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#1 2008-10-01 3:25 pm
- Pithecanthropus
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FREE BEER!
No takers so far.
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#3 2008-10-01 4:17 pm
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Re: FREE BEER!
Free speech?
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#4 2008-10-01 4:26 pm
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#5 2008-10-01 6:04 pm
- Jdude
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Re: FREE BEER!
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#6 2008-10-01 8:21 pm
- pottymouth
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Re: FREE BEER!
Free beer? Where? Is it behind that bottle of water?
No kids in your neighborhood, eh? That wouldn't last 5 minutes on my stoop.
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#8 2008-10-02 2:07 am
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Don't want to pay your plumbing bill, eh?
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#9 2008-10-02 10:36 am
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: FREE BEER!
Here's the story:
My roasting facility is around 2500 sq. ft., of which I use, oh, I don't know... a lot less. Being a musician we use part of the space to store stuff, I've got a couple of pianos, a Hammond C3 organ, guitars, basses, amps, lights, sound system, etc. and there's still room to spare. I also have an unused office with its own entrance that I was renting to a web guy who has his own band.
For a while we were allowing him to rehearse here (for a little extra $$), but the band recently broke up and I opted to have them move all their stuff out by the beginning of the month, which was yesterday. I decided to look and see what they had left behind and I found the unopened bottle of Mich Golden Draft Light. I wouldn't drink MGDL if it was the only beer left on the planet, so I decided to put it a "FREE" sign on it and put it outside my door.
And it's still there this morning! 
Grandfatherly advice: You can drink 'em pretty, but you can't drink 'em smart.
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#10 2008-10-02 10:50 am
- macnuke
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Re: FREE BEER!
now that we understand...at least the drunks in your area have taste
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#12 2008-10-02 11:06 am
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justine wrote:
How funny. I know a few people that think free beer is good, but if it's crappy beer, why drink it, even if it is free?
To quote my fiancee's ex-roommate: "You drink what you can get." ... I severely disagree 
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#13 2008-10-02 12:20 pm
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Re: FREE BEER!
Maybe you should have set out a few cans of Sterno instead.
Aw, he's no fun, he fell right over.
Unless you become as little children, there's no way you will believe this crap.
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#14 2008-10-02 12:35 pm
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mrreet2001 wrote:
justine wrote:
How funny. I know a few people that think free beer is good, but if it's crappy beer, why drink it, even if it is free?
To quote my fiancee's ex-roommate: "You drink what you can get." ... I severely disagree
yeah. Just because it's free doesn't make it good, or even worth consuming.
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#15 2008-10-02 2:05 pm
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If it ha been this I'd have knocked on your door asking if it was the only one.
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#16 2008-10-04 6:21 pm
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: FREE BEER!
And it's Saturday and it's still there.
Do people actually drink that stuff?
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#18 2008-10-04 7:53 pm
- Mr. T
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I would assume it's been tampered with, and possibly poisoned. Otherwise, I'd at least "try" any free beer scientifically deemed consumable.
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#19 2008-10-04 8:32 pm
- Jdude
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Re: FREE BEER!
Set it on the roof of your car like you forgot it. Be gone within the hour.
The problem I have with discussing freedom is that people have been conditioned to expect "of me to tell you what to do" to follow it... inevitably they notice I don't ever get to that part, and they feel like I am trying to trick them.
Sometimes before replying to a topic, I think to myself: I am just so original!
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#20 2008-10-04 9:51 pm
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I wouldn't touch it either. If it wasn't skunked before you put it outside in its clear bottle, it is now.
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#21 2008-10-04 10:02 pm
- Robert B.
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maybe it's pee.
"Evil will always triumph because Good is dumb."
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#22 2008-10-05 3:09 pm
- Pithecanthropus
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Re: FREE BEER!
Daniel wrote:
I wouldn't touch it either. If it wasn't skunked before you put it outside in its clear bottle, it is now.
You mean there's a way of making that stuff worse?!
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#23 2008-10-05 3:12 pm
- Chickenhawk
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I didn't know that michelob had enough hops in it to even be able to skunk.
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#24 2008-10-05 11:31 pm
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Yeah - it's been sitting out for awhile it is skunk by now.
Regardless of the brand.
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#25 2008-10-05 11:33 pm
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btw - supposedly that's the history of IPA - it was brewed to prevent it from skunking on the trip from England to India.
Or something like that.
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