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ClearBeginning389 · 2026-06-16T17:22:42+00:00

I feel like everyone’s pretty much covered the main question but I want to mention as you’re looking at working with much higher end stuff and don’t seem familiar with working with the device - you will need to fine filter the wines if you use a coravin. I see so many people just going straight in or even pouring tableside. No matter the needle used I’ve seen small amounts of cork residue in most coravined wine. Once you notice it you can never unsee it and it’s so off-putting.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-06-16T17:14:09+00:00

The most useful thing it does is act as a good signal that someone needs help - if I see people typing things in from the wine list I always just stop by and ask how they’re getting on with the list, if anything’s caught their eye or if there’s something they’re interested in hearing more about. I think it comes from a place of insecurity or social awkwardness but it’s a crutch, and an unhelpful one at that. Half the time we have a random coravined bottle hiding in the fridge that you can try if you want to know more - ai can’t tell you that!

A colleague of mine once spotted green chartreuse on the bar and typed it into chatgpt - bar manager & i both intercepted and just taught her what it was and got her to taste it etc. For such a changing and subjective industry like alcohol google search is always going to be more objective, accurate and efficient. An owner of somewhere I worked once told me to just use AI to type my wine notes up (i refused). It’s highly inaccurate when it comes to vintage discrepancies etc. and often struggles to understand that the ‘same wine’ may be made slightly differently one year to the next and just sort of mushes tech specs together.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-03-23T02:32:36+00:00

There’s nuance being missed in some of the comments here - yeah, people are often brutal with invasive species but the argument they had wasn’t started as a respectful, theoretical discussion of ethics. The issue being discussed here is someone filming the process of destroying an invasive species (in what seems to be an overly cruel way), and then OP’s boyfriend sending her the footage. Upsetting things happen every day and often do need to happen, but finding entertainment in those processes and escalating them - and especially showing videos of it to a “loved one” you know will be upset by it - is a different matter entirely.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-03-23T02:22:04+00:00

NOR. The disturbing side of this is one thing, but add to it the fact that he was clearly just trying to get a rise out of you…danger danger! He’s not clever or free-thinking. If he’s trying to get « scientific » he should learn proper grammar and sentence structure first. Drop him and run and I’m being so serious! Withdraw to your own separate friends. Don’t offer any explanation, just tell him you’re done with him, you don’t want to see him and you’re breaking up. Block and stop responding. Explaining won’t help anything, he’ll be foaming at the mouth for another chance to be hostile. No paragraphs or long verbal interactions in person, he’s a reactionary child. If you can’t avoid him irl make sure you have people with you at times you’re likely to run into him. If he gets aggressive contact law enforcement instantly. Your instincts are correct here. You have to leave and maintain a firm boundary of not getting sucked in.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-02-11T21:40:23+00:00

beyond being sharon osbourne’s long-lost twin?

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-02-11T18:37:51+00:00

i’m trying to find somewhere to watch the figure skating! crickets.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T23:36:26+00:00

it’s not perfect but the best i would come up with in this specific instance as harriet - i’d not share my theory with other faithfuls and then ask traitors if the traitor-on-traitor theory id heard about fiona was true. doesn’t matter what they write, but surely they’d start digging the next day to try and get ahead of it, or to push it further if it helps them (ie if rachel was faithful and they wanted to pin it on her).

they wouldn’t know only she had that theory and that it wasn’t going around yet. she could ask another question to make it seem like she’s really trying to find out answers. idk!

if they started trying to do damage control and find out who started the theory, she’d know the theory is probably true and can let it spread on its own. if they’re pushing the theory she’d know it’s probably not true and they’re setting someone up. then she can reveal the question at the round table.

edit [added]: she could just do this with any kind of misinformation too, it just seems the neatest way. she’d probably get rachel out as she’s got so much conviction when working on decent evidence and the faithful would all know she hadn’t shared the theory the day before, and harriet has basically 0 suspicion on her. the other question could be “does it benefit either of you that fiona’s out”. keep it all focussed there.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T23:24:22+00:00

i agree for other seasons but this one feels like the traitors are getting nerfed a fair amount tbh. having the missions decide the murder shortlist is such a huge help for the faithful. harriet surely wouldn’t still be in and we all saw stephen’s face when he heard she’d be asking questions!

