Category Archives: booze

Enough with the binge drinking bollocks

March 28, 2008 – 5:58 pm

Geeklawyer is, frankly, a bit fucked off with all the government hysteria about binge drinking. It’s just a headline grab; government making itself publicly busy and is nothing new. Anyone familiar with Hogarth’s London will recognise that heavy drinking is not some radical new phenomenon or something that is ‘getting worse’: witness the First World […]

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A pub with beer taps on the table?!

March 26, 2008 – 11:03 am

An Atlanta pub has fitted sophistimicated taps into the tables of patrons. One pulls ones own pints which are digitally measured and go on the tab. Simplicity to the point of genius. And as a genius himself Geeklawyer knows genius.
Of course being a yank pub there are a couple of problems: weird licensing laws that […]

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Bloggers drinks do - small & perfectly formed

October 22, 2007 – 11:40 pm

Well. Heavens, that was disappointing. In the end only Ruthie Geeklawyer and the blogger who was formerly Pupilblogger turned up. And Harry Metcalfe, but he isn’t a lawyer and so doesn’t really matter.
All of those who failed to turn up hang your head in shame. We had fun: much ale was quaffed Ruthie was embarrassingly […]

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bloggers beers

October 18, 2007 – 1:25 pm

OK, the venue for Monday’s beers is upstairs at the Harp in Covent Garden/Charing Cross from 6.30pm onwards. The Harp has decent-ish beer and though it can be a bit crowded downstairs it is sometimes free upstairs - if it’s too crowded the proceedings may be transferred to a different court, with no order as […]

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