Quote: Marc P @ September 14 2011, 11:31 PM BSTWhite wine is trickier for flavour for a non drinker, sharp and sour, dry and gooseberry... maybe a really good, not per se expensive, full strawberry flavoured fizz with a strawberry in it, chilled on a hot summers day?
I'm there... *glazed over*
That does sound rather enticing.
Quote: Leevil @ September 14 2011, 11:29 PM BSTBut I suppose if you're drinking to get drunk, it's the other way around (zooo).
You cheeky mare.
Quote: Leevil @ September 14 2011, 11:32 PM BSTI'm there... *glazed over*
Or........................ PIMMS!!!! Properly made with all the stuff! 
My missus drinks Pimms. I gotta say, it's pretty nice. Even zooo would like that I bet.
I do like a nice middle class drink.
Maybe I'll give it a whirl.
Cucumber mint strawberry.. make it with good ginger ale. Mm mmm mmm. As Ollie Hardy would say.
Somehow don't think me 'Scrumpy Jack' quite fits the bill!
Quote: zooo @ September 14 2011, 10:58 PM BSTJust like every other alcoholic drink. You keep trying them, thinking surely one in this world HAS to taste good.
But no.
You sound like you *want* to like them. If so, why?
Anyway to bring this topic back on topic, here's a photo of a painting, of Crickhowell Bridge, done by my father (in the 1960's I think)
And a photo I took myself from the same location in about 1998.
Enjoy
Quote: Nogget @ September 15 2011, 1:32 PM BSTYou sound like you *want* to like them. If so, why?
Not particularly. I don't think I've had any alcohol since last Christmas. And that was one Snowball. 
(Cos they are yellow and pretty.)
I am just perplexed by the wide popularity of alcohol with most people (normal ones as well as drunkards) and so I often wonder what it is that I'm missing about the stuff.
Quote: zooo @ September 15 2011, 2:07 PM BSTI am just perplexed by the wide popularity of alcohol with most people (normal ones as well as drunkards) and so I often wonder what it is that I'm missing about the stuff.
I think basically people like the effects of alcohol. I know many connoisseurs say they really don't want to get drunk, and that it's all about the flavour, but this is IMO a form of enjoyment by association; we enjoy the taste because we associate it with being intoxicated. I can't prove this, but here's some circumstantial evidence: a lot of us hate the taste when we first try it, and only later get into it, and: alcohol-free wine and beer is nasty.
Love that cartoon! I find people who don't like alcohol like 'Lambrinni' and the fizzy pommagne type of drinks, also rose wine is nice.
Quote: dellas @ September 15 2011, 8:51 PM BSTrose wine is nice.
LibDem wine.
Quote: dellas @ September 15 2011, 8:51 PM BSTI find people who don't like alcohol like 'Lambrinni' and the fizzy pommagne type of drinks, also rose wine is nice.
I love all of that crap. Sparkling perry has a bad rep but it tastes like angels!
Katy cider tonight... it is the way forward!