What a difference a day makes

[nobby]

Yesterday morning it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit with 3 MPH winds. I went jogging and had to unzip my sweatshirt and take off my hat.

This morning, 20F, 25MPH winds. Look it up, ya lazy bahstid! (http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm)

So I'm heating up some eye talian food and thinking I'd like to have a nice cask, uh, I mean, glass of red wine with it and I realized...

I left the wine in the trunk of my car!

I ran out to the car opened the trunk...

but it was too late.

THE WINE WAS COLD!!


THE HORROR....



THE HORROR...


Fortunately, being a highly intelligent and ingenious person, I was able to engineer a way of resuscitating the wine by running hot water over the bottle while gently rotating :Wink: it and removing it periodically in order to warm it evenly.

So, how's the weather where you are? Are ya fortifying the igloo to keep the polar bears out, or worrying that your air conditioner is driving your electric bill up?

Are ya waxing your skis or your surf board?

[blackieC]

Here in Texas, it was 60 degrees yesterday.

it's-a niiice

Right now, 40 F and expecting a low of 32 with light rain. I am praying to every diety I can think of right now that it doesn't get any colder than that. I have to make the trek twenty miles up to the studio tomorrow and you have no, FUCKING NO, idea what a little bit of ice does to this town. I personally believe that there should be a restriction added to Texas drivers licenses that prohibits those who have never lived north of the Red River from driving if there is the faintest hint of ice or snow. It's just fucking sad.

Dipshits on ice, the roadshow.

[bbkong]

24 little hours
like the sun and the flowers
where there used to be raaaaaiin...

We just went from summer at 4 to winter at 5. I had to light the fireplace. It's gotta be like 68 degrees out there!

[blackieC]

Love you brother but...



FUCK YOU!


I am now duct taping my fat assed cat to to my comforter so that my feets don't get cold tonight.

[Grapestomper]

Yesterday, it's clear and cold: the tail end of the week-old cold spell that is only now arriving in NY to trouble Nobby.

Today, it's raining buckets... which, in California, is still good enough for:

Dipshits on ice, the roadshow.

We don't even need ice!

Between one season and the next, half of us apparantly forget entirely about the phenomenon of precipitation and it's effect on traction.

Today, on the drive home, I got to watch a Chevy Malibu loose it in a turn, fight for controll, and on the third overcorrection, stuff in into a guard rail. (No injuries)

I really think the DMV test should include an autocross course with a wet skid-pad section.:Twisted:




Cold Wine:bane of all good vibe!

For future ref: If you've got a bottle of red that has gotten too cold, the best thing is to pour yourself a good sized glass, and then put the bottle somewhere warm but not hot.

The wine in the glass, being a smaller volume, with a much larger surface to volume ratio, will warm up fairly quickly. You can help it along by choosing a large, thin-walled glass, and cupping the bowl in your hands while you swirl the wine.

(While you're doing this, taste the wine as it is warming up, and notice, if you haven't before, how much the aroma depends on the temperature.)

Meanwhile, as you've been lingering over your glass, the rest of the bottle, back in the kitchen, is warming up nicely.

M

[bunnerabb]

Day One: The snow comes.. animals frozen in their tracks... food in their mouths.. the green stuff just... went away. Bleak.

Day Two: The heat is still on but the gas company has started burning desks in the plant for warmth. Some of the co-workers had to be eaten, but mercifully it was the elderly who couldn't deal with the hypothermia.

Day Three: Nothing much on Teevee. One camera was just abandoned in mid-pan, on the frozen figure of a now blue Hal the Weather Guy, slumped over his desk.. frozen Co2 shards from his last breath, on the desk. Poor Hal the Weather Guy.

Day Four: We are heating up leftovers by rubbing them together and holding them between our thighs. The cats are looking tasty .. they are also circling us at night, nibbling on our toes when they can warm up their jaws until they can open them. I am wearing the sofa. It keeps most of my extremities from frostbite.

