Been out for a few pints

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
01/07/2011 23:45

no difference, I think I will stay in for another while, same people same crack, bugger off, I can do without it, pretty much the same as what is happening here.

philbailey


Joined: 17/01/2011
Posts: 3534

Message Posted:
01/07/2011 23:47

pints of what?

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
01/07/2011 23:52

Started off with Ruddles best Bitter £1.60 pint and it was superb, a couple pf weeks ago I laughed at someone waxinjg lyrical about it but I am now a convert, no one else stocks it so the John Smiths got a hammering.

Roomy


Joined: 20/02/2011
Posts: 836

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 00:25

Came home and made myself 4 burgers, that is all.

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 01:55

For whomever doesn't read the Sunday Times, it had a small paragraph warning NOT to drink alcohol called:- Eagleblow Vodka and Gin, Raki 7 and Mr Burdon Whiskey, all made in Northern Cyprus. It is full of poisonous chemicals purposely put into it; a huge amount of this stuff was shipped over to Turkey, where thus far, it has killed five people........the latest, a young Russian man........

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 07:34

Msg 5 I'm sure someone will find and post the link but it was PROVED that liqueur made in Northern Cyprus WAS NOT the cause of peoples deaths - before you do untold damage to an already struggling economy MsGarnet please get your fatcs straight!



Maggie

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 07:46

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=more-than-2500-bottles-of-bootleg-alcohol-confiscated-in-istanbul-2011-06-03



Much more likely to have been from here!

negativenick


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 6023

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 07:46

piston broke ??

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 10:38

from NCFP & Cyprus Today



"Drinks in the clear over tourist deaths – Tests prove TRNC produced alcohol did not kill Russian trio. Tests revealed the trio died after drinking Mister Burdon labelled whisky and rakı, which contained triple the accepted limits of methyl alcohol, during a boat trip in Bodrum. These drinks are not produced in the TRNC.,"

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 10:44

of course the north is to squeaky clean do do any of that sort of thing

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 11:41

I don't write the Travel Section - page 2, of the Sunday Times, 26/6/11, so can only say - I took the paragraph at its word.



I am aware not everything one reads is true - I have been written about, and even though interviewed by a newspaper, and a magazine who did a two page spread - both articles were larded with unsubstantiated poetic licence.



Maggie and Bernie - one realises politeness isn't a requisite on this board, but would remind you I had no more reason to disbelieve the Sunday Times than for you to believe your source, kindly don't shoot the messenger! My posting was engendered by public concern; I do have a huge extended family connection in TRNC - their welfare is my concern as much as that of everyone else living there.

MaggieAndBernie



Joined: 26/07/2008
Posts: 2012

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 12:31

MsGarnet

If I was rather abrupt in my posting this morning I apologise - I really didn't mean to be rude and can only put it down to being tired & grumpy and needing more coffee!

I know there's a lot wrong with this country and the Government could do a lot more to improve things, but having read several articles recently on the 'poisoned vodka etc' story I just thought it would do more damage to the tourist industry/local economy if people are put off buying drinks because of it.



Have a nice day!



Maggie

MsGarnet


Joined: 04/01/2009
Posts: 989

Message Posted:
02/07/2011 19:00

Maggie and Bernie - my turn to apologise - I am suffering tennis elbow as we speak (not that I can remember when I last handled a racquet)! and the pain is driving me dotty at times, so I think I was projecting somewhat.



To be honest, I left immediately after I posted, to go shopping for the day, and a couple of times when I was out, thought to myself, I could have couched my post in better terms as I TOTALLY understand and concur, with what you said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



Our family in TRNC are a large part of the economy there, as well as contributing enormously to it - and though I can't, for health reasons, get back for a while - when I read that small article, I thought - gosh - how come no-one has mentioned it? so am pleased to read, the notion the methanol laced alcohol came from TRNC has been disabused...