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[–] 66 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

I remember back in the mid 2000s when they latched on to the Dixie Chicks' pop country music as being 'wholesome conservative music'. And then their very vocal rage when the Dixie Chicks publicly dissed W.

That was pretty funny. Not quite on a level of 'freedom fries' funny, or 'buying expensive French wine only to pour it down the drain in protest' funny. But it wasn't too far off.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    first ive heard of the expensive french wine down the drain, is there a name for that protest? im a winemaker in australia this shit is hilarious to me

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Not sure about a name for the protest, but the are a number of articles out there. There's a entertaining NYT article about a restauranteur pouring $1,000 bottles of don Peringnon(sp?) down his toilet in protest. But it's behind a postal so I won't link that one. But here's another related link:

    https://dailybruin.com/2018/03/15/throwback-thursday-locals-pour-wine-in-westwood-streets-protest-french-aversion-to-iraq-war

    That whole anti-French movement was insane. I remember my wife and I were going to visit England (where I am from, but I live in America) that summer. And the shuttle driver (who was taking us to the airport) and I got friendly chit-chatting. Very cordial and easy-breazy. But he stopped mid-sentence and asked if I was French (because French and English accents are so similar?!). When I told him I wasn't, he said "that's good, because if you were I'd pull over right now and leave you on the side of the freeway!" Kind of ironic too, that driver was a black dude, so I've would think he'd be a bit more mindful of how stupid discrimination is.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I am going to say it. I don't think it was real. I think they filled those bottles with red dyed water. It felt so manufactured at the time.

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