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In this weeks post:  We feature Ten Cocktail Bar's latest addition to its mid-week line up - Digger's Open Mic night, the new lines of drinks that Ten Cocktail Bar has introduced, this weeks FITC winners, a meandering article about the epic nature of mental travel during insomnia, and an updated Staff page.


FITC WINNERS
Every week at Ten Cocktail Bar, our resident photographer/designer/video-maker Lukas is prowling the floors looking for people who encompass the rhetoric of the venue.  We pick two winners who receive a £10 bar tab each, just for having their picture taken.  If you have been chosen all you need to do is contact Ten Cocktail Bar through their Facebook group to claim your prize.

Congratulations to both of you, when you contact Ten Cocktail Bar we will send you a printable voucher that you can present at the bar to redeem your bar tab.



OPEN MIC NIGHTS - EVERY WEDNESDAY

Wednesday nights are Open Mic nights here at Ten Cocktail Bar, hosted by Ten's resident DJ Ian 'Diggers' Digweed.  Every week we will be featuring new talent in the form of live acts and bands. 

All types of musicians and music lovers are welcome, from 8pm till 12am with free entry all night.  If you have musical talent and would love to show Ten's audience, then this is the night for you!

**  Shooters from £1.00
**  Jager-bombs £2.90
**  Double-up on selected spirits for £1.00
**  Selected drinks £1.75.
**  FREE entry all night.


NEW LINES AT TEN

Ten Cocktail Bar is proud to announce the new lines that will be on offer from now on.  If you have a suggestion or a favorite cocktail that isn't currently on Ten's extensive list, get please let us know how we can raise the standard of your experience in Ten Cocktail Bar.

• For the draught lager lovers there are the additions of Carling, Fosters, Corrs, Magners, Caffrey's and Grolsch.
• The wine connoisseur can now panda to their palette with Flying Zebra and Jack Rabbit.
• For the people who think its better in the bottle we now have Desperado, Magners, Magners Pear, WKD Core and Gaymers.

THE DEFERENCE OF MEN AND WOMEN

Those of  you who have to manoeuvre their nightly way through the depths of insomnia may stumble across some questions which in no way help to send one to sleep.  In my personal little world of the toss-n-turn I ponder various elements, life, faith, future and some of the little things which we all experience but have been left unmentioned in diurnal conversation.

Lost and ..... given up.
Whether its a large bunch of keys, a pen or something more substantial, do you find yourself performing the action of the object.  For example, I was looking for my hat and felt the need to perform the action of wearing a hat.  When I forget where I've parked my car I don't wonder around with my hands at ten and two, when I've forgotten what I'm looking for I don't perform random gestures in the hope that my muscle memory gets the idea, so why does one do it?  Until insomnia presents me with the answer I shall continue marching around my flat performing my version of the keys I'm too familiar with.

But can we judge a man by his keys?  We see a man who has an outstanding bunch in his belt area and think "wow, he has many keys which must equate to many responsibilities."  This of course can be generally perceived as being true, until I look at my bunch.  I have six keys on my bunch, the usual mix of house, car, parents house etc, and then there are the ones that are there because its a bit fiddly taking them off or I just haven't bothered to.  Similar perhaps to friends on Facebook, you know you'll never 'use' some of them but it looks good having 1034 friends.  I have calculated that my average bunch of keys contains 2 keys which I rated their usage as 'never' or 'seldom'.  Therefore you could argue that 33% of a bunch of keys are obsolete, therefore suggesting that a mans 'usefulness' or 'importance' is only 66% of his projected worth.
Alongside this it could be said that you could apply a similar rule to women.  In my experience I often find that the women I know carry several bunches or have just lost them in the abyss of an over sized handbag.  Therefore suggesting that perhaps the opposite of the male rule should be expected and that a woman maybe 66% more useful than their projected worth.

And what can be drawn from this?  There are several correlations between these numbers, more specifically the question of how many people a subject has slept with.  Its a common assertion that a man's number should be divided by three and that a woman's should by multiplied by three, which is representative of the findings above.  Therefore I find that it is human nature to manipulate ones position, importance or worth for no other reason but how we are interpreted by others.

To look or not to look.

You're in a petrol station, have just paid for your fuel, and now you're heading back to your car.  There is a moment of awkwardness awaiting any driver who has an unfamiliar, or less-familiar, person in the passenger's seat.  There are times in this situation when you accidentally make eye contact with your passenger.  Now if you are with your partner the outcome is straight forward, a smile or wave acknowledging the meeting of eyes, but with Mr.Unfamiliar sitting there you have certain choices.

1.  Gaze wistfully in no particular direction, which increases the likelihood of 'clumpy foot' (where uneven ground causes you to do a mix of dragging your foot and stumbling in a single step).
2.  Take the situation by the horns and stare at the passenger, giving them a casual head-nod.
3.  Resort to the contingency plan which the petrol station has provided you - Read your receipt.

My conclusion to this predicament is that its up to the passenger to take the lead, after all you need to be looking in the direction of your car as its the direction you are travelling.  They, being stationary, should have busied themselves with a mobile phone or if they are a good passenger they should be pretending to take an interest in the scenery to avoid such problems.



Thanks to everybody who is involved with Ten Cocktail Bar and we thank all the staff for their hard work.  We look forward to seeing you all again soon!