1st of November Manchester B3ta bash
As it didn't have any repply in the Calendar, I don't know if anyone read it, so here it goes again:

Some of you know I had to unexpectedly change my plans for the weekend. But thanks to that, now we have 50+ coupons for the Wetherspoon beer festival which entitle you to have a pint of real ale for £1.39.

I hope you're happy!!

And is not completely out off topic. £1.39 a pint. You have to be quite tight to spend an afternoon cutting all those coupons.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:36, 23 replies)

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I just replied
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:39, closed)

I just replied
to you too
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:56, closed)

But real ale
tastes like piss.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:42, closed)

bad
bearpookie, lager is of the piss, real ale is for men.

men with beards

men with pipes

men with little oil rags tucked into the top pocket of boiler suits.

morris dancers.

look, real ale is an english heritage and there are hundreds of bloody gorgeous beers out there, if only you can get past the "warm piss" idiocy.
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:45, closed)

I'm not a real man
I'm a woman and love real ale
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:47, closed)

good
if you have a nose in the calendar in May we are planning a trip to the Cambridge real ale festival, you are more than welcome
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:56, closed)

Yep
It's a bit far to know, but I'm trying!
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:03, closed)

It really does taste rank.
I drink decent lager, decent red, or decent cider. Bitter tastes like fucking washing up liquid. Sos.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:02, closed)

horses for courses
I guess.

I have managed to convert most of my lager drinking heathens into real alers

Green king IPA is piss though, i'll agree with that
(Halfy By light alone, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:04, closed)

Real ale does not taste like piss
Lager tastes like piss.

Real ale tastes like the contents of a mop bucket that's just been used to clean a sawmill.

They both make you nice and giddy though.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:46, closed)

Nahhh
Much prefer a nice ale over a nice lager!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:51, closed)

Ale is much better!
I won't drink in a Wetherspoons on principle though. Not even if you paid me.

If you go there regardless, just think as you sup your pint that a proportion of the profits is funding the BNP, and feel ashamed.
(Son of Sam-i-am We're all as mad as hatters here, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:56, closed)

Is it?
Are you sure?

I use to go because they support CAMRA
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:57, closed)

What what what?
I am off to Google this
(Binary Solo loves a bit of algebra, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:00, closed)

If you find evidence
post it, please
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:04, closed)

Their chairman's name is Tim Martin
and it would appear that it's UKIP that he gives lots of money to, not the BNP, but that's nearly as bad.
(Binary Solo loves a bit of algebra, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:08, closed)

Well
that UKIP. It's not racist or anything. They just want UK not being part of Europe. I don't share their view, but can understand it.

Or is there anything else that they don't mention in their webpage?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:18, closed)

oh, they pretend not to be big old racists
but they are really. I expect the BNP's website doesn't say they're racist either! (but I'm not going to look at it at work...)
(Binary Solo loves a bit of algebra, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:23, closed)

mmmmm
That's not good, then. (I looked at it at work... I didn't know it was so bad. I hope nobody noticed)
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:28, closed)

The Salford candidate for the BNP was having a beer in my local.
With his fucking bodyguard. I called both of them cunts, and the managers got involved. After explanations,, they got told to leave. Ha.
(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 14:14, closed)

There's a way to settle this...
Weather cold or wet? Then ale.
Weather warm and sunny? Then lager.


Duh.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:59, closed)

Don't you
try and pretend you're some sort of proper man with your tales of beer drinking. We all know you prefer a small glass of dry sherry to be brought to you by your turkish boy.
(Bazongaloid, Thu 30 Oct 2008, 15:02, closed)

And for the no-real men
the beer festival is international, so you have european beers and ciders too:

www.jdwetherspoon.co.uk/promotions/2008-international-real-ale-festival/
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 30 Oct 2008, 13:53, closed)