I just like the way the word sounds in a brogue. I like the way you spell it better, too, Sassenach. Whats it mean? Nm.... Googled:

The Gaelic term for a Saxon. Survives in modern day Ireland and Scotland as a derogatory term for an English person.

Where I live the derogatory term for an English person is "bloody English". :)

Let me try to get this straight. Limey is a sassenach and that's similar to sasquatch?? Limey - what size shoe do you wear?





Note: This is only trying to make a joke about similar words. From the pictures I have seen of Limey, I know she is quite lovely

Size 10 US. What is a sasquatch?
Just googled it. Yes, we have sasquatch in the family tree. Both my brothers' feet are/were size 16 US ...

Limes! The tea arrived today!
I thought you meant you'd bought me tablets (which as I said I have plenty of).

I'm nearly out of tea though.
You angel.

And of all the people in the world, I know you'd never buy me fennel tea (which is a common one for weightloss/ cleansing/ liver detox.)

One of these days I really will write Cherry's List of Common Foods Which are Intolerable.
I'm sure it will be fascinating.

I've been waiting for a £3.20 cardigan from eBay. It's teal green and fluffy. I'm gutted. It was sent on 4th Jan. The seller has offered me a refund. I think she may have kept it for resale given the bargain basement price I got. Anyway, Dad was all excited on my behalf - the thought it had arrived. He was susrpised when I wasn't upset.

But hey, if you see a fluffy teal green cardigan, do wrestle the wearer to the ground and demand to see a proof of purchase.

And thank you. Very kind and much appreciated.

Fennel is disgusting! I think the tea contains mint and nettle, both of which you said you liked. I find herb teas are quite nice cold. But this evening I had a mug of cocoa. Proper cocoa :)


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I am waiting-somewhat impatiently-for my valium to be refilled.

can't get a refill till the 24 or so which seems like bullshit if I'm paying for it myself.

Maybe this can tide you over. :(

How do you get a continuous prescription for valium (or xanax)? The doctors at my clinic will not do it for me. All I want to do is take a half pill every now and then before bedtime to take the edge off a really bad day.

Shoot, I get 10 mgms of Ambien and 2 mgms of Clonopin everyday. I can get an increased dosage by just asking. The VA is turning us all into addicts.

Serious note - if you are out of Valuim, you can make a "Camp Hit" coctail from legal ingredients. Take a shot glass. Add 2 full doses of liquid Nyquil. Throw in 3-5 tablets of Melatonin. Open 4 capsules of Benadryl (100 mgm) and pour it in. I'm serious about this. This concoction was routinely used until they deployed the Combat Stress Teams

:eek:

Holy shit Sarge, I only weigh 106...that cocktail would put me down for a whole day!

the Little Penguin, S.E. Australia Cabernet Sauvignon 2011. From magnum, a tasty quaff.

Bourbon, neat.

Sarge, you have specific indications for your meds. For most of us, ongoing scripts for benzodiazepines are a bad idea. They're Schedule 4 drugs, addictive, and the devil to get off. (Xanax is so bad - very short half-life - that many psychiatrists refuse to prescribe it at all.)

I was previously on a Xanax and Valuim regimen. I completely agree that the VA over medicates us and after almost 7 years, I do have a high tolerance. Plus, I shamefully admit to adding alcohol lately to enhance the effects. I am definitely a poor role model

Pico - that is a real concoction we used in 2005 in Al Anbar Province

It's not a matter of 'shameful', Sarge, but it's not safe. Please be safe, my friend.

My psych doc accidentally put me on it. I asked for it ONCE to come off a binge and he mistakenly thought it was a drug I took all the time. I get 90 10mg every month (I'm Rx'd 10mg three times a day as needed and I take all three of them every day- ) it was a fluke and I never corrected it. I've gotten them since July.

but, like everyone says, it's a bad idea. they don't really affect me that much--I joke with people in AA that I could never be 'roofied' because my tolerance is so astronomically high. 30mg of valium is like nothing to me. It just evens me out. Xanax IS a bad drug but ativan is okay. Klonopin is iff-y. When I was having a cancer chemo freak out I got klonopin and it settled me right the hell down and worked for about a week before I got used to it.


I get used to drugs in like, three days. God forbid I should ever really need something-they'd have to hit me with an animal tranq. and they usually don't want to do that. even with cancer I only got percocets 5/325. I should've gotten at least 10mg. If anything like that ever happens to me again I'm getting a pain team.

What Am I Drinking Tonight?
 

Tonight, Ima drink poison if I can find any.

The kind with x's and a skull and crossed bones on it.

Fuck the world.

:)

Poison and a smiley face. No mixed message there ... :eyebrow:

Hope things are okay, Grav.

wassa matta you?

You know Grav, we are supposed to take stuff like this very seriously.

Can you elaborate please?

Today I am watching football and drinking Silver Backs.

A Silver Back is half Victory Golden Monkey and half Victory Storm King.

Both are high octane beer. 9%+

Holy shit Victory is in the middle of expanding to allow for a capacity of 200,000 Barrels! That's 6,200,000 gallons a year.

Dayum.

http://victorybeer.com/expansion/

Yeah, and the new facility is 10 minutes from amanda's house!

They just installed 16 fermenting towers.

I saw the photos, I'm thinking about how many acres of barley one of those towers represents.

Perhaps he's thinking of recent divorcees (with ex's) and is smiling over naming his poison, left or right.

