Small hills upon which you are willing to die

Consider me on Team Judgey.

I have no idea what mezcal is (worming medicine?) but I liked the man to man bit. More please.

Mezcal is what the real Mexicans drink. They don’t drink Tequila generally. The drink comes from the same agave plant but has a massively different taste.

Just offering tequila to a Mexican is probably racist. Tricky would like that.

Chicago: Cultural ambassador.

Truth. The Mexican guy in our team brought a bottle back with him over Christmas and we all drank some at dinner a few weeks later. It was pretty good. There's still a quarter bottle in my locker at the office.

Happy memories.

I spent several weeks in Oaxaca when I was student (I was on “elective work experience”) and frequented a variety of mezcalerias. Some of them were straight out of a spaghetti western (swing doors, no women, smokey, lots of moustaches and hats, expect some trouble) and some were more salubrious. Either way, I recall I had some excellent mescal, with a variety of larvae (worms) of various sizes. I can’t say that many evenings were sober.

Wifey does business in Oaxaca. Her contact works for a Mezcal company and he is a top geezer. He even has his own brand which is amazing. His mate though I don't and won't talk to anymore because him and Wifey almost had a thing and I was very pissed off about it. This was during the height of Covid where she was being a twat about Vaccines and I thought it would be a good idea to get her concentrating on business, which went well. Her friend (my ex-friend) had just split up with his Brazilian girlfriend and she was mad at me for making her get the first shot of vaccine of which she subsequently fainted and then spent a 2 year campaign saying that Pfizer was trying to kill her. I was less than sympathetic with this behaviour and she decided that I was the enemy. Hence when we were in Oaxaca she starting acting out.

But, having said all that. The Local Mezcal down there was fcuking amazing and it was great until it went a bit pear shaped near the end of the business trip/holiday.

Oaxacan Mezcal ace. The shit that is exported to the USA for mass consumption rubbish.

Now Tricky is going to say this is why I have a problem with Mexicans because they tried to steal my wife. Not true. I just hate that fucking brass torture music. at ear splitting decibel levels. And people who are generally hostile to my wife (covid cured her...). We still get the good stuff imported to us to sell even now...

Chicago: Mezcal drinker.

The brother in law (Mexican) used to run a Tequila and Mezcal importing business for a while. He got me several bottles of the sipping stuff. Quite magnificent and it matures much quicker than Whiskey.
He now teaches nuclear physics in Munich. Or Switzerland. Might be research. He's clever.

Comforting to know the eminent clever people playing with the electrons and quarks and shit that could potentially be, if mishandled, deemed a little perilous to the world in general have a keen interest in being shitfaced.

It’s interesting. If he had said “my clever brother-in-law used to run a fine wine business/rare malt whisky business” then maybe the response would have been “Clever guy with very discerning tastes” as opposed to “nice to know even clever guys get shitfaced.”

The moral of the story is that certain alcohol groups have more caché than others.

Another example of the perceived hierarchy of alcohol…

People who log in and kick off a Teams meeting more than 1 minute before the start time should be executed.

Not wall mounting your TV is the height of laziness. It looks better, it's safer, and it creates more space in the room. The only reason for not wall mounting a TV is that you're too lazy to do it.

That's me. Can't be arsed, or don't have the skill, to chase in the cables.

I have wall mounted TVs in the kitchen and bedroom, but not in the lounge as it sits nicely in the corner. I think a wall mount would look silly.