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wdarkk posted:Firing pistols out windows is a long and storied tradition that will be kept until the last pistol falls to dust. When firearms are all finally retired in favor of telepathically-charged heat rays, some joker will beam his heat-rays out a window by making finger pistols.
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golden bubble posted:There's a thread on historical podcasts in the Rapidly Going Deaf subforum, but I'd recommend Patrick Wyman's work: The Fall of Rome and Tides of History. One of Wyman best habits is his love of personal stories within history. He tries to show off what it would be like for generic goth subcommander 1850 or random mediterranean merchant 7162 while still talking about standard history. Please link the thread. I have a long commute so I'm always looking for more good history podcasts. Especially if they can give more insight to daily life and culture.
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LLSix posted:Please link the thread. I have a long commute so I'm always looking for more good history podcasts. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3532486&pagenumber=57&perpage=40 Here you go
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Gaius Marius posted:https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3532486&pagenumber=57&perpage=40 Thank you very, very much!
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Wait a sec, my cocktail has forever and a day been the Negroni, which for the uninitiated is Gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, usually tweaked with bitters. Is it then an evolution of what Hegel’s dudes were knocking back?
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Grand Prize Winner posted:2 parts Clamato. I'm sorry, I wouldn't ordinarily derail based on this, but Clamato is poo poo. It's horrible, awful stuff. Not because of the clam, which is admittedly weird, but because the second loving ingredient in it is HFCS. Just use V8 mixed with some clam juice, which is an actually decent product which you should have in your pantry at all times. http://www.seriouseats.com/2017/09/use-clam-juice-as-stock-umami-flavor-enhancer.html Beefeater1980 posted:Wait a sec, my cocktail has forever and a day been the Negroni, which for the uninitiated is Gin, Campari and sweet vermouth, usually tweaked with bitters. Sort of but not really? I mean, Campari's an herbal liqueur based on steeping a bunch of different poo poo in some alcohol, but I can't imagine it tastes similar to Hegel's dudes' beverage. That stuff was probably closer to chartreuse. But if you like negronis, try a boulevardier which is the same thing except whiskey instead of gin.
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classic boulevardier has a different ratio as well, .75 campari .75 red vermouth 1.5 rye. and there is a caesar cocktail, it's just a bloody mary with clam broth. canada loves 'em. and my weird unplanned career has finally come up in this thread, but if you want to hear about cocktail/booze stuff i'm a cocktail bartender. i could do a big effort post on american tiki culture, ww2 is at least partially responsible for it
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Monocled Falcon posted:Anyone know of any cocktails named after noted European conquerors? the french 75 isn't named after a specific dude, but you might be able to get away with it and after a few of them nobody's really going to be able to argue with you
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Reiterpallasch posted:the french 75 isn't named after a specific dude, but you might be able to get away with it and after a few of them nobody's really going to be able to argue with you it's named after a gun! the famous french 75mm field gun of wwi vintage, or so the story goes.
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FishFood posted:classic boulevardier has a different ratio as well, .75 campari .75 red vermouth 1.5 rye. That might be enough to justify its own thread, honestly. I heard that before Prohibition cocktails used to be a lot weaker. True/false? Also for a truly Landschnektian beverage, you need really clashing colors/flavors. Maybe Fernet and Orangina?
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FishFood posted:it's named after a gun! the famous french 75mm field gun of wwi vintage, or so the story goes. I'm aware, though the literature is actually kind of muddled. The first "75" anyone's ever been able to find in a bar book is completely wild, based around calvados and absinthe. It becomes bubbly-based by the time it's definitively the "French 75" but there's some confusion over whether brandy or gin is the spirit being used (you'll still get one with cognac if you order it in New Orleans today, I think). The gin-based version shows up in the 1930 cocktail book published by the legendary American Bar at the Savoy London, and it's the one that's spread across the world today.
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Grand Prize Winner posted:That might be enough to justify its own thread, honestly. I heard that before Prohibition cocktails used to be a lot weaker. True/false? i'd say false: while the spirits available now are pretty different from what was around back then, the proofing of it wasn't. and we have recipes from before prohibition, the savoy cocktail book is a great resource that uses wacky old units of measure but a manhattan made in 1900 will have the same amount of ethanol as one made today.
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A possible contributing factor to that idea: "full" (100) proof spirits were supposed to be the norm back then and extremely aren't today. If you just make a lot of really old recipes without keeping that in mind, I'd imagine you'd get something insipid. For the reaaaallly old measurements, you also need to remember that the imperial volume measurements changed in like the 1700s or something.
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COMBAT DOPE SHEET #12 The Philippines![]() COMBAT posted:Ordinarily the subject of the weather is a pretty humdrum affair, but when we saw Little Algae the Pollywog watching that glorious sunset last night with a very gooey, romantic look on his face, we decided right then and there that this Philippine weather was no humdrum affair. Your old friend COMBAT was so touched by the scene that a new dope sheet was hatched: “The Weather”. These waters around the Philippine Islands are a real glamor spot and showplace for Mother Nature. Recently she has been featuring these beautiful days and nights, calm waters, colorful sunsets, and fluffy white clouds – and we don’t like to be the one to break the spell – but any day now you can be prepared to see a nice sizzling typhoon rumbling our way, and then we’ll see something quite different. Before we leave the subject of beautiful, calm days, we want to tell you to be on the lookout for a genuine “mirage” someday – they are a real rarity and only the saltiest ever see one. A mirage is caused by the bending of rays of light as they stream through layers of air that differ in density – for example a layer of warm, rarified air near the ground, common in a desert, causes the sky to be reflected on the ground – and a blue sky looks like a blue pool of water. At sea someday you may see a huge ship high in the sky, upside down. Although it’s entirely possible that it is part of the Jap fleet in an embarrassing position, the chances are you are seeing a mirage – a reflection of some ship over the horizon. Instead of a ship, you might see the buildings of some distant city reflected in the sky in a grotesque, distorted fashion. Don’t strain your eyes for San Francisco, though – mirages don’t stretch that far! Another thing you want to watch for: if you see a light green color on the underside of some far-away cloud, you can bet your mustering-out pay that there is some shallow lagoon (and probably an island) under that cloud reflection its color on the cloud. As long as we got started on clouds, we might as well tell you about the three types: first the CIRRUS clouds: high, thin, whitish, feathery clouds that are often called “mares tails”; second, the STRATUS clouds: low, grayish, formless masses that often form in large rolls; and third, the CUMULUS clouds: heaped up, fluffy thunderheads that form “faces in the clouds”.
