I've never thought you had a Taipei personality.

Ibram--

Kaoliang? Is that right? I'm curious, what does it taste like?

If it's anything like kaolin and morphine it tastes like liquorice and makes me vom.
Then again I have an allergy to codeine (morphine derivative) which may actually be at the root of my severe dislike for anything aniseed.

no, gaoliang (or kaoliang or kao-li'ang or any of the other ways they spell it) is not, unfortunately, a narcotic, nor does it contain any narcotic derivatives.
And V - it's, well, nasty. there's a reason sorghum is almost exclusively used as animal feed rather than as food, for, well, humans. I don't really know how to describe the flavour, frankly. it's got the kick and bite and burn one would expect from grain spirits, but a truly wretched aftertaste that's... slightly sweet, but in a sickly stomach-turning way. thats the closest i can come to describing it, honestly. I have nothing else in my worldly experience to compare the taste to. I don't recommend trying it, but on the other hand, in Taiwan, it's just about the cheapest alcohol one can buy (five bucks or so for a (particularly distasteful and cheap) bottle of relatively standard size, 750ml or so), and comes in 38% ABV and 58% ABV (so 76 and 116 proof respectively) and so is the most disgusting but also most economical method of getting one's self well and properly drunk on a budget. I try to avoid it when I can, but the selection at 7-11 and the other convenience stores in the area tends to be limited to gaoliang, whisk(e)y, and sake or shochu, and frankly gaoliang is the least repulsive of the three in my opinion.

Will you bring me a bottle when you return to Bennington? With a description like that, my morbid curiosity compels me to try it.

Look after yourself Ibram.
The majority of things you experience now are actually positive influences. Even if it's just to reinforce a belief that they are negative.

You seem troubled.
This too will pass. And in the Cellar we know you and still love you.
No, we don't know everything, but we're pretty damn accepting.
If things get really grim, try us.

If we'd offer you couch surfing or a hot meal, you can bet we'll try to listen.
And the fact some of us are old shits means we've been there, seen it, puked the biscuit.

I missed something. Ibram seems normal to me, just as normal as I was at his age, at any rate. I have it on good authority that "he is a sweetie." I won't reveal my sources, but have gotten consistent reports about this.

Yeah on second thought, you may want to look out for yourself Ibram if you don't want to end up like me...

cite!

:D

Like I said I won't reveal my sources, but they are well informed.

Ibram,

1 -- thank you for the reply. most informative. Like footfootfoot, I, too, feel a desire to taste the stuff.

2 -- you can stay here anytime you're in the area.

Yours,

whoa, now. you've got sources? giving you reports?
okay i kinda legit deserve to hear about this. PM me?

Hey now! Sorghum alcohol may be for shit, but finely ground sorghum flour makes a worthwhile bread loaf. Tastes a fuckton better than amaranth, believe you me.

Good Sake rocks.... That is all.

My most memorable Sake experience was when we hosted a large rugby club from Nippon in Hawaii. There were at least 40 or 50 people, which included spouses and children. Of all of those people were about 3 who could speak a tiny bit of English. We had a memorable match, but that is another story, and afterwards my wife loaded as many of them into our VW Vanagon and her Open top CJ-7 and drove to the party. Well the principles showed up with 3 kegs of sake. Not little things, these were like 50 gallon barrels. They had elaborate speeches, all in Japanese, so of course we had no freaking clue what they were saying but I am sure it was all good because we were showing them a grand time. They were dressed in these elaborate outfits, and cracked open the Sake kegs with big wooden mallets. Then they passed out these square wooden cups, which I still have, and we were all ladled out gobs of Sake which we drank until we were sufficiently trashed. Great experience. We had a great time with that bunch and still couldn't really talk with each other.

Many years later, 2 years ago, we had three visiting Japanese Rugby Refs come over on an exchange. We took great care of them and I am sure did more for our relations than Bush ever did after he threw up in the Presidents lap.

Indeed, good sake is very good. Cheap sake should be used for cleaning windows.

I am still confused as to what would be worth buying. We always get HOT sake when we go to sushi, 2 or 3 times a month, but what is a GOOD brand? There is no way in hell that when you get it in a JAP steak house you are getting "good sake". I would welcome your recommendations.

The best sake I ever had was from a Japanese friend whose brother was the personal ski instructor to the emperor of Japan. This was in the early 80s. She gave me about a half gallon of it in a little wooden barrel. It was amazing. It was very dry but had a syrupy viscosity. I later found out it was something like $500. per little wooden barrel.

I really had no idea, she was so casual about it and uninterested in it. "I don't really care for it." was what she said.

This stuff was like syrup as well, must have been good. Haven't had any thing that good since and that was 1986.

Yeah, I could kick myself for not paying closer attention to the brand. I've never had the syrupy stuff since and my friend passed away a few years ago. She was in her 80's.

Ibz...I'm so making you're latest pic my desktop ;)
I offer taking you out for a few drinks, I don't have my own place yet to offer a place to stay yet :(, but when I do, know that you're invited!

oh mtp, youre making me blush.

Sorry, Merc, couldn't name a brand to buy. Go to a crazy-ass festival in some tiny little mountain hamlet where they give out free booze and blow up a ton of fireworks while standing underneath them. Usually with their wangs out.

Do NOT buy "One Cup" sake for 150 yen from a convenience store. It was bad even before the video.

It doesn't matter what you have down there Ib, I still want to put it in my mouth! ;-)

Even post op?

Having seen (and saved) his ass pics, I'm sure I can find some way to play.:D

This is so, so wrong. Ib still a babe

Why are there so many words in this picture thread?

