Airport lounge rules beaten 😁

[PrincessHoneysuckle]

Hi can I have a double gin and tonic please?
Sorry we only do singles.
OK can I have a gin and tonic and a gin please?
Yes.
Me pours gin into gin and tonic
🤔

I certainly had an absolute blast back in the late 80s at a couple of pubs exactly like that. Some of it I can even remember!

Me too, god that’s a ‘blast’ from the past 🤣

We also used to get a ‘turbo shandy’ which was a Smirnoff ice & half of shandy 😁 or a cheeky vimto, blue wicked & port 😁

Oh God this brings back many half formed memories.

I had a boyfriend when I was about 16 years old used to get me a half lager with blackcurrant? I think. I hate lager. He kept buying me it and I kept on not drinking it. Then I discovered snakebites. Bloody loved it.

I think I got barred from many pubs. But fuck I had a good time. And then went to work all day on 2 hours sleep, same the next night. How in the hell I drank so much but continued working is beyond me now. I'm such a lightweight, half a bottle of wine and no more.

I fully remember the first time I got drunk, I was 14, i went home with the help of my boyfriend of the time (i forgot his name but i swear i was in love) and i held onto the fireplace with one hand, trying to not act pissed in front of my mum. I think she knew but let it go.

And these days you get parents asking if it's ok to let their 17yr old go to the shop alone. Different times man.

Nooo.
I had 5 voddy and tonics on plane (5.5hr flight) not one eyelid was batted

As far as I know.
I just fancied a double.
I'm not a great flyer so it was mainly for nerves

The first time I got drunk I was 15. I'd been taken to the local no-questions-asked pub by my step brother where I discovered that lager really was quite tasty. Several pints later we staggered back home where my mum instantly spotted I was utterly pissed, not helped because I couldn't stop laughing. She was INCANDESCENT with rage.

I just want a fishcake and wine meal deal!
That's my idea of heaven.
Did anyone else drink Gold Label barley wine? I know we used to mix it with something but I've forgotten what.
Maybe it was just hardcore snakebite.
Yeah, I was a Goth ......

@PrincessHoneysuckle
APPLAUSE 👏🏻

OMG. How could I have forgotten the little tins of Gold Label barley wine! Truly disgusting taste, but I persevered. Can you still buy them?

Yes. I buy them when making Christmas puddings.

What was the goths' fortified wine? Clear I think. Tasted rank.

I used to drink Stone's ginger wine.

Aww that has taken me back .

I was one who also asked for blackcurrant in my Snakebite
It had the right name as was venomous in its way (especially the following morning)

It's going to drive me mad.

Was it Thunderbird?

@Trinity65 you're a goddess. Thunderbird! Happy days (I think...).

All the lounges I’ve been in your pour your own!

Why would they do that, the bartender doesn't set the rules? Ridiculous when people take their frustration at petty rules out on (most likely) minimum wage employees
I totally agree with this. You see this advice been given out loafs here. It's not the staffs fault, they may lose their job if they bent the rules!

You are welcome

Some things I remember and some I don't.
It always used to drive me nuts, pre Internet, if I was watching something and couldn't, for the life of Me, recall what else I had seen them in . 😆

Or Blue Nun if you were a fan of The Mission...😎

🤣

Depends upon whoever was making it. It could include something along the strength of white lightening + special brew and a vodka shot for good measure - all disguised by the sugar and some ribena to make it taste like a soft drink so the purchasers could drink 2-3 times as much alcohol as they'd be able to in ordinary situations.

Thunderbird Blue, to be completely accurate.

I remember this well!

You clearly weren't doing it right then!