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Aye I haven't been in there much of late but it is good. Used to pop in MMM...Deli and also went just after they'd opened Glugg. That coffee place in there is nice too. I hope it still has the imaginatively named Cheap Tab Shop in there though. Also remember the second hand book shop which sold multi packs of used porn mags. Nice

Thats what caught my attention, clever name. I think they are up to SBGS 5, they're making one with MMM Glugg from the Granger market that has chipotle chilli's in there. Granger market is a canny place to just have a wander about now, so different from when I was a kid. Criminally under promoted.

The chin stroking craft purists who abandon a drink after the owners sell out are the ones who should be laughed at.

I've been in bigger dives and shadier places by far. Insular is probably a better way of describing it tbh. One dodgy venue that springs to mind was an Atomic Jam at the Marcus Garvey Centre in Nottingham. Proper scary in retrospect although I was too blitzed at the time to worry about it. Saw Colin Dale (and Ritchie Hawtin) there too as it happens.

Zerosum, just so you know, the politics threads can be brutal. No one has called you a cunt yet so you're doing well.

Being right all the time is the only thing that keeps me going

Ozarks was really well written. Binge watched the fuck out of it.

'a resurgent Newcastle would be the death of us. Let's be honest, neither of us have had anything to shout about recently so inevitably it turns into a mini league between us because that's all either club have. We still had supporters around me at Brentford yesterday declaring the mags were winning. If they take off and leave us lightyears behind them, what does that leave? I genuinely believe our recent drop in crowds is due to the fact Newcastle are now so far ahead of us. We're literally playing for nothing and when there's nowt to play for most crowds naturally fade. Our crowds wouldn't have dropped below 30,000 this season if we still had Newcastle in our league.sad but true imo.' From RTG (obviously), this is the mentality most of them have but they don't realise we don't follow football to compare ourselves to our rivals like they do. It's really, really strange tbh.

Handbags, handbags in the gaming forum!

someone stuck a cowie in his lucozade

I think he's alright, apart from when he does that grimace thing. It looks like his chin wants to leave his face. It could frighten horses.

Good to know that someone is keeping an eye on it.

Aye, we both head there after high tea Jesmond Dene house and a look round Fenwick's.

I really enjoyed the first season of Gomorrah (despite accidentally watching the 10th episode first) but I lost interest a couple of episodes into the second. Keep meaning to give it another go but the lazy shit in me keeps it with the second season of The Bridge, The Killing & The Returned.

Wasn't Ed Rooney Ferris Bueller's head teacher?

Vernon Fajita (I think that was Chez's - it wasn't mine anyway).

Youre asking the wrong man. The lazy twat couldn’t be bothered to read the subtitles. Probably too distracted thinking of all those lasses he didn’t have he balls to bone in his youth.

I wish I hadn't sired a future sex offender with that BITCH, I tell you that. I hope they're happy in their one up, one down in Yarm.

Aye same, gave it go then ended up watching it about a week or so. Thought Jason Bateman and Laura Linney were really good as was the lass who played Ruth.

Same, did it in less than a week. Quality stuff

I've dabbled with craft stuff, enjoy an IPA but have found myself drifting towards stouts and porters. Flash House do a line called Shy Bairns Get Stout and I've really enjoyed the coffee one.

I'll have some cowies, whizz and a time machine

There's gin bars distilling their own stuff sprung up in Newcastle. I do quite like it but a bottle of decent gin would last me months as it's not something I would drink unless I'm in the mood. A decent bottle of rum or whisky is lucky to last a weekend sometimes.

That's spot on with the craft gin. As long as it has a juniper base it can qualify as a gin but some of them have all kinds of botanicals, and be spicy or sweet. Not just about the London dry style anymore. So there's a lot of crap out there but I quite like the Spanish influence with the wide rimmed copa glasses and creative use of garnishes. A few years ago Hendricks and a by of cucumber was the height of sophistication but there's all sorts on the market now. Gin bars are popping up all over the place in London, some of which offer 500 different types of gin and 30 tonics! This is all a bit of a head scratcher for the London dry purists. But the story behind the craft gin explosion is interesting. It all goes back to the gin law of the 1700s, which was overturned in 2009 when Sipsmith won a legal battle with HMRC for a license to operate. Small batch distilleries were banned during the London gin craze of the 1700s because people were losing their minds on mother's ruin and - more importantly - home distilleries weren't being taxed. So the government said it could only be produced on an industrial scale. Since 2009 you've had this massive increase in the number of small gin distilleries open, due to the change in law, but driven by the hipster trend for craft products made by local, indie producers.

I'm sure you have.

Think the 'craft beer' revolution has been generally good but the trouble is you'll go in a lot of places now and they have about 8 beers on tap and 7 are a variant of IPA. I like gin but I don't quite get it with the recent huge amount of craft producers because it either tastes very similar to mass produced 'quality gins' like Tanqueray Ten or they go down the route of adding unusal botanicals / spices with the result that it doesn't even taste like gin. Rum is a really interesting spirit and should probably be treated the same way as cognac and whisky. The trouble with it is both a lack of understanding and regulation because it's produced in so many different countries. A lot of it is basically a total rip off with stuff like Pyrat and lots of the South American stuff being marketed as 'super premium' when in fact it's a fairly basic product in those cases which has had loads of sugar added (and orange flavouring with Pyrat).

I was a bit late to the party, I have to say. I think in the early days people were lapping up a glut of shit as long as it had a funky graphic design and was brewed in a cool, hipster location. It's still a bit hit and miss and a lot of indie brewers still go way too far with the hops but I do enjoy a good pale ale. Sierra Nevada probably the best. Not just craft beer though now is it. Craft gin is massive now and apparently rum is set to go down the same path.

Saw the latter at Tribal Gathering. edit: Would've been just after Homework came out. They were class. Dave Angel was on just prior to them and it was before his shit 'techno funk' / hard house phase. He was absolutely brilliant.

Someone needs to get Renton down from that Ivory tower.

Ever get that feeling you wish you'd never made a late night comment on a message board?

So cutting.

There's no way in hell Atsu is a better player than Townsend. I think it demonstrates how well Rafa has got this team playing as a unit when you think about the absolute dearth of attacking flair we have in our team.

Must be a debt collector.

We've basically got no attack. Even more highlighting the mastery of Benny.

Players shoulder some of the blame, but there's a fundamental problem with the way he sets his team up defensively. Too often his centre backs do t seem to know what they should do, or where they should be. Midfield isn't helping them out either.

He's the Hypnotoad of management.

Loving this slow tempo - 'slowly slowly catchy monkey' thing Rafa has going on...Players jogging about like a practice match with positional discipline and the occasional sudden upping of the press and attack. Teams are getting hypnotized. Just enjoying a master tactician in charge.

I'd imagine it isn't a tag often used for leavers.

*spins roulette wheel* clink, clink, clink. Newcastle linked with SENSATIONAL move for GEORDIE Andy Carroll.

Lazy link, never gunna happen.

ozark on netflix for anyone who like breaking bad type of things.. really good. ray donovan is worth watching as some have said.. micky donovan is some bloke!! its an old ish one I only discovered a while back called love hate.. rough Irish drama.. drug dealers / killings etc. gritty / dark but addictive