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Re: Drinking Absinthe

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CreepersWiener wrote:
clapper011 wrote:I know of someone who it makes them say stuff! ;)
What kind of stuff?
telling people that they have an undying love for them..... or stuff that makes them sound like they are all lovey dovey when drunk on Absinthe, but then again..maybe they are just very happy drunks... :-k
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Didn't we have this discussion just, like the other day? (OK the other month.)
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tzor wrote:Didn't we have this discussion just, like the other day? (OK the other month.)
ah! thought it sounded familiar!..going to merge them...
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Re: Drinking Absinthe

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clapper011 wrote:
tzor wrote:Didn't we have this discussion just, like the other day? (OK the other month.)
ah! thought it sounded familiar!..going to merge them...
Can I merge you? ;)
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CreepersWiener wrote:
clapper011 wrote:
tzor wrote:Didn't we have this discussion just, like the other day? (OK the other month.)
ah! thought it sounded familiar!..going to merge them...
Can I merge you? ;)
hmmm..merge me with what? ;)
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CreepersWiener wrote:What the hell is Absinthe? Has anyone tried the real stuff, and is the stuff in America really Absinthe? Does it make you see stuff or just really drunk?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeptVWUsvE0
f*ck THIS VIDEO AND f*ck YOU FOR POSTING IT.

And f*ck that ugly ass mother fucker who passed him self off as satan because he's too fucking ugly to pretend to be a human.

even having skimmed through it and it was still the biggest waste of time ever.
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AND IT WAS SO NEEDLESSLY LONG!!!! f*ck f*ck f*ck!!!
I AM SO MAD!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sorry people, I theorise you're a product of your enviroment. Back in Vinnie V's day people didn't ingest the things you do. Pharmecuticals, simple pain relievers, food preservatives, smog, etc. etc. I suspect if you gave him an extra strength motrin it would mess with him too.

For them Absinthe was a high narcotic thus able to help get him in the mood to hack off an ear as a gift for his girlfreind. He had some tendancy toward being lonely added in I'd wager. For you it's just too mild.
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The Bison King wrote:It tastes like Licorice. I think the hallucination things a myth. Unless you drink so much that you'de be hallucinating anyway. I think Mezcal fucks you up more.
It's traditionally made with a very mildly hallucinogenic plant (wormwood), although you can get it made without.

For effects see here:
http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/ ... nthe.shtml
You discribe "wormwood" as "very mildly hallucinogenic" I suspect it's because of all the stuff we ingest now days. In old english literature it's described as poison.
I don't even think anyone knows what wormwood was used for outside of making absinthe.

tzor, any arcane wormwood knowledge you'd like to share?
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2dimes wrote:tzor, any arcane wormwood knowledge you'd like to share?
Sure ...
  • Shakespeare often refers to wormwood in Hamlet.
  • Wormwood (Apsinthos in the Greek text) is the "name of the star" in the Book of Revelation (8:11) (kai to onoma tou asteros legetai ho Apsinthos) that John the Evangelist envisions as cast by the angel and falling into the waters, making them undrinkably bitter. Outside the Book of Revelation, there are up to eight further references in the Bible, showing that wormwood was a common herb of the era and that its awful taste was known, as a drinkable preparation applied for specific reasons.
  • Wormwood is a junior devil in The Screwtape Letters, a novel by C. S. Lewis on human temptation.
  • Miss Wormwood is the name of Calvin's teacher in Calvin and Hobbes, a former daily comic strip by Bill Watterson. This character is named after the Screwtape Letters character.
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Well I do appreceate that. I was more hoping you could help with.
2dimes wrote:I don't even think anyone knows what wormwood was used for outside of making absinthe.
Was it a cleaner, varnish, hat making fluid, or what?
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It was probably easier to resurrect this old thread than to create a new one without context. I finally tried it for the first time at the lobby bar at the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida, where I have been staying for the past week. (I'm not sure how much of it is the "good stuff.")

It was ... interesting. I'll let you know tomorrow if I had any interesting halucinations worth remembering. Of course I only had one.
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tzor wrote:It was probably easier to resurrect this old thread than to create a new one without context. I finally tried it for the first time at the lobby bar at the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida, where I have been staying for the past week. (I'm not sure how much of it is the "good stuff.")

It was ... interesting. I'll let you know tomorrow if I had any interesting halucinations worth remembering. Of course I only had one.
Unless I'm wrong, you still can't legally buy the *good* stuff in the USA. They raised the legal thujone levels to something more than zero, but IIRC it's still below proper absinthe.
Also, f*ck you for being in Florida. I hope you get 3 feet of snow.
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bedub1 wrote:I really like Absinthe. I pour it over sugar cube, then add water. It's best when it's really cold. Great stuff. No it doesn't make you hallucinate.
This. Doesn't matter the kind or not, tasty drink that's got a strong odor and taste. Like it or hate it usually. I like it, won't get you high.

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spurgistan wrote:
tzor wrote:It was probably easier to resurrect this old thread than to create a new one without context. I finally tried it for the first time at the lobby bar at the Casa Marina in Key West, Florida, where I have been staying for the past week. (I'm not sure how much of it is the "good stuff.")

It was ... interesting. I'll let you know tomorrow if I had any interesting halucinations worth remembering. Of course I only had one.
Unless I'm wrong, you still can't legally buy the *good* stuff in the USA. They raised the legal thujone levels to something more than zero, but IIRC it's still below proper absinthe.
Also, f*ck you for being in Florida. I hope you get 3 feet of snow.
Not really.
I've bought these in the USA, and they are real.

Kubler:
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/index.ph ... iew&id=228
Lucid:
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/index.ph ... iew&id=191
Pacifique:
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/index.ph ... iew&id=493

Does thujone really work make you see fairy's?
http://www.wormwoodsociety.org/index.ph ... mitstart=6
One would die of alcohol poisoning long before one could consume enough absinthe to get a substantial dose of thujone.
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I really can't tell you the brand she used, because she did it behind the bar and I only caught a glimpse of the bottle, but I can report that I had no visions of any kind that night.
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Absinthe is one hell of a drunk. Like, yelling at shit that isn't there, drunk (not seeing things, just yelling at them).
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If you're interested in any intrinsic psychoactive value of thujone, try eating a handful of chili peppers and see if they make you trip ballz.
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