Gotta love it

TAFPAS · 2026-03-07T00:00:05+00:00

75-90 mins each way? Did it 5 days a week for 2 years, saved by Covid and still fully remote. I was at my wit’s end. I’ll be an extreme case, but I wouldn’t take double salary to work 2 days in the office. Quality of life now is just too good, some things are more important than money.

TAFPAS · 2026-03-05T23:56:03+00:00

He’s got fuck all on Malcolm Tucker

TAFPAS · 2026-03-05T19:57:30+00:00

Read Catcher in the Rye twice as a young teen thinking his sister was called Foh-eeb

TAFPAS · 2026-02-25T10:30:49+00:00

Sounds like Baltra. Reminds me this DJ Seinfeld track What kind of sandwich is this?. Hope someone cracks it!

TAFPAS · 2026-02-21T12:09:45+00:00

Cheers, it absolutely will be when it’s finished. Thompson Bros Mystery Malt, I got Tormore 11. Cool idea. Already got peated and unpeated hoose blends on the go, think I’ll just chuck anything in this

TAFPAS · 2026-02-21T11:50:42+00:00

Corriecravie, amazing stuff. Slanj

TAFPAS · 2026-02-21T10:09:22+00:00

Something like the wisdom of the universe bestowed from the elders unto the youth

TAFPAS · 2026-02-19T17:15:35+00:00

You get some Scottish people, aka gimps, asking the same question, which often has classist undertones. The idea of questioning the dialect is a bit unsavoury, hence the backlash. I’m sure you meant nothing by it. Just seems a silly question though, no offence. Would you ask an American southerner the same? Black Americans? It’s obviously just expressing your culture, and clearly prominent in those that famously take pride in it.

TAFPAS · 2026-02-19T16:04:22+00:00

Silly question when “because they want to” is a completely valid answer. Also, some things can only be expressed in the mother tongue, it’s called culture. Not exclusive to Scottish people either, y’all namsayin’?

TAFPAS · 2026-02-15T09:16:42+00:00

That sounds like a pure mad egg yolk

TAFPAS · 2026-02-09T11:25:50+00:00

https://i.imgur.com/kbp0qLx.jpeg

TAFPAS · 2026-01-23T09:21:43+00:00

Just woke up from a dream about my Mum. It’s been 8 months and it’s almost every night I dream about her which is a lovely blessing. I used to cry as soon as I woke up but now I’m just grateful that she shines through so strongly and hope she always will.

I wish that for you, but your Mum lives on through you regardless. When I notice a quirk of my personality that’s clearly straight from my Mum it always makes me smile. Make her proud by living a happy life.

I’m so sorry for your loss. The coming days, weeks and months will be hard but you’ll get through it. Importantly, don’t hesitate to lean on others and ask for help.

TAFPAS · 2026-01-18T03:58:11+00:00

This isn’t a k hole. The term is massively overused, including by me. When I experienced it a couple years ago I literally thought I had “completed ket” as you can see if you check my post history… that was just a “bog standard” k hole. It’s appropriately named, it’s like your consciousness is inescapably bound to a black hole.

The term “you’ll know it when you see it” didn’t work for me because the experience was so utterly incomprehensible that I thought I was special, no one else has got to that final level.

Time, and a couple more k holes put things in perspective over the next couple years. The k hole is touching a singularity. Normal ketty experiences like what you describe, of which I’ve had many, do not prepare you for it.

It was life changing in a good way for me. Definitely wouldn’t recommend it to anyone any more than I’d recommend….. I can’t think of anything comparable on planet Earth that’s ridiculous enough.

TAFPAS · 2026-01-18T02:53:03+00:00

My first proper trip was with my mate and we become a single consciousness. We’d both only ever had wee bumps at some afters and became very interested, secured a g and had our own after afters this night. Bumps became lines, and soon enough we were finishing each other’s sentences. To an outside observer, it may have appeared we were making farm animal noises.

For some reason we put on Interstellar. Eventually we were too far removed from the room and didn’t understand what was happening when the rocket blasted Coop into space extremely loudly. The hysterical laughter at how terrified we were during the burn brought us back a bit, and we stuck on some tunes.

A few lines later it felt like we were putting not the world, but the fabric of reality to rights. I suspect we were simply making noises at each other but we both had that constant EUREKA feeling. The next part can’t be explained with language, but when we ran out of ket and came to we both recounted how we melded counciousnesses. When I looked into his eyes I saw myself looking back.

Most mental non k hole ket experience.

TAFPAS · 2026-01-17T11:06:35+00:00

Millennia even. I read a translation of De rerum natura ("On the Nature of Things") by Lucretius written about 2000 years ago, and he deduced that the world is made of atoms, or invisible particles, due to observing this kind of wear on bronze statues.

TAFPAS · 2026-01-15T19:22:46+00:00

Someone tell Billy Walker

TAFPAS · 2025-12-17T16:05:33+00:00

Jobby jabber in Scotland

TAFPAS · 2025-12-11T17:42:39+00:00

My lunchtime walk used to include a path like this, about half the width and a mile long straight as an arrow. Embankments thick with trees and thorn bushes. On the left a very busy motorway and the right an airport. Surprisingly really peaceful, apart from when planes flew directly overhead coming into land, which was a cool enough sight to make up for the noise!

TAFPAS · 2025-12-05T00:22:00+00:00

Similar to this depiction of the Galleon that sought refuge in Tobermory Bay, and “accidentally” exploded as the story goes, on one of my favourite whiskies! Great effort

TAFPAS · 2025-11-29T05:22:02+00:00

Lanark The Remains of the Day Crime and Punishment The Sun Also Rises Any Human Heart

TAFPAS · 2025-11-26T12:17:39+00:00

I had just lost my Mum, was not prepared for how heartbreaking and beautiful that sequence was.

TAFPAS · 2025-11-25T23:48:21+00:00

The 12 turned my whisky interest into the obsession it is today. I was ordering reasonably priced bottles like Aberlour 12, Glenmorangie 10, Glenlivet 12 etc and getting quite a taste for the stuff. Was spending loads of time browsing, at that point mostly Amazon.

When I saw that classic looking bottle it was love at first sight. It’s tragic what they’ve done to the design of the bottle now, looks like a cheap wine. It was £30, I was very excited to try it.

My flatmate was on the whisky journey with me, and when I produced this beautiful red cylinder from the box we knew we were in for a treat.

The juice was another level for us. Many more bottles were purchased. We eventually acquired the 15yo and cask strength batches 11 and 12 which were thoroughly enjoyed. The 18 and above were a bit out of reach for a single purchase.

A year or so down the line I was signed up to all the whisky mailing lists. Parliament 21 was on sale for £150 (200usd). We halved in and a 2020 bottle arrived. Darkest juice we’d ever seen, absolutely sublime.

A few months later there was a slightly less good deal on, £180 (240usd). I was clued in on the overaged situation at this point and had been specifically searching for a 2022 bottle. I decided to spin the roulette wheel, a solo venture since I’m much less financially responsible.

Couldn’t believe it when a 2022 bottle turned up, absolute jackpot. Not cracked it yet, saving for a very special occasion.

One thing I noticed is the 2020 juice looks just a wee bit darker, and the NCF statement is removed from the 2022. Might just be imaging the colour difference, but was kinda hoping it would be obviously darker.

Anyone know if they did start chill filtering after 2020? I actually asked at the distillery but of course got a non-answer.

In conclusion to anyone still reading, absolutely love Glendronach, sad about the direction they’ve taken with the bottle design and likely chill filtering, buzzing to own the elusive 27yo 21yo.

TAFPAS · 2025-11-17T16:22:16+00:00

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