Do spare 50 minutes to watch this superb documentary about Brtain and the British Attitudes and Relationships with alcohol; "Timewatch: The Rules of Drinking".
Enjoy and then amaze your drinking buddies with your knowledge of Alcohol and Social History!
Cheers!
An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Documentary
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An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Documentary
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Re: An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Document
really enjoyed this, very accurate to my knowledge too. Drinking culture needs more publicity to fight the neo prohibitionists who currently haunt the uk
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Re: An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Document
This looks to be marvelous to view. I have bookmarked it.
Always great finds from you, P.
Yup.
Keep up the research and education of our art form.
I paint with black rum ink, and my own stencil is me life.
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Always great finds from you, P.
Yup.
Keep up the research and education of our art form.
I paint with black rum ink, and my own stencil is me life.
DRINK!
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Re: An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Document
I enjoyed what I watched. Need to finish the rest of it later. Like one of those miners I once went into a mine, maybe that's why I too like to drink. Ok! it was at the Black Country Museum but still as a miner ahaaaaaa screw it.
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Rick: I'm a drunkard.
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Rick: I'm a drunkard.
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Re: An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Documentary
I'm almost positive I've watched this before. Worth watching again to find out for sure.
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Re: An Excellent, Entertaining and Educational BBC Documentary
to add a second bump to this.....I loved this doc. basically a 101 on British drinking culture.
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