Merlot & Me - RTÉ 2 9.30 Monday 21 January

Lapin

Hope Mrs D007 and Grey so What are paying attention.

Lady Chatterton

Lapin, you've been unfriended :mad::D


This is an interesting programme, I do hope there is a break very soon though so I can top up my glass

Lady Chatterton

Lapin, everyone must be watching Hector and the Country Music folk this evening

Lapin

Herself is on the way home from Galway and asked me to record this for her.

She text me a few minutes ago to ask me if watching it would put her off having a glass of wine.



Best laugh I've had in ages.

Wild horses wouldn't drag her away from glasheen of red in the evenings !

Lady Chatterton

My GP told me once that you're actually okay until you go over a bottle of wine a day :eek: I'd have one or two glasses most days, usually with food. So far my liver tests are perfect

CommanderC

This is bizarre.......

3 glasses of wine every night.

Making yourself sick.

Is this what women in their 30s are doing....................or just the kind of women filmed in this programme ?

Lady Chatterton

CommanderC wrote: »

This is bizarre.......

3 glasses of wine every night.

Making yourself sick.

Is this what women in their 30s are doing....................or just the kind of women filmed in this programme ?

No, they're not making themselves sick but they're skipping some meals/snacks so they can keep calories for drinking :eek:

tommyboy2222

So apparently, getting drunk makes you act drunk.

Interesting......

Lapin

CommanderC wrote: »

3 glasses of wine every night.



Is this what women in their 30s are doing?

I know - its feck all isn't it !

tommyboy2222

I'd say this one pines for Sex and the City and the Celtic Tiger

Lady Chatterton

She shouldn't be pictured any where near a car in this state :eek:

CommanderC

MrsD007 wrote: »

No, they're not making themselves sick but they're skipping some meals/snacks so they can keep calories for drinking :eek:

She interviewed a woman about 10 minutes ago who said that she knows women (including herself) who are sneaking off to the bathroom to make themselves sick. Booze-ulimia she called it.

......or did I totally mis understand this ?

The J Stands for Jay

Seems to be saying women should drink pints.

Lady Chatterton

Maia, is married to a pro



I only wish he was the one having the tests done.

Lady Chatterton

Where is JA? he loves this comedian :D

CommanderC

CommanderC wrote: »

This is bizarre.......

3 glasses of wine every night.


Is this what women in their 30s are doing....................or just the kind of women filmed in this programme ?

Lapin wrote: »

I know - its feck all isn't it !

Yeah- hahah- sure I wud've thought they'd need at least 5/6 glasses to blockout the self esteem issues they seem to have :pac:

The J Stands for Jay

MrsD007 wrote: »

Maia, is married to a pro



I only wish he was the one having the tests done.

I heard he thinks she drinks too much.

JP Liz V1

So this isnt the sequel to Marley and Me

Lapin

MrsD007 wrote: »

Maia, is married to a pro



I only wish he was the one having the tests done.

:eek::eek::eek: And I thought you were messing.

No wonder she was drinking too much.

I never heard of Maia Dunphy before tonight. I thought she was very good.

Very well made programme.

CommanderC

Lapin wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: And I thought you were messing.

No wonder she was drinking too much.

I never heard of Maia Dunphy before tonight. I thought she was very good.

Very well made programme.

I thought she was trying too hard to emanate that Carrie Bradshaw voice over bit .....and her attempts at humour fell a little flat

castletownman

Me and my father were just discussing this the other day. The wine drinking culture really has become a modern phenomenon (probably another Celtic Tiger creation). He said he'd would've never seen wine been drank in Ireland when he was growing up, and if it was it would be far more expensive in comparison to today. The only thing that kind of annoys me about the wine culture is the almost gender divide- it seems acceptable for women to get together in their houses and drink a bottle or two of wine a couple of times a week. But yet if a man went down to the local, say to watch a football match or whatever, it is way more frowned upon. And worse, if a man drank a six-pack of beer a couple of times a week at home, it would be seen as a problem.

I hope I'm not coming across as sexist, because that is in no way my intention.

Lapin

Jesus, they're talking about smoking over on The Frontline.

I should have recorded that for herself too.

jos28

Very well made programme, well researched and thought Maia did a great job. Does make you think all the same. I read somewhere that you do your liver a great favour by staying off the drink for 3 consecutive days. So I TRY not to open any bottles from Mon-Wed. I love the build up to Thirsty Thursdays

Lady Chatterton

jos28 wrote: »

Very well made programme, well researched and thought Maia did a great job. Does make you think all the same. I read somewhere that you do your liver a great favour by staying off the drink for 3 consecutive days. So I TRY not to open any bottles from Mon-Wed. I love the build up to Thirsty Thursdays

My motto is a little and often, lol

Lady Chatterton

castletownman wrote: »

Me and my father were just discussing this the other day. The wine drinking culture really has become a modern phenomenon (probably another Celtic Tiger creation). He said he'd would've never seen wine been drank in Ireland when he was growing up, and if it was it would be far more expensive in comparison to today. The only thing that kind of annoys me about the wine culture is the almost gender divide- it seems acceptable for women to get together in their houses and drink a bottle or two of wine a couple of times a week. But yet if a man went down to the local, say to watch a football match or whatever, it is way more frowned upon. And worse, if a man drank a six-pack of beer a couple of times a week at home, it would be seen as a problem.

