[Bored] [Druid] [Thread] Follow

This one?

Spoiler

I'm drinking Hobgoblin right now. 10/10, Would drink again.

I've really only came across ONE beer I wouldn't drink again, and that was Kilkenny.
That was just euuuughbgsrthjkt.l,kyjdhsgaszd

I check out my Hotmail junk folder every week or so. Today I find an email for a MoP Beta invite that is dated September 30, nearly a week after MoP gets released. It could have something to do with it being Monday morning, but I laughed.

Of the things you should try in San Francisco, Mexican Food certainly isn't first and foremost.

Also, Foo Fighters are almost certainly on hiatus.

Hopefully we'll either get a new Probot or Them Crooked Vultures album while they're on hiatus.

Edited, Oct 1st 2012 8:27pm by Aethien

I feel like I should ask if they also explained to you the significance of breathing, but as a native I'm not exactly sure if that's seen as common sense to the outside world or not.

Well, they specifically mentioned never to go to one of the large chains when in New York, ever.

It's unlikely that I would if I'd ever go to NY but still.

At the very least you can survive on unemployment benefits so there's that. Sadly finding any sort of job right now is horrible (unless you're a truck driver, constant ads for those around here). I don't know how hard the economic crisis hit Finland but it's probably still a very bad time to be unemployed, if you don't want to stay unemployed anyway.

Also, would it be an option to start your studies halfway through the year in January somewhere? Depending on what you want to study (and the Finnish school system) that may be an option and make unemployment a not so big deal right now.

This crisis thing is going to end badly. It's the Cold War all over again. People are afraid that they'll get fired, so they save up money instead of spending it, which means that businesses make less money and have to fire people as a consequence.

If people would stop hoarding money and spend it then businesses would turn a profit and be able to hire again, which would create an even bigger profit as more people earn money and spend it, which would effectively kill the crisis.

Personally, I've been a big supporter of spending money. Unfortunately, it takes more than a couple of us to make it work.

That's only part of it. I completely agree with this when we're talking about the middle-middle to upper classes. They're the ones who probably have money sitting in savings (the upper class especially) that isn't stimulating the economy. In general, I don't think this is true of most Americans below there, though I can't comment on how Danish systems are working.

Right now in the US, I get the feeling we are hitting the point where the savings accounts are either finally getting depleted or have been for some time, due to income drops from cut hours, reduced work, lost jobs, commissions, etc. A LOT of people are now living essentially paycheck to paycheck, but all their money is going to bills and not to luxury items. So markets like utilities and food are doing fine, but luxury markets are REALLY suffering. Not because people won't spend, but because they just can't--they don't have enough credit to keep buying those goods when all their income is going into trying to reduce their debt or just stay afloat.

I'm probably jaded, because my family's primary income is based on commission and I live in a state with the highest cost of living in the nation (property taxes are probably going to cost my parents at least 20% of their income this year). But it's definitely part of the problem.

Maz and digg, stop it. We are not going Asylum in this thread. Not on my watch.

Rye IPA + various cheeses = win.

edit: Go Norway!



Edited, Oct 2nd 2012 5:49am by Aethien

But but think about the boobies n beer ...

I love me some boobies. and beer. And Red Hot Chili Peppers.

Aeth, isn't that pic from when stitches in his hand broke, or something like that?

Edited, Oct 2nd 2012 7:42am by smunks

Having a moment like ''awww they grow up so fat''?

You should probably stay away from anything Ayn Rand.

Well no sh*t extreme Socialism is bad. That was my point. It's stupid to point to any extremist POV and exclaim that it's bad.

tl;dr: People are dumb.

Soooo... cheer me up, I need it and beer didn't help.

Nothing, just feeling randomly crappy and moody. It's twice as frustrating because I can't figure out why.

But I've got fancy beers here like Green Flash's Le Freak, Cigar City's Guava Grove, Rodenbach's Caractère Rouge, 1 year old Jolly Pumpkin Oro De Calabaza, 7 year old Kasteel Brune and some others.

Edit: Also, my cousin has been to Helsinki a bunch of times now for some school project. His parents have also taken him to Morocco, Mexico, Thailand and a pile of other faraway places. Lucky bastard. (he's still a nice kid though)

Edited, Oct 2nd 2012 10:58pm by Aethien

I've been to.. euh... Belgium, France, Germany, Denmark, Greece, Nepal and Tibet so not that many countries. I'd love to go to Finland some time though. Norway too.

Edit: Oh and I haven't had any of those beers either. Well, aside from the Kasteel Brune but not a 7 year old one. I've had other beers from those breweries though.

Edited, Oct 2nd 2012 11:14pm by Aethien