Oh Boy! Sunday Night with Litre.

Good day to you, I hope you said your prayers and took your vitamins. This is the second last week that you have to deal with my ridiculoUsness. Honestly hat tip to Yeah Right, the absent BeerguyRob, and all of those who do a weekly post here. Your creativeness and hard work is amazing as this is the 1st year I have tried to do it every week and it’s difficult. I drink wine, smoke weed, sleep very little and can’t be damned to remember which one of my stupid travel stories I have told. I hope I didn’t repeat any.

That does count for my usual opening thought so I’ll blend in a couple music vids as I seem to have stopped doing that week to week. Yes these dudes look like pinheads that you would hate to meet at a house party but Holly Walker is amazing.

From wikipedia “Maribou State are an English electronic music duo consisting of Chris Davids and Liam Ivory. To date, they have released eight EPs and two studio albums, Portraits and Kingdoms In Colour. Besides their own material, the two producers have also done remixes for the likes of Alpines and Lana Del Rey”

Which Holly Walker hairstyle do you prefer?

Travel story.

Full Moon party in Thailand? Have I told you about that dumbness?

So, I was in Ko Pha Ngan for a few days which happened to coincide with a full moon party. I loved to party but I was on my way from Scotland to Australia and decided to spend a couple weeks on the islands. I was staying on the north side of the island and it the full moon party takes place on the south side. No fear, the hotel proprietor would drive us there and would pick us up at 6 am. For reference the notorious party is in Haad Rin and I was staying in Thong Nai Pan. It was about a 90 minute drive through the jungle sitting in the back of a pickup truck.

The pickup truck  picked up a bunch of backpackers from a few different hotels on our beach and headed into the jungle. I made some friends on the truck and we decided as a gang to head out together for the madness, safety in numbers and all that.

The famous outdoor Full Moon Party at the public Haad Rin Beach on the Island Koh Phangan in South Thailand. It is way bigger than this shot.

Southeast Asian Redbull and mushrooms, not legal, but available everywhere were taken after the sunset. The set up is a dumb amount of clubs set up on the beach with incredibly cheap drinks and loud dance music emanating from each venue. The gang of eight went at sunset and decided to indulge with some mushroom tea.

If you have ever been to Thailand you have probably had a “bucket”. A bucket consists of a half mickey of Thai Rum, 2 cans of coke and a bottle of the Thai medicinal Red Bull all in a kids beach bucket. It. Is. Rocket. Fuel.

There was an English couple among our group of eight, who seemed like great folks. They were chatty, engaging, nice and friendly. We all partied until the wee hours, dance, drank walked along the beach. At some point we had to jump off the 2nd story of a bar to the beach but to this day I have no idea why.

At this point it’s 4 am in the morning, very inebriated we grab some more buckets and head to the beach for sunrise. Sitting around, having a couple darts, some buckets, I suddenly notice my watch had been lifted. I start to freak out (drunk, high) as I had purchased it in Geneva and was my only souvenir as that place is expensive as hell. To calm down I went for a wee swim (smart!) I then came back to no shirt and no sandals where our gang was gathered.

“What the fuck? Where is my shit?”

English broad – “What shit.”

“Well, now I have no shirt, no shoes, no watch. Who stole my shit?”

Silence. Uncomfortable.

EB – ” Probably my boyfriend he is a kleptomaniac.”

“What the fuck?” (Rage rising as she is still sitting with us and he is gone)

So she sighs and seems bothered as hell to find her boyfriend to get my stuff back. Apparently this is a regular thing for them?!??!? I didn’t get my shirt or sandals back but I did get my watch. I had to go to the middle of town at Haad Rin at 5 in the morning to meet up to get it back. I made the truck home with my shorts, and my watch, Nothing else. No money, no shirt, no shoes, just my watch, and my shorts. I slept for 20 hours after that and woke up not having any idea where I was.

Full moon party? Recommend. Also that island has backyard thai kickboxing nights where you can gamble!

Wine time!

Next week I will give a wee breakdown of what we have learned this offseason to help you in a wine store, trip, restaurant, or all of the above!

Today we hit Chile, and more specifically Carmenere as it was requested by a DFOer.

