I'm Sick Of...

[Curiouscanuck]

I had enough of paying too much for wine.

I am tired of paying a quarter of my grocery bill for dairy.

I am sick of looking at my cell phone bill.

Beyond cutting taxes there is a lot of work to do.

Thoughts?

[Martin Chriton]

Cell phone service here is ridiculous.

I pay twice as much here as I do in the US for crappier service.

[Canuck E Stan]

I had enough of paying too much for wine.

I am tired of paying a quarter of my grocery bill for dairy.

I am sick of looking at my cell phone bill.

Beyond cutting taxes there is a lot of work to do.

Thoughts?

Stop drinking

Don't buy dairy,you don't need it.

Give up your cell phone, you only think you need it.

Works for me.

[geoffrey]

You need dairy, unless your one of those vegans that lives like a squirrel, in which case, we have to start questioning mental abilities.

[guyser]

You need dairy,

You dont need milk after a couple of months in life. Nobody needs it.

[geoffrey]

You dont need milk after a couple of months in life. Nobody needs it.

Where does one get calcium?

[ceemes]

You dont need milk after a couple of months in life. Nobody needs it.

Where does one get calcium?

From a not so little pill?

[BubberMiley]

Where does one get calcium?

Citrus fruits, legumes, nuts, soy, and anything green. Milk is full of hormones that will give you tits.

[guyser]

Where does one get calcium?

Same place as other mammals get it. Pus juice is not good for anyone. Name me an animal that drinks other animals milk, and name me an animal/mammal that drinks mothers milk past a year or two. None .

I have not had a glass of milk since 1986. I have , to be truthful, put a couple of spoonfuls on the very odd tiime I have had cereal, but that would amount to three times ayear

[Melanie_]

I had enough of paying too much for wine.

I am tired of paying a quarter of my grocery bill for dairy.

I am sick of looking at my cell phone bill.

Beyond cutting taxes there is a lot of work to do.

Thoughts?

Tonight I'm sipping on a very nice Merlot made in my basement from an inexpensive kit. It's just as good as any $12 - $15 bottle I would buy at my local wine store, and it probably cost me less than $2 to make. I can't help you with the dairy or cell phone bill, though!

[uOttawaMan]

1. Steal it.

2. Stop drinking milk / buy no name.

3. Use carrier pidgeons.

[Canuck E Stan]

Milk is full of hormones that will give you tits.

Cheaper than Breast Augmentation? But, do they feel like the real thing?

[August1991]

Tonight I'm sipping on a very nice Merlot made in my basement from an inexpensive kit. It's just as good as any $12 - $15 bottle I would buy at my local wine store, and it probably cost me less than $2 to make.

My stuff tastes icky and everyone refuses to drink it. What's your secret?

3. Use carrier pidgeons.

How do you get yours to come back?

[geoffrey]

My stuff tastes icky and everyone refuses to drink it. What's your secret?

Use distilled water, don't buy a cheap kit (keep it around $100 minimum for the grapes) and sterilize everything twice what you'd think is neccessary. Give it an extra-day degassing and at least an extra week clarifying. Siphon twice between each step (improves clarity huge, especially in whites). I've got a considerable selection going on, I have ~300 bottles total on hand, about 250 made at home and 50 of some of my favourites.

Cabs are difficult to do well at home, out of 5 trys I've only had 3 real good ones, try a blend if your going that way. Syrah/Shiraz are also a good home one from the red side, I've had success with Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Gris on the white.

Melanie, I have to disagree with your taste though. Merlot? Ugh. I've got a great Syrah going right now, mmm mmm mmm.

[Melanie_]

The best red we ever did was a Syrah/Shiraz, so I'll agree with you there. The extra week clarifying is really important for whites and for fruit wines (mmmmm, I can't wait for summer time, sitting on my deck with a glass of the Citrus Ice we are just about to bottle). We make wine with 4 other couples, so everyone buys a kit that makes 30 bottles, then we each get 6 bottles of 5 different kinds of wine. Great variety, and if you do make a dud you've only got 6 bottles of it rather than the full 30. I have less than 100 on stock right now, but we are bottling in a couple of weeks so I'll be up a few by then.

Can't say that we do anything special to make it taste so good - in fact, with the number of people involved I'd say the potential to screw up is fairly high. But we haven't had a lot of wine we didn't like in the 3 years we've been doing this - the kits are pretty idiot proof.

[ClearWest]

We've all gotta live within our means. All three of those things are luxuries, two of which I personally live without and get by just fine. You may have to adjust your habits to meet your needs.

You seem to be suggesting that rather than cutting taxes we should subsidize luxuries. I hope no one honestly believes this. If you play your cards right, manage your property wisely, you should be able to afford a bit of luxury here and there in the not-so-distant future - without the government's help. (Perhaps in spite of it).

