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Mad about outrageous corkage fees? Here’s one to make you angrier

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 25, 2013

How many times have you decided to go to a restaurant, and instead of buying one of their (slightly) overpriced wines off their wine menu, you’ve brought a special bottle with you from home or from the liquor store down the street?

Web Watch likes to eat at one local favorite specifically because they don’t have a liquor license and encourage guests to bring a bottle of wine from home. They ask only $5 per bottle, perhaps to cover glass cleaning and the servers’ time in presenting the cork to us.

But considering that a $5 per bottle corkage fee is extremely reasonable in today’s restaurant world, we’re happy to pay that instead of other options that could be made.

Tags food, Save Money, wine

food How To

It’s the one weight loss tip that EVERYONE can handle

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 24, 2013

Web Watch knows how difficult it can be to stick to a specific diet plan.

It’s the one thing that everyone says that they’re doing (as we’ve mentioned in the past). What’s the old joke? “How can you tell if someone’s a vegan?”

“Don’t worry – THEY’LL tell you.”

Tags diet, food, How To, sleep

food How To

On a diet? Here are 200 calorie snacks you can have (some are better than others)

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 23, 2013

It seems that everybody is on some sort of diet these days.

Low carb diet, no carb diet, Atkins diet, South Beach diet, Full Body Cleanse, Grapefruit diet, Almond diet, Weight Watchers, Nutrisystem — the list goes on. We could even throw kosher, vegan, and vegetarian diets into the mix, as those are also both active decisions to eat food from specific food groups.

Look, all diets that are for weight-loss purposes (as opposed to diets for health reasons, such as for lactose-free, diabetic, or gluten-free diets) all come down to one thing: you’re supposed to take in fewer calories than you expend in a given day.

Tags diet, food, How To

Movies TV

Everything you’ve ever wanted to know about the Oscars

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 22, 2013

The Academy Awards are an interesting concept.

It’s not unusual for participants in an individual industry to receive awards for outstanding work in their respective fields. Web Watch is no stranger to this, having received a few well-deserved (if we do say so ourselves) awards ourselves over the years.

But the Academy Awards – the Oscars – and its brethren the Emmys, Tonys, and to a lesser extent the Grammys – that EGOT quad-award — are as unique an award presentation as any.

Not because there is such a thing as recognition of an acting job done better than others, but it’s the sheer over-the-top spectacle of a single industry celebrating the “art of making movies” (or TV shows, or Broadway productions, or music) where they believe that the entire world wants to see them present each other with awards for being able to cry convincingly on camera under a set of hot lights.

Tags Awards, Celebrity, Movies, TV

How To

What size rocks are used in stoning?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 21, 2013

In some parts of the world, stoning someone for legal, immoral, religious-based beliefs or other reasons is an accepted method of execution – whether the rest of the world believes stoning to be reasonable or not is a question that Web Watch will let others debate.

Tags How To, Legal, religion

10 Things Music shopping

Looking for a Prom theme for this year? Try one of these…

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 20, 2013

It’s getting to be that time of year again, when young love turns to thoughts of spending Mom & Dad’s money on outrageous limo fees, overpriced dinners in linen tablecloth restaurants, ill-fitting tuxedos, dresses with WAY too little fabric, and a hotel room for the “after party” (if you know what we mean).

Yes, it’s prom season.

And it can be costly — last year, VISA REPORTED that the average prom family was spending upwards of $1,078 each for their kids to have the night of their young, impressionable lives.

And for the rest of us who have the joy of watching the restaurants around us get booked for weekend-upon weekend by loud — and occasionally first-time-drunk — teenagers, the biggest question we want to know the answer to is WHAT’S THE PROM THEME THIS YEAR?

Tags 10 Things, dating, Music, prom, Relationships, shopping

10 Things Travel

Where do all the gay people live?

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 19, 2013

Where are gay people most likely to live?

And to be more specific, where do people who classify themselves as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender hang out the most? It really shouldn’t surprise anyone that some US states have more LGBT folks than others. The question is — which states are those?

Tags 10 Things, Relationships, survey, Travel

10 Things

11 More Words that should be Banned from Use

Post author By web gangsta
Post date February 18, 2013

Previously, Web Watch has shared with our readers WORDS THAT SHOULD NEVER BE USED EVER AGAIN, such as “literally” and “man cave”.

Would you believe that there are even more words that people would never, ever want to hear ever again?

Tags 10 Things, language