Parvenus tend to finish up as “poseurs” and the wine at parties tends to be mediocre, to say the least, So a plastic cup for these people will function just as well as a wine goblet.

Would you know if the “realbudget” provides the function to calculate current savings compared to when highest tax band was at 65%?

Just do not muck around with whisky. That is not allowed.

Thank you Frank. Thou shalt not take the name of whisky in vain.

This is MY eleventh commandment. You have been warned.

True. Cannot stand people who should know better pouring it in, a gallon at a time. Mind you they’re the ones who guzzle rather than sip, so there’s no chance of the wine cooling off either :)

Hang on a minute Daphne. I am not exactly a wine connoisseur but I thought the whole idea of holding a glass of white wine by the stem is not to warm it. (it’s the pinkie pointing to the North star that’s the killer).

On the other hand your point is very valid with a glass of nice red wine, although these days I’ve seen some red wine actually been cooled down to a specific temperature.

Give me a good beer anytime, especially with Indian.

[Daphne – It doesn’t stay in the glass long enough to get warm. You’re only supposed to have one-and-a-half inches of wine in there anyway, precisely so it doesn’t get warm.]

That’s why I don’t drink wine at parties. Because you can’t keep a perfect hold on the glass for more than a few seconds. But these are mere details beside the more important point of the relationship between the drinker and the drink.

The parvenus, being invariably rich, treat their drink with glacial disdain. The drink is there to serve them. Poor people like me who’ve never risen above their squalor will respect their drink. It is very often their only companion, and their only source of inspiration. And they realise the value of every ounce of the precious fluid. Above all, they will never venture to order a drink whose name they can’t pronounce.