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People who think that drinking wine is "non-alcoholic" really get on my nerves! An example of this was my boss a few years ago actually admitting she "liked a drink" when she got home at night. She was posh and used to be a teacher so was an educated kinda person....until it came to drink.
One thing was in her favour, however. She never used to LIE about the amount of wine she drank. She once said to me, "People who say to you, 'last night I had 2 glasses of wine with my meal' ACTUALLY mean, 'I had 2 bottles of red with my take-away Chinese and I'm feeling a bit hungover today'"
wine drinkers are actually drinking LOADS of alcohol but are too dumb to admit it!
She is sooo right! I have the proof that wine-drinkers are actually drinking LOADS of alcohol but are too dumb to admit it! Those middle-class morons who probably drink 2 bottles of the "finest" red from Tesco who then take their kids to school the following morning in their lovely 4x4's are drinking MILES more alcoholic content than us poor, working-class mortals that like a can of lager now and again.
It made me smile when "experts" appeared on Sky News recently saying that some wine drinkers are consuming far more alcohol than they realise and their livers may suffer in the long run. You don't say! I've known this for a long time and don't get paid for "doing research" on it!
I really think those snobby wine drinkers should (firstly) own up to drinking not 2 glasses of wine but 2 bottles a night...because, let's face it, how can a bottle of wine stay fresh if you only have 2 glasses at a time? THEY ARE LYING! And, secondly, READ THE LABEL SO YOU KNOW WHAT THE ALCOHOLIC CONTENT IS. Even better, buy a few cans of cheap lager, you know it makes sense! Oh, but you won't though, it's far too common to drink anything less than Tesco's "finest" red wine isn't it? Or is it?!
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You are also over-generalising by saying all wine drinkers lie about how much they drink. You have taken what one person has said and apply it to everyone. I'm quite happy to admit that I can very easily go through a bottle of wine by myself. However I have never or met anyone that has felt the need to lie about how much wine they drink
2 glasses means two glasse as you can keep red wine for up to 5 day once opened, I drink a bottle maybe 2 a week, you can keep your supers or whatever you drink I'll Stick to me snobbie wine thanks.
You wouldn't believe some of the old toothless sots I've known who were once wealthy and got hooked on the drug "wine". They came to poverty and died young. That's how healthy THEIR red wine was.
I don't like red wine, but if someone gives me a glass of white then it goes down like lager, but wine is not my prefered drink
I avoid getting anywhere near drunk, and I fail to understand people paying a lot for a bottle of wine, but if they want to pay £50-00 or more for a bottle of wine then it is up to them, the cash they pay, will pay someones wages.
Tnuc Ybbons 09-Mar-2009 22:53 "
How childish you are "Tnuc Ybbons" but small things please small minds and ressot a era uoy kniht I. Sorry for taking myself down to your level but I couldn't resist, must be that 75p/litre Kazakh plonk I've been on.
Of course there is a link between cost and quality. Do you want to tell me that a Renault is as good as a Mercedes? That a Bulgarian wine for £3 is as good as an Argentinian Malbec for £10?
There is a lot of snobbery and rubbish talked about wine and it's up to each individual to decide what he likes. I have never found a decent red wine in the UK for less than about £6 a bottle. I don't enjoy white wines and rarely drink them so can't comment.
I also like an aged Rioja which varies between £5-£15 per bottle.
Very hard to find grape is the Cinsault which is an excellent red about £3 per bottle.
Wine choice is by taste what suits and appeals to you not the cost or the brand.
I recommend euthanasia for ove
Our couch-potatoes have to drink margaritas, and tequila sunrises in plastic bars, sick on the beach, Michael Collins to them. Give them a vodka-martini and they are away, into all kinds of organic nonsense.
Give me Genetically Modified food. I will not be hungry like these greedy grabbing guzzlers.