Put On Your Skates

What's the point?

No, but seriously; what is the point!

Sure I love the internet to death, and YouTube too for that matter regardless of what its management is fiddling around with right now. 

...So you have the main guy at Duke's Hotel in London explaining pretty well everything there is to know about Fleming's so-called Martinis -, naturally, he doesn't give away every detail but he nonetheless makes enough clear about the why's and wherefore's to do with the unusual cocktails that people are construing that Fleming said were Martinis... He didn't and neither did Bond in the books. Doesn't stop almost everyone from literally slandering both of them.

This is a proper 'Russian Cocktail' (actual name of it)

The whole entire rest of the time right across the internet and YT there are all kinds of 'experts' regaling everyone with fairy-tales about 'the perfect Martini.' And poring over supposed controversy about 'shaken not stirred.'

Now there are about four or five things in the world today that are straight out garbage and yet they all have the status of 'truth:'

Firstly - that there is no contemporaneous (to his supposed - and notorious - lifetime) 'proof' or 'evidence' for the existence of a certain Jesus Christ. There is, it is right slap bang in the middle of Jerusalem, with similar things in Palmyra where the 'Three Wise Men' set out from together. Written documents were a lot rarer than they are nowadays, and mostly, the more common 'written down' things were inscriptions and symbolic designs etched into stone of some kind. And these have been academically dated without conjecture. There are numerous underground places (meant to be hiding places from the Romans) in Jerusalem, still intact today with a wide range of indications of the sect we now call 'Christians,' and academics are well-aware that some of the signs and inscriptions are for the person by name 'Jesus the Christ.' No tourists are sent to these places and few ever go there. I don't know why that is.

Secondly, that the moon is not visually larger at the horizon, and smaller higher in the sky; it is. Period. Yet you will even find 'scientists' claim not.

Thirdly, that aliens and UFO's are seen by various Military personnel and that they even intentionally 'show themselves' to government representatives and/or to various Military people. 'Part B' to this is that there isn't any or any sufficient 'proof' and 'evidence' that is easily accessible to the public and therefore scientists cannot agree or confirm there are such things. A., no aliens or UFO's have ever been seen by any modern Military agency or government specifically ever, and there is no 'extra-terrestrial technology' at Area 51, although people like Jack Parsons suggested they were in receipt of 'inspiration' from outside of the world in order to be able to come up with their ideas. But there is nothing on any official Military Intelligence file confirming the validity of their assertions.

...One fact that can be amply demonstrated is that there is categorical evidence of advanced, extraterrestrial, 'para-human' beings and their presence here on Earth - one of these being the statement in Homer's Iliad about the 'little grey people' and their secret island in what is now the North Dalmatian Sea. That place is still there and yes, so are indications of a culture of advanced people, different to what we know humans generally were, at the given time. Again, tourists are not directed there and no one much ever goes there. The whole existence, though, of the Venetian Republic, owes itself to this race and culture.

No reason why not

And Fourthly, if not finally, but finally for this post, is that Bond made a mistake having his Martini 'shaken and not stirred' because it 'bruises the gin.'

In the first place Bond specifies he wants Vodka in his drink, and Vodka doesn't have the fuselol oils in it that mean any kind of 'bruising' of the flavor elements are relevant. And secondly Fleming has a real point to Bond creating the drink in this way: he means to have the female made inebriated quickly, and yet recover almost at the same time that, presumably, the actual physical events that are the intended objective, are taking place. 

And so you will not find what I am about say here anywhere else. And that is not something I have any very good explanation for; a lot of people would know the facts and why they don't say them against the BS all over the internet I do not know. 

In any case, those who know - and there are a few around - will use the expression, 'put on your skates' or something akin to it, when they are handing over a shaken, Vodka cocktail. The vigorously shaken ice and Vodka once poured into the deep glass cone, with a sprinkling of salt over the top, produce shards of ice crystals almost like a layer of ice on a frozen lake, with the liquid below cloudy from tiny air bubbles. If you break through into the cloudy liquid below you are in trouble! The air bubbles increasing the rapid uptake of alcohol into the bloodstream making the person rapidly come under alcoholic influence - and this means, really, that the person is not going to be able to get very far into the drink before they are already affected. By the time the drink itself clears - all other things are underway.