Playlouder - Music is the Network

Now the pharmaceutical industry can take their place.

Notting Pain Killer Carnival sounds nice after all.

but it's talking shit about piss...

Actually, this is good news. Thinking that Playlouder's rancid orange was buzzkill that's nothing when compared to beer slogan after (shit) beer slogan signs polluting up a gig and you fav rock band at the time giving them props (er, sucking their dick) for all the corporate sponsorship.

If your piss comes out rancid orange you really will be needing the pharmaceutical industry

And what's wrong with Berocca, exactly?

hahaha. Rancid orange piss it may be, but it appears to keep me healthier than my diet and sleeping patterns would suggest. In fact, I need to go procure some more.

I ran out yesterday as well. I might raid the cleaning cupboard to see if I can concoct something equivalent. There's vitamin C in bleach, right?

its potent stuff, dont underestimate it. feels like crack that stuff.

i know giovanna swears by it when experiencing lack of sleep and being hungover.

My god if Shepherd Neame took over Reading, I'd go every year. Think of it. Only last night I was watching a band whilst enjoying a half pint of their very fine winter hop ale, very kindly donated to me by the landlord of the Betsey. 'twas gorgeous.

"Notting Hill Carnival, as sponsored by the Cali Cartel" has a certain ring, not to say a degree of accuracy nowadays...

...Thumbs up to Shepherd Neame and its hoppy Kentish gorgeousness! All too often, festivals have been cases of a manufacturer of pish sponsoring the producers of musical pish onstage; 'Belong', indeed!!!

nice to dee you back dude. I never understood the controversy that lead to leaving from the last board

to see you

lead to you

I am peshed

and about to go back to the pub, after getting more peshed

There was no controversy, per se...any rumours of my being banned for lack of political correctness, etc. were the result of someone's (or several people's?) fevered imagination; truth be told, I had a little trouble with my broadband connection and eventually lost interest - for a while, at least.

You seem somewhat more together, although the back-and-forth cycle to the pub sound like an echo of less healthy times...how are things with you now?

...And back on the subject of the almighty C******, does anyone else out there feel like their latest advertising campaign is yet another step towards Brave New World / 1984?

I was in one of them awful Scream pubs in Bristol the other week - it was a blustery winter day and promise hung in the air like fog - and I bought a beer and a burger. Seeing as they had a distinct lack of fine ales in the fridge and an equally distinct lack of pumps with which to remove fine ale from barrels I opted for a pint of the bog standard (though recently improved from swamp standard) Heineken. Imagine my surprise when I was told that the beer part of the beer and burger deal was limited to Carling or Carlsberg. I was, as you can imagine, quite put out. I asked him which was the best and he gave me an idiotic look. After all, how dare I suggest there was any difference between them? I opted for Carling and it was rancid. What's more he then told me curly fries were available for an extra 60p, only to deny me the upgrade when I requested it on the grounds that he'd already put the order through the till because it took me too long to decide. Utter cunt. If I ever go back in there again it will be to shit on his corpse.

Plastic pubs = plastic beer + plastic service. And quite often, people paying with plastic (and taking an age about it). At least at my local Wetherspoons they're a bit flexible of the choice of bitter with the curry deal...

...And did you know that, according to one university study, 1/3 of all pub customers don't even decide what they want until they get to the bar (I'm guessing that they're the ones who only visit in December, and spend the other eleven months working out ways to be a complete pain in the arse)? Seems that some of these pub chains have been toying with the idea of video ads at the bar, to prompt the non-deciders to choose certain preferred options. Welcome to the Brave New World indeed!