Holidays and absences [3]

Sounds like Ringo would want a professional with him on the first go.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I'll try that buckie in a pub with dark corners and tables for one- Ringo

{{No, no! Most pubs wont serve it, what your looking for are offlisenses and corner shops that sell alcohol. Youll find shaped bottles of it, you want the tall bottle (looks like the buckie bottles youve seen on here), and you dont drink it in pubs, at your hotel, or somewhere else if you dont want to find in the morning you have a very large hotel cleaning bill!
Now the trick is to down as much of as you can, in as short an amount of time as you can manage, without killing yourself!  
Good luck!   }}

I think halfy is right, this seems like one for the buddy system. Still, I must try it. I'm afraid I'm leaving on Friday, though

I'm afraid I'm leaving on Friday, though - Ringdrotten

{{ Damn! Pity! On the otherhand you may not actually manage or be able to leave, depending how Thursdays buckie tasting goes! }}

I dont get it......

Are you not in the land of maple syrup?

(thought that looks more like a sweet-gum leaf)

It's conceivable you'd be going to Vermont, but we see that as a local destination, not an international destination.

I am on state business so cannot confirm or deny.

It may have happened that the Canadian maple leaves were all yellow and so the nearest, 5 pointed red one was found. But that would be speculation of course.

Pettytyrant101 wrote:I'm afraid I'm leaving on Friday, though - Ringdrotten

{{ Damn! Pity! On the otherhand you may not actually manage or be able to leave, depending how Thursdays buckie tasting goes!      }}

I was wondering and you might know - any good places to go mid-week if you want to listen to live folk music? I'm thinking The Corries type music.

{{{ I'll see what I can find.

In terms of other events if your here on the 5th thats Bonfire Night- there will be a big bonfire and fireworks on Glasgow Geen that night. There's the Glasgow Whisky Festival on the 9th at Hampden Park and on the same day there a Festival of Burleseque
Also on the 9th is the Festival of the Dead- a mix of circus, cabaret and dance music. Thats at the o2 so you'd need to prebook tickets for that one.
And Kelvingrove Museum is always worth a visit.

Right folk music- theres Talisk playing King Tut's What-Wah Hut on the 9th thats all the official stuff I can find - but what I will do is get a few suggestions of small places to try where there is often music on. Leave it with me.

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{{ Incidentally I informed my brother of your intentions to sample buckie Ringo, and feel that before you do, to stand as some sort of health warning to the enterprise, I should repeat here his response to me telling him that you were about to partake of the sweet, violence, occasionally coma inducing buckie-

LOL
NO!
GOD NO!
WARN HIM!

So, yeah. Consider yourself warned!
Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about!        }}

If its anything like Thunderbird wine its basically paint stripper.

haha, blech. The things we put in our bodies for fun...

Pettytyrant101 wrote:{{ Incidentally I informed my brother of your intentions to sample buckie Ringo, and feel that before you do, to stand as some sort of health warning to the enterprise, I should repeat here his response to me telling him that you were about to partake of the sweet, violence, occasionally coma inducing buckie-

LOL
NO!
GOD NO!
WARN HIM!

So, yeah. Consider yourself warned!
Personally I don't see what all the fuss is about!        }}

Maybe I'll take before and after pics (if the latter is even possible) - and thanks for the tips in your other post! The events on the 9th I won't be able to make, but that bonfire thing sounded fun

Remember to report, don't vanish like Tin did!

(have any other of the Brits tried Bucky? It seems to be fairly regional).

hell no!

  I don't intend to try either.

That's a pretty irresistible recommendation.

For a masochist.

On my way back to Norway, got well and properly drunk, broke my phone which I had just recently bought, got to chat with Taylor Goldsmith, but I could not find buckie anywhere! So I guess I’ll have to come back (which was always the plan anyway). They had whisky, wine, beer - but no buckie. I return with no sense of fulfillment

{{ How can you come to Glasgow and fail to find buckie?
Thats like going to a haystack and failing to find any hay!!! Every off-license in the city sells the stuff!

I am very disappointed in you Ringo! }}

Wait, may be the result of a cultural mistranslation.

Am I right to infer that one does not pick up Buckie in a pub, but in a store?

I looked for it in both!

{{{ Where were you the West End?
Right print this out and take it with you next time!!!

https://thetab.com/uk/strathclyde/2015/04/02/best-places-to-buy-buckfast-in-glasgow-249

or if you want to be young andmodern about it theres the 'find me buckie' app.

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/whats-on/food-drink-news/new-app-allows-buckfast-fans-13381088

or keep up to date on reddit! }}

https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/6i6jk0/where_to_get_buckfast/