{"id":7849,"date":"2017-05-24T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T07:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/?p=7849"},"modified":"2017-05-24T08:36:24","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T07:36:24","slug":"whisky-cliches-dont-want-hear-anymore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/whisky-cliches-dont-want-hear-anymore\/","title":{"rendered":"Those whisky clich\u00e9s I don’t want to hear anymore"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been writing on this blog since a few years now, trying to share my views and bring a lighter, more approachable tone about whisky <\/strong>(English isn’t even my mother tongue, so it’s not like I could pretend to write like Dave Broom or Charles McLean… Oh, and I’m fine it.)<\/em> but when I started this blog, I didn’t imagine for a second it would take so much efforts to fight those dusty clich\u00e9s… Wake up, we’re in 2017.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You’d imagine I won’t have to deal with the “do you actually drink whisky?<\/em>” after writing more than 350 articles on the subject… But yet I do. And here’s a list of whisky-related clich\u00e9s I don’t want to hear anymore, once and for all, please pretty please:<\/p>\n

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“Whisky is for men\/older people\/wealthy people\/rebels<\/em>“: why do you absolutely need to put things into cases like that? Whisky’s for the 30-year-old girl next door as well as your older brother or this friendly Sainsbury’s cashier.<\/p>\n

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“You like your whisky? Wow man you’re badass!<\/em>“: Not necessarily… You know what, I’m afraid of dragonflies (while I find their English name pretty cool…)<\/em> and I can listen to Ed Sheeran’s new album for hours without even getting bored so hey… Not really evil (and my gothic teenage years don’t count!).<\/em><\/p>\n

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“Hey you’re into whisky, can you choose the wine?<\/em>” when at the restaurant… \u00a0Feels a bit like asking a cigar enthusiast to choose your weed in Amsterdam. Well guess what, I may be French, I don’t know shit about wine. Don’t get me wrong, I would love to, but whisky really keeps me busy \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

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“You’re working in whisky? So you’re basically not working?<\/em>“: Trust me, educating people like you is a tough job.<\/p>\n

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When on a night-out “hey so you’re into whisky, what do you think of XXX?<\/em>“: Nah, seriously, we were having fun, you don’t want to me to start this conversation. Let’s discuss Netflix new series instead.<\/p>\n

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Still at this party “you’re not drinking whisky?!!!!<\/em>” oO”: thank god I can also enjoy other beverages sometimes.<\/p>\n

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“So you can hold your drink!<\/em>” : I’m actually almost wasted after 3 Champagne glasses or 2 pints of beer so I guess not really… Oh, and appreciating whisky doesn’t necessarily mean getting shit-faced with whisky.<\/p>\n

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I’ve been writing on this blog since a few years now, trying to share my views and bring a lighter, more approachable tone about whisky (English isn’t even my mother tongue, so it’s not like I could pretend to write like Dave Broom or Charles McLean… Oh, and I’m fine it.) but when I started this blog, I didn’t imagine for a second it would …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7899,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[704],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7849"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7901,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7849\/revisions\/7901"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thewhiskylady.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}