Welcome - Cocktail Guide

Welcome to Ten's blogspot. Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.

Updated twice a week this site shows you what's going on, how to book your celebration or event, a bit of fun and looks back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this post we feature a Cocktail Guide according to the Urban Dictionary, have a look at the harsh environments that those lovely people at Facebook and Google have to endure, browse the world of the golden gadget, explore little oddities and facts you may not know, announce the winners of our FITC competition, and show you couple of videos from YouTube.com.


FITC COMPETITION:
This weeks FITC winners have been chosen, and if you're a winner all you need to do is contact us through our Facebook group and we'll send you a printable voucher which you need to present at the bar to redeem your £10 bar tab.

Congratulations to these two winners - if you want to have a shot at winning a bar tab for yourself then come to Ten on a Saturday night and attract the attention of our photographer Lukas.


THE TOP SIX GOLDEN GADGETS:
The gadget world is getting ‘golden’ day by day with a large number of gadgets being manufactured with gold bars and diamonds. Its all seem to be glittering all around.

Gold Plated AK-47

A gold-plated Kalashnikov AK47 and Gold plated SVD (Al Kadisha) reportedly given to Saddam’s son, Uday, found at the palace in Baghdad. Also some are reported to have been given to one of Saddam Hussein’s henchmen. Many pictures are posted on the web of soldiers posing with the Gold AK47 and Gold SVD (Al Kadisha).

Gold Plated Vibrator
We’re not sure what purpose there is in this $1500 gold plated Elo Vya vibrator other than to give you heavy metal poisoning, but here it is. The 18k gold plated vibrator will satisfy women (and men), but also passes its AU into your porous areas. Which can’t be good at all. But hey, it’s on sale for $1350. Score!

Gold plated Porsche

The town of Pforzheim in south-west Germany is famous for its jewellery and watch-making industry and accordingly is known as “the City of Gold.” The city is also the home of the first Gold-plated Porsche.
All the major components, from the control elements such as the steering wheel and door knobs to the car body and alloy rims, are all gold plated, making the two-seater exceptionally luxurious.
Visualis, which is situated in Pforzheim, gilded a Porsche Boxster in 22 carat beaten gold.
Nine Porsche Models will undergo the same, unique refinement process to continue the creative project. Although the price is not yet disclosed, Visualis’ Petra Koehler reports that “curious people are already anxious to know who are going to be the owners of these magnificent automobiles.”

Nikon FA Gold



Nikon was justifiably very proud of their FA, the first camera to use computerized multi-segment metering.
It was the first Gold Nikon offered for sale to the public, commemorating winning the European camera of the Year award for 1984.
Production estimated at 2000. The 20 gold plated parts are 24K gold plated. The body covering is red lizard skin. The easily scratched gold finish was protected with a specially provided cleaning cloth, complete with special Nikon gold cleaners.
 
LG gold plated plasma TV

This is one home theater system your guests are never gonna stop talking about. LG’s LH-C643, the stuff of water cooler gossip, simply calls out to the Mercedes-owning uncles and aunties with its 24-carat gold-plated exterior, which LG claims is the world’s first luxury home theater setup.

24 Karat Gold with Diamonds MacBook Pro
The 24-carat gold MacBook Pro. The MacBook is completely golden with a diamond studded apple logo. Yet another product for a filthy rich businessman, seeking the attention of his wife can definitely contemplate over this gadget.
The blingified Golden Macbook has been designed by Alex Wiley and unquestionably not for mass customisation. There are two versions available which are 24kt Gold & Diamonds 15″ Macbook Pro and the 24kt Gold 15″ Macbook Pro.

