While on a night out, a couple of drunks got thrown out of a club in Leeds.. This is not a rare occurrence in itself, but when you consider that the pair then went off, stole a taxi then drove it, head 1st into the nightclub. They managed to get the taxi into the front doors.
The VW Passat then reversed out, crashed into a couple of parked cars and drove off into the distance. The taxi driver was only slightly injured, but one poor woman ended up with a broken leg. I know alcohol makes some people do funny things, but crikey.. what a couple of nutters.
I just came back from a few games of pool at Chicago Rock Cafe in Macclesfield. I know I have mentioned how bad I think this place is a few times in this blog, but I think the pool tables in there deserve special mention.
I personally have never played pool on such crooked uneven ripped up piece of crap of a table in my life. The pool cues alone are like bananas, bending and nearly through 180 degrees to make a shot. The tables themselves are all crooked and uneven, something that you will only become apparent once you pay the £1 fee for a game. Save yourself the annoyance and walk the 2 minutes to the Mill Stone.
Some drunken bumms in Dorchester got caught the other night when they were caught red-handed by police stealing a 10ft fibre glass triceratops from a local dinosaur museum.
“He caught 10 of us in the High Street at about 2.30 am”
said student Steve Fry.
This kind of drunken shinanigens is what makes britain a truely great place to live. It would have been a whole lot more funnt to see what they would have done with the 10 ft monster. I assume that they eventually would have ended up dumping it in someones garden, or leaving it in the town square or something.
Police made the drunks take the Triceratops back to where they found it then sent them all to bed to sleep it off.
I went for a quite drink and meal all the way over in Wilmslow today. Dispite being a bit of a trek, I really enjoyed myself. We ended up in the Drum and Monkey pub, eating some of the best pub gub I have ever had.
I didn’t expect much, so I went traditional and had a steak, which came out (eventually.. it was a bit of a wiat as they were pretty busy) pretty much perfectly cooked, good quality meat and good sized portions. As far as the rest of the place goes, there are darts, a huge bowling greene out the front and some local ales. All in all, a great little pub they have there.
On Friday, an airplane pilot had his licence revoked for being over the legal limit for flying a plane. Drunk driving is never a very good idea. I’m one of this who believes that drinking anything before driving a car is pretty stupid, but haveing a few pints before flying 220 people all the way to Gran Canaria is possitivly idiotic.
His co-workers ended up blowing the wistle on the pilot during the pre-flight checks when the smelled alcohol on his breath. I can’t find out how much over the limit he was but it turns out this sort of thing happens all the time.. There was one guy on the 20th of march who was 7 times over the legal flying limit.
I went for the 1st time to 5th Avenue last night, Its student night in there on Thursdays, so figured I would get a train up and stop over at a friends.
1st impressions of the place are mainly through the absolute psycho bouncers that work there. Its almost as if they are trying for a fight with anyone and everyone trying to get in. They had us all line up like we were at a shooting range just to get in. I understand that bouncers need to look a little menacing in order to maintain some sort of order to the drunken idiots that pile in their every day, but there was no need for the kind of treatment we all got there last night.
The band radiohead released an album a while back called “In Rainbows” that was released online and allowed people to pay however much they think the album is worth. Asside from the brilliance of this marketing strategy and the probable knock-on effect of this to all of their other album sales going through the roof, I think this was a pretty brave thing to do.
Some what more suprisingly, there are resteraunts that do the same, offering a meal, and then having a bucket, letting people put in however much they think the meal was worth. Its important to note that this is not a charity deal either. They are genuine businesses hoping to make money by people’s good will and honesty. I think thats pretty admirable.
Sadly, I couldn’t find any examples here in the UK. I guess we britts are too tight to make the business structure work.
The Inamo restaurant in Soho is a pioneering idea that allows customers to mess around with a computer controlled touch sensitive table surface. Sounds pretty boring but when you watch the videos of the system in action, you can see that it is definitely a pretty cool idea.
The table surfaces show the menu and allow customers to to see the food they are ordering as well as play games, ask for assistance and order the bill. This is the 1st wave of high tech restaurants that are likely to be sweeping through the country.
I personally have been seeing a lot of buzz about Microsofts ’surface’ interface, which allows photos, videos web browsing and a whole host of other useful little applications to be run in a screen under a table surface. Just imagine sitting at a bar and dragging camera photos off your phone onto the table surface with your hands and sifting and sorting them as though they are real, or having poke around YouTube while you sit with a pint. Sounds like a lot of fun to me.
I have a friend who is due to get married soon, so had the opportunity to go to a stag do in Leicester. We kicked off the day with some paint balling and Go-karting before eventually heading out into town for some drinks. I had heard all sorts about Leicester on a night out, most of them bad (stories of people being knifed, fights and usual drunken nonsense). I am pleased to report, though that I came back pleasantly surprised. We ate at a Pizza hut, where a waiter gave us a full itinerary of where to go and where to avoid, he even went as far as writing them all on the back of a napkin and drew us a map (we tipped him a little too generously for his troubles
We eventually ended up in The Fan Club, an indie, pop and Motown joint not far from the center. We spent most of the night there, as it was pretty big, had some great music and a decent crowd. The only slightly disappointing thing was that it shut at 3 in the morning. I kind of hoped that it would be open longer.
Anyways, half way through the night, the stag let slip that he is spending over £20,000 on the whole wedding.. He is getting all the trimmings including function bands, hiring a massive marquee, a £4,000 dress, open bar etc… I can’t believe you can spend that much money on one single day. The poor guy is probably going to be paying off his wedding for a very long time. What makes it worse is the fact that he is also an ex-student, so has a huge student loan to repay. He would surely be better off putting the money into a deposit for a house or blowing the whole thing on a kick ass honeymoon or something.
After the crash on the 20th of February this year I started collecting a few pictures of lorries that have crashed and spewed beer and alcohol over the surrounding area.
This is the best picture I could find of the M11 crash. You can see the Barrels of Beer that have been lugged to the side of the road so the traffic can get past.
This one shows a crash that happened in Munich in 2008, the picture shows Firefighter wading through knee deep piles of beer bottles to try and clear the A8 Motorway.
I think this is the most impressive one.. Unfortunately I know almost nothing about what happened or where it happened. You can tell its Grolsch that ended up going everywhere. I bet it smelt pretty good down there for weeks.
