I try to not talk about the current thing(TM). Not because I am not interested in the current thing, I just prefer to write about something else because I can’t always log on here and see if you guys had enough of talking about the current thing. But I guess this is the weekly beer review, so to not throw something out there would seem…I dunno.
This is my review of Victory Brewing Java Latte Milk Stout:
Bud Light is a terrible beer and I am glad they finally did something to make everyone come to their damn senses and realize they think you suck, and they hate you, but you keep coming back to their shit product because fuck hipster juice. (Collective you, not you specifically that hates hipster juice. You know who you are.)
6 month chart. H/T: Charles Schwab
Of course, a mostly reasonable reaction from SoCons is to boycott Bud Light, but its a label under the AB-InBev international intoxicating beverage conglomerate that has hundreds of brands from around the world. Including local ones I really like. Which is why this very well might work as well as the SoCon boycott of Gillette under P&G—there are too many brands to keep up with and we don’t really know if it is really affecting their bottom line because of the shift in sales to another one of their brands. Sure the stock has gone down in the past week or so, and there have been many instances of successful boycotts but it is honestly too soon to tell.
So as a public service announcement, I just want to make sure you are all aware of the Czech brand Budweiser Budvar.
They are not affiliated with AB-InBev in any way, and in fact have gotten into legal disputes over the years due to the branding being nearly identical to the American brand paying homage to the communist cult. If you intend to punish AB-InBev with your wallet, please do not punish Budweiser Budvar.
This one was splodey, so I just had to get a good pic of it. This is a milk stout and while it is a bit on the sweet side but doesn’t overdo it. Mostly because of the cold brew coffee and booze they toss in their casually to counter it. It is not like the English varieties in this sense. A brief perusal of their website suggests it is NOT AFFILIATED with AB-InBev but under a parent company called Artisanal Brewing Ventures with Southern Tier Brewing. Victory Brewing Java Latte Milk Stout: 3.9/5 8.2% ABV
Java Latte Milk Stout
I’d rather drink Bud Light.
YMMV
Same
Same same. I think.
Apropos of nothing except alcohol: I have never had a martini. At no point has it ever been martini time for limey.
Sad!
It’s an acquired taste. Both vodka and gin martinis are alcohol with no significant dilution so they can be quite strong. First time I had a vodka martini I though it tasted like I drank windex.
It’s an acquired taste, but if you drink them often enough you will eventually acquire it.
It helps if the person making the martinis isn’t some trendy idiot serving you chilled gin in a coupe glass. A martini should be between 1/4 and 1/6 dry vermouth, a dash of bitters is optional but you should try it at least once.
No, I don’t care that Winston Churchill nodded in the direction of France, in preference to the vermouth. If we’re suffering a wartime blockade I’ll be drinking homemade grappa with the rest of you.
Now I’m thirsty…
I like martini’s, but will not say no to a glass of chilled gin, with or without an olive.
I know who isn’t the next James Bond.
This sounds good. I am on Team Sharpshooter
Same here. Maybe not in the summer, but if my options are this or Bud Light, I’ll take the hipster juice.
(Collective you, not you specifically that hates hipster juice. You know who you are.)
*looks over shoulder*
*waves a Brooksie*
Yard work day and my older dog is helping with the weed pulling by pretending to be a goat. He also wrangles the new cat when she gets outside. He has a good life, but there is a farm dog in him somewhere.
Sounds like a good day with great companions.
Dog is “helping”
What a cutie. Is that yours slumbrew?
Yep.
Here she is using her psychic powers to get me to open the sliding door at my MIL’s.
And a more typical pose.
(You can tell it’s my MIL’s again, because ‘TV Guide’)
Whoa, they still publish that?
That’s my reaction every time I see it there.
On the furniture? Tsk, tsk.
She’s the Professor X of dogs.
Awww. Sweet girl.
Furniture looks good!
Aaaand a quick 75 dollars later at the local hardware store, now I have one of those triangular sanding heads for my multi-tool. And some teak oil.
This has snowballed, of course – now I’m full-on disassembling the chairs so I can sand “correctly”.
Of course. Every time I try a shortcut, I wind up redoing it anyway. Might as well cut to the chase.
