@Mordhaus

"We have always been a gun violence culture up until the post WW2 era. Think frontier, wild west, duels, and mafia shootouts. We glorify violence everyday, we even give sickos who shoot up groups of people mass media coverage. "

Don't you think that that idea is outdated in 2016? Fine, that's the culture. Change the fucking culture.

When I grew up in Ireland, nobody gave a second thought to driving drunk. Sunday after church, people went to the pub, had a few pints with the neighbours, the kids played space invaders and then the whole family got back in the car and drove home.

And most of the time, it was absolutely fine. People got home, there was the occasional accident, but ya know, what can ya do?

Until it wasn't fine. And it took decades, but eventually, it became socially unacceptable to drive drunk.

"I'm just extremely leery of package deals like lets ban everyone who ends up on a list from having weapons based on a government decision."
I get that. But be reasonable. You're ok with not letting people fly, but you draw the line at owning weapons?

That is some fucked up list of priorities. I would be far more concerned with restricting someones right to travel (essentially restricting their freedom of movement, or a lighter form of incarceration) than whether they can own a gun.

You say that owning a gun is a constitutional right whereas travel isn't. I say that freedom of movement is a fundamental basic human right... oh, look at that, Article 13 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights!
"Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state."

I'm completely willing to say that it should be a lot harder to put someone on this kind of list, but there's no way the right to own a weapon is more important than freedom of movement.

Finally, re: slippery slopes
"The Patriot Act, meant to be a well intended set of rules to help us protect ourselves, has been perverted to lessen quite a few of our rights."

The Patriot Act wasn't a slippery slope, it started at the bottom of the slope and went straight over a fucking cliff. It should never have been passed in the first place.

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Just the balsamic and olive oil is easier yet and considerably better in my opinion. The trick is to buy very good vinegar and oil. It's okay to get the expensive stuff because it lasts forever. I'm still on the same pint of balsamic vinegar I brought back from Italy almost five years ago.

A few years ago, one of my favourite beer companies made a brew to complement Culleys Carolina Reaper sauce.
I tried it at a beer festival and they had some reapers on the counter.
"Can I try one?"
"They're really just for show, but if you really want to, knock yourself out..."

Tried it, seconds later downed an entire pint of 9% beer before I realised what I'd done. I don't remember anything else about that day...

I'll have a pint of what lucky760's drinking!

Not sure about the military but we don't use km in normal life in the UK. In theory we're decimalised, and we use decimal currency and weights and volumes, for the most part. We do still measure our body weight in lbs, our height in feet and inches and the speed of our cars in mph. Distance on the road is in miles too, and gas mileage is mpg. Milk is sold in pints, as is beer. Timber is in inch dimensions (2x4 and so on) and usually in 8ft lengths. If it's sold in decimal measures it's a decimalised imperial measure, so instead of buying an 4 board you'll get a 2440mm x 1220mm.

We do use centigrade rather than fahrenheit. And fizzy drinks are sold by the litre. Come to think about it I really don't know why people think we're decimalised!

I have seen a fair bit of misinformation about the legal status of water charges, so I take this info with a pint of salt, but the video really lost me at "water filled with neurotoxins". Playing the fear card annoys the hell out of me, no matter who's doing it.

Looks like it depends how you store it...

http://www.hairofthedog.com/beers/Vintage_Fred.asp

I went to this brewery once and they were selling glasses of the old stuff for something like 25$ or more a pint. Their new beer was very good on its own and with quite a kick.

Yo fellow traveler: The Andechs Monestary looks pretty cool-Maybe check out the Benedictine-scene and have yer pint or two there? High art, cool haircuts, giant pretzels, dudes all workin' together inna ancient, holy brewery??

Superfecta, eh?!

I just wrote the following in a PM, as part of a much longer message. Thought it belonged here:

But if more energy was spent by you guys who say "I've never seen this, I don't know what you are talking about, prove it, say it differently, convince me" ... well, if instead you just said -- Huh. How about that. Look how this stuff is affecting these women. Why IS it that the men they encounter feel it is okay to intrude on their lives this way, when they are just walking down the street? Where do these guys get the idea that this is okay? Why do they get offended when the women don't respond? What WOULD it feel like if it were me, 4-5-9 times a day being told -- smile, nice ass, hey pretty lady, when all I am trying to do is go buy a pint of milk for my morning coffee? Yeah, I don't do that, you could say. These guys are clearly out of line. But how am I like that, in smaller ways, you could ask?

Maybe when you don't listen and insist that this video has to be softened into being palatable to you. Maybe that is how you are like those other guys.

These women are straight forward and very very clear. And yet you say they aren't. Why is that?

13 pints of Guinness in one day? Yep, I call that .... tuesday.

Excellent post Eric. He's dug his own grave, be happy to lie down innit with him and share a last pint of royal blood with him-Expatriates unite-@3:58 choggie , For all you "cry racism" idgits out there....

Someone needs a pint.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!

Chorus.-For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne.
We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.

And surely ye'll be your pint stowp!
And surely I'll be mine!
And we'll tak a cup o'kindness yet,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae run about the braes,
And pou'd the gowans fine;
But we've wander'd mony a weary fit,
Sin' auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

We twa hae paidl'd in the burn,
Frae morning sun till dine;
But seas between us braid hae roar'd
Sin' auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

And there's a hand, my trusty fere!
And gie's a hand o' thine!
And we'll tak a right gude-willie waught,
For auld lang syne.
For auld, &c.

Sorry man. If it makes you feel any better, you can go to any small town in rural Ireland, and you *will* meet this guy.

He'll go for a few pints with you, and then possibly assault you. Or he might decide you're his best mate ever. Or, not infrequently.... both