tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post627953419648196310..comments2024-03-23T04:23:48.076+00:00Comments on Tandleman's Beer Blog: A Mean Time With MeantimeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-54075067009178370602016-07-07T10:08:21.353+01:002016-07-07T10:08:21.353+01:00Interesting how those who don't know Tandleman...Interesting how those who don't know Tandleman personally are really wide of the mark in their guesses about his character. My advice: just stick to what you do know, i.e. what he actually wrote in the post.<br /><br />As for him being a blunt Northerner - wrong, he's a proud Scot.<br /><br />And please, I know Scotland is in the north, but the term 'Northerner' is used for people from the north of England.RedNevhttp://rednev-rearm.blogspot.co.uk/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-49006607211856336132016-07-07T08:09:27.936+01:002016-07-07T08:09:27.936+01:00And you can't say fairer than that. Roll up ro...And you can't say fairer than that. Roll up roll up.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-24653216780314508552016-07-07T07:51:39.254+01:002016-07-07T07:51:39.254+01:00To any PR people annoyed at the TAND saying it how...To any PR people annoyed at the TAND saying it how it is. I'm a more compliant beer evangelist/communicator/blog curator who will for free cash, free beer, free t shirts and various tat write up positive beery cheery stuff even more toe curlingly sycophantic than the lad Curtis and I'd do it cheaper. I have no principles and would do owt for coin.<br /><br /><br />Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-32847285405216085812016-07-07T03:53:43.169+01:002016-07-07T03:53:43.169+01:00HaHa. Looks like the PR company's social media...HaHa. Looks like the PR company's social media outreach is proceeding apace.call_me_ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-57335522924253689392016-07-07T01:05:22.326+01:002016-07-07T01:05:22.326+01:00Meantime Fan: No. I asked once of the PR person an...Meantime Fan: No. I asked once of the PR person and spoke to no-one else there at all except my wife. You are making that up as you well know.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-10254606582634514852016-07-07T01:01:04.273+01:002016-07-07T01:01:04.273+01:00I don't mind you saying at all Syd. Glad someo...I don't mind you saying at all Syd. Glad someone swallowed the hook. Of course I knew this might be interpreted as you so eloquently did. I fact the whole piece invites such comment if you read it.<br /><br />Do you really think I didn't realise that many would interpret as you did? I took the chance as actually, it was my time that was wasted and, if you read my blog, it disappointed me after so many positive Meantime experiences (paid for by me) which I have written about. I am actually quite a fan.<br /><br />I neither need nor seek free piss ups and turn down, politely, the majority of invitations I receive. <br /><br />Dick at Work? Maybe a tad harsh but I did try and lay out a bit of context. Clearly wasted on you at least. I'll continue as before though, as actually, I say what I think and am beholding to no-one. And as for bilious review, well, I waited some weeks to see if I still felt the same way. I did.<br /><br />Carry on Syd. I put my head above the parapet. You can shoot at it. Them's the rules. No complaints from me.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-89763402728169977552016-07-07T00:53:18.392+01:002016-07-07T00:53:18.392+01:00So you're the guy who everyone said was compla...So you're the guy who everyone said was complaining about not getting enough free beer?Meantime Fannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-68872362900810033522016-07-07T00:05:40.018+01:002016-07-07T00:05:40.018+01:00If you don't mind me saying so you do come acr...If you don't mind me saying so you do come across in your post as being a bit up yourself.<br />But in the comments section you surpass even that and,sorry to say,emerge as a boorish windbag.<br />You went expecting a free piss-up and some grub but things were a bit chaotic so you hoisted up your underskirt and scurried off into the night already rehearsing your bilious review.<br />Then someone at the same event challenged your version of what happened and you dismiss him as a PR interloper.<br />I quite like reading some of your stuff even though it does sometimes veer into the pretentious.<br />On this occasion you've wandered into the minefield cledarly marked " Danger - dick at work. "Syd Differentialnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-10705447449401543462016-07-06T17:45:00.786+01:002016-07-06T17:45:00.786+01:00Well, you call it how you see it and I'll call...Well, you call it how you see it and I'll call it how I see it. You can call that dishonest if you like but what I wrote was a fair summary of my evening. By the time I'd waited for so long for something to happen, I'd got a bit fed up. I didn't hear any announcement and was too far away to know who was whom. I certainly had no idea that a Senior Brewer was involved. Either way, to me, it wasn't a great presentation and no bugger had the beer that was being talked about, so it was all a bit moot anyway.<br /><br />You may have enjoyed it but my account is how I saw it. Dishonest? By your standards I could call you out on that. The vast majority of people were paying customers and just carried on talking as usual. <br /><br />It was a disorganised shambles. In my opinion and I'm beginning to suspect you are one of the PR people or somehow otherwise involved.. <br />Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-852098058816905862016-07-06T16:32:56.790+01:002016-07-06T16:32:56.790+01:00"There wasn't a proper announcement and a..."There wasn't a proper announcement and a call to those present to listen up."