It would appear I was called out last week:
All fair criticism. I was saving that one since March, when the weather doesn’t make me wish to grab a case of White Claws. So Lackadaisical, Chafed…this is for you.
This is my review of the Original Budweiser:
Curiously, being called out is something of a theme for me this week. After months of shitposting on Twitter, attempting to earn a slap on the wrist it finally happened. I got blocked for violating their abuse and harassment policy. Apparently, I just wasn’t a tall enough poppy before this.
My first attempt was making fun of Bradley Chelsea Manning that resulted in Manning’s social media handlers blocking me. Later, I was unblocked but probably muted because I only asked how if Manning fell for the old trick where they send a dumbass Private to supply for a can of elbow grease and bottle of headlight fluid. Clearly they didn’t get the joke, but knew it was a joke.
Then a little over two weeks ago when LaVar Burton declared Kunta Kinte was in the White House. I replied back “I think you mean Toby?” This received no reaction at all.
What finally did it was when I responded to Michael Malice’s tweet about Manatees.
Calling LaVar Burton by his slave name is okay, but manatees are a bridge too far. This is why Musk needs to finish the buyout, and kill Twitter with fire.
What is there left to say about Budweiser, the great American lager? The classic rice pilsner taste followed by the inevitable sting of carbonic acid since it immediately went flat after pouring that head lasting just long enough to get a decent picture. Its the official beer of chain gangs collecting cans on the highway. The official beer of indifference to endangered species too stupid to get out of the way of a goddamn fan boat. Its not like they’re being hunted for food…anymore. The official beer of “oh shit I forgot I bought those last time I went noodling!” Not the official beer of America, but fuckin’ Murica! The can says it all—let freedom ring. For that, they get extra points. The Original Budweiser: 2.0/5
I’m gonna kill a manatee in your honor MS.
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4th of July Manatee BBQ. A new tradition!
I appreciate that.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen those “freedom” cans before.
Having “Freedom” on the can definitely merits the extra points.
I get the impression those extra points are all the points.
Do they taste like
chickenpork?They did have the best jingle ever in their 1971/’72 ad buy.
https://youtu.be/UGp_1MOeOjc
There were some weird body movements in that ad. Almost like some of them were not quite human.
Perhaps they used early practice models from Disney’s Hall Of Presidents.
Ask me (or, more pertinently, TT) about that campaign on 7/30. 😉
OMG! Is that him playing the brass instrument?
No, he’s Sir Not Appearing in This Commercial, but there ARE fewer than six degrees of separation…
Cool. I’m intrigued and also can’t wait to meet y’all.
We did decide, after some number crunching and the impending necessity of an impromptu road trip to South Dakota, that we would not be able to make the trip.
😢
Yeah, me too.
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I am going to make a side trip to DeSmet, however, where I shall soak up all the Laura Ingalls Wilder goodness I possibly can.
👍🏼 (need a covered wagon and/or sunbonnet emoji!)
You mean noodling, right?
Can I be her when I grow up?
The Catfish Millionaire.
The problem with noodling is that when you waggle your fingers in front of the submerged mud hole to lure out a catfish, sometimes that mud hole is occupied by a snapping turtle, in which case you might not return with as many digits on your hand as you started with.
I never did the noodling myself; I was on the boat helping peel the big fish off the arm of the noodler who caught him.
Reminds me, I need to write up the Allamakee County story of my old buds Lefty and Three-Fingered Pete.
I’ll be in my bunk.
For an easy drinking Pilsner beer (that is not from Germany or Czech) you can’t really do better than Pacifico Clara. It is a perfect example of that style (mass market Pilsner that likely doesn’t follow the Rheinheitsgebot). In general the Mexicans make really good easy drinking Pilsners, I dig me some Modelo nd Bohemia as well. They really put Bud to shame.
Absolutely. Seems like you pay more for Bud, which is always inferior to a nice Modelo. I notice this post went for original Bud and not the scourge of humanity, Bud Light? I guess that is too much like shooting fish in a barrel.