I hope I'm not coming across as sexist, because that is in no way my intention.

Lots of men enjoy a few beers or a bottle of wine in the evening. Most of the women I know share a bottle of wine with their husband/partner and not their girl friends.

Babooshka

Ha ha, the shock on her face at her book club. It's lonely being the only sober person at a gathering.

I do have a sibling who is tee-total though, and he describes the feeling as everyone begins to descend into drunkenness as standing on the pier, waving at the cruise liner as it pulls out with everyone on it waving back at him....I laughed hard when he said that, but it's kind of sad too.

Lapin

MrsD007 wrote: »

Lots of men enjoy a few beers or a bottle of wine in the evening. Most of the women I know share a bottle of wine with their husband/partner and not their girl friends.

Myself and herself share a bottle most evenings when we're together.


Sometimes we share a bottle each.

Lady Chatterton

Lapin wrote: »

Myself and herself share a bottle most evenings when we're together.


Sometimes we share a bottle each.

How's your liver skin doing?

JonathanAnon

MrsD007 wrote: »

Where is JA? he loves this comedian :D

I was over on TV3 going over the scripts with them on Deception.. We're thinking of not going ahead with it..

Lady Chatterton

JonathanAnon wrote: »

I was over on TV3 going over the scripts with them on Deception.. We're thinking of not going ahead with it..

JA, I gave up on it after the first episode, I take it that it hasn't improved.

Larianne

CommanderC wrote: »

This is bizarre.......

3 glasses of wine every night.

Making yourself sick.

Is this what women in their 30s are doing....................or just the kind of women filmed in this programme ?

Dunno. Only turned 30 in October. Something to look forward to I guess! :cool:

The Pontiac

Lapin wrote: »

:I never heard of Maia Dunphy before tonight. I thought she was very good.

Very well made programme.

She's on with Tubridy on the radio once a week. Very interesting person, actually.

Must watch this on the player later.

Lapin

The Pontiac wrote: »

She's on with Tubridy on the radio....

That would explain why I've never heard of her.

ronan45

Lapin wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: And I thought you were messing.

No wonder she was drinking too much.

I never heard of Maia Dunphy before tonight. I thought she was very good.

Very well made programme.

Wouldnt you be getting drunk every night if you knew jonny vegas was lyin in bed waiting for ya !:cool:

hdowney

I have this recorded to watch but dear god it sounds like they have serious problems!

born2bwild

I like her; thought she carried that show well...but what about that whacko going on about 'nipping out for a quick vom'? Scary.

Oracle

I watched this show, it was disappointing, In fact I thought it was rubbish. Cheaply made TV schedule filler. I found the presenter annoying.

The low point of the show was when they filmed her, her sister and friends sitting around a kitchen table drinking. Who wants to watch that?

hdowney

I seriously think the people who 'secret vom' are one step off alcoholism and do need to check themselves.

I would have been the same as yer one, easily a bottle a night and didn't think anything of it cos it doesn't even make me slightly tipsy. but I stopped drinking like that when someone told me the calories in it, cos I am trying to lose weight and I can eat healthy and all the rest but if I am knocking back that much wine it ain't going to do a jot! No way I'd do the above though!! So now I drink half a bottle on a night at the weekend only. I might drink more if out for a special occasion or such though. But not very often tbh.

I did wonder, the second 'book club' she had, the one where she was trying to talk about the book and everyone else was just gassing, it seemed put on!!

calex71

Just saw the repeat of this there, really shocked me how they could "sex and the city" such a serious issue, whole thing was ...... ah here I'll get banned from boards for life here if I say what I really think of everyone involved with this :mad:

Glamis31

I watched Merlot & Me last night on the player. What a waste of time & after all that drinking the resulting conclusion is that she has done no harm to herself what so ever???? pointless.

tunguska

Glamis31 wrote: »

I watched Merlot & Me last night on the player. What a waste of time & after all that drinking the resulting conclusion is that she has done no harm to herself what so ever???? pointless.

The most pointless part of it all was the fact that she gave up drinking for a massive...........1 week. Bloody hell if you're struggling to give up drinking for just 7 days it means you have a problem. But that point wasnt even brought up. Hopefully des bishops program will be a bit better.

Glamis31

there was a clear dramatisation beating all of us over the head especially noticed when at her book club while sober beside her paid actor mates she tried to discuss the book, actresses on faircity need not feel treatened. And at her visits to the strange dancing club or the alcohol free unfunny comedy club. Why those places? She could have just gone to the cinema, gym or regular dance class, no. the message there is Hey guys I spent 1 week sober and look at what I found.