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  • #1082
    OldRio
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,568 ✭✭✭OldRio


    Taco Corp wrote: »
    When you put it like that...


    True, but they tell me the balance gets cleared immediately.

    2014 Average USA household owes over $7,000 on credit cards. This rises to $15,611 when looking only at indebted households.

    http://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/credit-card-data/average-credit-card-debt-household/

    Scary stuff.


  • #1083
    RuggieBear
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,958 ✭✭✭✭RuggieBear


    just watched kingsman....think it is the most enjoyable movie i've seen for a good while. Best bond(-like) movie ever.


  • #1084
    wicklowwonder
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,510 ✭✭✭wicklowwonder


    Taco Corp wrote: »
    why are credit card rewards not a thing in Ireland? talking to some american friends of mine over the last week and they talk about how they use credit cards for almost everything (including mortgage) to build up points that they can redeem on hotels, flights etc.

    Tesco give you a club card point for every €2 you spend on credit card inside or outside of tesco. The points can then be spent on loads of stuff. A guy I used to live with use to pay everything on his card and just clear the balance monthly so as no fees got charged.


  • #1085
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Was at a family party at the weekend and my girlfriend thought she'd try buckfast. Challenging seasoned buckfast drinkers to see who could drink it faster etc.

    I've never seen her with a worse hangover than she had yesterday. :D


  • #1086
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    It's a miracle you still have a girlfriend, to be honest.


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  • #1087
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    .ak wrote: »
    It's a miracle you still have a girlfriend, to be honest.

    She vows she'll never touch it again. Was amazed to see it on the optics in the pub too!

    I can't handle the stuff either to be honest. It tastes terrible and has this sticky consistency, it turns you into a really messy drunk and the next day you feel like you've been hit by a train.


  • #1088
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    The shakes the next day are ****ing unbearable. Too many times I've been sure I was about to have a heart attack.


  • #1089
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    I've always considered Buckfast to be more of a northern thing. I see it in off licences now but I don't think it was really available a decade ago in too many places. This conversation isn't really inspiring me to try it for the first time.


  • #1090
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Buer wrote: »
    I've always considered Buckfast to be more of a northern thing. I see it in off licences now but I don't think it was really available a decade ago in too many places. This conversation isn't really inspiring me to try it for the first time.

    It comes in naggins, you should buy one of those to try it rather than a full bottle.

    You will feel dirty though.


  • #1091
    CatFromHue
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators Posts: 18,341 Mod ✭✭✭✭CatFromHue


    Too Buckfast
    Too Furious


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  • #1092
    Greta Massive Saliva
    Posts: 24,816 ✭✭✭✭ Greta Massive Saliva


    Glasgow and Galway are the two cities in the world with the highest consumption of Buckfast apparently...
    Over 70% of worldwide Buckfast sales are made in the Buckfast Triangle, the area of Central Scotland which is the towns of Airdrie, Coatbridge and Cumbernauld and everywhere in between. An equal amount is sold in other parts of Universe, such as Ireland. Notably, the city with the second highest consumption of Buckfast per capita is Galway, behind only Glasgow in the Bucky stakes and suprisingly ahead of Edinburgh.
    It's pretty much just wine and coffee mixed together. Rocketfuel.


  • #1093
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    The only proper shop on campus in ucd isn't allowed to sell Beer or Spirits, only wine. So for many Buckfast was the only real option.


  • #1094
    b.gud
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,878 ✭✭✭b.gud


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Glasgow and Galway are the two cities in the world with the highest consumption of Buckfast apparently...

    Yup Buckfast is pretty popular in Galway
    http://www.thejournal.ie/buckfast-galway-competition-concoction-taste-1829104-Dec2014/

    Supposedly this was a sign on the door of a Galway off licence a couple of years back
    no_buckfast-ashx.jpg


  • #1095
    Buer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,258 ✭✭✭✭Buer


    awec wrote: »
    It comes in naggins, you should buy one of those to try it rather than a full bottle.

    You will feel dirty though.

    I really hope you don't work in sales.


  • #1096
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Buer wrote: »
    I really hope you don't work in sales.

    I do not. :)

    Honestly I'm not going to pretend it's nice. You won't be cracking open a bottle over a candle lit dinner with your wife anyway.


  • #1097
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    A song from a band I played guitar in for a wee bit... says it all really >_<

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbz345kPU5o


    The singer's only check-in when we went to Germany was a sportsbag. We got there and he produces the bag. FULL of buckfast. must have been 20 bottles in it.


  • #1098
    [Deleted User]
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    Unfortunately there was no recording equipment at hand at the time, so I can't prove it, but I'm fairly sure I broke the world record for projectile vomiting thanks to Buckfast.


  • #1099
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,003 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Ah buckfast...or to give it it's proper title

    Lurgan champagne!!

    Seasoned drinkers of it will know to check the batch number etched into the bottle at the neck. The lower the number the better the quality!!

    As they say up our way...a bottle of bo and you're good to go!!


  • #1100
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    Never had it, but in my ignorance I always thought buckfast was a mixture of sparkling wine and 7up or lemon or something..... I'm almost tempted to try it the day of the Munster v Leinster game...and start posting :)


  • #1101
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    About 10 years ago Fibber McGees served it like water....


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  • #1102
    Greta Massive Saliva
    Posts: 24,816 ✭✭✭✭ Greta Massive Saliva


    Wang King wrote: »
    Never had it, but in my ignorance I always thought buckfast was a mixture of sparkling wine and 7up or lemon or something..... I'm almost tempted to try it the day of the Munster v Leinster game...and start posting :)

    Will probably be more coherent than most!


  • #1103
    Pudsy33
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,889 ✭✭✭✭Pudsy33


    Wang King wrote: »
    Never had it, but in my ignorance I always thought buckfast was a mixture of sparkling wine and 7up or lemon or something..... I'm almost tempted to try it the day of the Munster v Leinster game...and start posting :)

    I've made a similar mistake in the past, that's bucksfizz you're thinking of.


  • #1104
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Wang King wrote: »
    Never had it, but in my ignorance I always thought buckfast was a mixture of sparkling wine and 7up or lemon or something..... I'm almost tempted to try it the day of the Munster v Leinster game...and start posting :)

    :pac: :pac:

    It's a fortified wine.


  • #1105
    [Deleted User]
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    awec wrote: »
    :pac: :pac:

    It's a "fortified" "wine".

    Fixed your post.


  • #1106
    dregin
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 6,525 Mod ✭✭✭✭dregin


    .ak wrote: »
    About 10 years ago Fibber McGees served it like water....
    It still does!


  • #1107
    P_1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,681 ✭✭✭✭P_1


    .ak wrote: »
    About 10 years ago Fibber McGees served it like water....

    Thank you so much for making me feel old...


  • #1108
    .ak
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,308 ✭✭✭✭.ak


    dregin wrote: »
    It still does!

    I've erased all that from memory!


  • #1109
    Wang King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭Wang King


    awec wrote: »
    :pac: :pac:

    It's a fortified wine.

    Like Port?


  • #1110
    awec
    Administrators Posts: 55,122 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭awec


    Wang King wrote: »
    Like Port?

    Doesn't taste like port but would have a similar consistency.

    Though the version you get here is completely different to what you get in up north and in England / Scotland.


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  • #1111
    errlloyd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,634 ✭✭✭✭errlloyd


    Yeah, tastes more like diesel.


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