Here it is 1-3 bucks more a 12er for Modelo/Pacifico compared to Bud. That’s an absolute no brainer for me, they both taste far better than the King of Beers. Original Budvar is frigging awesome, but it isn’t cheap and is fairly hard to find here. They also import it in a green bottle, versus the classic brown in Europe, which hurts the taste considerably. It’s sold under the name Czechvar for obvious reasons. FWIW, North Coast Brewing makes a great Pilsner, Scrimshaw, that is highly recommended, but utterly different than those Mexican beers. Really all of Latin America makes fantastic mass market pils beers, Imperial out of Costa Rica and any of the popular Brazilian ones frigging rock on a hot day (but none are widely available in the States).
Scrimshaw is excellent.
Fuck Constellation’s fake beers.
I’m spoiled by having a large selection of locally brewed German and Czech pilsners.
My college girlfriend was doing some research in Tahiti, specifically on Brando’s island, and all of the locals went nuts over Budweiser, as it was the import to them. She was drinking the local swill, some Polynesian beer that was half the price, but no one wanted, and they couldn’t understand why she was drinking it.
lol
You should have a link to the new Quordle sheet, I thought you would be automatically included when I made it but apparently I was wrong, again. That’s twice this week which is really out of character for me.
Got it. Did you see the Qualculator I shared with you?
Just now, very nice.
Nerdy as fuck but very nice nonetheless.
Nerdy/Lazy. Got tired of scoring them by hand
If I was nerdier I’d figure out a way for it to calculate the doubles. The one method I had in mind would take waaaaay too many formulas, so I decided a quick manual scan and entry of doubles wasn’t so bad.
🙂
‘Councilman Mondo Tiger ‘
Sounds like a wrestler name.
Can’t believe you can get banned for saying you want to kill manatees.
Ohh,I thought you said Manistee,
Nevermind.
Now do Natty Ice MS!
Lol!
+5.9
All the stores ran out last week and I resorted to that stuff Tres drinks,
Now its back in stock and all is right with the world.
Earfquake?
No millwaukees best ice, same outfit
Now do Natty Ice MS!
…um
Its good cold, try it MS, take one for the team!😉
The keymaster has arrived.
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7/11? Looks like we are crapping out.
OT.
Just got done with the 6AM troubleshooting sev1 incident party in which we managed to spend 7 hours trying this and that and failing to come up with any answers. I did, however, manage to come up with a manual workaround to capture the missing data. Great start to the
longlost weekend, can’t wait to see what comes next.After that, you should get Tuesday off, too!
Real man of genius.
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Speaking of great beer ad campaigns…
Hey db, thanks for the Whitney recommendations a couple weeks back. We all made it to the top on Monday morning. Camped a night at Whitney Portal, then backpacked into Outpost Camp about 4 miles in. Had some vicious winds over 50 mph at times during the late afternoon and night there. Woke up at 330 am, had a quick coffee and bite and made it to the top, taking our time. Got a bit lightheaded to altitude over 13000, but really the trip back down was harder in some ways due to fatigue. It was arduous, but awesome, super glad to have done it. I absolutely love the nearby town of Lone Pine, and the Alabama Hills are stunning. We also camped a night up near Rock Creek Lake at close to 10k feet and the two older boys got their first trout.
Huzzah KS! Congrats on making it to the summit and 49.9% of the way to the summit of Mt Everest. Coming down always is tough. Post summit let down, tired, altitude, and using untaxed muscles (front of thighs) can add quickly up. I hope your boys enjoyed their trout as well.
Thanks db! Yeah, they had a blast catching them and cooking them up by campfire. They’ve camped and even backpacked a bunch, but we usually head to Sierra lakes at lower elevations in mid or late summer so the trout bite can often be sparse.
I have been at higher elevations in the Andes, but I think that will likely be my highest peak. It was a fantastic experience though
the two older boys got their first trout
😳
Sweet! I grew up on trout and didn’t realize how not common those are. That’s most of what gets stocked around here. I need to dust off my pole and start fishing again. Salmonids are the superior eating fish.
Disappointed at how much tackle is Chinese crap these days.
Damn near impossible to avoid it, though. Not all of it is garbage. Fly or spinning?
Congrats on all of that!
Really stoked for the boys. Fishing is the perfect addiction.
