is anyone really surprised by this?
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8464359.stm
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:15, 35 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

I don't know why the NHS doesn't save money on IVF
and just prescribe Buckfast.
Everybody knows it gets you pregnant.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:17, Reply)

hahaha

( Lisette von Falcon, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:18, Reply)

Ah Bonnie Scotland

land of tranquil locks, majestic mountains and toothless alcoholics. Eye it's a wonderous place...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:18, Reply)

my teeth are too nice
so I was asked to leave :(
( djtrialprice, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:23, Reply)

A rather excellent pub/restuarant just beside my work
has Buckfast Sorbet on the menu, as well as an Irn Bru one.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:20, Reply)

that sounds revolting
what pub is this (so i know to avoid it)
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:28, Reply)

MacSorleys
On Jamaica St. The food is excellent, keenly priced as well.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:32, Reply)

is it new?
I worked round that area for the best part of 5 years and didn't notice it
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:35, Reply)

Its been there for years
recently done up. It is down from the Sub Club, on the corner where the tunnel goes into where The Arches are. Effectively across the street form HiFI Corner.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:39, Reply)

That is utterly brilliant

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:28, Reply)

I was more surprised to find out that it was made in Devon (By monks!)

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:22, Reply)

Ever seen the episode of Rab C Nesbitt
where they go on a pilgramage to Buckfast Abbey?
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:29, Reply)

Ha! No, I haven't seen that
sounds great!
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:31, Reply)

I've never heard of the stuff.
It's roughly every 10 days that someone gets bottled with the stuff, I bet you something like WKD or Smirnoff Ice have more bottlings in that time, purely because you can buy it anywhere.

It's a bit of a non-event news item, if you ask me.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:30, Reply)

Yes, it's nonsense
"Buckfast is responsible for crime"...no it isnt, criminals are responsible for crime.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:33, Reply)

*Hides the bodies of a bunch of monks in basement*
Well, that's me fucked then.
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:21, Reply)

The Shoreditch fashion benders round my way
all started drinking it last summer.

That's just fucking weird.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:30, Reply)

ha ha ha ha aha cunts...

Lets tell them bleach is the new buckfast...
( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:32, Reply)

Inspired. Truly.
*submits anonymous article to Vice magazine*
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:35, Reply)

I remember you mentioning that
Do they drink it because they like it, or is it because it portrays them as edgy and 'out there'. Also, do they have it by the glass, or by the bottle?

It would be funny if they started kicking off once they had drank it, allowing the powerful medicine to work its magic, running around Shoreditch with designer machetes and broken Krug bottles.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:35, Reply)

I genuinely don't know.
I think perhaps it's because it gets you so fucked up. I heard one of them referring to it as 'liquid cocaine'.

This was just before I went over, unzipped my trousers and covered them all with some of my own special 'liquid cocaine'.

Utter cunts, the lot of 'em.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:40, Reply)

"Slake your thirst straight from the source you fucking fashion benders"

*pisses emphatically*
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:46, Reply)

"Shoreditch Fashion Bender"
that's a B3ta username in waiting. Almost as good as "Midnight Titshot"
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:35, Reply)

I can't believe that Midnight Titshot was spurned in favour of Harley Quinn.
It's a travesty.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 14:59, Reply)

Shoreditch twats
I cannot put into words how much I want them all to die.

Not least because I met up with a girl from Newcastle last month (who had moved down to London as I'd moved upto Newcastle, I was up there for about two weeks before she moved down), I joked that I hoped she wasn't hanging around with too many cunts from Shoreditch as they'd turn her into a twat.

Guess where she lived, and where all her new mates were from. We haven't spoken since.

The next person I see wearing a trilby or those stupid thick rimmed glasses with plastic lenses is getting a frying pan to the bonce.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:03, Reply)

Do you think we could organise a cull?
One of my favourite-pubs-in-the-world-ever is just off Old Street, but it does mean I have to run the gauntlet of the border with Shoreditch to get there. The area's swarming with the fuckers and they all just look like the most infuriatingly useless and pretentious clungewits in this fair city...
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:33, Reply)

which one?
So is mine, The Griffin on Leonard Street. It has remained a grotty old-man pub in the face of Shorditch fashion bendery, no mean feat.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:39, Reply)

Ever been to the Wenlock Arms?
Similarly, very much a local pub in defiance of the bendery. Superb beer, and sometimes a live jazz band stuffed into one corner if you turn up on the right evening. (Edit: about halfway up Wenlock Road)
(LongJohnBaldry, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:46, Reply)

I've not, that I can recall
Next time you're going, by all means gaz me and I'll join you.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:05, Reply)

Is The Griffin
the one with strippers for a quid? Or am I thinking of somewhere else. I stick around Liverpool Street if I'm drinking round there now. But I frequent Soho and Borough a lot more as to stay sane.

I thought I'd miss drinking around London but Newcastle is a million times more enjoyable.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:03, Reply)

that's the Griffin in Clerkenwell.
The Gun near Liverpool St is OK.

The Griffin isn't far from Liverpool St itself - up towards Shoreditch, left at The Light Bar and it's a left about halfway up.

It's a bit grim but, in the words of the mighty Lemmy Kilmister 'that's the way I like it, baby'...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:08, Reply)

Figures!
I've completely lost all knowledge of London since moving to Newcastle.

I'm genuinely embarrassed and I hate myself for it. I got lost trying to find the John Snow in Soho last Monday, I nearly cried.

EDIT - Not the Snow, Tin Pan Alley off Charing Cross Road. Christ.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:09, Reply)

Buckfast is tramp-fuel.
Do not ever consider tasting it.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:35, Reply)

Saw a flyer advertising a club night with a DJ Buckfaster
It made me smile anyway.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 15:45, Reply)

Me too.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Mon 18 Jan 2010, 16:08, Reply)