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Well, last night and possibly tonight for me was Maker's Mark served neat. A little rough. If I do have any tonight, I shall mix with coke

I find more & more than the only good sipping whiskeys are made in Ireland

This seems correct to me as well

I can see the mouths dropping when that chick is 80 showing her tits at mardi gras :eek: She will look like a Rorschach..

You boys never been to Kentucky, I take it. Or know anything about Scotland.

Ireland the only source of good sipping whiskies. :giant eyeroll:

AS I understand it, Scotch is smokier and heavier. Irish smooth and lighter.

Quote:

The difference between Irish whiskey and Scotch whiskies · The big difference between Scotch and Irish whiskey is the distilling phase which is made twice with Scotch and three times with Irish, giving Irish whiskey a particular lightness · Scotch whisky first allows the barley to sprout and then it is dried. Irish whiskey uses raw and malted barley while Scotch is entirely malted barley. (This is partly because there was an extra tax on malt in Ireland) · Scotch barley is dried with peat smoke which gives the usual scotch aroma to whisky. · Scotch is cask aged for at least 2 years, Irish at least 3 years. · Irish whiskey is distilled three times in larger than normal copper "pot" stills. The pot stills and the extra distillation produce a uniquely delicate drink. Developing later, Scotch uses continuous process stills. · The rural poor, in Ireland, made whiskey first. The logic is whiskey developed in a bread eating culture. You grow grain, mill it for bread and save some to sow next year's crop. In good seasons when you have extra, you make whiskey. · The Irish invented it, but Scotland is the spiritual home of whiskey

whisky in Gaelic is uisage beatha The Water of Life


IF you read Outlander, it comes up a bit. I did the audio book, so I got the pronunciation of "uisge beatha" by Davina Porter. I have never seen a picture of Davina Porter, but I'm pretty sure I'd do bad awful things to her person if I got the chance.


She has one of those voices like Emma Thompson ( who stars as DanaC in my 'cellar reading voice in my head') the narrator from 'Stranger Than Fiction' Where Will Farrell is hearing the events of his life, narrated by an author writing her masterpiece, in his head.
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I went to school with Emma Thompson.
Not all Scotch uses peat-smoked malted barley. The island malts tend to, the Highland (Speyside) whiskies tend to be lighter ...

Davina Porter:

Damn your eyes, clobble.

Youre usually pretty smart. I posit that you KNEW that I specifically didn't google her picture so as not to jeopardize potential fapping material. And furthermore, that you willfully attempted to pop my fap bubble!

You posit... correctly, sir. :)

Womenfolk, they be tricksy and mean.

Emma is my long time crush. Tell me she wasn't a complete tool IRL.
Apart from marrying Branagh, WTF?

Well then. Brad Pitt has a 3" willy

Jim I read that you didn't goggle her picture. Which seemed appropriate.

Come on, you'll have to work harder than that. Brad Pitt's gross. All hairy, with that weird-shaped mouth... I like the nerds, jim, the nerds!

Captain Picard has Halitosis?

Closer... he's a little old for me though. Better to go after Ralph Fiennes, or Stephen Colbert, or Neil Patrick Harris, or Benedict Cumberbatch...

I'm afraid she was, just a bit ...

Me???:blush:

OH! That is IT!

I'm through with you, so called footfootfoot!

lose my number! forget my address!


I"ll never love again


(walks away sobbing whilst simulanteously asking the sky "WHY?! WHY?!"

then gets hit by a bus.

hope you're happy.

I hope lumberjim comes to see me in the hospital...but not foot!

what you doon in hospitaaaahl, girl?
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http://www.swradioafrica.com/faces/emmerson030712.jpg

I got hit by that bus that I didn't see when foot broke my heart (flirting with that Hussie Clodfobble!) and I was sobbing, looking up into the sky as my tears streamed down my face, mixing with the snow, and asking WHY? when the bus hit me.

pay attention, jim.

well, the cellar women are dropping like flies.. I though you might be the latest victim.

Now, rub some dirt on your heart and get back out there.

Too swoon?

I admit I have not developed my palate for whiskey as I should have. I do admit to being pretty good at corn. I despise Jack Daniels except for their Honey Whiskey. Most of the Scotch I have consumed had to be mixed with coke for me to tolerate. The only true whiskey I can drink straight is Jamesons or Bushmills. I have never tried Tullamore Dew, but I hope to find some soon.

Now if you want to talk cigars, I can blow your mind.

Jameson is nice.


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'Round hyere, we figger sippin whisky is whisky that cowsts a bunch o munny. Ya sposed ta make it last, so's ya sip it.
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I've always found Scotch a bit too smokey, and warm in the mouth, for my tastes.

Expensive whisky*, and cheap cigars**...There's an evening well-spent!



*Wild Turkey Rare Breed (108.2 proof)
**Swisher Sweet Sweet Coronella

:p:

It was one of those days everyone looked and acted like :evil2:.

Instead of poison, I should've said "something really, really endrunkening".

I got better.

:drunk:

endrunkening is a perfectly cromulent word.

As is embeveraged.

I was at the VA again today. I had a very stern lecture on the effects of alcohol with certain meds especially in light that I have sleep apnea. Sigh, just when I started having fun.

Oh, after that scolding I didn't dare admit to the cigars

Moonshine

specifically, See-7-Stars-Moonshine from the Batch 206 Distillery.

Delicious!

Water.

nah, neat; it just *looks* like water.