I am revelling by sitting here sniggering slightly at dm's last post. feel this a mild appeoach.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
night!
god bless all who participated in this stain of a thread.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
Hermaneutics New & Old: A Practical Appeoach -- buy your copy now at Amazoon.com.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:09 (eleven years ago) link
Hermaneutics New & Old: A Practical Appeoach -- buy your copy now at Amazoon.com.
I was more hanging on kermode's beltstraps.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 02:11 (eleven years ago) link
jes
who is fizzles tho
stills v good question
not as good as WHY WHY am I going to work today. so stupid. what completely fallacious motive had me lying in bed in my pyjamas (I've just retrieved em from storage gimme a break already) thinking I cd call in a sick and have day doing fuck all/reading/doing something meaningful/playing Diablo 3 it's shit I know,OR I cd go into work. WHY did I decide that rly I shd go to work? why?
part of it is feeling I wdnt be able to make best of the day.
part of it is Larkin's loblolly men maybe.
part of it is because I've got so much work to do that if I don't go in today it'll just create misery further down the line.
BUT THAT IS ALL ROMG.
so I'm on a train with a dry mouth and a headache and oh here we go -
Hi,GoodMorning Tom.This is Shiva(Test Analyst).I'm at Waterloo station.just now I have get into Fleet train.ThanksShiva
hi shiva am on train - which part are you on? [having run f'ing hard for it chiz chiz]
I'm on the middle part
right - am heading for the "middle part" to meet my destroyer (who is a lovely person but don't have grebt English tbh). Eric B and Rakim can only get me thru so much of today.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:51 (eleven years ago) link
in fernet thread why bcos fernet definitely to blame for this.
where's darragh, where is he when I need him.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:52 (eleven years ago) link
man I missed your long dark night of fernet branca
― woof, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:54 (eleven years ago) link
sack off work. it's the feast of S. Charles King and Martyr.
― woof, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 08:55 (eleven years ago) link
I'm going to banqueting house to fuck some Jacobites up.
oh fuck had I but known this information.
think didn't call in sick partly because of LIE, but if I'd known about housewive's fave Charlie sooner I'd've sacked it off.
and this from a professional skiver earlier in my life (but then people who think they're good at this sort of thing are usually v bad).
oh god -
couldn't find you!
Let me know, in which part are you on?
Now at the front.
I think , I have to come back to 4 parts back
Jesus wept now.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
think I went to see some sealed knot types dick around on the mall this time last year iirr in fact.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:18 (eleven years ago) link
Fleet! what a crypto-wealthy hole.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:19 (eleven years ago) link
ok see you at fleet - seems easiest!
That's right.
wonder if he'll send me confirmation of my rightness again. I hope so I could do with it.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:21 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, them's the boys. I nosed about a couple of years ago, this year looking to get in to the mass, hear a crazy sermon & see what they have in the way of relics. Prob just hankies etc, I suppose. No fingers.
― woof, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
this drink is absolutely vile
― the Shearer of simulated snowsex etc. (Dwight Yorke), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
It is 10:04 and i am therefore :04 late oh well
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 10:05 (eleven years ago) link
god, sitting talking software development with a programmer - head is hurting like hell. anyone got the gen on text edit software design? need to filch rather than reinventing the wheel.
I must stink of fernet - still half drunk + hangover.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 11:27 (eleven years ago) link
Fernets past theorem
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 11:54 (eleven years ago) link
dying.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
ah it wasn't that funny tbh
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
no, he meant he's dying
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:38 (eleven years ago) link
just my luck, i thought i'd finally found an easy crowd
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:43 (eleven years ago) link
I bought some Fernet Branca a couple of weeks ago. I don't mind it straight, but I'm looking for some simple cocktails I can make with it. The best one I've come across so far is the Toronto: Fernet Branca, whiskey (some recipes specify rye), simple syrup, and Angostura bitters, with a orange peel garnish.
Actually, the first time I had Fernet was in Buenos Aires, where they mix it with Coca Cola, so I guess that's an option, too.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
national drink of Argentinian teenagers or something like that
― questino (seandalai), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
fernet with coke sounds like a gustatory black hole. only possible cocktail is fernet + more fernet imo. doesn't combine. like one of those.. oh god I just asked my tech colleague what an element that doesn't combine easily with another element was called and he just gave me a full-blown but barely conprehensible account of the periodic table and protons and electrons which gave for my head to throb in agony. so I'll just say fernet's like the opposite of an alkahest, whatever the term for that is, but I'm not going to ask colleague as do not fancy a lecture on Paracelsus during which I'll have to wear my mask of attentive understanding, which feels like it's generating an aneurysm. ye gods, he's just started on about molecules. Rly nice chap, but please stop now.
still dying but it's happening slowly, oh so slowly.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:09 (eleven years ago) link
you are living a halflife
― b'hurt's tauntin' (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
in retrospect the glass of whisky between the fernets was possibly a bad idea it's true. god this dismal litany of stations feel like stations of the fucking suburban cross - Walton-on-Thames, Weybridge, Farnham, Surbiton. Just get me to Golgotha already ffs.
shiva has gone to sleep.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
I swear by this stuff but I don't even chase it with ginger ale anymore. It's one of those things I find doesn't mix well. Now angostura bitters and gin, otoh...
