A youthful expression – youthspeak continued

Goon wine

In my day it was known as chateau cardboard. Blenheimer, Velluto Rosso, FRC (Fairhill River Claret): this is the stuff you drank when you were being classy. It’s all gone downhill since then it seems. Now one dispenses both with the cardboard and also the wine glass. Gives new meaning to the word “bladdered” I think.

A colleague who went to university in Australia used to play a drinking game called “Goon of Fortune”. I hesitate to describe it in case it gives my daughters any ideas – but it’s so funny I feel I must. A group of you are outside around the rotary clothesline (it’s Australia, that’s why the drinking games are outside). The goon wine is attached to the clothesline (not sure how this is accomplished? Student ingenuity I suppose), and then the line is spun around, and the student who ends up with the wine in front of them has to drink from it. It’s like spin the bottle for the more mature teen. Not sure how they decide how long they have to drink for (I really haven’t done my research, have I?) but I guess there’s a built in safety feature in that once you fall over, you’re out.

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