Uh, yeah I have. A commercial message where it doesn't belong. The group is for discussion, not free advertising for whatever vendor cares to wander through to exploit it.
"There's only a little dog shit in this cake, so it's just fine", in other words. I see.
Nothing on a webpage would impress or impact any of my systems, I don't run virus-susceptable systems. But "here, blindly follow something I go out of my way to obscure" is rarely a way to convince anyone of anything.
Could you point me to the part of the charter that covers that, please? I'm not intending to be antagonistic, I'd simply like to read it.
Question for you: Had the OP simply asked "Can I post an advert?" then you would have replied "no" and several others would have replied "sure, go ahead". What should the OP have done in that case?
Actually, if the OP had asked the question rather than used the tactic he did, I would have sat back and watched the responses before answering. It is strictly the "Can I do this; screw you if the answer is no, because I'm doing it anyway" tactic that generated the response that it did.
I'm not sure there is one, to be honest. I think 'alt' groups tend not to, depending more on the ever changing whims of the regular posters. hence, no regulations as such, just conventions and generally accepted rules of thumb. That's a problem in low traffic groups like this one, as you can lurk for quite a while and still be none the wiser as to what is and isn't acceptable.
Might be wrong though, as I'm just guessing.
I honestly think he was misguidedly hasty rather than malicious.
One thing's for sure - he probably won't do it again without being _very_ cautious..!
And on a completely unrealated note, I now present my first whisky cabinet:
Bought them (they're two side-by-side) from Ikea on New Year's Eve. That's a _horrible_ place to be.
Uh, no. You said that was one alternative 'black & white' definition - you did not say that it was yours. There are a great many areas of life in which 'black and white' views are totally unpractical and I didn't want to assume you were that much of turd.
Your analogy is s**te, on a par with your earlier reasoning.
Hey nice cabinet Jim. Thats the way to present your whisky if ever there was one. I am just back from Scotland myself where we played the Hogmany gig at a hotel on Loch Tay. We rented a cottage at Kenmore and on New Years day we had a few friends round from Aberfeldy and Killin. Two opposite sides of the loch. Anyway one friend brought a bottle of Old Pulteney along as his contribution. We already had Glenlivet, Macalan and J&B. The latter for people who wanted to mix. But although I usually am not so keen on the Old Pulteny, I sure enjoyed it this time because we were playing fiddle, acordion, whistle, guitar and mandolin and the lot of us were singing. The good company of people made Old Pulteny a great dram for me. It being the only one I drank that night. We also made Haggis ( both meat and veggie) neeps and tatties for 16 people at the cottage. All bought at the CO-OP in Aberfeldy.
I wish I had room in my living room to set out my whisky like you do. I could make room, but the wife would contend it so badly, I would rue the day:-)
Happy New Year to all and hopefully this bad start will turn for the better and this thread will turn beter as well.
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Not the best, but they gave a good return for the price I think.
I still get misty eyed about that holiday. I profoundly hope to go back there one day. This year though we're off to the Speyside area, close to the Glenlivet Estate. Should be able to supplement the collection quite nicely there I think :-)
Old Pulteny is one that I've tried but have no clear memories of. I don't remember disliking it though, so I suspect I filed it under 'ho-hum'.
Luckily my wife is as much a whisky lover as I am. When I suggested we go to Ikea to look for something suitable, she resisted with the words "Let's go now. Now. You're driving. Why are you still sitting down?"
Indeed. Hopefully this will be nothing more than a storm in a teacup.
Bart, you caught me out. I have solely used Google Groups for the last year (and have indeed used that service on and off since good old Deja News) but I just changed my ISP at home and started using their service. My previous ISP dumped ngs about a year ago (IIRC) saying there wasn't enough call for them to make it worth their while. I got postings for this group from the beginning of November and found nothing in that time so I assumed it didn't exist as I've got used to FAQs being posted regularly on the ngs I use most.
Raise a glass to Google for continuing to provide a free news service. One by one they've dropped by the wayside over the years until I don't know of any mainstream providers of free news apart from them :-(
If taking any of the tours, then please let me recommend the Aberlour one if Dennis is leading it. Ask specifically for him. He does the tour factually, but also as a stand up commedian. A very clever man. And the 6 whiskies at the end of the tour are worthwhile. If you can afford the 50 quid to bottle your own a'bunadh at the end its a great experience as well. When I was there I could chose between a bourbon or a sherry cask to bottle from. Also visit the Highlander Inn at Craigellachie. Take time to talk to the Japanese manager. Very knowledgable and he has a special bottling of Craigellachie single malt behind the bar that became my greatest discovery in years.
Yes that just about describes it. Ho-hum. But as my Speyside based Japanese friend Tasuya say's, " its the company you drink the whisky in that really makes it special". Tasuya is co-owner of the Highlander Inn
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and has worked in top whisky bars in Tokyo, London and Edinburgh, before moving up to Craigellachie in Speyside and working in the world famous Craigellachie Hotel before buying the hotel just across the street. For a look inside the Craigellachie hotel look here:
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. They have a whisky in the bar at 275 pounds a nip. Anyway, Tatsuya's main statement is that of all single malts we only really find about 40% special because of the taste. He feels that the environment we are drinking it in is for 60% influencial in how we rate it. An interesting theory which I didnt agree with at first, but the truth of it is being proven to me over and over by my experiences such as the one above with Old Pulteny.
My wife has now started playing my favourite melodeon in A/D and just when I want to play a tune or two, she has it. I am glad she doesnt also like my drams:-)
Here's to storms in teacups < raises glass of Talisker>
I suspect I'll go for the sherry cask fill - I _do_ like my sherried whiskies.
Thanks for the tips, I'll try to remember them in October :-)
Absolutely. Even the finest dram, drunk alone, is merely ok. A mediocre dram taken in good company can be among the finest of the fine.
Of course, there's still no excuse for White Horse unless you're trying to bond-through-suffering with your friends..!
One to admire from a distance, in my case at least.
Absolutely. See above.
Picked up a standard Glenlivet 12yo yesterday (partly because of where we're going but mostly because (a) it was cheap [18 quid] and (b) the wife foolishly let me go to the shops by myself). Not bad. Lightly sherried, with a little fire around the edges. I'd like to try some older expressions for comparison.
The only memory/impression I have is that it's a sort of Talisker-wannabe, in that it has the coastal salty tang to it but without the body to back it up. Does that match your recollection?
Not a wannabe at all. Its actually quite distinctive in its own right. Notas salty and smoky as Talisker. I woukd compare it with Glen Garioch before Talisker.
Welcome to the group, Uncle. I tasted the Arran malts a few years ago, including one matured in a calvidos cask, and did not like them one bit. However, I am getting a few bottles from a private cask, and from what I've tasted, it was beautiful. Only 8 years old at the moment, to be bottled at 10 or 11.
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