Day Five: We are taking turns holding lit matches. It's not looking good. Moans come from the street as people slowly freeze solid. The snow covers the cars, now.. A pizza guy was doing ok with a 4x4 until the people caught in their cars, when the snow started, began smelling the food. He's not coming home tonight.

Day Si....

[jerryskid]

bunner..ya kill me.......

[eagan]

24 degrees as I type.

But no snow. It all passes me and lands on bunner to the east.

A friend from this area just moved to Florida recently (from Holly, Michigan), and we've been exchanging comments about the weather. He doesn't miss this. Go figure. Don't worry, I'll be giving him a ration of shit next summer, I'm sure.

Dipshits on ice.

Many years ago I lived in Tulsa for about a half a year or so. During winter. At least, something like winter. More like October here in northwest Ohio.

One day it snowed. About, maybe, almost an inch.

People wigged out. Lost their fucking minds. Everything shut down.

Went out on the road, people were everywhere. What I mean by that is, people operating motor vehicles, were putting them everywhere, not necessarily where they were supposed to be. In all kinds of spectacular ways. Sideways, backwards, spinning like tops. The whole fucking town became Joie Chitwood, without the practice and rehearsal time.


JLE

[blackieC]

Does this advice apply to Sicillian reds as well?


I have enjoyed a chilled bottle or two of Pinocchio, in addition to adding it to a red pepper pasta sauce, and to my uneducated viniers mind, I found it not lacking.

Does that make me a vino dumbass?




Rhetorical question.






I am indeed a vino dumbass.






Is there a cheap (and I am certainly cheap) Italian, or Cali red that equals it? Let me know before tomorrow, so that I don't show up to the party with a bottle that forever marks me as as an untastefull bitch.

[seagate]

37 deg Celsius today... we're melting...

[Grapestomper]

Does this advice apply to Sicillian reds as well?


I have enjoyed a chilled bottle or two of Pinocchio, in addition to adding it to a red pepper pasta sauce, and to my uneducated viniers mind, I found it not lacking.

Does that make me a vino dumbass?



Hehehe

One of us is getting shown up for a dumbass, and I'm not sure it's you:

I have never heard of a Sicillian wine labeled as "Pinocchio", and untill I googled it, I had almost decided that you were "pulling my strings".

I was going to joke about all the Pinocchios I'd tasted being "wooden" or "lifeless"...

Doh!



Some light, acidic reds, and also blush wines, are drunk cool or even chilled. Not knowing what to expect from Pinocchio, I couldn't venture a guess how it's served.

Ultimately in wine, as in music, if you like it, then it's good. The rest is just trendy bullshit.


Now I gotta go out and find a bottle of Pinocchio!




And in an attempt to get this thread back on topic: If you leave a bottle of fruity blush out in the car overnight in a New York winter, you get a really tasty Sorbet!

(of course, you have to break the bottle open to taste it...)
M

[blackieC]

Melting?


My northern hemisphere ass.




And let me add that a a suggestion for a lovely Shiraz wouldn't be under my radar.

[Grapestomper]

One of us is getting shown up for a dumbass, and I'm not sure it's you:

I have never heard of a Sicillian wine labeled as "Pinocchio", and untill I googled it, I had almost decided that you were "pulling my strings".


Okay, that's settled:

I'm the dumbass.

There is no such thing as a wine called Pinocchio, and I should have gone with my satirical instinct.

Double Doh!


When I went and actually read some of those google links, it became clear that "Pinocchio wine" is what the itallians are calling wine made with artificial aging methods... wood chips and micro-oxidation machines.

Ya learn something every day.

(Well, most days)
M

[mousdrvr]

Nights: low 40's high 30's Days: high 50's low 60's

The LA Cats are the only guys I can smack talk in this Hemisphere

Hang in there Bunner.

[Grapestomper]

And let me add that a a suggestion for a lovely Shiraz wouldn't be under my radar.

Whaddaya got for wine shops in Austin?

