Hello friends, I am watching Agents of Shield for the first time with my fiancé and Coulson and May have a bottle of Haig that they had been saving. I had heard the name before but know nothing about it. I enjoy finding bottles from pop culture and was just wondering if anyone here has tried Haig or knows anything about it. I found vintage bottles on Whiskey Exchange, but they don't give a description. We both like scotch, and I wouldn't mind picking up a bottle as a surprise for her if I could get some honest thoughts. Thanks y'all. 🤠

My dad has a bottle of 12 year old Haig&Haig Dimple Pinch "Old Blended Scotch Whisky"

One label has torn off, but it still says 4/5 Quart 86° proof.

US Tax Stamp for Renfield Importers, Ltd. Union, NJ.

Series 112

Number: 286040897

The Bottle in question was given to my Grandfather in 1964 by my Great Grandmother on the day my Father was born - with the intent of opening on his 21st Birthday. Obviously that hasn't happened. He gave it to my dad for opening when he had his first kid. Obviously that didn't happen either.

Curiously it has a US IRS Distilled Spirits import Tax Stamp, although as far as anyone knows my great grandmother never left Scotland.

My dad is waiting for a suitably impressive occasion before opening it, going with that track record it'll be my grandkids opening it.

Not particularly looking to sell, just wondering if there is any value to it.

Hi guys, I'm an amateur book reader, and thought I'd post my thoughts on The Midnight Library, a book recommended by fellow Redditors. This post will not really be a spoiler, though there might be a little information about the book reviewed near the end of the post. Don't worry, a heads up would be given.

First off, ratings for the book so you don't have to waste time if lengthy book reviews aren't your thing.

A simple 8/10

Why you should read this book?

If you are like me, and you're new to books, then this book would be the perfect start. It is easy to read, with simple sentence structure and vocabulary not too difficult to understand that you have to Google the definition of every other word. The concept of this book is very simple to understand, without needing to read between the lines too much. Overall, I would definitely recommend this book to any novice reader.

*SPOILERS*

These are not really spoilers, but I would like to share more about the book, whilst getting into a little bit of detail.

This book starts off well, with descriptive phrases and interesting lines to hook the reader. It kept making me want to find out more about the protagonist Nora Seed, and what exactly it was about her that made the book interesting, since, as you will see, she is quite a boring person.

Once the protagonist is introduced, and the book starts developing more, is where the Midnight Library really starts to come to life, explaining a little more about what the Midnight Library is about. Interesting as it may be, the nature of this subject made it such that Matt Haig could not elaborate on too many examples, without making the book boring. Thus, he only dove deep into a few examples of the Midnight Library, summarising the rest of Nora Seed's experiences into a few pages.

Whilst the plot was interesting, I felt as though the book started to lose steam towards the end, giving lackluster conclusions to the later examples, and skimping on a lot of the details.
This book, from my understanding, serves to teach a very simple life lesson of enjoying and appreciating your current life, all the nuances in it, and to understand that longing for 'better outcomes' might not always result in well, better outcomes. This message was simplistic enough for me to understand, as a novice reader, which I really liked about this book.

This book also had many 'hit-me-in-the-gut' feels moments, with many scenes in the book making me feel emotions, something that mov

Some of the Christmas decorations were cut by scissors and stolen. The snowflakes are now scattered all over the ground.

Pure evil.

I know there are many posts on this book, I know because I’ve just read them all in one go.

I loved it. Each chapter I felt like I was begging Matt not to Hollywood end Nora’s story and he did her proud helping her find herself and she did! Very close to my heart. Wonderful. The writing, the references, the themes. Just what I needed. My only disappointment was Waterstones cafe not being open when I bought it for me to devour it instantly.

The theme of possibilities and that moment where you wake up and realise all the crap you thought you needed to be you was everyone else’s wants and needs or a life you’re expected to want but don’t, actually. The book resonated with me so much, how lucky I feel to have this life today and to have chosen I life I want instead of a life of social acceptance bulshittery.

I adore my life today. Just like this book I honestly thought life had to be the perfect wedding photos too and social media accolades too and all that shit we think makes us happy but actually makes us deeply depressed, anxiety riddled and chronically unhappy. I honestly bought into the crap notion that we have to have life figured out and on the path at 18 or we fail and end up lost. No, what this brilliant writer highlights, quite possibly from his own mental health experiences, is that we are not what we are expected to want to strive for, we are in fact however how we choose to see our life. Each time she went back to a regret was a step back into life she thought she regretted, no kiddo, you made the right choices.

I’m so happy she didn’t end up happily ever after in a life she felt was a ‘best fit’. Nothing worse than waking up next to someone you don’t recognise in a life you’re struggling to remember with people who don’t even like you. That’s a reality. Poetry Matt, artistic poetry. Be an active participant in the life you want, ask for help. She did. She always championed the best of the best in people.

Good stuff. Loved it. More please Matt.

By way of background, General Haig led the Somme and Paschendale offensives in which tens of thousands of Canadian soldiers died. My theory is that the son/brother/father of the homeowners was part of those offensives and died under Haig's command. The various sources I looked at (e.g., the Canadian War Museum's page here) suggest that much of the criticism for the massive loss of life during those battles fell on General Haig.

So my question is: Is there any evidence in the historical record of people in Canada (or the Northeastern U.S.) nailing photos of people they don't like under their floorboards? Where did this originate? Was it a superstitious thing? Or perhaps I have misinterpreted the situation and it actually means something else; in which case, what did it mean?

Unfortunately, we have no information on those previous homeowners, so we cannot be more specific about the homeowners' culture background or culture (except that they were probably white Europeans based on the area the home was built).

At first I wasn’t sure whether to deconstruct an article from 14 years ago, regardless of how rubbish or deserving of scorn it was (and believe me, it is full of the mythology that surrounds Haig and the First World War in general) . However, considering that…

1. The mythology of the First World War remains so ubiquitous in public discourse (at least in Britain and the Commonwealth)
2. This particular article has the underserved privilege of being amongst the top 20 Google results when one searches for “Douglas Haig”
3. The fact that it is still referenced in 2021 by sites purporting to be “…created by educators and experts on topics related to education”

…I thought it worth a shot. Dealing with the mythology of the Great War is also fun, and this article contains many hoary old myths in one concise document.

July 1916 and Haig’s Culpability:

Geoffrey Norman (a contributor to such distinguished publications as the Wall Street Journal, Esquire and the American Spectator) begins his piece with the seemingly innocuous observation that “Visiting the Somme battlefield in northern France is largely a matter of going from one Commonwealth Graves Commission cemetery to another”, and how the experience is liable to “stun”, or leave one “overwhelmed”. Fair enough, although bearing in mind that the article is a comprehensive hatchet job on Douglas Haig, Norman’s intent here (as the article goes on to make clear) is that the BEF’S Commander in Chief “killed those men”.

>"The magnitude of the battle still stuns the imagination. The Somme was an epic of both slaughter and futility; a profligate waste of men and materiel such as the world had never seen...he discussed with subordinates methods for continuing the offensive.
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>Which he did, with a kind of transcendent stubbornness, for another four months, until winter weather forced an end to the campaign, if not the fighting. By then, Haig’s army had suffered more than 400,000 casualties. For the British, in the grave judgment of noted military historian John Keegan, 'the battle was the greatest tragedy…of their national military history' and 'marked the end of an age of vital optimism in British life that has never been recovered.' But Haig was not finished yet..."

This is something of a trope i