OT Sort of: "NO SH*T SHERLOCK"

Hey!

I must be one of the "lost leaders" on an all inclusive.

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/123392/Holiday-drinkers-down-eight-a-
day

 

And I used to wish you'd stop posting Daily Mail articles...

 

I went on an all inclusive once. We thought we were drinking enormous
quantities of beer, but weren't getting even tipsy. The thing is, nobody
abroad serves pints, so you need about 8 drinks to get the equivalent of 2
or 3 pints...

 

Now I know the Daily Mail and Daily Express have a lower nipple count
than a lot of other papers but this article about another
Government-backed survey did make me laugh.


[Gets towards the end of my morning read of about 20 UK & European news
papers starts on the others with Aljazeera]

 

In France, you may ask for:

- Galopin= 0.125l
- Bock= 0.15l
- Demi= 0.25l
- Distingué or Véritable= 0.50l
- Parfait or Formidable= 1l

Sérieux can be used for 0.5, 1 or 2l, Baron for 0.5 or 1l.

 

Why anyone bothers with either of these I'll never know.

Which is the almost universal default if you just ask for une bière,
or une pression (meaning draught).

Only ever hear the last one of these, and that very rarely. I've known
quite a few bars that don't even have .5l glasses, let alone litre
ones.

Usually .5l though, IME at least.

And you missed 'Pinte' (for .5l) which I have also heard in French
bars.

 

You can also ask for a meter of drinks in a lot of bars.
Quite usual for Ricard, for example.

 

The European equivalent of a yard of ale? )

 

A Hare of Yale?

 

A line of shot-glasses on a wooden base is the only 'metre' of drinks
I've seen in France.

 

That's what I guessed it was, hence the smiley.

 

The wooden base is for pikey bars.
Usually you just put glasses touching by their rims, then pours your
favourite poison.

 

[...]

It's for the kids, obviously.

Leslie

 

It's always a "pant" with BD

 

"Pinte".

 

lol

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Nige,

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I spelt it phonetically. HTH.

 

Yes, I know, but I was just helping you out with the spelling, as I
know you struggle sometimes.

 

Heheh, you ****.

 

As is feeling the irrepressible need to sign one's name immediately
before the signature, obviously. On every fucking post made.

WTF is that all about, then?