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Good luck with that winter! I'll be pulling for all you guys over here, sitting in my warm hydropower-heated house watching the snow fall.
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https://twitter.com/MrPostsGood/status/1597722640005103616 Refers to this but he seems to have locked his account in between me copying link and posting it here! https://twitter.com/MarinaPurkiss/status/1597502714795417600 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:52 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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cat botherer posted:Good luck with that winter! I'll be pulling for all you guys over here, sitting in my warm hydropower-heated house watching the snow fall. Thanks comrade. I haven't felt warm all day but glad you're having a nice time.
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HopperUK posted:Thanks comrade. I haven't felt warm all day but glad you're having a nice time. *May not hold true in the event I get laid off.
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Oh heck I hope that doesn't happen mate. Sorry I was snippy. I've got a monster headache.
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HopperUK posted:Oh heck I hope that doesn't happen mate. Sorry I was snippy. I've got a monster headache. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 02:29 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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I can't remember which label it was but my dad brought back some peated whiskey from when they went to Scotland for their mum's funeral (she hated my mum and I's guts so we weren't inclined to go), and it was probably the most foul-tasting liquid I've ever put in my mouth. What exactly is the appeal, if there is one?
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Bloody Pom posted:I can't remember which label it was but my dad brought back some peated whiskey from Scotland went he went over for his mum's funeral (she hated my mum and I's guts so we weren't inclined to go), and it was probably the most foul-tasting liquid I've ever put in my mouth. What exactly is the appeal, if there is one?
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Am I in a minority being irritated by that I frontpage/headline? I'm all for the eradication of Christianity in the UK but that headline makes my eye twitch and has been in the back of my head all day.
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OwlFancier posted:laphroig does taste a lot like suffering yes Blasphemer. I did enjoy when I got a friend to try it and he was like "this is like drinking an ashtray". Because I could 100% see where he was coming from. TBH I think part of the reason I got into Laphroaig was just I wanted to try whisky and I recognised the name from the Rebus books. Worked out though. Bloody Pom posted:I can't remember which label it was but my dad brought back some peated whiskey from when they went to Scotland for their mum's funeral (she hated my mum and I's guts so we weren't inclined to go), and it was probably the most foul-tasting liquid I've ever put in my mouth. What exactly is the appeal, if there is one? I mean, it's nice! It's usually a really bold, strong flavour. I think it is fair to say it is an acquired taste for a lot of people. I really enjoy the smell of Laphroaig as much as the taste, it's almost overpowering which is nice because my nose is absolute loving garbage. You'd be best trying a lightly peated whisky as a first experience, something like a Talisker which doesn't have so much of that iodine-y quality or sea salt forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 02:48 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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forkboy84 posted:Blasphemer. cat botherer fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Lagavulin 16 year old is my choice if you want to drink liquid turf smoke. Boiled water over a peat turf fire when i was young and drank the above, tastes the same imo. Plus the strength it doesn't take many to give you a peat turf fire in your chest too. Perfect for winter, if you can stomach the price makes a long walk home from the pub more enjoyable rocket_Magnet fucked around with this message at 02:52 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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It tastes like eating out a bog mummy.
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OwlFancier posted:It tastes like eating out a bog mummy. I'll bow to your experience on that front
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Numbers without context 01 Jan 2022 2.10% 01 Feb 2022 2.25% 01 Mar 2022 2.50% 01 Jun 2022 2.75% 01 Jul 2022 3.00% 01 Aug 2022 3.25% 01 Sep 2022 3.75% 01 Nov 2022 4.25% 01 Dec 2022 5.00%
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Only Kindness posted:Numbers without context Covid vaccination rates among Wee Frees over 60 on Uist?
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I love scotch whisky but unfortunately I've had to be honest with myself and admit that bourbon is usually much better for me at least. Scotch is good if you're really capital T tasting it though, rather than just absentmindedly drinking. Still prefer the lighter malts like Glengoyne over any of that overpoweringly peated island stuff though.
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Dabir posted:If they don't have a really strong and instantly identifiable local accent, try "have you been here long?" as an icebreaker question. Bobby Deluxe posted:Reminds me of that bit in Disco Elysium where the racist truck driver says 'welcome to Revachol' to Kim, and then Kim explains the concept of dogwhistles and why he told him to gently caress off.
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I wouldn't use "where are you from?" as an icebreaker but if you're genuine in trying to get to know someone then that topic will organically emerge in conversation anyway, so you won't need to be that clumsy.
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The Port Charlotte 10y heavily peated malt from Bruichladdich is probably the best whisky experience I've had. Much superior to Laphroaig which just stinks of TCP. Ardbeg is also a good one (probably easier to find in normie bars). keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 08:17 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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I really like Lagavullin but it got reaaal expensive, like 10 years ago it shot up in price (or even longer ago) and since then I only bought one bottle, when I turned 40. I also like Laphroaigs stuff, I found their best whisky was their Cask Strength.
