MonkeyDog

They aren't normally half as bad as the French

Looks like there's a lot of SMD members not entirely comfortable with their sexuality

Wouldn't say it's bad, it's not the purists way but then neither is drinking it neat as a shot or sticking it in a glass with Tabasco sauce Way I look at it is this- it's something that I only really drink when I'm sat having a laugh with mates, fire is always a lot more fun than water, and as it's being drunk for fun then fire wins If I want something to sit back and enjoy I'll stick with Pastis (with just cold water, no sugar obviously) much nicer for a laid-back drink to chill out with IMHO.

The best way IMO drink it eastern european style with a sugar cube, an absinth spoon (below) and a match/lighter. It's perforated to allow melted/caramelised sugar to drop though (although mine has a squarer, flatter head almost like a really small fish slice with slightly folded up edges, came free with a bottle of decent stuff my brother brought back from Andorra once...) Basically you dip the sugar in the absinthe, rest the spoon over the lip of the glass with the soaked cube on top, pour a little absinthe over the spoon , and light the cube for a minute or so, so that the sugar melts/burns and drips through the spoon into the drink. Dip the still burning soon into the drink when it's done to set it alight. Then drip some Ice cold water in it so it becomes opauqe, normally it'll stop burning then but if it doesn't you can wet your palm and snuff it out like a candle (VERY quickly, it burns like a motherfucker otherwise) It's not the traditional way to drink it, but it does make you look hard as fuck, purists/old school drinkers will try and tell you to skip the fire and just drip the iced water over the spoon/cube to sweeten it and make it change colour at once, but everyone knows fire is more fun than ice water Good quality absinthe made traditionally does have hallucinogenic properties in some cases, which is why it was banned over here for ages, cheaper stuff generally isn't made in the same way and contains negligable amounts of the active ingredients. Other thing you can do is take a double measure of Jagermeister, a shot of absinthe and a spoonful of Tabasco sauce, get it in the glass right and it'll form layers, sink the lot in one go as a shooter, me and three of my mates thought this 5-6 times each would be a good idea for new years a few years ago, needless to say I didn't make it to work on New years day

Fook-ing hell, Fair play to Chicken, doesn't seem a man to do things by halves Might just be a "home" studio, but damn I've seen Studios not much bigger making an absolute fortune over here, and sounds as though it's going to get a fair bit of use too

I've been on here for hours It's usually quiet about now though...

Snakebite is half Cider and half Lager, heathen! Guinness is the shit though it has to be said, and it tastes wildy different from a tap in Ireland than it does in the UK. Not sure if it's the best beverage ever, but it's certainly amongst my favourite pints

I've only EVER seen ghetto installing that can match this once, and that was an amp wired to the back of the HU power loom, nothing soldered or crimped, they'd used twin 16awg speaker wire for power and earth (taped, unfused to the back of the HU ) and run down the car, they also had a bit of twin and earth domestic flex with two of the wires taped toghether and being used for the remote. Apparently it was OK because his brother did it and has been doing stuff like this for years I gave him the bollocking of bollockings and explained to him everything that was wrong, to which he said he'd take it to his brother to sort out FWIW he came into the store because the tape had peeled back on one of the splices he'd made, and shorted out, killing his HU, he never came back to the store, but how his car wasn't on fire was beyond me.

Trouble is you'd just end up with more enemies, or a massive jail stretch

I'd probably help a friend- Good friends are something everybody needs- helping a friend usually makes them better friends Bad Enemies are something nobody needs-attacking/hurting your enemies will only make them worse

I've got loads of the bloody things- Fusion Rep would visit the store I used to work at, and they give them away with some magazines too so got a load from that sorry, I know that's not much help

Thats bloody brilliant

My old boss had a Phantom, Bloody brilliant thing it was (mind you he also owned a whole load of castles and country house hotels over here, four helicopters and countless other cars, the 100EX concept was exhibited at one of them for some reason Having been lucky enough to have a poke around his saloon, I love them, the coupe would just be art if it wasn't for the spangly light up headlining, and imo the DHC is just One day I'll have plenty cash for things like that

was it bought new? EDIT: ah OK...

Got to be! let the people see how big some of this stuff is I still say 6th order blowthrough, 4 15"s or 18"s if theres space, could use some plexi in the bed that way more people could crowd round and look into it than if it was all below window in the cab