tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post2862321517502688616..comments2024-03-29T07:17:26.082+00:00Comments on Tandleman's Beer Blog: Ice Cold in GlasgowUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-51193764479953450032008-12-11T00:35:00.000+00:002008-12-11T00:35:00.000+00:00Doesn't Tandleman hang around with some blonde bir...Doesn't Tandleman hang around with some blonde bird?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-26320879376887115352008-12-08T10:38:00.000+00:002008-12-08T10:38:00.000+00:00AnonMale or feamle? Only kidding-we all know which...Anon<BR/><BR/>Male or feamle? Only kidding-we all know which way his sporan swings...Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-16935362641590575892008-12-08T07:45:00.000+00:002008-12-08T07:45:00.000+00:00Tandleman is always very charming.Well I've heard ...Tandleman is always very charming.Well I've heard he's charmed the pants off a few anyway!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-1276976749238823722008-12-06T00:01:00.000+00:002008-12-06T00:01:00.000+00:00Indeed I am, so much so that my turning the other ...Indeed I am, so much so that my turning the other cheek abilities would put most to shame. And my revisionist tendencies are almost nil.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-82782841807427404742008-12-05T22:27:00.000+00:002008-12-05T22:27:00.000+00:00I've just seen this and have to say that Tandleman...I've just seen this and have to say that Tandleman is always the perfect gent.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-34807372475587619662008-12-03T00:19:00.000+00:002008-12-03T00:19:00.000+00:00It was only 39 barmaids and since they all spoke w...It was only 39 barmaids and since they all spoke with Northern accents I assumed you'd approve!Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-37603847977631982882008-12-02T02:19:00.000+00:002008-12-02T02:19:00.000+00:00Deep dish pizza isn't pizza. It's a strange bizzar...Deep dish pizza isn't pizza. It's a strange bizzare cake.<BR/><BR/>Oh, by the way, tonight I went for a drink with Tandleman and he gunned down forty barmaids while I looked on, aghast.Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-87316347879821439662008-12-01T19:07:00.000+00:002008-12-01T19:07:00.000+00:00Sounds like a lovers tiff to me:)JeffDeep dish piz...Sounds like a lovers tiff to me:)<BR/><BR/>Jeff<BR/>Deep dish pizza is just wrong on so many levels.Sat In A Pubhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08123038980796000837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-69155387688343383362008-12-01T18:59:00.000+00:002008-12-01T18:59:00.000+00:00I'm still getting therapy for that pizza! I can pi...I'm still getting therapy for that pizza! I can picture it yet!Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-26699652347782701932008-12-01T18:49:00.000+00:002008-12-01T18:49:00.000+00:00Not that our host needs any defense, but I can't h...Not that our host needs any defense, but I can't help myself. My own experience with him has been sporadic, since we live 7,000 miles apart, but it also stretches back nearly a decade and when we have been out pubbing it has literally gone on for days.<BR/><BR/>I've chased beer with him in here in Portland, in Chicago, Glasgow, Rochdale and Plymouth. In Chicago he did get rude, but with his fellow drinkers rather than staff, because he was horrified by a deep dish pizza. We were in turn horrified by his attraction to a barmaid, but he was very polite (if effusive) to her.<BR/><BR/>I have never seen him rude to staff, ever. My experience has been quite the opposite, in fact, because he has always been the first to be friendly with the bartender or server and has never been bashful with compliments.<BR/><BR/>I don't even know what "mardy" means, but I'm sure he ain't that.jefffranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699992839260757505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-66507468198391351592008-12-01T18:36:00.000+00:002008-12-01T18:36:00.000+00:00Well let's start from the end. I certainly won't b...Well let's start from the end. I certainly won't be falling out with you over this either Jeff. Please do call it as you see it, here and elsewhere. I don't mind at all. But in my own defence, I did wonder if you have the right of it and that I frequently fall out with bar staff. That would indeed be worrying (behaviourally) as would be condemning myself through my own keyboard. <BR/><BR/>I have checked my blog back to the beginning of the year and can find only 3 instances where I mention anything adverse about bar staff. On the other hand I praise staff no fewer than 18 times. (It is probably more, but I have been conservative and excludes my local.)On