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If you're going to have a drink, at least make sure you enjoy it. That's why I prefer either scotch or bourbon, because a) you're not going to down it so b) you can enjoy the drink.

Besides, scotch and bourbon is a manly drink ;-P

Scotch and bourbon are the pussy whiskeys. Gots me a bottle of Bushmill's Black Bush...nothing finer.

At 4/15/10 08:58 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Scotch and bourbon are the pussy whiskeys. Gots me a bottle of Bushmill's Black Bush...nothing finer.

Tell me that after a 14 year Oban.

At 4/15/10 09:01 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: Tell me that after a 14 year Oban.

Old Scotch tastes like paint thinner. The older it is, the more it tastes like paint thinner.

At 4/15/10 09:02 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Old Scotch tastes like paint thinner. The older it is, the more it tastes like paint thinner.

What scotch have you been drinking?

Balvenie 21.

At 4/15/10 09:13 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Balvenie 21.

DOESN'T MATTER WHATEVER THE ANSWER IS WE'RE GOING TO RECOMMEND SOMETHING ELSE.

Feel free, I won't pay any attention.

I enjoy Four Roses bourbon, but it is very difficult to get in my state. I generally find bourbon too sweet, Scotch too resiny, and Irish perfectly balanced.

Except Kilbeggan. Fuck that shit. I bought a bottle for my St. Pat's party and my guests swilled down my good stuff and left me nothing but the Kilbeggan. Ugh.

Yeah I'm just joshin' I don't drink fancy whisky or bourbon. I usually buy lower-end domestic brands like Canadian Club/Crown Royal/Forty Creek.

More of a wine and beer person myself, but that's probably because I'm more into cooking as well.

At the geography conference I'm attending they gave us 1 free drink ticket with our registration packs on Tuesday when we got in. Since a few of the kids are under 21, I got their tickets and got wasted and was boisterous while watching the geography bowl competition. Our team didn't fare well, but damnit we had the loudest crowd there

I'm not the type that usually drinks on a regular basis, I'll just have a nip every now and then. I understand maintaining a buzz, but I've never seen the fun in getting blind stinking drunk.

Yesterday was different, though. Pure hell at work. The only thing that kept me from getting drunk when I got home was the fact that I had taken Aleve for back pain while at work so I could finish out my shift. But I got approved for overtime today, first time since store setup two and half years ago. Yay. :-\

I found out something about myself today, when I'm extremely bored and I'm alone, I get very chatty, the curse of an overactive imagination I'm sure.

At 4/16/10 08:22 PM, LordJaric wrote: I found out something about myself today, when I'm extremely bored and I'm alone, I get very chatty, the curse of an overactive imagination I'm sure.

Freud would definitely have something to say about that... something very penis-centric.

i might get physically assaulted for this, but how in hell did Jack Daniels' gain such renowned? or is it all lies, proving my taste buds haven't been lying to me?

it tastes like someone decided to mix expired banana flavoured cough syrup with brown water.

At 4/16/10 10:22 AM, Proteas wrote: I'm not the type that usually drinks on a regular basis, I'll just have a nip every now and then. I understand maintaining a buzz, but I've never seen the fun in getting blind stinking drunk.

My point exactly. If you're going to drink, at least enjoy the damn drink. That's why I prefer scotch or bourbon; you're not going to down in a single gulp. You're going to have to drink it slowly. And more so, it's about the drink, not the aftereffects.

At 4/16/10 08:55 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: My point exactly. If you're going to drink, at least enjoy the damn drink. That's why I prefer scotch or bourbon; you're not going to down in a single gulp. You're going to have to drink it slowly. And more so, it's about the drink, not the aftereffects.

My problem has always been that I hate the taste of the alcohol itself, not so much the flavorings and the like as it is the burn. That could be in large part to the poorer quality liquors I've had access to, or it could be in part to not drinking that often and simply not getting used to it. I'm a wimp that way.

My brother on the other hand is a complete 180 to me; he'll drink anything you set in front of him, shotgun it even, just to see the stupid look on your face when you realize he just killed an expensive bottle liquor without so much as enjoying it. I've come home before and seen empty bottles sitting on the counter from where he just got bored and decided to play a rousing game of "let's clean out from under the sink," with him passed out drunk in his bedroom.

At 4/16/10 10:27 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: That being said though, I haven't been able to drink much due to my need of allergy medicine. They say if you develop allergies as an adult, it's all over. I developed them as an older teen but still couldn't shake them. My doctor gave me Allegra once but it did nothing.

