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when you are reading the ny times and get to the story titled "Somalia: Rebels Clash Over Port Control" and wonder to yourself "when did somalians start drinking so much port???"...
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| Posts: 6336 | Location: Park Slope, Brooklyn | Registered: Nov 20, 2002 | |
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quote: Originally posted by TBird:
when you are reading the ny times and get to the story titled "Somalia: Rebels Clash Over Port Control" and wonder to yourself "when did somalians start drinking so much port???"...
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| Posts: 13470 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 | |
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quote: Originally posted by wine+art:
Do you have to take ALL of your recyclable items to a center?
Yes, you just drive up and dump into the bin. It's easy. Not a big city here, just a small town in CT.
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quote: Originally posted by Primordealsoup: quote: Originally posted by wine+art:
Do you have to take ALL of your recyclable items to a center?
Yes, you just drive up and dump into the bin. It's easy. Not a big city here, just a small town in CT.
I'm in the same boat W+A. I can pay if I want to for curbside, but I find it's very easy to take them to the recyclables dumpster, right next to the grocery I'm at regularly. Besides, it's just glass and metal for me, I read the paper at work,  .
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| Posts: 6204 | Location: Naptown | Registered: Nov 24, 2006 | |
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quote: Originally posted by indybob: quote: Originally posted by Primordealsoup: quote: Originally posted by wine+art:
Do you have to take ALL of your recyclable items to a center?
Yes, you just drive up and dump into the bin. It's easy. Not a big city here, just a small town in CT.
I'm in the same boat W+A. I can pay if I want to for curbside, but I find it's very easy to take them to the recyclables dumpster, right next to the grocery I'm at regularly. Besides, it's just glass and metal for me, I read the paper at work, .
Our dumpster if almost 5 feet tall, and full most weeks for pick-up in the alley. There is no way in hell I would haul all that somewhere in my car every week. Sorry.  |
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| Posts: 13470 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 | |
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When you'll drive to Orange County, on a weeknight, to eat at a place you've never been to, with a majority of people you've never met. And one of them is from Texas.
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| Posts: 6942 | Location: The Left Coast | Registered: Dec 01, 2001 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Gigond Ass:
When you'll drive to Orange County, on a weeknight, to eat at a place you've never been to, with a majority of people you've never met.
And one of them is from Texas.
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| Posts: 13470 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Whitey:
When your monthly budget of necessities includes:
Mortgage
Electricity
Gas
TV/Internet
Water
Insurance
Wine
My wife still gives me looks when we discuss financials.
So why is wine at the bottom. Should be after electrcity. Need a house, need a cooler, then buy wine
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| Posts: 2800 | Location: Palm Beach Gardens FL | Registered: Nov 05, 2001 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Primordealsoup:
When your throwing away your empty wine bottles at the local recycle center and are looking into the 20' dumpster while doing so to see what others in the town have been drinking, only to be disappointed to see just bulk/cheap bottles of wines scattered about.
Funny, in my suburb, we can put everything but glass in our container. Therefore, I also make those trips to the large dumpster, and I typically take a cursory glance in there for the same reason. |
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| Posts: 2517 | Location: Utah | Registered: Jan 15, 2008 | |
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quote: Originally posted by khmark7:
When you find yourself giving wine glasses as gifts to your good friends so you won't have to drink out of some crappy glasses when you visit the following time.
The gift that keeps on giving! |
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| Posts: 1769 | Location: San Diego, CA | Registered: Nov 19, 2005 | |
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Good grief, I've done almost all these things! I must be an Uber-geek. True Story:I work in a downtown courthouse, of which there is a small city park next door. This park is "home" to a number of vagrants. The majority are irredeemable alcoholics and drug users. The people who came into homelessness involuntarily are usually not in the same crowd as these folks, and know to avoid them. Times being what they are, the police don't allocate many resources to deal with them unless they're being blatent or bothering passers-by. Anyhoo, as I head to work in the morning, it's not uncommon for me to see the detritus of their behavior from the previous night. This includes beer and liquor bottles and other less savory leavings in or near the park garbage cans. Last week I noticed in a can, an upside down bottle of Waterbrook Melange, which is a decent cellar-defender wine in the $14 range. I probably have a couple, myself. I told my coworker what I had seen, and she just looks at me funny and says, "What, are you planning on joining them for a drink?"
