So Dru, what exactly did you do with rocks when you were a kid? I mean yeah you grew up in a cave, but come on tell us how it ws fun? Were you excited about the wheel?
So Dru, what exactly did you do with rocks when you were a kid? I mean yeah you grew up in a cave, but come on tell us how it ws fun? Were you excited about the wheel?
This place has gotten way too restrictive. When I first got here it was a lot more lax, and fun. You could post almost whatever you wanted without fear of being banned or jailed, you just had other forumers to deal with (either by 'burns' or other forms of retaliatory posts). I understand the need for restriction of porn or total gross out pictures, but the dynamic of happening upon that will looking at kitty pictures adds a level of fun to SOCIAL ENTROPY ++.
For those of you disinclined to read 3 sentences: lessen the restrictions of the board, let the board police itself.
This place has gotten way too restrictive. When I first got here it was a lot more lax, and fun. You could post almost whatever you wanted without fear of being banned or jailed, you just had other forumers to deal with (either by 'burns' or other forms of retaliatory posts). I understand the need for restriction of porn or total gross out pictures, but the dynamic of happening upon that will looking at kitty pictures adds a level of fun to SOCIAL ENTROPY ++.
For those of you disinclined to read 3 sentences: lessen the restrictions of the board, let the board police itself.
that's sort of the reason I posted it. I'm living in the past. You Can't Touch This.
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edited June 2007
SO THE ABSINTHE COMMUNITY is all a-twitter, and, perhaps, with good cause. The anise-flavored spirit has been banned in the United States since 1912, primarily because of overstated concerns about the psychoactive quality of one of its ingredients, thujone, a ketone of wormwood, which is present in true absinthe in small amounts. It didn't help the drink's cause that absinthe was the preferred liquor of Victorian artists and other layabouts, or that there were a few notable cases of people going on murderous rampages after drinking the green spirit. There was, for example, Jean Lanfray, who in 1905 murdered his pregnant wife and two children. Absinthe was blamed, and was banned; never mind the fact that Lanfray, along with a sandwich and two glasses of absinthe, had also drunk five liters of wine, six glasses of cognac, one coffee laced with brandy, and two crème de menthes.
In the time since the ban, absinthe's reputation has grown, and the drink enjoyed a massive revival in Europe in the Nineties, with European distillers discovering a variety of loopholes in the law that allowed them to put absinthe back on the market. These have not been hard to get in America, although they have not been legal, precisely. There is no law against owning or drinking absinthe in the United States, but it is illegal to manufacture, sell, or import absinthe (a notable exception is Absente, a drink that greatly resembles absinthe, but is made with wormwood's thujone-free relative, southernwood; Absente, however, is not well-liked by hardcore absinthe fans).
Did we say it is illegal to manufacture, or buy, or import absinthe? We meant, it was illegal. Because there is a new absinthe being marketed, made in the United States, called Lucid, and, unlike Absente, it contains thujone. As it turns out, the US laws had a little loophole of their own: Drinks were only illegal of they contained greater than 10mg of thujone per liter. And, as it turns out, most pre-ban absinthe had less than that. Lucid is based on pre-ban recipes -- it was designed by chemist Ted Breaux, a New Orleans-born fellow with a talent for reverse engineering absinthe recipes from old bottles of the stuff.
Fans of European absinthes might take issue with the resulting drink, as, according to a New York Times article, Breaux has reduced the drink's strong anise flavor to suit the American palette. To purists, this is a bit like reducing the flavor of juniper in gin -- anise is one of Absinthe's defining flavors. We shall, however, reserve judgment until we actually sample the stuff, and, in some ways, what Lucid tastes like is rather beside the point. It has been approved for manufacture and sale by the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, and this opens the doors for the manufacture, sale, and, presumably, importing of other absinthes that are likewise made with less than 10mg of thujone per liter. According to what we have read, this is consistent with the European Union's rulings on thujone, and therefore there is a wealth of European absinthes that may now be eligible for legal import to the United States.
It shall be interesting to see how this all plays out. We at the Bottle Gang are fans of absinthe, particularly a refreshing cocktail invented in New Orleans called the absinthe frappe, which was a so popular in the United States back in 1904 that Victor Herbert wrote a hit song named after the drink. But because absinthe's illegality made the liquor prohibitively expensive, we've tended to make our frappes with pastis, such as Herbsaint, which was, after all, originally an absinthe, or at least pretended to be. Our sense is that absinthe's legend is grander than the drink itself, and increased availability should do much to return absinthe to its proper place in the world of cocktails -- that of being a fine, and common, ingredient in a really well-made mixed drinks, such as the Sazerac, rather than being some semi-mystical, hallucinogenic drink of artists and madmen.
I'm interested in giving it a shot just because, hey, a newly available liquor that has an interesting history, sure I'll try it.
It makes you feel a little different than other booze. It's fun.
I suspect this effect is largely imagined. I've read that the amount of thujone in most absinthe isn't nearly sufficient to cause any noticeable effect in the average person.
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edited June 2007
It does seem to have that 'it's only interesting cuz it seems edgy' thing to it. I'll try it, out of curiosity, but if I don't like the taste (and I probably won't, cuz I am a picky drinker, apparently), I'm not gonna keep drinking it just for the sake of drinking it.
I'm interested in giving it a shot just because, hey, a newly available liquor that has an interesting history, sure I'll try it.
It makes you feel a little different than other booze. It's fun.
I suspect this effect is largely imagined. I've read that the amount of thujone in most absinthe isn't nearly sufficient to cause any noticeable effect in the average person.
Nah.
I've got a bottle on my shelf at home, and I can attest to the fact that it is a fucked up drunk. It hits you very, very hard. And you can hallucinate, but it's really mild. Like, seeing spots mild.
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For those of you disinclined to read 3 sentences: lessen the restrictions of the board, let the board police itself.
free-market cocksdicksomgbbqwtfomfgroflcopterlolSHITPIRATESorshit-pirates?
Are you the guy that came once or twice to Ventrilo while I was piping music, all liking Ska and somesuch?
Also, ash what do
I've never used Ventrilo, so no.
Well, then it was a different guy with Skanksomething in his name.
you think about steak fries?
Do you know what this means Weaver
I kicked 3.
Absinthe made me barf my brains out.
I'm pretty sure it means domestic production of absinth.
And whiskey is only for low-income wife beaters.
You crazy kids and your rebelling against The Man.
Not all that dissimilar from Everclear, though, truth be told.
ba dum pshh
I don't know dude I hear absinthe goes well with enlarged earlobes.
And mouth shrapnel.
Errone who pierces themselves is a total emo fag
S'true. For guys, anyway.
And black people just want our womynz
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Nah.
I've got a bottle on my shelf at home, and I can attest to the fact that it is a fucked up drunk. It hits you very, very hard. And you can hallucinate, but it's really mild. Like, seeing spots mild.