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![]() And the story about your brother: Dang.....that's really cool. I always wanted to do stuff like that. You know, I bet your brother can enter, in one of those hacking competitions ,and get hired, by a company, that's looking to find faults in their digital security systems. Nonetheless, that's a really cool talent to have. ![]() 3811
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Who needs a special phone to listen to police signals, my Action Man walkie talkies when I wasfive picked up police radio. My dad, being a police officer, reported this and they were never quite sure how to fix this
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Many believe that the technology of distilling stronger alcoholic beverages arrived in Poland in the 1200s, via Arabic merchants. It was there that it was first used to distil vodka using grain (so, like most other European inventions, something new was created using technology that already existed in the Middle East). Some people say that vodka was invented in Poland even earlier than that, but most of the sources they provide seem to be rubbish that someone made up. In any case, it was natural that the Ruthenians (now Belarusians and Ukrainians) were next to start making vodka since for many times throughout history they shared a state with the Poles due to Polish imperialist aspirations and the union with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania. And then, through well-established trade routes, the drink found its way to Russia. It began to spread to Northern Europe as well, mainly due to Polish trade and Russian conquests (plus the Swedes had their fun ransacking the Commonwealth during the Deluge). By the 19th century, vodka had already been well-known for hundreds of years in Eastern Europe and parts of Northern Europe, but it only really became popular in Western Europe and Northern America around the first half of the 20th century, and that was to a large extent thanks to Russian owners of private distilleries who emigrated to the US and other countries following the October Revolution to continue their business there. So I guess that is the main reason why, at least in the English-speaking world, vodka is still more often associated with Russia than Poland. Why I know any of this is because I too once thought that vodka came from Russia. When I first heard that it came from Poland, I decided to read up on it to see whether it wasn't just bullshit and I learned all this. ![]() There was actually an effort made to highlight the real origins of vodka by Poles in the 1980s I believe, but at that time we were still politically, economically and militarily dependent on the USSR so any official claims were quickly dropped (just as nowadays you don't see the Polish government criticising US foreign policy or use of CIA prisons on Polish land). Vice did a pretty cool two-part documentary about this, which you can watch and . They do go a bit over-the-top with bashing the Soviet Union at one point and disregarding the fact that it actually helped turn Poland into a modern capitalist economy (as opposed to what happened much earlier with the partitions of the 18th century, when parts of Poland that were absorbed by the Russian Empire kinda devolved), but they got most of their history right otherwise.
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On the other hand, Eastern Europe has a more humid continental climate. Countries like Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania or European Russia may have fairly warm summers, but they are mild in comparison to Southern European temperatures plus their winters are harsh and often quite snowy, making wine production unrealistic. However, the climate and some of the soil there is ideal for growing cereal grains. As such, well up until the early 20th century, most of these countries still relied on agriculture and grain exports to keep their economies going and thus vodka was the ideal alcoholic beverage to make under the regional conditions. Even in colder parts of Russia, winter wheat can be used to make vodka. Plus, due to how warm it makes you feel (though your body temperature doesnt actually increase), vodka is just really nice to drink during a freezing winter. ![]()
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![]() Thanks ![]() Over to Coconut news: Here the other day I had a sip of my Malibu Coconut Rum Liquour, but it tastes awful. Because of this, I got a real craving for Coconut, so I went to the store, bought a coconut, drilled two holes in it, and drank the contents before I ate some of it. Next day I bought three coconuts at the grocery, but one was moldy and the other two looked like zombie-brains, and the coconut-water was yellow and sour. So today I went to a local small Asian vegetable/miscellaneous store and bought four coconuts, all four were perfect with a lot of juice in them. I made a drink with crushed ice out of the coconut-water. I blended and shaked a lot of coconut-meat with a bit of water until it was almost like a puree, then I sifted and squeezed it over into a cup, and guess what I got? Thick, white delicious coconut-milk, like the ones you buy in cans, only better! ![]() ![]() Last edited by Skaara Dreadlocks; 07-29-2015 at 02:57 PM. |
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Haha, nice, coconuts are great. ![]() ![]() Your coconut story makes me want to try making coconut vodka (by steeping coconuts in grain spirit and maybe adding a bit of sugar). I once tried it with mushrooms and it ended up tasting pretty bad. I'm sure I've already mentioned this on the forum before. ![]()
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I never thought, that a drink,could cause so much fluster between two nations. Then again, some say the World War I started because one guy was, at the wrong place, at the wrong time as he decided to pause, for a moment, and eat a sandwich ![]() ![]() ![]()
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![]() Coconuts: Licious. I found out that, an easy way to spot mold, on a coconut, is to see if there are any grey, black, purple, bluish spots (no matter how light) on the three, distinct circles on a coconut (it also works if there's even a light hue from the colors mentioned). If you see any, there's mold (at least from what I've seen). The reason is that those circle points are the softest points, on the outer shell, of a coconut; so it's easy for the mold to show up on there first (meaning that all the mold, from the inside, has begun to push its way out...gross). Also, I found that that easiest way to get the coconut milk is to pierce through those circles as well. It might be faster with a drill; but, survival wise, you could get a knife, a screw driver, or an ice pick (or anything that's pointy) and easily go through the outer shell. That's how I've always done it ![]()
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Interesting stuff about radios... and coconuts too, I knew about how to open a coconut and all, but I had no idea that there's such an easy way of telling whether it's gone bad.
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Vodka always seemed like a Poland thing to me. They're always drinking it in the Witcher games. :P
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![]() ![]() I couldn't help but laugh at how the video absolutely had to show us the guy actually opening the refridgerator, opening the freezer, putting the coconut in, closing the freezer, and closing the refridgerator. Then a black screen with "Take it from fridge" for unnecessarily long before doing the same process in reverse ![]() |
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