Ticker Warning
Just a general warning to the community. Gazza Prescott, aka Prescotti is starring in a new film about ticking. Yes BeerTickers the movie is about to be released and tells the story of a number of bearded freaks and their adventures. If anybody at the media classification boards has any sense they would label this as not fit to be viewed by children, adults or any sane person. Really, do these twats really need an audience?"‘BEERTICKERS: beyond the ale’ is a documentary film about a strange hobby, a British tradition, curiosity, collecting, obsession, and drinking good old real ale. Filmmaker Phil Parkin observes the beertickers in action, travelling to pubs and beer festivals while learning the rules and drinking real ales. He joins ‘Brian the Champ’, ‘Mick the Tick’ and ‘Dave Unpronounceable’ and lands himself a new nickname and quest to tick 500 different beers."
www.beertickersfilm.com
posted by Tim at
Thursday, September 24, 2009
33 Comments:
Tim,
i saw the one where he is wearing a Rancid shirt lol Rancid a so cal punk band iam 24 and am to old to be wearing a Rancid shirt what a tool
That was a little shocking. I'm pissed they didn't call me to do the theme tune!!
For some reason the Beertickers video site crashes IE and Chrome reports Shockwave Flash crashing. I've even downloaded a new version of Shockwave. I'd really like to get to know what the fuss is about.
So, "B-Dang" is too old at 24 to wear a punk shirt? What a total cock you are, sonny. Go back to the next new EMO band the establishment tells you to like and, while you're at it, ponder that at 24 you know absolutely nothing about music or beer.
Come back when you've drunk 20,000 beers, visited 40 countries and worked in the beer industry and some people might take you seriously.
Clear enough?
Prescott(i), I don't know B-Dang, but taste is subjective. You wouldn't catch me wearing a fucking Rancid t-shirt. Rancid were a piss poor US version of The Clash. Christ, with as many good bands from the UK, why in the hell would you wear a Rancid t-shirt? Am I missing the point, or do you really like them??
i aint your son so dont ever call me that, awesome your a well traveled drunk you want a metal for that or something
haha this is hilarious. Rancid are ok, but then I was a 16 year old teenager in the early 90's when they were big. At least they didn't/don't wear makeup liek the bands of today. Most modern bands have some kind of confusion over their sexual orientation. crying on stage, wearing skinny girls jeans and makeup will never be cool.
Anyhow Tim Armstrong now writes jingles for shampoo commercials and pens classics for Pink and Gwen Stefani.
I think Tim Armstrong would resent his band being followed by tickers
I'm interested to watch it for two reasons. The first is it involves beer, so that is a given. The second is so I can learn the warning signs of a Beer Ticker so I don't become one. What is the saying about Quality not Quantity ? At the end of the day I guess everyone needs a hobby.
I'll probably download it and add it to the collection as well Doc. I still have a DVD with American Beer and Thirsty Traveller that you included in a Christmas case a few years ago.
But still ticking is a beer crimne. just because you had a taster or a third of a pint at a beer festival does not make you an expert on the beer.
Anyhow I need to get to the Mac and Potters to try some of your latest offerings!
Tim, you're funny. You claim that "just because you had a taster or a third of a pint at a beer festival does not make you an expert on the beer" and saying that tickers push "camra polices" just shows that you haven't a clue what you're on about. But, then again, what would I expect from a blogger? Only a couple of bloggers actually know anything about beer, the rest (such as you, for example) know jack and inanely witter on about stuff that most tickers knew 20 years ago. Coming into UK beer with no background and saying the crap you do just makes you a joke.
And an Aussie... bloody hell, sheila! How much do Aussies know about beer? Judging by the examples I've tried (apart from Little Creatures, admittedly) not a lot. It's like me suddenly deciding to comment on Siberian bus shelters having seen a few on a TV documentary... waste of time, I don't know what I'm on about, see the point?
