XPost: uk.politics.misc, scot.politics   
   From: jennings&coltd@fastmail.fm   
      
   On 30/07/2020 18:48, Pamela wrote:   
   > On 16:41  29 Jul 2020, Keema's Nan said:   
   >   
   >> On 29 Jul 2020, Incubus wrote   
   >> (in article ):   
   >>   
   >>> On 2020-07-29, Paul Elam  wrote:   
   >>>> On 29/07/2020 12:22, abelard wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> from 8 to 10   
   >>>> "Scotch" is a drink you moron.   
   >>>   
   >>> As a noun it is, although one should note that it is a shortened form   
   >>> of "Scotch whiskey". "Scotch" is also, and originally, an adjective   
   >>> that is an alternative word for "Scottish", whence the name of the   
   >>> drink originally was derived.   
   >>   
   >> Have you typed Scotch Whiskey on purpose just to wind up the no   
   >> underpants brigade?   
   >>   
   >> Or had you not realised that the word with an "e" in it is used for   
   >> Irish Whiskey?   
   >>   
   >> The Scotch stuff is just Whisky, although anyone who drinks that blended   
   >> bollocks deserves to get a boot up the trossachs. Although I don't   
   >> profess to sampling more than a small percentage of malts, I do have a   
   >> taste for Laphroaig.   
   >   
   > Does anyone really and truly like whisky? It tastes horrible and fiery to me.   
      
   Hear, hear.   
      
   The favourite has long been rum for me, though in recent years I have   
   rather taken to JD and Jim Beam.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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