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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not specifically an answer to OP’s question but this is related: how do you handle it when you become friends with someone who is missing a kind of basic piece of knowledge.  If the person is the same age or older than me, I feel  so awkward correcting them or telling them but have also felt like a jerk just letting the person keep doing something stupid, knowing eventually someone is probably going to point it out.  Examples—friend who very confidently thought[b] wine ages in the bottle[/b] so you should buy it and keep it as long as possible, even saving leftover uncorked wine.  Co-worker who really needs to trim nose hair.  Friend who, it became clear, does not tip for a lot of things normal people tip for (not on principle—I just don’t think he knows).  Just curious—how do you decide whether to say something?[/quote]

What do you mean?  Wine does age in the bottle. That's why people have wine cellars. Of course once it's opened, the clock starts.[/quote]

Oh god.  Almost all wines are aged in a barrel with a very limited aging that can occur in the bottle.  White wines are meant to be consumed within 5 years of bottling.  Even the very best reds for continued bottle aging are not meant to be aged in the bottle past 20 years.  People have wine cellars but they also know what wines go in a cellar and keep track of which ones need to be consumed before they are past their prime.

[b]I think that a lot of people end up not knowing basic information because they are the type of people who say “of course…”[/b] and will never know what they don’t know.  [/quote]

See you next tuesday[/quote]

You’ll still be an uncultured slob and people will still be laughing at you behind your back.  [/quote]

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