If you drink a box of wine
you'll be drunk then have a raging hangover in the morning.
Trust me, I know.
Went for the assonance.
(which is a much funnier answer than I expected it to be. At least to me, right now, during a really suck shift)
there is hatred in the air today, neh?
my day was full of bullshit and conflict.
a guy got fired, and rock killed a man with a trident
I've known a couple of people who have really disgusting habits like shitting their pants when they're drunk. It's always amazed me to think a grown person could do such a thing. I say person because in my historical experience, it's always been men, but a couple of months ago, one of my girlfiends pissed her pants at her daughters 18th. At that stage, I wasn't quite sure who was worse. The mother or the teenagers running around vomiting everywhere.
Why do people get so drunk that they do those things?
they don't practice enough
simple
Well all the ones I know who do it are actually the ones who drink the most. That's what makes me wonder about it. It's like it's just something they do when they get drunk. Weird.
You are teh ghey. Box wine? Are you f'ing kidding me?!?
I knew something was up with the pomegranate martini, but this....This!!!
Confirmed. lol!!
Jim take a photo with your webcam. Post it. Do it.
A friend of ours (well, he's not really anymore, for semi-related reasons) once spent the night on our couch and peed on it. Fortunately it was the beat-up basement couch. Fucker tried to cover it up with a pillow and left early in the am so nobody would notice his wet pants.
We mentioned it to a couple of other friends, and they were like "oh yeah, he'll do that." So why the hell didn't anybody warn us?!
And why the hell does a 35-year-old man still wet the damn bed?
Jim take a photo with your webcam. Post it. Do it.
I had to put my foot down. No box of wine.
i did buy a bottle of $3.99 cabernet sauvignon though!
arrgh!
Just take the photo. :)
Please?
The only time I ever drink from boxes (wtf buys boxes?) of wine are in the context of catered events...and the glasses are usually painfully small (where do they get those glasses from? they're like taster glasses) and protocol is not to have more than 2 drinks.
I have a vague recollection of them being about at various family parties years ago...
(synchronicity in action: as I typed 'wine' a woman on the radio said 'red wine'.)
Box wines that you find in the grocery store contain cheap and fairly low quality wine. But there are good brands out there too. The box is very convenient for moderate drinkers, because it keeps the wine fresh for longer. You can have a glass a day (or two if you are going crazy,) and it will stay "fresh" for the amount of time it takes to finish the box over a week or two. It's an exceptionally good packaging system.
You just miss out on the "event" of opening a bottle and hearing that uncorking sound.
HM used to buy boxes of wine.
He was a two glass man. I envied that.
I have never, ever, ever lost control of anything in my pants when drunk.
Legs yes, stomach - a very small handful of times and those at a point where my body was probably choosing life. Heart, mind, tongue, yes.
Pee and poo? Never.
Yucky.
Then again, maybe I would have been more controlled about drinking if I had.
there is hatred in the air today, neh?
my day was full of bullshit and conflict.
a guy got fired, and rock killed a man with a trident
Brick.
People who piss and shite their pants due to overdrinking obviously have A DRINKING PROBLEM that might be related to ALCOHOLISM.
Jeesh. I have to tell you guys everything.
The only people I knew who kept a perpetual box of wine in the fridge was a big Italian family. Yeah, the dad HAD A DRINKING PROBLEM. (He also drank Busch beer. So. Yick.)
Right - because they care more about drinking than they do about shitting themselves. "Let's see, if I drink I might shit myself again. Enhhhhh... I'm drinking."
A friend who is in AA told me that his doctor noted: "Oh, you're an alcoholic? I know what you mean, I'm the same way with chocolate."
My friend looked at him blankly for a few moments and said "Oh yeah? Have you ever stolen money from your children to buy chocolate? Have you ever spent the grocery money on chocolate then ate so much of it you shit your pants before crashing the car in a ditch? You must really like chocolate."
I guess the rest of exam went pretty smoothly.
Heh.. reminds me of a magazine cover I saw once, advertising a tell-all book from Maureem McCormick, akak Marcia Brday from "The Brady Bunch." "My addictions to cocaine -- and chocolate!!"
Right - because they care more about drinking than they do about shitting themselves. "Let's see, if I drink I might shit myself again. Enhhhhh... I'm drinking."
The alcoholic mind doesn't think like that. Look at all the people with multiple DUI's. Think having a DUI ever stopped an alcoholic? Being thrown in prison? Regular people think like that---oh, look, a consequence! Not so for alcoholics. We say, "What consequence? Oh, I know i shit my pants LAST time, but THIS time will be different!!"
Hey, cut some slack for boxed wine. There are
some that are
pretty good out there...
My husband and I are in the one-glass-with-dinner-sometimes category. It seems very wasteful to open a bottle for two glasses, only to have it noticeably degraded by the next drink. This allows us to have a glass when desired, without ruining the rest.
Denial ain't just a river in Africa, Pie.
They do make little rubber vacuum corks. Admit it, you just like boxed wine.
