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General Discussion / Re: Pet Peeves
February 05, 2025, 05:33:00 PM
On the subject of Adverts.ie - or rather Done Deal in this case, my brother told me a great one a few years ago.

Lad that works for him was heading off to Australia and started to sell some of his tools, motorbike etc. Shit you can't take with you basically.

Did a deal on one of his bikes with a person online. The buyer asked if the bike could be brought around to his house.

"I have no way of getting home if you buy the bike." said the seller "Could I meet you somewhere?"

Arranged a meet. Buyer never turned up leaving the other hanging around until he got pissed off and drove home. Later that night, he got a text;

"Sorry bud. Was on the way when I met someone, went for a few pints, got sidetracked. Still interested."

Now - I would have told this langer to fuck off. But... dollar signs and the move to Oz was only 2 weeks away.

"OK. Same place to meet?"

"Gimme your address, bud - I'll call tomorrow night."

And that was the last he heard from this lad til he got a text from his landlord saying that some bollix had turned up steaming drunk and started abusing the people renting the house because they had no motorbike to sell him.

"I'm in Australia."
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General Discussion / Re: Pet Peeves
February 05, 2025, 05:23:07 PM
Quote from: The Heretic on February 05, 2025, 05:20:12 PMI have some bits and pieces lined up but the though of haggling with cunts who take the piss puts me right off

I have gotten to the stage where I see my price, my "no offers below" and I try leave it at that.

Of course, there's still the odd time that I see dollar signs and want the thing gone. Hence engaging with a gowl the other day.
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General Discussion / Re: The Tube.
February 05, 2025, 05:18:12 PM
Watched the Colin Firth-led "Lockerbie" mini-series. It was average enough. Not worth it.

5 episodes. Could have been done and gone in 3.

Lot of re-tracing of the same emotional torture in each installment. People crying and wailing. Flashbacks to suffering.

The kind of thing everyone's mam and aunty loves on telly.

Pure misery porn.
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General Discussion / Re: Pet Peeves
February 05, 2025, 05:10:00 PM
Quote from: Bürggermeister on February 04, 2025, 06:12:45 PMI live in South Tipp. Since I was heading up to Dublin anyway, I said ok, only for the cunt to go silent on the day, wouldn't answer his phone, but I could see in his comments he was arranging to meet a lad at Connolly Station to buy a Les Paul from him.

It's an amazing place.

Christ above.

I would have gone down to Connolly and wrapped the Les Paul around his fuckin' head.

Or just as the deal was being done - roared at the other seller "SWAP FOR ANYTHING IN MY ADS?"
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General Discussion / Re: Nectar Of The Gods
February 05, 2025, 05:07:10 PM
Quote from: Carnage on February 04, 2025, 04:28:55 PMI assume the smell/taste test would let you know it it'd happened?

Yeah, any seasoned wine drinker would know that something was off after a waft or a few tentative sips.

Unless it's one of those natural, low intervention wines that are en vogue currently - in which case all bets are off and I have no idea if that wine is good, bad, corked or whatever.

See also sour beers - I always say that if you were handed a beer that smelled like a sour/gose 15 years ago that you'd be telling the barman to pour you a different pint and clean his fucking lines.
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General Discussion / Re: Nectar Of The Gods
February 04, 2025, 04:12:47 PM
Quote from: Carnage on February 04, 2025, 04:06:54 PMI gave it a go later that night, it was OK. It passed the smell test, I let it breathe for a while before pouring a glass, tasted a tad bitter but not overly so, it's certainly drinkable. The cork crumbled as I was removing it (though thankfully I avoided corking the bottle) which leads me to believe that it was stored upright.

I'm still standing anyway and haven't spent any longer than usual on the toilet so we'll see how it goes from here.

I should probably store the rest on its side 'til I get to it. 🤔

That's good to hear. Most of the time, you'll be grand.

Corking the bottle doesn't actually mean bits of cork going into the wine. It's more that the contents which are essentially alive have reacted badly with the cork which was also alive. It can also be shorthand for an infection that found its way into the wine before the cork was put in place.

Best way to avoid splitting a wine cork, if in doubt, is to run a little bit of water on it and then use a waiter's key type of corkscrew (a 2-step one if you can) to get it out.
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General Discussion / Re: Pet Peeves
February 04, 2025, 04:07:07 PM
Selling stuff on Adverts.ie. I do it the odd time if something has more life/value left in it than dropping at a charity shop or clothes bank.

Jesus wept, there's some fucking barmpots out there.

I have something up there for (in my opinion anyway) a very fair price - €65.

Barmpot €20 OFFERED inc. post to Carlow

I refused it.

"What wud u considr fair?" asks Barmpot

"Somewhere near the asking price and I'll cover the postage."

€1 OFFERED for PM purposes to discuss.

€1 offer accepted.

You have one new private message from Barmpot.

"€20 including the postage Carlow - take it or leave it."

I said that I'd prefer to leave it.

Next thing I know I have a message "You have new feedback".

This cunt has left negative feedback for me - "Impossable to deal wit. Would not accep fair, gennine offer. No messages time waster." (spelling theirs, not mine).

I didn't think that you could leave a seller/buyer review til after the deal was done.

