So what is bad about beer?
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Ouch! But you do have an excuse - it is Luton, and it takes a lot of alcohol to make that tolerable. If DD moved away, he would possibly be teetotal. And United Distillers bankrupt.
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I'm being well behaved and only having the one. Oops, make that two. But Guinness is practically eating so it doesn't count. :laugh: :laugh:
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To be fair, we both missed one: taste. Though, that depends on the beer and also on how much beer you've already had. :)
Not true though. Its an acquired taste, like coffee. I use to hate it. It grew on me. Now the best picture one can draw where a person drewls over a beer is this. Floating slowly down the river. 105 degrees. The sound of slightly rustle in the trees. Oh is it a breeze? I could really use a breeze right now. Pole in hand. Nothing biting. Sun directly over head. I really am thinking we should get into the shade. Sploosh. Did you hear that? Maybe they will start biting soon. Man its freaking hot out today. Sip. Oh man. Its gone. "Hey bro. I am grabbing the last beer." Over my dead body will he.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
When asked in a survey how much grain intake I have, I said about 3 to 4 bottles worth daily ;P
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
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Not true though. Its an acquired taste, like coffee. I use to hate it. It grew on me. Now the best picture one can draw where a person drewls over a beer is this. Floating slowly down the river. 105 degrees. The sound of slightly rustle in the trees. Oh is it a breeze? I could really use a breeze right now. Pole in hand. Nothing biting. Sun directly over head. I really am thinking we should get into the shade. Sploosh. Did you hear that? Maybe they will start biting soon. Man its freaking hot out today. Sip. Oh man. Its gone. "Hey bro. I am grabbing the last beer." Over my dead body will he.
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
"It depends on the amount of beer you've already had." That has two scopes. For one, it depends on the amount of beer you've had that night. For two, it depends on the amount of that flavor beer you've had in your lifetime. If you've drank PBR all your life ( :(( ), you might not like Guinness.
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Hangovers. Getting arrested for drink driving. Cost. Dehydration. Having to get out of bed several times in the night to get rid of some more. Shouting on the big white telephone. Acting like an idiot when drunk (c.f. DD later this evening, probably). Should I go on? :laugh:
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
OriginalGriff wrote:
Shouting on the big white telephone.
Or Riding the porcelain bus.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
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"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
What's good about it?
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
In the UK the tax.
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
According to some scientists, nothing. In fact it is beneficial and can double your life-span. It's not just beer either, any alcoholic beverage will do. Hooray for scientists[^]
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
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"It depends on the amount of beer you've already had." That has two scopes. For one, it depends on the amount of beer you've had that night. For two, it depends on the amount of that flavor beer you've had in your lifetime. If you've drank PBR all your life ( :(( ), you might not like Guinness.
I get your point, but I think it shows even more that it is an acquired taste. Regarding beers that night, well thats mostly because its an intoxicant. If I inject you full of morphine I can probablly feed you a cholcolate coated tird and you would be non the wiser. And PBR all your life ( :(( :(( :(( ), correct you probablly wouldn't like Guinnes. But PBR 'technically' still is beer. And you odly are drinking it because dare I say, like the taste. Although it may have taken a lot longer to grow on you:)
Computers have been intelligent for a long time now. It just so happens that the program writers are about as effective as a room full of monkeys trying to crank out a copy of Hamlet.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
You have to drink like a horse after a long run in order to get soaked or at least to remove the work out of your melon after the working hours. Why I have to pour in my sorry throat half a gallon of some bitter strangely tasting muddy substance when the same effect comes with a two glasses of vodka and tonic. It’s good if it’s a hot summer day, but then I very rarely drink during the day…so I use the beer only for cooking.
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
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OriginalGriff wrote:
Shouting on the big white telephone.
Or Riding the porcelain bus.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Show me a community that obeys the Ten Commandments and I'll show you a less crowded prison system." - Anonymous
"Parking the tiger" "Technicolour yawn"
Ideological Purity is no substitute for being able to stick your thumb down a pipe to stop the water
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According to some scientists, nothing. In fact it is beneficial and can double your life-span. It's not just beer either, any alcoholic beverage will do. Hooray for scientists[^]
Henry Minute Girl: (staring) "Why do you need an icy cucumber?" “I want to report a fraud. The government is lying to us all.” I wouldn't let CG touch my Abacus! When you're wrestling a gorilla, you don't stop when you're tired, you stop when the gorilla is. Cogito ergo thumb - Sucking my thumb helps me to think.
Woohoo, starting to plan my 132th birthday now ;p
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
Beer contains female hormone: Drink a few and you cannot drive anymore ;P Another 5$ into the chauvinist jar...
Regards, mav -- Black holes are the places where God divided by 0...
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Besides given you a big gut? I love and drink the stuff like cooldrink.
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AspDotNetDev wrote:
Liver disease.
fair, but give some context/proof beer can actually damage the liver (no doubt strong liquor can do that, but I have not heard of a roman dying from liver disease).
leppie wrote:
I have not heard of a roman dying from liver disease
Claudius Galenus (aka "Galen") circa 2-3rd. century CE, born in Turkey, but a Roman citizen of Greek cultural heritage, recognized a connection between wine consumption and liver cirrhosis (the term 'cirrhosis' dates to the 19th. century CE)[^]. best, Bill
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." Aristotle
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Anything that takes away your ability to reason and act for yourself is bad. Plus, nothing but health issues from it. Hard to believe some people have convinced themselves that there is nothing wrong with it.
ryanb31 wrote:
Anything that takes away your ability to reason and act for yourself is bad
Which pretty much describes most of my jobs when young and most of my schooling as well. Although I must say that alcohol has never taken away my ability to reason.
ryanb31 wrote:
Plus, nothing but health issues from it.
Almost everything that one puts in ones mouth is bad for you in one way or another. Especially in excess. For example one can die from consuming too much water.
ryanb31 wrote:
Hard to believe some people have convinced themselves that there is nothing wrong with it.
However not surprising that people always think that they have the right to tell other people how to live their lives and yet are so unwilling to accept and act on criticism about their own life.
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You have to drink like a horse after a long run in order to get soaked or at least to remove the work out of your melon after the working hours. Why I have to pour in my sorry throat half a gallon of some bitter strangely tasting muddy substance when the same effect comes with a two glasses of vodka and tonic. It’s good if it’s a hot summer day, but then I very rarely drink during the day…so I use the beer only for cooking.
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Deyan Georgiev wrote:
Why I have to pour in my sorry throat half a gallon of some bitter strangely tasting muddy substance when the same effect comes with a two glasses of vodka and tonic.
I would suppose that maybe you need to choose a different beer or realize that a pint of vodka with a splash of tonic isn't really a "vodka tonic".
