Spain

i am not sure. I believe the 'banana beer' and 'chocolate beer' has sweeteners and other ingredients (I shudder everytime I recall the chocolate beer...) but the lambic and derivatives (geuze, etc) has actual fruits added during the production process. The cherries they use for the 'kriek' are sour cherries that you can find around these lands. That was at least the traditional way, but now it may be different.

Hey Dogpoet, if you enjoy cider, I have to recommend you to spend a weekend or so in Asturias. Any small town will do, I personally like Llanes because you got sea and mountain. They make a cider which must be hit against the glass in order to create some sparkling effect, you pour small quantities and drink it fast. The remaining at the bottom of the glass gets usually discarded. Here, allow me to demonstrate:

Yeeeeah, yes, it's messy and probably you get the same by shaking the bottle, but that's the tradition and they like it that way.

I still live in Belgium. The most usual beers here have at least 6%. Having lager or Murphys is a refreshing change for me.

There is a type of beer around Brussels called Lambic, with spontaneous fermentation. To untrained mouths is can result disgusting, like vinegar made out of pee, but soon you get used to the weird taste, and eventually it becomes very tasty. According to a friend of mine, driven by the commercial success of sweet sodas like coca cola, they started to mix lambic with fruits. That's how you get the strawberry, pear or the most famous cherry beer (kriek), so popular nowadays. But you can still find the original one.

and i always thought you were in a deathlock with france till the bitter end... but oh well

It goes both ways, France is having a terrible time and there are voices of leaving also the EU. My sympathies to the French.

Hey cheer up. In the end of the seventies, with the rise of Islam in Iran, everybody thought the world will end with a nuclear crusade. And fourty years later, here we are, everybody thinking the world will end with a nuclear crusade.

found this funny

http://imgur.com/gallery/uhaYz

So Brexit is happening,

I haven't watched Iron Man, so I really liked Dr Strange. Dormammu was based on the face of Benedict too.

Question: is Strange going to appear along with the avengers or Thor or something like that? I dont follow Marvel aside of few comics of Deadpool so I dont know the link between Strange and other Marvel characters and stories.

Hey! All ok in London, guys?

Yeah I know I haven't shown up in like two or three years but I was busy. Two weeks ago I finally did the exam I was preparing for, so I got a bit of time now.

So I turn on the TV and I see the news about the attack in Westminster! This website popped up in my mind and decided to check, all ok?

if you want to spend 500 dollars on beer, go to any music festival.

And apparently, in Europe we have it easy, like 2.5 or 3 euros for a 25 cl of normal blonde beer.

Graspop Metal Meeting was great.

Kiss was great. 65 year old dude being lifted 20 meters over the ground and spitting blood and all.

Judas Priest was great. Giving a lesson on singing and solos.

Even Marilyn Manson and Slipknot were great.

Probably because I was sober.

You should have puked in front of them and then shouted YOU SEE WHAT YOU MAKE ME DO

I ... though you were younger...

In 14 years approximately you will be 20000 days old. Make a big party, the best will be the faces of people upon invitation.

I don't remember having written those posts at all.

Speaking of rolegames, anyone tried Trail of Cthulhu yet? I find it a great rpg. In my opinion, better suited than BRP for the Lovecraftian world. And I think it was the only place where I could find a different perspective over the monster classification made by Derleth.

Selkie was a member of the forum. I haven't see her (I think she identified as a female) since years.

Yeah let me explain. I wanted to underline the fact that if you get off with anything then you may as well be sexually attracted to children or dead people (hence my comment about pansexuality and A Serbian Film). But, as pansexuality does not mean 'attraction to anything', and the comment could be seen as a bit passive-aggressive towards seventhcircle, I decided to edit it in the last moment with a lame pan pun. Rogan caught my comment in the few moments of its existence.

And no, I haven't watched the movie. I read the Wikipedia page which is way faster. I did the same with Human Centipede and Irreversible. You learn what's the fuzz about without having to go through the whole ordeal, I highly recommend this system!

a pansexual... also not what you mean, but definetly the most fun!

Sorry, I haven't watched A Serbian Film.

The real challenge is becoming a pantheist.

Edit: Damn, the term ´pantheist´ exists and it´s not what I meant. Bleh. Then I mean, umm, omnitheist? Gah, it also exists and it´s also not what I mean. Everytheist, then?

Here's my Christmas present to all of you. Me and my best friend, Kit.

 

Things were going very badly during the Autumn. Some idiot asshole workmen left the door open, and my cat ran away. I never expected it because he's always been afraid of strangers, and I wouldn't expect him to go around when strangers were here.We looked everywhere.Kit was missing for 3 and an half weeks! I was sure he was dead.One early morning, as I was getting ready to go to bed, I heard a cat howling. I went out, and it ended up being Kit! I was so relieved and happy.He wasn't in the best of shape, as he was very emaciated. He's been back for a month now, and he seems to be making a full recovery though!So, what looked to be the worst year ever, turned in to a great early Christmas present, as I have my best friend back!

 

Kit says, "Merry Christmas...but I'm not very happy being held like this."

Damn man. You brought tears to my eyes for a second there. I would be very down if one of my beasts runs away.

Be happy guys, I think we deserve it once in a while!

Thanks for the enlightening info, I was completely unaware of their current production. It looks like they are a big thing in the UK, but damn, tea is also a big thing in the UK, so anything goes .

I may buy one at some point, after all, I enjoyed the couple of The Shadow audios I found.

Poutine is absolutely fabulous!

Audio drama? Do they still exist? I thought it was a big thing in the thirties and forties, with The Shadow and War of the Worlds on the radio.

I am checking their webpage now. 35 euros for the first Dark Eyes. How is it more expensive than a dvd? How long are these audio dramas? Previous releases are like 9 euros which is somehow more affordable, but really, paint me shocked.

A local one.

Hitler, Mussolini and Franco sailing with their men. Hitler says, 'mein men sind de most bravest. I vill show. Fritz! Kommt! Jump in ze sea and bring eine shark' Fritz jumps, fights a shark with a knife and brings it. 'Kann your men better do das?' Then Mussolini speaks out, 'No, no, il mio men sonno more bravest! Paolo, venni! Jump in il sea e bring a shark alive!' Paolo jumps with a net, fights the shark and brings it alive on board. 'Bravissimo, Paolo! No one can surpass it'. Then Franco says, 'Yor men ar pansees. Mai men have biggest cojones. Antonio, come ear! Jump in de sea with a espoon, an bring me two sharks!', so Antonio answers, 'What? Are you fucking crazy?'. Then Franco looks at Hitler and Mussolini and says, 'See? That is cojones.'

You like Bandcamp?

 

You like Portland?

 

https://tenderloving...e.bandcamp.com/

You are telling me that all those indie bands are from Portland, Oregon, plus the hundreds of stoner bands? Is Portland the Hollywood of rock? Is Portland the Ireland of USA? Is Portland the origin city of the cement, or I am mixing it with the Portland of UK? Should I better mix the cement with sand? Should I stop with the puns?

I liked Monster a lot. I got a tape when it got released. I am old!

I found a new band (they got only one song, more next year apparently) and they look promising.

They remind me of Sisters of Mercy, while the lyrics of this song are the exact opposite of Sisters of Mercy.

http://relapsesample...-gone-to-school

Bandcamp.

You just cannot imagine the stuff you find in there.

You can check music labelled by location. What the hell is going on in Portland? So many stoner and sludge bands? Why?