none of the 3 occasions did I have words with the bar staff. <BR/><BR/>The ones I can find were the miserable Czech lass when I was with Tyson in Huddersfield, the Fringe Bar problem (19/9)when I was there but not party to a discussion about undrinkable beer and on 18/7 when I remarked (not to them) that the staff were happier chatting amongst themselves. Going back a bit further I did have polite words with a JDW barmaid (see post 6/12/07)over a voucher validity, but read it and see if you'd have done differently. <BR/><BR/>In summary, though I admit I can't recall what the concern was when I was out with you,I plead "Not Guilty" to your statement "Also, if you read back through this blog you'll find numerous instances where he's found cause to gripe about staff". Oh and "Not Guilty" to I am a "mardy" customer. <BR/><BR/>Anyway, it is all there. People can read it and count it up for themselves. <BR/><BR/>So even though I reckon your statement is disproved,we still won't fall out. And in person, you are very agreeable too!Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-37648056358392087322008-12-01T16:27:00.000+00:002008-12-01T16:27:00.000+00:00OK.My "problem" is as follows. I once went for a c...OK.<BR/><BR/>My "problem" is as follows. I once went for a couple of drinks with the author of this blog and he was a little bit brusque (nothing major) with a perfectly pleasant barmaid for an inconsequential reason (it had something to do with pouring a pint and was so minor it didn't warrant any comment). She looked daggers at him. I understood why.<BR/><BR/>Due to that I don't consider him a "credible witness" (to use the expression he deployed against me) when criticising bar staff. Also, if you read back through this blog you'll find numerous instances where he's found cause to gripe about staff. As this rarely happens to me or people I know, I can only surmise he's a bit of a mardy customer.<BR/><BR/>I didn't really want to say that but as he was so aggressive in his response to my jokey comments, and I write under my real name as opposed to a pseudonym, I feel I have to defend myself!<BR/><BR/>That's what happens, Tandleman, when you insist on calling people out on brief and flippant comments! If you're as thick skinned as you claim to be you surely won't object to me "calling it as I see it" and "mentioning specifics", and we won't fall out! I hope we don't, bar staff incidents notwithstanding you're very agreeable in person.Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-84409690174605811062008-12-01T13:05:00.000+00:002008-12-01T13:05:00.000+00:00stonch is a southern plonker.carry on calling it a...stonch is a southern plonker.carry on calling it as you see it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-55623969977198568332008-12-01T08:27:00.000+00:002008-12-01T08:27:00.000+00:00I don't understand.What is Jeffrey objecting to?If...I don't understand.What is Jeffrey objecting to?If he runs a pub he's unlikely to be very open to criticism of bar staff.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-20386557665550436912008-11-30T21:07:00.000+00:002008-11-30T21:07:00.000+00:00What a tirade! I've no desire to expand on my comm...What a tirade! I've no desire to expand on my comments, to be honest. You seem to have done that for me!Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-84467895581264207322008-11-30T20:03:00.000+00:002008-11-30T20:03:00.000+00:00JeffreyWhat frequent battles might they be then? ...Jeffrey<BR/><BR/>What frequent battles might they be then? Please elaborate.There was no battle in Glasgow, rather a feeling that my custom and my attempts to chat were an intrusion on whatever it is the bar staff supposed they were there for. I didn't confront anyone, far less battle with them. I merely reported what I saw and encountered. I often praise good staff - comment on that!<BR/><BR/>In your cheery beery world, perhaps such things should not be remarked upon, but in my world where I can choose where to drink, based on customer experience they are important.<BR/><BR/>I rather doubt that you actually believe that all things are sweetness and light in pubs.That you choose not to remark on bad service is up to you, but I will continue to speak as I find. There is no the side to the story. I am impeccably polite to bar staff, but I don't forget I am the customer. Nor should they.<BR/><BR/>I rather think I'd like the feisty barmaid you describe but then again, recalling your put down to Paul Garrard who also had the temerity to complain about bar staff attitudes, I can't regard you as a credible witness.<BR/><BR/>You live it seems in a rarefied world. Get out more!Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-77797240426475275072008-11-30T17:50:00.000+00:002008-11-30T17:50:00.000+00:00It's funny, but here in the States, "ice-cold" is ...It's funny, but here in the States, "ice-cold" is how most beer is advertised, especially in package stores but I've never seen taps like that in the States nor have I seen digital thermometers over the bar, registering how close the beer is to freezing. <BR/><BR/>Since little of the UK is in the Tropics, I don't get why frozen beer should be so popular.jefffranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699992839260757505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-11904261730174927532008-11-30T17:39:00.000+00:002008-11-30T17:39:00.000+00:00Those ice covered fonts are hilarious, by the way....Those ice covered fonts are hilarious, by the way. An emblem of the folly of "extra cold" lagers.Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-57875140810686666782008-11-30T15:40:00.000+00:002008-11-30T15:40:00.000+00:00Perhaps they were Anglophobes and assumed you were...Perhaps they were Anglophobes and assumed you were a Sassenach, seeing that your accent has been smoothed off by more than 25 years of living in England.<BR/><BR/>It's possible, but whatever the reaon, such behaviour is unacceptable. We had a similar problem here in Southport where a licensee had three daughters, all very attractive but two with major attitude problems. We never saw the boss and the running of the pub was left to these three. Within a couple of months, a large busy pub had become almost deserted. The current licensee is still trying to rectify the damage.Neville Grundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10923209266005338452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-7253553441275750472008-11-30T14:53:00.000+00:002008-11-30T14:53:00.000+00:00I'd love to hear the other side of this story you'...I'd love to hear the other side of this story you're telling! Your references to "witches of MacBeth" and comments like "you know how I like a well rounded barmaid" would lead some to suspect you may not be blameless in your frequent battles with pub staff.<BR/><BR/>I have a barmaid who would cure you of your problems in one short session. Either that, or you'd run out the door and never go in a pub again!Stonchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07001578598975666535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-54864143732273475502008-11-30T05:01:00.000+00:002008-11-30T05:01:00.000+00:00Default no, available yes.Default no, available yes.Kieran Haslett-Moorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04562970144894398803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-9093903711525506632008-11-29T23:00:00.000+00:002008-11-29T23:00:00.000+00:00The war for banning sparklers goes on!The war for banning sparklers goes on!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-79379130534790340922008-11-29T20:21:00.000+00:002008-11-29T20:21:00.000+00:00Jeff. Sounds good to me. You know how I like a wel...Jeff. Sounds good to me. You know how I like a well rounded barmaid!Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-32875869182419178052008-11-29T17:04:00.000+00:002008-11-29T17:04:00.000+00:00I'm glad we missed those pubs. A pity you weren't ...I'm glad we missed those pubs. A pity you weren't with me last night at The Green Dragon here in town. I took my son out for a pint and a sandwich, meeting up with some of his friends. The waitress was everything your bartenders were not, and well-rounded into the bargain.jefffranehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17699992839260757505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-86880339433509901662008-11-29T16:14:00.000+00:002008-11-29T16:14:00.000+00:00Your article really pissed me off! Who in the &...Your article really pissed me off! Who in the &^%$ do these people think they are! If I were you, I'd contact the head of that particular pub chain and let them have it. Years ago I had a problem with a barmaid in a West Coast brewpub. I asked her how strong their Russian Imperial Stout was. She replied, "Sir, just because it's dark, doesn't necessarily mean it's strong." Well, the next day on the way to work I stopped in and talked to the brewer. The Russian Imperial Stout was 8.5% abv. I would consider that pretty strong. I mentioned to him that he has a dumb bitch serving his beers. He apparently spoke to her and printed out tasting notes and abv. for all his beers, so staff don't make fools of themselves. <BR/><BR/>Here's a pic of two pints that have been sparkled. My Landlord clone. Yes, off the hook!<BR/><BR/>http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z74/Whorst/2pintslandlord.jpgWhorsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01784943453195129865noreply@blogger.com