We had, like...nothing! Not even a place to date. Tiny town in the desert, 118 degree summers. There was one point on a hill, but only room for one car, and you had to back down the hill if someone was already there, so you didn't bother. LOL. Most people resorted to sneaking their GF/BF in through their bedroom window. ETA: Lots of garage bands, though. The place was good for that!
Man, I saw the title of this thread and came in ready to gush about strychnine. But uh, red wine for my standard evening poison. Tequila when I want to have a good time. Gin when I've had a rough day.
When I drank, my go-to alcohol was Ace Perry Cider (pear) and I liked to do a half-and-half with Guinness. If someone made one for me, I'd probably still drink it. There was also an awesome blackberry wine I loved to drink, particularly when playing Resident Evil: Biohazard with my dad. Now I'm alcohol free (I also don't smoke, don't do drugs, and will remain sex-free until I die), my "poison" is pizza pockets, bagel bites, or brownies. Edit: and Coca-Cola. I'm trying to cut back on that, too, but sometimes work requires me going out to buy a bottle so I feel like I can relax, lol.
What type? You see, there is two version. the "Original" version, and the "modern" version. The modern version is wildly produced outside of Switzerland (and probably available in any high-end or large-surface liquor stores) and is not the original traditional recipe and has a lot less ingredients (and in my opinion a sub-par taste, though some prefer it). The original is mostly entirely and uniquely made in Switzerland within the "Vals-de-Travers", a single valley in Switzerland. That particular one, due to high levels of wormwood and various other 'chemical compounds' is illegal for international export. The original one is where the infamy originate that the drink is an aphrodisiac, creativity enhancer, and hallucinogen (amongst other 'properties'). And yes, it actually does do all of these (except the first), however the hallucinogenic properties are very weak and thereby requires a large amount to be consumed to suffer that particular effect. However, absinth has an infamy for this special drink but that is mostly over-rated as it's effects, unless you drink copious amounts, are not majorly different than any other standard spirit. The internationally available modern version is mostly just anise and wormwood-flavoured vodka. also: to note, some specialised websites do now sell the 'swiss absinth'. Effectively, it is just the original with most of the active ingredients that give it's infamy removed: see https://www.absinthes.com/en/swiss-absinthe-s341 . I personally know the man who makes the "clandestine" and can say that this is as close as anyone outside of the Val-de-Travers will ever get to the original. edit: For anyone that doens't know, absinth is made from a concoction and mixture of herbs and not from any one fruit or another. Some recipes change drastically based on the herbs used and each seperate maker has his own recipe. However, the same core ingredients are used and that is what classifies absinth. These being, chief amongst them, wormwood. This is why a lot of modern-versions have a lot less ingredients or a different taste.
If we're talking alcohol, I'm in love with my own mead. My brother and I make it ourselves and among our varieties my favorite is our dry pineapple (Muy Muy ). Currently working on a Kiwi and Kiwi-Lime.
Yeah, I've read that they're fairly sure that some of the wilder "effects" of absinth are due to the fact that it ran as high as 170 proof, and anybody who's sitting around drinking something like that regularly is at risk of some side-effects anyway. Likewise, about a hundred-odd years ago, French medical authorities warned against smoking long-butts (incompletely smoked and discarded cigarettes), since people who did so showed a higher incidence of lung cancer than those who lit up a fresh smoke every time. It didn't occur to them that anyone so addicted to nicotine as to be picking up ciggies from the gutter had probably inhaled a metric shitload of smoke in their lifetimes...
Absinthe is high in alcohol content in its bottle. However, normally it is served diluted in cold water and such the alcohol content of the dirnk is much lower due to that. Drinking absinthe straight is not recommended as it does not bring the full flavour and is rarely done. However, some people have done that in the past. It's effects, as you put it, is mostly due to the the compound called Thujone, amongst other compounds. But it's effects have also been over-exaggerated, usually as some kind of pop-fiction style stories.
I like your unit of measurement. Do you hold any copyrights on that? And how does it convert to fuck-tons?
No, Faileena beat me to it after I'd already used it in my Pulitzer Prize winning forum post, but feel free, I don't think she'll be able to hold onto it
Good gracious. I was about to say we shouldn't give that woman even more attention by making her a running gag... but it might already be too late. To get back to te topic of this thread, if madam Hopkins gets through with this bumfuckery, I'll really need a metric shitload of whisky to stomach that
Somewhere, in another thread, I asked the same thing and someone— I think it was either @Homer Potvin or @Iain Aschendale —explained that the unit of measurement increases with the severity of the swear word. So On the @big soft moose scale of measurement, which has kind of become the Unofficial scale of measurement for the Forum, a fuck-ton is larger than a shitload. Edited to credit @big soft moose
Asahi Super dry is a great indoor beer, but not a very good summer picnic beer IMO. Warm beer never tastes great, but as Super Dry warms up, it gets really, really vile. However, I do my best to avoid beer snobbery, helps to blend in with the locals. I was in Glasgow, Montana (4000 people, ninety minutes at ninety miles an hour to the next tiny town) one time, waiting for the Amtrak, which was three hours late as per usual. There was a bar across from the station that was open on a Monday afternoon, so I dragged my seabag in, place was empty. The bartender glared at me. "Whaddya want?" "What's on tap?" "Old Mil," and he didn't say another word. "Great."
A fuckload is smaller than a fuckton. I do remember that one. Arrrgh lemme see if I can find the post with the chart. LOL
My God, I can't believe I found it. The search function here is really good! (Found by searching for "Moose's Scale of Measurement".) @Jenissej @Some Guy
Life is the greatest poison of all, for it takes every last person eventually. As per alcohol, I'm not picky, though I do prefer whiskey to other spirits.
My fav used to be those. Now I'm dark chocolate only. This is bad for my story, because I have to destroy civilization, and save chocolate. I'm in writers hell.
To the OP, Gin, love it, all types. Started having gin and ginger ale .... mmmmmm Bizarrely - regarding beer - i started off as a larger man, turned into an ale man around 10 years ago, and slowly going back to being a larger man again. I think i have hormone issues lol. I like a late whisky. Rgds
