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[Missk_2022]

I get what you are saying. When I saw the mods come in, I immediately asked my friends from other sites about him. None of them heard anything but said I should trust the mods. I did. But the mods just said to all on the thread we were enabling which was a blanket acusation. Some as you detailed above were enabling but others like myself were looking into it and finding distance.


Try not to accuse all who were on that thread of enablers. We were surprised and now ready to have a thread without the creepy and perveted folks. I will certainly report it if I see it.

And assume good intentions..... most of us didn't see the poor me posts or the underage stuff..... so when we tried to ignore you it wasn't we didn't agree....we DID NOT KNOW....

 

[Drizdart]

There is a dog called the petite something something that they say pbgb dogs.... they are so cool.... but require a lot of maintenance

Petit Basset Griffon Vendéen

 

[kcanuk]

Ok that one is up there for me as well—Glenlivet, I like the light blue bottle 12 year old

The Macallan is probably my all-time fave but I find the price to be a bit steep. That said, from what I have read, Costco’s Kirkland brand scotch IS in fact Macallan (AND Kirkland vodka is Grey Goose). In Canada our Costcos aren’t allowed to sell alcohol

Costcos in Alberta have their own liquor stores immediately adjacent to the main store…..

 

[Lumiere_Amie]

Any gin drinkers? What’s your favorite?

I was introduced to gin by a coworker, he ordered me a Tanqueray and tonic. I was hooked. Drank it for years, until I tried Bombay. Dropped the Tanq. Then started to try to get the wife to drink it. She didn’t care for the juniper-forward gins, so I started trying more modern gins. Now I tend to drink New Amsterdam, but also experiment extensively. Right now I have NA, Bombay Bramble, and Jenever on my shelf. We also like the Hendricks special releases, but not their original. I’m trying to find Gin Mare (pronounced mar-ay) but no luck yet.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

That was a great album, my second was Deep Purple - Machine Head.

I think that my 3rd one was ELP's debut album. Something about ladies by the score.

 

[Wonderer67]

Any gin drinkers? What’s your favorite?

I was introduced to gin by a coworker, he ordered me a Tanqueray and tonic. I was hooked. Drank it for years, until I tried Bombay. Dropped the Tanq. Then started to try to get the wife to drink it. She didn’t care for the juniper-forward gins, so I started trying more modern gins. Now I tend to drink New Amsterdam, but also experiment extensively. Right now I have NA, Bombay Bramble, and Jenever on my shelf. We also like the Hendricks special releases, but not their original. I’m trying to find Gin Mare (pronounced mar-ay) but no luck yet.

Not so much gin…

I like bourbons, but also rum. A friend of mine from work is from Barbados and started a rum club w a bunch of us. (Not on work grounds or time, obviously.)

A friend of mine from Canada gave me a bottle of rum he got from Cuba. Has to be the best rum I’ve ever had.

I don’t drink too much liquor, but when I do, various whiskeys and rum.

 

[Wonderer67]

I think that my 3rd one was ELP's debut album. Something about ladies by the score.

My fourth album was Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps.

(Sort of making that up, as I’m not 100% sure which was my fourth album. But that one was somewhere in there…)

 

[Wat_Tyler]

My fourth album was Bad Music for Bad People by The Cramps.

(Sort of making that up, as I’m not 100% sure which was my fourth album. But that one was somewhere in there…)

I cannot remember what my 4th album was. I do know that in that general time period, I got a tape player for the car and was fortunate enough to be given some tapes by some friends.


I got iTunes a few years ago and have discovered some new-to-me 50-some year old music. It's been great.

 

[lovecraft68]

Haven't looked back through so not sure why we're talking fourth albums, but thinking on it, I'm pretty sure it was Iron Maiden's Killers (1981)

 

[B2fromA2looking4U]

And assume good intentions..... most of us didn't see the poor me posts or the underage stuff..... so when we tried to ignore you it wasn't we didn't agree....we DID NOT KNOW....

I think you meant the moderators.

 

[MLG1016]

For rum straight with ice, I like Lady Bligh @72proof or Blackheart @93proof. Great flavor and fairly smooth.
Sailor Jerry @92proof is also good.

 

[MLG1016]

Anyone remember, I believe it was called penny record club. Tape a penny to the application for a number of albums, then have to purchase a number more at some price. Details are sketchy anymore. Found pot
about the same time.

 

[Wonderer67]

Anyone remember, I believe it was called penny record club. Tape a penny to the application for a number of albums, then have to purchase a number more at some price. Details are sketchy anymore. Found pot
about the same time.

Those fucking record club things were terrible. Looked good up front, but then you were fucked and you owed them a lot of money.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772385006758846481

 

[MLG1016]

That’s it. Record Club. Yup. Come and get your money. I was underage. The letters stopped after a while. Although My parents were a little pissed at me.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Problem was, we didn't have money then. Hell, I cut grass and did a fast food job. I discovered beer and wimminz. There wasn't much dinero left to waste.