Dog butt approved sanding job.
Awesome. I’ve always had herding dogs. They can be complete shits, but I love them anyway.
Enjoy!
From dead thread:
Does anyone think the commies weren’t behind a whole lot of this? As in, funded organized, and supported by East Germany and the Soviets?
The fun show Deutschland 83 agrees with you. The commies were portrayed as heavily involved in stirring up eco-protests in W. Germany. It’s a fictionalized account with some actual events thrown in but I don’t doubt the accuracy of that plot point.
It’s art imitating life. Seriously.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/russian-funded-environmental-group-gave-millions-to-anti-fracking-groups
Lefty heads should explode over that.
Nothing in there to explode.
The two following seasons were excellent as well. During D86 one plot point was how the DDR reacted to Chernobyl.
I still haven’t watched ’89. I should get on that.
The Russian petroleum industry bankrolls the Russian eco-weenies to wreak havoc on American oil production.
That head all over the glass and countertop is making me go 😰.
I knew someone would like it.
Yeah, if you’re a lefty. At least based on a cursory examination of that list.
That’s what is interesting. There are so many conservatives. They gang up, make a dent, but nobody sways. In comparison, the lefties really have an outsized voice and very little economic impact either. But they get their way constantly. If I was a business I’d run it my way and stay out of politics, entirely. Either side wants me to make a public stand? Screw off, I sell products, not ideas.
Sure. There’s also the older gentleman I came across last Friday with a cart filled with cases of Bud Light. Didn’t strike me as the type that would support QUILTBAG, just an older working class guy buying something he always buys.
He was also too old to spend any meaningful time on the internet so its possible he has no idea there’s any back lash at all.
Dear Sharpshooter: It was brought to my attention that Vegas now has ass-slapping contests.
https://www.insidesport.in/video-butt-slapping-contest-leaves-the-internet-shocked-mma-fans-react-dana-white-about-to-invest/
Favorite comment: “The kind of martial art I can get behind.”
Well new venue to check out!
If the promoters don’t hire Steel Panther to perform at their main event it would be a travesty.
Mother of God
Penitence and self-abasement
Two days after the author first spoke out about the offer, Scholastic said it had apologized to Tokuda-Hall for its editing approach, in a statement sent to NPR on Thursday night.
“In our initial outreach we suggested edits to Ms. Tokuda-Hall’s author’s note,” the company’s CEO Peter Warwick wrote in a statement. “This approach was wrong and not in keeping with Scholastic’s values. We don’t want to diminish or in any way minimize the racism that tragically persists against Asian-Americans.”
Scholastic said that during the process it had failed to consult its “mentors” for the Rising Voices collection — authors and educators from Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities — and has since reached out to them to hear their concerns. “We must never do this again,” Warwick wrote.
Sinners must be punished in the public square.
The issue I see is that Scholastic apologized.
I’m not a fan of everything is racism, but that’s her choice on how to look at life and how she wants to be published.
Basically screw them both.
Yeah, fuck that noise. Publishers make edits, that’s what they do.
She can shop that bullshit to another outfit.
That’s my issue too. America has a large history of racism and I have no issue stating that.
Wonder how she feels about Japan’s racism in Asia.
That’s different because FYTW.
Yeah, it’s the delusion that it’s somehow unique to America that grinds my gears.
Same here. I honestly believe America is less racist/tribalist than most societies.
For now. The wokists are trying to change that.
Blue cities are the most racist places in the country. I’ve been in the south for most of my life and I had never personally seen a black person called the n word (to their face and all). NY (grew up there)? SF? Yea, racial tension was way higher and in the open.
My recollection of Richmond VA v Boston MA back in the 80s – 90s, as well.
The north is where whites pretend to like blacks.
The south is there whites pretend to hate blacks.
I don’t care about the outrage, I’m more interested in the calculus for a company that feels it needs to join the culture wars and how it deals with its decision to do so.
I’ve no idea how their brands are allocated among distributors so this may well have truly fucked some people that won’t balance out with consumption of their other brands. This will happen behind the scenes, it may make management pause.