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| Posts: 3707 | Location: Everett, WA | Registered: Mar 08, 2002 | |
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...It is 2am on a Thursday, you are looking at empty bottles of Biondi-Santi Rosso, Brunellos and Riservas, G. Conterno and about 10 other empties, you are in a heated argument with a friend/wine store owner and the wine writer for the SF Chronicle about the value of scoring wines, you're being squirted with water generally reserved for a dog called "Marcello" on account of your position that scoring is good, you've probably personally consumed the equivelant of at least 2 bottles, you've all been in the wine store for at least 6 1/2 hours drinking wine -- while keeping the door open and not really paying attenion to who actually works there when someone comes in asking a question -- and none of his seems at all odd to you.
"What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?" -- W.C. Fields
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quote: Originally posted by jburman82:
You see the looks on your friends faces when you tell them you are flying to chicago to drink wine with your internet friends at a strangers house.
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| Posts: 945 | Location: Minneapolis | Registered: Jan 06, 2009 | |
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quote: Originally posted by SD-Wineaux: quote: Originally posted by khmark7:
When you find yourself giving wine glasses as gifts to your good friends so you won't have to drink out of some crappy glasses when you visit the following time.
The gift that keeps on giving!
I am guilty of this, but the gift was well recieved. |
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| Posts: 945 | Location: Minneapolis | Registered: Jan 06, 2009 | |
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quote: Originally posted by DoktaP:
.....when you swirl any glass in front of you (water/juice) and smell before you drink.
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| Posts: 945 | Location: Minneapolis | Registered: Jan 06, 2009 | |
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I think the meeting up with people you only know form the internet to drink wine takes the cake. Although there were many valid entries here.
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you know you're a wine geek when...you are posting (and reading) entries in a wine forum after 1 a.m.
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| Posts: 947 | Location: Saginaw, MI | Registered: Mar 12, 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by mneeley490: Good grief, I've done almost all these things! I must be an Uber-geek. True Story:I work in a downtown courthouse, of which there is a small city park next door. This park is "home" to a number of vagrants. The majority are irredeemable alcoholics and drug users. The people who came into homelessness involuntarily are usually not in the same crowd as these folks, and know to avoid them. Times being what they are, the police don't allocate many resources to deal with them unless they're being blatent or bothering passers-by. Anyhoo, as I head to work in the morning, it's not uncommon for me to see the detritus of their behavior from the previous night. This includes beer and liquor bottles and other less savory leavings in or near the park garbage cans. Last week I noticed in a can, an upside down bottle of Waterbrook Melange, which is a decent cellar-defender wine in the $14 range. I probably have a couple, myself. I told my coworker what I had seen, and she just looks at me funny and says, "What, are you planning on joining them for a drink?"
Ahhh, the Courthouse Park. The stories I could tell. I actually believe that my destiny is to die there at the cluster F of an intersection that is 3rd & Yesler. I'm either going to get hit by a bus or get caught in the middle of drug deal gone bad...or get crapped on by a seagull with bird flu...Unfortunately I don't have any good stories in the area around wine. Malt liquor, yes. |
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| Posts: 211 | Location: Seattle, WA | Registered: May 11, 2007 | |
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quote: Originally posted by wine+art: quote: Originally posted by Primordealsoup: quote: Originally posted by wine+art: quote: Originally posted by Primordealsoup:
When your throwing away your empty wine bottles at the local recycle center
You have to actually take your items to the recycle center? Wow, where do you live?
It's only 2 miles or so from the house, so I go when the bottles pile up (about once every other week.
Do you have to take ALL of your recyclable items to a center?
You don't? Never thought that was so special..... In fact, I thought you where NOT a wine geek when you throw away your bottles at the local recycle center. I thought you would keep all your trophy bottles to show-off
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| Posts: 411 | Location: The Netherlands | Registered: Aug 19, 2006 | |
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quote: Originally posted by Jochems:
Do you have to take ALL of your recyclable items to a center?
You don't? Never thought that was so special..... [/QUOTE] Jochems, I never knew how easy we have it. The city provides a very large recycle bin on wheels. Just roll it out of the garage down to the alley and it is picked upped by the city prior to 9:00 am every week. Much more my style. |
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| Posts: 13470 | Location: Dallas TX. | Registered: Feb 21, 2005 | |
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