Perhaps it is having to attend multiple graduation ceremonies in the past month or the fact that somebody from my high school class dug me up on the Book of Faces, am I suddenly dealing with the inevitable feeling of being old?
Nah. I’m not even 40 yet.
This is my review of Alaskan 35th Anniversary Russian Imperial Stout:
I turned down going to my 20th high school reunion. A few friends aside, I didn’t care much for high school. The fact that 20 passes around the sun since I graduated weighed on me briefly. It wasn’t one of those woe is me type of deals, at least I don’t think it was. It was something else:
I was supposed to be living in a futuristic version of the 1980’s as promised in Back to the Future 2; this is not the 21st Century I was promised.
- Back then I lived in constant fear my car was going to overheat and strand me in the middle of the desert. Now the fear is the battery will run out prematurely and leave me stranded in the middle of the desert. Then there are flying cars: there more like enormous drones.
- Back then UFOs were the domain of crackpot theories. Now we’re trying to speculate if the Grays or the Lizard People will control the Earth.
Back then George Bush didn’t know which country to invade. Not a problem, he still doesn’t.- Back then I was surprised to learn Dick Van Dyke was still alive. Today he still is…
- Back then the joke was Nazis on the moon. Today its communists.
- Back then the most recognized NFL player was Tom Brady…its still Tom Brady.
- Back then people used the entire processing power of their PC to search for aliens, today they’re searching for internet funny money.
- Back then Keanu Reeves stars in a Sci-fi thriller with dated graphics. Today Keanu Reeves stars in a Sci-fi thriller with dated…actually I still haven’t seen it. I shouldn’t make fun of it.
Okay so it can’t be all bad we still live in the 90’s. Its not like we’re about to lockdown again over monkey pox…
Its not everyday the word anniversary shows up on a beer bottle, but it happens enough that it seems like another excuse for a brewery to put out a batch of something they rarely make and call it a special edition. I’m no complaining, really, except for the price tag. Although $10 for a bomber is totally reasonable these days now that I consider the rates of inflation…
…this is excellent. Very thick though, which was to be expected. Not something you want to do when its starting to hit 100 degrees, perhaps, but good enough. Heavy roasted coffee overtones but sweetened a bit by the other ingredients. It winds up finishing a bit like pancake syrup but not that intense a sweetness. Nice and subtle. Find while you still can. Alaskan 35th Anniversary Russian Imperial Stout: 4.5/5
Sounds like a good beer. I’ll look for it.
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That’s the highest rating I can remember you giving.
I don’t recall the Matrix graphics being dated at the time.
It was pretty standard in video games and GAP commercials.
It was anything but dated overall, some of the 3D techniques they were using were revolutionary (and also not always recognized as 3D by viewers). The quality of the pure 3D graphics was uneven, sometimes great, sometimes a bit dated. Though I watched it again with my son not long ago, and thought it held up very well.
I don’t know, I watched it about a month ago, granted I ate some brownie about 30 mins prior.
Now there is another review you can do.
I turned down going to my
20th50th high school reunion. A few friends aside, I didn’t care much for high school.At least you had a few friends. The only two classmates I care to engage with are the ones who greeted me at my first AA meeting.
Me: “I was wondering where you guys went. Haven’t seen you at the bar in months.”
Classmates: “We were wondering when you’d get here.”
Dicky van Dyke is just his SAG name. On his agent’s insistence, he changed it from Penis von Lesbian.
Saw that article yesterday. I had no idea he’d robbed the cradle, that rascal.
His wife is younger than you! 😉
Yeah. While personal and likely inappropriate, I have some questions about some things.
While
monkeypoxCovid israre andusually non-fatal,one version of the disease kills around 10% of infected people. The form of the virus currently circulating is thought to be milder, withit has a fatality rate of less than 1% for those under the age of 65.Us old folks apparently have some protection from monkeypox via the smallpox vaccine. Jab up, younguns!
