Short sleeved shirt and tie is not allowed. Only open neck short sleeve.
I REALLY want to go to the pub. I was in here at ridiculous o'clock for an Aussie conference call and it feels like beer o'clock now.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:38, 2 replies, latest was 14 years ago)

20 mins, stunners.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:40, Reply)

There's a Wetherspoons next door.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:40, Reply)

no need to sink that low, old boy.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:41, Reply)

I can wait 19 minutes. *shakes*

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:42, Reply)

Start walking now, really slowly...
If you time it *just right*, you can be "walking past" just as they open the doors, thereby wasting NO drinking time at all, but managing not to look like a desperate alky ;)
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:43, Reply)

*checks wristwatch*
(with minimum of effort)

Oh yeah! Cor, time flies when you're having no fun at all, innit...
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:41, Reply)

Flies like an ice age.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:42, Reply)

9 minutes.

(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:51, Reply)

The Sun is always across the yard-arm somewhere
Mr Badger! That's why you can drink on holiday at 8am.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:45, Reply)

and on sundays

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:47, Reply)

who needs an excuse?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:48, Reply)

now my brother's job seems to be safe
I'm looking forward to hearing his new excuse for getting up in the middle of the night for a bottle of red.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:52, Reply)

I thought I heard wine burglars so I thought i should check and then i wasn't sure if the bottle was lying right and it might have started to go off?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:54, Reply)

he'll love this one

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:54, Reply)

Sadly, I used to know an alcoholic who used to use a very similar excuse to go downstairs for a drink in the middle of the night.
I worked with him and his wife, she was forever marvelling at his "amazing hearing - he can hear the dogs trying to get out and I can't hear a single thing"
(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:10, Reply)

Occasionally you have to justify yourself to someone
usually the mirror.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:14, Reply)

Him?
What the fuck is he looking at, anyway?
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:24, Reply)

And anyway, he's a fine one to talk.
He always looks just as pissed as me, sometimes more.
( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 11:30, Reply)

it's half past beer

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 29 Feb 2012, 10:41, Reply)