Thunderbird Club

[GBassNorth]

The makers of the expensive vodkas will hunt you down for destroying their profits

LOL - if they were smart they'd try to corner the market on Britta filters!

 

[RedVee]

Except vodka. Buy the cheapest crap vodka you can find. Then filter it ten times through a Britta water filter and it'll taste as good or better than any top shelf vodka you can buy. I've done this many times for friends and hardcore vodka experts. Works every time.

The vodka challenge:
Have a friend bring their favorite expensive non flavored vodka to your house. You buy the cheapest non flavored vodka you can find (yes, even generic vodka in a plastic bottle will do). Pour one shot of each and have everyone take a sip noting which one they like best. Now filter the bottle of cheap crud ten times through a britta water filter. When done pour a shot of the filtered crud and a shot of the top shelf stuff and have everyone take a sip noting which one they like best. You'll be shocked! It's a great party conversation piece.

I used to buy $100 plus fifths of vodka, not any more. I never spend more than $5 or $10 on a bottle now.

... but spend a fortune on water filters?

 

[Christine]

All this talk about Skynyrd, beer, chili and burgers...
Here's a gratuitous Leon Wilkeson pic;
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And Ed King who's a food critic of sorts now ironically. Ed also played the bass on the Pronounced album just before Leon returned to the band

 

[GBassNorth]

... but spend a fortune on water filters?

About $5 per filter and about $10 for a 1.75L bottle of crap vodka is enough to last me a good long time on shots and martinis. Hardly a fortune unless you drink like a fish.

https://www.amazon.com/Brita-987554...encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=2KHQ5R89VHGEYB1MYS
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Edit: what I used to buy in the pre Britta days...
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[Christine]

You took over from Fixer. He's been a bit circumspect lately, so somebody had to pick up the slack. You stepped in and made it happen! Well done.

Forever in shame, I'm off on holiday for a couple or four weeks depending on the weather so you'll be able to sit in the sun and have a quiet time again for a while I'm feeling a bit like a jack in the box at the moment truth be known, I'll be back to my usual grumpy self in no time

 

[Christine]

For many years I lived in the downstairs half of a house in Bondi. The arseholes in the next house over had a burglar alarm that used to like going off, particularly in warm weather. The siren was in the narrow pathway between the houses directly outside my window -- aka a canyon -- and was as loud as fvck.

It would go for 20 minutes, reset and go off again, reset and go off again, reset ...

One day I rang the polis and they duly turned up, inspected the outside of nextdoor, pronounced all clear and turned the alarm off. They told me 'next time this happens, as soon as it goes a second time, just turn this switch off'. It was the main power switch for their entire house!

On numerous subsequent occasions much vicarious pleasure was derived from hearing the arseholes next door arriving home to a dark house and defrosted food.

Am I surprised?

 

[Christine]

I'm not a beer fan at all but if it's ice cold and served in a frosted mug I'll drink it. Mexican beers and Fosters are about all I'll drink but any beer snob would turn their nose up at those. Like I said, not a beer fan here. Gin and Tonic, Margaritas and Martinis are more my style before dinner then wi gin to mene with dinner and maybe a port or Irish coffee after dinner.

I'm not a beer fan either, I like the occasional glass of good cider in the summer on warm evenings. Gin and tonic is a favourite, has to be Gordons gin, I'm not a fan of the new "trendy" gins like rhubarb and ginger, they're OK but not gin to me. Another favourite is Southern Comfort and bitter lemon but that's my lot with spirits, wine is my drink of choice, I've become a big fan of Australian red wines, some can be as awful as any but some are a delight. Other than that I drink a lot of water out of the tap

 

[GBassNorth]

My resident black snake is shedding and appears rather confozzled.

You should have him checked out - he might have a reptile dysfunction.

 

[Christine]

About $5 per filter and about $10 for a 1.75L bottle of crap vodka is enough to last me a good long time on shots and martinis. Hardly a fortune unless you drink like a fish.

I used to pour vodka into my fish tank Honestly, it was a carbon source that helped reduce nutrients in the water and reduced algae growth and promoted coral growth

 

[Christine]

You should have him checked out - he might have a reptile dysfunction.

I wish I'd stayed in bed!!

 

[theFixer]

You should have him checked out - he might have a reptile dysfunction.

HAH!!! That is pure gold

 

[Christine]

HAH!!! That is pure gold

Gold?? Now that is posh! It's brown and steamy over here

 

[Haji]

I'm not a beer fan at all but if it's ice cold and served in a frosted mug I'll drink it. Mexican beers and Fosters are about all I'll drink but any beer snob would turn their nose up at those. Like I said, not a beer fan here. Gin and Tonic, Margaritas and Martinis are more my style before dinner then wine with dinner and maybe a port or Irish coffee after dinner.

Mexican beer? Oh, you poor lost soul...

 

[Christine]

You took over from Fixer. He's been a bit circumspect lately, so somebody had to pick up the slack. You stepped in and made it happen! Well done.

It's been hours now and I haven't said anything...... I'm trying my best

 

[bholder]

Geez, I take a break from this thread for a few days, and I'm 10 pages behind! Keep up the good work!

 

[Basvarken]

HOLY CRAP! I don't even wanna know the price but that's unreal.drool

Thank you.
Price is €2100 (± $2590). But it was sold two weeks ago, to a fellow Talk Bass user.

 

[Christine]

Thank you.
Price is €2100 (± $2590). But it was sold two weeks ago, to a fellow Talk Bass user.

Good price for a hand made instrument, the new owner got a bargain. It's got a real retro feel to it, you can just imagine someone like Chas Chandler playing it

 

[GonePlaid]

Thank you.
Price is €2100 (± $2590). But it was sold two weeks ago, to a fellow Talk Bass user.

From the looks of it ,worth every penny Update: listened to the demo, confirmed my evaluation. Terrific.

 

[GonePlaid]

You should have him checked out - he might have a reptile dysfunction.

He's free to roam(slither?)outside and normally takes a dim view of my presence but I'll let him know of your concern-now that I'm back up offa the floor.

 

[Nocturnal]

I'm not a beer fan at all but if it's ice cold and served in a frosted mug I'll drink it. Mexican beers and Fosters are about all I'll drink but any beer snob would turn their nose up at those. Like I said, not a beer fan here. Gin and Tonic, Margaritas and Martinis are more my style before dinner then wine with dinner and maybe a port or Irish coffee after dinner.

Not a beer snob, but I know what I like. I will drink PBR, Mickey's, Rolling Rock, Dos Equis, etc but prefer some of the craft beers. The higher alcohol content doesn't hurt either. I enjoy cocktails as well. An old fashioned, Moscow mule, martini, etc are always welcome in my gullet. As far as cheap vodka goes, If I am mixing it (which is any time I drink it) I will use lower end stuff because I can rarely tell the difference in a mixed drink and if I can tell the difference its because someone was too heavy handed when they were pouring it (not going to say who that "someone" is).