Which makes the commodification of this cultural clash all the more relishing, if you ask me ;)

Giant vodka cabal....fuck you ....I like the stuff made in Flordia from citus waste.

So who turns around and asks what brand of vodka I want? Or if I want an olive? Or fucking ICE?

I mean, when you order a drink and don't say, like, shaken not stirred and all that shit, it means, by implication, that you want the house vodka. And you want the standard martini, meaning an olive and no god damn ice (?) for god's sake.

Right? Do they think this upselling crap will make me tip better? I hate upselling. I'm right, right?

I also don't get it. It's just an old map of Mexico.

Wait, doesn't Austria own California already?

Bygones.

I didn't even say that weak men with small dicks should get therapy instead of bragging about their guns on the internet from their mom's basement, and here you're all pissy.

Is there a chickenhawk thing here and not a gun thing? I'm assuming it's a gun thing and it's actually a chickenhawk thing, is that it? Or what?

I'm just tired of always having to say "no, house vodka" when I don't want to pay a lot for brand name. And I think they're trying to embarrass me into spending more, which I say is not cool bartending.

I'm drinking Absolut Vanilla straight right now (it's delicious). I also happen to be wearing a hot-pink t-shirt with a giant "B" on the front (not kidding). But fuck you anyway, you shameless slut.

I'm now going to go eat my dinner, curl up and read for a bit and fall asleep.

Good night, sloggers.

What I don't get is why anyone would get bent out of shape over an old map of Mexico. But it's clear this is a chickenhawk thing. Any time little men obsess over symbols, like having a fit over folding a flag in a magic triangle, is a chickenhawk thing. So get puffed up over an old map of Mexico if you like. You still need therapy to address your yearning to be seen as a big man.

None of which I care about as much as my bartending question.

My posts on Slog will be extremely limited here on out due to health problems: my liver will completely fail in about six months because I will be guzzling Absolut (which I don't even really like that much) day and night from now on, as much as possible. Fuck you, Michelle Malkin! I should be dead around Thanksgiving.

Her faux outrage remind you of anyone *cough Erica cough*.

1860s? Great.

Anyway an old map of Mexico certainly wouldn't have Panama on it.

Talking to me won't help you with this problem anyway. You need to talk to a psychiatrist. You'll probably need to recollect your earliest memories of feeling inadequate, and then connect that to when the bragging and exaggeration started. This will shed light on your desire to be seen pushing others around, and to create imaginary connections with those you perceive as being stronger.

I'm thinking there will be drugs prescribed, but what do I know? Best of luck with all that. Oh, and lay off the drinking. Really.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista_(Mexico)

but I'm not sure that is what is being represented here.

The green portion of the map represents modern Mexico and the following U.S. acquisitions: the Gadsden Purchase of 1853, the Mexican cession of 1848, and the Texas Annexation of 1845.

This is precisely what Mexico looked like prior to the Texas Revolution in 1835.

#43, I thought that was interesting, too. It's Mexico and the United States plus Oregon Territory circa 1835, with modern Central American and Carribean borders. Clearly this isn't just a historical map, it's an "if X, Y, and Z hadn't have happened" kind of thing.

All this, of course, doesn't diminish in any way the hilarity of clueless wingnuts.

NONE of you boobs could tell Ketel One or Absolut or Grey Goose from freaking Fleischmann's in a blind taste test.

You know, I would've agreed with you, but I actually bet my girlfriend on this and was proven wrong. Sort of. In a taste test between Smirnoff, Monarch, Grey Goose, and Finlandia, we were able to guess the Monarch and determine that it tasted like horse semen. Smirnoff, Grey Goose, and Finlandia, however, were indistinguishable.

The lesson here, I guess, is that anything from the second lowest shelf or higher tastes about the same. But stay the fuck away from that bottom shelf.

Maybe not those brands (maybe), but there is good vodka out there. I had a shot of vodka from a bottle my friend brought back from some remote village in Russia, probably made in tiny batches, and that shit was oh so smooth. I would have brushed my teeth with it.

Tequila is the same. Anyone that writes off tequila needs to pick up a bottle or two if they're in Mexico, or just invest in an import, because it really is worth it. Even the stuff that was 300-400 pesos is like butter. I tried two brands, 100% blue agave, reposado. You really do not need the training wheels, in fact that would be a travesty.

Wikipedia pwns absolut. Next time try and get a more historical map. Yeesh, nice pandering.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Mexico_states_evolution.gif

What little else I spend goes to Don Julio. I thought I hated tequila, and then I realized that Jose Quervo is as related to real tequila as Will in Seattle is to real human beings.

Everything south of the Purgutoire and Arkansas rivers was Mexico.

Beverly Morris, bottom right, screams and collapses as the casket carrying her brother, U.S. Army Spec. Charles Jankowski, arrives at the Panama City-Bay County International Airport in Panama City, Fla., on Friday. Comforting Morris are her sister, Felicia Kirkland, left, and Jankowski's girlfriend, Karen Hainley. Jankowski died from wounds from an exploding improvised explosive device near Baghdad, Iraq, on Friday, March 28, 2008. He will be buried on Monday, April 7, 2008.
(April 04, 2008)

Second: This is now my new wallpaper.

and Third: Absolut sucks anyway. I prefer Glacier from Oregon anyway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_%28cocktail%29

However, you can never know too much about the martini. Check out the Churchill martini. And perhaps there's the apocryphal story about the the Gibson's creation. As a long time social alcoholic, I've discovered the more you pay for higher-shelf vodka, the more you might as well be buying elegantly packaged water. For example, Grey Goose: if I'm going to pay $40+ for a bottle of vodka, I want to know I'm drinking alcohol and not Fiji water.

Instead of getting upset over Bush and Iraq and expensive gasoline, when are people going to start militating against the highway robbery costs of liquor and wine served in restaurants and bars? The only reason they charge $10 for a drink is because they discovered you'll pay $10. There should be no social stigma for ordering booze from the well.

I would sign this 54-40 or fight, but so few would understand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M%C3%A9xico_Divisi%C3%B3n_Pol%C3%ADtica-Rep%C3%BAblica_Central.png

It matches perfectly.

#58, I'm rolling on the floor @ your second paragraph, hold on.

Ok. I agree 100%. When I drink liquor straight it's always scotch, irish whiskey (sipped, neat), or tequila (shot, usually reposado). I personally don't drink vodka. That shot over a year ago was probably the only vodka I've had in at least 5 years, even mixed. All I meant by "smooth" is that it did, indeed, have no taste or aroma. The whole point of vodka, I think, at least I hope, is to drink it fast and get crunked. The less it tastes like hairspray, the better.

I'm not really in the habit of describing anything else as smooth, except maybe a tequila shot, provided it doesn't want to make me wash my mouth out with a mild acid. Smooth, to me, just means that the intended flavor of the particular beverage isn't overpowered by a nasty burning hairspray/ethanol taste. Beer being smooth is a given. Moonshine and shitty vodka are not smooth.

#59, you should know, from what I saw in stores and bars in Mexico, Don Julio is to them as Jose Cuervo is to us. Not trying to diminish your attempts at drinking good tequila, just sayin'.

Can you recommend something better that I can try?

As for what I know is good, I just recently finished a bottle of Arette Reposado that was an insanely good shot. That was 300 pesos. I also got a bottle of Conquistador Reposado that I have yet to open, that one was 400 pesos.

You might incur some cost to import those, though I just saw Arette for $31.