JD & Coke in a Plastic cup

Lets just be quite frank about something here. I’m all for equality and women’s rights but there does exist in certain dark corners of society a heavy degree of difference between men and women, namely concerning alcoholic beverages.

Only a few days ago I was fortunate enough to play at a folk festival with some great musicians, however after the gig we had a cheeky drink or two. There it gleamed. The most well known square bottomed liquor I can currently think of - how more manly can you get! Square based! Brilliant. Much more secure than the regular circular base - not only will it be harder to knock over, BUT god forbid such an atrocity would occur - its not going to roll away from you very quickly. It wants to be near. It wants to be drunk. What more could you ask for from a drink.

Now you might be asking me, well Jason, what does that have to do with womens rights? If I’m being honest, not all that much. However have you considered the following.

Call me old fashioned, but when I see a nice looking lady (or not so nice for that matter) sipping rather gingerly from a pint of bitter, or a rough looking girl-chav gulping down a pint of larger I can’t help but cringe a little bit. There is something that doesn’t feel quite right about it. The same however can be said about numerous drinks working the other way. Your at a bar and hear a lonesome man ordering a Pina Colada or Tomato Juice. Rather than cringing, if your anything like me you just inconspicuously shake your head, pick up your pint, take a rather unnecessarily large gulp followed by an *ahhh* which can be heard from from the Moon (perhaps the other pub across the road).

JD on the other hand is like the modern man. Metro-sexual and highly adaptable to any social situation. You can drink it straight, you can drink it with a filler or like my 12-string guitar-hero bandmate, you can drink half straight out of the bottle then fill the rest up with coke and pour the contents of that cheeky mix into a plastic cup. But possibly the best quality JD has is that you don’t judge anybody drinking it. Like I said. Metro-sexual - battling the war against ‘in-a-bevi-olity’ (= the inequality of drinks between men and women). Good on you JD. Good on you.