<- Mine's the one with a bottle of Old Huckleberry 101 bourbon (50.5%) in the pocket.

and their cans of Tenants Shrewper and Carlsberg Special Shrew :)

Paris coz everyones' seen her shrew.

Well, proper booze does cost a bomb over here due to the sin tax and all.

<-- Mine's the one with the 6-pack of shandy in the pocket and a hidden bottle of Hooter's Hooch for those special occasions.

"4%? Pansies."

Mike Crawshaw

Careful what you say, Mike. AFAIR, shrews are the hard men of the animal kingdom - for their size I don't think there's another animal to touch them for sheer agression and ferocity.

Perhaps all that drinking has had an effect after all....

Shrews are among the smallest mammals of all (with the possible exception of the freakish bumblebee bat) and have incredibly rapid metabolisms. We would explode if we ate as much as they need to, to keep their little engines running and I'm afraid extrapolating upwards to humans will not help us avoid the state of inebriation.

I'd be more interested if they could genetically give us that molecule which acts as anti-freeze in blood that is carried by some animals in the antarctic. At least then you could stumble back from the pub in deepest darkest winter and not care where you fell asleep on the way home.

*The vulture because it might not be dead, it might just be very, very drunk.

I'm sure the average British Naval seaman used to be "grog-soaked yet productive "

The Senior Service has nothing to learn from some Malaysian shrews.

Of course, nowadays, I don't suppose they maintain the grog ration.

Yar, it's political correctness gone mad, I tells ye!

It ain't so cheap here either, RM25++ for a pint of Guinness.

Fags are cheap, though

[I think the vulture's over-indulged on the palm nectar]

I dread to think what they'd be link on the Stella, then....! Maybe that's the next US military project? Increase shrew aggression with a few cans of "Old Partner Beater" and send them on their way to Iraq to take it out on "teh terrywrists*"?

*ie whoever they find. That's the description these days, right?

Wow! Pansies are 4% alchohol? Great news!

Well give us a pint of that then!

On top of everything else, there's a negative carbon footprint if it comes straight from the tree!

Where can I get the palm trees? This gives a whole new meaning to the term "Beer Garden"!

I don't know, I always found the problem with drunk Scots was refusing another round*, so I can't say the aggression rule holds for all Britischers.

* This was of course in normal Scotland, ie. outside Easterhouse, etc.

It's called Toddy mate. Funny white stuff sold in plastic bags or old 2l coke bottles. Evil stuff. I only ever drank it once, and that was years ago at an open air seafood restaurant near Klang. One guy took a bottle back to his hotel room and it exploded in the 'fridge as it was still fermenting.

Mine's the one with a parang stuffed inside a badminton raquet cover

That sounds like Glasgow!

".....odd stifled belch, hiccup or inadvertent furniture collision....."

What about the farting? It's the farting that really kills according to my missus. A decent beer can turn the most innocent of little squeakers into something capable of stunning sauropods at range.