In vino veritas

[2triky]

[Screwed Up Eyes]

[2triky]

I wish he'd stop whining...

Full of puns, this one...

[Doctor Stop]

The Japanese consulate in New York, meanwhile, dumped 198 bottles, with a total value of 2.05 million yen, or an average of about 10,000 yen a bottle. ($125)

10,000 yen is a lot to be paying for a bottle of Mon Frere.

[2triky]

10,000 yen is a lot to be paying for a bottle of Mon Frere.

Perhaps they need to consult a different sommelier.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

Full of puns, this one...

Sorry about that...bored shitless...

10,000 yen is a lot to be paying for a bottle of Mon Frere.

Are you kidding? This is government we are talking about. You can't even buy a Chinese-made wrench at that price...

[2triky]

Sorry about that...bored shitless...

No worries.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

No worries.

At least as long as you don't read it too often!!

[McTojo]

[Doctor Stop]

Perhaps they need to consult a different sommelier.

With those prices, I think NASA must be their sommelier. Wait until we find out how much the toilet seats cost.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

With those prices, I think NASA must be their sommelier. Wait until we find out how much the toilet seats cost.

Too true...if they're as pricey as I fear they may be, we could be seeing the emergence of an entirely new meaning of the phrase "Holy Shit."

[2triky]

With those prices, I think NASA must be their sommelier.

The wine cellar at the Japanese OECD office could cover the entire Japanese diplomatic core's needs, with a few thousand bottles to spare. NASA-like redundancy must be in play.

Wait until we find out how much the toilet seats cost.

At least with the those TOTO toilet seats your ass will be clean.

[Adhesive]

It never ceases to amaze me at how Euro(trashy) the Japanese have become. I remember last year at the sakura festival diplomats, along with the emperor, were drinking red wine instead of nihonshu. I was so disgusted. Wine is like 86% water and 14% fruit sugar and other additives. Why not just drink fruit juice instead. Nihonshu is more labor intensive than wine and has almost no histamines, unlike wine.

Just wait until they start wearing neckties and sitting in chairs. It's enough to make one vomit.

[IparryU]

It never ceases to amaze me at how Euro(trashy) the Japanese have become. I remember last year at the sakura festival diplomats, along with the emperor, were drinking red wine instead of nihonshu. I was so disgusted. Wine is like 86% water and 14% fruit sugar and other additives. Why not just drink fruit juice instead. Nihonshu is more labor intensive than wine and has almost no histamines, unlike wine.

Too much Thunderbird for you man... drink some good shyte and you'll shut up.

[nottu]

[Screwed Up Eyes]

Nihonshu is more labor intensive than wine and has almost no histamines, unlike wine.

Does that make sake wine after a hysterectomy?

[Level3]

I don't know which is more disgusting:

1. That not a few of these diplomats probably "disposed of" the wine directly into their briefcases to be "disposed of" at home.

OR

2. They actually did dump all that wine down the drain.

Probably #2.

Fuck. Next time I get harassed (via a government contract I'm associated with, nice money, but almost not worth the damned paperwork, at least at my lowly level where I don't have a secretary to do all this crap for me) for a detialed receipt AND ryoshusho AND photographic proof that I bought something for 200 yen, I'll be sure to write "NO DIPLOMAT WINE" in big red font on everything.

Can I pay my taxes with empty wine bottles if I have the receipts?

[IkemenTommy]

Most Japanese could not tell a difference between an over-priced $500 French Bordeaux and a $5 Australian box wine.

[Screwed Up Eyes]

Most Japanese could not tell a difference between an over-priced $500 French Bordeaux and a $5 Australian box wine.

There isn't much difference after the first few casks...

[IparryU]

Most Japanese could not tell a difference between an over-priced $500 French Bordeaux and a $5 Australian box wine.

Bordeaux is another story, that is actually really good wine and can be traded at higher value in cash if you want to buy something that you dont have cash for. I haven't even seen a bottle of bordeaux in a while... not so common to run accross unless there is a really special occasion.

There isn't much difference after the first few casks...

thats why you drink 1 or 2 drinks of the good shit first, then chug the rest of the nasty shit afterwards... it all tastes the same after the 3rd or 4th drink..

(despite popov)

[Screwed Up Eyes]

thats why you drink 1 or 2 drinks of the good shit first, then chug the rest of the nasty shit afterwards... it all tastes the same after the 3rd or 4th drink..

Right...unless you're Jesus.
Why don't fundamentalist Christians forget about that Creationist bullshite and play up the story of Jesus getting everybody happy and loving by turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana?

[IkemenTommy]

I haven't even seen a bottle of bordeaux in a while... not so common to run accross unless there is a really special occasion.

They run at 798 a bottle at the local Ito Yokado

[Samurai_Jerk]

Why don't fundamentalist Christians forget about that Creationist bullshite and play up the story of Jesus getting everybody happy and loving by turning water into wine at the wedding in Cana?

Because that would be far too logical.

[IparryU]

They run at 798 a bottle at the local Ito Yokado

never knew they made cheap shit.

[Doctor Stop]

They run at 798 a bottle at the local Ito Yokado

Why pay that for some "fancy" French wine when you can get two bottles of Mon Frere at the Family Mart for the same price? Mon Frere is your friend.

[IkemenTommy]

Why pay that for some "fancy" French wine when you can get two bottles of Mon Frere at the Family Mart for the same price? Mon Frere is your friend.

If you are in the ghetto, then there is the grape juice / Takara shochu bomb.

[Doctor Stop]

That's all Shitamachi-like.