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Four identical pairs of LLBean chinos. Forward to middle age!

You guys keep talking this up so I thought I should try it. Now please suggest some drinks for which it is especially suited. Any ultra-dry martini comes to mind.

martini w/o vermouth?

martini w/o vermouth?

That sounds ultra-dry.

Just mix it with a good tonic water like Fever Tree 50/50 and add a slice of cucumber. Keep the gin and the tonic as cold as possible so you don't have to resort to ice.

It also makes for a good dry negroni (use dry vermouth instead of rosso).

Just mix it with a good tonic water like Fever Tree 50/50 and add a slice of cucumber. Keep the gin and the tonic as cold as possible so you don't have to resort to ice.

It also makes for a good dry negroni (use dry vermouth instead of rosso).

Do you freezer your gin, Duggeh?

Just make your ice with tonic water.

Damn I could use a drink right about now.

i bought a near mint condition herman miller ergon three on ebay last year for $150 shipped. one of the best purchases i've ever made. it's not a comfortable chair, mind, but i can sit in it for hours with no discomfort.

Ergon is the name of the model you bought? $150 shipped is a fraction of the cost of the models I was considering. I am an, uh, beefy fella (5'9, ~215lbs). I also have stubby legs. Most chairs do not agree with me, unless they're quite adjustable. I've sat in my friends dot-com era Aeron, and it was very good. Not $800 good, though.

It should always be done. Whats the point of warm gin? Or vodka for that matter, if you're a vodka drinker. Frozen gin means that you aren't warming up that tonic water you've gone to the bother of refridgerating and in fact lowers the overall tempreture of the drink. I don't bother freezing the glass because that leads to frost and frozen fingertips.

Ice is the worst enemy of a good gin and tonic no matter what the proles do or what sniffy barmen say. Its used because most people don't keep the ingredients cold and they need to cool the drink with the ice. So the ice melts, waters down the drink and pretty near instantly kills all of the fizz out of the tonic. Adding lemon, lime or cucumber slices or having a bad glass does that too, but not nearly as fast. As for rubbing the lime slice round the rim of the glass, thats only done to disguise the taste in bars where the tonic water comes out of a gun and is so piss poor that it might as well be soda with saccarine in it.

Bought these fourteen months ago but received them today. Four bottles of Bond 2005, this is why I can't buy any audio gear in 2009.

Gorgeous lables and the wine tastes as good as the bottles look beautiful.

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my favorite gin right there

Oh theres several ones better, and even more of the same level. Hendricks is too obviously cucumber dominated to be a standard gin imho.

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agreed, white spirits should be very cold.

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Not bad for the price I paid

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peanut M&M

peanut M&M

Just one? How much?

it's the economy you know, can't afford a whole bag these days

Pair of Levi's 514 slim fit jeans.

more phish tickets, 6/21 AV rerelease. for a friend.

Bought a new pair of long-overdue running shoes, Nike Zoom Start+'s.

Hands down, most comfortable shoe I've ever worn. Beat out the Asic's I tried out as well.

Picked up a NAD 712 receiver locally for cheap.