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That army's victory over the Japanese in Burma is surely one of the greatest feats of arms under the Union Jack anywhere and any time. (View Post)

Bombay sapphire is pretty good. On the other hand I tried Japanese Roku Gin the other day and it was awful. Completely over perfumed. The Japanese are great at scotch now, but gin not so much. (View Post)

Indeed. There's a great documentary out there on the findings from skeletons found in a burial pit after the battle of Towton. Gruesome injuries, but they also found that medieval wound surgery was m… (View Post)

Maybe the authorities relied on the quality of the alcohol to limit intake. Let's face it, much of it was shite. All those Party Sevens, Double Diamond, Worthington E, Watneys Red Barrel, Blue Nun, B… (View Post)

It was in the 1950s that the man who probably made a bigger contribution to our WW11 victory than any other, Alan Turing, accepted chemical castration to avoid prison for homosexual acts. A couple of… (View Post)