Top 10 Rooftop Bars in the World [w/PICS]
If you are visiting a new city there is nothing like finding the hottest of the hot spots - especially if it has an amazing scenic over look of your latest locale.
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The 10 Drunk People You Don’t Want To Meet At The Bar
These 10 social trainwrecks ensure your night out is anything but dull. The 10 people you don’t want to meet at the bar make you feel that much better about yourself. Maybe you’re being paid $11 an hour and wrote a bad check to the liquor store so that you have enough Popov for the weekend, but hey, at least you aren’t one of these douchetastic…
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Which Cocktails Pack The Most Calories? (Pics)
Add a little cream or sugar to a cocktail and it can taste pretty good. But wait ’til you see just how many calories get packed into a typical Bailey’s or other beverage at the bar.
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China orders bars not to serve blacks
Beijing police have been visiting bar owners in the popular Sanlitun area and asking them to sign pledges agreeing to not serve black people or Mongolians and ban activities including dancing.
Once banned, absinthe is back (at an ABC store near you)
For 95 years, Americans wanting a taste of absinthe had to sneak it in from Europe or Mexico – and risk getting the high-proof herbal liquor confiscated by U.S. Customs.In May 2007, government officials lifted the ban on the drink once blamed for causing hallucinations and psychosis.
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Ghostly Goings On At Historic Pub
Many of us refuse to believe they exist, while others are not so sure. Some people are just too plain scared even to think of them.
But for Norfolk landlord Andy Coleman the existence of supernatural beings has never been less than a certainty — and now he has proof.
A couple of years ago the 39-year-old installed 10 CCTV cameras throughout the White Horse pub in Trowse, which he runs with partner Pam O’Reilly, 41.
The aim was to deter uninvited visitors — and so far they have been doing the job.
But Mr Coleman got more than he bargained for when one of the cameras brought him face to face with what he could only describe as “something inexplicable”.
He had been closing up behind the bar with Ms O’Reilly and one of the bar staff when he caught a glimpse of an orb-like object swirling around one of the function rooms. “It was as quick as a flash,” he said.
Mr Coleman, who also works as a cellar technician, rushed into the room to see what was going on, but there was nothing to be seen.
When he replayed the tape he found a solitary still of the mysterious object close to the camera lens.
Since then he has checked and double-checked the lighting, the camera, the electrics and just about anything else to give the mysterious sighting a logical explanation — but nothing has stood up.
Two further sightings have since been made.
Ghostly goings on at the 19th century former inn are by no means uncommon. When mother-of-three Ms O’Reilly took over the running of the pub 11 years ago, locals warned her it was haunted.
Since then there have been numerous reports of screaming children, footsteps on the landings and pictures flying off the walls.
When Ms O’Reilly’s eldest son Liam, 11, was younger he claimed to have been visited in his room by a blonde girl called Chloe.
Years later her eldest son with Mr Coleman, Luke, aged four, claimed that he too had been visited by a blonde girl — even though they had never told him about Liam’s story.
Mr Coleman said he felt at ease in the pub and that he had always been convinced that there are “some things we just can’t explain”.
However, Ms O’Reilly has not been able to bring herself to lock up at night since the CCTV episode. “I don’t like it,” she said. “It left me very unsettled and I couldn’t sleep for several nights afterwards.
“Just as I was beginning to come to terms with it, I came downstairs only to see Andy showing the video to someone in the bar — I went nuts.”
Mr Coleman said that he had been in contact with a couple of paranormal societies to get their slant on things.
“They’ll only come over if the place is notoriously haunted,” he said.
“A psychic girl in the village said it was an angel passing through.”
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• Story taken from EveningNews24.com, 11 August 2004.
French smokers abandon bars, clubs and restaurants for private parties
Smokers in France are uniting to beat a ban on lighting up in public by organising open-house parties where they can puff on their Gauloises until the early hours.
The parties, held in flats and houses but also in clandestine clubs, often draw dozens of people for a drink, a chat, a dance and a cigarette. Some are paying, others are free, but all welcome the smokers who are deserting bars, bistrots and night clubs.
The movement has flourished since the introduction of a smoking ban in all public places on January 1, and has been compared to the speakeasies that secretly served alcohol during the Prohibition in the US in the 1920s. Internet networks have sprung up to link the partygoers and inform them of planned festivities.
One such network was created on Facebook by a 30-year-old Gauloises-smoking DJ who gives his name only as Shandor. “We set up the group because of the smoking ban,” he told The Times. “It was clear to us that it was going to be very complicated to go to a nightclub now. “A whole evening without a cigarette is very hard — especially when you’re drinking — so you’re better off at a party.”
The group — Pour le Grand Retour de la Fête en Appart’ en 2008 (“For the Great Comeback of Parties in Flats in 2008”) — originally included a few dozen people. Now it has 1,182 members. “It’s taken off so much that we’ve had to create a second, secret group,” said Shandor. “You can’t really have 1,000 people in a small flat.”
His network is free and informal, with members giving the address and date of their parties on the web. But others are more structured. Open Appart’, for instance, was set up by a graphic designer who holds monthly gatherings for well-connected Parisians in a 50 square metre flat in the centre of the city.
“I got an invitation on the internet from a friend of a friend,” said Antoinette, 60, a teacher. “It’s friendlier than cafés, you can smoke and it’s not so expensive.” In another initiative, a chef in south Paris has set up an unofficial restaurant at his home where diners — attracted by word of mouth — can eat and “have a fag without having to go outside”, according to Le Parisien newspaper.
Vincent Grégoire, artistic director at Nelly Rodi, the trend-forecasting agency, said that a dozen or so secret establishments had been formed in Paris since the smoking ban. “They’re halfway between public and private — where you only get in if you’re invited by an existing member,” he said.
“Sometimes you need a password and you have to pay a membership fee. This all existed before but it has really taken off after the smoking ban. People want to authorise for themselves everything that they’re not supposed to do.”
France introduced a ban on smoking in the workplace on February 1 last year and extended the measures to its 200,000 bars, cafés and nightclubs 11 months later. They report a drop in custom of between 10 and 20 per cent as a result.
June 18, 2008
8 Ways to Win (or Avoid) a Bar Fight With Limbs Intact
At some point in your life you are likely to find yourself a participant in a bar fight. These altercations occur for various reasons, but can usually be attributed to some drunken chump who couldn’t keep his mouth shut, or couldn’t handle the fact you just snatched up his lady’s digits while he was peter-gazing in the urinal.
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Alabama Slamma
1 shot southern comfort
lemonade
Mix, cover it with your hand, Slamma on the bar, then Slamma down your throat.
Blue Lagoon
1 shot glass vodka
1 shot glass blue curaçao
4 shots lemonade
fill a highballlass with ice. Add the ingredients in order from vodka to the lemonade. Garnish with a cherry & a slice of lemon/lime.
Very good cocktail for the summer. You may find that you prefer the cocktail with a little less lemonade as it may be too weak.
