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

[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.