I like canned beer, I like the taste of the can. It reminds me of my childhood summers, drinking beer from a can 'cause that's what my aunt and uncle had around.
I have never shat the bed, but after downing half of a 2-liter cask (and then half a dozen shots of Tia Maria), I am prone to wandering past the Residence of Vice Chancellor Professor Chubb at three in the morning and shouting "Hey, Chubby bubby, hows it going?" while my mate pisses on the flagpole.
Admit it, you just like boxed wine.
I loooves me some maddog! :drunk: :rolleyes:
is a $30 bottle of cabernet really $24 better than a $6 bottle?
i don't pretend to have any kind of a clue about wine tasting and all that shit......but I DO smoke cigars some times, and a $5 Te Amo mexican robusto is a nice smoke.....a $30 Cohibe Cuban robusto is maybe worth another $5.....but it sho aint worth the extra $25.......
Here's the deal, jimbo. Start with a $3 bottle. Work your way up to a (say) $40 bottle. Identify the price point where you can no longer tell the difference (when sober!)
Don't bother buying wine priced above this point. :p
please don't call me jimbo.
I find with wine that there are some very nice, very reasonably priced wines and there are some shit ones too. The same goes with expensive wines. Some are good, and some are shit.
What you enjoy in a wine is very much up to your own individual palate, so my advice is, there's sure to be something you'll like in a price range you're happy to pay. If you want to show off, then go ahead and buy the more expensive bottle, but personally, I think that sort of behaviour is for dicks. :)
Don't you like being called Jimbo?
no. you've ruined it for me
Awww...sorry Jimbo. i'm still going to call you Jimbo though. It's much nicer than the alternative really. :)
I'm not a wine connoisseur. Boxed works just fine. I couldn't tell you what would happen if I drank the whole thing. Definitely would NOT include defecating in my pants though.
Awww...sorry Jimbo. i'm still going to call you Jimbo though. It's much nicer than the alternative really. :)
ok, cunt......as long as you don't mind me calling you cunt, you can call me jimbo.
Yeah...whatever. I'm sure that'll make a great impression too Jimbo.
trish....
don't be a shit. hear what i say. i do not like it when you call me jimbo. no one calls me jimbo. when you do it, you do it to be a shit. if you want to be a shit, please continue to call me jimbo. i will call you a cunt, and you will deserve it. it will be your own damn fault, and the impression will be on you, not me......
shitfacecuntsnatchercockshitballsmotherfuckerfistintheasswhoredaddybitchface.
ahuh...very mature of you lumberjim.
and just so you know, it may have started out as a shit stir, but to me it's not these days.
if it bothers you that much I wont do it anymore, but seriously, it's just a name and I might add that adding 'o' to the end of someone's name is pretty much the australian way.
I will try to subvert my culture for your benefit though.
Oh, and you can go eat a dick. :)
Oh Jezus !! Get a Room allready you 2 !!!
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yeah,
uh...not as funny the next morning. rather un-galant of me, in fact.
I apologize for dropping the c word and being over the top in general.
still.....don't call me jimbo.
Roger.
(Can I call you that?)
Don't call me Shirley.
There's a wine at Trader Joe's they call Two-Buck Chuck. Coz, I think, it costs two bucks. :)
Shirley? Is that his middle name?
I drink a lot of Jacob's creek and Lindeman's. Both are acceptable table wines, and we drink about 750ml a night. Gnarly Head Old Vine Zinfandel is another great table wine but at 10-12 buck a bottle, it isn't in the budget for everyday drinking. I can taste the difference between really awful wines and mediocre and above. But anything better than mediocre is lost on me.
I watched a TED talk recently where the guy mentioned some brains scans that were done on people who were comparing the same wine, but were told the proces varied from $5. a bottle to $500. a bottle. There brains actually showed that they were enjoying the supposedly more expensive wine.
If you go to TED.com and search for the price of happiness I think it is in that talk. I can't go to TED right now to get you the link or I'd be stuck there all day.
Yea, we have moved to more of a wine thing ourselves. And we tend to stay around the $9 to $14 per bottle too. There are some really good wines out there in that range. Box wines have been reserved for an outdoor event with lots of people drinking. I can't imagine actually drinking a whole box by one person. Anyway, I agree with feet, the stuff that is suppose to cost more than $20 in the store begins to be lost by really good less costly stuff.
yeah,
uh...not as funny the next morning. rather un-galant of me, in fact.
I apologize for dropping the c word and being over the top in general.
That's why you get my respect.
Ravenswood vintner's blend zinfandel is very good -- around $15. Big, somewhat jammy, but well-balanced with oak and acidity.
I've been happy lately with the wines from Yellow Tail (Australia), primarily the Cab/Merlot blend and the Merlot for about $7-8.00 a bottle. The whites not so much, I go more for a nice California Chardonnay. If I was really flush with cash, I'd go for some of the white Burgundies like Mersault (about $80-100 a bottle). Now THAT'S a fine bottle of wine...:D
Smoking Loon Wines, people. I don't know if they've crossed into the darkside of the box wine, but they are both good and cheap. And the label's cute. My favorite is the Merlot, but I've had several of their other varieties, which were quite yummy.
