http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Post not PY Directions en Tue, 19 May 2026 15:17:03 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254166 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:25:26 +0000 steveo 254166@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>&lt;nedd1e_h now tempted to go into a pub and ask for a Diesel&gt;</em></p> <p>Given the look you get when you ask for a pint of heavy I suspect the modern bar tender will direct you the local BP. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254164 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:20:11 +0000 I were right about that saddle 254164@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>THEM: "mate, can you help? We're from London and we're a bit lost".</p> <p>ME: sure, where do you want to go, what you looking for ??</p> <p>THEM: "Aberdeen".</em></p> <p>This needs added to @gembo's headless rabbit/rat hat/cannibal newt/end of days thread. It's just stuff popping out of wormholes now. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254161 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 13:12:01 +0000 neddie 254161@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p><em>snakebite and blackcurrant</em></p> <p>Also known as "Diesel" for the boys</p> <p>And a "Pink panther" for the girls...</p> <p>&lt;nedd1e_h now tempted to go into a pub and ask for a Diesel&gt; </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254156 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 12:37:31 +0000 dessert rat 254156@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>i sense some thread-drift here....</p> <p>Once ruined my favourite pair of jeans by being slightly sick all over them following an afternoon of snakebite &amp; black at Napier Union. I was a student, so not recently. The black current stains just wouldn't come out. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254149 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:57:17 +0000 gembo 254149@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>half pint snakebite and blackcurrant mental - lager, cider and blackcurrant in three small portions tricksy</p> <p>Did like a Lager lime and lemonade as a callow youth (pint though) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254145 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:33:36 +0000 Cyclingmollie 254145@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>The bane of the barman pre-alcopops was the half pint snakebite and blackcurrant. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254144 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:27:20 +0000 gembo 254144@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>shandy drinkers by the sound</p> <p>however I do like a shandy of ginger beer and beer. THis is not so easy for some bar staff to work out. I say a ginger beer beer shandy please and they can do it, or sometimes try to top up a ginger beer with lemonade which would be a straightforward gingerbeer shandy for southerners so soft they have to water down their ginger beer </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=17885#post-254139 Fri, 30 Jun 2017 11:23:11 +0000 dessert rat 254139@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>was waiting to cross Brandon St when a car pulls up alongside, 5 lads tightly packed in.</p> <p>THEM: "mate, can you help? We're from London and we're a bit lost".</p> <p>ME: sure, where do you want to go, what you looking for ??</p> <p>THEM: "Aberdeen". </p> <p>Says he pointing towards the T junction @ Earthy, "is it left or right ?".</p> <p>How they didn't have smart phone between them with google maps or something is beyond me. Pointed them towards Ferry Rd looking for signs for the bridge.</p> <p>southerners ... </p>