Marielle, I agree with Lynne, I can't conceive of a Cullen dying. But when you get into a real battle, deaths happen. I don't know how you do it. I'm guilty, I really do want a real battle, but I also want Stephenie's ending too. I don't want' to see people die. But how do you pull that off without it looking cheesy? When you decide to go all Harry Potter at the end, a Weasley usually dies.
I had an idea at one time that I'll bring up. The big secret in the books is Aro killing his sister. What if they use that for the movie?
How do you stop the fighting? Someone gets to the wives, maybe Aro's wife specifically. And Aro in his panic finally lets his mind slip and remembers what he did to Didyme and Marcus, and Edward picks it up and reveals the secret to Marcus or threatens Aro with revealing what he knows.
Not exactly canon, but I always had a suspicion that SM might have used something like that in a future book, it's just too juicy a secret to stay hidden forever.
BTW, hope no one thinks less of me, but that was always my strategy regardless, go for the wives.
marielle wrote:
Going to the toilet is an issue but because I already know the movies I just go while Jacob is being annoying.
LOL. Yes, of course, a Jacob scene, why didn't I think about that?
Sean, like I said, no big deal about alcoholic beverages, and you'll save a lot of money if you don't like them. I usually keep it cheap by ordering a simple draft beer, but beer is an acquired taste as well. I didn't like it at all the first 4 or 5 times I tried it, and then after playing tennis with my uncle he suggested getting some beer and suddenly the thought sounded good to me. Something suddenly clicked.
I would agree with Marielle that it was a pairing of wine with food that gave me a limited taste for it. My own preferences tend to run a little expensive, but then I rarely drink it. She had the opportunity to sample it there in Italy where they are very proud of their wines, and rightfully so.
I think, though, that wine or beer, like cigars, should be experienced first against the best quality you can afford. I never liked wine myself until I had a really nice French wine at a dinner once. There are a lot of great cigars out there, but anyone who tried first with a White Owl Pineapple or Grape cigar, something really grotesque you can pick up at a gas station, would swear that all cigars are just awful. Not so, at least they shouldn't be written off until trying a true (ahem) Montecristo #2 or a Fuente Work of Art maduro or a Graycliff Double Espresso, something with a little flavor and aroma to them and properly aged. And if you don't like them, then you really don't like cigars, which is cool.
I'm not saying this as encouragement, that you need to develop a taste for it. I'm simply saying that if someone wanted to try one of my cigars to see if they like the experience that I wouldn't give them a plain jane Macanudo, I might start them off with a CAO Gold robusto, something with a little more flavor and punch but still relatively mild.
You don't like that wine you have. You haven't acquired a taste for wine in general yet, but the problem also may be that particular wine is truly rancid.
I actually find few drinks out there that are genuinely improved in flavor by the addition of alcohol. At some point, I think, the brain makes a connection between the taste of alcohol and the effects, which are quite pleasant in moderation (my opinion). If I come back to the patio after mowing the lawn and I'm all hot and sweaty I prefer a beer over water, but at this point in my life I couldn't tell you whether or not I'm really purely enjoying the flavor of the beer or whether my brain perceives it as a reward (the mild buzz) over and above plain water, which is actually my favorite drink, water and ice. Did my tastes actually change, or did my brain enjoy the effects and alter my tastes for me? Well, for the brain perception is everything so it doesn't really matter. I think it is a little of both. There are beers I like and beers I don't like, so my tastes still matter, but I'm not going to fool myself either and say that the alcohol content has nothing to do with it. You don't see a big booming business with non-alcoholic beers, that is a very limited market, and for good reason.
The bottom line is that you won't ever regret NOT drinking, it's purely a choice. On the other hand, if this is a Tampa Bucs cheerleader you're taking out to dinner and she wants wine, then yes, you would regret refusing that and not ordering a bottle.
Lynne, I certainly wouldn't look down on you for not drinking. I consider that a perfectly acceptable choice and often the wisest one. Moderate drinking I obviously have no problem with either. I personally consider neither choice a true virtue or vice. The only choice that is clearly a vice is drunkenness, which is why I always respect the choice of the non-drinker.
Statistics: Posted by corona — Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:38 pm