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Oh, is that supposed to be an April Fool deal? I remember that place in London, Garlic and Shots where they would squeeze garlic into your lager. It was fine.

Here's a couple of controversial opinions: Human progress has been a great thing, humans are quite fantastic animals, and though it'll undoubtedly be tough, we'll figure out how to avoid the worst of the hypothetical climate scenarios.

I am on a bus next to a professor of political science who is bloviating to his seatmate about his research, the goal of which is to increase the burden of proof necessary for victims of sexual assault to bring against their aggressors. His rationale is that “young men’s’ lives might be ruined because of spurious accusations.” If I ever heard a challop....

here's a controversial opinion: nobody actually thinks humans are just animals. look at how people openly treat animals. eating them (exclusively, nobody eats humans even though they are "just animals"), walking them around on a leash; even beloved pets are "put down". also whenever somebody says "we are just apes" they usually follow it up with "look at all we've accomplished, Shakespeare, Picasso, etc." can't help placing humans on a pedestal. anthropocentrism is a helluva drug.

i too would like to see cannibalism become more socially acceptable

people generally don't eat apes unless there's extreme famine, iirc

nah bush meat is a thing

you want them free range tho, not just out of the local zoo

what about if there was an extra box on organ donor cards like "I want to be eaten by foodies in the event of my untimely death"?

i reckon i'd make good crackling

Putting humans on a pedestal is a good thing. #ContrOp #Stylitism

xp not unless you switch to better beer

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man i've just spent 5 minutes trying to work on a "feel free to eat deez nuts" gag i'll drink what i want

wait is there a hipster backlash against IPAs??? I've been waiting for this since I started drinking! Not so I can consume more crappy corporate lagers but just so I can walk into a store and find anything other than cutesy-named varieties each more hoppy and hoppening than the last.

I thought it was just a general backlash against IPAS from the last 1-2 years because of exactly what you said above.

general backlash for the same reasons people bitch about piss lager! "hey too much of the beer aisle is stuff other people like! where's the stuff that I like?" sir/ma'am the brown beers are over here, and wine is behind you

don't people bitch abt piss lager because it's piss lager?

hipster backlash to IPA boom iirc was veray early on with PBR parties

*very*

ya beer/food opinions are up there with music and movie criticism

while everyone was talking about corporate beers last night, i was actually at a dive bar drinking them

had my first stella in maybe 10 years

if people don't have to look for something they like they generally just shut up and drink the thing they like

the root of whining about IPAs and whining about piss lager is the same - they take up too much space on taps, on menus and in the store, to the exclusion of whatever it is doctor casino prefers (and that's okay)

you should open a bar called Deal With It

that's a great set of initials for a bar to have

lol

hahaha

I'm supping this ridiculously cheap Dutch brand of Lager (or Premium Beer as the can would have it) called Bavaria, tonight. It has a one star rating on RateBeer. I think cheap booze is completely underrated is my controp. Although if I'm dancing to the Gummy Bear song later and urinating in the kitchen sink at the same time, the same would happen if I was supping premium posh Ale tbh.

I am on a bus next to a professor of political science who is bloviating to his seatmate about his research, the goal of which is to increase the burden of proof necessary for victims of sexual assault to bring against their aggressors. His rationale is that “young men’s’ lives might be ruined because of spurious accusations.” If I ever heard a challop....

― rb (soda), Sunday, April 1, 2018 12:56 PM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Slap that man

like is he aware of how the justice system works, there's already a "system" in place that already seems to require a ridiculously high threshold for burden of proof which is one reason they get underreported

nobody actually thinks humans are just animals

I do.

Do humans suffer in exactly the same ways as other animals? No. I think we suffer more from apprehension and fear, whereas the the conscious state of other mammals is more similar to our dream state, with a lesser emphasis on attribution, causation and effect, or blame. But reptile fear is reptile fear, whether experienced by an iguana or in the amygdala of human brains.

Getting over what Peter Singer calls "speciesism" has its consequences. I've been a dietary vegan for 8+ years. I doubt the existence of morally meaningful free will. I like sleeping amidst a pile of living breathing and sometime aromatic fur.