It is hard to believe today that in 1967 approximately 2,000,000 people died of smallpox and the 20th Century death toll alone is upwards of 1/2 billion deaths. Even in the 20th century the death rate was around 30% and the survivors were usually literally scarred for life. Science developed an effective and safe vaccine and eliminated the disease. Through most of the world the choice to be vaccinated was voluntary and people got the vaccine because smallpox was a known scourge. It took over 2000 years of deaths, and the industrial/scientific revolutions but mankind got it done.
I got the vaccine in grade school. DoD decided to vaccinate us all before going to Iraq “the reboot war”. The Army being the Army decided to place my new vaccination on top of my old vaccination scar so who knows if it took. Bring it on monkeypox!
In the 21st century when faced with “da vid” the “SCIENCE” panicked and quickly came up with a series of failed vaccines and decided that “my body my choice” was not operative for a less than 1% chance of death. FML.
Science developed an effective and safe vaccine and eliminated the disease.
Vaccines are meant to prevent you from contracting a disease, and the best ones do a really good job of that. Whatever the COVID prophylactics are, they are not actually vaccines.
Yeah, I’ll take the pox vax if it comes down to it. I’m not aware of any adverse effects.
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/vaccine-basics/vaccination-effects.html
Low but not none.
Smallpox in the US had a death rate on the order of COVID. The dangerousness of smallpox, like the efficacy of vaccines in general, is greatly exaggerated in popular memory.
RUSSIAN Imperial Stout?!
Putin puppet confirmed!!!
I regret nothing
Bitch set him up!
Submitted w/o comment:
Woman defecated in beauty supply store, ruining 8 wigs, police say
It’s okay, I can take it. I’m half German.
Can Amber Heard provide an alibi?
Jugsy pointed out that the cop’s FB had a comment to that effect.
I dont FB, so I didnt see it.
And not only that, but her drugs fell out at the same time.
Did she defecate drugs too?
Gitcherself some titties.
https://archive.ph/bJkPl
Silicone Saturday.
I’m not even 40 yet.
You’re in the prime of your life so you better not be complaining.
He needs to set achievable goals.
Wisconsin man celebrates 50 years of eating Big Macs every day
Woof, I’d get tired of that after a couple days.
Woof, I’d get tired of that after a couple
Lazy LOL.
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HA! Awesome.
LOL achieved
Well done.
In the 21st century when faced with “da vid” the “SCIENCE” panicked and quickly came up with a series of failed vaccines and decided that “my body my choice” was not operative for a less than 1% chance of death. FML.
GodHistory is dead.History was God’s second wife.
Graduated in 85. Went to my 25th. Lasted an hour. Won’t go to any more.
Beer looks great! Thanks, amigo!
Yeah, ’89 for me. Haven’t been to any of them.
’88 and ditto.
Class of ’90. We sorta-kinda had an 10 year reunion at the hometown summer jubilee in 2000…it just so happened a lot of us were at the bar at teh same time. Not a single person in our class has ever attempted to put together an actual reunion. Which is fine by me.
Canadians take action:
Topless mom in her undies rescues pet goose from bald eagle in shocking video
And she apologized. They always apologize.
“I just ran outside and when Mike [her husband] came out he was like, ‘you’re topless.’” she added. “And I’m like yeah, no, I’m very aware. Sorry neighbors.”
Needz moar shotgun.
Canadian bitch stopped an American Eagle from taking what was rightly his.
Nice angle that I didn’t think of.
Your jib- I appreciate the manner in which it has been cut.
With all due respect to Q… they’re just tits. Tits! Tits! Tits! Boobies, Knockers, Jugs, Perky Puppies. Big Uns, Small Ones, and everything in between. If I were in charge, any place a tubby old man-boobed dude (like myself) can be shirtless, so can a woman. Free the nipple!
For the record, I have not been topless in public since the last time I was under 190 Lbs.
So you’re bitch tits ?
Damn it….I meant to link this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQWnBC2hmdc
Ha! I’m still working on my A cups cause I’m still in the AA range.
