Re: More Alcoholic Drink recipes

[bruce bowser]

On Tuesday, December 8, 1998 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Shrike wrote:
> Key Largo
> 1 1/2 oz gold Puerto Rican rum
> 3/4 oz coconut rum
> 3/4 oz amaretto liqueur
> 1 oz lemon juice
> Club soda
> Mix all ingredients, except soda, with cracked ice in a blender. Pour
> into a chilled Tom Collins glass. Fill with club soda and garnish with
> lime slice.
> ---
> Cranberry Margarita
> 2 oz tequila
> 1/2 oz triple sec
> 1/2 oz cranberry juice
> 1/2 oz lime juice
> 1/2 oz grapefruit juice
> Mix all ingredients with cracked ice in a shaker or blender and strain
> into chilled cocktail glass. Garnish with a lime slice
> ---
> Purple Sunset
> 1 1/2 oz gin or vodka
> 3 oz grape juice
> Ginger ale or ginger beer
> Dash lemon juice
> Mix gin and grape juice with ice in a tall cooler glass and fill to the
> top with cold ginger ale. Add a dash of lemon juice and garnish with
> lemon or lime slice.
> ---
> Bayou Belt
> 2 oz pepper vodka

Pepper vodka?

[dsi1]

I had dinner with my younger brother last week. When I come into the joint, my brother and step-mom are sitting at bar. My step-mom is drinking something with pineapple juice and grenadine. It's a non-alcoholic drink. I get one of the same. My brother, meanwhile is drinking scotch. He tells me he loves the stuff. I'm impressed.
He's flying to Japan, China, and Australia. Fed Ex has a problem with pilots getting Covid so he's been helping out. He probably gets to drink some mighty fine Scotch in his travels.

[bruce bowser]

I'm surprised those idiots at transportation companies haven't offered to train new people. Most of the planes can fly themselves, now.

[Mustafa]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe. This is my not frogger. Yes. Ghe Ghe Ghe :)))))))))))

[Wahid]

Ghe? Uhm, can you go into more detail? I don't get it

[Thomas]

Pepper vodka. Tastes like black pepper. I suppose a BM might go ok with it. Did a shot and it was the last time.

[dsi1]

Perhaps the companies want to save money by working pilots to death. I think the hospitals like to save money by working nurses to death too. It's kind of a nasty way to save money. My wife's hospital has a serious shortage of staffing.
My brother says that the newer models of planes have less automated systems these days. Mostly, it's a backlash from the planes in the past being too automatic and pretty much able to fly and land themselves. My brother certifies pilots for flight so he's not supposed to be flying the routes these days.

[Ed Pawlowski]

The can only work pilots so far and they are done as there are
regulations on time.

The idiots at the transportation companies are recruiting and training
pilots. It takes 1500 hours to be certified. In the past, many came
from the military but there are schools dedicated to training for the
airlines. It takes two years to train an airline pilot.

As for nurses, one of our local schools has a program to get kids
interested in medical fields especially nursing. They just can[t get
enough.

[Michael Trew]

On 1/29/2022 0:05, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> On 1/28/2022 11:41 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On Friday, January 28, 2022 at 6:34:37 AM UTC-10, bruce bowser wrote:
>
>>>> He's flying to Japan, China, and Australia. Fed Ex has a problem
>>>> with pilots getting Covid so he's been helping out. He probably gets
>>>> to drink some mighty fine Scotch in his travels.
>>> I'm surprised those idiots at transportation companies haven't
>>> offered to train new people. Most of the planes can fly themselves, now.
>>
>> Perhaps the companies want to save money by working pilots to death. I
>> think the hospitals like to save money by working nurses to death too.
>> It's kind of a nasty way to save money. My wife's hospital has a
>> serious shortage of staffing.
>

> As for nurses, one of our local schools has a program to get kids
> interested in medical fields especially nursing. They just can[t get
> enough.

That's precisely the problem. It's not the hospitals "working them to
death", it's flat out not having enough people willing and qualified for
the job. With how short nurses are in staff, I was surprised at how
many vaccine-hesitant health care workers were laid off.