I have heard that Fernet-Branca is the world's larest purchaser of saffron.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:21 (eleven years ago) link
Ahhhh, fernet. #memories
― Chief Queef - Vaginally Rich (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:27 (eleven years ago) link
I also first tried it in buenos aires. The porteños who offered it to me did so as if they were handing me a crack pipe in a public information film: "Go on, just try it, it's a little overwhelming at first but you'll love it man, it's wild"
― Chief Queef - Vaginally Rich (wins), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:31 (eleven years ago) link
you have fernet #memories?
the only time I've drunk pink gins I fell over on the way out of my house.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 18:38 (eleven years ago) link
ya they and they alone are why saffron is so expensive iirc xxp
fernet was always a weird medicinal thing my mum made me take as a kid but i got somewhat hooked on cynar in the summer and have since revisited the old stuff for a laugh
still fairly unpleasant but i quite like it in coffee, gets u super jacked up if need be
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
The Dr Henderson: equal parts Fernet Branca and creme de menthe, with ice. A hangover cure invented by the father of Fergus Henderson, owner of St John, the London restaurant.
― bham, Thursday, 8 May 2008 09:02 (4 years ago) Bookmark
this sounds like absolute fucking filth tbh, the man's a wrong un
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hadn't heard of Cynar before. Might try it in a year or so's time when this hangover has worn off.
xpost jesus
cure as in cure you stone cold dead presumably.
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:43 (eleven years ago) link
Cynar is made with artichokes, iIrc, and I've only had it served before dinner.
Ramazotti is a good amaro if you find Fernet to be to bitter.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
cynar's great ramazottis great fernets great. these are my drinks
― just sayin, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:43 (eleven years ago) link
to be fair to the fernet, the fear that has started kicking in, and which is one of the main reasons I've cut down radically on my drinking, is nowhere near as bad as that of whisky. (yes this is probable mystic bullshit, but I associate different drunks and consequently different hangovers with similar strength drinks - fernet's always been a winner here for me)
― Say Bo to a (Fizzles), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
There's a great chapter on bitters and herbal liqueurs in Jason Wilson's "Boozehound." I guess American tastes run to the sweet and Euro tastes run to the ... gross? Just kidding. But I couldn't imagine drinking stuff like this, Pernod, Campari, absinthe, Benedictine, Chartreuse and other spirits along those lines straight. They're tough enough in a lot of cocktails!
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
Czech Fernet Citrus (lime flavoured) with tonic is the king of long un fussy drinks
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Saturday, 23 February 2013 08:02 (eleven years ago) link
Has a Fernet Branca Menta, a Mirto and a Amaro del Capo this evening and enjoyed them all. Could make a habit of amari, I think.
― Rainbow DAESH (ShariVari), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:25 (nine years ago) link
*had*
i was looking for this thread iirc my first encounter with fizzles <3
― local eire man (darraghmac), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 00:49 (nine years ago) link
I was in a goth band a year or two ago and we had a habit at every show of everyone doing a shot of this before we played.
― ©Oz Quiz© (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 02:13 (nine years ago) link
Equal parts Fernet Branca, Campari, and Cynar, with a pinch of salt and a twist of grapefruit = the Bottecchia, which makes for a great nightcap.
― Tove Lo Tove You Baby (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 February 2015 04:10 (nine years ago) link
Woah would drink that
― just sayin, Wednesday, 18 February 2015 10:12 (nine years ago) link
Revive for Christmas. Fernet in cocktails has never worked for me because it just ends up tasting like adulterated Fernet but the other day I had this in Dublin:
FERNET IT**Olmeca Reposado Tequila, sweet vermouth, Green Chartreuse, Fernet Branca, VCC porter, gomme syrup, Orinoco Bitters, with lemon oils
and it turns out that tequila + Chartreuse + Guinness can gang up on the Fernet and come to a truce.
― Choco Blavatsky (seandalai), Monday, 25 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
^ sounds like hell which suggests it might just work.
― Fizzles, Monday, 25 December 2017 23:23 (six years ago) link
Imagine what the mixologist and friends must have gone through to arrive at that
― El Tomboto, Monday, 25 December 2017 23:39 (six years ago) link
Ha ha. I know. Concoctions out of Tartarus.
― Fizzles, Tuesday, 26 December 2017 12:21 (six years ago) link