Mid-Week Chat Tonight!

How's your week going? Ready for some fun and frivolity? Want to hang out with witty folk who share your interest in wine and food?

Then join us for the regular WLDG Mid-Week Chat and De-stressing Session!

It all gets underway at 9:30 p.m. Eastern, 8:30 p.m. Central, 7:30 p.m. Mountain, 6:30 p.m. Pacific, 0230 Thursday GMT, some truly horrible hour in the middle of the night in Western Europe, 1:30 p.m. Thursday in Sydney and environs, and 3:30 p.m. Thursday in New Zealand.

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Please join us! Fun is Good.

[James Roscoe]

"How the Grinch Stole Christmas" runs on ABC at 8:30 EST. I should be able to make it by 9:30 if I get the trash out. The recycling is piled up though. We have had no recycling pick-up for two weeks!

Hope you can make it, James. We need to have a proper send-off for John!

Hope you can make it, James. We need to have a proper send-off for John!

Does John leave for NZ soon??????

I'll be there!

James - get your chores done, young man!!!!!

John leaves this coming Saturday. It's his last chat until mid January!

John leaves this coming Saturday. It's his last chat until mid January!

My goodness!!!! I'll get the party favorites!!!!!!

John leaves this coming Saturday. It's his last chat until mid January!

Um, um um ... there is Internet access in NZ and John might just happen to be online at Chat time on a Monday 10am or Thursday 3.30pm in the local time.

BTW - when the the Wednesday night chat time change to 9.30pm?

John leaves this coming Saturday. It's his last chat until mid January!

Um, um um ... there is Internet access in NZ and John might just happen to be online at Chat time on a Monday 10am or Thursday 3.30pm in the local time.

BTW - when the the Wednesday night chat time change to 9.30pm?

It has always been 9:30 EST since I have been lurking around this dusty website, Sue!

Diving in,
however might need to multi-task - too much stuff to do before departing.

[Robin Garr]

Chat's on! C'mon in!

Well, first time I ever participated in that forum. Despite the software problems I was having (entirely on my side, I'm sure), it was entertaining, if at times bewildering.

It was fun to talk to y'all in real time for a while.

-Paul W.

Paul scratched his head............bewildered! Nah, you must have been in the wrong place!

Well, first time I ever participated in that forum. Despite the software problems I was having (entirely on my side, I'm sure), it was entertaining, if at times bewildering.

It was fun to talk to y'all in real time for a while.

It was fun to chat with you, too, Paul. Whodathunkit? Wine talk in the chat room!

Mark Lipton

Whodathunkit? Wine talk in the chat room!
Mark Lipton

Aberrations abound, Mark.
Wm

It was fun to chat with you, too, Paul. Whodathunkit? Wine talk in the chat room!

Mark Lipton

Sorry, never having been before, I didn't realize that wine talk was a taboo subject in the WLDG chat room. I'll try to have better manners next time.

-Paul W.

[James Roscoe]

Wine-talk is NOT taboo. We are just often an eccentric bunch, talking about whatever interests us. Quite frankly, we talk about wine frequently, just not as frequently as you might expect for a wine chat. We may be crazy, but we're not anal.

...We may be crazy, but we're not anal.

Speak for yourself.

[James Roscoe]

...We may be crazy, but we're not anal.

Speak for yourself.

Which are you Howie? No need to get defensive!

Wine-talk is NOT taboo. We are just often an eccentric bunch, talking about whatever interests us. Quite frankly, we talk about wine frequently, just not as frequently as you might expect for a wine chat. We may be crazy, but we're not anal.

I gave up about trying to discuss wine during chat. Yeah, we make a big deal about saying hello to everyone who stops by. Then when everyone leaves, there is this quaint custom about counting from 10 backwards (sobriety test?). Leaves little time for much else, besides yanking a leg or two. It is usually fun, but don't expect much in the way of wine chat.
'Winger

Ah, I wondered what the countdown was all about.

It's always interesting being a newbie in a group that has developed odd traditions that aren't obvious or comprehensible to the newcomer.

I apparently committed a faux pas by including 0 in my count. Hey, I program in C for a living, what can I say? [0] is a valid subscript.

-Paul W.

The countdown happens so people get a chance to say goodbye when others leave. One of the guys started it as a joke because I never managed to say bye to anyone before they exited. But it's still mainly a joke... nobody will be banned for skipping it!

As to conversation topics... anyone can start anything at anytime, and if others are interested it will be picked up. (Also, anyone is free to post a note that they will host a concentrated wine-only chat at a specified time, perhaps even with a narrowly defined topic. The room is always available, 24/7. Impromptu chats work too.)

The conversation definitely ebbs and flows, touching on nearly any subject one could name at one point or another, including wine and food. In a community with such diverse personalities and interests, it's been amply demonstrated to me that the regular chats serve a definite social purpose, allowing folks to interact and get to know one another in real time, no matter the topic.

I guess from my viewpoint, the bottom line is that the room is pretty well self-moderating, and I have no interest in trying to control civil conversations among adults.