[dsi1]

I sure hope you're right about that. I really do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrDyii0P4DU

[Mike Duffy]

On Sat, 29 Jan 2022 02:36:11 -0500, Michael Trew wrote:

> That's precisely the problem. It's not the hospitals "working them to
> death", it's flat out not having enough people willing and qualified for
> the job. With how short nurses are in staff, I was surprised at how
> many vaccine-hesitant health care workers were laid off.

I'm continually mind-blown to see John unemployed.

[Dave Smith]

My friend is a retired airline pilot and from what he has told me there
is more and more avionics. Planes can pretty well take off, fly to their
destination and land on their own, but it still takes human oversight to
ensure that things are set up and working properly. He recently sent me
a video about a near disaster on an Emirates flight. The plane ran off
the and of the runway before lifting off and then almost clipped a
couple apartment buildings. Everything had been programmed to operate
automatically. There was a pilot, co-pilot and a and extra pilot and
co-pilot, the relief crew because it was a long flight

Everything was working the way it was supposed to, but there was one
problem. Someone had reset the autopilot altitude to 0.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=23fiDj8Uy6Q&ab_channel=GreenDotAviation

> As for nurses, one of our local schools has a program to get kids
> interested in medical fields especially nursing. They just can[t get
> enough.

Nursing school used to be pretty easy to get into and it was IIRC a two
year course and nursing did not pay much. Now they go to university and
nursing pays a lot more but I think it suffers from that old stigma. My
soon to be daughter in law has a PhD in Health Sciences and teaches
public health nursing at a local university. As far as I know, there
program is pretty much at capacity.

[Dave Smith]

My late SiL was a nurse who refused flu vaccines. The local health
services system has put a bunch of their un-vaccianted staff on unpaid
leave but recently eased up and allowed them back if the test frequently
and remain negative.

I was a little ticked off with the political correctness that our
government demonstrated in the roll out. They prioritized long term care
homes for a couple reasons. The old people there were very vulnerable
and were dropping like flies, so they wanted them and the staff at the
homes vaccinated. Also important to them was that the staff are
"racialized". Everyone else had to wait for these racialized groups to
get their shot vaccination. As it turned out, half of them refused.

[bruce bowser]

On Saturday, January 29, 2022 at 10:18:37 AM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2022-01-29 12:05 a.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
> > On 1/28/2022 11:41 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
> >> Perhaps the companies want to save money by working pilots to death. I
> >> think the hospitals like to save money by working nurses to death too.
> >> It's kind of a nasty way to save money. My wife's hospital has a
> >> serious shortage of staffing.
> >> My brother says that the newer models of planes have less automated
> >> systems these days. Mostly, it's a backlash from the planes in the
> >> past being too automatic and pretty much able to fly and land
> >> themselves. My brother certifies pilots for flight so he's not
> >> supposed to be flying the routes these days.
> >
> > The can only work pilots so far and they are done as there are
> > regulations on time.
> >
> > The idiots at the transportation companies are recruiting and training
> > pilots. It takes 1500 hours to be certified. In the past, many came
> > from the military but there are schools dedicated to training for the
> > airlines. It takes two years to train an airline pilot.
>
> My friend is a retired airline pilot and from what he has told me there
> is more and more avionics. Planes can pretty well take off, fly to their
> destination and land on their own, but it still takes human oversight to
> ensure that things are set up and working properly.

After a German, Indonesian and other airplane crashes were linked to pilot suicides, i'm surprised to even hear that.

[Brazza]

Malaysian

[Brazza]

Uhm, Ghe Ghe Ghe.Uhm, Dit is mijn kikker. Ghe Ghe Ghe.

[Dave Smith]

And others? I hope that you aren't counting all those kamikazis. My
friend's company certainly took pilot mental health seriously. He came
close to getting grounded once when he told the company doctor doing his
physical that he was feeling a little down.


Those planes can fly can pretty much fly themselves. The avionics need
someone to set the controls. The co-pilot is not just a back up pilot.
He is supposed to double check the pilot's work. That should include
setting the parameters for the avionics. Think about what those avionics
can do. They can land a plan in fog of heavy rain when there is little
visibility for the pilot.