COCKTAIL GUIDE:
Do you know what a Chonchtail, a Preptail, or a what Hallway Smoothy is? Then this a guide to Mixology (a fancy name for making cocktails by flinging very specific quantities and qualities of liquids around) for you. The definitions are according to individuals who have contributed to the Urban Dictionary - a site where people can offer their own suggestions regarding the definition of colloquialisms and example of how they should be used in context.  It could be suggested that this is how the Chav contingent may see the role of the cocktail, and therefore its a wonderful glimpse at 'that' sort of thinking. An example of this is the Urban Dictionary's contextual usage of the word 'Arsonist': ''F**kin hell! that arsonist looks like he's gona really do damage on that f**kin building!''. Collins would be proud!

Smart Cocktail:
Plural Noun. Any number of mixed drinks, from retro cocktails such as Manhattans to the latest designer martinis.
Slagathor: "I say, let's go out to the Village for some smart cocktails." (Because evidently the 'urban' fraternity use phrase such as 'I say'.)

Cocks and Apps:
Slang for "cocktails and appetizers"
Contextual: "Let's go out for cocks and apps."

Council Cocktail:
Cheap cocktails that you get while out on the piss in town, usually of poor standard
Customer: "I'll have a council cocktail please"
Barkeep: "Will vodka red bull be ok?"
Customer: "Definitely!"
Barkeep: "Safe"

Fruitini:
Fruit-based martini drinks/ cocktails. Mostly are non-alcoholic 'mocktails' (or, mocktinis), though it's important to spike the damn thing with good ol'voddy (vodkatinis).
-crantini: cranberry martini.
-melontini: melon.
-appeltini: green apple.
-clementini: clementine.
-peartini: pear.
-apricotini: apricot.
-tomatini: tomato.
-peachtini: peach (basically called a Billini martini. Bellini is usually made with white peach purée/juice + champagne + crème de péche, you add the vod and bitters to make a martini).

Juices and Berries:
Alcoholic drinks; cocktails; mixed drinks
Contextual: "I was partaking of some juices and berries last night at the bar. I couldn't stop myself I was on juices and berries! There were juices and berries in my system."

Chonchtails:
This word is derived from the opposite of "cocktails", it was brought together by a group of lesbians hanging out one night getting drunk, chonchtails are the lesbian versions of alcoholic beverages as in...
"Hey girls, lets go out for some chonchtails tonight!"


Rabid Fruit Donkey:
An extremely violent jackass who likes to get drunk off of fruit cocktails.
Contextual: "That rabid fruit donkey is extremely wasted on fruit cocktails again."

Preptail:
The cocktails you drink before going out.
Contextual: "I need to have a few preptails to get me in the mood for the bar"

Hallway Smoothie:
When walking the hallway of a hotel picking up unfinished cocktails set outside of rooms for room service to pick up and pouring them into a single cup.
Contextual: "She got thirsty on her way to the ice machine so she made a hallway smoothie."


LITTLE KNOWN ODDITIES:
We may know much about the world around us but somethings are 'less' known about our knowledge.  Here are a few things you may not know about the things you know about!


1. Charles Darwin married his first cousin.

2. John F. Kennedy, Anthony Burgess, Aldous Huxley, and C.S. Lewis all died on the same day.

3. Officially, the longest war in history was between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, which lasted from 1651 to 1986. There were no casualties.

4. Gay marriage was legally recognized in Rome, and Nero himself married at least two gay couples.


5. Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, immigrated to the United States in 1939 and fought against his uncle.


6. Thomas Paine was elected to the first post-revolution French parliament, despite not speaking a word of the language.

7. William Howard Taft is the only US President to come third in his campaign for re-election, losing to eventual winner Woodrow Wilson and fellow Republican Theodore Roosevelt.

8. Technically, Henry VIII had only two wives. Four of his marriages were annulled.

9. King Richard II invented the handkerchief.

10. The Parliament of Iceland is the oldest still acting parliament in the world. It was established in 930.


THE HARDSHIP OF WORKING FOR GOOGLE OR FACEBOOK:
(A.K.A. GOOGLE OFFICES V'S FACEBOOK OFFICES)
It must be a terrible hardship; working for a one of the biggest and most fun companies in the world.  Having to ride a BMX to the toilet or eating your lunch on a Ping-Pong table, or may be just having to go downstairs via the helter skelter, are just some of the awful conditions staff at Google or Facebook have endure on a daily basis.

