This made me laugh. Yes, beer from smaller brewers tends to be much better than multinational products. Yes, it's usually more "socially responsible" (whatever that means). But let's be honest, sometimes you could cut the smugness with a knife.
Never trust people who think beer subdivides into "lager", "bitter" and "Guinness".
Never trust people who say they like chain bars because "they always know what they're getting".
Never trust people who list "socialising" as an interest on their CV.
Never trust people who can't give a straightforward answer when you ask them where they're from.
Never trust people who invite you on skiing trips when you have never expressed any interest in the sport (or indeed their company).
Never trust blokes who try and ban the c-word from conversation because their bird doesn't like it (just say it more).
Never trust people who "don't like to lose control".
Finally and most importantly, never, ever trust people who don't drink beer, unless they have a very good excuse - and for the avoidance of doubt, being an uptight, miserable sod is not a very good excuse.
Stonch lives in London, where he runs a pub.
7 comments:
Thanks for finding this.
sometimes you could cut the smugness with a knife.
Witness the comments.
(Not that I can't be smug - might as well get that fact out of the way.)
I was called white once and I pointed out I am pink with spots.
Weird.. I was just looking at this yesterday, Stonch.
Very, very funny - just a shame about a lot of the comments.
Or as Mr Connolly put it "My skin's a sort of pale blue. It takes me two weeks of sunbathing just to turn white."
This is a strange thread. Half the beers sold in the US were brewed by AB. White people apparently like their Bud. I suppose it's an anti-elite comment, which I'm all for. But I think it's an observation about five years out of date. The correlation between good beer and high incomes is getting weaker. And the love of PBR by the hipster kids is gone. Now it's cool to drink extreme beers.
(All of this analysis is West Coast stuff.)
Stonch, you really gotta get to America. Methinks your views are formed by stereotype and American movies/TV. Or something.
Stereotypes of Americans? Nah, never done... Gotta go put on my blue jeans and cowboy hat, hop in my pick up ,and buy some coca-cola for the Yankees game tonight. I need to hit Sonic for my hamburger and freedom fries too... ;-)
Pick ups and cowboy hats at a Yankees game? I think not!
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