feel free to wine/ complain here

by refiners fire 27 Replies latest jw friends

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  refiners fire

  I wish to register a strenuous complaint.

  Bought a bottle of my favourite wine last night, removed the aluminium cover off the neck and saw that it didnt have a cork, but it had a PLASTIC pseudo thing inserted in the neck CUNNINGLY DISGUISED so as to have the "appearance" of a cork.

  So I wound the cork screw in. Piercing the vitals of the plastic usurper like the Biblical Phineas spearing a fornicator . It was hard work screwing it in there.

  Then I come to lever the cork out . Now the cork, usually, when you lever it out, is a bit resistant, and it makes a beautiful squeek coming out,a sigh of protest. its resistant, but you know youre going to win the fight between you and the cork. In such a case the effort is part of the anticipation of the reward. Something worth having is worth working for.Its like a beautiful woman you know youre going to score, even though shes going thru the motions of protesting.

  So much for the pleasures of cork removal and anticipation....

  Back to the unwelcome PLASTIC MONSTER that is denying me access to booze. I have to WORK to get it out. Actually popping a sweat. This thing screams as it comes out. It screams. It grinds. It grates like nails on a blackboard.It HOWLS.

  Not only that, but when Im finished, I cant screw this plastic bung off the corkscrew . The thing is set on there like its superglued. I have to twist it off with PLIERS.

  One of lifes key pleasures taken away . Why? So the corporate conglomerate can save 20 CENTS brothers. Surely brothers....these are the final days.

  Edited by - refiners fire on 18 December 2002 14:41:45
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  troucul

  here's a solution...switch to whiskey and cut to the chase(r)...l like the taste of beer or wine just fine, but they take too long
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  outoftheorg

  Oh brother Refiner. It is another sign of the times. It is fortold that we righteous wine drinkers will all be tested severely in the last days. The king of the north, or is it south has siezed the cork and replaced it with the satanistic PLASTIC a product of evil thinking.

  As the light grows lighter or brighter or dimmer? We will be saved from all this hatred and mistreatment.

  Remember to stay close to the organization where you can find safety. I prefer the Gallo bros. organization. They don't want so much in the way of contributions for their salvation nectar.

  burp! Outoftheorg
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  WildHorses

  I sure could use that bottle of wine right about now. I posted this in another thread but since this is a thread to complain, i'll put it here as well.

  It's aluminum wheels that I have a problem with. After I got the gas, I went on my way to my first house and hit a pot hole. It bent the crap out of the wheel.(second time it's happened) The first time it happened I paid $175 for the wheel with a trade in of the ruined one. When it happened again this morning. I took my house payment and bought four steel wheels and new tires because I needed two more new ones anyway but when I broke the wheel it also split one of the new tires I had on the front. Why in hell they make aluminum wheels in the first place is beyond me. They may look nice but they aren't worth the money you pay for them. Shari
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  SPAZnik

  lmao re using a corkscrew on a plastic cork. thx fer the giggle.

  SPAZ
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  refiners fire

  Dear sister Lilacs.

  It was your post that prompted this thread

  Its TRUE sister! Isnt that an amazing thought? We can post something, entirely innocently, and it triggers of neurons within the brain (for want of a better word) of some other sick maniac posting on the board and an entire new thread is born. Its like having babies really isnt it?
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  WildHorses

  LOL, I think having babies much much easier. If things keep on as they have been. I might just pack up and move to Minnesota and live with my mom. She keeps asking me to anyway and if I ever did, I could always go back to school. I just want to make it on my own but it seems everytime I think I am getting ahead, something knocks me back down. Such is life.
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  refiners fire

  I might just pack up and move to Minnesota and live with my mom.

  Dont do that matey! Ive seen "fargo" 8 times. They talk wierd in Minnesota

  I just want to make it on my own but it seems everytime I think I am getting ahead, something knocks me back down. Such is life.

  Indeed for some it appears to be the case. I dont know what the answer is or why it happens.Some people have gold running out of their pockets despite being barely competent at what they do. And they are peacefully married and content into the bargain. I dont know why some folk, despite hard work, dilligence, and decency, are destined to struggle. Im often struggling myself though I tend not to "wine" about it on the board.
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  Simon

  I usually find the plastic ones much easier ... I did read that the use of real Cork was quite damaging environmentally but I can;t remember where I read it and whether it was true or not.

  Why not just buy real cheapo-stuff with a screw cap?

  Edited by - Simon on 18 December 2002 15:9:57
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  WildHorses

  I feel that getting it out of my system helps. I don't really like letting people know about my struggles but for some reason, venting allows me to get the anger out and start thinking clearly. I'm sure it will get better. It always does. I just wish it would have waited to happen till after Christmas. I hadn't bought my mothers gift yet and now she will have to wait till later to get one. Myabe on her Birthday, which is next month.