At the moment it feels like nothing can stop this freight train of perversion and debasement from the lefty religion. It will have to eat itself and everything around it before it stops. This will be a rough decade.
I’m also interested in the internal calculus but it seems to me the outrage they never expected should have been part of that calculus. Why Bud felt the need to join the culture wars is baffling.
The way I saw it explained is that lefty outfits reach out to the big brands and if they don’t go along, they will unleash negative publicity on you.
Basically an extortion racket.
I saw the video of their VP explaining her reasoning. It was vapid but believable. What was unbelievable, to me, is no one more senior reviewing the ad/campaign before it was launched.
Rhy are you referring to the Corporate Equity Index put out by Human Rights Watch? If you are, then the execs who care about their ranking are as stupid as the ones who rely on SPLC to determine who or what is racist.
Yeah, that’s the one.
I mean it makes perfect sense as a strategy; and clearly, it works. Those suits will do *anything* to prevent bad publicity.
Some bad publicity, anyway. And to be fair, the wokist media means the only bad publicity that matters comes from the left.
lefty outfits reach out to the big brands
The calls are coming from inside of the corporation. The young marketeer, accounting grad, or HR business partner are all full of the same leftist nonsense by and large.
I really dislike the flavor or lactose. So, no milk stouts for me.
I do enjoy a nice dry stout from time to time.
LEGO has gone gay.
I think the real crime here is the complete lack of imagination. What is a kid supposed to do with this set? The point o flegos is to build shit and/or problem solve. Building rainbow colored humans and human shaped otherkin involves zero of those two things.
While that’s true it is consistent with their Star Wars sets too. I imagine it’s profitable if they keep selling it.
Some of the Star Wars stuff may take more than a minute to build.
I can’t imagine the “Everybody is Awesome” set selling that well. Or being produced in large numbers. But I’m sure it’s great for their ESG scores.
Blue Hair HR chicks will buy it and think they’re Supporting Something. That’s all it’s for. No kid will play with any of it, any more than any girl played with the #gurrrlpower sets they made a few years ago.
I would argue Lego sets were already inclusive.
Didn’t teach white children to be ashamed of playing with toys of color?
I’m not a fan of everything is racism, but that’s her choice on how to look at life and how she wants to be published.
To be honest, it sounds as if her phrasing was clumsy but it’s pointless to pretend there wasn’t a strong undercurrent of anti-Oriental sentiment, particularly on the west coast. She is obviously on solid ground declining Scholastic’s terms.
I’m surprised Scholastic objected.
This is one your best articles MS. I’m not sure why but it struck a chord for me. I knew AB Inbev was big but didn’t realize it owned so many local brands. *sigh*
They don’t really *own* the local brands, in many cases its a distribution agreement. They may make meh beer but they are certainly built to distribute it all over the country. The small guys just pay them to push it regionally or nationally.
Thanks BTW!
You’re welcome.
It’s not as if gay bars don’t serve Bud Light.
Next you’ll tell me there are gay steelworkers.
https://youtu.be/YTgwpnPIJEA
Can you still get Checkvar(Budvar) in the US? Last I heard, the brand had been bought by the Dutch and American import was discontinued.
I’m willing to go to the Czech Republic for good beer and the local women.
Still bitter about Covid wrecking my trip to Prague.
It’s really good beer. I haven’t looked for it in ages, but it would be a shame if it’s no longer available.
It’s not. It used to be my house beer.
Now I have to look.
The cropping on the front-page picture is an attack on poor Richard.
HE, Thanks for the book recommendation in the dedthred. I have it on ILL now.
Yeah, it’s the delusion that it’s somehow unique to America that grinds my gears.
The book is apparently a story about Japanese Americans in an internment camp. A bit of exposition about how and why they came to be there is needed. But yeah, if it’s “America’s intrinsic and unmitigated racism, she can fuck off. And, as Sensei mentioned, she could always toss in a chapter about the Japanese occupation of Korea and China for added context.
“None of that happened in America”
Just like the environmental damage of lithium mining and processing. If we don’t see, we don’t have to feel bad about it.
Of course by that token, they should be allowing the strip mining of Alaska’s north slope.
