A drink question

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OK I no putting DRINK as a header would be a click bait heading but the question is, how many of you when you get home the first thing you do is dive to the drinks cabinet for class of wine or stronger? I only ask the question as now days when you watch a TV series or a Movie the first thing for example a police person or an MP in the series or movie does is pour a drink no matter what time of day it is, when they go to question a person at there home the person has a class of wine in there hand, I used to think it was an American thing but now seems to have crept into British TV series/Films.
 
To me, it's a warning that the writer and director didn't think too clearly about how they want to entertain the viewer. Where there's one cliché, there's very likely to be many more and it's rare that such a production will entertain me.
 
benc98 said:
...gives the characters something to physically to do in the scene instead of just standing there and/or acts as some opening where a drink is offered before the real stuff is dicussed
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Which is my point exactly. If the cast can "just stand there" the writers and director haven't done their job properly is my opinion, purely as a consumer.
 
And they drink it straight, not an easy thing to do.
 
I do not dive for a drink when arriving home either when I was working or since I retired. When watching The Sweeney, Minder or Morse they all seem to drink all the time and have bottles in their desk drawers so it is not a recent thing. After watching an episode, I need plenty of black coffee. I will often have a glass of wine with my dinner.

Dave
 
Although to be fair, it is a UK cliche as well that it is assumed many women consume quantities of what Jeremy clasrkson calls "lady petrol", and certainly my ex-wife fitted that description, but personally I hardly drink at all and my present wife even less
 
Must say after a lifetime of moderate drinking i am now a complete feather weight , when i retired just over two years ago i kinda backed right off alcohol .
When in the UK i go weeks without a beer and when in GC we do the 4 days no beer, 3 days ok for beer thing.
 
Speaking of taps, why does water from the bathroom tap taste different from the kitchen tap, even when both coming direct from the mains?
 
gman said:
Speaking of taps, why does water from the bathroom tap taste different from the kitchen tap, even when both coming direct from the mains?
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Are you absolutely sure your cold water tap in the bathroom is on the mains or as is much more common AFAIK from a cold water tank in the loft ?

NB I am unsure about more modern/recent house builds using multi point boilers, whether they even have a cold water tank :thinking:
 
Box Brownie said:
Are you absolutely sure your cold water tap in the bathroom is on the mains or as is much more common AFAIK from a cold water tank in the loft ?

NB I am unsure about more modern/recent house builds using multi point boilers, whether they even have a cold water tank :thinking:
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Straight from mains. Tank was removed about a decade ago when we converted the attic.
 
I don't drink any more.

Not much less though...
 
Technically I don’t drink or smoke anymore,but I will have a short when the fancy takes me or a lager shandy when socialising probably 3 or 4 times a year for both , and again a hamlet cigar probably 5 to 10 a year .but that’s it
 
gman said:
Straight from mains. Tank was removed about a decade ago when we converted the attic.
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Okay..........just some thoughts.....
One possible effect on taste could be standing time in the pipes and temperature of the water.

The kitchen sink is typically, plumbing wise, nearer to the location of where the mains supply enters the house and subject to running the tap to flush out the standing water will be cooler.

However, the extra pipe to the bathroom means if you wish to drink mains fed water from the bathroom basin infers longer time to run the tap to flush the standing water.
 
Box Brownie said:
Okay..........just some thoughts.....
One possible effect on taste could be standing time in the pipes and temperature of the water.

The kitchen sink is typically, plumbing wise, nearer to the location of where the mains supply enters the house and subject to running the tap to flush out the standing water will be cooler.

However, the extra pipe to the bathroom means if you wish to drink mains fed water from the bathroom basin infers longer time to run the tap to flush the standing water.
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Aye I was thinking it could be something to do with the pipes. We always run the tap for a length of time before filling up a glass so as to remove any water sitting in the pipes, but usually the run to the bathroom is longer so perhaps that could be it.
 
I have worked at many places that had Bars on Site and not just a social club type of Bar. I suspect they no longer exist.
 
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