Sorry OT. IM gonna post this several times to get as many eyes.
Terrible, Terrible. Fuck.
My fucked up life continues to further fucked. In hospit w a fucking broken femur. Some asshole punched me and I fell.
Nightmarish pain. indescribable. Fuuuuuck this shit.
Terrible, Terrible. Fuck.
My fucked up life continues to further fucked. In hospit w a fucking broken femur. Some asshole punched me and I fell.
Gets worse. Fracture is near my titanium hip. There is a small, but reas, possibility that I’ll need a replacement. VERY small chance, but real. Gotta be assessed on Mon.
I hate all of this. I was supposed to play goodbye show on Sat and this was on Fri. This is not the goodbye I wanted, and I’ll have to stay here longer. Can’t travel w my life w a hurt femur.
FUCK.
A go fund me will be created soon.
Damn. Very sorry to hear that. Will look for GFM.
No apologies necessary. Hopefully they give you good meds.
Ouch. I empathize as much as I can. Ive broken lots of bones- L arm twice, nose (had it done for me) 3X, hand, ankle, kneecap, tailbone. But the one that truly sends deep, visceral, shivers, through me is a femur.
Like Sharpie said- I hope they load you up on drugs.
Impressive. I’ve only broken toes once, while sober.
Damn, Evan you have the worst luck. Will look out for your GFM.
Ooof. Sorry Evan.
Honey! JHTFC!!
Uh, do you remember what happened?
Yep. Two guys were outside a 7-11 w the rest of our group that there. They were playfully practicing boxing. NO real punched. Just practice taps. Apparently I said something and one for real punched me. Not e en got a bruise but I fell.
I dont understand how that broke my femur. Doesn’t mKe sense. The world is openly .mo king me.
Congenital osteo weakness (QED)? At least you remember the incident.
Must go Glibs-less for the next 8 hours or so but will check back in late tonight (-8 GMT). You too, Trigger Hippie.
Fuck you and the error you rode in on, internal server.
Hey, fellow Kiva contributors! Today I received an invite from the Captain of the “Climate Pilots” Kiva team. They support “climate friendly projects.”
Um, no thanks. I’ll stick with just the Glibs team, because my focus is supporting entrepreneurs to further capitalism (with my belief that capitalism is the path towards improving peoples’ quality of life; and when people have a better quality of life, they often have the means to improve the lives of others as well as the planet). “Climate friendly” is often unfriendly to capitalism.
That beer sounds good.
Unity and healing
Three quarters of Black Americans say they are worried that they or someone they love will be physically attacked because of their race, according to a new poll released on Saturday.
A new Washington Post-Ipsos poll found that 75 percent of Black Americans polled are worried that they or someone they care about will be physically harmed because they are Black, a development that comes one week after a fatal shooting in a predominantly Black neighborhood in Buffalo, N.Y.
Seventy percent of Black Americans polled said they believed half or more white Americans hold white supremacist beliefs compared to 19 percent who believed fewer than half white Americans do.
Two-thirds of those polled said white supremacy is a bigger problem today compared to five years ago. In comparison, 28 percent said the size of the problem is the same, while five percent said it was a smaller problem today.
The power of bullshit compels you.
they believed half or more white Americans hold white supremacist beliefs
Sounds about right.
“Three quarters of Black Americans say they are worried that they or someone they love will be physically attacked because of their race”
In places like Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, Baltimore?
Id agree with that.
It’s true, you don’t see wypipo being victimized there!
In other shocking news, propaganda works.
806 is pretty close to the total number of black people in America, right?
The Washington Post-Ipsos poll was conducted between May 18 and May 20 with 806 Black Americans. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 4.5 percentage points.
Sounds legit.
Just don’t mention the lockdowns
Australian voters have delivered a sharp rebuke to the center-right government, ending nine years of conservative rule, in favor of the center-left opposition that promised stronger action on climate change.
Australian Labor Party leader Anthony Albanese appeared certain to form a minority government, though it was unclear as counting continued if the party would have enough seats for a majority, according to projections from three news networks.
