As some of you may be aware, I have wisdom teeth that need removing. But I can't afford it until the end of the week. The paracetamol I've been taking for the last 5 days isn't working as well any more. So it's time for something a bit stronger. So....even though I don't drink any more....desperate times call for desperate measures. So I've just gone and got a bottle of absinthe. Suffice to say I should be rather sloshed very shortly. So rather than spam the rest of the board, I will en devour to keep my drunken ramblings located within this thread. Wish me luck!
Absinthe before 8:30 in the morning? That's the very definition of decadence. I hope you're wearing a smoking jacket and monocle.
nope im wearing boxer shorts. although it is 10:01pm here. although it is monday night. im pretty sure its bad to be drunk on a monday night.. well this drunk anwyay. oh boyl. well a quater bottle of 85% absinthe and im toast. literally. i cant evn walk. looks like making this thread was a brilliant idea by sober me. boys an girls, i have scientificllay proven that if you have wisom teeth pain, drink this stuff and it will make the pain disapppear! as if by magic!!!
it works. serously. i am so drunk. ha ha ha. i love you guys. goodnight.
If my memories of absinthe (which are unsurprisingly few in number) hold true, you will shortly need those painkillers more than ever.
I once got drunk on something similar to absinthe. It was in Budapest and they call it Unicum.
I had a numb tip of the tongue for a week afterwards - I was genuinely getting quite worried about it.
That has to be the singularly most disturbing name for a drink ever.
never had absinthe or unicorncum i'll stick to bourbon and scotch
Quote from: richerthanyou on 04 April, 2016, 11:03:30 AM
nope im wearing boxer shorts. although it is 10:01pm here. although it is monday night. im pretty sure its bad to be drunk on a monday night.. well this drunk anwyay. oh boyl. well a quater bottle of 85% absinthe and im toast. literally. i cant evn walk. looks like making this thread was a brilliant idea by sober me. boys an girls, i have scientificllay proven that if you have wisom teeth pain, drink this stuff and it will make the pain disapppear! as if by magic!!!
it works. serously. i am so drunk. ha ha ha. i love you guys. goodnight.
That is going to be one bastard of a hangover...Good luck! you'll need it.
Quote from: JamesC on 04 April, 2016, 01:23:55 PM
It was in Budapest and they call it Unicum.
While I might have stopped drinking much at all any more I'm still childishly able to giggle almost uncontrollably, as if drunk, simply by reading the name Unicum...
... no I'm not proud but come on...
I had two Wisdom teeth out last Friday and it was quite harrowing. Seriously though, for the pain Ibuprofen liquid capsules did it for me.
THE LIQUID WAS ABSINTHE
*it wasn't
I'm pretty sure that the absinthe will dull the pain of the wisdom teeth, by making your head hurt ten times worse.
I watched the film of Fever Pitch while drinking absinthe and while I cannot recall a single scene, I have the overwhelming and unnerving feeling that it is one of the funniest films ever made.
Drinking Absinthe in Oblomov on Great Western Road on my pal's birthday is the only time I've ever experienced that Billy Connolly thing of feeling perfectly fine then standing up to go to the bog and discovering my legs were drunk.
The first time I drank absinthe I proposed to my current wife. This is true.
Quote from: Satanist on 06 April, 2016, 11:39:31 AM
The first time I drank absinthe I proposed to my current wife. This is true.
Well they do say that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder :)
Yeah, had some of that Unicum stuff in Budapest a few weeks back. It was....well, to be completely frank, VILE but eh, I was so passed pissed I got through 5 shot goasses of the stuff before proceading to break my beer mug, my FREE COMMEMORATIVE BUDAPEST BEER FEST MUG I might add, by tripping over someone who looked like a portly Billy Idol.
Budapest is a weird place, guys.
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 April, 2016, 11:58:22 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 06 April, 2016, 11:39:31 AM
The first time I drank absinthe I proposed to my current wife. This is true.
Well they do say that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder :)
You utter dastard.
Yeah, Budapest is weird, and Unicum is like someone decided Buckfast urgently needed to be distilled into something worse (or as my wife put it, if you're going to put something with that name in your mouth, at least the Uni- variety includes the necessary alcohol). But the baths are beyond arsom.
And other than one night in Co Clare last year, a weekend in Budapest 7 years ago was the only time we have escaped from the kids since we were married, so it has a special place in my heart.
Quote from: Tordelback on 06 April, 2016, 01:06:56 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 06 April, 2016, 11:58:22 AM
Quote from: Satanist on 06 April, 2016, 11:39:31 AM
The first time I drank absinthe I proposed to my current wife. This is true.
Well they do say that Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder :)
You utter dastard.
:lol: I was trying to think of a way to shoehorn that pun in - Big thanks to Satanist for giving me a perfect set-up!
You are welcome sir! :P
I should also clarify that the current wife didnt hold me to my drunken proposal (shes nice like that) so I waited till I sobered up then asked for reals.
I remember being bought B52 shots on one particularly rowdy night out (I think they were B52's at least)? I discovered during the course of the evening that a constituent part of a B52 is Absinthe. That was the second time in my life I succumbed to drink induced blackouts, waking up unable to recall large parts of the previous evening.
Quote from: Satanist on 06 April, 2016, 01:39:23 PM
You are welcome sir! :P
I should also clarify that the current wife didnt hold me to my drunken proposal (shes nice like that) so I waited till I sobered up then asked for reals.
