I’m a dude that owns a cocktail shaker but I’ve never worked at a bar in any capacity.

This one doesn’t seem to have a concrete answer because there’s a big bouncing blue billion ways to make a margarita.

The IBA recipe for a margarita calls for 50mL blanco tequila, 20mL triple sec, 15mL lime juice. Shake with ice, and then strain into a chilled cocktail glass, with an optional half-salted rim. I’m not much of a margarita guy but I’ve personally never seen one served up, they’re usually served on the rocks. Or “frozen.”

If you were to ask me to make you a frozen margarita, I’d try to talk you out of it, and then I’d probably dump everything I’d put in the shaker in my food blender, possibly also with the rocks I’d have served it over, ground it until it stopped grunching and then poured it in the glass, and I bet you wouldn’t enjoy it much.

I’m basically going to jump over “buy a jug of tequila mix from the grocery store and just add tequila.” I don’t know what’s in that and I don’t really care.

I cannot find a recipe for a single frozen margarita; most recipes are for making batches of 4 cocktails at a time or so, often adding simple syrup or agave nectar, dosing the liquid ingredients in terms of cups rather than ounces or milliliters. These recipes I’m reading are intended for amateurs to make at home in a blender. A nicer cocktail bar will likely do something like that, rev up a blender for you. A lot of places will have a slushy machine with batches made by the gallon. What they load it with? depends on the establishment. Might be off the shelf margarita mix and tequila, might be whatever mix they get from Applebee’s corporate, might be their own in-house “Joe’s Signature Recipe” whatever…

BOIL IT DOWN, FISTFUCKER

If you’re in the kind of place where you order a frozen margarita and the bartender makes it in a blender for you, I think you’re going to get the same amount of booze either way, approximately equivalent to 1.5 to 2 shots of tequila*. The variables are how quickly you’re going to drink it, and how much water you’re going to swallow alongside. If served up, you’ll likely drink it faster and with the least accompanying water. On the rocks will slow you down slightly and a little more water will melt into the drink while you’ve got it; most people will finish the drink before the ice completely melts and not eat the remaining ice. A frozen margarita will have ~ as much ice as a margarita on the rocks but you’re going to swallow it all(I say swallow because do you eat or drink ice/liquid slush?)

In an establishment that has a margarita slushy machine, they’ll obviously serve you a goblet of…whatever that is. I imagine it will be dosed so that the serving you get will have about the amount of booze in it will have. If you ordered a margarita up or on the rocks, are they going to measure tequila, triple sec and lime juice, or give you tequila and their margarita mix…? Go to enough bars and the answer will average out to “yes.”

I think the bottom line is going to be, “drinks” are mostly dosed for about the same amount of alcohol. The amount of water, sugar etc. and how fast it is consumed is what makes any practical difference. I see people talking about which is more “watered down.” Imagine this: You take two shots of tequila, then one shot of water. OR, you take two shots of tequila, then two shots of water. In which scenario did you drink the most tequila?

*I’m in the US, I define a “shot” as 1.5 ounces or ~45mL, and both Tequila and triple sec vary in ABV, figure typical spirits or liqueurs are ~40% ABV of 80 proof, give or take the metric system.

Grenadine is pomegranate flavor, not cherry. Though if you get Rose’s it’s citric acid flavor.

WhatsApp is owned by Meta, try playing up the anti-American angle?

ffs, personal shit on personal devices, work shit on work devices. That way you don’t fat finger dick picks to colleagues.

In moon landing units that’s ~186 miles per hour, which is around three times the speed limit of an average American interstate highway. I would not expect the average passenger car to be able to achieve that speed, but there are sports cars that can. You’re probably looking at an uprange Corvette, some of the higher end Porches, a lot of Ferraris, Lambroghinis etc. Something Jeremy Clarkson would describe in an impressed tone of voice. It is my understanding that a lot of supersport motorcycles are limited to exactly that speed; most liter bikes have no problem powering themselves that fast, the question is maintaining control. If there’s a pothole or some sand or a slight curve, will the rider survive encountering it at 3 miles a minute?

Going that fast in a car, you start to wonder how long the tires are going to hold up. At its top speed, a Bugatti Veyron will actually run out of tires before it runs out of gas.

In New World landing units, it’s ~161 knots. This is very close to the V_NE of a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The Never Exceed speed, top of the red arc. Go faster than that and the airplane is just going to break. It’s the approximate cruise speed of a Beechcraft Bonanza and the higher end of landing speeds for a Boeing 737.

Should we break up? Wedding’s in five minutes.

I could see having lights on a somewhat sophisticated timer. Like having bedroom lighting that simulates dawn, fades on etc. Maybe making a thermostat a little bit more sophisticated. I’d like to live in a world where I could trust the power company to tell me when electricity is abundant and scarce but we’re gonna have to win Civil War 2 before we get that. My toilet and faucets do not need any digital technology at all.

I’ll tell you the most important thing to keep in mind when playing Battletech: Have a good time. Sometimes ya just gotta open up an alpha strike at point blank range, overheat and stackpole. When you do, make it as hilarious as you can.

Mocha the all hearing…some kinda Rex I imagine. What breed is Mocha, OP, a Cornish Rex?

I have never actually played a game of tabletop battletech. I’ve been a fan of the Mechwarrior sim games since I was a kid (Mechwarrior 2: 31st Century Combat blew my 9 year old brain) and I rather like the novels, they’re a guilty pleasure of mine.

Big jump from a mercenary company to the battle of Tukayyid. Comstar brought 50 regiments to that fight and butt wrecked five whole clans. That’s a biggie.

Looks like a nice warm spot for a birthday bask.

I’m contemplating the immortal words of Socrates who said, “I drank what?”

Chess needs ERPPCs and Streak SRMs.

Natural colonic more like

I remember some guy, anthropologist or something like that, was trying to figure out why it was that people in cities made on average more money than people in small towns or rural areas, until it hit him: That’s why cities exist in the first place.

I love how Brian Brushwood described it. It was either an inside job from someone at the station, or a very impressive feat of radio hacking, and they had to plan out the costume and the corrugated sheet on a pivot behind him to simulate the “CG” backgrounds, “But it’s as if zero thought went into what he was actually going to say.” He hums the Clutch Cargo theme tune, makes fun of Max Headroom as spokesman of New Coke by holding up a Pepsi can, and throws a little bit of shade at WGN and Chuck Swirsky.

The halcyon days of the 1980’s when a broadcast intrusion like this was basically a harmless juvenile prank.

Which Candy Kong though? The one from DKC, the one from DK64, or the one from the animated series above?

That was my first throught, followed very closely by “WHY was that even in that movie?”

Someday you’ll try that over SSH once.

Once.

I have no idea why it is the way it is.

The sound bite I heard was “the unsafe keyword makes memory bugs greppable.”