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A few notes I had: 1: it's not fuckin' winter yet wtf OP 2: back when I did drink drinking I liked the glenmorangie sherry cask edition a lot 3: up the unions thankyou for your consideration
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My wife's Welsh and turned me onto https://www.penderyn.wales/ , REALLY nice. Very light in colour, not peaty/smokey if that's your thing, just genuinely high quality whisky IMO.
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When I used to drink a lot of peated whisky I got to a stage where I really could taste other stuff in it. Earl Grey tea, vanilla, caramel, etc. - I felt like a posh person. Laphroaig was a bit much, Laphroaig Quarter Cask you could smell across the room though. My favourite was Caol Isla and I bought a bottle of 15 year old cask strength when I was in Edinburgh for my wedding in October as a kind of wedding present to myself. It is gorgeous. I can't really be bothered with un-peated whisky, it just seems flat and dull now. cat botherer posted:but I'm not just like one note MAX PEAT/MAX BITTERNESS anymore. But they're so different. Laphroaig is nothing like Lagavulin is nothing like Caol Isla is nothing like Talisker is nothing like Bowmore. Surely there's way more difference between any of them than there is between a Macallan and a Balvenie. Oh and if any of you are into whisky, I can't recommend the touring whisky festival enough. As much as you can drink, it always ends up really good value for money. Sir Sidney Poitier fucked around with this message at 09:02 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Sir Sidney Poitier posted:as a kind of wedding present to myself. Surely there was someone else who could have been involved in this gift
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Dead Goon posted:What's the stuff Ultra-Mega-Libertarian Ron Swanson drinks? That's Lagavullin, I wondered once if that had something to do with the price rise (here it went from 60 to 90 per bottle), but it happened way before parks & rec.
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His Divine Shadow posted:That's Lagavullin, I wondered once if that had something to do with the price rise (here it went from 60 to 90 per bottle), but it happened way before parks & rec. That was exactly my reason for asking! (the price rise correlation, maybe)
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Bit chilly this morning. Might be time to turn the heating on.
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sassassin posted:Bit chilly this morning. Might be time to turn the heating on. I've had a chest infection/flu for the last 6 weeks. For the last couple of days while it's been 1 degree, I've had to turn the heating up to 22 to minimise shivering myself into muscle cramp with fever. Went out to the shops to get medicine last night and cranked the car heating all the way up (I think it said 26 degrees). It was so warm and felt like it was helping my fever symptoms no end. No idea on the cost effectiveness of it vs heating a house to that silly temperature. Though I suppose I could have tried putting on 3 jumpers or something.
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Mourning Due posted:My wife's Welsh and turned me onto https://www.penderyn.wales/ , REALLY nice. Very light in colour, not peaty/smokey if that's your thing, just genuinely high quality whisky IMO. I used to like Penderyn a lot but a decade later and its a bit too sweet for me If anyone likes smokey this is dangerously good for seventeen quid https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/spirits/ben-bracken-islay-single-malt-scotch-whisky/p15800 Skarsnik fucked around with this message at 09:42 on Dec 1, 2022 |
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Dead Goon posted:That was exactly my reason for asking! Actually, now that I look, Parks & Rec started way back in 2009. So that might actually work out... The years are blurring together for me...
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I think the price has risen for most malts in recent years simply down to demand outstripping supply, most distilleries just aren't able to scale up their production to meet global market needs. Except maybe Jonnie Walker, who somehow convinced dumb Americans that they're a premium brand.
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Before this year I was completely in the habit of sticking the thermostat up to 20/21 any time I felt a bit chilly. That died when I had to pay £1.25 a litre for my heating oil in March.
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Skarsnik posted:I used to like Penderyn a lot but a decade later and its a bit too sweet for me I think these are from Caol Ila or Laphroig casks that never made the grade, and then labelled under Lidl's own brand. Good bargain if you wan't something cheap to dish out to visitors over Christmas.
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Mourning Due posted:My wife's Welsh and turned me onto https://www.penderyn.wales/ , REALLY nice. Very light in colour, not peaty/smokey if that's your thing, just genuinely high quality whisky IMO. I buy penderyn as presents, they did also once do a whisky cream called merlyn I think, which was surprisingly pleasant considering I can't stand baileys.
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OwlFancier posted:I buy penderyn as presents, they did also once do a whisky cream called merlyn I think, which was surprisingly pleasant considering I can't stand baileys. Someone who heard I like Penderyn got me one of them I had to pretend to like it 
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Skarsnik posted:Someone who heard I like Penderyn got me one of them I'm sure it's not great but baileys just tastes like chemicals, that at least tasted like food. Unrelated but while the cold is shite it does make nice mornings. 
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