Yeah, no it’s all a question of the person’s relationship with wine, as with other things. If you are perfectly fine with a cheap wine then yeah, plenty of them are delicious. But a connoisseur can and will appreciate what a $500 wine offers them, and it’s not qualities you can find in any $5 bottle.

Like with many things, if you appreciate the higher-end selections among them, then you’re getting something you can’t at the low end. The question is, even with those qualities, is it really worth $500? And that’s just a matter of economics.

When my son was born I got a $100 bottle of Glenlivet 18 year French Oak Finish. That’s a rather sophisticated single malt; by no means is it the best because I know people who have bourbon or scotch that costs like 5x that. However, you will not anywhere or anytime find a cheap scotch that even comes close to that Glenlivet. It was some of the smoothest and most delicious single malt I’ve ever had. Lasted me nearly a year.

Sigh. Due to a medical condition I don’t consume alcohol anymore, and haven’t for a long time. But goddamn do I miss good scotch, bourbon, beer… sigh.

I will disagree with a caveat. Basically yes there is a difference between wines, and it’s not BS.

There is a world of a difference between a $5 and a $500 wine. But there isn’t a world of a difference between a $5 and a $30 wine, nor is there a world of difference between a $500 and a $1000. It’s about a class structure of the product as with so many things. There’s cheap and simple and there’s more sophisticated and expensive. But once you’re comparing within the same class, it’s really just a matter of varying subtleties. There’s certain distinctions that are absolutely distinguishable such as dry, sweet etc. and there are undertones. This stuff is absolutely real so if someone says it’s all nonsense that someone has not really had the experience needed to make that kind of judgment.

Yeah I think this post is fishing for something that doesn’t make sense.

We need a kind of everybody union.

I had this conversation with lots of people if everyone saw a company is doing things or taking advantage of people imagine if on the exact same day, one million customers canceled their accounts. That kind of unity can give all the power needed to the regular people. But you can’t get people to cooperate or even to have enough self-discipline to go along with something that isn’t for their immediate and measurable benefit. And so the big players know they can abuse and exploit.

Classic whoosh moment lol.

Could Pac-Man or Ms. Pac-Man eat Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington aka Nearly Headless Nick?

Whoa looks like she’s covering her twat with dental floss.

You should post this in the group assholedesign. This is genuinely so bad it’s infuriating.

Even Doctor Manhattan can’t be all places at once.

Doesn’t Drumpf plan to remove us from NATO? Or am I remembering wrongly what I read?

It’s true in some circles.

Yeah I hear that.

Do you know about life???

Oh hi, Mark.

Standard guy who can’t fathom the idea of changing or self-improvement. He’s never the problem.

Factory standard self-centered douchebag™

Case in point

They could try to get cease and desist all they want, there’s a constitutional right in most countries that protects such speech.

Catholics did not write the scripture that says being gay is bad; that’s from the Torah - the Old Testament. Christianity came after Judaism and believes in both the old and new testaments.

You could look up the exact text for it easily. It’s basically “he who lies with a man as with a woman…” and something about him being an abomination and should be put to death or something like that.

Anything that’s trendy they know people want to buy they can charge more because people pay it.

Yup. The standard is release now, patch later.