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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... Musicals From Our Childhood...

Bianca opened the episode with what is a musical film and reeled off a few from our childhood, being the decades of the '80s and '90s. Then she openly and unabashedly declared Grease 2 is better than Grease 1.

Sarah is a massive musical film lover and shared a few of her favorites; Singing the Rain, Kiss Me Kate, Seven Brides For Seven Brothers, and GIGI.

Amy finished us all off with her most favorite musical film (because she forgot about Blues Brothers and Annie), the Disney classic Mary Poppins.
 
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This week the girls take aim at Fact or Crap...

Amy kicked off tonight's show which is a game show like quiz. The rules are simple, each co-host takes turns in asking the other co-hosts if something she has just said is either Fact or Crap.

Since Amy introduced the topic she decided that they would not keep score unless, of course, she won the game. Let's just say shenanigans quickly ensued and there was some creative scorekeeping by Bianca.

The co-host who was victorious will be revealed to those who listen to the episode.

FYI Amy wasn't impressed with the result.

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The week the girls take aim at... OMG! I'm So Dumb

Sarah jumps straight into the night's topic by having her own OMG, I'm so dumb moment confessing that despite knowing she's dumb she couldn't think of a specific story to demonstrate the fact. Amy and Bianca came to her rescue and recounted many stories where Sarah was not at her brightest.

Amy was the meat in the sandwich this week and discussed the time she went and got a tattoo. After showing it to her parents her father asked a reasonable, parent-style question. Amy's answer is a great example of how she is often "the most smartest".

Bianca finishes us off by recounting a moment when she was out with friends and realised she was the dumbest person in the group. The saving grace was the friends she was with at the time were all quite intelligent so Bianca calls it her "Penny" moment after the character from the TV series Big Bang. 

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This week the girls take aim at... True Crimes: random tales...

Bianca opened the episode with links to a website that she discovered on Tiktok! The website is called Mapping the missing. Then Bianca eagerly got into her segment; The Great Butter Heist (Thank you to our biggest Canadian fan for the topic).

Sarah discussed the fate of the Gruber family. The Grubers resided in Germany during the 1920s and were murdered rather mysteriously.

Amy finished us all off with the very condensed (seriously there are so many moving parts to this story) timeline of Susan Powell's murder.
 
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This week the girls take aim at... Movies on Disney +

Amy opened tonight's topic by explaining that this week we decided to do another round of a topic we did last year called Hey Watch This Movie. The rules are simple. Each co-host picks a movie for another co-host which the viewing co-host has not seen. The viewing co-host will then report back on what she thought of the movie. This time around we decided to narrow the search to movies available on Disney +.

Amy was required to review the movie Darby O'Gill and the Little People released in 1959. Much to Amy's surprise she really liked the movie, although it might have had a lot to do with a very handsome young Sean Connery who co-stars in the movie.

Sarah was assigned Down Periscope and noted that it was "sufficiently funny".  The movie was released in 1996 and stars Kelsey Grammer and many well-known actors from the 90s. 

Bianca finished us off by giving us a blow-by-blow of her thoughts through each part of the movie she was tasked with being Alien vs Predator. Bianca was so engrossed by the movie, many of her thoughts are not even sentences. It's like listening to her brain work.

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This week the girls take aim at...Fur Babies

Sarah opens with bad audio that she is very sorry for and jumps right into opening the weeks topic with some of the more unusual products out there for your furry friends. These are things that you may, or may not have known existed. For example; Pet Cams or a Dog O'matic. Sarah unloaded a hatbox full of crazy to share with the girls and to get their opinions.

Amy then discussed some statistics around exotic pet ownership before introducing; Hexxie the 5-meter Burmese python owned by an English family and Agee the polar bear owned by a Canadian couple. Amy then ended her segment with a couple of celebrities that own or have owned exotic pets.

Bianca went in a different direction and just got drunk instead, she reminisced about her past pet birds her current pets, and her fur niece and nephew. Bianca ends the topic with some more celebrities that own or have owned exotic pets.

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This week the girls take aim at... Extraordinary Coincidences

Bianca opened the episode by explaining what a coincidence is. After this, she threw in a fun tid bit about a coincidence theorist. Then on to the good stuff... Bianca asked "So ladies are you ready to play coincidence or conspiracy?" to which they obviously said yes.

Sarah discussed coincidences involving a name on a bill of money and some terrible decisions made at sea.

Amy finished us all off with some Abraham Lincoln-related coincidences and then embarrassed herself with her fantastic tale of the sun being the same size as the moon.
 
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This week the girls take aim at... World's Worst Decisions

Amy kicked us off tonight reminding us that sometimes poor decision-making is really only something that can be judged with the benefit of hindsight.

Amy then went on to discuss two poor decisions, in her opinion, that whilst light-hearted had a pretty devastating impact on those involved. The takeaway from this segment is "own your wreckage".

Sarah was the meat in the sandwich this week and discussed the time Mr John Sununu cast doubt on climate change setting the United States of America back many decades in handling the current climate crisis.

Sarah finished up by telling us about the time the Scottish invaded England. Too bad there was a plague going on and all the Scottish soldiers had to bring home to their families was a few weird boils and a funky smell.

Bianca concluded tonight's episode by telling us the story of what is known in history as the Great Leap Forward. This was actually three giant steps backward for the people of China who unfortunately paid the cost of a leader who didn't understand how things worked.

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