An appalling industrial spill in UK...

[Recursion]

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572013/u.k-distillery-accidentally-flushes-whisky-into-sewer/

A massive spill at a Chivas plant has sent the smell of spirits flowing through a Scottish sewer and sorrow coursing through the hearts of Scotch whisky fans.

Chivas Brothers Ltd. spokeswoman Jennifer Stevenson says the group is investigating what she described as an "accidental loss" of spirit at the company's bottling plant in Dumbarton, Scotland on Feb. 26.

She declined to estimate how much of the bulk whisky had been lost, saying only that it was less than the 4,755 gallons mentioned in media reports.

BBC News reported that workers who were cleaning equipment during the night shift on Tuesday accidentally flushed away thousands of liters of whisky instead of waste water.

Gallons of wonderful, wonderful whisky being wasted...

[Jackpine Radical]

1. Somebody once said "It's OK to drink like a fish if you drink what fish drink."

Well, guess what the Scottish fish are drinking these days!

[RobertEarl]

2. Wonderful Whiskey? Nope

Good place for it: down the drain

I have seen just a quart of that stuff drunk make grown men go absolutely crazy and then commence to beating their wives and children. Wonderful is not apt.

[DainBramaged]

4. The word is moderation, not extreme

and I've drunk whiskey since I was 18 (a fitth of Jack once, I got witnesses) and never beat nobody up.



Jesus

[RobertEarl]

5. Yeah, me too, drunk

What, you never heard of mean drunks?

The world would be a better place without. I mean, who really needs to be drunk? I learned my lesson, have you?

[datasuspect]

7. without alcohol?

they tried that once. didn't work.

[Recursion]

8. If when you say whiskey you mean the devil's brew

the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean the evil drink that topples the Christian man and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, then certainly I am against it.

But, if when you say whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the spring in the old gentleman's step on a frosty, crispy morning; if you mean the drink which enables a man to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's great tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you mean that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitiful aged and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

-- Noah Sweat, Jr.

[RobertEarl]

10. For a few, sure

But overall, whiskey is not wonderful.

I just pray that others learn their lesson before they end up wrecking their lives, there being nothing so damaging, imo, as alcohol.

But drink up! Just stay by yourself, please. Drunks are best left alone to rot.

[DainBramaged]

9. Don't fucking preach to any of us

[HooptieWagon]

11. A quart? Sure...

and I imagine taking 200 Ibuprophens probably makes you go crazy too.

[quinnox]

3. yea, gotta agree with Robert - Fuck whiskey

Never understood the appeal. It tastes horrible. So it gives you a kick, and makes your friends laugh as you are wheezing and coughing. That should be grown out of eventually. How can anyone like drinking that crap is beyond me. Unless you just want to get drunk fast, and that is not the kind of people I want to hang out with anyway.

[sharp_stick]

6. Look at the DU temperance movement

can't even post a lighthearted story about whiskey without wanna be Carrie Nation types popping up.

[DainBramaged]

12. Is that a sharp stick in the eye or what?

Jesus, purity preachers everywhere on DU. First it's spelling, then tonnes of great whisky flushed and we get preached to.


It never ends

[sharp_stick]

15. Tell me about it

You can't post anything without someone jumping on you.

"Wow I had a great burger at Five guys for lunch" Followed by a bunch of replies telling you why Five guys sucks. If you had a burger at In & Out you'd get the same number telling you that In & Out sucks.

Then there's always, and I mean always the superiority zealot: "Ewwwwww a burger, that's so gross, I only eat organically grown quinoa that's certified harvested without harming insects. PS you'd be a lot less fat if you ate nothing but organically grown quinoa".

edit for grammar, cause there be grammar Nazis around too.

[HooptieWagon]

13. Some DUers just aren't happy,

unless everyone thinks and does exactly like them....the intolerent bunch of moral police.

[Seeking Serenity]

14. Them's is gonna be some awfully hammered sewer rats in Dumbarton.

Lucky bastards.