The hot takes and unpopular opinions
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@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cheap wine is overpriced?
I wouldn't know. I defer to you extensive knowledge of cheap wine.
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@MiketheSnow said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Of all the seafood, I reckon prawns are the most overrated for flavour. Just dull unless you send them to Mr Wong's and get him to put his special salt and pepper batter on them. Balmain bugs in the other hand rock.
Crab is also a complete waste of time. You can spend an hour dissecting one of those things, and you'll consume about 50gms of meat for your $100.
On veggies, what's with the resurrection of brussel sprouts? They were shit when I was a kid, and they're still shit now. They're basically Kale rolled into little balls.
Hokkaido
Crab = amazing
Wagyu lamb = amazingerI never bought them, but I still have vivid recollections 15yrs later of the sheer size of the crab legs they were selling frozen in the shops there. Fucking giant sea monsters!!!
Reckon they would still have tasted bland though...
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@Kruse said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@voodoo said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Bones said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Food related.
South Africans do the best BBQs. Problem is they know it and go on about it.
Steak is HEAPS better than Lamb.
Crayfish is overrated and WAY overpriced.
Whitebait is too.
A really good Indian curry is, if anything, underpriced.
Thai curry is too.
Nah south Americans/Portuguese do the best bbq. At least they have good sausage other than
boereworsthat curly one that looks like old dog poo.You've never had good lamb
Crayfish is shithouse.
Thats Argentina. A mate of a mate who we had never met before hosted 5 of us for a feed at his house.
Spectacular.Uruguay shits all over Argentina - BBQ/steak-wise, at least.
Lady-talent... Argentina.I think there comes a point where we don't need to fight over the bestest bbq-dudes anymore. I was pretty damn happy with my life that day!
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@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
Decades?
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@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Haha this thread is the GOM one by another name.
Oh good. I'll join in then...
Cornwall is overrated as a holiday venue
German cars are mainly identikit and boring to drive. Crap reliability too.
Modern driver "safety aids" are the opposite and distract the driver
Aaron Smith has a quiet voice
The BBC is an over-rated, under-performing broadcaster. A bit shit in fact.
Bruce Springsteen is hugely over-rated
Prosecco is over-priced, carbonated cheap wine.
Expensive French wine - esp. Bordeaux - is poor value for money
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
YES. The fact his concerts apparently go on for about three hours is a horrific thought ( once he’s gotten through the bangers that is, of which he has a few I’ll admit )
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@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
Decades?
Probably. Bought a bottle or three to take for Christmas Day about 8 yrs ago. Disappointing wasn't the word.
Is it just me but is NZ wine in general falling off a fair bit these days? Chilean Pinot Noir has now surpassed NZ IMHO and the Hawkes Bay Cabernet/Merlot I bought a few years back is rough and watery. Real dissappointing.
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D Duluth forked this topic on
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@Victor-Meldrew no idea, I drink so little wine that I wouldnt know if it is supposed to be good or not, if I like, I like.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
Decades?
Probably. Bought a bottle or three to take for Christmas Day about 8 yrs ago. Disappointing wasn't the word.
Is it just me but is NZ wine in general falling off a fair bit these days? Chilean Pinot Noir has now surpassed NZ IMHO and the Hawkes Bay Cabernet/Merlot I bought a few years back is rough and watery. Real dissappointing.
Maybe you chose poorly. Some regions are better than others. Get some Waipara Pinot Noir or Marlborough Savvie into you!
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@canefan said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
Decades?
Probably. Bought a bottle or three to take for Christmas Day about 8 yrs ago. Disappointing wasn't the word.
Is it just me but is NZ wine in general falling off a fair bit these days? Chilean Pinot Noir has now surpassed NZ IMHO and the Hawkes Bay Cabernet/Merlot I bought a few years back is rough and watery. Real dissappointing.
Maybe you chose poorly. Some regions are better than others. Get some Waipara Pinot Noir or Marlborough Savvie into you!
