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Post by Deleted on Sept 9, 2014 17:17:19 GMT -5
Never was into drugs at all, perhaps in part because marijane never did much for me. Can't drink anymore, as I've noted, but as I've also noted when I could I mostly drank margaritas & such because I like the sweetness, not because of any fondness for alcohol or its effects.
The appeal of becoming inebriated is lost on me, but I suppose that's just as well. I've certainly done it a few times over the years, but, y'know, big deal.
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Post by zryson on Sept 10, 2014 2:56:16 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about that Pharozonk. When it comes to 'other' activities at school, many people like to play hard, and sadly get a little wasted in the process.
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Post by Daryl on Sept 10, 2014 10:31:07 GMT -5
I vastly prefer mixed drinks when I do drink, because I like the taste of most of them far more than most beers.
All the hipsters in Austin love their craft beers and IPAs and whatever. I've had stouts, lagers, pilsners, bocks, American beers, imports, European beers IN Europe, etc. Beer just isn't that good.
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Post by paulie on Sept 10, 2014 10:44:29 GMT -5
I vastly prefer mixed drinks when I do drink, because I like the taste of most of them far more than most beers. All the hipsters in Austin love their craft beers and IPAs and whatever. I've had stouts, lagers, pilsners, bocks, American beers, imports, European beers IN Europe, etc. Beer just isn't that good. Hipsters and their super hoppy 'craft' beer have ruined beer for the rest of us.
I prefer European style beer which is quite delicious in small quantities.
But if you pallet does not accommodate a taste for spirits then there is no reason to try and convince you.
I prefer lamb to beef yet I'm always being asked to consider this kind of cut or that so I understand where everyone is coming from in regards to alcoholic beverages.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 10, 2014 10:52:15 GMT -5
I vastly prefer mixed drinks when I do drink, because I like the taste of most of them far more than most beers. All the hipsters in Austin love their craft beers and IPAs and whatever. I've had stouts, lagers, pilsners, bocks, American beers, imports, European beers IN Europe, etc. Beer just isn't that good. Hipsters and their super hoppy 'craft' beer have ruined beer for the rest of us.
They should probably get the hell off your lawn too.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 10, 2014 11:26:57 GMT -5
I can't even think of the last time I had a beer. In my 20's, I drank a ton of the stuff (most of it in the "cheap and available" category), but as I've aged, I've found that I really don't like the taste of it; I usually drink hard ciders instead. I love Crabbie's Alcoholic Ginger Beer (there's one English-style pub I go to when I travel that carries this) and if I go with a mixed drink (usually at home), my current preference is Dr. Pepper and Bacardi Oakheart rum.
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Post by The Captain on Sept 10, 2014 11:34:08 GMT -5
Hipsters and their super hoppy 'craft' beer have ruined beer for the rest of us.
They should probably get the hell off your lawn too. That goes without saying. On the subject of hipsters, I've never wanted to punch a child as much as I do when I see the Amazon Fire commercial that is currently running with the little brats with their black-rimmed glasses and "cool" hats, talking about how great the phone is because of all the stuff that comes preloaded and how much TV/how many movies they can watch on it. Normally I don't advocate violence against individuals under the age of 18, but those kids need to be smacked.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 11:35:58 GMT -5
When I drank it was almost always either Jack or Jameson and whatever the cheapest 30-pack was at the time. Love that piss-water.
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Sept 10, 2014 11:42:41 GMT -5
When I drank it was almost always either Jack or Jameson and whatever the cheapest 30-pack was at the time. Love that piss-water. My condolences to your taste buds. May they rest in peace.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Sept 10, 2014 12:26:04 GMT -5
I vastly prefer mixed drinks when I do drink, because I like the taste of most of them far more than most beers. All the hipsters in Austin love their craft beers and IPAs and whatever. I've had stouts, lagers, pilsners, bocks, American beers, imports, European beers IN Europe, etc. Beer just isn't that good. Hipsters and their super hoppy 'craft' beer have ruined beer for the rest of us.
I prefer European style beer which is quite delicious in small quantities.
But if you pallet does not accommodate a taste for spirits then there is no reason to try and convince you.
I prefer lamb to beef yet I'm always being asked to consider this kind of cut or that so I understand where everyone is coming from in regards to alcoholic beverages.
Lamb is delicious. I also could easily give up beef, if other meat were readily available and as inexpensive. If and when my father in law gets a chance to hunt in deer season he will shoot me a deer that I can have processed. Ground beef is easily replaced by venison as far as my taste buds are concerned.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 12:31:10 GMT -5
They should probably get the hell off your lawn too. That goes without saying. On the subject of hipsters, I've never wanted to punch a child as much as I do when I see the Amazon Fire commercial that is currently running with the little brats with their black-rimmed glasses and "cool" hats, talking about how great the phone is because of all the stuff that comes preloaded and how much TV/how many movies they can watch on it. Normally I don't advocate violence against individuals under the age of 18, but those kids need to be smacked. Surely anyone, regardless of age, should be soundly thrashed for wearing black-rimmed glasses & "cool" hats. Same with anyone who exults over some stupid effing phone. I have at least one FB friend, a former newspaper colleague in Little Rock, who was prattling on yesterday about whether to buy whatever the newest effing iPhone is rightthisminute or whether she should wait a bit. (This is someone, I should add, who is chronically broke & unemployed. Which doesn't go to character, of course, but does go, IMHO, to whether she has any effing business speculating about new effing phones that no one in their right mind has any idea thinking about buying anyway. Not that she's in her right mind, which is part of the whole problem; she was on Prozac before Prozac was cool. First person I knew who was.) So far I've managed not to post "get an effing life" in response to her post, but it's a bit of a struggle.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 12:33:37 GMT -5
Edit: Never mind. Stupid, callow people can't help saying stupid, callow things.
I guess I'm a little more irascible than usual today. (Back at work after a week off, & unfortunately my supervisor didn't have the decency to die, resign or be fired in the interim.)
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 12:45:30 GMT -5
I'm sorry my glasses upset you so, Dan.
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Post by Pharozonk on Sept 10, 2014 12:48:59 GMT -5
Well this is awkward. I'm rather fond of my black rimmed glasses
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Post by Deleted on Sept 10, 2014 13:09:14 GMT -5
What headgear do y'all affect? I'm on record as being opposed to most hats & caps in general; the very idea of hoodies revolts me ... hell, the very word revolts me, & having typed it just now I'm going to have to go out & kill.
Let's see. Pharozonk is in the Atlanta area. That's, what, maybe 3 hours away -- probably more like 2 1/2 if I can avoid rush-hour traffic, though I'm told the interstate is all screwed up from construction heading into the city from the east ...
I'll have to get gas first, of course ...
(Needless to say, it the glasses-&-hat combo that warrants the death penalty. Glasses by themselves aren't a problem, though I went to contacts after about 6 years & haven't even needed to wear those since about 2000, thanks to my eyes' apparent mutant power of self-repair.)
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