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Post by DollyODear on Jul 24, 2006 6:58:36 GMT 7
Need any help deciding colors? I am bored, and have nothing to do. This might be a great boon for me -- finding just the right colors. if I pick wrong have the time to change things. sorry drunk on cheap aussie wine.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jul 24, 2006 9:38:35 GMT 7
Not possible - we only have good Aussie wines.
But I did think it was really off baijiu when the colours changed on me last night. The pale blue actually wiped out some of the responses - couldn't read them. Thought i had drunk way too much.
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Post by teleplayer on Jul 24, 2006 11:05:56 GMT 7
Did find the light blue an anomaly but with this coal-fired home artifact, I didn't think much of it. I have no real problems with this ugly "Duke U. Blue." I look for content and the empeor's robes are really inconsequential. Rest of you?
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 24, 2006 12:41:34 GMT 7
I like it the way it is.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 24, 2006 13:27:41 GMT 7
Not ugly, dammit.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jul 26, 2006 21:54:18 GMT 7
Angry pink, with neon pink trim.
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 27, 2006 1:20:57 GMT 7
Yeah, that'd fix 'em.
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Post by DollyODear on Jul 27, 2006 2:55:22 GMT 7
OK, you win. It's lovely. I probably wouldn't know the difference if you did change it. Besides, regardless of what I say when I am drunk, I am not the person you would want helping to choose your colors.
Hey, speaking of Aussie wine, (HIJACK!) I have very little to do right now except drink and ride my bike all over lovely Chicago and take wine to different lovely places in chicago and drink it (it's like being a tourist here -- I had no idea how beautiful it was!) and there's a good wine store across the street and it has a respectable selection.
Have made my way through most of the moderately priced Chileans, and now ready to test which Aussie ones I like best. Suggestions for brands or regions?
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jul 27, 2006 9:49:22 GMT 7
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Post by teleplayer on Jul 27, 2006 20:38:50 GMT 7
I'll second the Rosemount Estate for consistency and, in part because my little town is also named Chapel Hill, the Chapel Hill Estate in Australia turns out a good Shiraz among other things. Merlot, well, if it's not upper end ($25/btl US and up, it should only be used for blending IMHO. But we all have different tastes and my wine knowledge slips with the years. Now, speaking of palette, this should be under "what's fer dinner" . I'll live with whatever color the majority want...well excetp the Paris Hilton Pink with the Prince Purple trim. I have to draw a line somewhere.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 28, 2006 10:13:15 GMT 7
Cheap blends, especially those including shiraz and merlot will be both good on the palette and the pocket. The strengths of the one are used to cover the weaknesses of the other. The reason why a wine is cheap is because it is weak in certain areas, but a good vigneron can match and blend to cover that, and we have good vignerons in Oz, especially the Hunter and Barossa Valleys.
For good unblended wines, try some Wyndham estate or other Hunter wines, especially Shiraz which is world class. It's my home town!
I wrote freelance for a food and wine magazine for a couple of years, plus lived around it a lot, so I know virtually nothing except what I like. Which, actually, is all there is to it.
One day I wrote a cheating method to baffle wine snobs, using only the list price from the menu, and they refused to publish. I used to tell the wives of wine snobs at the big wine dinners how to choose wines in this method to avoid embarassment at the hands of other wine snobs, and the wine snobs laughed, but later thought about it, and didn't like it.
My job was done, there, so I rode off into the sunset.
Yeah, I know, this post shouldn't go here. Not my fault.
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Post by DollyODear on Jul 28, 2006 14:20:48 GMT 7
I am right proud of my first successful hijack, frankly. But we can only talk about the forum colors for so long until someone's mind wanders to other saloon subjects . . . so I only take partial blame as if it wasn't me it wudda been somebody else.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 28, 2006 20:42:02 GMT 7
Something is wrong with my monitor. The forum now has gay bars in it.
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Post by icebear on Jul 28, 2006 23:39:03 GMT 7
Weird, I figured they would be content hanging out in the ladies lounge.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Post by Lotus Eater on Jul 29, 2006 7:22:31 GMT 7
Only the gay women are in the ladies lounge - the gay fellas are still out there with you. Sexual proclivity does not chagne gender in this circumstance. Homophobia rears it's head!
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Post by Raoul Duke on Jul 29, 2006 15:32:06 GMT 7
No, "phobia" implies fear. Perhaps a better word is "homofastidia", which implies one simply doesn't like it very much.
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Post by gretch on Jul 29, 2006 21:52:59 GMT 7
The forum now has gay bars in it. Damn!!! I've been away from here for too long! Missed bars, color changes,...and apparently some pics of naked men ....WTF! There's a good supply of tattooed men here in Jersey, apparently there giving them at the 7-11s now ...(ummm, the tattoos that is.... ) I'll be on here more when I get back to Suzhou...(er...maybe), however, I do seem to stay a bit more drunk and reckless busy there ...
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Post by Mr Nobody on Aug 5, 2006 15:28:01 GMT 7
I like the term "homofastidia". I ain't scared of them, but I don't like having sex with blokes who have had sex with people like them.
Call me fussy if you like. Doesn't matter anyway since the coloured bars are back to normal.
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Post by Escaped Lunatic on Aug 11, 2006 2:36:48 GMT 7
Perhaps lighten up the background just a bit to make the newest flag stand out better.
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Post by con's fly is open on Aug 19, 2006 6:12:28 GMT 7
Hey, we could even start a rotation of colours every day/week/month/Nobel prize won by Australians. I vote, as always, for referee orange with neon pink trim.
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