{"id":599,"date":"2006-01-18T03:20:42","date_gmt":"2006-01-18T03:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress179\/?p=599"},"modified":"2006-01-18T03:20:42","modified_gmt":"2006-01-18T03:20:42","slug":"14-pints-in-5-hours-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thehippy.net\/blog\/14-pints-in-5-hours-is\/","title":{"rendered":"14 pints in 5 hours is.."},"content":{"rendered":"
Too Much!<\/b><\/p>\n
14 pints in 5 hours, with no lunch or dinner beforehand is.. <\/p>\n
Much Too Much!<\/b><\/p>\n
14 pints in 5 hours, with no lunch or dinner beforehand and some of those pints disappearing in under 10 seconds with the help of “Barry the Beer Bong<\/b>” is.. <\/p>\n
Just Fscking Ridiculous!<\/b><\/p>\n
It all started innocently enough, with a trip to the London Adventure Travel Show with Simon, a mate from Swinnie’s Res. college. <\/p>\n
I picked up a tonne of ideas for future travel – loads of road touring stuff, mtb touring, hiking, diving, yachting and even some groups that organise rides and other ‘interesting’ stuff for Londoners. <\/p>\n
Dermot, a Scottish bloke was particularly psyched about his cycle tours and I’m now dreaming of some insanely difficult, high-altitude “not a holiday, but an expedition<\/i>“-type touring. <\/p>\n
Once we’d cased the entire show it was into the nearest pub to break the drought. Two pints of “Cockle Warmer” 6.5% ale. Now, here is where I should’ve made the decision to head home and study some travel brochures. Nuh uh! “Barry” was calling…<\/p>\n
Long-story short and a couple of John Smith 6-packs later, not much of London’s west managed to escape the “liquid upheaval”…<\/p>\n
Sunday was a write-off, just like me! <\/p>\n
(This story provided with the post-puke-pride only a proven piss-weak pisspot can provide!)<\/p>\n
How did the phrase “three sheets to the wind” come to refer to being drunk?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too Much! 14 pints in 5 hours, with no lunch or dinner beforehand is.. Much Too Much! 14 pints in 5 hours, with no lunch or dinner beforehand and some of those pints disappearing in under 10 seconds with the … Continue reading