I'm doing wine now
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rhodri will have already seen, he's recently been writing on the subject of wine, which reminds me: I read in the Sainsburys magazine the other day that if you like Merlot, you should try Malbec. Now, I thought Malbec was the other one of Lambkin Simbert, whichever one of them was the Young Pretender, the one who didn't drown in a vat of lampreys ... or was that St. Nicholas of Syrah, patron saint of red wine? Anyway, I bought a bottle of Malbec. But I haven't drunk it yet.
Just thought I'd share that with you, there, as I know some of you are dedicated Merlot-drinkers.
Further torhodri's musings, though, I think the problem with saying "I like wine" is that it's a bit like saying "I like sex". I mean, we all want to give the impression that we're a bit more discriminating than that. And maybe some of us are! Yeah! Let's be positive here! But Britishness dictates that we can't look too knowledgeable or discriminating, otherwise we'll be seen as gay, or foreign, or possibly even both. There is only an inch of respectably-ignorant grey area between the blokeish, brutish bellow of "BOOOOOOZE!" and the tantamount-to-being-on-the-guest-list-for-Elton-John's-wedding "Personally, I favour a full and fruity red" (let alone boringly-parodied rumblings from the realm of Pseud's Corner about the scent of fresh-mown grass) ... but it's the inch in which we live.
So, as Sir Elton almost certainly didn't say as he uncorked the nuptial champagne: bottoms up!
rhodri will have already seen, he's recently been writing on the subject of wine, which reminds me: I read in the Sainsburys magazine the other day that if you like Merlot, you should try Malbec. Now, I thought Malbec was the other one of Lambkin Simbert, whichever one of them was the Young Pretender, the one who didn't drown in a vat of lampreys ... or was that St. Nicholas of Syrah, patron saint of red wine? Anyway, I bought a bottle of Malbec. But I haven't drunk it yet. Just thought I'd share that with you, there, as I know some of you are dedicated Merlot-drinkers.
Further to
rhodri's musings, though, I think the problem with saying "I like wine" is that it's a bit like saying "I like sex". I mean, we all want to give the impression that we're a bit more discriminating than that. And maybe some of us are! Yeah! Let's be positive here! But Britishness dictates that we can't look too knowledgeable or discriminating, otherwise we'll be seen as gay, or foreign, or possibly even both. There is only an inch of respectably-ignorant grey area between the blokeish, brutish bellow of "BOOOOOOZE!" and the tantamount-to-being-on-the-guest-list-for-Elton-John's-wedding "Personally, I favour a full and fruity red" (let alone boringly-parodied rumblings from the realm of Pseud's Corner about the scent of fresh-mown grass) ... but it's the inch in which we live.So, as Sir Elton almost certainly didn't say as he uncorked the nuptial champagne: bottoms up!
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Date: 2006-01-12 03:35 pm (UTC)Hmmmm, that's an interesting way of looking at it.
There are certainly more books that I wouldn't go out of my way to read than books that I would go out of my way to read. And, out of all-the-books-in-the-world, there are orders of magnitude more books I'm not actually capable of reading (because they're not in a language I can read) than there are books that I am capable of reading. But I am quite generally interested in reading and writing, and how people write (even when they do it badly), and what people choose to read, so the chances of me getting something enjoyable/interesting/amusing out of a bad book are higher than the chances of me getting something out of a bad wine.
There are wines that I like, and if the choice of drinks is between several wines I'll have enough of an opinion (even if only choosing 'red' over 'white') to pick one; but if you ask me "What do you want to drink right now?" at any given time, the chances of the answer being "wine!" are quite small -- I'm much more likely to choose beer, or Coke, or coffee, or gin.
Sex is kinda different (obv. - duh!), because while there are gazillions of people I wouldn't be averse to the idea of having sex with under the right circumstances, there's only one person I actually want to have sex with at this point in my life.