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Late last year, a hidden trove of whisky was discovered in a cellar room deep within a 13th century Scottish castle. The liquid was subsequently tested and determined to have been distilled back in 1833, making it the oldest known scotch in existence. Now two dozen bottles of it are going under the hammer in a November auction.
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Can’t wait for the worlds worst person to buy it
Hey it’s your boy tik-tok Keith I just brought this Whiskey, and we’re going to pour it down the sink
X Whiskey incoming
I don’t have the money for it.
Scotch 1/4 as old as me costs $50. Scotch nearly half as old as me costs $250. Scotch as old as me costs $35k. Following that progression to four times as old as me suggests those bottles will command a sum that could change the course of human history by eliminating hunger or curing diseases or colonizing Mars.
Reminder thay humanity has the power to end global hunger with both food resources and excess money to transport it.
We just choose not too because it’s “too hard” and “too expensive”
Just don’t ask who we, as humanity, owe the money to because you won’t like the answer. It certainly isn’t some galactic bank telling us we don’t qualify for a loan…
Under capitalism, food isn’t produced to eat but to make profits. When it’s not profitable to sell, they will rather dump foods, starving the people rather than to plainly donate. We produce enough foods to feed the entire population. But the sole purpose of food is to not feed the people, but to feed the greed of the producers, the farmers, the corporates. Capitalism created an artificial scarcity of food where we produce too much food for the obese and throw the rest away to rot in front of the poor.
It’s just a transfer of money, not expenditure of resources. The money doesn’t disappear when whoever owns the scotch gets it. Wasting natural resources and labor is much different and worse.
This is only an 8 year Scotch though.
My mistake. I skimmed it and got excited and thought they found forgotten casks, not already bottled Scotch. Since it’s not a known label, I’m not sure collectors will care all that much. And it’s probably not going to drink all that well as 8 years is on the younger side for Scotch. Depending on how well it was bottled, it might not be drinkable at all.
I’m sure someone will pay for the novelty, but this is way less exciting than I thought.
‘prolly goes great with diet coke’ - elon
prollyDefinitely goes great with diet coke.FIFY, never forget his empty self confidence.
Bloke in the thumbnail looks like he actually bored the label off that bottle
Honestly, there’s potential for a new meme template here
That’s just Ron Weasley after his Jay Leno poly juice potion started losing effect.
Reminds me of a movie, ‘The Freshman’ with Marlon Brando and Matthew Broderick. The Mafia tells people that they can eat endangered animals for $10,000.00 a plate. Naturally, there’s a line of decadent yuppies a mile long waiting to get into the secret restaurant. [Spoiler] it’s all goat meat, because who has ever tasted what real rhino tastes like?
I’ve been trying to think of the name of this movie. Thank you.
$3.50. Final offer.
$4.20, and I’m willing to go down, way down.
As we see with our politicians: aging doesn’t necessarily make things better.
It honestly blows my mind that the oldest whiskey on the planet is only from 1833. I dint know why but it feels like there should be more and older.
What can I say, humanity likes to party. All the booze is gone.
Old wine turns to vinegar that’s why the words look similar. All alcohol eventually turns.
I’m kinda glad because it means it got drunk. I hate seeing good whisky/ey sit on a shelf.
There is the awful part of me who hopes someone accidentally breaks the bottle before it is sold.
Remember, whoever buys this, for whatever price, feels like they’re entitled to that money while children go without: food, water, shelter, electricity, and education.
They also have armies of useful idiots to defend them in the vain hopes they can join them.
Keeping it materially real. Don’t forget to have some fun though. :)
Would be a king to come with oranges I forgot in the fridge last winter.
Wuh?
I can’t get behind ancient alcohol. It’s a curious finding, but at this point it’s probably undrinkable. Like something you’ve forgotten in the fridge for too long.
Would be a king to come with oranges I forgot in the fridge last winter.
