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« Reply #5040 on: November 18, 2009, 09:32:41 PM » |
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Good evening, all! Rum and Diet is my elixir of choice tonight. I usually don't drink on worknights, but I got a bit of bad news today and so I'm making an exception. (The bad news, by the way, is just a flash in the pan that won't matter in another few months. But my pride is hurt).
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prof_smartypants
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Kiss the baby!
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« Reply #5041 on: November 18, 2009, 10:56:24 PM » |
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Holy crap. I just watched Departed for the first time. Drank a six-pack of Harpoon, too. Holy Crap.
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Welcome to college, motherf*cker.
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« Reply #5042 on: November 19, 2009, 12:23:29 AM » |
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Ah, BEER WARS!!!!
It seems that drinkers are more territorial about beer than wine. Cost vs. taste vs. well, cost. Is beer a commodity, a necessity, or a luxury? (Right: cost vs. yaddah, yaddah).
So, when do beer drinkers cross the line from drinking beer for beer's sake to selecting beer based on superior points of quality?
Is one willing to sacrifice quantity for quality? Is one willing to splurge for expensive beer to impress friends (wine drinkers do this all the time), or save the good stuff for one's self?
Is high priced beer a status symbol like trophy reds in the wine world?
I think I will mix a drink to ponder all of these thoughts..............<ice clinks into double old-fashioned glass>
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"And in the end the love you take is equal to the love you make."
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southerntransplant
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Am I on YOUR curriculum committee too?
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« Reply #5043 on: November 19, 2009, 12:42:02 AM » |
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Drinking wine, playing music (Tom Verlaine for you hipsters out there), trying to gird myself for an advising marathon tomorrow...
I can hear it now:
"BUTTHEOLDADVISORLETMETAKEWHATEVERIWANTEDFORATECHNICALELECTIVE! WHYCAN'TITAKEUNDERWATERBASKETWEAVING? WHADDYAMEANIHAVETORAISEMYGPAORGETKICKEDOUT? WHATKINDOFCRAZINESSISTHAT? SINCEWHENDOESPERFORMANCEMATTER?"
All during one of my research days.
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"Interestingly, many fans find that Seger looks increasingly more like the cereal brand character Captain Crunch as he ages." - Wikipedia entry on Bob Seger.
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conjugate
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« Reply #5044 on: November 19, 2009, 10:37:47 AM » |
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So, when do beer drinkers cross the line from drinking beer for beer's sake to selecting beer based on superior points of quality?
Is one willing to sacrifice quantity for quality? Is one willing to splurge for expensive beer to impress friends (wine drinkers do this all the time), or save the good stuff for one's self?
Is high priced beer a status symbol like trophy reds in the wine world?
When they can afford it, basically. I'm trying to be cheap right now, so I'm not buying the expensive stuff. Quantity isn't much of an issue; a six-pack usually lasts me two weeks or more. And I don't worry about status symbols much; I have beer I like to drink. |
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #5045 on: November 20, 2009, 09:26:47 PM » |
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I've actually gone from always wanting to try new craft beers to just sticking with cheap, satisfying, light beer. I did recently hear about Duvel, a Belgian beer I want to try. Has anyone seen the new Sam Adams beer, Utopias, 200 dollars a bottle?
Tonight, I had one rum punch and now I'm having a few beers. I'm celebrating "vacation."
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I have no tolerance for swinish behavior, except from actual swine.
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #5046 on: November 20, 2009, 09:51:16 PM » |
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I'm celebrating hipgeek's vacation, too. Ours hasn't started yet.
I'm going to be making a vodka gimlet tonight. Never had one, but just finished listening to an audiobook in which they are mentioned approximately five billion times and hence am giving in to the power of suggestion.
VP
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« Reply #5047 on: November 20, 2009, 10:02:35 PM » |
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My usual.
Tough week.
Glad it's over.
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"Interestingly, many fans find that Seger looks increasingly more like the cereal brand character Captain Crunch as he ages." - Wikipedia entry on Bob Seger.
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voxprincipalis
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« Reply #5048 on: November 20, 2009, 10:12:45 PM » |
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What's in a vodka gimlet? How did it turn out?
Vodka and Rose's Lime Juice. Some people put soda in, but I do not. Mine seems unusually tart. VP |
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« Reply #5049 on: November 20, 2009, 10:17:35 PM » |
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That does sound good, but I'd probably add seltzer and stick with plain vodka. I'm not into anything too tart. (I'm enough of a tart myself, you know).
Enjoy!
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conjugate
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« Reply #5050 on: November 20, 2009, 10:22:14 PM » |
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Sam Adams Honey Porter accompanying a bowl of chili.
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Unfortunately, I think conjugate gives good advice.
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« Reply #5051 on: November 20, 2009, 10:22:30 PM » |
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I just got back from a postdoc happy hour.
There were pitchers of an Alaska Smoked Porter going around.
While I like bacon, I'm not sure I enjoy my beer smelling like bacon.
That didn't seem to stop me from drinking two pints though (hey, if someone else is buying, I'll drink whatever!)
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When you are a scientist your opinions and prejudices become facts. Science is like magic that way!
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« Reply #5052 on: November 20, 2009, 10:25:08 PM » |
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Do muscle relaxants count?
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I like money. I like to buy stuff and experiences with money.
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« Reply #5053 on: November 20, 2009, 10:27:03 PM » |
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I believe there was an attempt to set rules about what constituted plastered (and I assume also by what means); but I say, why not?
Sam Adams Winter Lager (not as good as last year, though).
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« Reply #5054 on: November 20, 2009, 11:41:11 PM » |
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Sipping the last of a bottle of good shiraz a friend gave me, in between licking various wounds sustained at work over the past week.
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