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[lagilman]

Luck & fortitude [& strong drink] to my friends in the UK on this election day...



No matter who you vote for, the government has a way of getting in. That's both the strength and the great weakness of our (mostly) shared system.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Thank you. Most especially for the strong drink. We may need it.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Luckily, we haz it. I'm eyeing a bottle of wine for the first part of the evening, and then the whisky later.

And then, um, the train journey in the morning. Oh. Perhaps not the whole bottle of whisky, then...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Not that I'm questioning the need, but whatever happened to "Never mix the grain and the grape"?

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Pffft. Superstition: it is not at all uncommon for me to go from beer to wine to whisky, grain/grape/grain, with no particular or observable ill effects.

Also, I have no decent brandy. And if I did, I'd save it for celebration rather than soothing sorrows.

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

The quality of the drink is what matters. I recall one session which got only a little out of hand which involved a pint of sake, 3 bottles of beer, 4 bottles of assorted wines, several taster bottles of single malt scotch, and finally (about 10 hours later) another half bottle of red wine.

This between 4 of us, two of whom, being ladies, consumed less than we gentlemen.

The whole leisurely over the course of an afternoon and evening, with good food, much conversation, and nary a hangover the following morning.

(Does sake count as grain? I suppose it should, but ...)

[lagilman]

ah, true also: the time frame matters, as does the consumption of foods. Switching libations when you switch consumables is only Just and Proper.

*draws a veil over a certain night involving sake, gin, and much red wine...*

[lagilman]

Me, I keep them separate, but it's def. a personal thing between you and your gods...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I bow to superior expertise. And (probably) younger physiologies . . .

[bellinghman.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that now I'm in my second half century, I'm going to have to stop mixing sake, whisk[e]y, beer and wine of an evening?

Say it's not so!

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I have discovered a lowered capacity for excesses in general, as I age. Granted, I am not following a severe training regime . . .

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

"No matter who you vote for, the government has a way of getting in."

Brilliant