So, tickers support Camra then? You don't actually know any of us, do you? You've never actually met any of us, have you? It always makes me laugh when ignorant twats blather on like this... when you were in the UK did you ever leave London? if you'd done so, not that any Aussies ever do because they haven't got the intellect to wonder what's outside the M25, then you'd probably have met some of us in the best pubs in the country drinking the best beer in the country. And hardly a beard amongst us, and I hate Camra so much i cut my card up 6 years back.
And drinking "a third of a pint" doesn't make anyone an expert, but drinking a lot of beer in a lot of places over a lot of years just might do.
Keep writing, we'll keep laughing at you!
Well said, Gazza. This guy seems to be malicious and doesn't seem to have much about the kind of people he likes to mock.
I wouldn't lose much sleep over it. He's a joker.
Gazza,
stroke your ego alittle more your shit dont stink rite?? go listen to Rancid can anyone say mid-life crisis lol stay off Tims blog ya turd
To be fair to Gazza, he only had the Rancid shirt on because his Lard shirt was in the wash...
Rancid = bad beer. As in the Gazza hop-hop rap: "rancid, rancid, rancid, HELLFIRE!"
Hence the shirt. Geddit? Irony? Anyone?
And do tickers need an audience? No. But congratulations on given the film its sought-after publicity.
Break it up, please! What you all need is a good dose of the Lord! I've been in your shoes and it gets you nowhere, unless it's Video Beer Review related, then it's ok. Have a good wank over at The Chronicles(Specialized Nudes) and just chill the fuck out!
Hey Prescotti, I think your the joke. I have better things to do with my time than get as many notches in my belt as possble.
I agree with Doc that it's about quality not quantity.
Labelling me with the blanket Aussie backpacker stereotype is moronic. I know a lot about beer having been a brewer for 10 years before I moved to the UK. Hell, I've even completed the BJCP qualifications - but still guess I know jack shit.
As for pushing a ticker CAMRA relationship, from my exerience its at the CAMRA beer festivals that I came across most tickers. They would have a nip of beer, tick the program and move along the cask rack. Hardly what I would say "experiencing" a particular beer. Then when they are chatting with their mates years later they would wax of how this beer was good and that beer was bad. Don't deny this doesnt happen.
I think you Prescotti as a ticker must have your head in the sand. I am pretty widely travelled and educated, but also admit that approx. 70% of the beer I have come across has been shit. By my reconning that means that of the 20000 different beers you have had, you have consumed 14000 different beers that are shithouse. That is what I call a waste of time. Food and restaurant critics don't go out of there way to track down some obscure McFast Food chain to tick a box, so why do you seek absurd shithouse beers. But no, it makes you an expert! haha
And finally, what I blog about is provocative and deliberatley offensive. It's why people apart from other boggers actually read my blog. It's not meant to be taken super seriously. I'm concerned that you can't tell between sarcasm and fact, and that worries me. Here you are labeling my satire as stupid with claims I don't know what I am talking about.... Yet you star in a movie which chroncles your absurd behaviour. Phil Parkin is marketing this as a comedy. I shouldn't need to tell you that the jokes been on you for sometime, and I'll be laughing at you for some time yet!
Take total care....
Tim,
I totally see that you're an expert on beer, how could I not by reading your excellent writings? BJCP - yeah, you know it all, sonny. And brewer - where exactly? Fosters?
Admittedly some of the beers I've had have been kak, but I go for the good stuff not the crap, so the majority has been decent to good, so where's your argument? Your "blanket stereotypes" of tickers go just fine with mine of moronic aussie backpackers, so I'll stick with them I think.
And I actually know Phil, and it's not a comedy... see what happened there? You tried to be clever and it all fell out your arse! That's what happens when you know shit.
I like baiting stupid people, think I'll stick around here.
Then welcome Gazza. I never claimed the writings here at The Beer Diary were excellent and have actually described them as beer fiction in the past.
I have also never claimed to be an expert on beer, far from it. I do have qualifications in the area though. But I guess not the same qualification that comes from being the worlds biggest pisshead.
BTW - If the movie is not a comedy, then why am I still laughing?
Why have you got a photo of Gazza eating a nargis Kebab in the Shapla rather than drinking a beer you knob?
Mr Anonymous, grow pair and use your real name. I don't have time for your racist anti-Australian insights.