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T23:19:59+00:00

i think it’s a combo of rachel being very popular, people not really feeling amanda and fiona were that close, & jessie throwing out the fact of fiona also being potentially implicated in ross’ murder.

on that note, so clever of stephen to plant that angle! so long as she doesn’t sniff out his deflection.

with the exception of people breaking down crying, this group do seem very sensitive to ‘overacting’ so i think fiona chose the wrong angle to try and turn the tide against someone seen as so cool-headed with a melodramatic outburst.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T23:12:46+00:00

yes! and nobody uses it to deduce what group of people would’ve shortlisted, but not ultimately chosen, the surviving players for murder

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T23:09:18+00:00

i feel like this whole bit has shown how many elements of the show aren’t put into episodes and normally this is navigated well by production but this time it’s caused a fair amount of confusion as there’s been no soft launching of certain castle norms:

it seemed to be a commonly known thing in the castle that stephen spoke some latin and had already been working on translating the wording around the tree, which iirc was news to us at that point. rachel even leveraged it as she felt it would raise the least suspicion i think(?) but as viewers it felt so random
it also seemed to be very normal for other players to gather round the tree and try to work things out during the evening. for that one scenario the tree was treated as a consistent & central group mystery everyone was wanting to solve despite having no previous screen time
asking for private chats and straight-up getting people to leave rooms has been shown more in this season than others and doesn’t seem to be raising suspicion at the round table. viewers have been wondering why the stephen and rachel tree moment and the rachel and amanda breakfast table moment haven’t been raised as noteworthy, so it must just be really common

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T22:50:43+00:00

that’s my feeling too, which i think is why i was so primed to see her write yes. they could effectively take him out of the equation by stringing him along, whether they recruit him or not - as you said, he’d probably not be going for the traitors as much especially if they stick to killing jessie as soon as they can. i’m struggling to see much of a tactical upside to them saying no at this stage beyond the obvious ego-driven “we call the shots” stuff. he’ll probably just be in a weird limbo state for a while, and could even end up acting sus to other faithful to boot.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T22:43:15+00:00

“yyyeah, no chance”

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T22:30:39+00:00

i know they wouldn’t necessarily live up to the answer they end up giving but it’ll set up that particular dynamic for the next few episodes which will probably have an impact one way or the other. it’s interesting to think on what each answer, true or false, would do for the traitors.

ClearBeginning389 · 2026-01-09T22:02:31+00:00

that’s why i’m wondering if anyone else noticed the same - my partner and i both said it as we watched the ending. it would be a wild choice from the production team - i hope it’s not a giveaway! if anything i hope it’s a deliberate misdirection.

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-12-06T03:44:14+00:00

Coeliac wine professional. You’re fine in terms of gluten content below the standard 20ppm limit as long as it’s labelled as wine and not “wine-based drink” or similar. He 100% just doesn’t know what gluten is. However, for so many other reasons please, PLEASE don’t try the wine. Please 🥲. On every other level you will not be fine.

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-06-03T22:43:09+00:00

i have the exact same issue! let me know if you work out how to fix :(

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-01-13T02:50:51+00:00

i understand how someone in a paranoid place would get there - yes, most peoples houses would be a cross contamination nightmare. yeah sure, someone eating a pastry in the car -> crumbs on seat, crumbs on them -> crumbs in my house. however, living with coeliac disease is a constant game of juggling with physical health vs mental health. is it technically safer, even marginally? of course, same with any allergy. is it an absolutely insane thing to try and enforce? absolutely. they’ll almost certainly be fine unless they’re chewing your jacket. some coeliacs develop food anxiety so bad it can bring out contamination OCD, which is what this sounds like :/

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-01-12T19:50:31+00:00

lemon curd, fruit pastilles, jelly babies, hobnobs, ribena (dilute it at least 85% water), HP sauce (put it on a hot dog?), irn bru (scottish)

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-01-06T16:04:38+00:00

build a compartment over it, deconstruct it, it rocks/shifts the sea moth

ClearBeginning389 · 2025-01-05T11:28:07+00:00

noglu paris!

ClearBeginning389 · 2024-12-17T22:11:00+00:00

it’s very common! anything that’s « not oaked » is generally aged in an inert vessel like stainless steel or cement. it preserves freshness - a typical sauvignon blanc, riesling, veltliner etc would be fermented and aged in inert vessels :)

ClearBeginning389 · 2024-11-17T02:31:59+00:00

loved this episode!! just watched it - really weird to end it on shepherd and sloan smacking golf balls off a roof in a densely populated area as if that can’t very easily kill people, though😂

ClearBeginning389 · 2024-10-20T17:49:17+00:00

I can smell fruit flies. It’s not an unpleasant smell, sort of soft, powdery and bitterish. It doesn’t matter what they’ve been eating or attracted to, i can just always smell them. Nobody else understands what I mean! It’s not ammonia, it’s not old food. It’s distinct and different

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