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  • Pianorak
    Full Member
    • Nov 2010
    • 3127

    #46
    Spoilsport?

    My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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    • johnb
      Full Member
      • Mar 2007
      • 2903

      #47
      This type of badly written article really annoys me.

      In the new study, researchers from the University of Milan and other centres in the US, France, Canada, Iran and Sweden, estimated that, in one year alone, 24,000 deaths from oesophageal cancer, 5,000 from oral and pharyngeal, and 5,000 from breast cancer, were due to light drinking.
      Where were these "estimated" deaths? In the UK (population 62 million)? In the EU (population ~0.5 billion)? 'Developed' countries? Worldwide (population ~7 billion)? Without that information the figures are at best meaningless, at worst deceitful (as some people will assume they relate to the UK).

      The other point is that these articles never indicate what the effect is on average life expectancy. Sometimes the average effect on this is trivial (though for some individuals that is far from the case, of course).

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30250

        #48
        Yes. How many worldwide/developed country deaths are caused annually due to obesity and eating too many chips and consuming other junk foods?

        Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • Anna

          #49
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
          Another Coop customer here - although it's one of the more expensive supermarkets they do have some very good wine offers, at the moment a Montepulciano d'Abruzzo for £3.49 and a Pinot Grigio at the same price in their wine sale. I've not seen the claret in our branch, will investigate.

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          • ferneyhoughgeliebte
            Gone fishin'
            • Sep 2011
            • 30163

            #50
            Originally posted by french frank View Post
            Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
            Merci, beau Coop.
            [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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            • vinteuil
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              • Nov 2010
              • 12793

              #51
              Originally posted by french frank View Post

              Coop Claret, £3.99 a bottle. Who wants to know?
              ... well, if it's a decent claret - I think many of us might like to know!

              So, look out that corkscrew, pour yourself a generous glass or two - and let us know! - I'm always up for a drinkable house claret!!!

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30250

                #52
                Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                ... well, if it's a decent claret - I think many of us might like to know!

                So, look out that corkscrew, pour yourself a generous glass or two - and let us know! - I'm always up for a drinkable house claret!!!
                I'm just a humble wine-with-every-meal peasant. I only notice what I'm drinking when it isn't there.

                I suspect 'claret' rather dignifies it in that I would expect something a bit better than a vin de pays. It does, however, call itself an 'appellation d'origine protégée' - so that's all right then!

                This medium-bodied red wine has dark damson fruit flavours and an attractive early edge (). Serve at room temperature with grilled lamb [what else? - Ed], or with cheese. Drink within 12 months 12.5% vol.
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • vinteuil
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 12793

                  #53
                  Originally posted by french frank View Post
                  I only notice what I'm drinking when it isn't there.
                  .
                  ... discuss.


                  [ I shall propose this as a possible question for prospective Philosophy candidates at future Oxford entrance examinations ... ]

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                  • Richard Tarleton

                    #54
                    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
                    ... discuss.


                    [ I shall propose this as a possible question for prospective Philosophy candidates at future Oxford entrance examinations ... ]
                    Also one for Zen masters to set their pupils...

                    Two favourites of mine in the "wine with every meal" stakes are this Minervois , and this wine from Puglia. Playing the deals/offers game and ordering a case at a time keeps the price down, I haven't bought a bottle of red from the supermarket for years now.

                    I've been a fan of wines from some of Spain's slightly lesser known (as they were then) wine regions since I started to discover them in the 1980s (in Spain) - from Extremadura, La Mancha, Catalonia etc.

                    Ribera del Duero for state occasions - birthdays, retirement......

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                    • johnb
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 2903

                      #55
                      Working my way through a case of Mas Coutelou's "7 rue de la Pompe" 2010.

                      Lovely stuff!

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                      • vinteuil
                        Full Member
                        • Nov 2010
                        • 12793

                        #56
                        Originally posted by johnb View Post
                        Working my way through a case of Mas Coutelou's "7 rue de la Pompe" 2010.

                        Lovely stuff!
                        ... nice!

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                        • johnb
                          Full Member
                          • Mar 2007
                          • 2903

                          #57
                          Yes, subscribing to JR's website at the end of last year has had serious financial consequences. (So much so that I try to avoid even peeking these days!)

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                          • Pianorak
                            Full Member
                            • Nov 2010
                            • 3127

                            #58
                            Originally posted by Anna View Post
                            Montepulciano d'Abruzzo . . .
                            Love it! Let's hope my Coop has got it as well.
                            My life, each morning when I dress, is four and twenty hours less. (J Richardson)

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                            • johnb
                              Full Member
                              • Mar 2007
                              • 2903

                              #59
                              PS I ordered a case of Mark Haisma's Croix des Champs 2010 Gevrey-Chambertin direct from his website earlier this year (at a significantly lower price than is now showing), on the basis of JR's recommendation, and was stunned when Mark Haisma himself delivered it to me a month or so ago. He explained that, when in the UK, he lives in Wiltshire and was doing the local deliveries himself. (Nice bloke too.)

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                              • Osborn

                                #60
                                Originally posted by french frank View Post
                                It does, however, call itself an 'appellation d'origine protégée' - so that's all right then!
                                i.e. your Co-op's protected by burglar alarms, you can feel confident that the stuff won't be nicked overnight and will very likely still be there in 12 months time?

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