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Vorig weekend voor de 1e keer gehoord. Thx Els!
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Flight attendant: … And if you do require anything during this flight, simply press the button located above your head. Do not approach the galley, as it scares the hell out of me and I am not emotionally prepared to handle that today.
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“Laser engraved top depicting a flaming Earth Real snow globe with Al Gore figurine, ‘Presidential Seal’ and volume-activated lighting Knobs in the shape of an ice cube and an Egyptian pyramid Pickup switches in the shape of the Eiffel Tower, the Leaning
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This weekend was filled with heavy alcohol, since I went to a whisky tasting. We only drank a ‘wee dram’ (2,5 cl) at a time, with some bread and water in between so we remained sober enough to listen to our sympathetic whisky expert who told us about malt, barrels and distilling.
After preparing our palet with a blended whisky (irrelevant which one, real whiskies buffs never talk about anything that’s not single malt) we got to experience 5 single malts:
Whisky #1: Arran - which was the cheapest of the lot, not bad but not too special
Whisky #2: Ben Nevis - I liked this one more, had more of a sherry touch, as I recall.
Whisky #3: Balvenie - this tasted like a girl’s whisky. Quite a disappaointment after the previous one. Doublewood = the whisky was kept in ex-bourbon barrels for most of the 12 years, and was then transferred to ex-sherry barrels to ‘finish it off’. Ex-sherry barrels give a much nicer taste (see, we were still sober when that was explained).
Whisky #4: Glenfarclas - this one was my favourite. Definitely sherry-like, smelled really nice.
Whisky #5: Classic of Islay - this one smelled like a barbecue. The malted barley was dried with peat (’turf’) and by God, did you smell it. It went great with some sliced meat, though.
In all, a pleasant experience. I might spend the 50€ one day to get me a bottle of Glenfarcas.
I know I’m a bit late,and Ine, Bruno, Bart and … have already given their opinions, but I still needed an excuse to post some pictures of the event, so: last weekend I went to Pecha Kucha Brussels!
As everyone already mentioned, one presentation really jumped out: professor Jean Paul van Bendegem with his presentation “Wunderkammer”. It started with the painting “The origin of the world” by Gustave Courbet, which is essentially a frontal view of the crotch of a naked woman, which of course is a good way to catch the audience’s attention.
He then started free associating via freemasonry, over the Sherlock Holmes society, over women’s bottoms, the painting of the nude woman in court (I forget the details) and ended with the painting of a man’s crotch called “The origin of war”. There was no real message, but the voyage was vivid and entertaining.
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