For The Love Of Port

Port Wine or water

In a number of carefully controlled trials, scientists have demonstrated that if we drink 1 litre of water each day, at the end of
the year we would have absorbed more than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli (or E. coli) which is the bacteria found in faeces. In other words, we are consuming 1 kilo of excrement.
However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine, Port or rum, whiskey, beer or other liquor because alcohol has to go through a purification process of boiling, filtering and/or fermenting.
So Remember:
Water = Poop
Port Wine = Health

Therefore, it's better to drink Port wine and talk stupid, than to drink water and be full of shit!

There's no need to thank me for this valuable information; I'm doing it as a public service.

Very nice!!! When put into context it appears the choice is simple!

Now if only I can convince my wife that bottled waterhas the same problems :?

Todd

I believe that this same logic was what meant that in medieval times in Englad, the wealthy drank wine or beer and the poor drank water. The wine and beer were purified either through the effect of alcohol or the effect of the production process.

The water wasn't.

Alex

Alex,

That's where the idea of 'small beer' came from - children were given it. I think that properly brewed small beer should be available in pubs as an alternative to rubbish low alcohol lagers. You can properly brew beer to 1% alcohol, which would mean that you could drink about five pints and stay within the legal driving limit (UK). I note that Carling have brought out some acidic slop in the same vein - take note CAMRA.

Alex

Alan ,
there's another variable to your algebraic equation .
Port wine = health and water= poop
Man does not poop=health problems
So it can clearly be stated that the word health , has a cause and effect relationship with Port & Poop
I cannot believe I'm using the words Port & Poop in the same sentence : :help:

Water is for sissies, bring on the Port

Andy V. wrote:Water is for sissies, bring on the Port

I agree - at my next Ironman Triathlon, when the volunteer hands me a cup of water on the run I will throw it back in their face and demand a '77 Fonseca.
(Or an LBV at the very least!)

Todd

Todd,

I race bicycles also (Category 2) and have done many rides with guys on my team where we stop and grab a beer during a long ride...makes the tail end of the ride SO much better 8)

Andy - if you are up in the mountains in CA there, it would also take a bit of the edge off the fear of descending (if you have that - I do and would appreciate a good beer before descending Richter's Pass at Ironman Canada - a 7.5% grade 12 km climb (what's that? 7.5 miles-ish?) and the subsequent drop off the back side!

Todd

Todd,

I don't live in the Mtns., but being southern california I am only a short ride away from them and train in the regularly. Although I have no fear of decending, as I get older I have noticed I'm not as big of a risk taker like in my younger riding days. I guess its that thing that this is a hobby and I gotta real full-time job to go to in the morning comes into play.

Thats a heck of a climb...the worst one I ever did was a 2.2 mile time trial stage that AVERAGED 22%. I've never seen riders in a race get off their bikes and run up the hill faster than they were pedaling. It was an old road, and according to the locals had been closed to vehicle traffic for decades due to its steepness.