I took a slightly indirect route, which is not the same as getting lost

[alexsarll]

I've only ever been to the Stokey Rose & Crown at off-peak times before, but in spite of last night being Saturday and St Patrick's, it was pleasantly uncrowded, with said crowd containing no prats in hats, and one girl with the sort of cleavage that stops conversation. Which is what you want, really, isn't it?

Well now, isn't that interesting - "Pfizer set up a female sexual dysfunction unit a few years ago, comparing Viagra in women to a placebo, but the study had to be stopped because 85 per cent of the women responded to the placebo."
Also, mixing viagra with cocaine? Medically, a really good idea. No, seriously. I wonder if government-funded drug 'information' schemes will be sharing that information.

"Recent research by Mintel suggested more Britons drink alcohol than Germans or Spanish." We also got through the twentieth century without a fascist government. They're both outward traits of a certain British unruliness; that's who we are, and I rather like it.
(Which is not to say that I'll be cheering Scooch against The Ark, 'Vampires Are Alive' and 'Push The Button' come Eurovision; I'm patriotic, not insane)

When mention is made of Lady Antonia Fraser's family, it is generally of her husband, a passable actor who wrote some great screenplays for Joseph Losey back in the day, but who has regrettably insisted on plays and polemics outside that association. Only yesterday did I learn that she was related to a genuinely impressive talent: pioneering Irish fantasist Lord Dunsany was her great-uncle. So add that to poker and left-handed mouse use as things I've picked up this week.

Comments

[suicideally.livejournal.com]

While medically mixing viagra with cocaine is a good idea as it opens the blood vessels up, I am informed by a friend who attempted this (all in the name of scientific experiment of course) that it produces a really unpleasant freezing sensation.

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

"A friend", you say?

I should have known that something medically approved wouldn't actually be any fun.

[surprisetruck.livejournal.com]

Thank goodness someone has seen sense about that Scooch thing.
A surprising number of people whose opinion I would normally defer to on Eurovision seem to have gone Scoochblind.

Getting drunk at home has nothing to do with the nostalgic Britishness of unruly behaviour and thanks to the supermarkets that is getting way more of a problem than pub & bar drunks.

[surprisetruck.livejournal.com]

Oh that Ark thing starts well but fades into Billy Ray Cyrus, while the Israeli one is currently annoying me more than amusing me.

Romania does the same thing better.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMOQ2YKvOdM

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

I thought Scooch were OK in a sub-Steps way the first time around, but there are limits, y'know? And I've yet to actually hear this Ark song, but given their general awesomeness I am assuming it's ace until I hear otherwise. It's not often I already have three albums by a Eurovision contender.

That's the first I've heard of Romania's entry. It's pretty good, certainly better than Scooch - but not good enough to displace my top three, I'm afraid.

And yes, ludicrous overpricing in pubs and clubs is clearly a factor too.

[invadergaz.livejournal.com]

One problem (to my knowledge) is that all "sensible drinking" information / advertisement is centered around the silly idea of enforcing a "maximum daily allowance" of about 1 1/4 pints or so.
First of all, no one in their right mind is going to concede that they have "reached their limit" at that point, and indeed they shouldn't, cause its pretty pointless. Its certainly not going to stop anyone from going on a binge, thats for sure.
The way I see it having a maximum daily allowance actually erodes the more important message of stopping people from drinking daily.
Because you know, havine one little glas of wine after work is Ok. Even if its not that little. And having a second glass after that surely isn't that bad, its just a little bit over the limit, after all.
(at which point I better stop ranting.)

[barrysarll.livejournal.com]

Yes. I would like to think that having nights off is more important than sticking to the supposed limits (which are, as you say, stupidly low). But then, that may just be because it's my own preferred harm-limitation strategy.