BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: HuwG
Date: 11 Dec 04 - 08:44 PM

144-pint steel beer barrels, without slots cut in the rim to make lifting handles !

Getting them down into the cellar is a doddle. 1 - The brewery's delivery men do it, and 2 - They lower them down sloping beams using ropes round the middle.

Getting them back up again, however is my job. How am I supposed to do it ? Grip the thing in a bear hug ? I'd need arms like an orang-utan's to do it. Hoist it onto my shoulders ? The cellar ceiling is too low, and the stairs too narrow to allow it. So, I have to somehow pinch the rim between finger and thumb and carry it up the cellar steps that way. Those over-sized barrels weigh over 40 pounds when abolutely empty, and there's usually five or six pints sloshing around in the bottom which the lines can't quite suck up (or are too cloudy to serve).



I've ranted before about pub customers who eagerly try and attract your attention, flapping ten-pound notes in front of your face as you try and serve someone else, and only when when you rush back to them do they look for the first time at the list of ales and spirits on offer and turn to their friends to ask what they all want.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: 42
Date: 12 Dec 04 - 07:39 AM

I absolutely abhore when the power goes out at the most crucial moment of a sappy TV movie you know will never see the light of day again.
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Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:41 AM

The phrase: "It's been an emotional roller-coaster" should be BANNED from all media interviews for at least ten years.

RtS

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:43 PM

I seriously object to 'some folks' who think in terms of decades instaed of centuries when it come to that friggin' expression. Like we have a Coney Island of the Bloody Mind or somethin'. That really gets on my nerves. Present company excepted, of coures.

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Cluin
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 03:58 PM

How about "These guys really give 110%!"

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bunnahabhain
Date: 13 Dec 04 - 07:23 PM

In my humble opinion....



enough said

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:32 PM

Work gloves. Why is it so hard to find extra-large men's work gloves? I'm not a small guy, but I ain't huge and my hands aren't huge either. They're probably slightly larger than average for a man. There must be zillions of guys with hands my size or larger out there. So where in the hell are they hiding all the zillions of extra-large work gloves we need?

Subject: RE: BS: Get it off yer chest, RANT,not at people
From: Peace
Date: 14 Dec 04 - 07:39 PM

Same for me with T-shirts.

I like loose clothing and I'm 44" around the chest. Not a big guy, but I like loose T-shirts. Where the hell ARE they. And in cotton. Not polyester crap--cotton. They're prob'ly with the work gloves, hiding out.
Dang.