EXIT POLLS & TURNOUT DATA - The Red Shift

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75% of the time I use VRBO its as a return customer---and I contract directly with the owner-skipping alll the VRBO costs Like one half or less than a hotel room......and all the stuff Super said
 
Yeah, I've got nothing against Glenfiddich or Glenlivet, but it's nice to have something else to choose from. Luckily I didn't start drinking scotch until 10 or so years ago, lol...
 
You missed the golden years when 18 year old Macallan was 25 dollars a fifth. Bourbon was the same way for a while a little later on. You could walk in, find a dozen bottles of Blanton's on the shelf and get it for under 30.
 
finesse said:
Where I grew up there was a little country store that had the basics a mile from the house down a dirt road. I don't think there was what you would consider a grocery store within five miles. I was 16 before I saw a pizza, 18 before I saw a taco. There was one or two kinds of mustard, ketchup or mayonnaise. As late as the early 70s , there was only one single malt scotches, Glenfiddich and two kinds of rye, 80 proof Jim Beam and Wild Turkey 101. The list goes on and on. There are fruits and nut either available all year and a lot that we never even heard of.
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My father got turned on to single malt in the 60s and yep, Glenfiddich was all you could get here. So whenever he travelled to Philly, DC or wherever for work he would hunt down liquor stores and pick up something new. Overflowed the bar in the house and built a custom shelf thing for them. Thus, by the time I was 15 I had developed a pretty good palate as I was allowed a small glass with a few good sips here and there. Then, in my poorer days he would give me a half full bottle every now and then to enjoy for special occasions.

Learned during the hard drinking days, especially in bars, you do 2 or 3 single malts, then the blended stuff as you probably are wasting $ by then on the good stuff.
 
CFordUNC said:
Whomst among us hasn’t voted for a guy whose campaign promise was to “let Bibi do whatever the hell he wants” as it pertains to Gaza/Palestinians, and whose first act as president – elect is to appoint an ambassador to Israel who says that Palestine isn’t a real thing!? Shocker! The guy who told you his goal it to build a Trump Tower on the Gaza Strip maaaaaaay not have had the best interests of the Arabs in mind!
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Upvote for "whomst"...
 
finesse said:
I'm floored that they thought the alternative was better. FAFO
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They voted to rehire Matt Doherty because they found Hubert's tenure to date to be unsatisfactory, only with much more dire, real world consequences. FAFO indeed.
 
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Where Trump Gained and Harris Lost in New York

In every neighborhood in New York City, from Red Hook in Brooklyn to Riverdale in the Bronx, Vice President Kamala Harris received markedly fewer votes than Joseph R. Biden, Jr., did in 2020, while in most neighborhoods, Donald J. Trump notched modest increases.
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Trump Gained 95,000 Votes in New York City. Democrats Lost Half a Million.​

 
finesse said:
Truly. It was the mid 80s before there was much selection. I think Glenlivet was the second one they carried and it was the two until 80 or so.
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I'm a value shopper with Scotch and for the money, I still drink more Black Label JW than anything. Or course, I'm a fan of blended.
 
Batt Boy said:
I'm a value shopper with Scotch and for the money, I still drink more Black Label JW than anything. Or course, I'm a fan of blended.
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I used to drink quite a bit of Famous Grouse so I'm not averse to blended. It just got to the point where the price points on excellent bourbon were better than on good blended scotch and I made the switch. I'll drink almost any decent whiskey although ,for some reason, I pay a much heavier price for drinking Irish the next day.
 
Famous Grouse and JW Black are both fine choices (fine as in good, not fine as in OK in a pinch - speaking of pinch, Dimple Pinch is a nice blended scotch too) but I drink so little scotch that when I do drink it, I'm almost always drinking an Islay single malt. Just love the flavor. I can't drink bourbon at all. I mean, I can, but I don't. I'm sure there are some out there that might change my mind, but in my experience I just can't tell much if any difference b/w bourbons. The flavor profile of all of them, to me, can be summed up as "hot." I guess there's a reason they call it fire water. But you can line up a dozen different scotches and each one will have a pretty unique flavor profile. I enjoy the variety...
 
Islay single malts are definitely my favorite scotch although I'll not turn up my nose at MaCallan, Glen Morangie, Dalwhinnie and a number of others. Hell, my favorite single malt for the money is Highland Park.
 
finesse said:
I used to drink quite a bit of Famous Grouse so I'm not averse to blended. It just got to the point where the price points on excellent bourbon were better than on good blended scotch and I made the switch. I'll drink almost any decent whiskey although ,for some reason, I pay a much heavier price for drinking Irish the next day.
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mirrors my journey with this fine drug.
 
finesse said:
Islay single malts are definitely my favorite scotch although I'll not turn up my nose at MaCallan, Glen Morangie, Dalwhinnie and a number of others. Hell, my favorite single malt for the money is Highland Park.
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What are your thought on Oban's? Was in Oban last spring to catch a ferry and I tried an 18 year old just before hoping on, and it was an outstanding single malt. Horrible whether that morning and it was just perfect right after lunch.
 
Batt Boy said:
What are your thought on Oban's? Was in Oban last spring to catch a ferry and I tried an 18 year old just before hoping on, and it was an outstanding single malt. Horrible whether that morning and it was just perfect right after lunch.
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I've had it a time or two and thought it was good but nothing made me want to buy it ahead of a dozen others.
 
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