<br /><br />Actually I dispute that, and most people were in fact listening.<br />My point is, though, that it was not the case that a clueless PR guy was there to speak about the beer. <br />The guy who did the powerpoint thing didn't really talk about the beer - they had a brewer there who did that. <br />You airbrushed him out of your account of the event, which is rather dishonest, in my personal view.<br /><br />It's obviously fair enough to say you didn't enjoy the evening, but if you're going to post at all, you should be honest and report it factually. After all, your image is that of a straight-talking, blunt Northerner who tells it like it is.<br />Elandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-45481016363464442752016-07-06T10:28:58.561+01:002016-07-06T10:28:58.561+01:00Fight!Fight!StringersBeerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12573068197944669997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-27033167905137575252016-07-06T08:20:02.795+01:002016-07-06T08:20:02.795+01:00Eland: He didn't as far as I heard, say who he...Eland: He didn't as far as I heard, say who he was, he meandered through a description of the beer that nobody had. There wasn't a proper announcement and a call to those present to listen up.<br /><br />I've seen plenty of these and this wasn't well done. Glad you enjoyed it though.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-4537227688635466552016-07-06T07:49:49.588+01:002016-07-06T07:49:49.588+01:00the time to leave any do is when the free grog is ...the time to leave any do is when the free grog is gone.Cooking Lagerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02830924433230427226noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-42956977604056185162016-07-06T03:57:40.978+01:002016-07-06T03:57:40.978+01:00Google is my friend. Never heard of it anyway ;-)Google is my friend. Never heard of it anyway ;-)Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-11586047949600640102016-07-06T00:06:15.473+01:002016-07-06T00:06:15.473+01:00You're being dishonest here, to be frank - Mea...You're being dishonest here, to be frank - Meantime didn't just thrust someone who didn't know anything about the beer forward, they brought one of their senior brewers up from London. In my opinion, he spoke knowledgably and interestingly.Elandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-1690707741678442022016-07-06T00:01:31.409+01:002016-07-06T00:01:31.409+01:00I didn't say. A bar in Thomas Street.I didn't say. A bar in Thomas Street. <br />Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-72232794529090171232016-07-05T23:45:30.065+01:002016-07-05T23:45:30.065+01:00This comment has been removed by the author.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-55892216874499095982016-07-05T23:45:15.372+01:002016-07-05T23:45:15.372+01:00I like to give anonymous wankers a chance to comme...I like to give anonymous wankers a chance to comment without the need to analyse or think. Call it a public service.Tandlemanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06804499573827044693noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-19625283978849528612016-07-05T23:22:04.591+01:002016-07-05T23:22:04.591+01:00Making a couple of beer tokens last an hour and a ...Making a couple of beer tokens last an hour and a half just makes you out to be a Northern tight arse rather than a whiney freeloader.<br />" And we even 'ad to buy us own fish supper as well "<br />Comeuppance indeed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-55013222051548613132016-07-05T22:56:59.079+01:002016-07-05T22:56:59.079+01:00Sounds very much as though they couldn’t organise ...Sounds very much as though they couldn’t organise the proverbial piss-up in a brewery, and very different from the Meantime event I attended in London, just over two years ago.<br /><br />On that occasion, the pub was still open to paying customers, but they had a section reserved for us bloggers, writers and general “freeloaders”. Some nice grub as well, in the form of gourmet burgers, and the beer - a Vienna-style, red lager, was pretty good too.<br /><br />Fortunately there was no rickety-looking furniture involved either. How long do they expect that uncomfortable looking item to last in the average pub environment? Definitely a case of style over substance, or possibly the Emperor’s new clothes!<br /><br />I think you are right, and they chose the wrong PR Company. <br />Paul Baileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09678639237696546268noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-76341892232975148032016-07-05T20:26:36.863+01:002016-07-05T20:26:36.863+01:00Sorry, which pub was this?Sorry, which pub was this?Curmudgeonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02558747878308766840noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-30355148457424141272016-07-05T18:02:27.443+01:002016-07-05T18:02:27.443+01:00Would have been more accurate and entertaining!Would have been more accurate and entertaining!Baron Ormhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16440684094621860149noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629758183547510158.post-53773050632718641322016-07-05T17:12:10.677+01:002016-07-05T17:12:10.677+01:00Should've got up and given the talk yourself.Should've got up and given the talk yourself.The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.com