This is in reply to soundwave.
I want to share with my honorable wafflers the following information:
Believe it or not your humble tp was recently was in a pub. I don't go in pubs too often on the account of being busy and mr tp is not very fond of them. Now pubs here are smock free. I think that some of you will be pleased to know. Things are going well for smokers and non smokers alike. Smokers go outside to smoke and there are areas with good ventilation where they do it (if not outside).
The following story I heard from an a gentleman who knew what he is talking about.
You might not know that I don't like beer, but on this ocasion after traumatic experience of seeing my students playing on electric piano I said that I want wisky.
It was pointed out to me that there is the same amount of alcohol in I think two of this
A long time ago there was a big tax on wisky, but very little for beer. So people aquired tast for for beer.
However, one day Mr Guinness made a mistake and barley got burnt. The beer got dark colour.
Mr Guinnes was practical man with good business sense. He decided to sell the black beer to Irish for cheap (pennies). Irish people got used to it and the fact that it is cheap played a big part in their reason for liking it.
Since that time Irish have guinness which was shared with Scots.
I appologize to people who already were informed, but to me it was an interesting story.
The only minus of drinking beer is the amount one has to drink. On that ocasion your tp had one and a half of wisky (the other one was shared with a mother of a student). I am still recovering.
