Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by 350RRC

'Terroir' is one thing but 'vintage' is another.

Some of the famous French champagne houses used to sell 'non-vintage' bottles of the stuff at a fraction of the price of bottles with a year on the label. Dunno if they still do.

This meant they could blend across years to get the taste they were looking for.

Enjoyed many of them

Dunno if it's still made but Great Western 'champagne' as it was called was huge in Oz.

Made with the traditional 'method champagnoise' amazingly. which involved disgorging and recorking over a period of time, etc.

I met the Scottish woman whose job at Seppelts, in Great Western, was to co-ordinate transport and storage of special crates of all the bottles during the maturation period.This was around the time it could no longer be called 'champagne'.

The volume was so vast that some of it was warehoused as far away as Brisbane before coming back to Great Western for the final cork and labelling.

Used to be about $6 a bottle back in the day.

cheers, DL

My wife still has this from our wedding. I don't think it would have aged too well. Is marriage a common denominator here?
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Originally Posted by Saitch

My wife still has this from our wedding. I don't think it would have aged too well. Is marriage a common denominator here?
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I've still got my ex-wife's fridge and I open it all the time.

Originally Posted by Saitch

My wife still has this from our wedding. I don't think it would have aged too well. Is marriage a common denominator here?
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Is that a marble stopper?

Originally Posted by 350RRC

I've still got my ex-wife's fridge and I open it all the time.

The definition of "Cold Comfort "?

Originally Posted by Saitch

The definition of "Cold Comfort "?

You asked the question.

Answer from me is .............1979 ordering at the bar of the Torquay Hotel on a Saturday night 'A jug of Southern and orange juice please'. Plenty of ice in those.

cheers, DL

Deep sea I thought. Its really "DeepSeek, a Chinese AI startup"

Missed at depth by me

The chess move may be on a mag seven NYSE stock which may be overpriced if less computing power is needed for AI

NOT Investment or disinvestment advice


deep sea AI china

Originally Posted by 350RRC

Are those trails of bright things going across the night sky actually just crystals?

Have the trails of (maybe) crystals in the night sky actually been a signal that has inspired vilification of a group of people, or has it simply ignited a confected outrage in the right wing press?

Being called common is not nice.

This ABC science type check on how many people use my pin was interesting Psst I am not in the top ten now! I was years ago.


Almost one in 10 people use the same four-digit PIN - ABC News