I forget which leader he is - dear? rotund? - but the delayed announcement of Kim Jong Un's marriage to a winsome lass decently tarted up in western clothes on NK television was pure delight: the announcer, perhaps an opera singer in civilian life, well presented and smiling obviously, spoke in a tone so vibrant with joy that one almost suspected satirical intent.
Even better was the blonde from the US State Department, previously unseen by me and perhaps quite junior. She too did an American vibrant-with-joy thing and said that the US naturall sympathized with a young couple in love and wished them well. Then in more serious mode, and in something of a voice of thunder, she added that the US was really more concerned for the lot of the 'North Vietnamese people'.
The implicit claim that the US gives a fish's tit for any 'people', especially the North Vietnamese one, had me almost rolling on the floor with laughter.
Long life and happiness to the rotund leader and his missus and the North Vietnamese people! Down with Yankee imperialism so to speak!
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"North Vietnamese people" did she really say that? North Korea maybe? :) What were you on at 03.00 last night?
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Maybe he was in charge of the scoreboard at Hampden Park...
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Chorttle...
Last edited by: R.P. on Thu 26 Jul 12 at 09:25
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Guh... it was late. Halfwitted. The State Department lady said North Korean.
Last edited by: Armel Coussine on Thu 26 Jul 12 at 10:03
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>> What were you on at 03.00 last night?
By an amazing coincidence, someone gave me yesterday a bottle of Korean Ginseng Liqueur, a yellow fluid with a big ginseng root inside the bottle. And yes, I had sampled it, although not in large amounts.
However I don't blame that, but trying to be a clever dick when tanked up after a very long day.
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I love trying out exotic liqueurs and brandies from around the world but my word the headaches I have suffered as a result........ all purely in the interest of science of course....
it seems that you can use virtually anything that grows to distill alcohol.....I have never tried the Ginseng one AC but Raki in Greece can vary from quite tasty mixed with honey to an alternative to paraffin or surgical spirt...
My family know of this fondness and bring me back exotic drink from all over the place.
Obvious favourites to me and most people are Cointreau , Drambuie , Tia Maria but I also have a fondness for an Italian Liqueur called Strega.....
I dread to think what the worst was apart from Raki but I think its probably Suica which is a plum brandy that I had in Romania in the 70's or possibly the Banana Liqueur from Tenerife.....
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I nearly died after drinking a bottle of some turkish or greek liquor. It tasted of aniseed and had gold flakes in it. I swear I vomited my intestines up down the side of the car. (It was Nicoles Nissan, Had dried solid by the next morning and had to be sanded off)
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Ah yes - the Goldschlager......not aniseed but based on Cinnamon ......
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Clear with real gold flakes. Spicy, cinnamon aromas with alcohol vapours. Comes from Italy .
A sweet, syrupy quality with very marked, hot spicy flavours that linger.
Has a hot bite to the finish Zeddo ....... both going down and coming back up ....
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Don't touch those sweet 'liqueurs' since a bad night on the rusty nails, 50/50 Bells and Drambuie. Just stick with a brandy or a malt with a drop of water in it now.
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>> Has a hot bite to the finish Zeddo ....... both going down and coming back
>> up ....
Mixed with a curry, red wine and Beer, its flavour is a little unclear on the return journey.
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I went out with some Korean colleagues a while back and we were drinking Soju. Think a slightly sweeter version of vodka, and you're about there. They drink it neat.
It's actually not that strong as spirits go (this was 22% ABV IIRC), but it is absolutely delicious, and goes down very easily. Which is good, as it is consumed in "one shot", which is apparently traditional.
All was well until I stood up.
I was very ill shortly afterwards.
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..., Had dried solid by the next morning and had to be sanded off...
A mate of mine threw up a phal curry on the passenger door of my then employer's Renault 5.
The solid matter washed off easily enough, but there was a bloom left on the metallic lacquer which proved impossible to remove.
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>> nearly died after drinking a bottle of some turkish or greek liquor.
A whole BOTTLE? Of LIQUEUR? Kamikaze behaviour more impressive for courage than prudence.