There are three main wine regions in Chile, the Colchagua Valley, the Elqui Valley and the most famoUs one the Maipo Valley. From what I have red they consider this valley the Bordeaux of the Southern Hemisphere and looking at the varietals that they grow I can see that. Due to climate Chile is more well known for their red varietals like Cab Sauv, Merlot, and Carmenere.

Carmenere is rich in fruit as most reds are in the New World but you do get an unmistakable pepper taste from them. When you see a Carmenere bottle keep in mind that it can contain up to 15% of other grapes for blending. There definitely are 100 % Carmeneres out there but blending it with old school french grapes gives it a bit more smoothness and softens the tannins.

Carmenere originated in France but really was only used for blending whereas it has taken off in Chile and is incredibly important for their wine community. Think of it like Sauvignon Blanc for New Zealand which is their flagship grape and they are known around the world for it.

With food due to the softness of the wines it produces it pairs well with pork, lamb and will not be overpowered by fatty steaks. Personally I love Carmenere paired with duck, which makes sense as usually I would go for a Grenache with Donald as it is not too big to overpower the meat.

Weird fact that I ran into is that up until the 90’s people just thought that Carmenere was Merlot as their leaves look almost identical, they are both quite soft and grow the same way. That being said it was found out due to the fact that it seemed to take some Merlot a lot longer to grow (A month or two). They then did tests and found out a whole lot of what they thought was Merlot was actually Carmenere.

One more week to go gang then it is football time!

 

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- A pugs best friend. - Wine drinker. - Loves to use the letter U behind O. - Iggles fan, Fulham FC (Mighty Whitey) supporter, Cavalry FC Ultra. - One of the resident futbol freaks at the clubhouse.
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Redshirt

Mike Tyson guest starred in an episode of Law and Order: SVU? What’s next? Bill Cosby as a celebrity spokesperson for sleeping pills?

Brick Meathook

We are already in the preliminary rounds of World War III and that is simply a fact.

The next president of the United States needs to be a rich white guy in a wheelchair. That’s who I’m voting for.

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Brick Meathook

Or a seven foot tall hillbilly who’s both crazy AND ugly.

Just no Eleanor Roosevelts, please. Let’s try to win the war.

Brick Meathook

Mary Todd Lincoln was no prize either.

Sharkbait

Other than that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Madison Cawthorne isn’t rich, so I assume you mean Greg Abbott?

Brick Meathook

He ain’t rich either, not rich enough anyway, and they’re both southern. We need a crippled Yankee blue blood, preferably a cigarette smoker too.

ALSO: If they ever change the $20 bill from Andrew Jackson (who I happen to like on that bill), the top answer is Franklin Roosevelt, hands down. It should always be a President or a founding father, and none of this Hamilton reboot shit. If it’s ever going to be a non-President/founding father the only answer is Neil Armstrong.

Doktor Zymm

There is a pug themed store here

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Doktor Zymm

Not yet, but it’s on the plan for tomorrow!

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

While walking the dog we passed by a guy standing on his front stoop wearing a Strokes t-shirt and from inside the house we could hear some of their music being played pretty loudly. So I checked to see if they’re having a concert tonight and…no. It was actually yesterday. I am having fun imagining that he messed up the date and is headed to an empty venue.

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/embed-test/7d7fc3c6-f4aa-4f95-85db-f64d18d2e3ef

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Doktor Zymm

Greetings from tomorrow morning! Got caught in the rain on my morning walk, and had a bunch of coffee and carbs for breakfast. Plus no meetings until like 2 am cause of the time difference, so it’s gonna be a good day!

WCS

That’s all great and all, but, it seems like you’re burying the lede here by not telling us how you traveled through time.

Doktor Zymm

The usual way, forward. The real trick is coming on Thursday when I cross the international date line and skip backwards

Sharkbait

When I came back from Sydney, I landed at LAX 2 hours before I took off.

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

So I’m back from an overnight trip to fancy Montecito for a fancy party – something of a local wedding reception (the actual wedding and reception were in Brooklyn). There’s a very attractive woman at some of these events who looks – in my opinion – very much like Zina Bash (pictured throwing up a white power sign at Blackout Brett’s confirmation hearing). Do you think she’d be insulted if I actually told her this?

