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My feet hurt just looking at that.

Pony driving the Batmobile...

There is a reason there are no ponies in that cave: -

So I had mountain dew for the first time today because a local grocery store got it and I figured why not? It was even an american 12 oz can and all. I'm not really impressed though. I mean, it was nice but it was kinda like 7up, just better.

Dr. Pepper + MUG Rootbeer = win.

And kudos for trying Mountain Dew, you're a brave soul.

I can't drink Mountain Dew anymore. I'm not sure why, but it just makes me kind of sick.

Ginger Beer isn't too common in the US. Ginger Ale is, though. Don't know if those are distinct abroad.

That's because there's 23 flavors...



It's better mixed with rootbeer.

For those interested, Psy is/will be doing an AMA on reddit

Like beer.

You live in one of the best states for craft beer in the USA, you better damn well enjoy it! And sure there will be something you enjoy between sweet or sour fruit beers, deliciously bitter IPA's and Pale Ales, warming chocolaty stouts, spicy pumpkin ales, refreshing weizen or any of the other god knows how many styles.

I'd love to get a bottle of Deschutes Black Butte Porter or The Dissident and you're as close to them as well, as whatever the distance between you and Bend is, close enough to be able to get them in stores around you and you're not even enjoying them.

You wouldn't believe the amount of money Dr. Pepper gives to schools down here, since Dr. Pepper-Snapple is based out of the town right next to my hometown. All the local highschools have stadiums sponsored by Dr. Pepper, all the vending machines sell Dr. Pepper/Snapple products (Snapple, Deja Blue water, etc. - but no sodas, because obesity and lolsnapple is better?)

I like how it tastes myself, but I can see why a lot of people don't. It's certainly very different from Coke and Pepsi, and by Pepsi I mean the soda that wishes it was Coke.

If you ever get the chance, give something called Dublin Dr. Pepper a shot. It's like Dr. Pepper with cane sugar, but still a little different from that. It was basically using Dr. Pepper's original formula, and it was awesome. Good luck finding it, though - there was only one plant in Dublin, Texas, and they shut their doors this year. There's still bottles floating around, but they're a rare and special thing (they're that good).

Not a big fan of porters. I like some but overall prefer pale ales and stouts.

As for soda... I only drink it when mixed with liquor. Well except when they have throwback Pepsi or Mountain Dew. Throwback Mountain Dew actually contains orange juice and cane sugar.

The throwback sodas are actually really fucking good.

The main reason would be because you could find something you like even more.

What'd you do to it?

I got myself some Chimay cheese and Chimay beer. I fear that I may have to add cheese to the list of things I'll pay ridiculous sums of money for to get the good stuff after beer and tea.

So protein, you trying to rush to 10k posts or something? All that arguing with Gbaji.

I also wrote a little script to properly add -ing to most words in English. Still learning!

def make_ing_form(x): 
    const = ('b', 'c', 'd', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'j', 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x', 'y', 'z') 
    vowels = ('a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u') 
    for y in x: 
        if x.endswith('ie'): 
            l = list(x) 
            del l[-1] 
            del l[-1] 
            l.append('ying') 
            z = '' 
            z = ''.join(l) 
        elif x.endswith('e'):  
            ex = ('be', 'see', 'flee', 'knee') 
            if x in ex: 
                z = x + 'ing' 
            else:  
                l = list(x) 
                del l[-1] 
                l.append('ing') 
                z = '' 
                z = ''.join(l) 
        elif x[-1] in const and x[-2] in vowels and x[-3] in const: 
            z = x + x[-1] + 'ing' 
        else: 
            z = x + 'ing' 
    print z

What is this sorcery?!

Yeah I saw that on tumblr, I still can't believe it...

Stouts tend to be smoother and porters sharper and hoppier, well at least that is how I feel.

Hardly, it's copying from photos and he's far from the only hyper realist artist out there. The technical skills are absolutely amazing but that's also all there is to it. And while it may give him an income of some sort, it won't be very stable

Edit: I don't mean to talk down on the guy as he's obviously very talented (and nobody is going to deny that) it's just that I'm personally not very interested in hyper realism. If you're going to do something like that, add something to it, like this (fair warning, image is SFW but if you click through that gallery there's drawn boobs)

Less realistic but so much more interesting to me.

What the difference between stouts and porters is according to you really is pretty much entirely dependent on which ones you've had as realistically, there's just no difference beyond the name. Also, porters and stouts tend to be around 50 IBU, imperial porters/stouts may get a lot higher than that even. It's just not as hoppy because there's a massive amount of malt to balance it out.

Edited, Oct 26th 2012 12:37pm by Aethien

I see you found the thread.

Originally, yes. Nowadays, not so much.
Just look through the toplists for american porter vs stout or English porter vs stout.
The range of ABV you see in those lists is all very similar.

Hey protein, is this related to your field of research?