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Title: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on March 05, 2017, 02:59:57
(https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2915/32408063964_b57d209283_o.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/RnMNkw)First One's On Me (https://flic.kr/p/RnMNkw) by Ron Scubadiver (https://www.flickr.com/photos/57349111@N08/), on Flickr

From a small town on the Mekong River in Laos.  Fluid is potable alcohol made from rice, about 60% alcohol, or 120 proof.
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: David H. Hartman on March 05, 2017, 03:04:30
I'll pass...
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Mongo on March 06, 2017, 11:13:50
seriously ? !!! Mongo is with David on this one. Very nicely shot and presented image though. The golden light could almost lure you to drink

Have to ask - did you actually see anyone drinking this stuff ?? and does it come with a crab fork to make sure you do not miss out on the goodies inside when you are done drinking this stuff ??
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Erik Lund on March 06, 2017, 11:18:34
Very artistic arrangements! Cheers ;)
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Akira on March 06, 2017, 11:40:13
LOL!  Those kinds of liquor are fairly well known in south-eastern and eastern Asia.  I haven't tasted any (I don't drink alcohol in the first place), but such liquor can be commonly seen also in China town in Yokohama, for example.

I enjoy Ron's reperesentation!  Nice lighting!
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: elsa hoffmann on March 06, 2017, 15:09:04
the snake wine (?) I saw lots of in Hong Kong. But I will gracefully pass too - thanks for the offer :)
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Fons Baerken on March 06, 2017, 15:54:50
strong stuff
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: stenrasmussen on March 06, 2017, 16:01:45
"Interesting" beverages!
I cannot help wondering how did they get the creatures into the bottles..?
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: CS on March 06, 2017, 16:57:56
"Interesting" beverages!
I cannot help wondering how did they get the creatures into the bottles..?

I'm more interested in why they put those creatures into the bottles. Yuk!
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: elsa hoffmann on March 06, 2017, 18:39:21
I'm more interested in why they put those creatures into the bottles. Yuk!
Extra protein perhaps?  ::)
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: stenrasmussen on March 06, 2017, 18:49:54
Hands up those who suspect/know this is a male "invention". I do.
I suspect the stronger sex could never summon the necessary madness to come up with a products like these.
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on March 06, 2017, 18:51:53
Thank you gentlemen and Elsa.  I don't know how they get the creatures into the bottles, but their bodies must be flexible.  The reason why could be for looks or perhaps people really drink that stuff.  I did not see anyone drinking from that source.  The liquor itself is clear, high proof and tastes a lot like sake.  There was a still set up out back.  It looked like a piece of junk.

When I was in college we used to call anything that gross "revolting".
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: CS on March 06, 2017, 18:59:12
Hands up those who suspect/know this is a male "invention". I do.
I suspect the stronger sex could never summon the necessary madness to come up with a products like these.

Well then, looking at it from that line of reasoning, the answer to my question as to why they do it, is because they can!  ;)
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Akira on March 06, 2017, 21:10:27
Hands up those who suspect/know this is a male "invention". I do.
I suspect the stronger sex could never summon the necessary madness to come up with a products like these.

Yes, that's it!   ;D
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Woodley Willie on March 07, 2017, 03:25:21
A good bet when wondering about these types of medicine...they are either for male virility as pointed out, or long life, or god help us, a combination of both.
This kind of thing looks benign when you see bottles filled with insects or reptiles.  It looks totally different when you see someone chainsawing the horn off a dead rhino.
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: MFloyd on March 07, 2017, 11:04:49
.... I don't know how they get the creatures into the bottles, but their bodies must be flexible.  The reason why could be for looks or perhaps people really drink that stuff.  I did not see anyone drinking....

They just dry them before ... and then they fit .....once the alcohol is added in the bottle, they swell again.  Another example of "thinking outside of the box" 😎
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Jakov Minić on March 07, 2017, 11:13:42
I'd give it a go :)
Cheers
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: stenrasmussen on March 07, 2017, 12:50:07
They just dry them before ... and then they fit .....once the alcohol is added in the bottle, they swell again.  Another example of "thinking outside of the box" 😎

How do they dry the exo-sceleton one without breaking the frame?
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: MFloyd on March 07, 2017, 13:54:37
They use an MRD (Molecular Reduction Device) 😎, alternatively, they shrink the bottle / glass container.
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: Ron Scubadiver on March 07, 2017, 16:19:58
They just dry them before ... and then they fit .....once the alcohol is added in the bottle, they swell again.  Another example of "thinking outside of the box" 😎

Thinking outside the bottle.
Title: Re: First Drink's On Me
Post by: MFloyd on March 07, 2017, 17:46:50
Thinking outside the bottle.

 :)