Chris Heck - President of Business Operations

[Percy McCarthy]

Now your 6am posts are about gangsters like Cash and Carlos while your boss sleeps soundly (or with the fishes) 

I know yeah. 33% shift allowance has ruined my life.

But the boss is here, sadly.

For now 😉

[Rory]

It was Blastaways for a quid in the guild at Brum Uni. White Lightning cider and Castaway in a pint pot. Rank, but did the job.

The Guild was shite when I was there, so we used to go to the Gun Barrels, which no longer exists.

That was shit too, but at least it wasn't full of freshers who'd insist on coming over and talking. As soon as they found I was local, the usual "aww, Biiirrrminguummm" ensued, before they saw from my face that it wasn't funny.

Probably different now, since Peaky Blinders. My brothers' girlfriends are from Liverpool and Hong Kong, and both think we are all Arthur Shelbys.

Which is better than thinking we're all imbeciles.

[Risso]

It was Blastaways for a quid in the guild at Brum Uni. White Lightning cider and Castaway in a pint pot. Rank, but did the job.

The Guild was shite when I was there, so we used to go to the Gun Barrels, which no longer exists.

That was shit too, but at least it wasn't full of freshers who'd insist on coming over and talking. As soon as they found I was local, the usual "aww, Biiirrrminguummm" ensued, before they saw from my face that it wasn't funny.

The Guild was quite good in my day. It's changed beyond recognition now, I took my eldest daughter for a look around the university last year and the guild building only seemed to have one combined café/bar. The Gun Barrels wasn't really a place for students back then, it was more the sort of establishment your parents would take you to for Sunday lunch if they came up to visit. The big student pub in Selly Oak was the OVT, but it tended to be full of rugby types, so we preferred The Brook over the road, which did decent beer and had a beer garden.

[pauliewalnuts]

It was Blastaways for a quid in the guild at Brum Uni. White Lightning cider and Castaway in a pint pot. Rank, but did the job.

The Guild was shite when I was there, so we used to go to the Gun Barrels, which no longer exists.

Gun Barrels was one of the first pubs i went to. Used to go down the hill from school, coats hiding blazers and put on our deepest voices.

[pauliewalnuts]

both think we are all Arthur Shelbys

We're all more Arthur Askey on here.

[Brend'Watkins]

STOP WORRYING WE HAVE A VODKA PARTNER https://x.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1854479188121751644

I wonder how much additional revenue that brings in?  Very little would be my guess, maybe we'll be getting preferential rates on multiple cases of this unheard of Vodka

It's not unheard of Bren, globally it's one of the top sellers. I'll take a bottle of their premium vodka if you're offering.

I'll bow to your superior knowledge on the subject Mark as it's new to me. A bit of research tells me it is one of 3 main suppliers to duty free shops in the world and is in the top 20 of global sales so not small beer.... or vodka for that matter!

If alcohol sponsorship is a lucrative avenue to pursue and it must be with Casillero Del Diablo a partner of ManU, Red wine/Red Devils we should look at an Argentinian producer, Trivento Reserve Malbec World's Number One selling Malbec....World's Number One keeper. I'm doing Heck's job for him.   

 

[Drummond]

I used to love a Monday night out in Harrogate. £5 all you can eat at Deep Pan Pizza Co. Then on to Josephines nightclub. £4.50 then 10p a pint til Midnight.

Tip a particular member of bar staff and they'd serve you first in the scrum. Set me up for the week that did.

[Mister E]

I used to love a Monday night out in Harrogate. £5 all you can eat at Deep Pan Pizza Co. Then on to Josephines nightclub. £4.50 then 10p a pint til Midnight.

Tip a particular member of bar staff and they'd serve you first in the scrum. Set me up for the week that did.

Rather different now, mate!

[Sexual Ealing]

STOP WORRYING WE HAVE A VODKA PARTNER https://x.com/AVFCOfficial/status/1854479188121751644

I wonder how much additional revenue that brings in?  Very little would be my guess, maybe we'll be getting preferential rates on multiple cases of this unheard of Vodka

When I was at uni, the students union sold Odessa vodka which I've never seen before or since.  50p a shot though, so you couldn't complain - standard drink very quickly became 4 shots of Odessa, a can of Irn-Bru, and a pint glass for the princely sum of £2.60.  Tasted rough as fuck.  Still, it made a soundtrack comprising mostly of Kylie's greatest hits and random 80s TV theme tunes perfectly tolerable, so it wasn't all bad.

I think I was knocking around Edinburgh at the same time (or perhaps just before) your time at uni algy. We used to take advantage of the 50p shots and £1 cocktails at the Subway on Cowgate on a Wednesday. A terrible place, without which there would be significantly fewer notches on my bedpost!

