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The Case for Cocktails.

Now that you know what to order, learn to drink slowly. A well-mixed drink is like a rich dessert, it’s impolite to shovel sweets into one’s mouth and lick the plate. Sipping will help you aim for cheerful and stop short of drenched.

Have a few taste tests to figure out what kind of liquor you like, then request it when you go out. This will make your drinks slightly more expensive, and also more delicious. If you’re ordering a gin and tonic, make it a Bombay and tonic, a shot of bourbon becomes a ‘Makers Mark, neat.’ Bam, you’re a worldly sonofabitch.

I definitely need to sort out my home cocktail facilities, especially glassware (if only so I stop serving wine in a tankard to Lex)

(via Coudal)

A phrase I *never* thought I would read, from a fairly grim post about a fairly grim topic!

Turns out the sewers beneath London’s Leicester Square contain about 1,000 tonnes of fat that are clogging the system a little:

“We couldn’t even access the sewer as it was blocked by a four-foot wall of solid fat.”

Check the comments for the inevitable KFC, McDonalds and BP jokes…

So it turns out there’s a lengthy list crazy Pepsi flavours, unsurprisingly the craziest are from Japan.

In an effort to both save money and be more environmentally friendly I’m trying use up all the food in my fridge and cupboards before I go and buy any more, but it looks like by focussing on how I can eat it I’ve shut the door on a host of opportunities (from Extraordinary uses for ordinary items):

• Beer (+ raw egg) can be used as a volumising shampoo (beer can also be used as a conditioner)
• Tomato Ketchup can be used as a shampoo and mayonnaise as a conditioner (sounds like the sort of nightmare I’d have)
• Lemon juice can give you blonde highlights
• A paste of water and crushed aspirin can reduce spots
• You can/should add honey and milk to your bath
• Banana + yoghurt + honey makes a skin-nourishing face mask
• Milk can be a (last resort) substitute for shaving foam

And not really on the hair or skincare topic but:

• Fizzy pop can clear drains

Now think what it does to your innards!

(via Coudal Partners)

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