Drink Shoot

Beer Nutz???

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Contributed by Angry Guy

Just caught a show called "Beer Nutz" on American High Definition Cable Television.

The show is two guys wandering around a different city each week, visiting brew pubs and asking stupid questions.

The episode I watched took place in San Francisco. At one point they visit a restaurant called the 21st Amendment, which was named after the Amendment to the United States Constitution which ended prohibition. On Beer Nutz they flash an info screen which reads:

1936 - The Prohibition of intoxicating liquors is hereby repealed.

The problem is that the 21st amendment was passed in 1933, not 1936.

I can understand someone misspeaking a date, but when you are making a show and providing  information which was hopefully researched, and you go as far as to create a graphic, at least get the goddamn dates right.

They also get a chance to talk with the legendary Fritz Maytag of Anchor Brewing - but spend less than 5 minutes of show time with him. And that is the longest they spend on any segment - 9 segments over the course of a 30 minute show (including commercials) - how can you learn anything?

The show is uninteresting and the hosts don't seem to know a damn thing about beer.

The worst part of the show (besides the hosts) is the "rating system" which they use to give people and places from 1 to 5 "kegs". (Fritz got 5 Kegs)

Crap which must be avoided. I give this show 5 "It Sucks".

Plagiarism in Tasmania

Apparently some guys in Tasmania think that "Whisky Appreciation" means plagiarising the work of others and passing it off as your own.

Recently (December 11th) our own Rick Dobbs did a short story on Speyside-Glenlivet Water called "Scotch & Water. Minus the Scotch".

On December 23rd, the unoriginal bastards (a guy named Richard Stewart) at the "Tasmanian Whisky Appreciation Society" reposted the same story - with a few minor changes and 2 additional paragraphs. They didn't even bother to change the title of the story!

No mention of the original story, a mention of the author or a link back to the original.

Looking through all of their stories, that seems to be the pattern - no mentions or links, So I can only imagine that all of their stories are plaguarised!

I'm sure this shit goes on all the time, but you Tasmanians were caught in the act.

Hey, Richard Stewart and you other Tasmanians - give credit to the people who actually have the brain-power to write and the dedication to come up with new stuff - instead of just stealing other people's good work and taking credit for your selves.

Seriously Silly Shit

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Contributed by Angry Guy

I LOVE Guinness.
It may be the Irish blood in me, or just my preference for a beer that has some flavour.

That love does NOT extend to the latest on-line goofiness from Guinness.

Apparently the Flash development team over at Guinness obviously had free-time and was instructed to come up with something that was both "dumb" and "related to sports".

The result is "The Guinness All Sports Invitational"

With this little app you can send a put down to your pals telling them how their Football, Hockey, Basketball, Mechanical Bull-riding, or Log-Rolling (I shit you not) team will be going down.
Unfortunately "All Sports" does not include Curling, Hurling, Biathlon, Synchronized Swimming, Archery, Cricket, Soccer, or even Baseball.

And whoever designed this has obviously never  actually been around men, as key components of an appropriate masculine insult such as "balls", "nuts", "ass" and "your mother" are not available. You are limited to a 6 word insult cobbled together from 151 possible word choices.

So a pithy "Your mother sucks dicks in hell" would be possible IF "mother" "dicks" and "Hell" were available, but "The Patriots Suck and your mother sucks dicks in hell" would not be an available choice (10 words). And in the time it actually takes to go through the process of creating and sending your insult, you could actually arrange to have a 300 pound stripper gram go to your pals house and insult him in person.

I like the Monty Python-like animation of the new Guinness ads, but like your mom, this sucks dicks in hell.