There are some great Syrahs/Shirazs grown in the hills West of Paso Robles... Justin, Tablas Creek, Linne Colado Also some great Syrah-Zinfandel blends from the same area.

Those are some fairly small production wineries, though, so I don't know what would be available in your area.

I'd ask someone at a local wine shop if they have Syrah from Paso Robles, west of hwy 101. You might not get lucky, but you'll definately impress 'em.

(While you're at it, ask if they have any Zins from Amador or El Dorado Counties... There are some really good, peppery wines grown out there.)


Small production California wines tend to be expensive outside of California, though. For good quality at reasonable prices, your best bet is likely something Australlian.

G'day.
M

[blackieC]

Okay, I'm sure it may suck by standards with those that have standards, but I assure you that Pinocchio fucking exists.

If my damn camera didn't have dead fucking batteries, I would be able to provide you with photographic evidence that a Sicilian red labled "Pinocchio" not only exists, but that I have drank all of the liquid whithin.


Any suggestions and advice toward turning me on to some Cali or Texas vinos worth my meager bucks are quite welcome.


BTW Grape, what is the name of your vineyard, should I start pissing a bitch in my local vino emporium demaning the finest No Cal wines, even if they don't come with a complimentary fattie?

[Tim Halligan]

37 deg Celsius today... we're melting...

Suffer...bitch! :lol:


37C in Melbourne must be unbearable...you just ain't built for it.

25C sunny. Just got back from an EFP shoot with the obligatory blonde babe in a bikini for a travel show...

It was a little chilly...

Noice. :D

Sorry...no pics fellas... :Roll eyes:

Cheers,
Tim

[blackieC]

From the northern hemisphere, and believe I speak for all of us...






FUCK YOU!!!!



FUCK YOU IN YOUR WARM AND STUPID ARSEHOLES.







sorry if my US to Aussie translation software dropped the (rugby) ball. I love all you fuckers, but if you gits start going on about how warm it is down there, I shall be forced to become truly profane and go all "ekko" you.



WHERE THE FUCK IS FUCKING EKKO?

[knightsy]

So how about that heat, Tim? :grin:

[malice]

Yesterday morning it was 50 degrees Fahrenheit with 3 MPH winds. I went jogging and had to unzip my sweatshirt and take off my hat.

This morning, 20F, 25MPH winds. Look it up, ya lazy bahstid! (http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/tempfc.htm)

So I'm heating up some eye talian food and thinking I'd like to have a nice cask, uh, I mean, glass of red wine with it and I realized...

I left the wine in the trunk of my car!

I ran out to the car opened the trunk...

but it was too late.

THE WINE WAS COLD!!


THE HORROR....



THE HORROR...





I'm afraid I will have to take down your rep a notch for this :grin:

malice

[seagate]

Suffer...bitch! :lol:


37C in Melbourne must be unbearable...you just ain't built for it.

http://www.msc.id.au/private/tmp/BFU.jpg

[binaural turbine]

hell, dipshits on ice ain't limited to Texas. Even in NH, as in CA with rain, the exotic rocket science known as driving on frozen water is completely forgotten by 95% of the drivers in between seasons. Which is really a shame, as it was way too damn soon since the last glacial sheets melted off the roadways just a few months ago.

I usually refuse to drive during the first snowfall. It is unbelievable. With the incredible advances in weather forecasting technology, the stupid dipshits are caught unawares that is was going to snow. Frantic to get to work on time, they seem to think the laws of physics will suspend themselves just for this one time, so they won't be late.

I avoid the madness. Then the next storm, I find a nice empty parking lot that hasn't been plowed. I practice skids, spins, accelerations and emergency evasion maneuvers. One time, as I finished my 5-10 minutes of this practice, there was a police cruiser sitting at the entrance of the parking lot. I drove up to it, rolled down my window. He asked me what I was doing. I told him "I was just gettingre-familiar with the feel of my car's abilities in snow." "Hey, good idea". As I drove off, I could see him in my rear view mirror, doing donuts, brake slides, etc:Wink:

[Logan]

Well ever since we went metric I have no fucking idea how cold or warm it is. But my pecker was all shriveled up so it must have been cold.(hey no jokes eh us old guys get sensitive about that) Warming this morning. Take care Logan

[Tim Armstrong]

I went to a gig Thursday night, it was 50 degrees F during load-in, it was 28 F during load-out.

