You light up another cigarette and I pour the wine

[venta]

If I recall correctly, in one of the later Hitchhiker books Wonko The Sane built an asylum for the world after he discovered someone thought it necessary to print instructions on toothpicks.

I had a similar moment in Saisnbury's on Monday. You can now buy "ready to drink" wine. That is, a cardboard pack which contains two wine-filled plastic wine glasses, each sealed with a film lid.

Now, OK, if you're going on a picnic and want less than a bottle of wine and don't want to carry glasses, I can just about see that there might be a use. But really... quite apart from any environmental considerations of throwing away two plastic glasses, some film, and some cardboard just for two moderately-sized glasses of wine, I just can't help thinking that somehow the world has gone mad.

Anyone else up for living Outside The Asylum with me ?

Comments

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

That's what screwcap half bottles are for. This is a silly idea.

I also mourn the absence improvisational wine drinking skills implied by the existence of this product. Dawn and I still have two small, pink plastic beakers we acquired in San Francisco precisely because we had an "OK, we need something to drink this out of" moment. I'm struggling to imagine to question to which pre-filled plastic wine glasses could possibly be the answer.

[venta.livejournal.com]

I also mourn the absence improvisational wine drinking skills

How do you feel about the absence of improvisational wine-opening skills, skills largely lost to civilisation since the advent of screw-tops ?

While the challenge has gone, I think I welcome our new left-hand-threaded overlords. The improvising ended too often in broken glass.

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

Aside from the fact that I've always vaguely fancied the idea of trying sabrage, I don't see much wrong with screwcaps. Certainly when I feel like grumbling about perfectly good innovations I'm much more likely to direct scorn towards "synthetic closures" (or "rubber corks", as I prefer to call them).

[huskyteer.livejournal.com]

This is one of many reasons I always carry a Swiss Army knife. (You can tell a cheap imitation Swiss Army knife because the corkscrew bit breaks the moment it hits cork.)

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

The improvising ended too often in broken glass.
Much better plan - just buy fizz :-)

I think I live not just outside the asylum but thoroughly on the outskirts these days. This makes me happy.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Much better plan - just buy fizz :-)

It's a good plan, though it is harder to put the cork back in afterwards. Yes, I know there's an obvious solution to that :)

I think I live not just outside the asylum but thoroughly on the outskirts these days. This makes me happy.

Hurrah! Good for you.