Heck, if we want to go into it, cutting taxes may be the best way to get you the things you need and want. With less money being taken away from potential investors, more investments will be made into the economy (more efficiently than gov't can do so), and easier ways of producing these things will be discovered. More competition will mean lower cost and greater availability of luxury products. Not to mention the fact that you'll have more money in your own pocket to spend as you choose (rather than have it be squandered carelessly by government).

Cutting taxes would be a great help.

[rrabbit]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha.... Funny thread.

Life would have no meaning without cheese!

We are the garbage guts of the biosphere. We eat a lot of things other animals don't and do quite nicely at it. This is one of the main reasons why we're such a successful widely spread species. We eat things that are really pest repellents for other species like hot peppers and mint, and LIKE EM!

Yeah I'm really cheesed about the price of cheese too! Squeak, squeak!

I don't drink alcohol though. Its a fuel and not a drug or beverage. You'd be surprised how a single beer can cloud your head for days after you've gone a decade or so without drinking any alcohol. People who use alcohol regularly never have their minds clear up enough to notice this side effect of stupidity. Go ahead quit for five years and find out. I dare you! The only use I find worthwhile for ethanol is to let it turn into vineagar for cooking.

And as for cell phones I don't like the idea of an EM radiation source capable of penetrating cement and brick walls that close to my brain! Were it shorter wavelength it would be ionizing radiation like that found in your microwave oven.

[Melanie_]

I was without alcohol during The Time of the Perpetual Pregnancy, 8 years solid of either being pregnant or breast feeding, so I know what you are talking about when you say your mind is clearer. But there is a difference between drinking to the point of incoherence and having the occasional glass of wine. When you say that people who regularly consume alcohol never have a clear head, I have to disagree. It is a matter of tolerance and the knowledge of when you have had enough.

[rrabbit]

Good for for you Kookum Melanie having and raising all those children so conscientiously!

The booze thing is funny in our society. Because I'm aboriginal a lot of people assume and I'm an ex-alcoholic because I don't drink and generally take a dim view of it. They assume I can't drink or I'll fall off the wagon. It didn't happen like that. I've never been in rehab or AA. In my teen years I drank as much booze as any other teen may have and quite a lot more than some. Around 20 I started connecting the after effects to the act. Hangovers just lasted too long and I was too drag ass and depressed after a good party. I started cutting back consciously. Over about ten years the desire to feel better in the days after a party caused me to cut back more and more until eventually about age 30 I stopped consuming alchohol altogether. But, I still get a craving for beer every once in awhile, not the buzz, but, the taste of it, like you would for chocolate. (I'm not a drinker, but, even I know the taste of non or low alcohol beer sucks.) In the paste three of four years I've made the mistake of drinking a whole beer out of this craving a few times. It really does impair you for about week to week and half afterward.

If its bad for fetuses in your womb at any level of consumption its also likely bad for you! You really should care for yourself as well as you did your children.

Nowadays I struggle to maintain what little tolerance I have left for coffee. I LOVE the taste of coffee, but, the caffeine really messes me up if I get too much of it, especially later in the day. Coke and Pepsi are also very bad this way. The best I can manage is about a cup or cup and half very early in the day. And again like beer, decaf sucks. I have other friends about my age who were also hard partiers in the 1970s and also tried all manner of psychoactive compounds as was par for that era. Many of them have also quit alcohol and/or caffeine. Maybe you have to get some experience with a wide range of psychoactive compounds to acquire the sensitivity needed to notice the more subtle side effects. I get a shiver of revulsion and nausea when I think about some of the "trips" I took earlier in life. I often think were I to imbibe either booze or coffee in the quantities I used to I'd end up in the hospital for sure! Uugghh! I can't believe I used to poison myself the way I did!

Oh, by the way, I've noticed lately many of the hot spicy foods have subtle side effects that resemble amphetamines or cocaine. Users get a little rush of pleasure, erectile dysfunction (or a slightly less noticeable reduction of stamina in this area) and a relaxing of the involuntary muscles. Have you ever eaten a bowl of chili and had to make visit to the bathroom shortly after for a number two. A lot of people think this a reaction of their guts to the irritation of the spice. I don't think so any more. Ask a coke or crack head or speed freak about the "pukies" or the "shitties". Do you know someone who seems "addicted" to the hot spice rush almost to the point of masochism? Even though it'll burn your mouth just as bad or worse black pepper seems to not be favoured the same way for some reason. I mostly like the smell of black pepper on food.

Coffee also has all these side effects in more a noticeable way. I do drink a lot of caffeinated tea though, but, again for some reason I haven't noticed a lot of these side effects from tea. A friend of mine claims its really the oils and associated alkaloids in non-decaffeinated coffee responsible for the unpleasant side effects. He quit drinking coffee (but also pounds tea) because it made his finger joints ache.