OT: 83rd Obsequious Banter Thread: Balls to the Wall

[JojoTheWhale]

A bay leaf??

Yep, bittersweet chocolate and bay leaf go together well.

You can also use basically the same recipe for other spices with minor tweaks. Cardamom is my SO's favorite. Other options that have turned out well include chili powder, matcha, and ginger.

You can always add a shot of espresso too.

 

[Tripod]

Somebody posted this on a local subreddit the other day

You should make it and get back to us

Have never had brandy or bournon before either.

Wine/champagne, beer, vodka, rum, Jager....I think that's all I have ever had....lol.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

Somebody posted this on a local subreddit the other day

You should make it and get back to us

I was interested until I saw wine.

 

[Young Sandwich]

Yep, bittersweet chocolate and bay leaf go together well.

You can also use basically the same recipe for other spices with minor tweaks. Cardamom is my SO's favorite. Other options that have turned out well include chili powder, matcha, and ginger.

You can always add a shot of espresso too.

@Captain Dave Poulin is disgusted right now. He may have scoffed himself to death.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Must be nice.

Here in Canada...got my 1st one May 20th...2nd shot scheduled for Sept 5th

WTF ??? Got 2nd shot yest. 2 weeks I get my passport and it’s travel time.

 

[bennysflyers16]

Of course! Hope you enjoy it, my friend.

1 bar spoon heavy syrup (2 sugar: 1 water)
2 dashes Angostura bitters
2 oz rye or bourbon
Slice of lemon peel
Ice

Put everything except the lemon in a double rocks glass and stir. Express the lemon peel into the liquid, drop it in, and go.

Bus trip to Vikings few years ago buddy mixed almost your exact recipe all the way down. Needless to say we fell out of the bus arriving in Minny.

 

[Surrounded By Ahos]

Have never had brandy or bournon before either.

Wine/champagne, beer, vodka, rum, Jager....I think that's all I have ever had....lol.

Bourbon is very tasty. It's a great sipping drink, especially when it's cold outside. Always seems to warm me up.

I was interested until I saw wine.

The recipe isn't set in stone, feel free to substitute more bourbon instead

 

[Tripod]

WTF ??? Got 2nd shot yest. 2 weeks I get my passport and it’s travel time.

In NS...the gap is 105 days from dose 1 to dose 2 as they did so to try and get as many as pssible to have 1 first.

But they have said that they expect that gap to be shortened...by about a month since they have gotten more doses scheduled to come in.

 

[FLYERSFAN18]

I am not a drinker at all, obviously...lol.

I thought the whisky/whiskey was just a spelling difference by region like color/colour, neighbor/neighbour....lol.

I am learning more and more today.

The whiskey spelling is a regional thing. The brits spell it with no e, the Irish spell it with an e. Of course the Irish way is the correct way.

 

[Beef Invictus]

I never do 2:1 on my sugar syrup. Too sweet for me. It's more like 1:2 when I make stuff.

 

[Jack Straw]

 

[ajgoal]

Nope, never. "I am away with limited access to e-mail. If you require immediate assistance, please contact X." Even in the toxic workplace I was in once, this was never an issue.

 

[Flybynite]

This may be the beginning of understanding what the taste/smell loss with COVID-19 was. There was a UK study that had people who were given brain scans and then later after having contracted COVID-19 were re-examined and it was discovered there was a reduction of grey matter and likely damage to areas of the brain including cognitive function, memory and the area which handles tastes/smells.

Important to note this was a very preliminary and small sampling since it included people from a study that had already been examined pre-COVID. The scariest part is hearing that the imaging and damage is similar to what they then see in Alzheimer's patients.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

This may be the beginning of understanding what the taste/smell loss with COVID-19 was. There was a UK study that had people who were given brain scans and then later after having contracted COVID-19 were re-examined and it was discovered there was a reduction of grey matter and likely damage to areas of the brain including cognitive function, memory and the area which handles tastes/smells.

Important to note this was a very preliminary and small sampling since it included people from a study that had already been examined pre-COVID. The scariest part is hearing that the imaging and damage is similar to what they then see in Alzheimer's patients.

Hopefully this can in some way aid in brain mapping, or gene mapping, or something in that area. Maybe a silver lining.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

Kurt Angle is trending on Twitter. I initially thought the worst. But it was a viral video of a guy getting into a fight at work & giving the other guy German suplexes multiple times to win the fight.

 

[Hollywood Cannon]

@Captain Dave Poulin @Surrounded By Ahos

Guy is a fraud. Hurricanes "fan" one day and an Islanders "fan" the next.

 

[Magua]

@Captain Dave Poulin @Surrounded By Ahos

Guy is a fraud. Hurricanes "fan" one day and an Islanders "fan" the next.

Jimmy Fallon is apparently a Rangers and Islanders fan. Which absolutely checks out with his ingratiating personality.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

@Captain Dave Poulin @Surrounded By Ahos

Guy is a fraud. Hurricanes "fan" one day and an Islanders "fan" the next.

You can't blame him - he got Thunderlornesplained by Socrates Aristotle Emmanuel Acho. No one walks away mentally whole from something like that.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

Jimmy Fallon is apparently a Rangers and Islanders fan. Which absolutely checks out with his ingratiating personality.

Jimmy Fallon has never realized that he isn't Adam Sandler.

 

[Magua]

Jimmy Fallon has never realized that he isn't Adam Sandler.

He’s everything bad about late night shows today. Overly scripted, lowest common denominator, boring, not funny. And I’m not even saying he’s not talented.

 

[LegionOfDoom91]

He’s everything bad about late night shows today. Overly scripted, lowest common denominator, boring, not funny. And I’m not even saying he’s not talented.

I raise you James Corden.

 

[Magua]

I raise you James Corden.

That’s a lot to raise.

 

[Captain Dave Poulin]

I raise you James Corden.

That's not really fair. It's like killing a spider with a phone book, or killing a spider with an ICBM.

 

[kudymen]

Jimmy Fallon is apparently a Rangers and Islanders fan. Which absolutely checks out with his ingratiating personality.

He is actually just trying to be a fan of those teams. Just like he tries to honestly laugh at everything everyone ever said on his show. He just tries.

 

[kudymen]

I just want to say that neither Corden nor Fallon express any amount, magnitude of suckiness. Why? Because they BOTH SUCK TO THE MAX.

And this has very little to do with the fact that they were both successors to my spirit animals.. haha