I like the way you say "current". Like you are on the lookout for the next ex-Mrs Satanist.
The future Mrs Satanist is Salma Hayek. The current Mrs Satanist is well aware of this proposal and seems ok with its actual liklihood.
Quote from: Satanist on 06 April, 2016, 05:52:46 PM
The future Mrs Satanist is Salma Hayek. The current Mrs Satanist is well aware of this proposal and seems ok with its actual liklihood.
I...I thought I was the future Mrs. Satanist?! I THOUGHT WE HAD SOMETHING SPECIAL???!!!
Alas my dear Hawkmumbler it cannot be for my heart belongs to another but we'll always have that incredible weekend in Skegness.
Quote from: Satanist on 07 April, 2016, 09:36:49 AM
Alas my dear Hawkmumbler it cannot be for my heart belongs to another but we'll always have that incredible weekend in Skegness.
'Sniff' I will always remember those wonderful times, I bought this special mug to remember you buy, Satanist, my other "special mug".
Hold on you lot, stop pretending I'm the only one still giggling at Unicum by pretending to talk about something else.
Arrhhh Unicum.
Tehehehehehehe hehe he
You know, I've never noticed I had my message request function on FB messenger switched on, only just noticed I got messages from a Steev Thulin from 2014?! A local forummite but forgive me I can't remember which one of you lot the chap in question is!!!
I think that's smallbluething, but I may be wrong...
Yeah that's SBT
I didn't think I liked whisky but I had a small cup of stuff at a birthday party yesterday (I believe it had the initials 'JW'. Comes in gold coloured bottles*) and found it so moreish that I had a second cup.
Strong but smooth and quite sweet. I felt rather tipsy afterwards, although the whisky succeeded a couple of cups of red wine. The other guys were drinking it diluted with coke. I drank both glasses neat. What does that say about me? (I didn't drink any more than the two partially filled cups, so the answer is probably: "not a lot".)
*While she does like the taste, my friend told me she bought it because she likes the gold bottles. I asked if she displays them as ornaments then**, and she replied she just kept them in a kitchen cupboard. That puzzled me a bit. Does she just like taking them out and looking at them then? Women eh? Says the guy who collects 2000ad action figures and model Star-Trek starships.
**A question I could have answered myself since the only bottle on display was the one we were pouring from. In my defence I was tipsy and she had moved stuff about a bit for her party.
That sounds like Johnny Walker Gold Label Reserve (http://www.31dover.com/johnnie-walker-gold-label-reserve-golden-bottle-limited-edition.html) - I was given a bottle of that by my workmates for my last birthday and it is a very nice whisky indeed, very smooth. I think Selfridges stock it.
The golden square bottles are far too nice to throw away, so I kept mine - it's on the same shelf as my 2000ad action figures and Star Trek spaceships!
But why on earth were you drinking wine and whisky out of a cup?
If whiskey isn't normally your bag, you could do worse than give Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey a go. I always keep a bottle in the fridge on account of it being so sweet and easy to drink neat that I think of it like a flat soda.
If Whiskey isn't to your taste; try drinking Scotch. ;)
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 April, 2016, 09:05:41 PM
The golden square bottles are far too nice to throw away, so I kept mine - it's on the same shelf as my 2000ad action figures and Star Trek spaceships!</quote>
I knew you got the action figures, but you.collect the Star Trek ships too? Heh.
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But why on earth were you drinking wine and whisky out of a cup?
My hosts served the drinks in plastic disposable cups. And the food on cardboard plates for that matter. I think they wanted to save on washing up.
Quote from: CrazyFoxMachine on 10 April, 2016, 04:16:57 PM
Yeah that's SBT
Quote from: Spikes on 10 April, 2016, 11:12:51 AM
I think that's smallbluething, but I may be wrong...
Thats the chap! Feel kind of sheepish now, for 2 years that message was in an inbox I never knew existed!
Quote from: Mardroid on 11 April, 2016, 01:27:12 PM
Quote from: Dandontdare on 10 April, 2016, 09:05:41 PM
The golden square bottles are far too nice to throw away, so I kept mine - it's on the same shelf as my 2000ad action figures and Star Trek spaceships!Quote
I knew you got the action figures, but you.collect the Star Trek ships too? Heh.
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But why on earth were you drinking wine and whisky out of a cup?
My hosts served the drinks in plastic disposable cups. And the food on cardboard plates for that matter. I think they wanted to save on washing up.
Oh lordy, I thought cups was bad but premium whisky out of plastic <shudder>.
I only bought the first of those Star Trek ships to get an Enterprise for £1.99, not collecting them.
EDIt - can't seem to fix the quote tags on this
Quote from: Professor Wolfgang Von Bear on 10 April, 2016, 09:38:08 PM
If whiskey isn't normally your bag, you could do worse than give Jack Daniel's Tennessee Honey a go. I always keep a bottle in the fridge on account of it being so sweet and easy to drink neat that I think of it like a flat soda.
Gorgeous stuff. Picked up a bottle going through customs in Mexico last year, and will need to get another bottle quite soon.
I would heartily recommend the link below when it comes to choosing the right kind of glass to imbibe from. One must have standards, after all. ;)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCvsf_jBAXT/?taken-by=drunkfail