Have you posted any pics in this thread? But I do agree we need more pics

I'd love to describe myself as a babe (or even babelicious or, if i dare, baberaham lincoln) but i'm certainly not too young to post incriminating photos of myself, and well, it would be silly to think that photos one posts online wouldn't end up saved on somebody's hard drive. while i might question his taste, i certainly won't question shel's right to it. if i were like, fifteen, that'd be one thing, but i'm an adult, and he can like - and, if he really wants to, save - what he likes within the realm of legality.

But Ib, we know your a big boy now, but I'll always remember you as the high schooler. That's the way I picture you in my mind

Even so, who are you to judge shel or anyone else for his sexual preferences?
We all have our own concept of "acceptable" age ranges/differences. Some people, for example, are disgusted by people like Donald Trump with their wives whose ages are fractions of their own. Others see no problem as long as theyre all consenting adults. But when it comes right down to it, even if were you gay or i a woman you would consider me too young for you, that doesnt mean it's fair to apply that standard to others, and to shame them for their sexual attitudes.
When it comes to minors, it's a very different matter. I've known 20-odd-year-olds who were in physical relationships with 16 or 17 year olds, and found it creepy - and likewise have known people of the same ages with perfectly healthy and safe relationships. There's obviously a point of youth and a point of age difference where things are pretty unambiguously not okay - pedophilia and the like - but once someone is a legal adult, i think it's pretty low to shame someone for showing or acknowledging attraction towards them.
Think about it this way. Most of the non-dwellar females that have been posted here as being "hot" or used as examples of sexual desirability (not that i'm posting examples, refute me if you honestly think that i'm wrong), and for that matter most females used as examples of sexual desirability in the media at large (in an overt manner at least) are between the ages of 18-25. I am also in that age range. Is it that different because i MET the Cellar when I was younger? its not like youve watched me grow up from a small child until now, just from my mid-to-late-teens.

I just think it's wrong to try to shame or denigrate someone for showing or acknowledging sexual attraction to a consenting adult, i guess. If the desire is unwanted or makes the desired uncomfortable, it's valid at any age to say that it's not cool. But an adult that lets his or her self be viewed sexually in a public forum should never be a cause for shame towards anyone who enjoys it.

and if we're asking for more pics in the thread, I guess I can oblige if it won't offend Sarge too unduly.

Never in my life have I ever envied a vodka bottle like i do now.

And for the record, I waited until IB was of age before I really began hitting on him hard. ;-)

Before that, he only hit on me flaccid.

And now I am mighty Thor. And thoon, tho will you be! ;)

It's just because you came here as a kid Ibs.

We didn;t see you grow from a tot, but we were witness to much of your teenage journey of self-discovery.

I think we witness him discovering more than his self.

And I wonder, in regard to Ib's comments if it is somehow creepy to think of clodfobble as being hot considering her profile pic. I think so.

Every wife's age is a fraction of her husband's - sometimes it's an improper fraction.

Ib - You having a bad day? It was more of a joke towards Shel than anything else. I have a dry sense of humor. I recently carried on a thread bashing the over 40 crowd on here for several days before revealing I am turning 51 this month. I've had threads on here about anal warts, alien abductions, and casting out of demonic forces (aka Democrats)

Man do what you want. I meant no offense unless you are a Democrat

Dunno if they still do, but smirnoff used to advertise with the slogan "it tastes like ... um ..." on billboards.

I'm sure it took all of about 12 hours before people started adding a C in that sentence.

So, all in all, a quite appropriate choice of prop.

Mr Ibram. I like your pictures. I think I will post some of mine on here too

Thor's 9, dude....

but improper wives are the best, no?

they don't swell, they don't tell, and they appreciate it like hell...

Or so I'm told.

Here, I'll make it far creepier for you: one of the reasons I like that picture is my daughter looks exactly like I did at that age. Poor kid has no chin, just like her mom.

How can you see his pix? :eyebrow:

i am blind but not stupid. you are making fun of me because i have big breasts. you are jealous because i am young and pretty. i put my hand on the monitor and i can feel the images

Your seeing eye cat has been falling asleep in front of the monitor, you're holding its genitalia.

A mashup of two threads:

What is this? (granted it barely, some would say hardly, rates nsfw)

V, although this might occasionally be the Scratch My Itch thread, it is certainly NOT the Diagnose My Problem thread!

But at least kudos for posting a pic, no matter how intriguing the previous pages of conversation were. Nice bulge.

You're welcome, that was the "nsfw" part of the mashup.

I'm not asking to be diagnosed, I know perfectly well the source of the irritation. I was just wondering if anyone else here recognized it. I'll give a clue, it is a risk reserved almost exclusively for men. Also, it's temporary, though some scarring can occur.

masturbating with a belt sander?

I'm way past TMI, here V

Proof that you really should have used a condom 5-7 days ago?

no....

a further clue: xoB and Gravdigr are possible candidates for this problem, though their superior intelligence would likely save them the pain. And it is painful. Tulip is less at risk. I don't know about the rest of youse.

xoB loves him some beautiful naked girl next door types, gravdigr likes him some naked, and tulip has a flashlight fetish. I think I see where you're going but I'll need a little more help.

I may be relying on information about xoB that he expressed to me directly, though I thought it was in a public forum. Gravdigr and Tulip have both shown their risk factors plainly here. (though not in this thread)

They all collect stuff, I know of a flashlight fetish with Grav and Tulip, I'm not sure of xoB. You like to be paddled, but a flashlight seems harsh. Fleshlight, maybe, but flashlight no.

not a flashlight injury.

nor a fleshlight injury.

you're getting warmer though.

Candle wax burn

friction burn from a blow up doll?