What Are You Drinking? V2. Frosty Jacks - For The Discerning Pisshead

[Chaurus]

Do love the Confederate battle flag,but it's a real shame about the unforgivable connotations. Not so much the Stars and Bars.

That's all a matter of perspective.

Just ask the Ayatollah.

OT: Warsteiner Alcoholfrei

 

[Tralfamadorian]

Many people do love the confederate flag round here (in Cork), as an (Irish)-American, I can't help but be a bit uncomfortable about it.
Anyways, drinking Bulmer's again cause yeah.

 

[Chaurus]

You used to see em everywhere. The Dukes of Hazard, German singer Nena had one on stage, American Seventies movie after movie had one.

I went to an old Western clothing store in Paris last year and they still had em.

I recently saw a Netflix road documentary about two guys from -I think- Saturday Night Live, and they went to a bar in Oklahoma and they still had one on the ceiling there.

OT: Warsteiner Alcoholfrei

 

[Tralfamadorian]

Yes if you go to the South in the states they are at least as prominet as the US flag. If not more in some areas. Shit is still real over there.

 

[Chaurus]

Yes if you go to the South in the states they are at least as prominet as the US flag. If not more in some areas. Shit is still real over there.

A friend in the American military in Germany said something about those flags being banned there.

 

[Shambles]

Objectively the Dixie flag is better than the US flag… but those connotations… yeah… unacceptable.

Tbf, the St George flag is getting close to being so overly associated with hardcore racists that I personally would never associate myself with it.

It’s honestly a shame that a national flag - that celebrates a Middle Eastern man venerated by Christians and Muslims alike - has been so completely hijacked by racists it has become essentially the British equivalent to Dixie

 

[Chaurus]

Objectively the Dixie flag is better than the US flag… but those connotations… yeah… unacceptable.

Tbf, the St George flag is getting close to being so overly associated with hardcore racists that I personally would never associate myself with it.

It’s honestly a shame that a national flag - that celebrates a Middle Eastern man venerated by Christians and Muslims alike - has been so completely hijacked by racists it has become essentially the British equivalent to Dixie

The Dutch Flag was a variant called the "Geuzenflag" (which has an orange top field rather than a red one) which has been exclusively used by neofascists, but unlike the St George Flag or the Confederate Flag hasn't been used by ordinary folks since at least World War 2.

But that isn't the same.

OT: finished the Warsteiner Alcoholfrei

 

[Tralfamadorian]

Objectively the Dixie flag is better than the US flag… but those connotations… yeah… unacceptable.

Objevtively I see your point, but it does mean something a bit more when you're in Alabama. And there are a hell of a lot of them there.
It is a shame about the flag of England though, it is about as bad as the confederate flag at this point, somehow. Sadly

 

[Tralfamadorian]

A friend in the American military in Germany said something about those flags being banned there.

Banned in Germany or banned in the States? Cause it's definitely not banned in the states, in reality. Maybe techincally it is but I don't know.

 

[Chaurus]

Banned in Germany or banned in the States? Cause it's definitely not banned in the states, in reality. Maybe techincally it is but I don't know.

In the US military somewhere.

Not sure if it still is.

OT: we're getting off topic and my glass is empty.

 

[Tralfamadorian]

It probably is banned in the military to an extent. I don't know as I've never been in the military but I think they do tend to be a bit more serious about things in general.
My cans are almost empty, and we are getting off topic. Cheers.

 

[Perkins : Reborn]

Objectively the Dixie flag is better than the US flag… but those connotations… yeah… unacceptable.

Tbf, the St George flag is getting close to being so overly associated with hardcore racists that I personally would never associate myself with it.

It’s honestly a shame that a national flag - that celebrates a Middle Eastern man venerated by Christians and Muslims alike - has been so completely hijacked by racists it has become essentially the British equivalent to Dixie

Few of them even know that until Edward III had his 'vision' of George helping him win a battle, we had homegrown saints like Edmund and Edward the Confessor. I'm sure quite a few of them think George isn't an import.

England didn't even exist when George was knocking around. And if he had visited, he would've been part of the Roman occupation.

 

[Oldskipper]

 

[Ex-Cracker]

Just got from store, 35cl of captain Morgan spiced gold and cola

 

[abefourth]

Any absinthe heads here?

 

[Ex-Cracker]

Any absinthe heads here?

I instantly spew with even the slightest sip of it, and the original recipe absinthe is rare in UK, do you do the sugar melting on it?

 

[abefourth]

I instantly spew with even the slightest sip of it, and the original recipe absinthe is rare in UK, do you do the sugar melting on it?

Haven't tried it yet, but absolutely want to. I definitely think I'll do the sugar thing when I do. Until I forgot about it. I definitely am going to do it in the next 3 months. Should have made it a New Year's Resolution.
In the U.S. there's disgusting laws about how much thujone can be in it (even for imports). But it's the US, I'm sure the freedoms to have fun and to think will be outlawed soon.

 

[Ex-Cracker]

Run out of cola but still have rum!! Proves I'm a lightweight

 

[Shambles]

Any absinthe heads here?

I once spunked an entire two-week’s worth of benefit money on a bottle of legit good absinthe. Asked the guy in the shop what I should mix it with. He suggested Midori. Was actually delicious - and I’m not fond of aniseed.

We got very drunk (was 70% ABV) but only slightly regretted spending all that taxpayer money

(I should probably add I was a hardcore junky and crackhead at the time so money mattered little to me - I never had any anyway so every day was always consumed by grubbing up enough cash to shake the monkey from my back)

 

[Oldskipper]