Want FREE BEER for the rest of your life? We'd all like to save money on beer: we journos perhaps more than most as we are a notoriously thirsty bunch and expense accounts just aren't what they were in the old days. The most obvious method of doing so, rising up and slaughtering those who tax and water the workers' beer, isn't really viable. So, as so often in this …
I think it's another "look at me everyone. I'm so insecure with my life I have to boast about how amazing it is, on a UK-based IT website" post from jake.
To be fair, he's been here for a lot longer than most of the rest of us but I think he would be better off using his amazingly diverse life-experience to examine his posts and question why he feels the need to constantly show off about himself to a bunch of strangers.
I sincerely hope he finds happiness one day because, despite his protestations to the contrary, he clearly hasn't found it yet.
Of course you've been there and done that Jake. Was this, uh, before or after you wrote spaceship firmware/software? http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1937539
Or maybe became a cowherder? http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1948731
Or pioneered the cellphone generation? http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1950431
Or became Microsoft MCM, MCSM and MCA certified? http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1955006
Or became a "sophisticated hacker" http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1959679 where your sophistication is only matched by your modesty...
Or maybe became a self-employed 'conslutant'(sic) earning $BIGBUCKS hiring and firing for Fortune500s? http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/containing/1876058
In short Jake, I believe the words I'm looking for are WHAHAHAHAFUCKINGHAHAHAHA. Although I do like the idea of becoming a conslutant - is that where you advise ladies of the night on their attire?
"I really see only one problem: it's going to be damn difficult to offer the object of our desires another drink in order to get them into bed for the first time."
Tim, you have to look at the problem from a different point of view. The more pissed you get, the more objects of desire there will be. Hence the higher the chance to get one of them into bed. As we all know: those who drink a lot have more sex with ugly people.
You may not believe Jake, but I did have that about 20 years ago - initially misdiagnosed as ME. It's nowhere nears as nice as it sounds. It wasn't like being drunk all the time but more like permanently coping with a hangover. An anti yeast treatment sorted me out and I was so happy that it did.
Having once experienced the excessive fruity flatulence resulting of drinking some homebrew that had not quite finished fermenting, I would expect there to be somewhat of an anti-social side they failed to mention!
Could get interesting if such people get cremated. Gas for combustion, and alcohol to sustain it..
Yes indeed. In parts of the Rhineland, they have a tradition of drinking 1 week in ferment (i.e. unfinished, sweet, bubbling and slightly yeasty) white wine with onion tart. Makes you feel warm inside, and not more than 2 glasses are recommended, unless you want to get up multiple times in the night.
This may get interesting from a DOU perspective. The bottom line is that you're picked up with an alcohol reading in your blood, so where it comes from is from a pure police perspective irrelevant. But if it's a yeast issue, one could argue that there was no actual knowledge of the condition and alcohol level.
Hmm.
Look, making beer is easy and takes about 3-4 weeks unless you want it above 6% ABV. To make 23 litres takes about an hour to start it if you use spraymalt, and about an hour to bottle it. If you drink it quickly enough you don't even have to bottle it, a pressure keg will do just fine.
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