Don’t worry about death threats against #judges ruling against someone who tried to overthrow the government there is #netflix and chill, #booze#food and #baldursgate3 to focus on!
Just ghost the party. Slip away, go to bed. It’s cool! Everyone’s been drinking and they won’t remember that you weren’t there till the bitter end!
If you say goodbye, they try and go, ‘Nahhhh stayyyy!’ Just vanish.
This will also stop you from being waylaid/presumed upon when all those close talkers start puking and having dramas because they say stupid things, and you’re delegated the role of mediator.
So, I thought it was time to go #traditional. It's getting colder so I thought I'd start drinking #booze the old #Chinese way: warmed. To this end I got a wine warmer set.
Today's #experiment is starting relatively mildly with the #Hakka #glutinous #rice #wine I'd mentioned earlier. It's 25%, but it drinks like fruit juice and is thus exceptionally dangerous for those of us who don't like drunkenness.
(N.B. I don't like being drunk. I love being tipsy; the feeling of a drink inside of me. I hate feeling drunk.)
The results were very interesting. Some of them I expected (the drink is no longer dangerous: it is very clearly a potent alcoholic beverage when warmed!), but some of them unexpected (the flavour profile changes dramatically, giving it a "sparkling" sensation on the tongue and making the sour complex of flavours stand out in the forefront). It's still sweet. It still tastes delicious. But it's an entirely new beverage and it no longer brings with it the accidental drunkenness the cooled version brings.
There was almost a crisis yesterday. I was down to literally my last shot of #booze. (The 52%/104 proof tea-infused liquor.) And while I had its replacement on the way, it hadn't yet arrived so I was feeling a bit nervous at facing #sobriety while I waited.
But the #delivery company came through! And by 1030hrs I had in my hands a 2.5l (!) container of 68%/136 proof (!!) #Mongolian#liquor!
This is one of two Mongolian brands I really like. It's powerful stuff, but because #sorghum is such a kick to the head, flavour-wise, the super-high #alcohol concentration doesn't actually mask the flavour. It just kills brain cells dead. Really dead. Really fast. This is booze that verges on #HandSanitizer levels. (Hand sanitizers here, at any rate, start at 70%.)
A 2.5l "hip flask" is unwieldy to use, so I decanted it into a 700ml bottle. As soon as I opened that flask the room filled with the scent of sorghum molasses and open flame. My immediate vicinity was filled almost instantaneously, it seemed, and the office space in just a few seconds. (There are a lot of aromatics in Chinese liquors.)
The best part of this for me is that because Mongolians aren't Han, people here don't value their stuff much outside of the stereotypical: beef, milk products, etc. So, although flavour-wise I'd pit this against any mid-grade #baijiu that isn't Luzhou or Maotai style and it would likely win, this monstrosity of a flask set me back the equivalent of just a bit under US$10.
Tonight I started a homemade centerbe, with Everclear as the spirit base. It should be ready by New Year’s. Half of the fresh herbs are from my garden, and the other half were picked up from the local international market. I was disappointed that they had no makrut lime leaves, so I had to content myself with dried orange leaves from the Mexican-spices section. #booze@drinkstodon
Tonight’s #cocktail is a Zapoteca, which I suppose is a #Negroni variant — it’s made of an ounce each of mezcal, Punt e Mes, and Amer Picon (the latter homemade), with a couple dashes of Amargo Chuncho. If you don’t have Amer Picon, you can sub Bigallet China-China. #cocktails#booze@drinkstodon
We're not going to bother getting our #submersible#safety-rated because “[t]he vast majority of marine (and aviation) accidents are a result of operator error, not mechanical failure,” is certainly a #novel take on things.
Not perhaps one I would have run with, but they didn't ask me.
For anyone wondering why safety and design is critical for submersibles, at 3800m depth the pressure is around 5400 psi. A #crack or #buckle converts you into a #pink#mist#instantly.
You go to various remote or isolated or primitive parts of the world, and you can definitely find the local equivalent of Billy-Jo Bob's Real Flying Airline, with a #plane that is held together with hopes & dreams, a #pilot who hasn't seen a #license form since 1978 and smells of #booze, and desperate passengers...
i have two subreddits, one of them has videos for content and the other one is more based around discussion about the links that get posted, so i realise i might have to do two different processes, and i'm not getting paid sooo .....
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i have two subreddits, one of them has videos for content and the other one is more based around discussion about the links that get posted, so i realise i might have to do two different processes, and i'm not getting paid sooo .....