Can we have an "Unpopular Opinion" thread?

[Felix]

Aldi red wines are better than the more expensive stuff from Laithwaites. Got a few customers on the posh side of town who give me a bottle now and then what i started to hand in to a raffle for local charities.

[Count Steer]

Aldi red wines are better than the more expensive stuff from Laithwaites. Got a few customers on the posh side of town who give me a bottle now and then what i started to hand in to a raffle for local charities.

Just 'cos it's Laithwaites doesn't mean it's expensive. They have an extensive range of paint strippers too.

https://www.laithwaites.co.uk/product/M18887

[Felix]

Aldi red wines are better than the more expensive stuff from Laithwaites. Got a few customers on the posh side of town who give me a bottle now and then what i started to hand in to a raffle for local charities.

Just 'cos it's Laithwaites doesn't mean it's expensive. They have an extensive range of paint strippers too.

https://www.laithwaites.co.uk/product/M18887

That may explain the wine Had a bottle of this with dinner yesterday what was not bad but had better at half the price from OZ

https://www.laithwaites.co.uk/product/- ... ell/C06326

Got another customer who only supports South African wines as she lived there for years. Quite often get bottle of Arabella from where what is quite nice

https://www.nakedwines.co.uk/wines/arab ... z-2023.htm

[MrLongbeard]

LOL how middle class you all are...

Next we'll be getting into Wine discussions, coffee beans that have been shit out of mongolian monkeys arses and using helium in your tyres.

With a bunch of larger drinkers!!, I'd not waste my breath

[Count Steer]

We stayed at the 'Cottage in the Woods' in the Malvern Hills some years ago. (The stay was a special wedding anniversary gift...I kept expecting the people that gave us the present to pop up and go 'Surprise, surprise!').

The chap that owned the place was a wine fan and had assembled quite a cellar. He produced the wine list with all his own tasting notes. The funniest was a couple of sequential bottles - the first was an Australian red at a price, with glowing notes about it. The next said 'If you want to know what that ^^^^ tastes like - at less than half the price - try this one'.

PS The food was epic too. Dunno what the place is like now though.

[Count Steer]

LOL how middle class you all are...

Next we'll be getting into Wine discussions, coffee beans that have been shit out of mongolian monkeys arses and using helium in your tyres.

I tried helium in my tyres. It made them sound like Donald Duck.

[mangocrazy]

coffee beans that have been shit out of mongolian monkeys arses

They're south east Asian Civet cats and no-one with any ecological sensitivity would buy the stuff due to the way the beans are 'harvested'...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... t-the-crap

[gremlin]

coffee beans that have been shit out of mongolian monkeys arses

They're south east Asian Civet cats and no-one with any ecological sensitivity would buy the stuff due to the way the beans are 'harvested'...

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... t-the-crap

"I am today launching a campaign (pdf) aimed at ending an industry that I created. That trade is in kopi luwak, AKA civet coffee – otherwise known as "wolf", "cat", and "crap" coffee, and the most expensive coffee in the world"

I thought Costa had the monopoly on that...

[Mr Moofo]

A lot of 'craft' beers should be called 'crafty' beers because they only look like they're made by smaller breweries. (Although they may have started small and then sold the brand). eg Camden Brewery is AB InBev, Brewdog is mahoosiv.

As for all these fancy IPAs, even the smell is off putting.

Not that I'm keeping any of them in business.

We used to have Dark Star - started in a pub nr Brighton station and moved out to a unit in Partridge Green ( not far from where Katy Price crashed her car whilst coked up and pissed). Last year it was closed down, 2 years after Asahi bought it to get into the craft beer market. Dark Star has now been moved to a large "Craft Brewery" in Greenwich. Hardly craft

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/alcohol/asa ... wer%20said.

And now that is being moved to Fullers in Chiswick - well known for it's craft brews!

[Ian]

Nitrogen in tyres.
Helium is very expensive, and its small molecular size means that it leaks out through the tyre very easily

Logically your tires are mostly full of nitrogen anyway, the air going in is 80% nitrogen and if the oxygen and helium escapes due to small molecular size what's left in your tires gradually becomes a higher percentage of nitrogen.
So why do people pay for nitrogen?

[Noggin]

Nitrogen in tyres.
Helium is very expensive, and its small molecular size means that it leaks out through the tyre very easily

Logically your tires are mostly full of nitrogen anyway, the air going in is 80% nitrogen and if the oxygen and helium escapes due to small molecular size what's left in your tires gradually becomes a higher percentage of nitrogen.
So why do people pay for nitrogen?

Mate! Don't bring logic into this!! FFS, you want all their heads to explode??

[ChrisW]

Also helium makes your tyres squeal in a much higher pitch.

[mangocrazy]

Also helium makes your tyres squeal in a much higher pitch.

And because it's so light it reduces unsprung weight.





Perhaps.

[cheb]

Also helium makes your tyres squeal in a much higher pitch.

And because it's so light it reduces unsprung weight.





Perhaps.

But the trade off for that is being lighter on the wheels due it's lifting capabilities. You need to drop the pressure by 1 or 2 psi to keep the correct tyre profile.

[Mr. Dazzle]

Have you not all heard there's a helium supply issue? Putting it in your tyres is just irresponsible.

[Count Steer]

Also helium makes your tyres squeal in a much higher pitch.

And because it's so light it reduces unsprung weight.





Perhaps.

The added lightness reduces the gyroscopic effect too so countersteering is easier.

[Wossname]

It’s important that both tyres on the same axle have the same helium content, otherwise…. Well, lord knows what could go wrong. Risk of injury or death, probably.

[Taipan]

There's clearly a case to have Helium banned from public use and reclassified under the Planning (Hazardous Substances) Act 1990! I can't believe it hasn't been done yet! Who shall we blame, Thatcher or Brexit?

[Druid]

That sounds like a political question...

[Skub]

That sounds like a political question...

Or maybe an ecumenical matter.