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!!"

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.

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