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28th February 2013, 07:03 PM
#1
It's enough to make you cry!
BBC News Scotland.
Announced that thousands of litres of Chivas Regal was accidentally discharged to drains at a bottling plant near Dumbarton.
Bet the drains smelled nice.
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28th February 2013, 07:13 PM
#2
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28th February 2013, 07:18 PM
#3
If this had happened about 15 Years ago
If this had happened about 15 Years ago i would have cried!
Why! Becuase then i used to partake in that lovely stuff!
Now just Ginger Beer ! haha!
Cheers
Those dirty Rats!
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28th February 2013, 10:42 PM
#4
So the rats got rat ar*** in scotland then
If it makes it to the river go looking down the banks to see if there are any newts about
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1st March 2013, 05:20 PM
#5
scotch missed
I don't think the Scots will be too p***ed off with the loss of several thousand gallons of uisge beatha (water of life) on the other hand, if it had been Irn Bru..........
gilly
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2nd March 2013, 11:47 AM
#6
Drink
Does that mean the old expression "Drunk as a Skunk" is now "Drunk as a Rat". John sabourn
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2nd March 2013, 03:39 PM
#7
chivas regal
I just finished a bottle of the amber nectar, chivas regal courtesy of my nephew who is a maintenance engineer at the Dumbarton plant so I hope it wasn"t his fault otherwise i will never get another bottle, having to sip [slowly] a tipple of Drambuie now just as a precaution, cheers.
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2nd March 2013, 06:49 PM
#8
I remember being drydocked at Scotts Shipyard in Bowling in the late 50s.On Saturdays we would all be in the Pub just outside the gate. The local Coal Merchant,a Mr.Henderson used to arrive about 12-30.If Dumbarton were playing at home,we used to pile on the back of his coal lorry and go to football. P****d out of our brains of course. Never get away with that one these days.
Last edited by Colin Hawken; 2nd March 2013 at 06:51 PM.
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