Tulip Or Dimple?
I've just been looking at pics from Amsterdam.
And Kirk Douglas
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Tulip was also a character in Porridge. (Christmas Special)
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Ah! GLASSES! All becomes clear!
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I think I've got the wrong glasses as I can't see what you mean? Genteel?
Chin-chin!
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gen·teel (jn-tl)
adj.
1. Refined in manner; well-bred and polite.
2. Free from vulgarity or rudeness.
3. Elegantly stylish: genteel manners and appearance.
4.
a. Striving to convey a manner or appearance of refinement and respectability. See Synonyms at polite.
b. Marked by affected and somewhat prudish refinement.
Unless, of course, you sup from pint pots, Jo Anne.
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Rick Stein -> Stein
n. A mug, especially one for beer, usually holding about a pint.
James Galway -> Flute 3. A tall narrow wineglass, often used for champagne.
I rarely sup at all.
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Jarvo wrote:
Posted by: jarvo (14147)
I wanted to spice things up...
It's getting too political and serious on here.
Drinking thread, anybody...?
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Here
I meant to put this thread on 'General'.
I may start a controversial one:
'Should birds sup from pint pots?'
How long would that last?
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Birds drinking pints isn't so common a sight these days, is it?
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There was something about that on telly the other week. Learned behaviour, which has now probably become 'unlearned'.
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Did you guess before you pressed? (If so, my pint plot was foiled.)
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Of course I guessed. Bluetits came immediately to mind.
What am I, sexist or somethiing?
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^^Did you guess before you pressed that time?
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Cheers, (this time) Dostaf.
I was nearly tempted to wave!
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However, by the 1950s the entire UK blue tit population had learnt how to pierce the bottle tops to reach the cream, whereas the robins never did. Occasionally an individual robin learnt how to pierce the milk bottle seal but the skill never spread to the whole population as it did with blue tits.
Here
So them there robins aren't reliant after all.
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Who'd have thought it?
If asked, I'd have said birdlime was something used by pigeon fanciers.
Page 3 'The Planning Decision'
Though I do think I've read before about catching birds that way. Possibly to do with either in order to kill then stuff them for display, or to kill them for their feathers for ladies' hats. Victorian 'art' and fashion.
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there is a hilman hawk for sale in preston and i've seen a riley kestral in wigan
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Stick to topic (and it's kestrEl)
That stuff was gnat's
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Why gnat's pee?
Where did that come from?
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Pigeon Fanciers - 'The loft shall at all times be kept clean and the interior shall be lime-washed twice a year.'
I delight in seeing birds out and about - some goldfinches in our garden today brightened up the day.
(I couldn't remember what they were called - the RSPB came to the rescue.)
Sticking to topic.
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gnats are on the boddington label
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"I delight in seeing birds out and about."
I know the feeling.
Oddie's on Springwatch.
That stuff tasted like badger pee too. Not that I've tasted badger pee. The ale was bad enough.
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Mac likes a bishops finger
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Gnats on Boddingtons?
Boddingtons bee on a tulip
Boddingtons bird (Mel Sykes) with a tulip
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(Springwatch: Did you see a badger sett on a TV set whilst settled on a settee?)
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Aye, and you have to mind your bum on the dodgy springs.
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Old Springs
At some locals you can have a bit of a natter and a pint of Gnats.
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Who's that, Mache?!
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I thought it was, but wasn't quite sure.
From gnats to bats.
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I missed a trick Yesterday at 22:04
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Did you see where wiki was mistaken?
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What is the title of the sequel to Dickie's autobiography, according to wiki?
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I too misread the title on the Amazon pic.
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Dickie is well known for having deep pockets and short arms. Even by Yorkshire standards.
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April explanation, please! (I'm not too proud to ask.)
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'John Smith's – The Home of No Nonsense' (web site)
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Yes, but what's John Smith's got to do with it?!
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Yorkshre bitter.
Often served in pint glasses. The majority of which are tulips. Hence the pic. (See thread title)
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Or Tyke-l as some might pronounce it.
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Them buggers don't like pronouncing their t's.
Often heard in Emmerdale.
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Dimple?
Or Nay.
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Have they no clacks?
There's a good supping term.
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April explanation
Term used to describe someone who can pour it down their neck with ease.
'He's getten no clack'
Or to avoid complaints of sexism:
'She's getten no clack'
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See here, too. 19th April(!) 2010 at 17:43
Sexism, again! Also see 19th April 2010 at 15:05.
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Gerroff.
No optics on my glasses thread
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I can push a 1/2 dimple through a 1 pint dimple handle
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I can push anything you want through one.
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Even a rose
Copperfield couldn't find a tulip.
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It's a glass welly. German to boot.
Like a yard of ale, there's an art to supping out of them. If you don't rotate it right as you drink, there's a sudden inrush of air to the toe and you get a facefull.
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early pre dimple glasses were the same without dimples, the dimples were put in to save glass
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Really?
Most interesting. The dimpled ones are heavy enough as it is.
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saw some in a camra mag years ago with explanation
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I've been to the St Helens glass museum a few times, but can't recall anything about glasses.
I know glass blowers supped ale to counteract the nasty sulphurous gasses they encountered. Beer was the only thing that did the trick.
And it was thirsty work.
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probabally not mass produced then as tankards were the norm
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Gerroff.
Folk will think you are proposing a toast.
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There's a lovely description of a Toastmaster by Rangi Ram in It Aint Half Hot Mum.
'Big shouty man' or something like that.
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