Three Blind Moose is another wine bought based on the label that turned out to be fantastic.
Yah I've gotten two different varieties of that one lately wolf..It's good. Of course it had a smoking loon on the label so why the hell not right? :) Louis Jadot brands are great for red because you get the upper end taste without the price-tag. If you see this one pick it up! It goes with dinner depending on the kind. I tend to drink the pinot noir straight though.
It has cicero's seal of approval:
http://www.louisjadot.com/en/index.php
The label looks like:
http://shopping.yahoo.com/s:Wine:15606-Winery=Louis%20Jadot
You can pick it up at whole foods and most large liquor stores.
Sounds nice, but that Jadot stuff is over $30/bottle! (some over $100!! :eek: )
Wolf...No no...not in the stores...
9.00-11.00....
That website is misleading, that's for the uber good stuff. It's in the same range as smoking loon..
I was thinking this morning that you might prefer Jiminy...like the cricket...
What do you think? :D
Anyway, you don't have to apologise. I already know what sort of person you are. I didn't expect anything else, and still don't. And besides that, you're not the only one who has delighted in calling me the C word around here. I have to admit though, that big line of nasty words was inventive, must have used up a few brain cells to come up with. :) Don't drink to much wine though or you wont have any to spare for future brain farts. ;)
Steelerswood vintner's blend zinfandel is very good -- around $15. Big, somewhat jammy, but well-balanced with oak and acidity.
fixed
fixed
Hey, I'm closer to BWI now, it's
definitely Ravens. :D
I was thinking this morning that you might prefer Jiminy...like the cricket...
What do you think? :D
Errrm.... I hav a Jiminy Cricket on my boob....wouldnt that be kinda weird?
Do I hafta stop calling you Jimbob?
lol...now that would be funny. I wouldn't know if I was talking to a boob or your boob!
If I drank an entire box of wine I'd probably barf. The only time I've had an involuntary bowel movement was when I was medicated, and had a slight change of medication, and had a seizure.
Scared the crap out of me. Or would have if I hadn't already . . . you know . . .
Wolf...No no...not in the stores...
9.00-11.00....
That website is misleading, that's for the uber good stuff. It's in the same range as smoking loon..
I was looking at the PA LCB site. I had to check to see they sold it here.
I've been happy lately with the wines from Yellow Tail (Australia), primarily the Cab/Merlot blend and the Merlot for about $7-8.00 a bottle. The whites not so much, I go more for a nice California Chardonnay. ...:D
+1 on the Yellowtail Cab/Merlot & especially their Shiraz...a good drink at a reasonable price. And a number of the Lindeman's, the Cabernets, Merlots and quite few of the Penfolds selections......You Aussies make some good wine at reasonable prices.....Thank you...
Check out the wines made in Chile as well. Very good for the price.
For the record...
I used to work in a four star country house hotel. It wasn't five star because the owners at the time refused to compromise the historic setting with a swimming pool (long since resolved).
We had a couple of wine tastings while I worked there. No idea why. Perhaps so the dining room waitresses could sound professional about the wine? Who knows - we had a sommalier of course, and I (for one) only worked the breakfast shift!
So I thought I had a reasonable handle on wine. That and tasting it at home etc. Nope. We went to a wine and cheese tasting on a skiing holiday. Cost something minute (about £4 at the time I think) which was a bargain given we went home too pissed and full to eat dinner! It started with a "blind" test - you had descriptions of the five wines and the five cheeses and had to match them up. We did okay - better on the cheese than the wine. The cheese was thanks to me, the wine ended up being guesswork.
Then it was a price test - match the wines (identified this time as 1-5 to match the descriptions) to the price. I got them almost exactly reversed. Our friend got the two top wines in the two top slots, so we got a bottle of the priciest as a prize. Given that my ex didn't drink, me & M had a rare old time knowing we were knocking back expensive wine!
I know I like Rioja. Anything else I leave to the experts.
Except cheese I mean.
I am not a connoisseur of wine though I do enjoy the ceremony associated with it. Still, it's the labels that appeal to me more than the wine, though I do enjoy some now and then. As long as it's served in a glass and not a little box, I wouldn't know which was which. :)
+1 on the Yellowtail Cab/Merlot & especially their Shiraz...a good drink at a reasonable price. And a number of the Lindeman's, the Cabernets, Merlots and quite few of the Penfolds selections......You Aussies make some good wine at reasonable prices.....Thank you...
Actually, I'm surprised there's enough left over after we've had our fill to be able to export, but there you go. :)
I like our wines, and there are some great ones from NZ too. Some of those Chile wines are good too.
I miss wine.
Well you always have whine. :)
Can you purchase a scotch flavored wine?
No but I have had some scotch flavored beer and it was oustanding.
oudsanding. otusdaning.
It was good.