Beckham Cries Over Spilt Gucci

The Spice Girls (bless them) recently (for some reason) decided to do yet another world tour, why oh why, we’ll never know. Victoria Beckham, however, clearly not having learnt anything from her teenage touring years, managed to make yet another schoolboy error and lose all her designer clothing at the German tour stop, which took place in Cologne.

Beckham naturally claims that her rather Posh Clothes we ‘stolen’ which is a pretty obvious thing to do when you’re talking about only two pairs of shoes, worth a total of $23,000. However when the shoes ‘go missing’ from your dressing room, and all the other Spice Girls’ shoes and designer tops are still present in all their glory, it does beg the question; why would said thief only steal two pairs of shoes. Its doubtful that they were the only items worth that amount of money in the building containing all 5 dressing rooms, and it is also doubtful that other items could not have been ‘stolen’ more easily.

Sources were quoting as saying “She was very upset, fashion means everything to her. She keeps all her old outfits in storage.”

Here’s a tip posh, start a fire in your storage building and maybe you can run an insurance scam on that too.

Do Different Shaped Wine Glasses Really Make A Difference?

Recently I was reading about different types of wine glasses and their uses, the article in question was talking about how white wine glasses are generally taller and are a generally more slender shape, with a smaller opening, while red wine glasses are more rounded in shape and have a larger opening from which to drink.

The theory behind all this was that white wine is consumed when chilled, therefore to ensure it remains chilled, minimum contact with the hand (and its bodily heat) and the air itself, is the most ideal situation. Conversely red wine is consumed at room temperature, and tastes best when the heat from the hand rises through the glass and there is a great deal of air circulation happening.

Now, I’m not a wine expert, and I’m sure to people who are wine experts, perhaps this makes a lot of difference, but my question is how many people are actually skilled and qualified enough to be able to tell?

At a guess I would say a relatively small number, which begs the question – is the market for these types of glasses justified if the consumers do not require the product?

The average wine drinking person in the UK is no connoisseur, yet thousands of people seem too invest in these designer wine glasses and tableware. Once again it seems that people are striving to purchase products to re-enforce their exclusive ‘image’ rather than for the actual purpose the product was intended for.

So at what point does our consumption of products that we don’t need actually stop?