Don't drink much white these days but like a cold Marlborough SB over a Sancerre - but neither beats a good Macon Village or Chablis for me.
I've had a few good Otago Pinot Noir's - Roaring Meg is good - but I think the winemakers in Chile are now better. There's some stuff coming out of Casablanca Valley which is awesome
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@Victor-Meldrew Marlborough and Otago have both had some difficult vintages over the last few years. Most being average at best. Hopefully any quality drop is a blip rather than a trend.
Other than that I can't comment. I worked out a while ago I have to start drinking my cellar if I'm to finish it all before I die.
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@dogmeat said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew Marlborough and Otago have both had some difficult vintages over the last few years. Most being average at best. Hopefully any quality drop is a blip rather than a trend.
I hope so. I've had enough of the natives here asking how the AB's are doing without the bloody wine going in the same direction....
Other than that I can't comment. I worked out a while ago I have to start drinking my cellar if I'm to finish it all before I die.
Jeez, how many bottles do you have and when's your next open-house? I have about 200 or so and have stopped buying for a year or two as many won't be drinking until then. (I have a few 2006 Cru Bourgeois which are still too tannic for my palate)
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@dogmeat said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew Marlborough and Otago have both had some difficult vintages over the last few years. Most being average at best. Hopefully any quality drop is a blip rather than a trend.
Other than that I can't comment. I worked out a while ago I have to start drinking my cellar if I'm to finish it all before I die.
Yes. I daren’t buy green bananas anymore.
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@Victor-Meldrew It peaked at just over 2,000
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@Catogrande said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Paekakboyz said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Dredd was fucking good. Criminal that Urban hasn't been signed for a sequel, and a more brutal R18 one at that. So much great material and a grim and brutal world to explore. What's not to love!
Agree re Dredd, much much better than the Stallone shitfest, though my one gripe was over use of the slo-mo to signify the drug usage. Seemed like padding after a while.
As an aside and nothing whatsoever to do with the thread, Ms Cato No1 has had several stories published in 2000AD, the mag that brought Dredd to the world. Proud Dad moment.
just catching up, agree Dredd was awesome....should have been picked up by some streaming service by now for a series....a much better movie than stallones one...BUT (and this might be the hot take)...i think the stalone one is probably closer to the actual comics...or at least an R18 version of it would have been...there is some mad camp crazy shit in those comics...Dredd is almost too "real"
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Haha this thread is the GOM one by another name.
Oh good. I'll join in then...
Cornwall is overrated as a holiday venue
German cars are mainly identikit and boring to drive. Crap reliability too.
Modern driver "safety aids" are the opposite and distract the driver
Aaron Smith has a quiet voice
The BBC is an over-rated, under-performing broadcaster. A bit shit in fact.
Bruce Springsteen is hugely over-rated
Prosecco is over-priced, carbonated cheap wine.
Expensive French wine - esp. Bordeaux - is poor value for money
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
YES. The fact his concerts apparently go on for about three hours is a horrific thought ( once he’s gotten through the bangers that is, of which he has a few I’ll admit )
Fuck yes.
My ex was a MASSIVE Springsteen fan. I mean... had been to many concerts - double-digits... usually queueing up at the venue for days beforehand to get in the front section. Had once been on stage.
She dragged me along to 2 while I was with her... 1 where we had to do the 2 days of queueing to get "up front" (not physically there the whole 2 days, but they set up a "regular check-ins" to keep your place in the queue. It was interesting to watch, but annoying to be a part of.) And it was in fucking Coventry. Not much else to do while waiting around between "check-ins".And 1 in Milan - WITHOUT the ridiculous queueing.
But the content of both concerts - exactly the same. And 3 hours is optimistic...3-4 hours of music I can objectively admit is reasonable, but nothing I'd normally pay for. Sure - the actual playlist might differ, but.... Him putting on a fucking "I'm so earnest" persona while talking to the crowd. Certain "rituals" performed... introducing the band using some ridiculous long-winded description, finding a kid in the crowd to dedicate a certain song to, getting a girl from the crowd up on stage for some other certain song, etc, etc.
