Sounded like a fermentation barrel bubbling through a disinfectant trap to me.

There -is- no point to teenagers...it's just that you can't have more people without having some teenagers first. Rather like the way you can't get soy sauce without letting the beans get all moldy and fermented.

>> ^blankfist:

For a really good beer with a nice head, it would take months to ferment and condition. I like how the story ends at them making the beer and then cuts to however many months later when they try the beer.


Try weeks. The whole lager-aging thing is over-rated. You can make a damn good beer in less than a month.

For a really good beer with a nice head, it would take months to ferment and condition. I like how the story ends at them making the beer and then cuts to however many months later when they try the beer.

Sorry, but...

"(...)In the movie Animals Are Beautiful People by Jamie Uys, released in 1974, some scenes portray elephants, warthogs and monkeys becoming intoxicated from eating fermented marula fruit. Later research showed that these scenes were improbable and, in all probability, staged. Elephants would need a huge amount of fermented marulas to have any effect on them, and other animals prefer the ripe fruit. The amount of water drunk by elephants each day would also dilute the effect of the fruit to such an extent that they would not be affected by it."

Source: Morris, Steve; David Humphreys and Dan Reynolds (2006). "Myth, marula, and elephant: an assessment of voluntary ethanol intoxication of the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) following feeding on the fruit of the marula tree (Sclerocarya birrea)". Physiological and Biochemical Zoology
- via wikipedia

No i prefer to reply to comments where they are posted. Sorry if that breaks your own code of practise, but I frankly don't give a crap. You are a moron. get over it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:
My only argument was that if you can't grate cheese, you should just give up on life. After two years on the sift and you still don't know how to reply to a comment: you're probably the perfect candidate for pre-grated cheese.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh, I'm sorry, I clicked a button that posts a quoted reply to a comment posted ON my profile page. How exactly does this help your argument? You're still wrong <IMG class=smiley src="http://static1.videosift.com/cdm/emoticon/tongue.gif">
In reply to this comment by Ryjkyj:
Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page.... Ha HA!
Are you fucking serious?
In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

My only argument was that if you can't grate cheese, you should just give up on life. After two years on the sift and you still don't know how to reply to a comment: you're probably the perfect candidate for pre-grated cheese.

In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh, I'm sorry, I clicked a button that posts a quoted reply to a comment posted ON my profile page. How exactly does this help your argument? You're still wrong

In reply to this comment by Ryjkyj:
Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page.... Ha HA!

Are you fucking serious?

In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

Said the guy who posted his reply to his own profile page....

Now see, when you hit the "quote" button, it's just going to post to your own page. If you want to respond directly to me, then go to my last comment and hit "profile reply" down on the bottom right side of the box. That way, your response to me will show up on my page instead of your own.

If you need any help learning how to grate cheese, you know where to find me. (but you'll still have to hit "profile reply")

In reply to this comment by Fade:
sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

sliced bread, tossed salad, instant coffee/custard, bottled water...dude you didn't have a salient point to begin with. stop trying to defend it.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.
That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.
In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.
Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.
Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.
>> ^Ryjkyj:
People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

If grating cheese is as hard for you as owning a transportation company, farming, milking and fermenting then you've got serious problems. Pre-grated cheese costs around twice as much and tastes so much worse. To each his own, but I hardly think grating cheese qualifies as an inconvenience.

That's like saying wiping your ass is an inconvenience.

In reply to this comment by Fade:
Oh please. Convenience is such a crime.

Tell you what next time you open the fridge, don't take anything out of it that you haven't grown, processed, packaged and transported yourself. In fact why do you even have a fridge. You never built it yourself and you certainly aren't powering it with electricity you are generating yourself.

Did you milk the cow? Did you provide the cow with green pastures to frolick in? Did you? No. So shut up then.

>> ^Ryjkyj:

People who by pre-grated cheese should just give up. Give away all your worldly possessions, get a job at Walmart and start eating all of your food out of a dumpster. You obviously don't care enough about life to do anything besides eat at Wendy's and watch American Idol.
If you read that statement and think, "gee, that's a little harsh, grating cheese is annoying" then try getting yourself a box-shaped cheese grater. The flat ones are for trimming knuckles only. If you still think it's annoying, then follow the above instructions. Or better yet, open a vein.

>> ^Skeeve:
>> ^cybrbeast:
Alcohol wasn't designed for anything, it was discovered because it was recreational.


You might want to look that one up. Alcohol was a necessity long before it was recreational. Fermentation was a way to preserve food items (grapes, grains, etc.) longer that would be possible before refrigeration/artificial preservatives. Most societies relied heavily on alcoholic beverages like beer and wine for a large part of their caloric intake.

Even though people found other uses for it, it was discovered because it was recreational. Humans first encountered alcohol by accident in fermenting fruits and quickly learned of its pleasures. Just like monkeys, elephants and other animals consume fermenting fruit for the effects.

>> ^cybrbeast:
Alcohol wasn't designed for anything, it was discovered because it was recreational.



You might want to look that one up. Alcohol was a necessity long before it was recreational. Fermentation was a way to preserve food items (grapes, grains, etc.) longer that would be possible before refrigeration/artificial preservatives. Most societies relied heavily on alcoholic beverages like beer and wine for a large part of their caloric intake.

He keeps moving after he falls over, so I doubt he's narcoleptic. He's probably eating fermented berries and is drunk off his ass.

By no means do I claim to be a Beatles expert, but here I go:

Two summers ago, I decided, having never really payed attention to the Fab Four before, to immerse myself in "The Beatles Experience." My plan for this was to simulate traveling back in time and reliving their career starting from their surprising burst of popularity all the way to their painful demise. To do this, I acquired their first US release (since, after all, I am a US citizen...) "Please Please Me." I listened to it until I got sick of it. (This took a very long time!) I then acquired their second release, and so on, and listened intently, repeating this process all the way to their end.

I found myself eagerly anticipating the next release, aching for new music while simultaneously reveling in the genius of each new acquisition. Everything they did seemed to completely surpass everything else they had previously done. Surprise after surprise after surprise. The whole exercise took nearly a year, and I can only imagine the yearning and mania which must have accompanied experiencing the whole thing in real time.

Important to note: I decided to exclude any books, interviews, retrospectives, documentaries, etc, and only listen to the music. I had heard various stories of their demise, and decided to leave out all print/visual/other media and let their music tell me the story. I didn't even read the liner notes or song credits. Just the music.

This was an interesting experiment for me, because it became apparent to me very early on that John and Paul had strikingly different musical philosophies and approaches. It was a miracle that they stayed together as long as they did. Toward the end it became painfully obvious that each new album was a struggle to contain two galactic sized musical geniuses at odds. A clear favorite emerged for me, as I'm sure did for millions of fans, and I'll reserve my opinion for some other discussion. For now, the important thing is, it's amazing that they stayed together as long as they did.

I can't listen to Let It Be. All I hear in this album is the fighting, the struggle to express differing styles and it actually makes me sad. When I see them all in the studio gelling perfectly for a common goal despite the differences which took years to ferment, I'm amazed. Even more amazing is that despite all of the opposing forces they exerted, they still managed to transcend and make beautiful music, sad as it was at the end.

A home beer brew kit (fermenting a pale ale right now), a gunmetal business card holder etched with my initials, a Rubiks Cube, Best Buy gift certificates, and a director's chair with my last name embroidered on the back.