Because they looked around and realized nobody else would put up with Jerry's shit?

Any chance you have an Indian grocery near you? The ones I've gone to often have pg tips for way cheaper than that.

I mean, you CAN make wine out of Concord grapes, but it still tastes like Concord grapes after fermentation. Many places that lack the more temperate climate of France or coastal California make a lot of wine out of Concord and similar grape varieties bred from native grape species that are in many cases more disease resistant and tolerant of extreme temps. Overall, they tend to be sweeter wines(though concords technically have a lower natural sugar content on average than many traditional varieties) and often they get mixed with other fruit wines (blackberry, blueberry, strawberry, and even another native grape called a muscadine) because they aren't easy to extract a lot of tannins out of, and are a real one trick pony from a flavor perspective. Many attempts have been made to breed grapes that exhibit more "traditional" wine flavors, to varying degrees of success.

That being said, this is some real prison hooch territory and there's zero reason to do something like this with as accessable as winemaking kits are these days. Now if you're in a prohibition type scenario maybe it makes at least some sort of sense.

Yep. Most people clutching their pearls at this story don't have any idea how difficult it is to actually build anything outside a gen 3 Glock or an ar-15. And those have "80% kits" that basically say "drill hole here" available on the market. Try finding a hi point, lorcin, or even Taurus or low end S&W pistol, or cheap shotgun(like a Stevens or Remington 870) receiver(because that's most of what comes into these guys who have businesses like this), and you'll find out it is a) cost prohibitive, b) still has to go through a nics check bc there's nobody home building much of anything (well, the hi point may be the odd one out bc there are 3d printed frames you could make). What they do end up doing is a lot of business with guys refurbishing grandpa's old deer or duck gun.

So, DO's in many of not most states in the US have the same licensure and practice limitations as MDs and charge/are reimbursed similarly. I'm many cases they actually attend the same residency programs as allopathic/MDs. Most I've worked with drop 99% of the Osteopathic manipulation stuff soon as they graduate. Naturopaths on the other hand....

I own a musket for home defense, since that's what the founding fathers intended. Four ruffians break into my house. "What the devil?" As I grab my powdered wig and Kentucky rifle. Blow a golf ball sized hole through the first man, he's dead on the spot. Draw my pistol on the second man, miss him entirely because it's smoothbore and nails the neighbors dog. I have to resort to the cannon mounted at the top of the stairs loaded with grape shot, "Tally ho lads" the grape shot shreds two men in the blast, the sound and extra shrapnel set off car alarms. Fix bayonet and charge the last terrified rapscallion. He Bleeds out waiting on the police to arrive since triangular bayonet wounds are impossible to stitch up. Just as the founding fathers intended.

Give the west end brasserie a shot too if you're still in town. Literally across the street from the Johnnie Walker experience (the experience/tasting isn't worth the price in my opinion, but the bar is cool). Maybe my favorite city ever.

Literally half or more of the drugs aren't antidepressants...

Seborrheic dermatitis is what I think of when I read what you're describing. Probably worth getting a second visit or even an outright second opinion if it's not going away with the ketoconazole (especially if that's what the dermatologist told you it was, it may be worth getting seen by an internal med doc or GP....depending on what they are called around your part of the world).

Looks more like a male wood duck. Pretty sure mandarins normally have more white around the eyes.

Noscript works but it also strips a lot of other functionality. FB interprets it as you having a severely throttled Internet connection so it keeps suggesting trying "Facebook light". But if all you want is your "feed" it will likely work for you.

Is that the loch ness monster asking for $3.50 I see in the background?