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The Christian nutters are every bit as nasty, violent, bigoted, deluded
and dangerous as the Islamic nutters, IMHO.

 

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The Older Gentleman was seen penning the following ode to ... whatever:

.... and the Hindu nutters and all the other religious nuts as well.

 

sweller wrote

Out of the mouths of babes....

 

Here's a good one:

http://www.geocities.com/evilprogressive

 

When I see pages like that, at first I am never quite sure if it's
satirical or not. Then I realise that there are people who actually
believe all that crap and that worryingly they're allowed to vote and
in some cases become president of the us.

 

I'm with him on Gentle Giant. Crimes against humanity.

 

....er yes, exactly.

and in the 70s home brewing was big, due to the price of
beer. Therefore should prices be brought upto a comparable
price today, I would anticipate a lot of people getting back
into the old home poison...

Nick

 

but that's the point, isn't it, we're not really "in". Perosnally, I'm
undecided as to whether we'd be better off "in" or "out", but either is
probably better than being half-way in.

 

No, because that was when home brew kits first hit the shops. And when
the punters realised it tasted foul, they went back to the pubs.

Beer has never been "expensive".

 

(The Older Gentleman) wrote in

It's over 2 quid a pint now FFS.

Ehhh I remember the days, two pints for a quid.

 

It doesn't have to taste bad. The trick is to develop a live
yeast culture in a bottle before you start, rather than relying
on pouring in the contents of that silver condom packet. "Boots
Special Bitter" can be made to replicate Owd Roger using
shitloads of brown sugar and molasses then double-fermenting next
to your boiler. You can make great scrumpy-style cider without a
kit, with cheap apple juice from Aldi and potato peelings. Lager
generally turns out like piss though.

riccip

 

I managed to produce reasonable tasting largers, the secret seemed to
be to leave them in the bottle for sometime [8 weeks+] rather than to
try to drink ASAP as with the bitters, stout always went wrong. I also
never got a good result from using a secondary barrel, bottles were
far better. I had hundreds of the blasted things at one time, coloured
dots on the bottles with counterparts on the calendar related to
drinkable dates. In the end I stopped once I realised that I was
making 5 gallons every 5 days and drinking 90% myself.

 

I remember the last time I paid 1/11d for a pint, but that has got
nothing to do with how much money, or a pint, is worth. Think in Mars
Bars and you can't go wrong ;-)

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Bike's are bosh, PC's are pointless, and the 2000's were nuts!
Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 2000s are the time to be!
Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!

 

Out would be disastrous. Where are our markets now we have broken the
umbilical trade cord with the Commonwealth? Who will invest in little,
small-minded Britain when there is all that cheap labour in the EU? It
may have escaped the Little Englanders' notice, but we haven't got an
empire to leach off of any more. The only other option will be to
become the 95th state of the US of A, and mates of mine are even
advocating that, the fools!

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Nah, nor me. The tap once blew off mine in the night. Wot a mess.

Placcy ex-pop bottles I presume? They don't explode.

LOL! Same here. Stopped making wine for the same reason. Only
brew cider now, in winter when the boiler helps it finish nicely.
Keeps all year round and it's very satisfying to create DIY
booze. Home-brewers may not earn much street cred but we'd be in
mega demand in a post-apocalyptic future.

riccip

 

We're in, don't doubt it, except for the Euro (more's the pity). It's
only the loud-mouthed UKIPer idiots who give the impression we're not.
Actually we could be out any time we want to, like any of the other
members, try reading the "constitution" and you'll see.

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Bikes are great, PCs are super, and the 2000s are the time to be!
Save the apostrophe! Get 'em right! If in doubt, leave 'em out!!

 

Never tried that, but the stuff I've done so
far has all tasted decent...

I've tried a couple of bitters, and they have all worked, but needed
leaving for a long time in the secondary barrel. But then all produce
decent "session" beers.

The ginger beer I tried was undrinkable piss however.

Couldn't be faffed with bottles.

The "old ale" that I did, which was only a 12pint kit, would
have been better in bottles though.

heh.

 

Just save up a few 2 litre pop bottles. So long as nobody's
gozzed in them you don't even have to wash them out.

riccip

 

Nope, glass bottles with crown corks - takes longer but the end result
was imo better.

 

I did try a secondary barrel a few times but it just never tasted
right and either the beer went flat or off or extra gassy because I
was injecting gas to keep the pressure up.