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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 10:33:57 GMT -5
My biggest vice is giving up beer, so I've made the switch to Miller Lite ( I know, I know) for any drinking I do at home. At 96 calories, it doesn't feel like I'm throwing away my daily workouts when I drink it. Dude, I tried switching to Mich Ultra due to having such a low calorie footprint, but I just can't do it. It's repulsive. I'm finding my bar won't go any lower than Corona light/the new one (the mandatory slice of lime really elevates Corona) at about 100 or Guinness which is only 125 each. Those last 20-30 calories seem to be the most important ones. At least hose piss would be an organic option. Note this is coming from a self-proclaimed beer snob (I consider having to drink something like Sam Adams slumming it), but I find that most American mass market domestic beers, especially anything in a can, tastes not so much like beer, but what it would taste like if breweries had all the people who drank real beer pee into a vat, then canned and bottled the vat's contents and branded it with their label. (In fact I think if you got into a Miller or Anheiser Busch brewery beyond the areas the PR tours let you see, you might discover this is actually the case.) I suspect Piels is German for Beer Drinker's Piss, the Natural in Natty light refers to this natural origin origin and dilution of real beer in the so called beer in their cans, and that many American palettes destroyed by fast food and processed food couldn't appreciate anything other than this type of pap in a can or bottle. But then I gave up beer drinking awhile ago because my snobbery priced me out of the game -M
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Post by Rob Allen on Jul 3, 2017 12:57:13 GMT -5
I was an average Portland beer geek, but my doctor kept telling me that beer aggravated my allergies. Since hard cider has become easier to find, I've switched almost completely to cider. At home right now I have plain apple cider, and ciders flavored with pear juice, with pineapple juice, with honey, and with hops. My allergies are better, but I seem to have turned into one of those Portlandia hipster snobs - "Oh, I used to drink microbrew beer, but all the cool kids have switched to something new."
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 3, 2017 14:52:19 GMT -5
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jul 3, 2017 15:09:08 GMT -5
Cannibalism makes a comeback.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 3, 2017 15:21:31 GMT -5
Cannibalism makes a comeback. Night of the Living Dead Cultural Awareness.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2017 15:48:51 GMT -5
Cannibalism makes a comeback. I remember some years back when I was still in CT, maybe mid-90s or so, Dee Snyder (of Twisted Sister and Strangeland fame) was a morning dj for the alt rock station in the market (their answer to Howard Stern at the time so think more shockjock than anything) had a whole schtick going for a while with one of the other members of the broadcast gang about doing a live broadcast at some pub or other where they would eat a placenta live on the air-listeners could win invites to attend or some such). Game Show Network (don't judge I was recovering from surgery) kept running promos of Steve Harvey reacting to some (multiple) contestants giving placenta (or afterbirth) as an answer to comedic effect, so it does seem to be lurking somewhere at the fringes of the pop culture zeitgeist for some time now. -M
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Post by Mormel on Jul 3, 2017 16:08:07 GMT -5
Here in Holland, there was a radio deejay back in 2006 who was known as a somewhat controversial figure at the time, who ate a placenta on his morning show. It was donated to him by a friend who had just given birth. The placenta was prepared by a well-known Dutch chef, and the deejay commented that it tasted like minced meat, and joked that he regretted not having a glass of mother's milk to wash it away.
Yeah Slam, I bet you'll much prefer that baked Dutch Baby to a baked Dutch Placenta.
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Post by Icctrombone on Jul 3, 2017 17:56:52 GMT -5
I find this whole thing tasteless.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 3, 2017 19:17:53 GMT -5
Such fertile imagination!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 3, 2017 19:26:22 GMT -5
Here in Holland, there was a radio deejay back in 2006 who was known as a somewhat controversial figure at the time, who ate a placenta on his morning show. It was donated to him by a friend who had just given birth. The placenta was prepared by a well-known Dutch chef, and the deejay commented that it tasted like minced meat, and joked that he regretted not having a glass of mother's milk to wash it away. Yeah Slam, I bet you'll much prefer that baked Dutch Baby to a baked Dutch Placenta. 'baked Dutch Baby' will likely be a new 'band' name for some talentless off-key' hack with a ukekekeh sampling a dead persons' work from the 1920's. instead of creating their OWN 'sound'. oh, and they won't be Dutch, either. more like upper middle class Santa Cruzan Californians* with 'ironic' hairstyles. *I lived and free-lanced in Santa Cruz for quite a while.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 3, 2017 19:38:32 GMT -5
and, meanwhile...
imsomnia sucks like a bad vampire movie.
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Post by Cei-U! on Jul 3, 2017 20:30:47 GMT -5
Cei-U! 's problems make me sad like Cockrum's did. Cei-U! is one of the magnificent funny/wry benefactors of this site, and very much a reason I perused it, then joined. Cei-U! difficulties make me upset. Appreciate the kind words, friend. By the by, I used to occasionally interact with Dave Cockrum's son back when we both worked for the Washington State Employment Security Office. Nice guy. As I was out of the comics scene at the time, we didn't talk much about comics or his dad (which he appreciated because, proud as he was of his father's accomplishments, he was wary of fanboys who tried to exploit the family connection). Cei-U! I summon the small world!
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 3, 2017 20:41:32 GMT -5
Cei-U! 's problems make me sad like Cockrum's did. Cei-U! is one of the magnificent funny/wry benefactors of this site, and very much a reason I perused it, then joined. Cei-U! difficulties make me upset. Appreciate the kind words, friend. By the by, I used to occasionally interact with Dave Cockrum's son back when we both worked for the Washington State Employment Security Office. Nice guy. As I was out of the comics scene at the time, we didn't talk much about comics or his dad (which he appreciated because, proud as he was of his father's accomplishments, he was wary of fanboys who tried to exploit the family connection). Cei-U! I summon the small world! most kind of you to add this, considering your current travails. thank you your wit is a boon to any lucky enough to see it.
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Post by LovesGilKane on Jul 3, 2017 22:38:07 GMT -5
meanwhile, i get damned tired of joints popping every time I have to rise from a chair.
thanks a bunch, middle-age.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jul 4, 2017 9:04:04 GMT -5
Meanwhile, at the headquarters of Éditions Roquefort...
Some good : Mozilla Thunderbird is a great mail application, with which I will on handle the business mail from now . Forget that "reset-me-every-week-'cuz-I-went-buggy" Microsoft Exchange, and that "can't really deal with this non-Apple infrastructure" Apple Mail.
Some bad: Canada Post now charges me $14 bucks to ship two books in one envelope. Considering I charge $15 bucks per book and that printing charges are about $7.00 per copy, that leaves me a hefty one dollar profit per book.
It's insane. My customer must shell fifteen bucks and I make one. Something is wrong with this business environment.
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