I can see why his fans love him, but as a non-fan... it just seemed fake, and cringey. -
@Kruse said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Haha this thread is the GOM one by another name.
Oh good. I'll join in then...
Cornwall is overrated as a holiday venue
German cars are mainly identikit and boring to drive. Crap reliability too.
Modern driver "safety aids" are the opposite and distract the driver
Aaron Smith has a quiet voice
The BBC is an over-rated, under-performing broadcaster. A bit shit in fact.
Bruce Springsteen is hugely over-rated
Prosecco is over-priced, carbonated cheap wine.
Expensive French wine - esp. Bordeaux - is poor value for money
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
YES. The fact his concerts apparently go on for about three hours is a horrific thought ( once he’s gotten through the bangers that is, of which he has a few I’ll admit )
Fuck yes.
My ex was a MASSIVE Springsteen fan. I mean... had been to many concerts - double-digits... usually queueing up at the venue for days beforehand to get in the front section. Had once been on stage.
She dragged me along to 2 while I was with her... 1 where we had to do the 2 days of queueing to get "up front" (not physically there the whole 2 days, but they set up a "regular check-ins" to keep your place in the queue. It was interesting to watch, but annoying to be a part of.) And it was in fucking Coventry. Not much else to do while waiting around between "check-ins".And 1 in Milan - WITHOUT the ridiculous queueing.
But the content of both concerts - exactly the same. And 3 hours is optimistic...3-4 hours of music I can objectively admit is reasonable, but nothing I'd normally pay for. Sure - the actual playlist might differ, but.... Him putting on a fucking "I'm so earnest" persona while talking to the crowd. Certain "rituals" performed... introducing the band using some ridiculous long-winded description, finding a kid in the crowd to dedicate a certain song to, getting a girl from the crowd up on stage for some other certain song, etc, etc.
I can see why his fans love him, but as a non-fan... it just seemed fake, and cringey.That’s why I’m not the biggest Dave Grohl fan…..his band have done some absolute bangers though, just not as many as the obsessed foo heads would have you believe.
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@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Kruse said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@MN5 said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@Victor-Meldrew said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
@taniwharugby said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Haha this thread is the GOM one by another name.
Oh good. I'll join in then...
Cornwall is overrated as a holiday venue
German cars are mainly identikit and boring to drive. Crap reliability too.
Modern driver "safety aids" are the opposite and distract the driver
Aaron Smith has a quiet voice
The BBC is an over-rated, under-performing broadcaster. A bit shit in fact.
Bruce Springsteen is hugely over-rated
Prosecco is over-priced, carbonated cheap wine.
Expensive French wine - esp. Bordeaux - is poor value for money
Cloudy Bay Sauvignon Blanc has been trading on it's reputation for years
YES. The fact his concerts apparently go on for about three hours is a horrific thought ( once he’s gotten through the bangers that is, of which he has a few I’ll admit )
I can see why his fans love him, but as a non-fan... it just seemed fake, and cringey.
That’s why I’m not the biggest Dave Grohl fan…..his band have done some absolute bangers though, just not as many as the obsessed foo heads would have you believe.
Yep... Stacked Actors always gives me a thrill.
Their other "hits" - I don't dislike, but... wouldn't bother buying an album. They're filler for a radio station like "The Rock".
Having said that - I've just thrown a 2-hour "Foo Fighters live" gig on the tele/stereo, and will give him/them a chance to change my mind.
Not sure I'm going to make it all the way through. -
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@Tim said in The hot takes and unpopular opinions:
Good pubs are few and far between in NZ. Very expensive, bad food, mediocre beer, and surly or indifferent service. No atmosphere.
Overall this is the worst take I’ve seen on here.
You’re correct in a few isolated cases but overall ?
Hell no.
