mike_decock

Yippee!!! A fellow beer-lover and brewer! A good beer is a work of art, a delight to the senses and an experience to be savored.

-Mike...

HaysooChreesto!

Hey man, we drunkards are trying to make the case for booze, not against it.
Kent State? What was the score of that game again? National Guard 4 Students 0?
Sorry, couldn't resistify.

NialScorva

You obviously aren't having sex correctly.



As to the wedding, if it's not a inarguable "yes", then I'd say default to "no" and have no bar. That's just me, however.

HaysooChreesto!

Well said. Last week after playing golf a friend and I went and got a few beers. I ordered an Anchor Steam because that was their only "microbrew". He made fun of me because before I drank it I held it up to the light, smelled it, and sipped it while I thoughtfully evaluated its characteristics. "What are you, a beer connouisseur?" So I said, "Yes I am ".

There's so much more to beer than Coors, Bud, and Miller. I'm bottling a Begian Wit come Sunday. Only two more weeks until I get to actually drink it.

ImGod

I�m not sure why I drink:

My job bores me to tears and after 8 hours of sitting at a computer trying to muster up what it takes to finish the two reports due on Friday, I get the joy of going home to two crying kids that have driven my wife nuts all day. The 4 year old is crying because she doesn't get to play enough during the day and candy is not a dinner option. The 2 year old takes her diaper off and craps on the living room carpet. My wife is on the phone frantically trying to finish some of her work she didn�t get to do during the day while I get the 4 year old ready for a night time activity. The dog is begging at my feet to be feed. My wife leaves and the 2-year-old screams for mommy for the next 20 minutes. I accidentally step on the dog and it decides to wait for dinner in the corner. A Barney video saves me from a possessed 2 year old but leaves the song �I love you, You love me� stuck in my head. I get a chance to eat cold pizza over the sink before cleaning up a house splattered with random food, toys, and god only knows what the hell that was on the kitchen floor. My wife comes home to tell me she needs to travel for work next week. Who can watch the kids? Another report due next week for me. The kids want to take a shower, not a bath, but end up spraying most everything but skin. 8:30-9:00 pm and the kids pretend to go to bed. 9:30 pm comes around and the bills are paid and the kitchen floor is being mopped while my wife reads the pile of mail. 10:00 pm comes and its time to fold laundry. My wife breaks the knob off the TV. 11:00 pm comes and the TV has been taken apart and repaired. 11:30 pm laundry is done. Midnight rolls around and I get to crawl into bed. Looking forward to the alarm going off before 6:00 am to start again.

This evening was sponsored by whiskey shots and beer chasers.

Edited to add: Today's looking much the same as I sit here working late while being tormented by someone who doesn't seem to realize I'm staying late to actually work. My wife has called once an hour for the last 4 hours asking when I think I'll be home.

Ab_Normal

That's so much nicer than the term I prefer: "beer snob".

Mr Ab was going to brew some today with a friend of ours. I'll have to find out how it went...

doghouse

My point is there is a complete and utter difference between one person doing something in a sensible, harmless fashion and someone else doing it in dangerous excess.

What price? Tell you what. I�m going to quit drinking tomorrow.

Whew! I fell so much better knowing that nobody will ever again die from a drunk driver, liver cirrhosis, Wernicke's encephalopathy, or anything else associated with excess ethanol consumption.

Ridiculous?

I�ll say.

Jolimont

I was a devout Mormon for 20 years. I didn't drink and thought the world would be a better place if nobody drank. Came to find out mormonism is the complete fabrication of a twisted mind called Joe Smith, so I bagged that. Now I can and do drink. So, having been on both sides of this issue I say it is better to drink--IN MODERATION. I drink one low alcohol beer at the end of the day (I live in Utah and that's all they sell.) Once in a while I might have 3 or 4 drinks, but only at parties a couple times a month. I don't think drinking in those amounts is a problem, yet it brings me great satisfaction. I like the taste, I like the social experience, I like how it helps me relax, it helps me enjoy sex more , and I like that it's good for my health. When I'm in the company of someone who doesn't drink I do NOT ask why, but I do assume they are either a mormon or a recovering alcoholic. No matter the reason, it's none of my business and it doesn't matter. There is a stigma to not drinking and there shouldn't be. Whatever you like to do is fine with me.

Sakpo

That's disgusting and isn't funny in the least. It displays no wit or intelligence whatsoever and appears to be an example of being crude for the sake of crudeness. For anyone who doesn't catch the reference, it's in regard to the murder of four university students by the Ohio State National Guard at a protest on May 4 1970. More were wounded. Victims included people who had nothing to do with the protest and were just walking to or from classes (if you're one of those people who thinks it's less bad if a murder victim was a protestor).

Warning: this picture isn't very funny.

christ-on-a-stick

While the food/eating analogy doesn't fit perfectly due to the fact that we do *need* to eat to survive (and don't *need* to drink) - do we only eat what we NEED to eat or what is good for us? A dessert, a donut, a bag of chips, a soda, a milkshake... are these foods/beverages necessary and worth that "roll of the dice" with high cholesterol, heart disease, high blood pressure and the host of other health risks that obesity can cause? After all, you can't deny that millions of Americans are obese and can't get a grip on their eating habits, right?