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good vodka btw? stoli? gras/zubrovka? I like vodka yumyumyum

Not sure if you were asking me, but I'm drinking absolut. I don't really like the taste, but it has the advantage of being in my freezer, and having been free.

We distill some really vile stuff over here. You know youre going to feel nice and rotten when you find something made in a nearby suburb and comes in plastic as a handle. We like to make sure our packaging lets you know full well what youre about to get yourself into.

Twid
learned a long time ago that they make vodka in somerville, ma

A handle is a unit of volume, right? how much is that?

Also, I have decided that tonight I am drinking Vodka.

Mexican food does not exist in the UK until I can buy a haggis burrito. 

I would totally eat the hell out of a haggis burrito. Maybe if we do another DoD I'll make some.

Also, Nigel, haggis is Tasty As Fuck.

I made haggis once, but I will not do it again. Cleaning out a sheep's stomach is probably the filthiest thing I ever did for food.

Heh if you really want to. Its one of those liquors that comes in  a plastic container if its less than 750ml

I just shuddered on reading that.

I've never bought hard liquor that has been in a plastic container.  I've drunk some horrific shit, vodka for less than a fiver, scotch with all the flavour and class of a bottle of piss...but plastic?  Shit.

My local booze shop sells single serving whiskey. These come in test tubes. I'm fine with that. But plastic?

I was already kind of shocked when I found out that there was beer sold in plastic.

Not much personal experience, certainly. I saw a documentary once about American prostitutes and pimps.

Ah.

Just to be clear, I don't mean prostitution being legal and woman not being slaves automatically makes it a proper business. In fact, I think even with those conditions it's hard to make work. But if those conditions aren't met, there is no chance of it going well.

Though its not burbon when i feel like punishing myself and others for less than six dollars- old thompson whiskey. Doks description of evan williams is kinda along the lines of how id assess old thompson which i affectionately refer to as cheap kentucky rot gut.

I'm afraid I won't be able to get this stuff easily. I'll ask my family to get some if they travel to the states sometime.

That stuff is available in the Netherlands! I will buy/order it on monday, and try it ASAP. Also:

Evan Williams began distilling in 1783 near Louisville, Kentucky after emigrating from Wales

I think it is possible to have a decent life and be a prostitute, but only if prostitution is legal, and the woman isn't a slave to someone.

1.  Upon what are you basing this opinion?

Not much personal experience, certainly. I saw a documentary once about American prostitutes and pimps. Most of the prostitutes were fucked up/whores, and all of the pimps were horrible people (and completely non feminist. Stuff like "They need me, they can't handle their own life, because they're just bitches.") But there was one brothel in Nevada that was run by an ex prostitute, and the prostitutes seemed pretty pleased over there. Maybe this was just in comparison to the other type of prostitution, but it looked good.

I also get this opinion from what I gather about dutch prostitution. Yes, like Trip said, most of it is fucked up. But there are some good stories. Dutch women that work a few hours a day, and then go home and take care of their children.

2.  It fucks male prostitutes up just as badly.

Good point. I don't know anything at all about male prostitution, so it's not something I feel able to comment on.

Starting a new thread for this, in order to not derail things to much.

Besides, that's 4 days killed, days that we could be showing you the glory of Tucson.  And bourbon.  Not the kind of bourbon You People would drink, over there where you can get beer that tastes like beer and booze that doesn't chew the enamel off of your teeth.  No.  Our bourbon.  Stuff that would make Humphrey Bogart cry, and make George Thorogood give up on the sauce.  And we shall drink in the company of branding freaks and tape worm perverts, and we shall call it Right & Good.

What is good bourbon? I have quite a lot of experience with scotch, and I've had a couple of bourbons: Jack Daniels and some slightly more classy stuff called woodland reserve. The Jack was good for fast drinking, and the Woodland Reserve was also very nice.

Or maybe I got the question wrong. How much bourbon is good bourbon? Where is good bourbon? What kind of companions make good bourbon?

I agree that "I agree in equal rights, but I'm not a feminist" is a horrible use of the word feminist, but I can understand them trying to distance themselves from the nutcases. But I don't think this meaning comes from TV.

No, it comes from people who should know better, but believe the right wing nutjob propaganda anyway.

It comes from a lot of places. For example: if you meet someone on the Internet that informs you that she is a feminist, it's usually one of the nutcases, and they'll probably tell you you should use S/he instead of he or something stupid like that. These people are also most likely to get on the news (read: fark.com) as feminists.

At some point in the past I actually bothered to do some reading about feminism, and these days the word just doesn't mean that much to me anymore. If someone where to say they are a feminist, I would simply ask what they meant with that.

To return to the original topic, my opinion:

The fact that a woman can choose to be a prostitute is empowering, just like any other job for uneducated women with few options would be. I think it is possible to have a decent life and be a prostitute, but only if prostitution is legal, and the woman isn't a slave to someone. I haven't heard of decent prostitution happening on a large scale, and implementing that (without the human trafficking and emotional abuse by pimps) seems like a really hard problem.

However, the right of a woman to sell whatever services she wants (as long as those services don't harm third parties etc.) should triumph over the government wanting to make it illegal, in my opinion.

This chick has some things to say about feminism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnJxqRLg9x0&feature=youtube_gdata_player

She rules.

From that video

The girls are influenced by femme fatales malicious rhetoric to see benign, routine, everyday things as a conspiracy against women and against them personally. The writers of the Powerpuff girls have carefully created a world without gender oppression so that they can have the girls see gender oppression where none exists

She then goes on about Family Guy and Southpark. It seems a little ironic, because on Family Guy and Southpark all groups get pissed on. It is, basically, a benign, routine, everyday thing on this show that a group gets made fun of and their views misrepresented.

If her point is that TV shows a horrible, broken, distorted view of feminism, then that's a fair point. But TV shows a horrible, broken, distorted view of everything.

I agree that "I agree in equal rights, but I'm not a feminist" is a horrible use of the word feminist, but I can understand them trying to distance themselves from the nutcases. But I don't think this meaning comes from TV.

Not really sure why I took the trouble to look this up but anyway:

[maybe stupid question]Are there trains[/maybe stupid question]

Yes, but they cost about as much as a plane ticket (on the random dates I looked up it was $371.20 for a plane and  $362.00 for train). The train takes 83 hr, 25 min. You can get there cheaper (I found about $180) by bus ("Greyhound"), but then you have to sit on the bus for about 60 hours.

And all that happens when a hipster disappears is a few of his friends put up posters.

The 50's were so bad Discordianism happened. If creating minds that depraved doesn't prove it was horrible, I don't know what will.

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