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Title: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Bebpo on February 26, 2012, 05:10:16 PM: I'm not much of a wine person. I enjoy a glass when I go out but there's about 10,000 types of wine out there and I don't know the difference between any of them besides RED WINE is red and WHITE WINE is white. I usually just ask for a recommendation by the waiter and go with that.

My new gf is a wine drinker, so I need to stock up on some wine at my place. I'm not looking for AAA rated top of the line Wine that gives you orgasms in your mouth, since we'll probably drink a bottle or two a week and I don't want to go bankrupt, but I don't want cheap wine that is so cheap I spit it out because it tastes awful (had this happen once with a bottle from the supermarket). Looking for wines (both red & white, she prefers red and I prefer white) that are <$30 a bottle (anything that is decent and sub $20 would be even better).

Looking for recommendations and since I'm planning on ordering online, if the Billy Rygar store has any of the lower-price tier wines and does mail order, I'd like to purchase from a fellow Borean.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Positive Touch on February 26, 2012, 07:08:17 PM: just get some carlo rossi and call it a nite
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 26, 2012, 07:09:50 PM: http://www.menshealth.com/mhlists/best-cheap-wine/index.php

thank me after the intercourse
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: demi on February 26, 2012, 07:12:18 PM: She sounds high maintenance. Dump her
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Post by: MCD on February 26, 2012, 07:13:53 PM: She should buy you the wine.
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 26, 2012, 07:40:38 PM: (http://sas.guidespot.com/bundles/guides_9b/assets/widget_a7ygQ40Bbjtktm6rH1P_lW.jpg)
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Brehvolution on February 26, 2012, 08:49:45 PM: :rofl
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Post by: Himu on February 26, 2012, 08:54:06 PM: where's the last bebpo wine thread at
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Post by: Madrun Badrun on February 26, 2012, 08:54:45 PM: Quote from: Stringer Bell on February 26, 2012, 08:54:06 PM
where's the last bebpo wine thread at
lol
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 26, 2012, 11:51:19 PM: Why not ask her to help you? I don't see a reason for pretending to know wine if you don't.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Smooth Groove on February 27, 2012, 12:02:04 AM: You can never go wrong with price. Just buy the most expensive wine you can afford.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 27, 2012, 12:12:17 AM: Quote from: Smooth Groove on February 27, 2012, 12:02:04 AM
You can never go wrong with price. Just buy the most expensive wine you can afford.

Spoken like a true Stard
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 12:19:48 AM: Just read Drops of God; buy those.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 12:20:37 AM: Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on February 26, 2012, 11:51:19 PM
Why not ask her to help you? I don't see a reason for pretending to know wine if you don't.

Not pretending to know wine. She knows I'm not a wine person. I just want to have a few bottles around the house and getting recommendations is less likely to result in awful wine I throw away which is what I get when I randomly buy bottles at the market.

She's not a big wine person either I don't think. So she only knows a few types of red.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 01:42:21 AM: Quote from: Bebpo
She's not a big wine person either I don't think. So she only knows a few types of red.

WUT, why does this thread exist

leper bebpo, ban methodis, icon billy
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 01:49:58 AM: Sorry, I forgot this one was a forum of elitist wine connoisseurs and not knowing hundreds of wine labels is a crime @_@

GF drinks wine as her primary drink of choice, but doesn't come across as a wine expert who knows dozens and dozens of labels and is informed as to the best tasting low price wines. I don't drink wine at all, personally so I don't know either. When I buy wine and we drink it, it's horrible stuff because I buy the wrong wine. WTF is wrong with asking recommendations for <$20-30 wine and wanting to buy it from a fellow forum member to support their business?

Off-topic on this forum is seriously one of the most hostile places on the internet. Ask a question in any thread and you get joke answers and personal attacks. No better than gaf. Smh
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Cormacaroni on February 27, 2012, 02:09:26 AM: alright then, try finding a bottle or two of Catalina Sounds Pinot Noir

(http://www.catalinasounds.co.nz/skin/frontend/enterprise/catalinasounds/images/main/pinot.jpg)
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 02:17:12 AM: no, we just don't much like a sort of disingenuous dishonesty. why did you REALLY make this thread? did you just want billy's attention?

and you know how we know? first, it takes a really, really awful wine to raise a non-connoisseur's ire -- and you just admitted she isn't one. any ol' $15 bottle of chuck from the local middle class supermarket is gonna be plenty drinkable, chances are, at least by your shared standards -- and i suspect you know this.

so what's the deal, yo? excited about a new gf, and wanted to post? wanted to get billy's attention what with his status as the bore's resident snob-as-employed? just bored and wanted to post about something less nerdy?

just sayin, we can smell questionable topics around here!
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Phoenix Dark on February 27, 2012, 02:18:19 AM: Just get some cran grape juice and mix a tad of Smirnoff, she won't know the difference
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 02:21:48 AM: i think the billy deals in organic wines for strict aficionados. regardless, why not pm or facebook if you just wanted to rewuest an order?
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 02:25:56 AM: Will check out some of the recommendations in this thread.

