Sweden

What the **** am I watching? Is this the horse racing equivalent of the walking marathons at the Olympics where the athletes look so ridiculous?

Toni, just posted on the wrong thread.Absolute torture is TT.Add to this shite from Sweden and endless waffle from Cecil

Cecil really needs to up his game sitting in tote the guys actually asked for volume to b lowered as soon as he started blabbing

That walk trot or whatever definitely looked ridiculous

They have the ass hairs tied together and if the knot breaks they get disqualified

scotia Wrote:

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> They have the ass hairs tied together and if the
> knot breaks they get disqualified

bwahahaha...

Only go there if your tee-total,went there and was charged £8 a pint Beer is HOW MUCH in Stockholm?!!!!
There is still one thing that I do not understand about Scandinavia and don’t think I ever will is the price of ale.

Now I know that if you go to a bar in Stockholm you’re going to be paying around 66 SEK for a beer but even if you head out to the suburbs you’re still going to be paying around 40SEK for even the local beer. Yet it is not the price of the beer that worries me as any capital city will charge more than most but it’s the actual beer that they sell.

Let’s take the Bishops Arms for example. Firstly I really like this bar; it feels like a British pub, warm atmosphere, good food and an excellent range of beers. But the beers that they sell are the same that you can pick up here in a local supermarket for next to nothing. Let’s compare

Four bottles of Bishops Finger in Stockholm 264 SEK (approx £25)

Four bottles of Bishops Finger in London £3.99 (Approx 40SEK)

The beer does not taste that nice anyway but I feel that maybe the overpricing is a good thing. In the UK we have a tendency to drink far too much; we are in fact the worst abusers of alcohol in Europe. Many a time you will find people going to the pub each and every day to indulge in cheap drinks. Far from me being an expert on the Swedish drinking culture I do feel it’s more of a social event rather than an occurrence. Maybe it is a reward for a Swede to work hard Monday to Friday and then enjoy some well earned drinks with his friends on a Friday night knowing that they are indeed well earned. Rather than what happens in the UK where someone will drink until they vomit just because the drinks are cheaper.

It will take an incredible amount of time for me to adjust to the cost of Swedish life but as far as alcohol goes I’m not really a big drinker anyway so this will be more of a reward than an event.

Only time will tell.

davetheflower Wrote:

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> Only go there if your tee-total,went there and was
> charged £8 a pint Beer is HOW MUCH in
> Stockholm?!!!!
> There is still one thing that I do not understand
> about Scandinavia and don’t think I ever will is
> the price of ale.
>
> Now I know that if you go to a bar in Stockholm
> you’re going to be paying around 66 SEK for a
> beer but even if you head out to the suburbs
> you’re still going to be paying around 40SEK for
> even the local beer. Yet it is not the price of
> the beer that worries me as any capital city will
> charge more than most but it’s the actual beer
> that they sell.
>
> Let’s take the Bishops Arms for example. Firstly
> I really like this bar; it feels like a British
> pub, warm atmosphere, good food and an excellent
> range of beers. But the beers that they sell are
> the same that you can pick up here in a local
> supermarket for next to nothing. Let’s compare
>
> Four bottles of Bishops Finger in Stockholm 264
> SEK (approx £25)
>
> Four bottles of Bishops Finger in London £3.99
> (Approx 40SEK)
>
> The beer does not taste that nice anyway but I
> feel that maybe the overpricing is a good thing.
> In the UK we have a tendency to drink far too
> much; we are in fact the worst abusers of alcohol
> in Europe. Many a time you will find people going
> to the pub each and every day to indulge in cheap
> drinks. Far from me being an expert on the Swedish
> drinking culture I do feel it’s more of a social
> event rather than an occurrence. Maybe it is a
> reward for a Swede to work hard Monday to Friday
> and then enjoy some well earned drinks with his
> friends on a Friday night knowing that they are
> indeed well earned. Rather than what happens in
> the UK where someone will drink until they vomit
> just because the drinks are cheaper.
>
> It will take an incredible amount of time for me
> to adjust to the cost of Swedish life but as far
> as alcohol goes I’m not really a big drinker
> anyway so this will be more of a reward than an
> event.
>
> Only time will tell.


This,obviously was written by someone else...
I never vomit:D

I lived in sweden for almost five years. The racing is wierd. Not my thing. But Stockholm is cool though, just expensive as hell.

The price of alcohol is made up mostly of taxes. That's why a good single malt is priced "close" to, let's say j&b.

Scandanavian countries charge such prices for the obvious reason that there will be no binge drinking as there is in other countries. I mean in Britain at some places a can of lager is cheaper than a bottle of water

They have the right idea as drunks cost the system millions a year when they are sent to recover at either a cell or at their local NHS hospital.

Well with the demographic shifting of Europe towards Islam they won' t have any beer for sale in 30 years anyhow, problem solved