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# BYCU: Drinking Literature: The Good, the Bad, and the Tripe
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/bycu-drinking-literature-the-good-the-bad-and-the-tripe/
- Published: 2024-01-26T11:54:59.000Z
- Updated: 2024-01-26T11:57:02.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Food and Drink

## This is a Lovely Drinking Piece from the Spectator

### An ode to localism, in its way

> It used to have a snug: a partitioned room where ladies could drink in privacy. Those days are gone, now; it’s been closed off. The ornately carved bar and buttoned leather bench seats are elegant, yet the pub is cozy and hosts karaoke, bingo nights and community fêtes. It feels like a lived-in local, not like the anonymous trendy bars of cities I’d come to stereotype. After a year in my neighborhood, I, too, have become a regular. 

[Orwells, a place to get away from it allOn the edge of Glasgow’s West End, the posh bar scene melts away for just a moment at Elderslie Street, where Orwells has sat since the 1980s![](https://thespectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/vnHRIY-e_400x400.jpg?w=180)The Spectator WorldElle Nash![](https://thespectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/162539046_131937022265849_9016909576634878499_n-e1702658600115.jpg)](https://thespectator.com/life/orwells-glasgow-place-bar/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

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## This is a Bad Piece from the Spectator

I admire the *Spectator* for its content and style, but this piece wants in both areas. This sentence from the beginning contains two dying metaphors (which are forever condemned, due to [Orwell's penetrating criticism of them](https://thedailyeudemon.com/bend-it-like-orwell/)). 

> So, finding myself with a **bun in the oven** just after my forty-first birthday this summer, I had to bring to a **screeching halt** the habits of the last few years."

[Drinking during pregnancy just isn’t the sameThe pleasure of life before — and hopefully at some point, after pregnancy — was the open horizons of drink, of mixing and matching![](https://thespectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/vnHRIY-e_400x400.jpg?w=180)The Spectator WorldZoe Strimpel![](https://thespectator.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/GettyImages-495793758.jpg)](https://thespectator.com/life/old-habits-die-hard-pregnancy-drinking/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

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## The Age of Tripe

The Internet's self-propelling appetite for script fogs the online world with tripe. I could probably start a "Tripe You Can Use" weekly feature, but no one can use this tripe. It's neither entertaining nor entertaining. If someone dedicated newspaper space to something this inane, eco-warriors would be storming its headquarters in the name of protecting the trees. 

> “You can be working on your health, and you can still be an avid Lions fan,” said Kelsey Brancoforte, a Health Coach with Teladoc Health

[Health coach offers strategies to keep wellness top of mind during football game watch partiesWith Detroit Lions fans on a high, some Health Coaches want to make sure people are staying on track with their fitness goals.![](https://www.clickondetroit.com/pf/resources/images/wdiv/favicon.ico?d=636)WDIV ClickOnDetroitDemond Fernandez![](https://res.cloudinary.com/graham-media-group/image/upload/f_auto/q_auto/c_thumb,w_700/v1/arc-cf/01-24-2024/t_fbc0ae5c48514c879cf9f5f6b7c4d4cd_name_image.jpg?_a=ATAPphC0)](https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/local/2024/01/24/health-coach-offers-strategies-to-keep-wellness-top-of-mind-during-football-game-watch-parties/?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)