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Amanda McKenzie, CEO of the research group the Climate Council, declared climate action the winner of the vote.
“Millions of Australians have put climate first. Now, it’s time for a radical reset on how this great nation of ours acts upon the climate challenge,” she said in a statement.
It couldn’t have been a giant “Anybody but you” to the panicdemic architects, could it?
Because the weather has changed soooo much, they’re scared? Willful Ignoranceᵀᴹ is international.
No, no, no… it is *obviously* a referendum on “the climate”. The people have spoken and they said loudly and clearly that the gas and electric was just too damn cheap.
Propaganda works.
Because people are lazy and stupid. Fuck humanity.
/Grumpy
Most of the state premiers in Australia during covid were from the Labor Party (definitely in Victoria, where for months people could leave a house only for 1 hour every day wearing a mask outdoors), while the federal Prime Minister was from the Liberal Party. All of them were for lockdowns and all but forced vaccination. Sure, there were certain differences but fundamentally they were all on the same page. No, this vote cannot be interpreted as “anybody but you.” From what I know, nobody campaigned on the covid response/restrictions in this election campaign.
The Batman: this movie would suck less had Christopher Nolan not created three perfect Batman films.
Christopher Nolan hired Adam West?
As a consultant? Probably.
Adam West in the new Batman movie
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6B90ic2iKDo
I want to see this movie
See BigMac comment above-
Ancient poop reveals what the builders of Stonehenge liked to eat
It tells us what one person (and four dogs) ate. Not what people ate.
Did the other people in his tribe/group/community have different meal options?
No, this vote cannot be interpreted as “anybody but you.” From what I know, nobody campaigned on the covid response/restrictions in this election campaign.
Huh.
Fuck you, Australia. Eat shit and like it.
Good meetup at Gourmeltz with Rat and Ron today. A couple good hours of chatting and tasty food – and so much more room. Stayed indoors for obvious reasons – although the outdoor bar is open and they’ve got those fans set up that blow cold wet air on you – same as when we were there last year.
We did discuss the possibility of some meetups further south this summer – maybe Richmond or the Williamsburg area – or Gloucester-ish – that may be more convenient for more folks. Feedback desired.
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Trying to decide if I want to finish the yard this afternoon after it gets below 92…or just take my chances and wait till tomorrow. Picked up some bookcases from the Habitat ReStore on the way home as well as my wallyworld groceries and I’m already feeling cooked.
Ron did bring his 370k+ truck. Real beauty – you can see a lot of great work. Told him he should bring it to a Gourmeltz car show soon.
Still in Jersey City, but we are on the road.
DAILY QUORDLE ROUNDUP™©®
(The ‘MikeS is unreliable’ Edition)
#117
Champ
l0b0t 17
Grumbletarian 20
kinnath 20
Mojeaux 20
Tulip 20
whiz 20
Grummun 21
Ozymandias 21
Grosspatzer 22
grrizzly 22
Not Adahn 22
one true athena 22
Rat on a train 22
Sean 22
TARDis 22
Ted S. 22
trshmnstr the terrible 23
The Hyperbole 24
Tundra 25
MikeS 27
QuordleBot 28
Chump
SDF-7 29
Not too bad people, not bad ‘tall. 21 Players and 1 bot, 22.31818182 Average, 16/6 Tundra Line Split, no chumps. Try and keep up the good work when MikeS takes over tomorrow (If he takes over and doesn’t come up with another lame excuse)
Championship news – Grrizzly and Not Adahn Tied so they will face off again tomorrow, I’m calling an audible and shelving the tiebreaker rules for the final match, this is too important to be left up to a possible coin flip. Grrizzly and Not Adahn will battle it out until one of them bests the other, if it takes a week, it takes a week. I plan on starting the next tournament Monday, you will be automatically entered if you reported scores all last week (games 110-116) if you don’t qualify thusly and would like to participate simply let my know and I’ll add you in.
GQ&GL
I generally like the Alaskan brand beers.