I still walk Teufel on a leash. When loosed, his instinct drives him to hunt the neighborhood cats, and I also like the company of cats. I'm alpha in this pack.

nobody actually thinks humans are just animals

we sure as heck aren't plants or fungi, but it's hard to say what you mean by "just" in that sentence.

imo, animals aren't "just" animals, but living beings with their own life, own history and own place in the universe. even insects or sea sponges, whose place in the universe is somewhat rudimentary, but which still belongs to them. nor for that matter are plants "just" plants.

Peter Singer‘s premises are misguided and his conclusions are abhorrent; his sophistry in defense of both is tedious and superfluous.

Peter Singer's basic premises are exactly right, and his applications of them range from clearly right to not-obviously-wrong

If/when a person chooses a specific beverage, this does exactly no harm to you. Boringest adjective ever: "flavorless."

If you have ever voluntarily consumed water, you should be banned forever from criticizing a beer as flavorless. Water is a beverage, and people drink it on purpose for their own reasons. Ditto tonic water, seltzer, soda water, sparkling water. There is a time when what one wants is a comparatively clear and thirst-quenching beverage. There is nothing wronger about choosing to drink Stella than choosing to drink water, or lemonade.

Personally I like "bad" beer/wine/spirits just as much as "good" beer/wine/spirits. There is a time and place for all of them. I will unapologetically celebrate the existence of Budweiser as long as I live, and there are plenty of times when I am perfectly happy to engage with a container of it.

how is Budweiser your "bad" beer here when the same company makes Busch Light and Natural Light, and has competitors like Milwaukee's Best

Some bad beer just tastes like carbonated chicken broth to me. I don't like that.

The IPA thing is really just like any backlash, something becomes trendy, oversaturated, bad versions. I don't like it because it's the remnants of hops are first thing I taste the next morning. But that happens with peaty whiskeys so whatever. People hate cask. I love it.

I thought we were in a good space post-backlash with lots of non-IPA beers coming out regularly

But my local bar has had two successive rounds of new beers rotated in where 2/3rds of them were IPAs. Even the staff is sad about it.

I mean, water has a practical necessary-for-living purpose. The purpose of beer is just to enjoy the alcohol and the flavor.

That's like saying "If you have ever voluntarily slept, you should be banned forever from criticizing a movie as a snooze."

People should just drink whatever they want. My friend always orders Stella or asks for beers like Stella. He hates beer though and just needs something to sip.

mh: I wouldn't force anyone else to drink those beverages, but if they appeared in my refrigerator I'd drink them.

neither applicable to the public sentiment that there are no bad beers

I encountered some skunky keg shit one time in high school that I couldn't deal with but otherwise beer is beer imo. I have yet to encounter one that parted clouds and prompted heavenly choirs to sing from on high.

Hoppy IPAs convinced me to re-start drinking occasional beers, that’s a flavor I’m just partial to, as a non-beer fan. First experience was insane hoppy, and I was “this is like biting into a bouquet of aromatic flowers.”

Aside from that drink as you will, it’s good.

I want to see a blind taste test where people must determine - after running a mile - whether the mystery drink is Natural Light or water.

when we say "water" do we mean a specific locale's tap water or some neutral sample we can agree upon

maybe we should use the local water from the Natural Light canning facility to be careful

There's nothing inherently wrong with 'speciesism'

it's right in the name

My should-not-be-controversial opinion is that the relative desirability of a given beer style is dependent not just on what it's being paired with but also on not terroir but climate - hoppy beers are especially popular in California and Colorado, etc. because they're well-suited to sunbaked and therefore at least moderately warm territory (the Indian climate in fact being the or a significant reason IPAs were developed as a heavily-hopped style - https://beerconnoisseur.com/articles/truth-about-origins-ipa), and you can extrapolate to other regions and preferences accordingly.

Beer is gross, don’t @ me.

Yeah, that probably explains my enjoyment of fruit beers.