The way I saw it explained is that lefty outfits reach out to the big brands and if they don’t go along, they will unleash negative publicity on you.
Basically an extortion racket.
Jesse Jackson looms large.
Anyone want a condo in Alexandria VA? $150K cash, as-is. 757 square feet, 1 bed + den.
Alexandria? Ewww.
Sale fell through?
Looks that way
That sucks. I thought it was part of a whole development deal
It was. The whole deal is fixin to fall apart.
Sorry to hear that. Could you rent it out?
I could if I put $15-20k in repairs & upgrades and waited months for it to be done. But then I’d still own the place like an albatross around my neck.
I’d rather take a lowball offer.
Shit, sorry KK. On the plus side, you’ve got a new sidekick and are out of there.
Daily Sequence Quordle 446
2️⃣4️⃣
5️⃣7️⃣
New fucking game to get hung up on.
This sounds good. I am on Team Sharpshooter
We hold our circus in a big tent. Welcome, friend.
Gooba Gabba one of us!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=39Bnk6VU53Y
Thanks! I like Stouts and such. I cannot physically drink a lot of beer, though.
One of two new toilets installed! No leaks and works like a toilet should.
We picked up some vintage patio furniture (40s/50s metal motel chair and glider) — primed, sanded, painted, clear-coated and now on the front porch. Finished painting the door, trim, and steps into the garage.
Amazing what you can do when you have nowhere to go.
I’m keeping my couch from floating away.
Stop doing so much.
I am not great at sitting still until at least 10 pm at night. Sorry.
Not a washlet?
Barbarian still wipes his ass.
Re: morning thread
I’m mildly interested in the NBA playoffs for the first time in recent memory. I’d stopped caring at all during the ridiculous social justice outburst over the last several years and it’s still hard for me to watch the current game as it doesn’t resemble the game I grew up playing and watching. The rules have been relaxed to favor entertaining offense to the point where I don’t know why they even bother running back and playing defense.
That being said, predictions:
In the East first round, I’m picking Milwaukee, Philly, Boston, and the Cavs. The Knicks are ok and might pull the upset, but otherwise those are locks.
In the West, going with Denver, Phoenix, Sacramento, and the Lakers. I’m just not buying what Golden State is selling unless Steph and Klay can find the fountain of youth and figure out how to guard the younger and quicker Sacramento backcourt. Similarly, Memphis has injuries upfront and I don’t see any way they can contain either LeBron or Davis. Paul George is hurt and the Suns are going to be tough to beat without him at full strength.
I just hope they don’t decide to go full “hey we are all modern day Muhammad Ali” again. That was nauseating.
I quit the NBA when they instituted the Jordan rules. On the rare occasion I see some of a game I can tell it’s only gotten worse.
As a kid, I worshiped Jerry West and Elgin Baylor.
Just got back from the boat races. Lots of clever, clean cut youngsters having a blast. The banks of the creek were packed with spectators and the festival vibe was strong. Even the cops were cheering.
My daughter and her team capsized in the rapids, but the crowd loved them. Some overachievers created a viking ship that actually made it to the end. It was cool seeing all the different designs.
Fun morning.
😀
Very cool.
👍
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/04/obese-airline-passenger-whines-about-discrimination-demands-free-seats-and-makes-other-ludicrous-requests-in-petition-to-faa/
How about a couple futons down with the luggage?
The dwarf planet forgot to demand a pony as well.
Clydsdale would be more like it.
*Clydesdale edges toward exit*
Clydesdales…This comment makes the link: CERTIFIED ON TOPIC!
Charter a flight on a C-5, Shamu.
Am I the only one mildly aroused?
I feel very safe in saying absolutely.
Yes! A thousand times, yes!
Jesus Christ, Tres.
I’m starting to think Jugsy is like a size 5 and you are just trolling.
I’m surprised she didn’t demand free chips, ice cream, and soda for the whole flight.
I do feel bad for people who are that fat. It’s gotta be miserable. But don’t turn your obesity into a righteous cause, lest your action beget a reaction. With that in mind, fuck off, tubbo.
She’s on oxygen, FFS!
