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"Mmmm, this is such a positive experience! I feel no social pressure to enjoy it at all!"
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Isgrimnur wrote:I made my save against defensive rant trigger.
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Moliere wrote:Image

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Yes! As a non-beer-drinker in a big craft beer area, I <3 this so much!
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I'm no beer connoisseur ...I drink maybe 3-4 a week unless I go to a party, but there are definitely times when ONLY a beer will sate what I want/need. It's usually after a hard day's work outside, or working out, etc. Sure tastes delish during those times.

I doubt there are many times when I crave the "flavor" of beer though.
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The 6+ year old thread still lives!! Hurray! :horse:

I like beer and not just saying it. Hate light beers. I do not want beer-flavored water no matter how many carbs it supposedly saves. If I'm drinking beer, I ain't counting carbs. That's just silly.

Give me a nice red.... like Murphy's Irish Red, Kilkenny, or (sorry this one is more common now) Smithwick's. Murphy's is damn hard to find, though. Worth it if you can find it.
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The only problem I have with that is that it kind of only applies if you're drinking socially. It doesn't explain why someone would drink beer alone, when there is no need to pretend. And I don't agree that all beer tastes bad.

Still, I laughed. I'm going to print it out for my beer connoisseur buddy just to piss him off. :D
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I feel the same way about coffee. No matter how much sugar and milk I add it still tastes disgusting.
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Moliere wrote:I feel the same way about coffee. No matter how much sugar and milk I add it still tastes disgusting.
That's why they invented flavored coffee.
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Moliere wrote:I feel the same way about coffee. No matter how much sugar and milk I add it still tastes disgusting.
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Moliere wrote:No matter how much sugar and milk I add it still tastes disgusting.
I think I found the problem.

Sugar brings out some nasty flavors and aftertastes in coffee that don't occur in its pure state. Even milk, which has sugars in it of course, doesn't have the same chemical effect.

Try with just bit of hot milk (to really dark coffee) and see what happens. Also, have you tried DECENT, freshly roasted coffee, from fresh beans? Soooo so much shit out there...

If you're talking about pre-ground stuff you find in a grocery store that's been sitting there for weeks getting stale and harsh, I agree, that stuff IS disgusting. :P
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Carpet_pissr wrote:have you tried DECENT, freshly roasted coffee, from fresh beans?
Yes. I've tried everything from Denny's sewer water to coffee where the beans were all individually picked by a licensed peasant in Guatemala who then carried them in a hermetically sealed bag across the border where he finally ground the beans in a clean room designed for super conductors, after which the peasant brewed my coffee before heading back to Guatemala for the next crop.
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It was still disgusting.
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Was the peasant dirty? Sounds like your pristine beans were sullied, contaminated, if you will.
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Carpet_pissr wrote:Was the peasant dirty? Sounds like your pristine beans were sullied, contaminated, if you will.
He was wearing a clean room suit to cover the effects of his border crossing exertions. He never came into direct contact with the beans as they were all individually washed with Evian water before roasting.
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Someone who doesn't like bitter flavors won't like coffee or beer no matter how they try to disguise it. Pointless to try, really.
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Kraken wrote:Someone who doesn't like bitter flavors won't like coffee or beer no matter how they try to disguise it. Pointless to try, really.
How come I like dark chocolate more than milk chocolate?
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Moliere wrote:
Kraken wrote:Someone who doesn't like bitter flavors won't like coffee or beer no matter how they try to disguise it. Pointless to try, really.
How come I like dark chocolate more than milk chocolate?
Because semi-sweet and bittersweet aren't bitter.
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Fans eagerly await 2015's 'Space Fights: Power Gets Up', although most think 1999's 'Space Fights: The Scary Ghost' didn't live up to the hype.
I have to admit that it took me a few to get in the right mindset, and the middle set took me the longest.
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Fans eagerly await 2015's 'Space Fights: Power Gets Up', although most think 1999's 'Space Fights: The Scary Ghost' didn't live up to the hype.
I have to admit that it took me a few to get in the right mindset, and the middle set took me the longest.
Ditto. Exactly.

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Do you not know about the hovertext?
There's also the TV show based on the hit Hot and Cold Music books: Fun With Chairs, Royal Rumble, Knife Blizzard, Breakfast for Birds, and Samba Serpents.
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Spoiler:
Harry Potter, Rocky, Indianna Jones

Song of Ice and Fire: GoT books
I cannot figure out Tropical Boaters though.

Edit... duh.
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Pirates of the Caribbean
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Trent Steel wrote:
Spoiler:
Harry Potter, Rocky, Indianna Jones

Song of Ice and Fire: GoT books
I cannot figure out Tropical Boaters though.
Spoiler:
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Isgrimnur wrote:
Trent Steel wrote:
Spoiler:
Harry Potter, Rocky, Indianna Jones

Song of Ice and Fire: GoT books
I cannot figure out Tropical Boaters though.
Spoiler:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Heh... I didn't even realize there were 4 (and a 5th on the way). I think I saw the 4th one. It seems vaguely familiar.

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stessier wrote:I can't figure out the Jewelry Gods.
Nothing RINGs familiar there?
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coopasonic wrote:
stessier wrote:I can't figure out the Jewelry Gods.
Nothing RINGs familiar there?
I thought that was it, but for whatever reason I didn't think Lord = God. My bad.
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I know it's not xkcd, but as an engineer, this Dilbert slayed me this morning.

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Given the current state of my portfolio, this one seems timely:
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The less common, even worse outcome: "3: [everyone in the financial system] WOW, where did all my money just go?"
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Bakhtosh wrote:I know it's not xkcd, but as an engineer, this Dilbert slayed me this morning.

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Then again, Dogbert is my favorite character in normal Dilbert, so I guess that says something about me.
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I think Randall Munroe is at his best when he goes all philosopher-poet like this. (Yes, it's prose, but it's lyrical prose, know what I mean? No? Ah, fugget about it...)

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I literally could care less.
Strewth! I often find that I literally could care less, but can't be bothered to make the effort.
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Alt text: The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail.
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That is awesome. :lol:
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Hover text!
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:lol:

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Researchers just found the gene responsible for mistakenly thinking we've found the gene for specific things. It's the region between the start and the end of every chromosome, plus a few segments in our mitochondria.
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