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General Discussion / Re: Nectar Of The Gods
February 04, 2025, 03:35:56 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 04, 2025, 03:08:43 PMShe didn't even test them or, better still, got me to test them.

It all seems very confusing but at least you did a lot of legwork investigation which now means I don't have to, so fair play!

I'm just going to pretend they had all turned to vinegar and she was right to throw them out. I don't think my conscience would be able for the alternative.

My rule with all of this is simple - does it taste nice? If it does, then drink it.

There are some miraculous wines available for less than €15 (even if the government are trying to ruin it for us).

If you have a dedicated wine shop near you - i.e. not a supermarket - go there, you'll get a better bottle for the same sort of money spent.

 
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General Discussion / Re: Nectar Of The Gods
February 04, 2025, 03:03:04 PM
Quote from: Emphyrio on February 04, 2025, 01:50:55 PMWhy is it that older wine is often more expensive, excuse my ignorance. My mother threw out about 5 bottles of wine before Christmas cos a neighbour said it only lasts a couple of years. Younger me would have thrown her into a home if I'd witnessed wine being thrown out like that.

 :laugh:

Did she chuck them without opening them?!

It's a bit of a rabbit-hole to go down and I'm no expert but, from what I've learned over the years - the main things that will influence a wine's longevity would be tannic content, sugar residues and grape quality.

Tannins will (or at least should) mellow and give more life to a wine as it ages.

The grapes need to be at a certain... eh... ripeness, harvested at just the right time etc. and come from a place where the weather has been just right for that harvest. Then, as the picking season continues, and the grape quality decreases, so does the level of the wine etc.

Sugar is important as a preservative. For example - to put this in terms that I am definitely more familiar with - if you have an high ABV imperial stout or ale, then the sugar is what gave that beer it's volume strength in the first place and now will mean that it can be aged (in a bottle, not a can)- most of your flavour profile is coming from the malt bill and the adjuncts with only minor hop inclusion (like Fuggles for example) for minor beer bitterness.

This isn't true of high-alcohol % IPAs, DIPAs and stuff though - you're better off not aging them but rather drinking them as fresh as possible (again this is what I've learned or do - your mileage may vary depending on what kind of pisshead you are) because the hops will fade out of them and leave you with strong sugary water/lunatic soup.

Oddly though - and I don't know why - LOWER % ABV wines store better for long periods than high volume vino and are more sought after.

We could be at this all day, I've read articles about the quality/weight of glass and cork used, gentle and periodic oxidisation (which would kill a beer immediately), storage techniques, terroir yada yada yada.
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General Discussion / Re: Nectar Of The Gods
February 04, 2025, 01:45:59 PM
Quote from: Carnage on January 31, 2025, 08:02:39 PMWine, how long does it last? A mate turned up with a box (six bottles, not a carton like), it was only after he'd left that I noted the label said 2006. The labels are a bit manky, like they been left somewhere for an extended period, which they obviously had. Just wondering would it still be alright? Corked bottles.

I don't want to ask him as it'd come across as ungrateful. He's been in Hong Kong for the last 2½ years, might have had them stashed in his house here. I'm guessing he picked them up on his way to mine.

I know that it can last for decades if properly stored, I don't think this is anything that flash though.

Once the wine was in contact with the cork during storage and the ambient temperature didn't spike or crash too much, then there's no reason that it wouldn't be drinkable.

Obviously, most supermarket wines aren't intended to be kept for much longer than the spin home with them. Even some of the dearer wines that you'd buy from O'Brien's or whatever are generally meant to be drank (drunk?) within two or three years.

If it smells musty/mouldy/like vinegar - I'd leave it off.
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James Dean Bradfield - especially on those first 4 records, he managed to wrench something different to the last album out of his Les Paul each time.

Ian MacKaye & Guy Picciotto.

Joe Strummer & Mick Jones.

Andy Gill.

Steve Jones.

Matt Pike.





A few mentioned already - Rory, Mike Scheidt from Yob, Our Lord Tony Iommi, the Bills; Corgan and Steer.
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Good stuff - picked up a few tickets for this the other day.
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Metal Discussion / Re: Orange Goblin calling it a day
January 30, 2025, 01:20:48 PM
Annoyed that I didn't go to see them one last time - if purely for nostalgia reasons.

Don't like the last album all that much but I didn't give it as much of a chance as the other later records.

"The Big Black" and "Coup De Grace" are probably the apex.
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Jason Roeder started posting cryptic stuff on Instagram at the end of last year. Wiped clear all his posts and then only used it to sell gear. I can't remember what the messages were but they were along the lines of "Fuck this, I'm done."

Odd because he was usually such a positive person.

Now, as of yesterday, his Instragram is a marketplace for his drum kits and some vinyl. He also posted the message below.

Not sure what the deal with Sleep is but I have heard in the past that someone involved in running their business affairs is allegedly a bit of a head-the-ball.

Shame really - he was a monster behind the kit for Sleep. He really made for linchpin where the other two were concerned in live situations.






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Not going to make it to this gig tonight. Trains to Dublin cancelled. Don't fancy the drive at this stage.

Gutted. Absolutely sickened.


Anyone want a free ticket for tonight's (24.01.25) show?   :abbath:

Ticket gone.