This week the girls take aim at... Misconstrued Phrases

In the seventh installment of the FNWF A&B Edition Bianca and Amy look at phrases and the variety of ways in which people can misconstrue them. For example, some people misconstrue a phrase by getting one or more words in the phrase wrong. Others misconstrue phrases by misunderstanding the meaning of the phrase itself.

Amy kicked us off this week introducing the night's topic. She then discussed the origin story of the term basket case. Bianca was so shocked she dropped her monocle!

Bianca then discussed three phrases that actually have meanings we knew nothing about. The second one was close to Bianca's heart as it is a saying used by Bianca's family for generations. It turns out the phrase was said backward however this shouldn't be an issue because they were not using the phrase as a basis for administering medical care to children right?

Amy finished us off by discussing words in popular phrases that people say wrong. The message here is Google phrases you say all the time to make sure you are getting them right otherwise you look like an idiot.

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This week the girls take aim at... Gin Fest

In the sixth instalment of the FNWF A&B edition, Bianca and Amy discuss their recent adventure to Gin Fest held in Melbourne on a sunny weekend in March.

Bianca discussed the evolution of this festival in Melbourne Australia and what the festival looks like today. In 2022 the festival comprised 55 Australian and New Zealand Gin Distillers whose staff played host to gin enthusiasts like our girls. Tickets ranged from $73.72 - $182.65 AUD per person and the event was held at the Melbourne Exhibition Centre, colloquially known as Jeff's shed.

The girls then discussed the lead-up to the event including the universe throwing everything at Amy to stop her from going. Little did the universe know that the hurdles Amy faced along the way just made her more determined to get there and drink copious amounts of gin!

Bianca also had her dramas on the day which involved losing her sunglasses, forgetting her mask, making the uber driver wait so she could get her mask, disowning her sunglasses as they had betrayed her by going missing on an important drinking day, then reaffirming her love for her sunglasses when she found them in her jacket pocket.

Amy then discussed the moment the girls entered the venue and the reality of 55 distillers in one place hitting her like a ton of bricks. Amy genuinely feared for their lives contemplating just how they were going to visit as many distillers as possible and still manage to be able to walk back to the train station when the event finished.

Amy discussed the drinking strategies adopted, then quickly abandoned and general shenanigans that ensued as well as highlighted some of her favourite distillers the girls came across.

Bianca also discussed her favourite distillers and named all 55 distillers that were in attendance that day. If your favourite gin was at the festival let us know!

For those interested, you will be able to find a list of the exhibiting distillers on our blog : https://fridaynightwinefight.blogspot.com/ .

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This week the girls take aim at... Adulting

In the fifth installment of the FNWF A &B edition, Danni_hell joins Amy and Bianca in their discussion about the pros and cons of Adulting.

Amy introduced tonight's topic and reminisced about all the time she spent as a child wishing she was an adult so then she could do whatever she wanted. Oh, how wrong she was!

Amy then discussed how working as an adult is both a pro and a con. On one side you can work. In many countries, you have to be in your mid to late teens to earn money working so the ability to earn money is a pro. However, on the flip side, as an adult, it is expected that you pay your own living expenses and therefore you must work making it a con because you have no choice.

Dani then discussed the access to adult money being both a pro and a con. Earning money as an adult is way better than getting given money as a kid because you get so much more right? What if you use your adult money to purchase unnecessary things? No one will stop you! Which is both a pro and a con.

Bianca finished us up by explaining how the old you get the fewer "f**ks" you have to give. When we are children we have the propensity to care more about things. However, as we age our ability to care about things gets smaller and smaller. This is definitely a pro of adulting.

Bianca also discussed a con of adulting being the random medical issue of the day. Why does my back hurt? Where did that bruise come from? Was that mole there yesterday? These are the things we face as adults because our bodies are slowly giving up on us.

A massive thanks to Dani aka Danni_hell for being a fantastic guest!

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