The Price of a Pint

[Mon Dieu4]

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Club Mecardo on market street
The Ark on Semple Street

Glory days

The Ark after work on a Friday was the scene of two of my greatest achievements in life

1) pissed and see my pal on the dance floor, thought it would be funny to jump on his back, cover his eyes and shout guess who, turns out it wasnt my pal and the guy didnt look a thing like him, took some talking to get away with

2) go straight after work on a Friday, have one pint, my pal says we are going somewhere else but before we leave we should have a drinking game of see who can drink a glass of straight vodka the fastest

I said fine I will go buy them but had a master plan as I don't like vodka, I got him a straight vodka but myself a lemonade in the same sized glass

1,2,3 go, we both down our drinks but the gas in the lemonade catches my throat and I spew my load in the middle of the Ark about 5.30

We go to the next bar and I can't get served as my pal tells the barman I've just spewed my load and he thinks I'm pissed but I've only had a pint that probably isnt even in my bloodstream

27 or so years later he still doesn't know it was lemonade that made me spew

[Smartie]

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Always some horrific spirits that were probably concocted in a shed, not that it mattered.

As I got a little older I think I used to buy beers or VKs for a still ridiculously cheap amount.

VKs!

They take me back.

I remember getting a taxi up the road after a student night when I was up in Dundee (a taxi home used to cost about £3). VK had been on offer in Mardi Gras nightclub and I’d been filling my boots.

The taxi driver was commenting on the strength of the smell coming off me “it’s no that bad, ye jist smell like an ice pole”.

No idea how I remember having a conversation in what must have been some state but that one stuck in my mind as having been quite funny.

I don’t think I could stomach the taste of something like that now, let alone the reek of it off someone in my car.

[Itsnoteasy]

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Always some horrific spirits that were probably concocted in a shed, not that it mattered.

As I got a little older I think I used to buy beers or VKs for a still ridiculously cheap amount.

Yip VK's it was.

[Itsnoteasy]

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The Ark after work on a Friday was the scene of two of my greatest achievements in life

1) pissed and see my pal on the dance floor, thought it would be funny to jump on his back, cover his eyes and shout guess who, turns out it wasnt my pal and the guy didnt look a thing like him, took some talking to get away with

2) go straight after work on a Friday, have one pint, my pal says we are going somewhere else but before we leave we should have a drinking game of see who can drink a glass of straight vodka the fastest

I said fine I will go buy them but had a master plan as I don't like vodka, I got him a straight vodka but myself a lemonade in the same sized glass

1,2,3 go, we both down our drinks but the gas in the lemonade catches my throat and I spew my load in the middle of the Ark about 5.30

We go to the next bar and I can't get served as my pal tells the barman I've just spewed my load and he thinks I'm pissed but I've only had a pint that probably isnt even in my bloodstream

27 or so years later he still doesn't know it was lemonade that made me spew

🤣

[Speedy]

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I remember Establishment would serve a quadruple vodka on 50p a drink night. £2 and it came in a pint glass. Red Square vodka iirc.

Not establishment but I remember the days of quad vod VKs.

4 Smirnoff's in a pint glass with a (pineapple normally) VK mixer.

[Haymaker]

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I know its not really the same thing but it reminds me of a bar I went to in New York about 12 years ago called Exchange (I believe it is now closed). It was a stock exchange themed bar where the prices of everything fluctuated according to demand and there was a stock exchange style ticker above the bar tracking the prices of the different drinks.

Used to do that at the Student Union at my university! Was dangerous

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[Bridge hibs]

Ive got a ****ing hangover just reading this thread 🤮

To think what I put down my neck as a youngster is ****ing scary, I say as a youngster because I used to go to secondary school, or I skived school when being ill from a hangover, sad but true.

I reined it in a bit when I started my first job at 16 but a year later it was every Friday and Saturday night sesh fest and more. I stopped drinking on Sundays so I could be semi fresh for work and it came to the point it was every Friday and Saturday nights until I got married at 22 and that slowed me down, for better or for worse as the saying goes, the former most definitely in that instance.

Thankfully now I barely touch the stuff and it was 12 weeks ago since I had a bottle of 0% Corona. This thread though gives me good reason to remain sober 😃

[Viva_Palmeiras]

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I know its not really the same thing but it reminds me of a bar I went to in New York about 12 years ago called Exchange (I believe it is now closed). It was a stock exchange themed bar where the prices of everything fluctuated according to demand and there was a stock exchange style ticker above the bar tracking the prices of the different drinks.

tbey have/had similar bar in London near the Royal Mint.