The Glass? Or the Bottle?

[Badfellow]

It was the ex-girlfriend of twelve years who during most years accepted my titanic intake of tipple, but who once said to me "Can't you at least use a glass? Drinking straight from the bottle lacks class."

I probably said something to the effect of, "Well, it's not a fucking milk carton. And I'm not Queen Beatrix."

She may have had a valid point. But I like to think that drinking directly from the bottle is a bit like skipping the middleman when it comes to getting your heavy loads carted. Case in point: drinking around the fire. Who has time to waste with refills. Besides, its dark and glasses get misplaced. Thousands of years of drunkard evolution has lead to the refinement and pure efficiency of being able to pass a bottle around the fire-pit. Its also something you can do by yourself without a fire-pit.

Right now I'm drinking from a glass. But it may very shortly be thrown out the window to a shattering demise and the bottle may come directly into play.
Cheers bottles, you bunch of sterling drunks.

[mistah willies]

Yup. Fireside, never bring a flask. It'll vansih, trust me on this. Bottles are communal, and glass is meant for smashing.

Have a smashing good time

[Frankennietzsche]

[Smatter Noguts]

If it's cheap beer only a bottle will do, most of my kayaking/fishing is done with Labatt Blue in a can strapped around my neck in a holder.

Booze? Glass only, ruffian. Aroma is part of the experience!

[Dale]

I drink from the bottle, which is made of glass.

[Patchez]

I've never been picky. At home it's in a glass or Mason jar at least. Rarely from the bottle.

Campfires and fishing almost always from the flask or straight pulls off the bottle.

The above only applies to booze.

Beer is almost always right out of the can/bottle.

[oettinger]

here have both, kinda. Hope that stops the grouching!

[oettinger]

The official drunkenly half-life of a glass is less than six to eight months in my hosehold anyway. Turns into shattered glass faster than any hope for the future round here.
So always the bottle when possible.

[Palinka (RIP)]

Generally I prefer a glass*. However, to paraphrase the Thirsty giant, sometimes you just gotta chug...




*Especially for bottled beers - the open crates, with the full bottles, are stashed for quite some time at depots before they get shipped out - meaning that plenty of rats have crawled over and pissed on those bottles before they reach the shelf; whis makes drinking from the bottle a good way to get Leptospirosis (aka Wiel's disease) - so if you are going to drink from a beer bottle or can, make sure that either the crate, or case, was plastic wrapped at the factory, immediately after bottling, or canning; or that the bottles, or cans, were disinfected before being put on the shelves.

[Bur]

Man gotta chug when man gotta chug. I'm classy and I usually sometimes just drink the stuff in shot form. And beer needs shots to it.

[oettinger]

No need for either if you found the promised fountain The giant Königstein wine barrel:

During my searchings I found this btw. What a cool vehicle, what kind of license do you need to "drive" that properly?

[Frankennietzsche]

No need for either if you found the promised fountain The giant Königstein wine barrel:

I've seen the one in Heidlberg, or at least one very similar in the aforementioned city.

During my searchings I found this btw. What a cool vehicle, what kind of license do you need to "drive" that properly?

I think that is one of the custom cars created by the same guy who built the Ratfink hotrods. I used to sell models of those when I worked at the hobby store. That was the best job ever.

[Badfellow]

... I used to sell models of those when I worked at the hobby store. That was the best job ever...

Yeah, yeah. And you used to cruise for chicks in your cherry '63 Stingray too...



Check it, ladies! Still in the original package!

[Badfellow]

There are legends of King Fjolnor stumbling drunk one night after a party from his chambers (probably for more drink) and tumbling through a trap door into a great vat of the royal mead, whereupon he drowned in his drink. This certainly seems more feasible now.

[Frankennietzsche]

... I used to sell models of those when I worked at the hobby store. That was the best job ever...

Yeah, yeah. And you used to cruise for chicks in your cherry '63 Stingray too...

Exactly, except that it was a '81 Vette.

And it was blue.

And by "vette" I mean Chevette.

package!

Heh