Here we can all be heard for a little while. Part 2

Birdie85

Georgiegirl256 wrote: »

:wave: Birdie. Sorry you've been poorly I remember when those slankets first came out and everyone went mad for them....they are a brilliant idea, but I think I kept on getting annoyed with mine and it ended up in the boot of the car!

I still love my slanket, had it for years and it's a proper big thick one, not one of the horrid cheap copycats! It is only beaten by my heated throw which is a wondrous invention!

Which Christmas dress have you got WaS? I've been looking at them on Amazon and can't decide which, if any, I neeeeeed!

ETA: I think we all need Santa loos!!!

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! I used to use hairbands on my jeans tea, they work well!

I have to have advocaat every Christmas, code so it would be essential for me! Also, a cheap version of Baileys for after dinner. They are needs not wants, I tell you! I am doing well for alcohol this year though as Milliefleur decided to buy me Christmas drinks last year which were Advocaat, port, ginger wine, sherry, Baileys stuff and two bottles of mulled wine. I hardly drink so there is loads left. I also have a bottle of champagne that was a free gift from Waitrose 2 years ago that I still haven't opened. I will probably have some of it all left in 3 years time, too.

I have a Christmas dress covered in snowmen with matching leggings, Birdie! There are loads all over Ebay and they are very cheap! They aren't top notch but are well-made enough, kind of thick t-shirt material.

Pyxis

Hahaha! Advocaat!

In my first year at University I got really, really drunk on Advocaat and was really ill with it. As a consequence, I couldn't touch it for over twenty years! Even saying its name made me feel bad!

Then I just forgot about it.

I quite fancy some now!

I should think it's be good in custard and on fruit salad too, to give it a kick!

tea_lover

The thought of alcoholic custard is making me very queasy! I've never understood the appeal of milk and alcohol... just the idea of baileys makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! you may not want to read this tea, one of my favourite drinks used to be Malibu in milk! It makes a kind of coconut milk and it's lovely, honest!

Get some Advocaat, Pyxis! My drink of horror is Pernod and blackcurrant. It used to be my drink whenever I went out until I got very,very drunk on it one night. It was the worse taste ever when it came back up several hours later! I have never touched it since. This just the tip of iceberg btw, I have had at least another 4 occasions of getting into that state including at my teachers house at the age of 14 when I knew nothing about alcohol and downed big gulps of gin out of the bottle when no one was looking and ended up collapsed in her bathroom hugging her toilet, and trying to be impressive to WaSp at our first New Years Eve together when I drank 9 pints of snakebite and black on an empty stomach. After the latter I finally stopped throwing up at 8pm New years day. As a student I also called out an emergency doctor once after overindulging because I couldn't stop throwing up every 15 minutes for hours. He rolled his eyes a lot, it was embarrassing. I never learnt, it's probably just as well that I barely drink now.

Georgiegirl256

tea_lover wrote: »

The thought of alcoholic custard is making me very queasy! I've never understood the appeal of milk and alcohol... just the idea of baileys makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

I'm similar tea. I'm not that keen on those kind of drinks. My Dad and my Aunty loved it and would get numerous bottles each Christmas (both proper and Aldi's cheap version), I tried one at my Aunties one year to be polite, and it was ok, but definetly not my favourite tipple.

Waves_and_Smiles wrote: »

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My drink of horror is Pernod and blackcurrant. It used to be my drink whenever I went out until I got very,very drunk on it one night. It was the worse taste ever when it came back up several hours later! I have never touched it since. This just the tip of iceberg btw, I have had at least another 4 occasions of getting into that state including at my teachers house at the age of 14 when I knew nothing about alcohol and downed big gulps of gin out of the bottle when no one was looking and ended up collapsed in her bathroom hugging her toilet.

Similar story from me too WaS, only mine was Ouzo and black currant and it was at my art tutors brothers house, and my best mate had to clean up the mess I made in his bathroom Many similar episodes followed with snakebite and black....that black currant is such a !!!!!! to get out!

tea_lover

If I add it all together I've probably lost an entire year of my life to alcohol-induced blackouts. I got used to waking up in strange houses, or parks (!) I am very glad I hardly drink anymore! Now I will have a couple of beers maybe 2 or 3 times a year and that is definitely enough.

My idea of a great night now is my cat, a blanket and some biscuits.

Waves_and_Smiles

It's the blackcurrant that is lethal, Georgie! It's not the alcohol at all! Honest!

I have a small drink probably about 5 times a year and that's it now. I would love to say I matured and no longer want to drink but the reality is my medication is too high and it makes me very ill now. Otherwise I would probably be just as bad!

Pyxis

Pernod! Blahugh! Blahugh Blahugh! Hate the stuff and always have!

Interestingly, I like aniseed, but hate drinks made of it.

When I was 14, I was staying with a French girl and her family in France, and they had a get-together with some of their family. They gave me a small glass of Pernod and told me to try it. I could hardly stop shuddering with every sip, but because I was shy and timid and didn't want to hurt their feelings and didn't know how to get out of it, I kept ploughing through it until finally with one last horrible gulp, it was gone! What a relief! So I went and put my glass by the sink.

Then someone noticed I didn't have a drink, and gave me another one! I could have cried! Tried to get through it again, but then someone saw me shuddering and realised what was happening, and rescued me from the evil stuff! :rotfl:

Waves_and_Smiles

Hahahaha! I agree with you now Pyxis, but once I loved Pernod. Now even the smell of it turns my stomach and it has been over 20 years since I got sick on it. I doubt I will ever be able to face it again. I love aniseed sweeties though.