It’s WWII hilarity all over again. I just watched Operation Petticoat, Operation Mad Ball, and I’m starting Mister Roberts. now. Good stuff. Might even dive into Stalag 17 tonight.
Mister Roberts is a fantastic movie. It is full of great performances.
(They filmed it in the bay a half mile from my house.)
Stalag 17 is a great one as well. The actor who played SGT Schultz (Sig Rumann) was in almost every Marx Brothers movie and in “Ninotchka”.
A relatively unknown but fantastic WWII movie is “The Cruel Sea”. It is well regarded for the storyline and the attention to detail. The movie is about the Battle of the Atlantic on the small RN escort vessels.
Luckily it’s strawberry season because I suddenly feel like two scoops on ice cream.
Thank you sir, I’m downloading The Cruel Sea right now. Also, wasn’t Sig a professional wrestler as well?
I’ll add “The Man Who Never Was” (about Operation Mincemeat) and “Millions Like Us” (a British movie made during the war about the women who went to work on defense plants) to the list.
And, of course, Michael Powell’s “A Canterbury Tale”.
Col. Darby O’Gill and the Little Rangers
Now I’m in the mood to watch South Pacific. 🏝🎶
Meh.
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This article is a Glibertarians miracle. MS’s article was read. Comments were made about the article and MS responded. Proof some of us are not aspies.
What are you talking about? I saw no replies from Mississippi.
Golf 👏 Clap 👏
I always appreciate this. I know it’s not always possible, people have lives and shit, but it’s nice when the author slums around in the comments for a while.
Yeah, much as I love my accustomed Monday morning time slot, the only downside is that it hits at 8:00 AM here – usually right when I’m in the middle of starting my work week. So I don’t reply as much as I would like to.
I like my monday night slot, when I actually write something
That’s why I’m here Sunday afternoon.
But I’m emotionally artistic.
Maybe a 79 year old with a history of falling upstairs in public shouldn’t be riding in a bicycle race.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10929963/Biden-79-FALLS-bike-ride-near-Rehoboth-Beach-home.html
If nobody else has done it yet (I haz disappoint) then: obligatory
Yeah, he needs to survive until Nov. 9th at least.
I think he has to make it to January – I think it’s two years past inauguration, not election. That way Harris is eligible for two (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!) terms.
Ah yes, my mistake. I honestly don’t think he’ll make it then. Unless the election fortification is absolutely epic.
I want to believe even the cheaters will be sick of inflation.
Will they be pissed off enough to stop the cheaters who aren’t? I’m not confident. I went to the market near the town square this morning. At the square just one block over they were having a Juneteenth celebration. Three or four tents for the DNC. Stupid white womyn politicking for stupid Stacey everywhere.
Eeewwww.
This pisses me off because I want the Gerald Ford experience, and I don’t think I’m getting the Gerald Ford experience.
Somebody called Rob Lowe, cause POTUsS fell off a bicycle!
Since I was in Army aviation, our screw-with-the-new-guy bit was something like “go get 100 yards of flight line”. Or “see if supply has 5 gallons of prop wash”.
The other classics were “find a tube of frequency grease” or “get a box of grid squares”.
My dad told me they used this on when he was in.
Being in metal manufacturing, “go get an aluminum/stainless steel* magnet” is one I’ve heard and used a lot.
*preemptive pedant strike: there are magnetic stainless steels. However, the most common (in my work) 300 series SS’s are not.
My stainless framed Sig will attract a magnet.
Just checked my GP100; it also does.
Don’t forget the ever popular, “chemlight charger”, “left handed monkeywrench”, “roll of contour line”, or “shot group tightener”.
The best one I heard was from a conversation between a medic and a weapons guy in training:
Medic: “Hey, can you go get me a tourniquet converter out of the truck bag?”
Weapons guy: “Yeah sure thing.”
(Ten minutes later, weapons guy returns despondent)
WG: “Doc, I can’t find it, I looked everywhere.”
M: (exasperated sigh) “Well, guess I gotta do this manually.”
*unwinds windlass on tourniquet*
“Okay, looks good, he’ll be fine.”