Quote from: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 02:17:12 AM
no, we just don't much like a sort of disingenuous dishonesty. why did you REALLY make this thread? did you just want billy's attention?

and you know how we know? first, it takes a really, really awful wine to raise a non-connoisseur's ire -- and you just admitted she isn't one. any ol' $15 bottle of chuck from the local middle class supermarket is gonna be plenty drinkable, chances are, at least by your shared standards -- and i suspect you know this.

so what's the deal, yo? excited about a new gf, and wanted to post? wanted to get billy's attention what with his status as the bore's resident snob-as-employed? just bored and wanted to post about something less nerdy?

just sayin, we can smell questionable topics around here!

You're reading way too much into this.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 02:27:53 AM: based on your posting history? no way, mang. :wag
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 02:34:35 AM: Yes, mang.

I make a recommendations thread because even though it's slower than using google, I trust the recommendations of people I know over random strangers. Forum of people with fine taste = will get some good recs. Since Billy is the resident wine guy I put his name in the title because it's cute, just like how if I made a Gundam thread I'd put Mr. Gundam's name. And how people put my name in the weaboo thread title. End of story. PS. I mention the gf in the post only because if I made a thread about wine recs for myself it'd just be jokes about my last wine thread and no serious answers.

Again, it's ironic that I have to call you out from reading too much into things since I'm usually the one reading too much into things. Maybe this is a forum where OCD neurotic people gather.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 27, 2012, 02:36:11 AM: Quote from: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 02:34:35 AM
Yes, mang.

I make a recommendations thread because even though it's slower than using google, I trust the recommendations of people I know over random strangers. Forum of people with fine taste = will get some good recs. Since Billy is the resident wine guy I put his name in the title because it's cute, just like how if I made a Gundam thread I'd put Mr. Gundam's name. And how people put my name in the weaboo thread title. End of story. PS. I mention the gf in the post only because if I made a thread about wine recs for myself it'd just be jokes about my last wine thread and no serious answers.

Again, it's ironic that I have to call you out from reading too much into things since I'm usually the one reading too much into things. Maybe this is a forum where OCD neurotic people gather.

Maybe?
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Van Cruncheon on February 27, 2012, 02:36:31 AM: mm hm.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Himu on February 27, 2012, 02:37:31 AM: i just pooped

but it was one of those bad poops where you do a booming fart that's like a trumpet. POOT. And then this small little turd comes out. And then you do another POOT. And then another small turd comes out. So when you''re looking at it and about the flush it looks like slices of brown paper.

Those slices of brown paper is this thread after you guys decided to be hostile towards bebpo for no reason.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: CajoleJuice on February 27, 2012, 02:39:05 AM: god i hate all of us
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Post by: Himu on February 27, 2012, 02:40:11 AM: what what

what you really mean to say is that my poops are inadequate.

:wtf :maf
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on February 27, 2012, 04:04:43 AM: you guys are such drama queens
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Positive Touch on February 27, 2012, 08:57:25 AM: real answer: go to any specialty wine shop (or liquor shop that carries lots of wine) and ask them the same question. they'll have tons of cheap, delicious,affordable wine to choose from. alternatively you might be able to find someplace that posts the scores from wine spectator or whatever so your wine-buying experience can be just like shopping for video games! see? easy!
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Eric P on February 27, 2012, 09:06:40 AM: or you could go to a place that does tastings and buy the one you like the best
OR you could TAKE HER to a place that does tastings and buy the one SHE likes the best
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Reb on February 27, 2012, 10:23:00 AM: Quote from: Eric P on February 27, 2012, 09:06:40 AM
or you could go to a place that does tastings and buy the one you like the best
OR you could TAKE HER to a place that does tastings and buy the one SHE likes the best

OR you could take her IN a place she likes the best
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: demi on February 27, 2012, 10:44:39 AM: OR you could NOT buy her shit cause fuck that shit, be your own man
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Mupepe on February 27, 2012, 11:20:21 AM: I got Billy to recommend me a place here in Houston. Himumu and I went once :heart

Anyways, they were really awesome and had a huge selection of good and inexpensive (they also had some very expensive) wines. And by talking to me the guy was able to recommend one he thought we'd like and it was exactly what I wanted.

