Remember the OUTRAGE!!1!! when some wine bottlers eschewed the cork for screw tops? OMG, or should I say, Oh mon Dieu! The French and wine connoisseurs around the world had a fit of the vapours at the very thought. As we had visitors over the weekend I bought some wine and noticed a strange shaped bottle in Tesco wine department. The label was familiar but its flattened shape looked more like it should contain shampoo or cleaning fluid.
I picked up the bottle and felt a great disturbance in the ether, as if millions of wine buffs suddenly cried out in terror... the bottle was not made of glass but green plastic! 100% recycled plastic, no less. I wasn't scared of screw tops and I certainly wasn't going to be panicked by plastic so I bought one and its glass bottled equivalent that was sitting handily alongside.
I had a taste test later and you'll be astonished to hear they both tasted exactly the same.
Sell it cheaper then it might catch on.
Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
- Phillip Phlopp
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"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled"
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Re: Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
I was outraged at first, but it would certainly solve my storage of empties problem
Even in the weekends when "she's not here" as my neighbour once said.
Even in the weekends when "she's not here" as my neighbour once said.
A wanker AND a pansy apparently.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.
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Re: Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
Yes, I used to get embarrassed carrying a clinking glass recycling crate down the drive.
"It's easier to fool people than to convince them they have been fooled"
- Mark Twain
- Mark Twain
Re: Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
Mind you, everybody in my courtyard is an alcoholic, so I fit in.
A wanker AND a pansy apparently.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.
Oh, and a wimp, and 'not a real man'.
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Re: Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
I remember plastic wine bottles from years ago!
I know a man who taught his dog to play the trumpet on the London Underground.
He went from Barking to Tooting in an hour.
He went from Barking to Tooting in an hour.
Re: Quelle horreur!!!11!!!
Hmm. I suppose as you can buy it in bags it should work.
What you do to avoid the clinking is make your own wine. I think our bin men now think Nobby and I are off the booze!
What you do to avoid the clinking is make your own wine. I think our bin men now think Nobby and I are off the booze!