A review of the scientific evidence behind the celebrity fads of the past 12 months has revealed that this could be the year when some famous names have turned their backs on the unsubstantiated claims of the alternative treatments industry, according to the campaign group Sense About Science.
I recently spent time with my in-laws and attended a really nice party with them. It was held in a wine cellar and there was a great jazz 4 piece. We danced all night long and drank a boat load of really nice wines. My favorite was an old stand by, the Masi Amarone -sounds_sound would have loved it! By the end of the night we were all a few sheets to the wind but it really was a blast. My sister in law is a great girl but she really does like "fads". She goes to Gwyneth Paltrow's website and will buy whatever miss Paltrow suggests. After the party she tried to give me a bottle of some "miracle hangover cure" that Gwyneth highly recommended. I read the ingredients and it was basically sugar water. No joke. I didn't drink it and the next day I was slightly hung over. She did drink it and I guarantee she too was hung over but she pretended otherwise and swore that the sugar water saved her. -I think Gwyneth would have been proud of her acting ability. As for the dried placenta, prior to my daughter being born we attended a birthing class. The midwife that taught the class was awesome and she mentioned that some people like to consume the placenta for nutritional purposes. She neither endorsed or criticized the practice, she just made mention. The next week two of the ladies in the class mentioned that they were going to eat the placenta. I think it's hilarious that people do things like this and will simultaneously eat garbage while breast-feeding. This same girl ate the Dorito's in the break room?? WTF? Might as well chase that placenta down with some Mountain Dew while you're at it.
You'll never convince me that sugary salt water isn't a good hangover cure. When I'm hanging, and not like today, but a really badass hangover, I always hit the Gatorade hard. 4 Advil and a liter of lemon lime, I swear by it. (And by the way, let's never speak of eating placenta again. I'm enjoying a muffin right now, and I almost barfed it up a second ago.)
Ha. Sorry about that muffin. There is no doubt that sugar water is an aid in curing a hangover. In fact, it can really help a lot of things. I had a friend that went in to a cafe in Amsterdam and got so stoned that when he walked outside he fainted, fell to the ground, cut open his head and turned green with blue lips. A cop walked over and said to his startled friend, "did he smoke too much"? His friend replied "um yes" (fearing detention) and the cop said "get him some sugar water". They did and he was almost immediately fine (aside from the gash in his head). The thing is, my sister-in-law would NEVER just drink sugar water. It needs to be marketed a specific way to her. ... by someone famous and glamourous. BTW, on new years day I had a fruit punch gatorade and 3 advil. -It seems we share the same apothecary.
I most definitely would have. Was just at my office's x-mas party over the holiday and had a few decent bottles. My boss had this weird smoky beaujolais. Trying to be all medium bodied and stuff. It was an odd one. What up with vinters trying to force every type of hybrid these days? IGT's I get. Some stuff just doesn't work though. Kinda like pairing a placenta with mountain dew. It's not gonna finish.
I think that many of the hybrids are market driven. Truth is most of the best bottles are still 1 estate, 1 varietal imo. But that requires the estate to be damned sure they're having a good crop because if not they are screwed. Now when you blend varietals from multiple vineyards you mitigate the risk but you also (at times) dilute the quality. I'd still love me some super-tuscans and there are some amazing blends from all over the world but there are some that are done purely for economic gain. Is that what you mean? Smoky Beaujalais? Sounds interesting. I remember when the restaurant we worked at would sell shit bottles of Beaujolais nouveau for like $50 when they bought it for $5. Man people can be suckers. Seriously, what I wouldn't give to be teaching a wine training class with you again. Those were the days. Seriously. I saw Brian Dufek over Christmas, do you remember him? His wife and mine are good friends. We talked all about being able to open really nice bottles every week and present them to the staff. That was fun, I learned a lot.
Brian Dufek? Glasses? Traded currencies or abouts? A nerd if you didn't know him? I think I trained him. Well. I trained everybody. I keep telling people that I could be the best server in Vancouver no problem. No one believes me. Canadians don't really know good service. It's partially a bummer. Sounds silly, but what I wouldn't give to be poured a beer and set down label out.
Yeah, that's him. He's done well for himself, has a cool wife (beautiful) and still resides in Ann Arbor. We talked Sassacaia. You would be one of the best servers anywhere, so long as Gareth wasn't in the same vicinity. Oooh.... Or Phil Murray. Double Ooooh....
Phil Murray was the best face man on the planet. With me at the rail we were unbeatable.
The Dream Team. But who was Pippen and who was Jordan?
I gotta be Jordan. For the sole fact that I could go upstairs with two large trays of food - one on each shoulder. NO ONE there could do that but me. And it was really expensive food too. Plus I could (and still can) spin a tray and pee at the same time.
The fad health crap is just as bad as conspiracy theories. At least in my opinion. Probably worse because if someone follows them to the letter they could potentially die from either poisoning themselves or failing to receive proper medical treatment.
At my old work doing online advertising we used to see a lot of MLMs and junk health products. Miracle Acai berry drink were really popular at the time, and we even had a guy who called in to get help for advertising his book on getting rich with online advertising, ha! I had one coworker who, despite seeing the same idiots peddling bullshit bought into the Kangen water scam.
Unfortunately no, I heard about that miracle berry on QI however and it looks interesting.
People want something to believe in, something they can identify with and call "theirs". Homeopathy fulfills this for a lot of people, just like religion, sports, comic books etc. But I would agree that the "health crap" can be pretty dangerous.