It might be a question of personal preference. You can’t help but love one company’s work more than another, which leads to desire to work for them. Aside from that, you could use some objective measurements in choosing between the two.

In this article we give you a chance to have a sneak view at the offices from both Google and Facebook. You’ll find that both are design great, to enhance the productivity of their workers. Absolutely no trace of standard office cubicles.

GOOGLE OFFICE:

About Google: (as if you needed this)
Google Inc. is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It also generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, online mapping, office productivity, social networking and video-sharing services. Advert-free versions are available via paid subscription.  

Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters, often referred to as the Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009  the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte of user-generated data each hour.

FACEBOOK OFFICE:

About Facebook:
Facebook, Inc. is a company that operates and privately owns social networking website, Facebook. Users can add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves. Additionally, users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region. The website’s name stems from the colloquial name of books given at the start of the academic year by university administrations with the intention of helping students to get to know each other better.

Mark Zuckerberg founded Facebook with his college roommates and fellow computer science students Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes while he was a student at Harvard University.  The website’s membership was initially limited to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It later expanded further to include any university student, then high school students, and, finally, to anyone aged 13 and over. The website currently has more than 350 million active users worldwide.

My vote goes to the Facebook, purely on the fact that the design is so much more modern and edgy.   So what do you think?


SOMETHING ELSE:
Standard issue as per post is a selection of videos from Youtube.com.  The theme this week is cocktails and drinks.  Please don't try this at home, or at Ten for that matter - we serve drinks not drunks!







Thank you to everyone who has contributed to Ten Cocktail Bar in the last week and we look forward to seeing you all soon!
"Take care of yourself ... and each other!"

Welcome - Actuality and Stupidity

Welcome to Ten's blogspot. Here we proudly present our unique venue, cocktails, staff, parties and much more.

Updated twice a week this site shows you what's going on, how to book your celebration or event, a bit of fun and looks back at some of the past events at Worthing's ultimate party venue.

In this post we feature Ten's weekend, look at some of the common misconceptions we're taught at school, browse the more morbid world of the seven dumbest deaths, announce the winners of our FITC competition, and show you couple of videos from YouTube.com.


FITC COMPETITION:
This weeks FITC winners have been chosen, and if you're a winner all you need to do is contact us through our Facebook group and we'll send you a printable voucher which you need to present at the bar to redeem your £10 bar tab.

Well done to this weeks winners and to get your little hands on one of next weeks bar tabs, just come to Ten on a Saturday night and grab the attention of our photographer Lukas.


7 OF THE DUMBEST DEATHS IN HISTORY:

Attila the Hun:
One of the most notorious villains in history, Attila’s army had conquered all of Asia by 450 AD-from Mongolia to the edge of the Russian Empire-by destroying villages and pillaging the countryside.
How he died: He got a nosebleed on his wedding night.
In 453 AD, Attila married a young girl named Ildico. Despite his reputation for ferocity on the battlefield, he tended to eat and drink lightly during large banquets. On his wedding night, however, he really cut loose, gorging himself on food and drink. Sometime during the night he suffered a nosebleed, but was too drunk to notice. He drowned in his own blood and was found dead the next morning.

 

Tycho Brahe:
An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity.
How he died: Didn’t get to the bathroom in time.
In the 16th century, it was considered an insult to leave a banquet table before the meal was over. Brahe, known to drink excessively, had a bladder condition-but failed to relieve himself before the banquet started. He made matters worse by drinking too much at dinner, and was too polite to ask to be excused. His bladder finally burst, killing him slowly and painfully over the next 11 days.

