Look: everybody's got their snobbery, whether it's coffee, bammy, knitting wool or Scotch.

I'm just sayin': gin is a carefully balanced and created liquor. You can put crap on it but it's ruinous.

You can put ketchup on your steak but you're mostly going to taste the ketchup. So why bother taking the complex thing and making it crude?

'Cause you think its yum.

Why have 9,457 kinds of gin? Same reason.

'Cause you think its yum.

I'm going to argue and say, Diet Coke and Jack? That's fine. But don't pour your Diet Coke into Lagavulin.

Thanks for the ~mas, all. I bet it's helping, because my little fellow looks more vital this morning, even if he still won't get near food (though he drinks a lot of water).

If it's an edema that's hurting him, a simple steroid shot would do the trick and we'll get him back for some more time.

I'm amazed just how much, even with all of that emotional roller coaster of shit, the part of me that doesn't want to let him go is still greater that the part that's so tired and emotionally and physically exhausted from all of it.

I need to survive somehow in uni, without difficult questions coming up my way. Not sure how I'll be able to pull that one.

Heh. Well, if it makes you feel better David, I'd only have a dirty VODKA martini, since I won't drink gin. :)

I'm going to argue and say, Diet Coke and Jack? That's fine. But don't pour your Diet Coke into Lagavulin.

Hey, don't pour it in my Lagavulin, but if you like it better than your Diet Coke in Jack have at. There's plenty of Lagavulin left in the world for people who need to go all Major Winchester over it. Hell, it makes it even MORE fun for the Major if you do - what fun is looking down on people if there is no one to look down on? It's really win/win.

But don't pour your Diet Coke into Lagavulin.

But it adds juuuust the right amount of aspartame.

If megan's mixing, I'll take a dark and stormy.

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what fun is looking down on people if there is no one to look down on?

I am not even a little concerned in pegging people to a board and seeing who's on top.

I don't pretend to know anything about knitting, but I do know that there's a wide variety of yarn to work with.

I don't know anything about horse racing, but I understand that there's a depth and wealth of knowledge on the subject.

So I will make a distinction between an informed opinion and an uninformed one.

You can go to bat for Kraft Green Can parmesan, but it's not going to convince me you know anything about cheese.

You can like what ever you want; that doesn't make it good.

Opinions and qualitative informed choices are two separate things. Your opinion can be informed by deep knowledge of the subject, or it can be shit you pulled out of your ass.

I can have an opinion about knitting with merino wool but that's shit I pulled out of my ass.