Go tell the platoon sergeant that we need a PRC-E-7
No ID-10T forms?
Things I have learned:
NY has hummingbirds.
They like to eat milkweed nectar.
Milkweed flowers smell wonderful.
Our yard fills with milkweed; we raised monarch butterflies for several years. Never saw a hummingbird though; that would have been a treat.
NY hummingbirds are less than half of the size of the ones I’m used to that live around Austin.
Alright, tomorrow is double porterhouse day!
I just salted almost six lbs of cow.
Nice
I’m almost ready to harvest my first hot pepper pods of the season.
https://www.wfmz.com/news/area/berks/hes-proof-miracles-happen-after-149-days-in-the-hospital-berks-covid-patient-goes-home/article_921e1b3c-eea7-11ec-a11e-ff4cbe81f0a1.html
Don’t be fat.
I find this commercial to be very strange: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lFg-0EpDJVE
The Boys. Um … that … was inventive.
Most recent episode? Or this season in general (I haven’t watched the last ep yet, but this season started surprising me around the second ep.)
S3:E1 Audience “meets” Termite.
Ah, that (to me) was just more of the same.
I may have forgotten the previous seasons.
Yeah. That would have been more of a cut scene.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/06/developing-four-federal-inmates-escape-virginia-prison/
There should be a law against that.
My brother’s ex is German. Years ago a few of her pals came to visit and I hosted a BBQ. I asked her what beer I could get for them and Bud was the unanimous choice. I thought she might be kidding, so I bought a case of bud as well as some of Minnesota’s best craft brews. Bud got cleaned out – they didn’t touch the good stuff. WTF?
I’ll drink a Bud if there’s nothing else on offer, but I don’t really care for it.
Manatees!
Last time it was Bud or nothing I couldn’t force down more than half a bottle – and I’m not that finicky. I have a neighbor constantly offering Coors Light on hot days which I have no problem with.
Yeah, that’s strange. I experienced the same thing when I was deployed to RAF Mildenhall during Desert Storm. We had a very nice airshow and the Brits plowed through Miller Lite and Bud like water. Some even drank Coors. They said it didn’t make them as drunk. BS. I have never seen so many beer cans though. We picked up stray cans (dead soldiers) for days.
Supposedly, Budweiser was originally Budvar, a Czech lager. All I know is both give me a headache, even in small amounts. There is probably more to the story, I just don’t care.
Budvar is where the original recipe for Budwieser came from supposedly.. There were many, many, many lawsuits about the name for a long time. I believe in the end, Budvar can sell as the Original Budweiser in Europe, but not in the US.
Correct. It is Checkvar here. Unfortunately, they were bought by a Dutch conglomerate, and it is no longer imported.
Why ARE we keeping pandas alive?
Pistols for Pandas.
https://youtu.be/sHY_xOj2M_g
Man, I miss that silly website.
How else are we going to learn how to master chi?
If I am compelled to drink a “mainstream” American beer, I will pick Miller Genuine Draft. The best of the worst.
Too sweet for my taste, I would drink a bud first
Coors for me.
I miss Weinherds. Particularly Blue Boar Ake.
I agree. That was surprisingly good.
I have a soft spot for Schlitz. There was a great divey type bar in Tallahassee that had Schlitz on tap.
I likedSchlitz merchandise too. They had those cool globe lamps.
Miller High Life as well. The clock with the lady sitting on the moon who raises her glass every 15 minutes ruled over our Mardi Gras shifts. We kept the wee pony bottles on ice for staff use only. Every time the lady raised her glass we all had to slam one down. Good times…
Doesn’t Yuengling count as “mainstream” – or is that a step up?
I think it’s a step up. I never even saw it regularly until recently. Maybe a half step up?
They’re being brewed/distributed by Miller now, at least here in TX.
Not sure if Rolling Rock is mainstream but I like it. I see it was sold to the Borg and is not even brewed in PA any more.
That was huge in Texas cities for a while. I remember is skunked quickly in the green bottles.
I may or may not have heard a story about someone having tasted the sweet flesh of such an animal and how it may have tasted like the best meat this hypothetical person had ever theoretically eaten.