Beer is brain food
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mezzoprezzo
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I don’t have an FCT either. Not to worry, the shrine isn’t on the DLS anyway, as far as I know.
I won’t give it away the identity of the character on the can yet. He’s much better known in Italy (no, not a politician!) so a lot of people may not recognise him.
If you want to check it out you can get it in a two shrine pack (that's hard to say after a couple of beers!), available from AmiciTreni.net: http://www.railworks.it/download/in...ssID=4bf858319be810eccaaf74dd30601935&start=5
Third thumbnail down the list.
Cheers
Casper
Retro00064
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I don’t have an FCT either. Not to worry, the shrine isn’t on the DLS anyway, as far as I know.
I won’t give it away the identity of the character on the can yet. He’s much better known in Italy (no, not a politician!) so a lot of people may not recognise him.
If you want to check it out you can get it in a two shrine pack (that's hard to say after a couple of beers!), available from AmiciTreni.net: http://www.railworks.it/download/in...ssID=4bf858319be810eccaaf74dd30601935&start=5
Third thumbnail down the list.
Cheers
Casper
Thanks Casper. I now have it, and will install it and check it out later.
Regards.
mezzoprezzo
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On looking more closely at the shrine asset I’ve just noticed the pebbledash effect high up on the left hand wall.
That Somerset scrumpy cider of yours certainly seems to create a frighteningly fierce and high trajectory...!
Casper
After having just now finished a six pack of "Sink the Bismarck", and having finished all required patent requirements on my perpetual motion machine, time traveling athletic supporter, and air fueled combustion engine, I have to agree that beer is indeed brain food... now on to the wormhole thesis I've been ignoring...
Retro00064
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Very funny. Both of you. :hehe:
Regards.
:hehe:Regards.
narrowgauge
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Wholbr
I used to live in a house in Westonzoyland that backed onto the battlefield area and we always had a cask of local cider in the kitchen. It is an acquired taste and we really 'acquired' a lot of it. Those were the days.
Where do you live?
Peter
I used to live in a house in Westonzoyland that backed onto the battlefield area and we always had a cask of local cider in the kitchen. It is an acquired taste and we really 'acquired' a lot of it. Those were the days.
Where do you live?
Peter
Hi Peter and Everybody
Hi
I was born in North Devon, but spent my school years in Bristol. I moved down to Woolavington in the early 70s as the transport contract I was working on was relocated to a site near Bridgwater. It was then I became associated with the cider Festival. When I was upgraded a to senior safety officer the job was relocated to Avonmouth and so I moved to Clevedon where I still reside today.
I have always loved Somerset along with the whole of the West country. Our three daughters where all raised in Clevedon and still all live around us with their own families so I cannot see us leaving Clevedon now although I would not want to as it is not a bad place to live.
Where you in Somerset Peter when the cider Festival was held at the battlefield. If you where it could be we may well have met their.
Posting this from 16:30 London to Taunton first Great Western HST 125 currently at Swindon, on time.
Good trip so far
Bill
Hi
I was born in North Devon, but spent my school years in Bristol. I moved down to Woolavington in the early 70s as the transport contract I was working on was relocated to a site near Bridgwater. It was then I became associated with the cider Festival. When I was upgraded a to senior safety officer the job was relocated to Avonmouth and so I moved to Clevedon where I still reside today.
I have always loved Somerset along with the whole of the West country. Our three daughters where all raised in Clevedon and still all live around us with their own families so I cannot see us leaving Clevedon now although I would not want to as it is not a bad place to live.
Where you in Somerset Peter when the cider Festival was held at the battlefield. If you where it could be we may well have met their.
Posting this from 16:30 London to Taunton first Great Western HST 125 currently at Swindon, on time.
Good trip so far
Bill
Bill, with your on-board updates, a thought occurred to me, probably brought about by my beer enhanced IQ.
As so many people are already aware of improved brain function offered by regular consumption of beer, I'm sure the same consumers must also be aware of the temporal effects beer has on travel? For instance, I can leave a pub or friend's house after consuming a certain quantity of beer and find myself at home in apparently next to no time. At it's most extreme, I can often find myself waking in my room the next day!
Rather than rail passengers complaining about delays, why don't the operators offer a bucket of beer to every passenger and the complaints would fall to practically nothing as all passengers would effectively get on their train, then be at their destination almost before they realised they'd left. Obviously, this may have short-comings on commuter routes but I definitely think it would prove hugely successful on inter city routes.
Do you hear me Richard Branson?
As so many people are already aware of improved brain function offered by regular consumption of beer, I'm sure the same consumers must also be aware of the temporal effects beer has on travel? For instance, I can leave a pub or friend's house after consuming a certain quantity of beer and find myself at home in apparently next to no time. At it's most extreme, I can often find myself waking in my room the next day!
Rather than rail passengers complaining about delays, why don't the operators offer a bucket of beer to every passenger and the complaints would fall to practically nothing as all passengers would effectively get on their train, then be at their destination almost before they realised they'd left. Obviously, this may have short-comings on commuter routes but I definitely think it would prove hugely successful on inter city routes.
Do you hear me Richard Branson?
Retro00064
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mezzoprezzo
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Hasten Jason, fetch a basin...
... too late, flop, fetch a mop!
... too late, flop, fetch a mop!
Retro00064
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Hi Everybody.
Do you know pfx I really think you've got something there. You imagine it
1) Your train is in ten minutes late, you get one pint of Somerset brewed cider. (you would then not worry too much that your train was ten minutes late).
2) your train is twenty minutes late, you get two pints of Somerset brewed cider and a taxi home from the station. (You would need the taxi home from the station and you would definitely not care that your train was late).
