
Any chance of an update on the Beer Delivery Robot?
"I need a beer" is a phrase often uttered universally after a hard day's slog. But having cool, crisp refreshment fall into your lap as if by magic is something most of us can only dream of. Not so for two blokes who spent Sunday cleaning a mud-logged property in Nebraska. The US Midwest has been ravaged by record flooding, …
Beer and Cider is all well and good, but what about Caffine?
Since we are all office workers and Caffine is basically a major requirement (Not helped when people put the normal coffee lid on the caffine free pot! Everyone normally on caffine going cold turkey with no caffine is almost as ugly as those now feeling like they are buzzing)
What a wonderful idea for an experiment...
As a non coffee/caffeine drinker I can tell when one or two of my colleagues who drink coffee caffeine levels drop dangerously low by the almost slurring of thought process. Swapping lids could be a good experiment in showing how much some of them depend on it on a daily basis.
Withdrawal is not fun
Sounds a *lot* worse than codeine withdrawal (a bit of insomnia, a gut that suddenly fully-mobile again and joint pain).
I can go weeks without caffeine. But don't ask me to go for more than a day without tea..
(Yes - I know it has caffeine-like substances in it but they have an effect more akin to the substances in chocolate. Which is why a mug of tea relaxes and refreshes rather than making you jittery..)
"Swapping lids could be a good experiment in showing how much some of them depend on it on a daily basis."
You bastard! You complete and utter bastard! There is no need for that! We KNOW how much we need it! There's no need to deprive us of our fix!
Can you imagine the copy for presentation from Officers Servering El Reg in an Amsterdam Shell Satellite Operation with Organised AI Organisations.
They'd need to be very specific, with all due regard to current understandings and perceptions, whenever freely revealing needed New Knowledge for Future Fabulous Fabless Surreal AIdVenturing into clearly something which appears full completely unknown to y'all?
Would you agree? Or do you know and can easily prove it to be somewhat different without any of the above booty and bounty?
Where I worked back in the 70s, we had a draughtsman named Marshal Gaylard. He was also known as Captain Happyfat. There was also a Technical Writer called Barry Crick, who styled himself as Lord Barrington of Crick (Crick is a small village in Northamptonshire, about 5 miles from Rugby, just below where the M6 diverges from the M1). We also had a Ted Jones and a Tom Heath in the same office, at about the same time as Ted Heath was PM and Tom Jones was in the charts.
It's well documented on the things Merkins consider great which the rest of the world refers to in hushed disparaging terms:
Cheese v American Cheese
Champagne v American Champagne
Chicken v Chlorinated Chicken
Good Cars v American Cars
I leave the reader to add further examples.
International beer brewers' congress. After a day of meetings and stuff some of the guys meet at the local pub. The guy from Anheuser-Bush orders a Bud. The guy from Heineken orders, obviously, a Heineken. And the guy from Alken-Maes orders a coke. Noticing the puzzlement of the Anheuser and Heineken brewers, he answers "well, I thought since you ain't drinking beer I wouldn't neither."
If that's all that's available then "yes, it's beer". I was in a place a long time ago where the question was "Is Carling Black Label" beer? Since is was the only beverage available, it was indeed beer but only until the real beers became available. You take what you can get.
... today if's about 75F outside in the South and we think of it as a nice cool day ...
Perfectly good reason for you guys in the South to drink flavoured water I'll grant you. What's wrong with your countrymen up north though - they drink the same stuff sheltering in the lee of a bar in winter, don't they?
(Sorry, I couldn't get that to work the right way around. Coat because ... well, you know!)
"What's wrong with your countrymen up north though - they drink the same stuff sheltering in the lee of a bar in winter, don't they?"
In my neck of the woods, you'll often see beers like these showing up on the taps of local pubs during the colder months of the year.
Though I will submit that almost any beer is good beer when it's free beer. I have found precious few exceptions to this rule.
"Yes, it's beer - basically if you live in the US it's good because (being pretty close to water) you can drink a lot of it after a hot day in the fields or at work"
Many years ago, everyone drunk beer instead of water because it was safer than the water, the brweing process effectively sterilising it, so it was generally pretty week beer. It was more a health and safety process than a "lets keep the entire population roaring drink" process. Then civilised countries invented water treatment plants and introduced standards for safe piped drinking water into people homes and the need for weak beer receded. One day, the US will cover over and protect their currently open drinking water reservoirs so various creatures are not shitting in it just before it reaches the tap and "Lite" beer will disappear except in those regions where it's "manly" to drink many "beers".
drunk drank
week weak (right later, I notice!) ;-)
open drinking water reservoirs ... so various creatures are not shitting in it The UK has vast open water reservoirs (Lake District, North Wales etc.). They don't just pipe it into people's homes - it's treated first to take out the twigs and bird poop. I'm pretty sure that's how they do it in North America too.
Upvote - love Belgian beer.
But actually, there's nothing wrong with Budweiser - as long as it's brewed in České Budějovice.
All are interchangeable around these parts, and while "ice box" is by far less common you're not likely to raise an eyebrow. I haven't noticed any regionalisms, such as with "soda" vs "pop". I haven't been watching for them either. Personally I suppose I'm mostly a "fridge" guy.
Interesting question. IME in Britain "fridge" would be what one says normally, just to save the muscular effort of enunciating "refrigerator". Can you tell I'm not dictating this?
The "icebox" is a separate part of many (but not all) electrical refrigerators, supplied with extra cooling coils so that one can keep stuff in there actually frozen.
Damn. I wrote that last paragraph, and then found some more or less scholarly research.