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Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

I was thinking about this the other day – if trolls *want* you to react to it as though it’s a white supremacy gesture, doesn’t that make it into one whether they are using it “ironically” or not?

Dunstan

It’s the Rule of Goats: if you fuck a goat ironically, you’re still a goatfucker.

Redshirt

What is the goat catfished me? Is there a gray area?

Uh, I mean “+1”.

Doktor Zymm

Nah, symbols only have meaning by consensus.

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Consensus of two in this case, though – if the person throwing it up wants a viewer to think it’s a WP hand gesture, and if the viewer thinks it is, it is.

Doktor Zymm

If I’m the viewer and I think the person intends it that way, I’m more likely to think they’re an internet dumbass than a white supremecist

Doktor Zymm

You only give them that power by accepting their premise in the first place. I much prefer my premise that it’s the ‘okay’ symbol, and they are dumbasses that no one should pay attention to

Horatio Cornblower

I’m not letting some white power asshole tell me what signs mean. That means ‘OK’, no matter what that twat’s intent was.

Get your own signs, Nazi fucks.

Brick Meathook

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Redshirt

It still pains me that we lost “okay”. Is it possible we can trick the New Age Illinois Nazis to coop this phrase? Personally, I hate the word but I’m willing to set aside my reservations if we can pull this off.

Sign for RETARDED (signingsavvy.com)

Doktor Zymm

It’s still in use for the normal meaning by everybody who scuba dives, and I’m pretty sure there are more divers in the world than there are very online white supremicists

Redshirt

Whenever someone is rude to me, when walking away I’m sometimes use the sign for “Okay” and then turn it upside down, so I’m saying…

“Okay…asshole.”

Gumbygirl

I would hope so. If she takes it as a compliment, run!

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BrettFavresColonoscopy

Are you going to tell her she’s a hotter version of her or a less hot version?

Rikki-Tikki-Deadly

Oh, she’s definitely hotter. You should have seen her on the dance floor. Your wife definitely should not have seen you seeing her on the dance floor.

Redshirt

I may lose some well-earned goodie points with some of you, but Elizabeth Warren is full of shit. If I hadn’t already been immunized by Trump’s shit, I’d join MAGA purely out of spite.

I’m sure the Democratic Party has people who can solve problems and who care about all Americans and not just the small faction that supports them. I’m also equally sure Elizabeth Warren is not one of them.

(puts on 1970s BENGALS helmet; and flame retardant jacket)

Last edited 2 years ago by Redshirt
Fronkenshteen

Welp, can’t emotionally afford to get banned from here, so I’m going to log off. God, I can’t stand where we are right now. Night all.

Redshirt

No, stay on. I’m in the minority. I’ll suppress the rage and stick to football and dick jokes

BrettFavresColonoscopy

I’m a big Elizabeth Warren fan. Here’s a libertarian riff on her policy ideas that I thought was a thought provoking read.

BrettFavresColonoscopy
King Hippo

I have blown hot and cold with her over the years, but I am certain she doesn’t (and won’t) “sell” as a national candidate, so I really no longer need to have an opinion.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Look my lesson from 2016 is that the American people are still sexist enough that any woman costs 5% points, even when they’re the best candidate for the job (my assessment of Elizabeth Warren).

Doktor Zymm

Yeah, this was pretty blatant during the primaries. Most Warren supporters were happy to go Bernie when she dropped out, but there were tons of BernieBros ranting about how they would vote trump before voting Warren.

Redshirt

That’s the lesson you got from 2016?! My lesson was “Maybe we should bring back the Smoke Filled Rooms from the 1800s to avoid this from ever happening again.”

Redshirt

It didn’t help that Bernie Sanders was also running, too, which counterfeited her position as the Far Left Candidate. She was Clinton in 2008; she may have been the better candidate, but you can’t beat that popularity and charisma.

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Doktor Zymm

Oh she absolutely is competent and capable of solving stuff, just look at her past careers. She’s just taking what seems to be the quickest path to viability as a progressive candidate, which is basically rehashing Bernie’s nonsense with a small twist.

Redshirt

Agreed, but it just out of taste for me.

I have no problem with Medium Spicy Democratic Sauce, but Democratic Socialism is just a bit too spicy for me.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Just don’t swallow the Republican treason as the alternative…

Redshirt

Yum. Treason Taffy.

