Take a little wine for your stomach's sake

[Jipsah]

On a few occasions i have found wine in my bowl!

I have never seen a dog drink wine, spirits, or coffee. But fill their water bowl with beer, and they'll put it away like they're just come back from walking across the Sahara. Just sayin'

 

[Jipsah]

That reminds me of this little girl's first communion, that's real wine in that cup. LOL She was just supposed to take a sip! Too funny and cute!

My middle daughter did just that. First trip to an Anglican church, first time drinking from the common cup, first time with real wine. You dould hear her pipey 9-year-old voice all over the Church."Daddy, that grape juice had gone bad! It tasted terrible! Somebody needs to tell them, it'll make everybody sick!..." all the way back to our seats. I told her it was real wine (something we never had at home) and that set her off again, this time in high-frequency whispers that were probably only audible within a 10 foot radius. "That's what wines tastes like? It's nasty, how can anybody drink that? Is that going to make everybody drunk? I don't feel any different. Am I supposed to get dizzy?......".

Now she's Dr. Sanders. Tempus fugit. -sigh-

 

[Jamdoc]

I have never seen a dog drink wine, spirits, or coffee. But fill their water bowl with beer, and they'll put it away like they're just come back from walking across the Sahara. Just sayin'

They definitely like to lick the beer bottles once they've been finished.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

Theologically, I can agree with Luther on this one BTW, did he actually say that or is it fiction?

I knew he enjoyed drinking- especially his wife's homemade beer

He liked humor, and apparently, yes, he did. At another occasion, in a letter to a fellow Priest he wrote "Tomorrow I have to lecture on the drunkenness of Noah, so I should drink enough this evening to be able to talk about that wickedness as one who knows by experience."

Pure sarcasm.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

Does it have to be wine? I've never cared for it. I've never found any hard liquor I like that I can afford to drink. I like beer, though.

Now as to beverages in general - tea. Beer is for tacos, pizza, and barbecue. Tea is for everything else.

My Pastor and I are "ecumenical" drinkers; and are quite "catholic" in our tastes. LOL.

 

[Lost4words]

I have never seen a dog drink wine, spirits, or coffee. But fill their water bowl with beer, and they'll put it away like they're just come back from walking across the Sahara. Just sayin'

I aint no ordinary dawg! Lol

 

[The Liturgist]

There is quite a difference between having a glass of wine with a meal, and getting regularly trolleyed from drinking too much of it.

In the US that calls to mind images of the trolleybusses you used to have in Wellington until a few years ago, which we still have four systems of (Cambridge, in greater Boston had a beautiful four line system which they just closed in March, which was incredibly stupid, because they closed it to convert a garage to support battery-powered buses, but we know one of the best ways to charge battery powered buses is to integrate them with trolleys, and now the students and workers around Harvard University are going to be choking on diesel exhaust fumes in the Harvard Square Bus Tunnel for the next four years).

"Trolleyed". . .too funny.

Indeed, moreso in the British sense of the word in terms of having ti be carried off in a trolley, like a drinks trolley on an airliner, as opposed to being runover by a trolleybus, tram or streetcar, which is obviously less amusing.

 

[The Liturgist]

As long as we keep track of our liver and do not drink contrary to medical advice or to intoxication, I don’t have a problem with it. However, one should exercise care, because liver transplant surgery is a nightmare for all involved, assuming one can even get one. Like, never mix alcohol with certain types of medicine that put strain on the liver.

The Eucharist if properly prepared using canonical church wine will contain only a nominal amount of alcohol, assuming it retains any at all, which I am not sure of, given that in Eastern Orthodox liturgies where hot wine is served to wash down the Eucharist I have been able to differentiate between that and that which is served from the chalice. since canonical church wine tends to be a sweet, fresh wine, and in a traditional service of the Eucharist, every ancient church except for the Armenian church dilutes it with water. In the Byzantine Rite this is traditionally boiling hot water.

 

[Skye1300]

Does it have to be wine? I've never cared for it. I've never found any hard liquor I like that I can afford to drink. I like beer, though.

Now as to beverages in general - tea. Beer is for tacos, pizza, and barbecue. Tea is for everything else.

LOL same for my husband, he only likes beer. I'm the opposite, I never liked beer but will have wine from time to time.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

In the US that calls to mind images of the trolleybusses you used to have in Wellington until a few years ago, which we still have four systems of (Cambridge, in greater Boston had a beautiful four line system which they just closed in March, which was incredibly stupid, because they closed it to convert a garage to support battery-powered buses, but we know one of the best ways to charge battery powered buses is to integrate them with trolleys, and now the students and workers around Harvard University are going to be choking on diesel exhaust fumes in the Harvard Square Bus Tunnel for the next four years).




Indeed, moreso in the British sense of the word in terms of having ti be carried off in a trolley, like a drinks trolley on an airliner, as opposed to being runover by a trolleybus, tram or streetcar, which is obviously less amusing.

The other day I heard the expression "three sheets in the wind". I think that one came from the old sailing ship days. In the TV programme Coronation Street, set in Manchester England, they call it "bladdered". A New Zealand expression is "shickered". There is a rude one starting with "P" but I won't put it in full here.

 

[Skye1300]

My middle daughter did just that. First trip to an Anglican church, first time drinking from the common cup, first time with real wine. You dould hear her pipey 9-year-old voice all over the Church."Daddy, that grape juice had gone bad! It tasted terrible! Somebody needs to tell them, it'll make everybody sick!..." all the way back to our seats. I told her it was real wine (something we never had at home) and that set her off again, this time in high-frequency whispers that were probably only audible within a 10 foot radius. "That's what wines tastes like? It's nasty, how can anybody drink that? Is that going to make everybody drunk? I don't feel any different. Am I supposed to get dizzy?......".