I’m going to be flying for the first time in a few years, next month. I’m not looking forward to it. Just imagine getting stuck in that middle seat…
I’ve been sat next to a few people who needed lap belt extensions. It was hard not
To ask them to pay for a third of my ticket since they were taking a third of my seat.
I have had the same experience. On one flight I had to turn sideways in my seat because tubby took up so much of it.
Wear a fat suit.
JFC she is so entitled. Lose some weight or by a second seat. Your problem is just that; your problem.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2023/04/the-week-in-pictures-light-budbud-light.php
I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but…
First.
For OMWC:
https://www.powerlineblog.com/ed-assets/2023/04/Screenshot-2023-04-10-at-6.38.48-PM.png
Access denied?
Very meta.
Darn!
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-15/long-covid-symptoms-impact-california-couple
Or maybe it’s just good old fashioned hypochondria. Or a healthy dose of victimhood complex and laziness.
You left out attention whoring.
It’s important to embrace the happy little moments amidst the gloom & doom of having a useless condo that won’t go away
https://ibb.co/SNNGcWG
Now he’s gnawing on a rawhide the neighbor dog dropped in the field
Was at the shitshow that the local farmers market has become*. The dumbass racist placards about Indians that the city put up as a cultural exhibit have been edited by someone who felt they were weren’t racisty and leftist enough. Hilarious.
*The farmers market org of grifts stole deed restricted public land to build a permanent building (with lots of public money support), that looks like shit and isn’t big enough for all of the vendors. They’ve also driven away a lot of long time actual farm vendors and replaced them with artisan trinket garbage and non-food stuff.
My favorite is the disclaimers you see at historical sites and museums now:
“ This exhibit represents colonialist viewpoints that reflect white supreme ist viewpoints and marginalize native voices…..blah, blah, blah”
Fuck off commies.
*colonialist narratives
On the plus side, tights are still in fashion and it was still cold enough that the lasses were wearing coats or long sleeve shirts that covered up the poor life decisions of public tatts.
Any way you can make a placard of that statement and super glue it onto of the other one?
Doesn’t look like the Anheuser-Busch thing hurt my Vice Fund much. In fact, it doesn’t seem to have made much of a dent in Anheuser-Busch stock.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/VICEX?p=VICEX&.tsrc=fin-srch
I suspect local bars/distributors will find bloated inventories first but it will be a while before it shows up on a corporate balance sheet. Again, assuming a successful boycott.
I assume they’ll switch to Michelob or Busch lite.
Coors lite is not part of InBev.
This week in “I hate those rednecks and wish they were dead”:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/04/the-forgotten-girls-monica-potts-book-excerpt/673581/
So true. Her life would be so much better in downtown Chicago.
At least she’d be around enlightened educated people and had access to abortion on demand. Not these evangelical morlocks who force traditional morality on her; which we all know inevitably leads to a life of drug use and a life of quiet despair.
We wanted careers; we wanted to be rich and famous;
You were 12 – you were stupid. What’s your excuse now?
I’m deciding if I want to watch this.
Oshi no Ko
I read essentially the first 10 chapters or so of the comic because it is incredibly popular in Japan. It’s bit of social commentary on the idol and entertainment industry. However, it’s incredibly bleak. It’s been given an A list treatment with top shelf voice talent for the anime. It is likely to be one of the top shows this season.
Despite all these pluses I’m still torn because it was so darn depressing.
Was it you who recommended Seven Samurai a few weeks back?
I decided to watch it on a rainy afternoon. My opinion; it lives up to the hype. I haven’t enjoyed a movie that much for quite a while.
I have recommended it, but think it may have been somebody else too.
Now you can catch the US version of the same story- “The Magnificent Seven- only the original.
It also features one of the most recognizable movie scores of all time.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XDB7GMnbUQ
I saw that years ago, I think my Dad insisted. Good movie also.
Or A Fistful of Dollars and Yojimbo.
Or “The Lives of Others” and life in a Blue State under the biden administration.
At least in HI you’ve got better weather than I do in NJ.
I don’t think it’s an exaggeration to say that it is one of the best movies ever made.
The fact that it spawned of bunch of other amazing films says a lot.