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Tias posted:
Kümmerling or gtfo
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Now when I drink in excess, I can finally say I'm not indulging in a bad habit, I'm actually doing some very important historical research. Thanks MilHist thread!
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You could go with fermented mare's milk drank by Mongols. Does Rob Roy count? Or noted Prussian General Harvey Wallbanger pthighs fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Dec 31, 2017 |
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If you don't want alcohol there's also the one named after world-renowned artillerist Arnold Palmer.
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Tias posted:
If so, I'm gonna do some time travel drinking. Any other suggestions? ![]()
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Try Mannerheim's snaps, Marskin ryyppy, developed in Finnish army GHQ to counter the terrible taste of Finnish sulphite vodka ![]()
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Nenonen posted:Try Mannerheim's snaps, Marskin ryyppy, developed in Finnish army GHQ to counter the terrible taste of Finnish sulphite vodka ![]() You can make this yourself, by the way. It's a litre of vodka (or akvavit if you're fancy, but this is the milhist thread) with 2 cl vermouth and 1 cl gin, served ice cold.
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Nenonen posted:Marskin ryyppy5 I thought you'd fallen asleep on the keyboard or something until I saw the bottle ![]()
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Man, the thread title is super appropriate right now.
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Tomn posted:Man, the thread title is super appropriate right now. This thread's roster of regulars overlaps heavily with the drinking thread and Christianity thread. Draw your own conclusions.
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I'm reminded of this recent post in chitoryu12's Military Food Thread over in GWP:chitoryu12 posted:Also, I have acquired the 190-proof Everclear necessary for torpedo juice. Beware.
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Phanatic posted:Sort of but not really? I mean, Campari's an herbal liqueur based on steeping a bunch of different poo poo in some alcohol, but I can't imagine it tastes similar to Hegel's dudes' beverage. That stuff was probably closer to chartreuse. But if you like negronis, try a boulevardier which is the same thing except whiskey instead of gin. and clam juice is delicious, and the basis of the pasta dish my friends always request that I make.
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Siivola posted:I'm reminded of this recent post in chitoryu12's Military Food Thread over in GWP:
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Beefeater1980 posted:what Hegel’s dudes were knocking back ![]() Zacharias Nissel, from Bautzen: Cashiered for drinking brandy
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my granddad got court-martialed for drunkenness in the face of the enemy on dday +3 after stumbling on a cellar full of Calvados.
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HEY GUNS posted:god loving bless us, every one I'll post the results in here as well as there. It's 3:1 pineapple juice and grain alcohol and it has to be 180 to 190 proof to be accurate.
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Monocled Falcon posted:Anyone know of any cocktails named after noted European conquerors? Umm who did Wellington conquer ![]()
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chitoryu12 posted:I'll post the results in here as well as there. It's 3:1 pineapple juice and grain alcohol and it has to be 180 to 190 proof to be accurate.
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I googled clam juice because I figured that surely it had to be some kind of wacky colloquialism or something but nope, it is what it says it is ![]()
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A couple of days ago I had some homemade slivovic, followed by series of pretty explosive shits. I don't think this is a normal reaction. My sight is ok though.
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Fun fact, if you have a daquiri with a navy proof rum you're effectively drinking the same thing the british navy drank as grog. rum, lime, sugar (sailors might not have always had sugar and definitely didn't have ice). Navy-proof is defined as 57.5% abv, and that used to be the benchmark for 100 proof. At some point the scale was changed so that 100 proof equalled 50% abv. The reason 57.5 was marked as 100 proof is pretty nifty: it's the minimum proofage that you can soak black powder in and still light it. There was a whole big ceremony before giving every man his tot which involved some officers soaking a little powder and lighting it, to prove to the men it wasn't watered down. You'd then put a little water in, lime, sugar if you have it and presto! Grog! In the age of sail this was done every loving day, because a tipsy sailor is a happy sailor. Drink more rum everyone. Rum is the best.
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Grog was daquiris??? I thought life as a sailor was supposed to be hard
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Ainsley McTree posted:Grog was daquiris??? I thought life as a sailor was supposed to be hard He left out the scurvy and sodomy.
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Power Khan posted:He left out the scurvy and sodomy. Well that's why you put a lime in it.
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Happy New Year from Kuala Lumpur, Milhist goons! New year’s challenge: is there anything notable that happened in the Klang Valley / Kuala Lumpur region ever from a military perspective (and no, Merdeka and anything from the Emergency don’t count).
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Ainsley McTree posted:Grog was daquiris??? I thought life as a sailor was supposed to be hard
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