Horace Wells:
Pioneered the use of anesthesia in the 1840s
How he died: Used anesthetics to commit suicide.
While experimenting with various gases during his anesthesia research, Wells became addicted to chloroform. In 1848 he was arrested for spraying two women with sulfuric acid. In a letter he wrote from jail, he blamed chloroform for his problems, claiming that he’d gotten high before the attack. Four days later he was found dead in his cell. He’d anaesthetized himself with chloroform and slashed open his thigh with a razor.

Francis Bacon:
One of the most influential minds of the late 16th century. A statesman, a philosopher, a writer, and a scientist, he was even rumored to have written some of Shakespeare’s plays.
How he died: Stuffing snow into a chicken
One afternoon in 1625, Bacon was watching a snowstorm and was struck by the wondrous notion that maybe snow could be used to preserve meat in the same way that salt was used. Determined to find out, he purchased a chicken from a nearby village, killed it, and then, standing outside in the snow, attempted to stuff the chicken full of snow to freeze it. The chicken never froze, but Bacon did.

Jerome Irving Rodale:
Founding father of the organic food movement, creator of “Organic Farming and Gardening” magazine, and founder of Rodale Press, a major publishing corporation.
How he died: On the “Dick Cavett Show”, while discussing the benefits of organic foods.
Rodale, who bragged “I’m going to live to be 100 unless I’m run down by a sugar-crazed taxi driver,” was only 72 when he appeared on the “Dick Cavett Show” in January 1971. Part way through the interview, he dropped dead in his chair. Cause of death: heart attack. The show was never aired.

Aeschylus:
A Greek playwright back in 500 BC. Many historians consider him the father of Greek tragedies.
How he died: An eagle dropped a tortoise on his head
According to legend, eagles picked up tortoises and attempt to crack them open by dropping them on rocks. An eagle mistook Aeschylus’ head for a rock (he was bald) and dropped it on him instead.

Jim Fixx:
Author of the best selling “Complete Book of Running,” which started the jogging craze of the 1970s.
How he died: A heart attack….while jogging
Fixx was visiting Greensboro, Vermont when he walked out of his house and began jogging. He’d only gone a short distance when he had a massive coronary. His autopsy revealed that one of his coronary arteries was 99% clogged, another was 80% obstructed, and a third was 70% blocked….and that Fixx had had three other attacks in the weeks prior to his death.

SCHOOL LIES:

1) Einstein got bad grades in school: Generations of children have been heartened by the thought that this Nobel Prize winner did badly at school, but they’re sadly mistaken. In fact, he did very well at school, especially in science and maths (unsurprisingly).

2) Mice like cheese:  Mice enjoy food rich in sugar as well as peanut butter and breakfast cereals. So a Snickers bar would go down much better than a lump of cheddar.

3) Napoleon was short:  He was actually around 5ft 7, completely average for the 18th/19th century.

4) Thomas Edison invented the light bulb:  Edison invented a lot of things – in fact he’s one of the most famous inventors of all time – but the light bulb wasn’t one of them. What he did was develop a light bulb at the same time as the British man, Joseph Swan, who came up with it originally.

5) Lemmings throw themselves over cliffs to commit suicide:  The poor old things are sometimes so desperate for food that they do, according to the BBC “jump over high ground into water”, but they aren’t committing group suicide.

6) Water flushes differently in different hemispheres:  No it doesn’t. Sorry!

7) Humans evolved from apes:  Darwin didn’t actually say this, but he’s been misreported ever since. What he did say was that we, and apes, and chimpanzees for that matter, had a common ancestor, once, a long, long time ago.

8) Vikings had horns/helmets with horns:  Vikings may have been buried with their helmets and with drinking horns. When they were dug up by the Victorians, they assumed that the helmets had horns.

9) Columbus believed the earth was flat:  He may not have known how big the world was, but he wasn’t worrying about falling off the edge of it.

10) Different parts of the tongue detect different tastes
You do have different taste buds on your tongue and some are more sensitive than others. But they aren’t divided into perfect, easy-to-teach sections.

SOMETHING ELSE:
As standard with our posts we conclude with a selection of 'tasteful' videos courtesy of YouTube.com.