:icon_eek:

Been pretty cold here ever since!

Cheers, Tim

[nobby]

Okay, I'm sure it may suck by standards with those that have standards, but I assure you that Pinocchio fucking exists.

I could swear I just saw your nose grow longer.


If my damn camera didn't have dead fucking batteries, I would be able to provide you with photographic evidence

Ah yes... a likely story :lol:

[Jackpine]

Damn ... it just got "nice" here today. Pretty close to 45F.

For the last few days its been in the single digits.

If it's gonna be cold we may as well have snow ,tho. I feel a need to fire up 500 cc's of good old American 2 stroke.

Nothing like a good sled ride then home to a little Pinocchio.:)

[Fulcrum]

My drive in to work yesterday was, to say the least, harrowing. The night before, we in CT saw our first flurries of the year, which wet the roads down a touch in 40-degree weather.

Then, while we slept, the Alberta Clipper came through and froze the roads.

Then we had a few more flurries, which caused us no further concern when we woke up the next morning to go to work because we had seen them the night before, too.

Then we actually got on the roads and drove in our usual maniacal fashion and got into accident after accident. The 84 was stopped, and I wound up taking the back roads in.

And the back roads were clogged with people who had the same idea as me, hoping to pick 84 up past whatever was tying everything up.

It was on one of these roads that I myself had a bit of a fenderbender. It wasn't as though I was driving like it was Indianapolis or anything, but I couldn't stop at an intersection. I got out of my car, the lady whom I had run into got out of hers. No damage to either car, thankfully, and she wasn't inclined to pursue any legal action.

Then, out of the corner of my eye I saw someone tearing down the hill behind and toward us. I suggested to the lady that we weren't safe and should try to get out of the guy's way. She agreed, climbed back in her car, and turned left.

I got back into my car. The guy behind me showed absolutely no intention of slowing down; instead, he drove casually into the oncoming traffic lane and cut me off making his right turn, giving me the finger as he did so for daring to be in front of him.

As I tried to get traction to go straight from the intersection, my last look at the lady I'd hit was of her nearly being run off the road by the idiot who had just cut me off, passing her on the left and honking his horn at her, again for daring to be in his way.

By the time I got to work, a half an hour late, I wasn't craving Pinocchio... I wanted a triple shot of something strong. Alas, that wasn't to happen till I got home again later on....

Sometimes, you just wonder.

Mercifully the weather Jack has been enjoying is headed my way today and tomorrow.

[Grapestomper]

Yesterday: steady rain, fairly calm.

Today: the redwoods are swirling around like a kelp forest. Big-ass limbs falling at random from the sky. 50-50 odds it'll be candlelight and acoustic guitars by tonight.








For those of you with front-wheel drive cars... try this in a frozen parking lot sometime:

If you lock the emergency brake and step on the gas, you can use the steering wheel to pivot in place!

Fun!
M

[majorkong]

For the last two weeks: Daytime about 30F, Night about 12F.

I recently took a new job to pay the bills. I'm surveying. I get to tromp through people's yards and run around in the hills looking for property and section corners now buried under a foot of snow.

Yes, as a matter of fact I have aquired a new wardrobe. I now spend my spare cash at Cabela's and Sportsman's Whorehouse in an effort to prevent the loss of my various body parts to frost bite.

I'm not really complaining though. I love the outdoors and most days I can't believe they are actually paying me to chase deer, elk and the occasional moose around the countryside.

A few years ago the Californians discovered our little slice of heavan here in the mountains and now they are showing up in droves. There is a certain entertainment value in watching them drive until I have to share the road with them.

