Gregg R Thomas

A tangent: Has anyone here seen the bizarre Swedish-themed film Midsommar? I won’t say anything more about it as almost anything I say would be a spoiler.

There’s an English county called Somerset, which is quite rural and pretty.  No-one knows what it’s named after, but it might be “summer farmstead”, or a number of things.

Unseen wrote:
A recent count I saw was 334

Yes, it’s been a running joke in this country: don’t move there or you’ll get murdered.

We’ve wandered into asides from the main question so I’ll contribute another…

Years ago I watched all the seasons of The Midsomer Murders available at that time and was amazed that Midsomer (a fictitious county, apparently, not a village as many seem to think) was such a dangerous place to live, comparable in some ways to Murder She Wrote’s…[Read more]

My American friend. This was his first evening in Ireland after a long day walking and we went into a busy “tourist” pub. My English friend thought it would take too long to be served food as he really wanted a steak dinner. I asked the server in Irish (Gaeilge) to get him one, without waiting for the menu. Ten minutes later he was eating the…[Read more]

In this situation, if Reg says “3 please”, the barman knows he means Guinesses.

Reg the Fronkey Farmer wrote:
I thought you said you were never in here before? I wasn’t, I replied.

Was that the barman or the Englishman or the American who asked?

Before pubs, in the middle ages or whatever, there were ale houses run by individuals who may have been brewing their own beer…

God made Guinness. Guinness drinkers make beer. Beer drinkers make lager.

An Irishman, an Englishman and an American walk into an Irish pub for the first time. The fronkey farmer raises his hand to the barman with 3…[Read more]

An expert analysis by a musician/sound engineeer of the Show Them collaboration:

@  PopeBeanie

Well, here’s one you can watch because iot’s official. It’s their collab with Band Maid:

Like many Japanese bands, the level of musicianship they have is just insane. TW can’t compare on that level. Their forte is in their songwriting. Thus, I think the song was largely written by…[Read more]

Before pubs, in the middle ages or whatever, there were ale houses run by individuals who may have been brewing their own beer.  I don’t know, probably a number of brewing companies started their own pubs.  Apparently these are called tied houses, but we don’t call them anything.  The opposite of a tied house is a free house where there is no re…[Read more]