So in short, don't ask Billy for a great wine recommendation, ask him for a great wine store in your area and go talk to the people there. They'll be able to help you better I think.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Momo on February 27, 2012, 03:25:52 PM: Buy a corked bottle of Merlot from a semi reputable wine estate and you will be fine
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 06:47:35 PM: well, as long as we're stealth braggin', I need to talk to Rygar about buying some wine for :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Boogie on February 27, 2012, 07:08:59 PM: Quote from: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 01:49:58 AM

Off-topic on this forum is seriously one of the most hostile places on the internet.

...

:lol
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 27, 2012, 07:39:30 PM: spoiler (click to show/hide)
Group marriage
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Santorum was right.
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Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Positive Touch on February 27, 2012, 07:53:44 PM: will you guys be dressing up as locke and celes
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 08:23:04 PM: Why would we dress up like FFVI characters when our processional is Aeris' Theme? ???
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 27, 2012, 08:23:28 PM: durp
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Post by: Human Snorenado on February 27, 2012, 08:24:23 PM: Quote from: Boogie on February 27, 2012, 07:08:59 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on February 27, 2012, 01:49:58 AM

Off-topic on this forum is seriously one of the most hostile places on the internet.

...

:lol

He's probably mostly referring to me, since his two biggest character traits (love for effete anime and whinging "forever aloneness") are my biggest pet peeves and will send me into a frothing rage.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Positive Touch on February 27, 2012, 08:25:12 PM: Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 08:23:04 PM
Why would we dress up like FFVI characters when our processional is Aeris' Theme? ???

that sounds like a setup for a very sad wedding
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Positive Touch on February 27, 2012, 08:25:34 PM: ps congratutations dood
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Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 08:28:04 PM: we spoke to a string quartet and they said "We are very excited to play Aeris' Theme" and I said "IT'S AERITH!!!! :maf" and fired them on the spot
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: cool breeze on February 27, 2012, 08:44:39 PM: secretly I wouldn't mind having a nerd wedding if it was hokuto no ken themed.

we walk up, the theme plays, the guy's shirt blasts off, and he says "you are already divorced."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qRl22MkfIU

(congratulations!)
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 08:58:08 PM: if I did have a nerd wedding it would probably be based around digital food scales
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Post by: Akala on February 27, 2012, 09:33:22 PM: Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 06:47:35 PM
well, as long as we're stealth braggin', I need to talk to Rygar about buying some wine for :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich

:hyper
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: chronovore on February 27, 2012, 10:50:32 PM: Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 06:47:35 PM
well, as long as we're stealth braggin', I need to talk to Rygar about buying some wine for :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich
spoiler (click to show/hide)
:usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich
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Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Mr. Gundam on February 27, 2012, 10:53:50 PM: Quote from: chronovore on February 27, 2012, 10:50:32 PM
Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on February 27, 2012, 06:47:35 PM
well, as long as we're stealth braggin', I need to talk to Rygar about buying some wine for :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich
spoiler (click to show/hide)
:usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich MY WEDDING :usavich
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:lol
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Human Snorenado on February 28, 2012, 12:20:47 AM: Treesong, are the groomsmen going to be wearing moogle attire?
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Post by: Smooth Groove on February 28, 2012, 01:28:14 AM: Holding congrats until we see pics of the future bride.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 28, 2012, 01:28:21 AM: Quote from: Creepy Old Guy on February 28, 2012, 12:20:47 AM
Treesong, are the groomsmen going to be wearing moogle attire?

no, I don't want them to upstage me
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: pilonv1 on February 28, 2012, 08:54:58 PM: Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on February 27, 2012, 04:04:43 AM
you guys are such drama queens

seriously. how can you take ANYTHING here seriously. If you do ask a serious question, just expect a bunch of joke answers first.
Title: Re: ATTN: BILLY RYGAR - I need to buy Wine
Post by: Howard Alan Treesong on February 28, 2012, 09:46:10 PM: "You may now Heat the bride."

:bonk
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Post by: Momo on February 28, 2012, 11:44:03 PM: Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on February 28, 2012, 09:10:02 PM
if i had a nerd wedding it would be ryu ga gotoku/yakuza themed

everyone gets to wear sharp suits and instead of kissing the bride, you hit her over the head with a bicycle
So it's going to be held at a hostess club? I'm in.