Now she's Dr. Sanders. Tempus fugit. -sigh-

LOL! That is too funny!

 

[The Liturgist]

The other day I heard the expression "three sheets in the wind". I think that one came from the old sailing ship days.

Probably, considering one hears it from films produced in the 1930s-50s. “Hammered” is another classic.

In the TV programme Coronation Street, set in Manchester England, they call it "bladdered".

That has to be a Mancunian (Manchester-regional) thing. I have a friend from London who finds Mancunian to be an extremely annoying accent, which seems weird, because usually the Brummie (Birmingham) accent gets all the hate (at least according to a poll that was in the Telegraph years ago which found that conversely, Geordie was the favorite), but I actually like them both.

That said despite its formidable reputation I have to confess I have never watched Coronation Street, because waiting for plot developments to be resolved for fifty years just slightly exceeds my attention span. Actually that raises an interesting point, how long would it take for someone to watch all of Coronation Street? With some of the long running soap operas, it has to be impossible.

The only shows running that long I have enjoyed are Doctor Who, although I lost interest after Peter Capaldi’s departure, and I do find some of the older episodes a bit slow moving, although some are quite fun, for example, Vengeance on Varos.

A New Zealand expression is "shickered".

Now that one I haven’t heard; it strikes me as one of those delightful products of Kiwi culture that those of us born outside of your lovely islands would not have a chance to discover. Every current and former Commonwealth or English colony has words like that, for example, the Kelpers (Falkland Islanders) call a break for tea, or coffee, which is popular due to the proximity to Latin America, a “Smoko.” They have an accent which in some respects is like the Aussie or Kiwi accent.

There is a rude one starting with "P" but I won't put it in full here.

Yeah I’ve known that one since I was like 13. Blame the Agatha Christie movies with Peter Ustinov.

 

[The Liturgist]

My middle daughter did just that. First trip to an Anglican church, first time drinking from the common cup, first time with real wine. You dould hear her pipey 9-year-old voice all over the Church."Daddy, that grape juice had gone bad! It tasted terrible! Somebody needs to tell them, it'll make everybody sick!..." all the way back to our seats. I told her it was real wine (something we never had at home) and that set her off again, this time in high-frequency whispers that were probably only audible within a 10 foot radius. "That's what wines tastes like? It's nasty, how can anybody drink that? Is that going to make everybody drunk? I don't feel any different. Am I supposed to get dizzy?......".

Now she's Dr. Sanders. Tempus fugit. -sigh-

Oh thats funny. That being said its also an argument for using canonical church wine. With Eastern Orthodox or Oriental Orthodox communion it really is almost like grape juice. The Syriac Orthodox intinct it and then just pop the intincted portion in your mouth, whereas the Eastern Orthodox do the same but with a spoon. Sharing the entire chalice is actually remarkably uncommon, but the Assyrians do it.

Historically Assyrians and Ethiopians due to Islamic interference experienced wine shortages and either had to massively dilute in the case of the Assyrians or use crushed grapes and also water-raisin emulsions in the case of the Ethiopians.

The only thing you can’t do according to the ancient canons of the early church is substitute water for the wine.

 

[Tigger45]

The other day I heard the expression "three sheets in the wind". I think that one came from the old sailing ship days. In the TV programme Coronation Street, set in Manchester England, they call it "bladdered". A New Zealand expression is "shickered". There is a rude one starting with "P" but I won't put it in full here.

Pickled?

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Pickled?

I haven't heard that one for quite a while. "Pickled as a trout" was what I last heard of it.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

Pickled?

Another expression down here in NZ is "rotten drunk".

 

[Clare73]

Another expression down here in NZ is "rotten drunk".

I like "pickled as a trout," the soaking sottedness being very funny to me.

 

[Presbyterian Continuist]

I like "pickled as a trout," the soaking sottedness being very funny to me.

I just thought of another one: "sozzled"

A way of getting around using the crude one and getting into trouble on the forum could be to use: "epistemogarated".

 

[Xeno.of.athens]

Clearly not too many participating in this thread are Teetotallers ;-)

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

As long as we keep track of our liver and do not drink contrary to medical advice or to intoxication, I don’t have a problem with it. However, one should exercise care, because liver transplant surgery is a nightmare for all involved, assuming one can even get one. Like, never mix alcohol with certain types of medicine that put strain on the liver.

The Eucharist if properly prepared using canonical church wine will contain only a nominal amount of alcohol, assuming it retains any at all, which I am not sure of, given that in Eastern Orthodox liturgies where hot wine is served to wash down the Eucharist I have been able to differentiate between that and that which is served from the chalice. since canonical church wine tends to be a sweet, fresh wine, and in a traditional service of the Eucharist, every ancient church except for the Armenian church dilutes it with water. In the Byzantine Rite this is traditionally boiling hot water.

We changed our wine a few months back.

Lutherans are inherently cheap, and look for a good deal. Some years ago, they got a great deal on wine from a Church Supply Company; but had to buy about 12 cases to get the best price. Being stored in the Sacristy in a not so cool environment, with screw top bottles, upright, we found the wine had started to degrade, and that there were crud and sediment in the bottles. We discarded the last case and a half.

Our Altar guild (very limited due to covid fears) was also struggling with laundering linens that had deep purple wine stains.

We decided to switch to something that was less prone to staining and for PR reasons in light of Covid concerns, stronger in alcohol. Our local Provincial liquor store had two locally made sherries, one Pale and one Tawny. We ended up going with the Tawny one as it is sweeter, and a little darker in colour. At 20% Alcohol, and not staining, it fit the bill. It is also cheap. A case of 12 bottles runs us < $120.00. Everybody is happy.