3)your train is thirty minutes late, you get three pints of Somerset Brewed cider, a Contreu and Brandy, assistance to get off the train, a nights full board at the local station inn, a text message sent to your wife/partner informing her not to expect you for a couple of days and a bucket under your bed.
the one drawback the above may have is passengers pressing the emergency button to stop the train just so it will be late.
Bill
Do you know pfx I really think you've got something there. You imagine it
1) Your train is in ten minutes late, you get one pint of Somerset brewed cider. (you would then not worry too much that your train was ten minutes late).
2) your train is twenty minutes late, you get two pints of Somerset brewed cider and a taxi home from the station. (You would need the taxi home from the station and you would definitely not care that your train was late).
3)your train is thirty minutes late, you get three pints of Somerset Brewed cider, a Contreu and Brandy, assistance to get off the train, a nights full board at the local station inn, a text message sent to your wife/partner informing her not to expect you for a couple of days and a bucket under your bed.
the one drawback the above may have is passengers pressing the emergency button to stop the train just so it will be late.
Bill
jmansparky2010
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My favorite beer is an open one! :udrool:
Beer drinkers - from a different perspective!!
I consider myself (and my ancestors) to be true connoisseurs of the amber fluid - filtered of course through the arteries and veins of others. We can easily taste the differences between the beer drinkers of the different regions. The beer drinkers of my ancestral region, Transylvania and parts of Romania and Bavaria imbibe the strongest and most interesting brews - it must be the cold nights and the "things that go bump" there - that makes them my favourite late night snack.
Australians and Kiwis tend to imbibe strong but mostly bland brews (Cooper drinkers are a welcome exception - when we can find one) while we will partake of you Americans only when nothing else is available - "Bud" drinkers are an abomination and should be reported to the Food and Drug Administration. I consider that the "True Blood" alternative, A+ of course, to be better than a Bud drinker anytime.
Vamps Rule!
I consider myself (and my ancestors) to be true connoisseurs of the amber fluid - filtered of course through the arteries and veins of others. We can easily taste the differences between the beer drinkers of the different regions. The beer drinkers of my ancestral region, Transylvania and parts of Romania and Bavaria imbibe the strongest and most interesting brews - it must be the cold nights and the "things that go bump" there - that makes them my favourite late night snack.
Australians and Kiwis tend to imbibe strong but mostly bland brews (Cooper drinkers are a welcome exception - when we can find one) while we will partake of you Americans only when nothing else is available - "Bud" drinkers are an abomination and should be reported to the Food and Drug Administration. I consider that the "True Blood" alternative, A+ of course, to be better than a Bud drinker anytime.
Vamps Rule!
Bud is great, if that is all you know.
A few bucks and some time, home brew is the best. Mr. Beer is a company here in the states that puts out home brew kits. Dump the kit and improvise, their St. Patrick's Irish stout is pretty good. I have a small kit and usually do several batches over the winter. I have a lot to learn yet but getting there.
No where near the good stuff I had over seas but it takes a bit of trial and error and I'm getting there.
Don't ask about the time the cork popped in the fridge overnight and trashed it, along with a weeks shopping. The other half had a fit and the switch for the light still sticks two years later. I did get my own fridge to brew with out of the deal. NOT a red letter day. The look on her face when she opened it up and it foamed everything was priceless though. Nothing like a woman in beer soaked socks standing there with a dirty look while you are on the floor rolling.
Dave.......
A few bucks and some time, home brew is the best. Mr. Beer is a company here in the states that puts out home brew kits. Dump the kit and improvise, their St. Patrick's Irish stout is pretty good. I have a small kit and usually do several batches over the winter. I have a lot to learn yet but getting there.
No where near the good stuff I had over seas but it takes a bit of trial and error and I'm getting there.
Don't ask about the time the cork popped in the fridge overnight and trashed it, along with a weeks shopping. The other half had a fit and the switch for the light still sticks two years later. I did get my own fridge to brew with out of the deal. NOT a red letter day. The look on her face when she opened it up and it foamed everything was priceless though. Nothing like a woman in beer soaked socks standing there with a dirty look while you are on the floor rolling.
Dave.......
mezzoprezzo
Content appreciator
Hampshire Real Ale Train
This round is on me!
Has anyone been on this – the RAT (real ale train)?
This look a great way to enjoy a classic pint of British real ale. The service runs on the Watercress Line in southern UK, serving a choice of six beers (and one cider) on board a steam driven train.
The photo looks a bit wonky. Either the photographer has had a few too many, the track needs some maintenance or it’s an early steam/tilting train hybrid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jan/04/hampshire-beer-train-rail
Cheers
Casper
This round is on me!
Has anyone been on this – the RAT (real ale train)?
This look a great way to enjoy a classic pint of British real ale. The service runs on the Watercress Line in southern UK, serving a choice of six beers (and one cider) on board a steam driven train.
The photo looks a bit wonky. Either the photographer has had a few too many, the track needs some maintenance or it’s an early steam/tilting train hybrid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jan/04/hampshire-beer-train-rail
Cheers
Casper
Retro00064
New member
This round is on me!
Has anyone been on this – the RAT (real ale train)?
This look a great way to enjoy a classic pint of British real ale. The service runs on the Watercress Line in southern UK, serving a choice of six beers (and one cider) on board a steam driven train.
The photo looks a bit wonky. Either the photographer has had a few too many, the track needs some maintenance or it’s an early steam/tilting train hybrid.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/jan/04/hampshire-beer-train-rail
Cheers
Casper
I think that I would rather have some ginger ale (alcohol-free).
Regards.