[Drummond]

I used to love a Monday night out in Harrogate. £5 all you can eat at Deep Pan Pizza Co. Then on to Josephines nightclub. £4.50 then 10p a pint til Midnight.

Tip a particular member of bar staff and they'd serve you first in the scrum. Set me up for the week that did.

Rather different now, mate!

Just a bit!

[Risso]

I used to love a Monday night out in Harrogate. £5 all you can eat at Deep Pan Pizza Co. Then on to Josephines nightclub. £4.50 then 10p a pint til Midnight.

Tip a particular member of bar staff and they'd serve you first in the scrum. Set me up for the week that did.

I bet it's more slice of Victoria sponge in a tea shop, a game of bridge before a brisk walk home for Songs of Praise now.

[Beard82]

Double Vision on Monday night at Liverpool uni, quid for a double vodka. Used to get five and a can of red bull in a pint pot. I'd rarely remember getting home.

I loved the way red bull made you wake up at 5am with your heart going a million miles an hour. 

I don't drink caffeine and thought I was going to have a heart attack the morning after on a stag a few years ago with far too many Vodka Red Bulls the night before. Don't touch either these days.

Same - watched a high scoring game on a stage do ever goal a jagger bomb.  Woke up about 4am fully dressed feeling like I was running full pelt.

Fortunately all my mate ate now married

You sobered up yet? Reads like one of my old 6am Sunday posts after an all-day-and-nighter after which I’ve been woken up outside my house in the back of my mate Brains’s 4x4. And I haven’t been able to remember a thing that happened after midnight, never mind whatever the fuck I was drinking.

Wow - yeah - that made very little sense.  I used to get told off for not texting the missus when I was out - so I would pre-write text to send.  But she cottoned on because they made sense

[Percy McCarthy]

Double Vision on Monday night at Liverpool uni, quid for a double vodka. Used to get five and a can of red bull in a pint pot. I'd rarely remember getting home.

I loved the way red bull made you wake up at 5am with your heart going a million miles an hour. 

I don't drink caffeine and thought I was going to have a heart attack the morning after on a stag a few years ago with far too many Vodka Red Bulls the night before. Don't touch either these days.

Same - watched a high scoring game on a stage do ever goal a jagger bomb.  Woke up about 4am fully dressed feeling like I was running full pelt.

Fortunately all my mate ate now married

You sobered up yet? Reads like one of my old 6am Sunday posts after an all-day-and-nighter after which I’ve been woken up outside my house in the back of my mate Brains’s 4x4. And I haven’t been able to remember a thing that happened after midnight, never mind whatever the fuck I was drinking.

Wow - yeah - that made very little sense.  I used to get told off for not texting the missus when I was out - so I would pre-write text to send.  But she cottoned on because they made sense

Haha! Don’t worry, very easy to translate - didn’t even need my Pissed to English/English to Pissed dictionary.

[Rory]

It was Blastaways for a quid in the guild at Brum Uni. White Lightning cider and Castaway in a pint pot. Rank, but did the job.

The Guild was shite when I was there, so we used to go to the Gun Barrels, which no longer exists.

That was shit too, but at least it wasn't full of freshers who'd insist on coming over and talking. As soon as they found I was local, the usual "aww, Biiirrrminguummm" ensued, before they saw from my face that it wasn't funny.

The Guild was quite good in my day. It's changed beyond recognition now, I took my eldest daughter for a look around the university last year and the guild building only seemed to have one combined café/bar. The Gun Barrels wasn't really a place for students back then, it was more the sort of establishment your parents would take you to for Sunday lunch if they came up to visit. The big student pub in Selly Oak was the OVT, but it tended to be full of rugby types, so we preferred The Brook over the road, which did decent beer and had a beer garden.

By my time I was there, the Barrels had blacked out windows and was definitely not a family place, but the OVT doesn't sound like it's changed at all.

I stopped going there after a bloke in a Wales rugby shirt challenged me to an arm wrestle, and the loser had to suck the winner's dick.

This guy had arms like tree trunks, but even if I'd been confident of winning, I didn't want him to suck my dick.

[Rory]

It was Blastaways for a quid in the guild at Brum Uni. White Lightning cider and Castaway in a pint pot. Rank, but did the job.

The Guild was shite when I was there, so we used to go to the Gun Barrels, which no longer exists.

Gun Barrels was one of the first pubs i went to. Used to go down the hill from school, coats hiding blazers and put on our deepest voices.

'Down the hill'? You're not a KE lad, surely?