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People who know about culture and stuff...come here and settle an argument!

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MumblingRagDoll · 19/08/2011 20:23

A year ago I bought a set of very nice wine glasses a bit like these from Laura Ashley...I got them on sale and tbh because I don't even DRINK wine, I thought it was nice of me as DH had no decent glasses to have wine and he likes it.

DH thinks I'm an oik because "You just don't drink wine from a red glass" apparently Hmm

He says that to see the colour of the wine is part of the "experience" of drinking it.

He's a fecking wine snob...he'l sit there discussing the stuff with his parents and it annoys me.

So. Am I an unclutured oik? Eh? Am I? AIBU to buy red wine glasses?

OP posts:
toddlerama · 20/08/2011 14:00

Yeah, you've been oiking, but I'm sure you can find some oikish behaviour of his to crow over too. We're all just trying to be sophisticated a la animal farm swine.

LineRunner · 20/08/2011 14:06

I've just bought not one but two 'goons' from the local mart - pinot and sauvignon - for my own private wine tasting session.

They are tastefully packaged in what looks like cardboard shrubbery.

WhoseGotMyEyebrows · 20/08/2011 18:07

I love chocolate, I don't discuss it with other people and go on about the colour/aroma or whatever. I just eat it and enjoy it!

Wine is an excuse for people to act like poncy twats whilst putting on slightly posher voices and sticking their noses in the air whilst patting each other on the back for being "into wine".

LineRunner · 20/08/2011 18:13

Some people ARE a bit poncejestic about raw cocoa and dark chocolate, though, WhoseGot. I saw it on a documentary last year so it must be true .

Also there are cheese ponces, apple ponces, jam ponces...

I blame the Women's Institute. Twats.

Ephiny · 20/08/2011 18:27

Coffee is one of the worst things for people being poncey about IMO. Seriously it all just tastes like coffee to me. Weird how it's evolved over time as well, because I remember how people used to 'have to' go out and get their coffee from Starbucks rather than using the instant stuff, but now it seems to be the thing to say that Starbucks isn't 'real' coffee at all, and that they can only drink the stuff from expensive little independent Italian coffee shops Hmm.

I seriously wonder how many of them could tell the difference in a blind taste test.

Personally I just like a nice cup of ordinary tea. Quite possibly in a nice brightly-coloured mug :)

Ephiny · 20/08/2011 18:29

I do appreciate some expensive dark chocolates actually, and they are a very different experience from the cheap stuff. But I'm not above enjoying a Dairy Milk now and then either!

LolaRennt · 20/08/2011 18:33

Tell him he shouldn't by such cheap badly coloured wine and you wouldn't have to hide it! the oik!

LolaRennt · 20/08/2011 18:35

Dont some people drink coffee from beans that have been whispers pooed out of monkeys? Or have I made that up? Hmm think its true

strictlovingmum · 20/08/2011 18:35

Yes, poncejestic in this country lol, well said, anywhere else in Europe (France, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Greece) wine is elixir of life, the norm, drunk from kitchen cupboard glasses with every meal of day starting from lunch.
These people don't talk the ponce talk: aroma, colour, bouquet and all the rest, but they know a good wine when they see one(taste), often wine stored in "goon" plastic canister of some sort, or wooden cask, poncy staff is exported to us, so we can dwell poncily over it.

edam · 20/08/2011 18:45

Blimey, what a load of pretentious twaddle. You tried to do a nice thing and he got all snobbish and ungrateful. A really cultured person - or a really posh person - wouldn't be so fussy. Snobbery is ridiculous unless you are either (or both) of those things.

FellatioNelson · 20/08/2011 19:07

I judge people who put far too much wine in a glass as well. Greedy no-class fuckers. Just drink that one, and pour some more later.

But most of all I judge people who do not give me enough wine when I go there for supper, and that overrides the colour/shape of glass by a million miles.

We once went to a dinner party for 8 where four bottles of wine were made available at the table, and if you have committed to getting a cab home and having a really lovely time that is jolly well not enough. Angry

strictlovingmum · 20/08/2011 19:56

FellationNelson you need to come over to us for dinner, you will be requiring an ambulance to get home via local A&EGrin, there might not be a lot to eatGrin due to us being on food ratio latelyBlush, but wine is not a problem.Grin Grin

LineRunner · 20/08/2011 19:58

I serve it in vases.

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/08/2011 21:54

Toddlerama - so red glasses good, clear glasses better? Grin

MrsSchadenfreude · 20/08/2011 21:54

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MrsSchadenfreude · 20/08/2011 21:56

I think those are Burgundy glasses, no? Unless MN has slipped up and made a serious faux pas by putting Bordeaux in a Sauvignon glass.

Bunbaker · 21/08/2011 09:35

"Ok, so some people drink wine to get drunk, some people drink wine because they enjoy it and are interested in it. The first group don't care what they drink it in, the latter group do. And they both judge each other. And that's it."

Got it in one tryingtoleave

It's the same as some people eat to live and others, like me, live to eat.

PamSco · 21/08/2011 09:41

tryingtoleave spot on.

No oikness, no snobbery OP. You just don't do wine - no biggy. I'm no wine snob, I like beer too much, but I wouldn't drink good wine out of coloured glass - though I'd drink plonk out of a mug :)

PuppyMonkey · 21/08/2011 09:45

You need some of those old fashioned 70s style smoked glass mugs that you used to have for tea if you were dead sophisticated. GrinWink

thefirstMrsDeVere · 21/08/2011 09:48

I cannot drink tea out of those little smoked glass mugs. I just cant.

I take mugs when we go to any sort of caravan park because I used to go to Pontins years ago and thats all they provided.

Some 15 years later I am still scarred by the experience and take my own mugs just in case.

FellatioNelson · 21/08/2011 10:07

I always travel with the means to make my own coffee. I am very fussy. I might start taking my own cups too, especially to the PILs, theirs are awful. Either very cheap, brittle bone china with nasty gilt stuff on it, and the glaze worn off around the rim, or those heinous chunky 'rustic' pottery things that feel like you are loofahing your lips. It's all wrong I tell you.

Whatmeworry · 21/08/2011 10:13

Ok, so some people drink wine to get drunk, some people drink wine because they enjoy it and are interested in it. The first group don't care what they drink it in, the latter group do. And they both judge each other

Naah...those who drink wine because they enjoy it or are interested in it are into the wine, the glass is secondary. Wine snobs otoh want to look right, so are more concerned about appearances of things.

Original poster
MumblingRagDoll · 21/08/2011 10:18

Oh MrsDeVere I am with you on that! I never drink tea in cafes either...it''s always gross. As for coffee in a glass...no!!

Fellatio I can't abide tea out of china...it's too hot! Those rustic mugs improve the flavour!

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Bunbaker · 21/08/2011 20:06

"Naah...those who drink wine because they enjoy it or are interested in it are into the wine, the glass is secondary. Wine snobs otoh want to look right, so are more concerned about appearances of things."

Not in my experience. OH and several friends are wine enthusiasts, but not wine snobs. They still prefer to drink wine out of a clear, plain glass.

TrillianAstra · 21/08/2011 20:58

What a handicap it would be, to be unable to drink a drink that you enjoy out of anything other than the correct receptacle...