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If a Rick is involved it must be of the highest quality !
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Oddly enough, I was thinking of box wine.
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honey the codewitch wrote: I have haikus too
You've just made me notice that I don't know the plural of haiku (or, indeed, if there is a plural for it).
But I think I can proceed through life happily enough without knowing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: You've just made me notice that I don't know the plural of haiku
Dammit, you made me check it.
Seems there is no agreement on this, according to Merriam-Webster it is Haiku.
Oxford claims haiku and haikus are both fine.
Cambridge says haiku.
According to MacMillan it's haiku.
But Heinemann also means that both are fine.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote: Dammit, you made me check it.
This imperfect world
Many things will elude you
Content you must be
Ills are too many
The worst cannot be fixed, like:
How to spell "damnit"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I'm reading that in the voice of Yoda.
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Correction:
This world imperfect
Many things elude you will
Content must you be
Ills too many are
The worst be fixed can't, like:
How to spell "damnit"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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honey the codewitch wrote: There once was a man from Wuhan
Haven't you heard, it's now politically incorrect to point out where a disease originated from. Something about "victimization culture", or so-such BS.
So don't link the Wuhan flu with Wuhan.
Don't link MERS with the Middle East.
Don't link the Spanish flu with Spain.
Don't link Ebola with the river in Congo.
Don't talk about Lou Gehrig's, or Legionnaire's disease...I'm sure I'm missing plenty.
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I think it depends on context, personally, but that's as much as I'll say for fear of turning this into a political thread.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I know exactly what you mean.
Your response demonstrates how we're no longer living in a free world. People don't have to self-censor in a free world. Not that I'm pressing the issue--just pointing it out. It's kinda sad.
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It’s a five minute walk from my house to the pub. Yet it is a 45 minute walk from the pub to my house.
The difference is staggering!
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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Staggering is fine. Trouble starts when it is crawling! Clumsy people step on your fingers.  
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 19-Apr-20 15:15pm.
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I like it !
It reminds me of an old Russian proverb :
The church is near but the road is icy.
The bar is far but we will walk carefully.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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Then "foobar" must be a Russian thing too 
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..Orthodox Easter Sunday!
To all those of the Russian persuasion.
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote: the Russian persuasion
Is that the name that the Kremlin's PR department came up with for the KGB?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yesterday I learnt that more than half the ethanol producers in the USA have closed and ceased operations on a temporary basis, due to covid19. As far as I know, they produce ethanol by fermentation. Fermentation produces large quantities of carbon dioxide as a byproduct, which the ethanol producers sell, mostly to brewers, to add fizz to their beers.
Now the brewers are complaining of a shortage of CO2, that is hampering the production of beers! This is getting serious!  Are people going to start hoarding beer now? I noticed on Thursday that almost every customer coming out of the grocery store had beer in the trolley. 
What a terrible place is a pub with no beer!:
The Dubliners- A Pub With No Beer - YouTube[^]
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 19-Apr-20 8:51am.
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Maybe you need to update your .sig!
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I'm shocked ... pass me the Chardonnay please !
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Im shocked!
Pass me the Montrachet.
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To tell the truth, I'm more of a red wine drinker but my wife bought a big "bag in a box" of Chardonnay by accident. As the box had a purple color she assumed that it was red wine
But as it is nice sunny weather now, a cool glass of Chardonnay is palatable ...
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Quote: I'm more of a red wine drinker
My kind of man! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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RickZeeland wrote: To tell the truth, I'm more of a red wine drinker
I used to be as well. But I have moved past box wines.
In all seriousity, I'm drinking as much white as red wine nowadays. I have learned that good white whines usually have better price/value than red ones.
Try a bottle of Egon Müller, Keller or Robert Weil to a well made Schnitzel with white asparagus some time and you will understand what I mean.
And everyone should have a bottle of Chateau d'Yquem on their bucket list.
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That sounds like good advice, I saw a documentary about the Rhine river recently and of course Rheinwein was mentioned. It was known as a quality wine in the past, but then they spoilt it by mass producing it and adding sugar. Now it will be hard to get rid of the imago of "cheap rubbish"
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You'll be lucky if any pubs survive this to serve no beer ... I don't think this will end for a long time: expect the whole summer to be under lockdown. Especially if Trump does manage to lift restrictions, and the US infection rate goes through the roof. Other countries will look at it and just clamp down harder, as will the US ...
Not - I hasten to add - a political comment on Trumps mental prowess or lack thereof: I am not starting that discussion!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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