 

[Gamine67]

I listened to the radio more than anything; KFRC ‘The Big 610k

Rarely did I buy an album and if I did it was from the Payless Drug Store bargain bin for $2.99* and had a hole from a paper punch in a corner.

So just about anything I had was released a year or two before but was “New to me”.

* Stereo albums cost about .50¢ more.

 

[Helgamite]

https://scontent.flas1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/432861211_388851407344324_828608819490489369_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=5f2048&_nc_ohc=0wxn4AGCWP8AX9wNY74&_nc_ht=scontent.flas1-1.fna&oh=00_AfBOamE9_2XjANcQPReHXbYNdj7sYEbe3vJEMfKE7GqxIw&oe=6607886A
sit back, relax with a beer in this bathtub and just relax all day! maybe have a good looking woman there too!

 

[fullservice65]

Order up!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I listened to the radio more than anything; KFRC ‘The Big 610k

Rarely did I buy an album and if I did it was from the Payless Drug Store bargain bin for $2.99* and had a hole from a paper punch in a corner.

So just about anything I had was released a year or two before but was “New to me”.

* Stereo albums cost about .50¢ more.

Yeah, got a few of the culls, too. Some of them sucked, but they were cheap. Usually one hit wonder bands.


We had a great progressive rock station in town. Daytime only AM radio. That was what was on in the car on summer breaks. About 2 years after graduating high school, it sold out or was taken over by some outfit that wanted to play crap we wouldn't listen to. I still can sing the old sign-off jingle. I had a t-shirt, but it disappeared decades ago. It was too small to start with.


*sigh*

 

[lovecraft68]

Those fucking record club things were terrible. Looked good up front, but then you were fucked and you owed them a lot of money.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772385006758846481

Never did the record deal, but got screwed by the book deal, pre net scams LOL

 

[HumpDayHoratio]

Any gin drinkers? What’s your favorite?

I was introduced to gin by a coworker, he ordered me a Tanqueray and tonic. I was hooked. Drank it for years, until I tried Bombay. Dropped the Tanq. Then started to try to get the wife to drink it. She didn’t care for the juniper-forward gins, so I started trying more modern gins. Now I tend to drink New Amsterdam, but also experiment extensively. Right now I have NA, Bombay Bramble, and Jenever on my shelf. We also like the Hendricks special releases, but not their original. I’m trying to find Gin Mare (pronounced mar-ay) but no luck yet.

Hendrick’s…hands down! Plymouth after that…here’s why….

I’m a Papa Hemingway fan…read just about everything the man sat down and put pen to paper to. If you read any Hemingway, you’ll notice something over several books. He likes to write about and incorporate what he was drinking at the time into the story.

Well, I was finishing up Islands in The Stream and he had a Tom Collins recipe in that book?!. It called for Coconut water fresh limes, Angustora Bitters and, yes, specific, by name Hendrick’s or Plymouth Gin!

Now both are old Gins, Plymouth by far the oldest (17-something or other) from Jolly Ol’ England, and Hendrick’s turn of the century maybe? From Scotland. I think Hendrick’s may have gone under at some point but they were revived (thank the almighty!) and it’s by far my favorite. In fact you line up a few G&T’s and I can pick the Hendrick’s one out of the batch…something I can’t say for Bourbon or other spirits…

Some smart guy put all of Hem’s drinks together in a website…I now share that with my good 50+Cafe/Bar/Speak Easy friends!

 

[Missk_2022]

I think you meant the moderators.

I did...thanks for clarifying

 

[Sincity09]

Does anyone remember their first CD that they bought? When CDs came out I jumped ship from vinyl (regrettably), at the time it just made sense, the sound was so clear, no skipping (when clean), no scratches etc

My first CD, the one that convinced me to jump to digital was one that was played in an electronic store as a demo for their CD players: Dire Straits’ “Brothers in Arms”. God it sounded so good….

 

[Wonderer67]

Does anyone remember their first CD that they bought? When CDs came out I jumped ship from vinyl (regrettably), at the time it just made sense, the sound was so clear, no skipping (when clean), no scratches etc

My first CD, the one that convinced me to jump to digital was one that was played in an electronic store as a demo for their CD players: Dire Straits’ “Brothers in Arms”. God it sounded so good….

I know. I liked it. Bought a shitload of CDs. I liked the clean sound too.

Till I didn’t.

A lot of punk rock bands still put out vinyl cuz CDs were too expensive. But by late 90s, everyone was doing CDs and high quality cassettes.

But my first cd was Let It Bleed by the Stones. It’s my favorite release of theirs.

 

[Wonderer67]

I listened to the radio more than anything; KFRC ‘The Big 610k

Rarely did I buy an album and if I did it was from the Payless Drug Store bargain bin for $2.99* and had a hole from a paper punch in a corner.

So just about anything I had was released a year or two before but was “New to me”.

* Stereo albums cost about .50¢ more.

The only issue for us was that a lot of punk rock records were imports so we’re MORE expensive than regular.

But I also did my share of getting cutout and budget records. (Remember they’d have a cutout on the cover or a hole drilled thru it?)

I’m having a deja vu moment.