FWIW - I was giving the movie a plug
tim when you blogged in london you lived in brook green village and worked in Stonchs manor clerkenwell village .you were the VILLAGE IDIOT.one of your last posts was when you went to theEaling beer fest on friday afternoon full of beerdy wierdys according to you.The thing is this all the tickers went wed-thursday and got all the good beers.All the party people went frid-sat night and had a great time.But you went on the friday afternoon when all the pensioners social misfits and cheapskate Aussies went.gazza is right you are a TOSSER.
Then why do read this JohnG?? Cause you love it...
@JOHNG - I don't get your point? I lived in Brook Green, I worked on Hatton Garden, I went to the Ealing beer festival. It was full of freaks. So what?? I dont see how that makes me a tosser or village idiot.
You on the otherhand tend to know a lot about me and my whereabouts, so you must be an avid reader. If I'm such a tosser then why do read my blog? Thanks for doing so by the way.
Fuck 'em. Tosser is another term for well rounded character. I've got nothing against Aussies, as one saved my ass in Camden Town many years back. Anyone remember a bar called Barzaar? It was right across from the Brit Rail Station, about .25 mile up from Sainsbury's. Some twat pulled a knife on me in the bar, while his mate said I was going to get carved up like a Sunday roast. Darrin, the Aussie guy, cracked the twat with the knife in the back of the head with a bottle of cordial. Cops came and the fuck head with the knife was still spouting how he was going to carve me into pieces, as the cops took him away. So, tossers, backpackers, chuck another one on the barbie, I don't give a fuck! I'd gladly go into battle with any Australian. The ones I've run into have been hard as fucking nails.
If Gazza and his friends want to tick beer then what is the problem? I think most men go through this at various levels, starting with train numbers etc. And you know what? It's fun!! Up until the age of around 21 I collected bus numbers and went around the country as a bus spotter drinking interesting beers as I went. I grew out of the bus bit but still love different beers. I don't tick (gave up this nearly 20 years ago). But I will always drink microbrewery beers if I see them (well perhaps not beers from Cottage or others who brew bad beer). And guess what? It's still fun. Having a hobby does make you more interesting. Better than staying at home and practising onanism, Tim.
b-dang, if you want to abuse people online, at least learn to spell, you retard
as for for you not beeing gazza's son, i think we'd worked that out. for offspring of gazza to be so monumentally unintelligent as yourself would require your mother to have the IQ of a tree (not that i'm ruling this out)
Shit, this is funny!!
Sausage is right, this is hilarious!
I never said people should or shouldn't tick. I merely assert my opinion that ticking is the pastime of weirdo's.
I don't know Gazza so I havn't judged him based upon his personality. Hell I even stood up for him and his taste in music.
I don't get why anyone would want to try ad achieve and unachievable goal though. It's a bit like bodybuilders who take steroids. Whats the end goal? Someone is always going to be bigger and stronger than you akre. In ticking, you will never drin every beer, and someone will always have more ticks than you. Why partake in a futile endevour?
What's even funnier is I just got notificacion of a response to this thread. I just got in after having to take a cab home from copious amounts of Koning Pils and fucking Kleiner Feigling. I spell better pished than that geezer previous. For fuck sake, open a fucking manual on the English language. It's night, night for me doc.
WTF??? "Up until the age of around 21 I collected bus numbers and went around the country as a bus spotter drinking interesting beers as I went"
Captain Jack, as an EU citizen you wouldnt be able to deport me very far. Have fun drinking your halves of shit beer and warm vinegar you douche.
With all these ticker weirdo's coming out of the woodwork, its highly likely that Gazza has used his Yahoo mailing group to try and attack your site. I used to like him but after his recent comments I have reversed my opinion. What an insecure freak. He has a mullet as well. How could anybody take that fat fucker seriously???
Keep up the good work.... Australia seems to have a lot to offer
Holy shit! I literally almost fell out of my chair reading this! Who would have expected Pete to show up throwing blows?!! You guys got me in stitches!
Tixk, Tick, Tick, Tick, BOOM!
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