Beer conversation makes me nostalgic for the classic "Wild Rainier" TV ads that were ubiquitous when I lived in Portland.
davew On Thu, Mar 13, 2025, at 12:19 PM, glen wrote: > Excellent ideas. But I couldn't even bring myself to flip off the > cybertruck driver the other day. I suppose I've fully matured out of my > road rage days. So purposeful vandalism might be beyond me at this > point. (Of course, I'm fully on the rhetorical side of the vandals, > though ... assuming their targets are ethical ... i.e. small > businesses: no, their landlords: yes, banks: yes, credit unions: no, > etc.) > > It's similar to Trump&Vance's bullying of Zelenskyy. No good really > comes from literal vandalism. It's temporary self-indulgence. > Figurative vandalism is much more effective. E.g. commenting on the > predictive inferences one might make based on the size or type of some > rando's vehicle ... like Subarus and leftists, liberals, and lesbians > ... or the inverse relationship between one's vehicle and penis sizes. > > And since we have the universe at our fingertips, I assume you know > "tumwater" means "waterfall" ... or at least according to this site: > https://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/visitors/our-history But we may as well > log it here, anyway. > > Re: Coors - to be honest, it's the best of the macros. I tend to stick > to Ranier or PBR when I hang out with hipsters. But Coors (not Light) > is actually better. But I haven't consumed it in at least 5 years. Your > comment about the refineries for macros is spot-on. They *are* > refineries, which is why their product isn't actually beer. Beer is > *alive*, not pasteurized and filtered (dead) to export to the other > side of the planet or sit on the shelf (warm, even) for 10 years. > Brewer's yeast is nutrient dense. If your beverage doesn't have yeast > in it, you're missing out. > > My doctor just this morning told me there's no health benefit to beer. > He's wrong in 2 ways: 1. Those of us with social disorders need > something ... kava, SSRIs, etc. in order to lead a healthy life. And 2. > real beer has dormant yeast in it. But I'd already told him I prolly > wouldn't take a cholesterol pill or statin even if he recommended it. > So I didn't argue about the beer. 8^( > > On 3/13/25 9:19 AM, steve smith wrote: >> >>> Ha! Yeah, an anarchist wrap on a vehicle would be the ultimate irony, >>> especially if the vehicle were new ... and not yet paid off. >> >> My fantasy is an Anarchist and/or a Swastika stencil kit with an aerosol or >> better spray-bottle of slow-acting stainless steel corrosive to be applied >> opportunistically to CyberTrucks (aka WankPanzers). Playing on Irony, >> rather than adding corrosives, perhaps simply applying strong wax/polymer >> solvents selectively to allow the natural elements to do their work while >> the larger area remains "protected"? Like sunburn stencils. Saltwater and >> road-salt environments seem like good locales for such... The Swastika and >> Anarchist's A both share the quality of being recognized even when created >> by the sloppiest gesture? >> >> Did you ever see any of the time-delay moss-paint graffiti emerge in the >> wet-season on concrete structures when you lived in Portland? Same Idea. >> >> Another direct-public-action (less destructive) thing I heard of and looked >> up for this occasion: >> >> https://www.dailydot.com/culture/cybertruck-hunters-projections/ >> >> Liberal activists being as mild as they often are: A Taos group asked Nambe >> Pueblo Governor "permission" to hold a protest at the Tesla "showroom" in >> Pojoaque and decided not to do so when the governor refused permission. >> There is a small block of CyberTrucks on the front-line there, if they faced >> away from the frontage road, they would be excellent "projection screens". >> >>> Smuggling Coors is exactly analogous to smuggling fentanyl. That stuff >>> ain't beer. >> >> What? No "Rocky Mountain Tumwater"? What is Tumwater, sounds vile? >> Best served with "Rocky Mountain Oysters"? I still remember the first time I >> drove past the Coors Golden plant... looks like a refinery? >> >> I would say in defense of Fentanyl, at least it is strong enough to get >> things stirring... who even thought up the idea of "Coors Light"? 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