We are plagued with the snooty rich bastard SUV driving idiots who find out the hard way that although 4 wheel drive is great for traction you are still pretty well screwed when it comes time to hit the brakes. And what's up with these morons that drive warp 8 in heavy fog? Mumble mumble mumble

[Grapestomper]

We are plagued with the snooty rich bastard SUV driving idiots who find out the hard way that although 4 wheel drive is great for traction you are still pretty well screwed when it comes time to hit the brakes. And what's up with these morons that drive warp 8 in heavy fog? Mumble mumble mumble



Sorry about those guys, major. We've been exporting them from California in an effort to dilute the amount of completely insane idocy on our own roads.

I love the part where they discover what happens to a four-ton vehicle in even-a-little-bit of mud! 4WD aint shit when you're sunk to the axle.

And as to fog: every year or so out on I-5 in the "great" valley, when the thick valley-fog rises, we get a good-old 50 to 200 car pile-up.

They scrape 'em all up, and the next day it's back to the races!

Sumthin' Darwin sumthin' sumthin',
Mike

[Tim Halligan]

So how about that heat, Tim? :grin:

Yep.


BEACH WEATHER!!! :lol:



From the northern hemisphere, and believe I speak for all of us...


FUCK YOU!!!!


Gee...thanks. :D

More than a little jealous I see...



WHERE THE FUCK IS FUCKING EKKO?


I'm not fucking sure.

Last I fucking heard, he was in fucking India.

It gets really fucking hot there too...for fuck's sake.

:lol:


Cheers,
Tim

[seagate]

It gets really fucking hot there too...for fuck's sake.

42 deg Celsius today, what didn't melt yesterday, will melt today for sure...

On top of that the state is covered by smoke as huge bushfires continue to burn up north...


:Uh oh:

[blackieC]

I could swear I just saw your nose grow longer.


Ah yes... a likely story :lol:

http://womb.mixerman.net/showthread.php?t=575

HA!

"vin"dicated.

And in a much better mood today.



I've fucking got to stop saying fuck so fucking much.

[Mixerman]

24 little hours
like the sun and the flowers
where there used to be raaaaaiin...

It's gotta be like 68 degrees out there!

It's making me cold just thinking about it. I actually pulled out my hat yesterday.

Saw a guy walking down the street with a T-shirt on. Tourist.

Mixerman

[seagate]

Saw a guy walking down the street with a T-shirt on. Tourist.

After the day we had here I'd do that too, heck today I seriously thought about chucking the food out and sitting in the fridge for a bit... :icon_eek:

thank god for the cool change...

[dnafe]

It's making me cold just thinking about it. I actually pulled out my hat yesterday.

Saw a guy walking down the street with a T-shirt on. Tourist.

Mixerman


definitely a Canadian

:lol:

[dnafe]

damn double posts!

[jerryskid]

after 5 straight days of way below freezing weather...we have a temp of 51 today...I might go swimming.......:lol:

[gabby garcia]

WHERE THE FUCK IS FUCKING EKKO?

funny you should ask - here (http://womb.mixerman.net/member.php?u=412)

[jimmyjazz]

I remember when BlackieC described ME as "Type A". :grin:

[omikl]

Here in KL? The usual. 30-34C daytime high. 24-26C overnight low.

However it's the rainy season, which means a thunderstorm from hell about every afternoon, and speaking of fender benders, well I discovered why the tyres here cost US$30 a pop last wednesday evening in the middle of a torrential downpour: Hit the brakes in heavy traffic at about 35 KPH and very little happened[1]. Slidey slidey in slow motion into the car in front. Hard enough impact to take out the glass on one of my headlights, platic grill and dent the bonnet, put a crease in the rear door of the micro town car I hit. Ah bugger, there goes the no claims...

1) ABS? What's that then? I drve a Proton Wira, which is essentially a late 80's Mitsubishi Lancer.