Doktor Zymm

They’re the minority of the party, about 20%. And even less among democrat leaning independents

King Hippo

My primary FF team’s chosen name…

Dave Gahan’s Collapsed Veins

Sharkbait

The freezer vodka league is going to be a thing this year right?

King Hippo

I re-logged in and it told me draft-y poo is at 8p EST on Sunday 4 Sept

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/610212/10

Sharkbait

That’s what I figured. Still a lot of white claw team names there.

Doktor Zymm

I changed mine, but not sure if I’m gonna stick with it.

Brick Meathook

For your viewing pleasure:

https://vimeo.com/514109692

Sharkbait

Brian Robinson gets the RB1 job for the clit commanders, immediately shot and robbed.

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1564026230718009344?t=ZTHPt4ikfDRUYYrAdlhuzg&s=19

Horatio Cornblower

Who do you think shot Robinson?

WCS

/is immediately fined by Danny Boy for misuse of team’s health “insurance” policy

Fronkenshteen

Poor kid. Hope they catch the bastard that did it, because that sentence is probably “see ya!”

Doktor Zymm

Poor kid, that sucks, even if it does get him out of having to play for Snyder

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ballsofsteelandfury

Hippo wants to know what the line is on who gets hurt worse.

Redshirt

Just do what my parents did and do it on a hill. That way they don’t have to focus on cycling, just balance.

Also, tell them to steer away from cars and mailboxes. Bushes are good, but grass is a good place to crash, especially if it just rained.

Gumbygirl

That’s how I “taught” my little brother. He crashed hard into a cinder box by the side of the road. Sorry, Guy!

BugEyedBoo

Fuck that “chase your kid around on their bike” bullshit. They’re just going to fall down and everyone will get frustrated. Make sure the bike’s seat is short enough for your kid to push the bike around with their feet, and take the pedals off. Let the kid go nuts. Pretty soon they’ll stay balanced, and you can put the pedals back on.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Boswell is going to get drafted high in a lot of FF leagues this year.

WCS

AFC North is the kickiest Division in foobawl!

King Hippo

PRO TIP – All leagues should abolish kickers in favoUr of an extra WR or flex spot

Sharkbait

Subscribe!

King Hippo

I am totes recruiting you and Boris for our auction League in 2023. Scotchy and Spam have played the last several seasons.

WCS

Making George Dubya look downright average.

Redshirt

No, we’ve long since past that once we made Dick Cheney the voice of reason and morality.

WCS

I was referring to Dubya’s… let’s say, proclivity, to conjure creative phrases. Herschel makes 43 look like Walt Whitman.

Redshirt

Walker is Reagan if he ran for a 3rd term when the Alzheimer’s was starting to kick in.

Gumbygirl

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Redshirt

“Hey, I take offense to that!” – Trent Green, while vacuuming his family room with a riding lawnmower.

BrettFavresColonoscopy

Ok, firing up the grill. Maybe we shall bust out some vino? (Probably just beer or booze though).

ballsofsteelandfury

Has Zach Miller been given the Milfhunter nickname yet?

ballsofsteelandfury

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ballsofsteelandfury

I do love the fact that we get crazy stories of insane parties from the same person that educates us on fine wine.

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ballsofsteelandfury

Or the nickname of the kid that used to eat his boogers.

WCS

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Mr. Ayo

More like Chris Blockwell

yeah right

It’s good to have you as a regular weekly contributor. The wine and travel stuff is fucking fantastic.

It’s funny but every year at this time I tell myself, I’m not sure I can keep doing a weekly Sunday Gravy.

Then every year as the Superb Owl approaches I’m all fucking in.

Eight fucking seasons and hundreds of recipes later here we are.

While I’ll enjoy my offseason I’ll be ready for next year come February.

Gumbygirl

You two are both my favorites. Don’t tell the others.

WCS

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Gumbygirl

You’ve got a future prince coming. He can throw me in an oubliette!

Sharkbait

Finding new drinks to try is getting harder and harder, that’s for sure.

ballsofsteelandfury

Cough cough Letterkenny Caesar Episode cough cough.

King Hippo

I think I have bet on Deportivo Maipo! So I recommend that wine obvs