:-(

My allergies have been getting worse here lately. I had an allergy induced asthma attack at work last night, and had to go dig through my lunch box to find the bronchio-dilator my doctor proscribed when I had bronchitis earlier this year. All from spending maybe 5 minutes in the garden center trying to help them get done for the night.

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Also; I'm a dumbass.

I ordered 1,000 #2 lock washers from grainger.com so I could have a small and fine lock washer to weave necklaces with. I grossly underestimated how small a #2 lock washer actually was. To give you an idea how small they are... I've got a dime sitting here with 12 of these washers sitting on top it not a one hanging off the edge or stacked on the other. All 1000 could fill a shotgun shell half full from primer to hull.

I'm going to go blind weaving this next one. I should have ordered the next size larger.

This is a revelation...
when did you start to drink, Brian?

As for me,
I like the occasional drink depending on the occasion. I had a few tequilas on Christmas and New Years... and before that, it was the beer with Brian.

But, frankly, I don't like beer all that much anymore. I prefer to sip a tequila, although everyone tends to do shots.

I've made a delicious drink a few years ago with tequila, and I barely remembered...

Ginger ale
a few squirts of lime
a little bit of sugar
some tequila.

No exact proportions... just to taste.
You can't hardly taste the alcoholic burn, but it's tastes something like a margarita.

I have tickets for Fiddler on the Roof tonight, with Harvey Fierstein as Tevya. :D

At 4/15/10 09:02 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote:

At 4/15/10 09:01 PM, BrianEtrius wrote: Tell me that after a 14 year Oban.

Old Scotch tastes like paint thinner. The older it is, the more it tastes like paint thinner.

;;;
Skunky there's a really nice single malt that is called Dalwhinnie, its a 15 year old scoth that is really nice, it certai;y doesn't tase like paint thinner.

At 4/17/10 02:58 AM, fli wrote:
Ginger ale
a few squirts of lime
a little bit of sugar
some tequila.

Sounds a lot like a lemon drop except for the ginger ale part. Seems like almost a homeade ginger-sprite concoction.

Sounds drunk-a-licious though

At 4/17/10 07:06 PM, FUNKbrs wrote:

At 4/17/10 02:58 AM, fli wrote:
Ginger ale
a few squirts of lime
a little bit of sugar
some tequila.

Sounds a lot like a lemon drop except for the ginger ale part. Seems like almost a homeade ginger-sprite concoction.

Sounds drunk-a-licious though

Well, back then I drank more (and that's quite a lot to say seeing that I don't practically drink at all.)-- and I experimented with drinks. So I don't doubt whatever I've made has been done before.

Like...
cherry syrup with tequila is pretty good too, although it's sometimes too sweet. But it's fixed with some mineral water or seltzer.

ALWAYS ABOUT ALCOHOL U.

I'll stick to my mate. It has caffeine!

I was at a local grocery store recently and passed by the drink mixers section, and they had mixer packets for sale. You know how you can get the little flavor packets for bottled water? Yeah, same basic concept, but for mixed rinks. Like mojito mix packets, cosmopolitans, that kind of thing. Just add them to a bottle of club soda, add your liquor, and voila.

I was just kind of dumbstruck there for a minute. Another one of those things one of us should have come up with sooner. :-\

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The #2 lock washers didn't work for what I wanted to do. Far too small to weave with. Now I've got a thousand of these damn things and not much of anything to do with them. :-\

At 4/17/10 11:14 PM, RydiaLockheart wrote: What is the drinking age in Argentina anyways?

De jure 18, de facto 0

Caffeine wise, my favorite is Jolt.

Never heard of it. I like mate because it takes a while to drink (literally, hours) so the caffeine effect is more dispersed, and not just a shock.

Got back from DC last night around 10 and I had a really awesome trip. I went to a couple of sessions at the conference but I missed out on the exhibition where they were giving away a bunch of free stuff, and since they had scheduled maintenance on the subway, it took forever to get from our hotel to the conference or anything else.

I wish I had managed my time better and actually looked at some maps earlier in my trip because I totally didn't go near all of the Smithsonian museums until a day or two before the end of my trip. So the only actual museum I got to was the Air and Space, which was pretty neat. I did go on tours of the capital building and the supreme court and hung around the library of congress but because of the metro I missed my scheduled tour for 8:30am.

I did make it to the zoo and the botanical gardens and they were pretty neat. They had a lot of orchids, so I guess I missed the tulips this year (I was a week or two late). Spent a lot of time walking around the city. The zoo was kind of lame. A lot of the exhibits were closed for whatever reason and the only animals that were out were depressing.

Saw a Nationals game with Timmy on Friday night and checked out the national mall at night after the game. The Vietnam, Korean and WWII memorials were all pretty moving at night with almost nobody else around and all lit up.