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[–] grandepequeno@hexbear.net 45 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I do not get people who like wine THIS much. Like, are you even going to drink all of it before you die? When I buy alcohol I intend to drink it sooner or later, by myself or with friends, and then buy more alcohol.

Will you even TASTE all of that before you die, and if it's just to taste them all, why have bottles so big? They should just make smaller wines for snob collectors

[–] ProfessorOwl_PhD@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

I'm gonna be real, I know couples in their 60s and 70s who could easily drink all that before they die. I doubt the Obama's will, it's just a status symbol for them, but for the retired professors I know that wall would be 3 or 4 dinner parties.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago

Easy to go through that when you regularly host 20-vampire dinner parties.

[–] TraschcanOfIdeology@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I'm into wine, and while I keep some bottles that need to age for longer before they're good, some I got as a gift and I'm waiting for a special occasion and the right people to open them and drink them with, and some I intend to gift later, I don't understand people who have hundreds and hundreds of bottles either.

At some point it becomes about performing class and showing off. Unless you're a full time somm at a restaurant I'm sure you're not going to remember every label and vintage in that cellar, and know what they're good for, or taste like.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

They probably use it as an asset to borrow against like true neoliberal patriots.

[–] SacredExcrement@hexbear.net 43 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

He only has a net worth of 70 million, practically a man of the people

[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Isn’t it super rad how people are just fine and dandy with billionaires so 70 million is just peanuts now

[–] 9to5@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

Waiting for my dad to give me small loan of 70million dollars so I can join the Obamas at brunch

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

mfw ocrumbo is closer to me than he is to a billionaire

[–] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 32 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

The lighting on that photo is not kind to Michelle. She's a wife to neoliberal vampire so she's evil too, but you didn't have to do her like that BO.

[–] ClathrateG@hexbear.net 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Also the fact they're both seated with no food, means there just microwaving something like us normals! definitely no private chefs here no sirree

[–] sourquincelog@hexbear.net 12 points 3 weeks ago

There was some... Unpleasantness... with their last private chef

[–] plinky@hexbear.net 25 points 3 weeks ago

trump is like character from ulysses

[–] kleeon@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

that's way too much alcohol dude

[–] halykthered@lemmy.ml 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 14 points 3 weeks ago

if only there were a drone above

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

a life of public service