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1) Hold bottle with one hand
2) Put towel over cork
3) Grip cork and towel with other hand
4) This is the important part... twist the bottle, not the cork
Most champagne is overrated. Mostly because almost everyone thinks that brut is the only kind, and the more puckerworthy-brutal it is, the "better." Two words: Nectar Imperial. Bubbly that tastes like it came from grapes instead of your car's battery. Happy, blissful grapes. It's remarkable.
However, ANY sparkling wine needs to be handled with care when opening, lest one find oneself hosed from top to bottom with what was supposed to be a celebratory libation.
Most champagne is overrated. Mostly because almost everyone thinks that brut is the only kind, and the more puckerworthy-brutal it is, the "better." Two words: Nectar Imperial. Bubbly that tastes like it came from grapes instead of your car's battery. Happy, blissful grapes. It's remarkable.
However, ANY sparkling wine needs to be handled with care when opening, lest one find oneself hosed from top to bottom with what was supposed to be a celebratory libation.
Yup.
If you can get your hands on good champagne, it is really, really good. But price/performance usually isn't great, so I would usually grab something else. I like Crémant, for example. It is produced using the exact same method, but from a different region. So you can get decent Crément for much less than what champagne of comparable quality would cost.
I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
Yup.
If you can get your hands on good champagne, it is really, really good. But price/performance usually isn't great, so I would usually grab something else. I like Crémant, for example. It is produced using the exact same method, but from a different region. So you can get decent Crément for much less than what champagne of comparable quality would cost.
I more or less do this with wine. In general, the best wine is French, but the best PPR (for an American) is California.
Moet & Chandon Nectar Imperial runs about $50 for a 750ml bottle. Moet waxes rhapsodical about this stuff, with what notes and structure it has and so on. Realistically, it's not the sweetest champagne around; it's a demi-sec, which puts it a couple steps below the sweetest (sec, then doux).
But here's the really important part: it's not so sweet that all you taste is sweet, but it's still sweet enough that you can taste something! It is fruity and complex, and the bubbles make for an interesting feel as you experience the flavors.
I’m pretty sure she blacks out again right at the end.
I think if it’s thrills you’re looking for, you could do worse than gaining consciousness while flying through the air. That definitely gets a bigger reaction from her.
This isn’t a woops, but I’m putting it here anyway.
Originally Posted by Thorzdad
Wow. Looked like the one on the right blacked-out for a second. Fun!
Sadly, I’ve had one too many back surgeries to do rides like that anymore.
Originally Posted by subego
I’m pretty sure she blacks out again right at the end.
I think if it’s thrills you’re looking for, you could do worse than gaining consciousness while flying through the air. That definitely gets a bigger reaction from her.
Ride like this would make me hurl.
This playlist has over sixty videos! I wonder how often there’s a need to do a wipe down like the “tilt a hurl”
Sadly, I’ve been told the common scenario is an operator who not only lacks the authority to demand a bigger crane, but also (perhaps correctly) thinks they’d get fired for demanding it.
That's a CH46 Sea Knight, the "little brother" of the CH47 Chinook. A solid, dependable and hard working cargo helicopter, primarily used by US Navy and Marines.
Sea Knights are supposed to fly, not sink. They're also supposed to be able to just plain land on water and float. And dang that thing sank fast!
That video apparently comes from a 1987 sea replenishment mission. The helicopter just couldn't power out of the water. Probably it took on too much water while sitting there, and the engines couldn't overcome the load. Apparently everybody got out, at least according to the YouTube text. Video HERE with typical sailor profanity in the audio.
Location: Iowa, how long can this be? Does it really ruin the left column spacing?
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May 14, 2019, 08:25 AM
Originally Posted by subego
Mustang
People give Mustangs shit all the time for losing control and crashing into crowds, enough to the point that it's a played-out trope and irritating when it's brought up every single time somebody mentions Mustangs. But I've done it - a friend and I swapped rides while racing once. My car is very forgiving - when the rear end comes out around a corner like the above picture, the car basically wants to correct itself and fall back inline. Steady throttle, let it steer for you, you end up with a beautiful drift.
In my friend's car (2015 Mustang GT), I got too aggressive through a corner and the rear came around, I held it steady as the car slid sideways, then all of a sudden it caught grip and snapped back the other way, throwing me into a spin and pointing me straight at the car coming from the other direction (we were on an airstrip that had cars going out and coming back at the same time). I got moving and got out of the way but it made me appreciate how nice my car is to drive and helped me understand the proliferation of these videos.
People give Mustangs shit all the time for losing control and crashing into crowds, enough to the point that it's a played-out trope and irritating when it's brought up every single time somebody mentions Mustangs.
Unless it’s a discussion of one of the gimped models, the only shit I’ve seen people give Mustangs is for being affordable enough to attract idiots.