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I like Scotch better than Bourbon. One small bottle still lasts like half a year with me, if I drink "much". I rely more on beer ale and cider (and similar drinks).

For G&T's (because straight gin is weird), I use Gordon's usually.


Also, I believe whisky = Scotch, while whiskey = bourbon and that stuff they make in Ireland.


Also, quitting smoking feels horrible. Seriously. I have gone about 24 hours without a cigarette now, though, so I suppose it's too late to change my mind without feeling really weak.

Scotch Whisky, Irish Whiskey, Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey (Jim Beam), Tennessey Whiskey (Jack Daniels) - All the same yet very different.


Whisky on Wikipedia

It is fantastic that the word whisky is derived from the Irish Gaelic "uisce beatha" and Scottish Gaelic "uisge beatha" which means literally "water of life". Makes a lot of sense to me :)

Oh and apparently it can be spelt Whisky or Whiskey. Wikipedia adds the e to Irish and American Whiskies which probably makes a bit of sense with the strong Irish Catholic roots in the USA. That and the fact that you Americans seem to like bastardising the spelling of proper English!




Edited, Jan 21st 2010 2:30am by RareBeast

Edited, Jan 21st 2010 2:35am by RareBeast

Now you reminded me, I outDPS'd Aeth's druid by about 10% of damage done in Mara earlier. He did outDPS everyone else, but not this holy priest!

I suppose the druid boards are partly to blame for his respec, lowering his DPS and stuff.

I did. I voted, then rambled.

More on this topic.

I want to quit as well.

I tried to quit smoking. I gained 7 kilos in 3 weeks(I dont know wtf is a pound, I`m brazilian). I got back to smoke, 3 cigarretes a day. I lost 9 kilos.
I`m fine now.

I recently lost over a stone (7 kilos) and while I don't really want to gain it again, it wouldn't be too dramatic if that happened. I'm fairly relaxed about my weight, I used to be an anorexic teenager, I can't afford to dwell on it too much.

As for my quitting strategies, the last time I took months decreasing the amount I smoked until a pack of Marlboro Silvers lasted me about 3-4 days, then went on the nicorette inhaler for like 6 weeks, and in the end started smoking again after 4 months because I was stuck for hours on a bloody airport, just having paid an unexpected €300, with a suitcase full of cigarettes. I quit to move to England because smoking is ridiculously expensive here and started again just before my flight here. @#%^ing stupid.

This time, I am just pretty much out of tobacco - I'd probably have had enough old super-dry awful tobacco to last me the week until I have money, but I woke up yesterday and decided to just throw it away. I have the inhaler somewhere but couldn't locate it when I looked, so I'm suffering the full withdrawal this time, and it is worse than withdrawing from anything else at least mentally. And I have the munchies. Got to go downstairs now, I want noodles.


PS: Sleeping loads makes the first few days a lot more bearable. Also, talking to people (Aeth) on Vent/Skype. I suggest you take a few days off or do it on the weekend.


€dit: 1 kilo is 2.2 pounds.

Edited, Jan 21st 2010 1:56pm by Kalivha

I'm trying to quit. What sucks is I'm so conditioned when I'm driving to have a smoke and that's honestly the worst part seeing as I drive quite a bit during the day.

I smoked my last ciggarette on my way to work this morning, and I also left my authenticator at home, so I can't check my auctions this morning at work :(

Guild got first wing of ICC down yesterday. Airship battle is pretty pretty boring. Like...I literally fell asleep during it untill someone yelled my name on vent to move out of missile thing on ground.
I had to change my specc to include Typhoon. I went ahead and changed it to include Gale Winds too (meh, there you go Arex, did what you said in the other thread). Last boss fight on that wing in kinda cool. Too bad that half the fight I`m Typhooing (woohoo created a word!) and Rooting things. But its a cool fight for me, nevertheless. At least, a change of pace.
After that, we went back to ToC25 Heroic mode. Got beasts after 2 attempts, got Jaraxx to 20% 2 times and we called it.
And I`m not the last dps anymore, wich is quite good, since I was away for 3 months. I`m not the top notch either, but I`m happy at 9th with 6k dps.

Edited, Jan 21st 2010 11:30am by Brisin

Yes, my name as in Mazra. Some bastid stole it, but I can't find him/her in the Armory, so either it's a very old account (one of mine?) or some schmuck has broken the game.

I've created a Paladin, but I'm thinking of transferring a toon. Won't be until after the 1st of February since my SU (state education grant) doesn't tick in until then. Oh, oh, help me pick a char! Hunter, Shaman, Mage or Warrior (DPS)? Tired of playing the healing/tanking game so I'm leveling up some DPS. They're in their 70's, though, except the Mage (36), but I take it you'll be there by February anyway.

Edited, Jan 21st 2010 4:33pm by Mazra

Hmm, DPS is perfect since Aeth is tanking and I am healing. I'd say hunter spontaneously but most of our guildies seem to be hunters or pallies. I'll tell Aeth to post what he thinks. :3

I am on my lock (Amyloidosis) right now because I'm just idling, most of the time I'm on Kalivha/priest, and Aeth's druid is Estasan so just /w one of us and we can possibly find someone to invite you to the guild etc.

Yup. I have.

I spent a year working at a medical examiner's (coroner's) office. That was quite eye-opening when it came to just how amazingly destructive cars are. If cars were a miracle drug that cured all cancer, they would still be too dangerous to get past the government in the USA.

It took a few years to get there, but living in a big city where driving a car isn't a daily necessity is a great thing. AND, it makes the casual use of the aforementioned gin much easier.

If we really wanted to make cars safe we'd mount a big 'ol sharpened spear on the steering wheel. That way you'd be impaled if you so much as tapped another car. :p

Watched my Grandpa die of lung cancer at 10, and was cured of any desire to smoke at that point. I didn't want to die that way.