The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXIV

[Synobun]

Which kind of ruined what might have been an interesting drink, imo. Still, I've never fancied it. All that sugar and carbonated water. Not my thing at all.

It's a charm when you've been throwing up all day. Besides that, yeah. It's not that great.

 

[bhsup]

You'd be better off with 7-Up in that situation over a cola drink.

 

[Farm Boy]

Which kind of ruined what might have been an interesting drink, imo. Still, I've never fancied it. All that sugar and carbonated water. Not my thing at all.

Can you still order wormwood from the Czech Republic or has the EU smashed that yet? Naturally you would be ordering such a product for import into the UK for a use that doesn't involve interesting drinks, but there you are.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

You can get absinth in the states now, though the wormwood content is very low or something like that.

 

[Farm Boy]

You can get absinth in the states now, though the wormwood content is very low or something like that.

Hence why one would possibly be interested in the legality of acquiring wormwood, for non-consumption purposes, when the availability of Everclear and large jugs which could be used to soak things unrelated to wormwood is widespread.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Derpa derp on me

I tried absinth recently with a Russian guy who showed us how to inhale it. Don't know if that is a real Russian technique or if he just made it up but it was interesting. It was also disturbingly similar to how peoplw smoke an oxyycontin pill. :\

 

[Farm Boy]

I tried absinth recently with a Russian guy who showed us how to inhale it. Don't know if that is a real Russian technique or if he just made it up but it was interesting. It was also disturbingly similar to how peoplw smoke an oxyycontin pill. :\

That seems unwise. Dosage on inhalants being... erratic.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It was a very tiny amount, basically the drops left in the glass.

 

[Borachio]

Can you still order wormwood from the Czech Republic or has the EU smashed that yet? Naturally you would be ordering such a product for import into the UK for a use that doesn't involve interesting drinks, but there you are.

I think absinthe is legal in the UK. I could be wrong.

edit:

Absinthe is legal; it was never banned in the UK.

It is expensive and it is not a popular drink so you'll not find it everywhere, but specialist drink shops in major city centres should have it. If you are in London, try the shop on the corner of Wardour St and Old Compton St in Soho, it has a wide range of Absinthes.

It's also legal in the rest of the EU.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13159863

 

[Farm Boy]

Interesting. Though it is of note that the active non-alcoholic ingredient seems to be limited and I'm not sure if that's a low limitation or high. That could mean anything from basically legal legal to you can buy bitter flavored 150 proof alcohol.

But, if we are in the quest for an interesting beverage in the spirit of coca-cola perhaps there is some mileage to cover there.

 

[Borachio]

Well, wormwood does have a reputation for being poisonous, so I'd think they'd put on a limit on the maximum concentration of it in absinthe.

But since you'd water absinthe down (like pastis) to drink it, I'm not sure why it's significant that it's so strong.

I no longer drink spirits at all, since they just remind me of petrol. I tell a lie. I did have some pastis only the other day.

 

[Farm Boy]

You limit the "fun" bit of a substance and them crazy kids'll just start smoking it!

 

[Borachio]

I can't wait for them to make caffeine illegal. So that me and my friends can start making some proper money out of importing it.

As it's brown, I can think of some interesting ways to cut it already.

 

[Farm Boy]

As it's brown, I can think of some interesting ways to cut it already.

Oooh oooh! The correct answer is tea, isn't it? Maybe that's too tame. Maybe you mean the level of consumption that we cut with ginseng, taurine, carbonation, and corn syrup. They recommend on those cans that pregnant women avoid the beverage and that nobody else consume more than 3 can in one day. That's probably wise.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I heard the psychoactive properties of the wormwood are way overblown though and that most of the effects attributed to it back in the day were actually due to really bad additives like turpentine and crap. They basically started mixing anything into moonshine that could **** you up and called it absinthe.

 

[Farm Boy]

I heard the psychoactive properties of the wormwood are way overblown though and that most of the effects attributed to it back in the day were actually due to really bad additives like turpentine and crap. They basically started mixing anything into moonshine that could **** you up and called it absinthe.

Well, it might be overblown, I'd say that's almost certainly true. But it's not zero or entirely placebo. Almost definitely less of a "kick in the head" than a night of undergraduate level binge drinking or riding in the car with some stoners and the windows up, much less than some time with a can of ether. Really though, avoid hanging with huffers, it's horrible what that does to braincells.

 

[Lord Baal]

Just an FYI, while Coca-Cola no longer contains cocaine, it does still contain coca, the plant cocaine is derived from. They are actually the only organisation in the US that can legally import it.

 

[Radio Noer]

Is EA's Origin really as bad as I've heard?

 

[Dachs]

Probably not, no. But it's still worse than Steam.

 

[Synobun]

How do people find music? Serious question. I wasn't allowed to listen to music until I was 12 years old, so I've never grown up in an environment where you learn about music, how to find new music, and so on. As it stands now, all I know is to switch on the radio, hope they give a song name, or go on Youtube to a song I like, and look at the side bar. These all tend to be well-known artists, though. This is fine, but whenever I ask for people to share their musical tastes with me, they always have a large number of artists I've never remotely heard about.

How do people find more obscure artists? How do you know what to look for?