Come to think of it though there was an occasion in the Alpes-Maritimes decade or three back involving a broken drive shaft, a very annoying old friend and his wife with whom we had foolishly gone on holiday and far too much pastis, so I too probably have some residual brain damage.
Spent the next day going down to Cannes by bus for the drive shaft, twice because the first one had the wrong number of splines, replacing it at the roadside, sweeping up broken glass, apologising to herself and dodging dirty looks from people living nnearby who had been kept awake by all the howling and crashing... bad stuff in excess, that pastis.
I used to like Strega too in Italy, and that other stuff they put a coffee bean in.
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>>I used to like Strega too in Italy, and that other stuff they put a coffee bean in
Sambuca, much beloved of the motor trade in the days of my dealings with it.
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When I was in the HP finance business I had a VERY long lunchtime session with a motor caravan dealer's sales person, on a heady mixture of Tia Maria and champagne!
Definitely the end of that day's work & an early bed!
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>>or possibly the Banana Liqueur from Tenerife<<
Yeah, say n'more squire - blimmin awful stuff!
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Stroh......Austrian rum. I used to enjoy a small glass but can't take the pain anymore.
Keep a small bottle of 80% purely for medicinal reasons. It cures toothache and mouth ulcers almost instantly.......after a minute of thrashing around on the floor.
Ted
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>> Keep a small bottle of 80%
By volume, not proof? Wow!
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Stroh 80 is Rocket fuel, Focus.
I have, on occasion, run a zippo lighter on the stuff.
Pure braindeath in a bottle.
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>>Keep a small bottle of 80% purely for medicinal reasons. It cures toothache and mouth ulcers almost instantly<<
Good fer artburn as well :}
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>> >>Keep a small bottle of 80% purely for medicinal reasons. It cures toothache and mouth
>> ulcers almost instantly<<
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>> Good fer artburn as well :}
Only to give you heartburn, I found. Stroh available in 40/60/80. The former two are for you more girly types. It'd make Ratto even more mad !
Banana liquor nice poured over ice cream !
Ted
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>> Banana liquor nice poured over ice cream !
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>> Ted
Funnily enough that's the best use I've found for advocaat, without wishing to offend Dutchie.
Makes a very nice dessert with decent ice cream, recommended.
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Now this is a concoction made in heaven
Limoncello poured over a large slice of Vienetta ice cream. Adults party food.
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>> advocaat, without wishing to offend Dutchie.
Great stuff, thin alcoholic custard... you can pour it over steamed puddings or cake if so inclined.
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>>>> Good fer artburn as well :}
Only to give you heartburn<<
I used to suffer from heartburn something chronic 20 odd years ago - before I corrected my diet.
An old friend (from Manc as it happens) out in Tenerife gave a me an over-large glass of uisge once when I had 'an attack', it made me hit the ceiling! but stopped the heartburn instantly :)
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An old friend (from Manc as it happens) out in Tenerife gave a me an
>> over-large glass of uisge once when I had 'an attack', it made me hit the
>> ceiling! but stopped the heartburn instantly :)
Bit like the guillotine cures a headache I should think!
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>> heartburn something chronic 20 odd years ago - before I corrected my diet.
Acid indigestion isn't it? I get it sometimes from all the sugar in the cheapo orange juice I guzzle with vodka. A drink of water to dilute what's in the stomach usually stops it in seconds. If it's really bad, a teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate in water will always work.
'Doctor, prescribe me an alkaline draught will you?'
'Certainly my lord. Drink this. That will be eight hundred guineas.'
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>>Acid indigestion isn't it? I get it sometimes from all the sugar in the cheapo orange juice I guzzle with vodka<<
Yep! - that's what did it to me, 2 sugars in my tea :)
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Same with crisps. Eat a bag on top of six or so pints and you feel very slothful the day after, especially if you get a green one.
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+1 - it is VILE beyond belief! (Banana Liqueur from Tenerife)
Last edited by: Roger on Thu 26 Jul 12 at 14:56
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No-one mentioned getting pie eyed on Cuarenta Y Tres yet?
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Sampled it in small amounts me don't believe you.
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