You fundamentally misunderstand science. It’s not simply debate fodder. It offers an explanation for why we experience what we do. Gravity can be observed, it can be measured, and it can be predicted, but that doesn’t mean it’s “settled” or “proven” and that there is not a subset of people who deny it as an actual phenomenon. But denying it doesn’t mean that a Russian oligarch thrown out of a window won’t hit the ground.
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I don’t know that they’re more affordable. They cost more than mine. There are just more of them.
Even a small, poorly maintained old bungalow in this neighborhood these days gets listed over a million. The divided-lot townhouses they put up after the bungalows get torn down sell in the 400-500s these days. So it’s not ideal for everyone but more families get to move in at a much lower price (“affordable” being a joke of a term in today’s market either way).
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Perhaps these days. It wasn’t that way when they dozed the old girl
Lots of good times gone.
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Oh, I see. I once actually played the Wicked Witch of the East in a school play after all the girls had passed on the part.
No doubt. I don’t like the look or feel of the post-1998 townhouse developments any more than the next guy, I’d much rather be in a nice freestanding house with a decent yard and a front porch and whatnot. They offer a lot more to a neighborhood than my ugly-ass two-on-a-garage townhouse. But the market is what it is.
I had a nice porch. It was even the proper shade of haint blue. Now I’m sad.
I do not misunderstand science, nor do I misunderstand the nature of internet discussion boards. I just lost my self-control for a while.
May I suggest drinking an IPA?
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I’m currently working on a Malbec. I don’t think that’s on the hipster radar.
Ummm…
Being a part of cultural mainstream is no longer funky or “on trend”. Now, the fashionista elite are seemingly creating a new class of non-conformist cool kids who shun the big brands in favour of craft beers and micro-breweries. They turn their noses up at Shiraz, Sauvignon Blanc and Chardonnay and yearn for little known varietals from exotic foreign locations. Just take a walk through any wine list (or in a hipster hang out, perhaps it is more likely called the Carte des Vins!) and you’ll likely see more Rioja, Malbec and Gamay than Cabernet or Shiraz.
Sonofabitch!
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At least it’s not a fucking Merlot
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I watched Sideways on a plane flying to Seattle a few years ago.
We were accompanying my son’s boy scout troop to Alaska.
So I’d never seen that movie, and one of the other scouts was sitting next to me.
The scene with Paul Giamatti sneaking into the waitresses’s house to retrieve the wallet had me in tears.
I’m pretty sure the kid next to me was glancing over to see what I was watching but I was paralyzed with laughter.
Holy cow that was hilarious.
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You flip it on to watch a gentle movie about a wine tasting trip and end up seeing a giant man wearing nothing but a knit cap hanging dong as he chases a car down the street. Life moves pretty fast sometimes…
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I’ll add the Paul Giamatti is the son A Bartlett Giamatti, who is of course dead.
So that post is connected to both baseball and death,
making it the most on topic one of the day for this thread.
All due respect to Betty White’s tap dancer.
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So many great, funny scenes in that movie. The golf course stuff cracks me up, but I will never not laugh when I see the driverless car sidestep the tree and fall into the ditch.
Yet, with all the slapstick and risqué stuff, it still manages to be a touching and heart-wrenching study of the human condition. Giamati’s extremely broad acting range is on full display.
Oh, and “are you chewing gum?!!”. 
I’m gonna have to watch that again. Seems like Paul Giamatti’s best role by far.
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