XPost: uk.politics.misc, scot.politics   
   From: abelard3@abelard.org   
      
   On Fri, 31 Jul 2020 08:32:27 +0100, Ian Jackson   
    wrote:   
      
   >In message , JNugent   
   > writes   
   >>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.   
   >   
   >As I child, I loved port, sherry and sweet wine. I found beer revolting.   
   >Later, as I grew up, I progressed to alcoholic cider, and larger & lime.   
   >Then sweet stout & cider (50/50 mix). I was around 25 that I eventually   
   >got the hang of pale ale, then beer.   
   >   
   >It was only after someone suggested I dip a stick of sugar into a glass   
   >of whisky, and suck it, that I got the hang of spirits. I now like   
   >whisky - but I definitely prefer the sweeter brands, which are Irish and   
   >American. The most horrible whisky I ever had was a much-vaunted (and   
   >highly-valued) highly-peated single malt (Talisker?).   
      
   just give it a few more years!   
      
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