Who Remembers......

[Captain Kong]

I cannot remember when it was, I must have been drunk at the time.
Brian

[Dennis McGuckin]

Under age in a Coventry pub called the Elastic.Bottled beer, but cant recall the name.
Didn't enjoy it much, but persevered.
Rum extract was much later John!!
Den.

[j.sabourn]

#10... Must have been a bad batch John... JS

[happy daze john in oz]

A galss of Cider at the tender age of 8. By 12 my mate and I were doing a bottle of Emu Port a week behind the chook shed, it was imported from Oz and cost 2/6 a bottle. Then at the tender age of 16 joined the MN and soon became a professional drinker. I am still a practicing drinker with the hope that one day after all the practice I may get it right.

[j.sabourn]

Never mind John, if you fell over sober you would probably hurt yourself, falling over drunk you just bounce and get up again. Good job you dont live in UK as will be illegal to drink when Sharia Law gets in, this may raise some response from the sleeping electorate if its not too late. Although they may be talked in to the other side of being able to have more than one wife, this may get more response from the women, although they will only get one chance as after that they will have no say in any case. Cheers take more water with it JS

[gray_marian]

#15, 'more than one wife' John, Glutton for punishment if you ask me

Hubby says I'm 'more than enough to handle' [keep it clean]

[j.sabourn]

I dont drink much, spill most of it. JS

[Don Rafferty]

#15, 'more than one wife' John, Glutton for punishment if you ask me

There are some who say bigamy is having one wife too many, there are others who say monogamy is the same

[E.Martin]

I was 16 Xmas eve we had a party on board the Fishery Research ship I had been on since October which started
at 1000 hrs.
The party broke up at 1300 then I went on a pub crawl with the 2 firemen,I did get home but did know how I got there.
The beer on board was Barclays in a blue brasso can,I think there was also cans of beer in a red tin.
When I came too I had a cracking head the first of many in my 11 years at sea.
We must have drank lots of different beers in various ports around the world,the worst hangover coming from the Canadian beer DOW.
Going back to my first session and pub crawl in 1957,£1 would get you 21 pints.

[j.sabourn]

In 1971 on British ships with bars, at least on the ones I was on (John I. Jacobs) Tennants was 2 bob a pint. The chief steward had little bags of 10 ( 1 pound) and used to take as a sub. All bar transactions were cash only. Think the average seamans bar bill was about a fiver a week. ( 50 pints). Tennants must have done well when they were going. Now if caught drinking are considered unsatisfactory for employment. A lot of the chartering in Aberdeen was done in the bars in Aberdeen at one time when charterers agents used to meet masters who they had used in the past, these ships were all on the spot market, and work at times was hard to come by, otherwise the ship was laid up and crew paid off. There were those who went over the top at the wrong time, but this I believe was much exaggerated and was an excuse for the shipowner to get rid of people. I once received a letter ( think have put up before) to make up a list of those on board who drank, was marked of course confidential. Thinking back they were out to get rid of a certain Cheng. I put the letter up on the ships notice board to warn him and anyone else as necessary what was in the wind. The company no doubt heard about it from the usual creep that started to appear on ships about this time, and 2 years later I was one of the first to go on the redundancy list prior to the company folding. Without my company top up pension I may add, so once again was done over by the great British Ship Owner as some like to call themselves. The days that most refer to on here were the days of dry ships, and the first port of call for many on arrival was the pub. This beer on board cut a lot of this out. Now however one does not even make for the pub or someone will report you for drinking. No wonder pubs are closing in the UK, another British Institution going to the wall. JS