mate

For the pop-crazed youngsters out there, BBC iPlayer has a series (search top of the pops) of Big Hits 1983, 1990, etc. These are a compilation of the year’s in studio TOTP performances, rather the end of year Xmas shows. The 1990 one and the 1999 one was on BBC4 at the weekend. The former was really good but in the latter, the slow lingering death of TOTP was very much in evidence.

Arguably they’re neither

I watched the Mike Tyson one. I got what I deserved

Balvenie do sone really nice whiskies. William Grants own them. Who do the Grants blends. They also own Glenfiddich. The Monkey Shoulder ‘blended malt’ has both Glenfiddich and Balvenie in it. Despite the popularity of Grants and Glenfiddich the company is still owned by the Grant family. It’s significant because something like 90% (might be more tbh) are owned by massive multinational corporations.

KSI is apparently going to fight Wayne Bridge. Yes, that Wayne Bridge

Bloody lovely stuff. Orval is another favourite of mine. I must get myself back to Belgium someday

Amazon quite often has 1 litre bottles of Black Bush on offer. The trouble is, if I buy a litre on offer, I don’t save any money because I just drink more.

@wykikitoon So, I like smokey peated whiskies and I like unpeated ones. But the former is an acquired taste and I didn’t actually like it when I first tried it. My mate brought a bottle of Laphroaig or maybe Ardbeg round what must’ve been 20 years ago and I thought it tasted like seawater. Im terms of single malts I’ve never had a bad one but some are a bit dull imo. And as the popularity of single malts increases world wide, some are not aged all that long. Legally it has to be 3 years but sometimes you’ll get malts all from the same distillery but of varying ages. With those they often don’t carry an age statement (because the age statement has to be the youngest whisky in the bottle, if you put an age statement on). And a single malt looks a bit shit / cheap with (for example) 4 years on it. Not having an age statement doesn’t make it poor quality. But it’s something to be aware of. Btw Bushmills is made exactly like a single malt from Scotland, rather than most other Irish Whiskies. That’s the 10 year old or older Bushmills. Black Bush and ‘standard’ Bushmills are like blended scotch. Black Bush is lovely btw. As to your mate, Wyki: I would probably recommend an entry level whisky like Aberlour 10 or 12, Glenmorangie 10 or 12. Or good old Glenfiddich. If he likes those then maybe experiment a bit more. And if he fancies trying something different, some sites sell miniatures (5 cl samples)*. A Scottish malt that’s very similar in style to Bushmills 10 is the Auchentoshan. For the ones I’ve mention see which ones are on offer online. Or at the supermarket. Most supermarkets have a decent selection of single malts. Read the label / tasting notes though to avoid peaty ones. *Master of malt and the whisky exchange both do this.

I think that’s probably over now