But we still have to put up with each other. That is what normal people do. Otherwise you would never talk to anyone and all you would do is rent dogs and take photo's of absolutely nothing.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
We all come with a lot of baggage
But we still have to put up with each other. That is what normal people do. Otherwise you would never talk to anyone and all you would do is rent dogs and take photo's of absolutely nothing.
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What atrocious posture. Stand up straight, young man!
Or as my mother would say, "Shoulders back!"
Yes, it was hell growing up. But is there any other way to grow up? that's the question. Well, one of the questions.
I blog to publish my own writing
I hope that problem commenters don't maliciously disrupt what might otherwise be a readable comments section.
It's a slow motion train wreck.
Well and drink a shit load of box wine. Don't forget that.
For the LAST time, she does NOT drink "box wine!"
She drinks $15/bottle J. Lohr Cabernet from Paso Robles. It's a more refined version of a big, old California Cab and usually has an aspirin-and-coffee-in-the-morning 14%+ alcohol content.
She does NOT drink thin, crappy box wine made in Bakersfield from commodity Pinot-Noir-heavy juice trucked down I-5 on a hot day, any more than she drives a Yaris.
"Box wine" implies "low rent," while expensive California Cabernet implies "pretentious." In my opinion, as in everything else, she has no idea what makes the J. Lohr good. All she knows are the externalities of its price and reputation. I once thought she had interesting, eclectic tastes, until it dawned on me she has no taste, as most people would understand it, in anything whatsoever.
Excuse me TTBurnett, a suitable bottle for a bourgeoisie Audi driving Madisonian. But does it come in 1.5 liter size because one regular bottle just doesn't get the job done.
You're absolutely right, Evi. The 1.5 liter bottle is also much more environmentally responsible.
Using the search command I recently wrote here I sought to prove that AA drinks box wine - one of the first hits was this:
"Ann Althouse said...
For the record, I have never bought wine in a box, but I think it's stupid to be prejudiced against boxed wine. I think it's a method for keeping air out of the container, and it's especially useful for people who don't finish a bottle in one sitting. The question is the quality of the wine in a box. But I've never bought wine that way. I buy wine in half bottles, and I drink a half of that and finish the bottle in 2 days. That gives me one glass of wine with dinner.
-drivel snip-
3/9/10, 12:55 PM"
So there you have it - Tim for the win.
My old man was a tightwad. He had to be, he was feeding a family of six on a salesman's commissions.
He bought wine in one-gallon glass bottles, based on price. It was usually Molly Pitcher, or maybe Carlo Rossi if he had a good week.
He kept a half-dozen empty wine bottles in the basement, bottles that once held good wine, bottles that had French words on their labels.
When my folks entertained, it was usually T-bones on the grill, baked potatoes loaded with butter, sour cream and chives, Sinatra on the hi-fi, and wine on the table. The old man would take a funnel into the basement before the party, and pour his Molly Pitcher of Carlo Rossi gallon-wine into the expensive bottles.
Over dinner he'd pour a bit of wine from each bottle and taste it, then describe how it was different form the wine in the other bottles. "More tannins" or "not as oaky" or maybe "blackberries, taste the blackberries?" His friends would nod along, mostly agreeing.
I asked him about it once. He said that most of his friends couldn't tell their hats from their wife's ass when it came to wine, and the people believed what they saw and heard.
Once a guest asked where the heck he got the expensive wines from. The old man told him that he "knew a guy who was in the outfit and got a good deal on some hijacked French wines." Nah. He got the empties from a friend who worked at steak joint.
Does it work? I'm not saying that I ever poured Two Buck Chuck into expensive looking bottles back in the day.....but, yeah, it works. People believe what they are led to believe.
Which is how Barack Obama became president.
If she drinks it by the case can we call it box wine?
Michael Haz: So David Alexrod took your dad's wine technique and used it to sell Barack Obama!
No wonder ol dirty EBL fell for it the first time!
Keep in mind she's a law professor when you read her comment there.
She says she never buys it.
You suppose she does her own shopping? She didn't say "we don't buy it", she didn't say "we won't have it in the house" or "I won't have it in the house"...she said she doesn't buy it.
Sweety Meadey the rotisserie boy does the shopping.
Plausible deniability.
rp--
I put my shoulders too far back. I'm pretty sure I've wrecked my lower back doing that.
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