A moment's silence please...

[StrumSolo]

...to remember those who lost their lives in the Great London Beer Flood. Yesterday was the 199th anniversary of the tragedy that cost 7 people their lives.

Basically, a 610,000 litre vat of beer ruptured at the Meuz & Company Brewery on Tottenham Court Road, this caused a domino effect, and the long and short of it is that nearly 1.5m litres of beer spilled out on to the streets of London.

Still, I could think of worse ways to go.

[Clitterbug]

So the judge n jury ruled it 'an act of god' he really does move in mysterious ways! Cant remember Dickens incorporating it into any of his tales, or was that the day Mrs Frizzlepugs pie shop was swept onto the Thames and Urine Heep drown in a tsunami of piss poor southern beer!

[StrumSolo]

a tsunami of piss poor southern beer!

Pffft.

Name me 5 good northern beers and 5 crap southern ones.

Go!

[Clitterbug]

{Corrys} Newton and Ridleys bowel buster! {Emmerdales} Ephriam Monk against anything served up in the Queen Vic!

[Hilary Briss]

Boddingtons.

The cream of Manchester.