Don’t screw around!

[highpilgrim]

highpilgrim - i may be the only one who does not know this, but i have to ask - what is your avatar from?

mtree got it right, mostly. JJ was based upon the real deal. v

https://www.damninteresting.com/liver-eating-johnson/

[LURE]

Corollary: never drink cheap beer.

My rule of thumb is cheap and free beer only.

My other rule of thumb, what are we on? Number 16? Both in life, and particularly for 14ers: Donuts. Just, donuts.

and Big Macs

[Rollie Free]

highpilgrim - i may be the only one who does not know this, but i have to ask - what is your avatar from?

I'm guessing Jeremiah Johnson.

You mean....you don't know?

THE UNWASHED IS AMONG US!!!

[rijaca]

12. Choose your hiking/climbing/drinking partners carefully. You never know when you might have to depend on them for something important (e.g. buying you a beer). Corollary: never drink cheap beer.

This is kinda like the chicken and the egg...

Which is better?

1) Free beer
2) Cold beer
3) Cheap beer

I say cold beer is #1. (At least cool beer.) Any warm beer is gross. Any cold beer is acceptable. Any free beer is welcome...unless its warm. So, cold beer gets my vote. My corollary: never drink warm beer.

While you make good points, it all becomes irrelevant if you choose your partners wisely.

[12ersRule]

Title of this thread totally made me think of this:

[JTOlson26]

3) Anyone driving in the passing lane who is not speeding is an a**hole to be avoided at all costs.

Yes x 1000

[TallGrass]

Any warm beer is gross.

If it doesn't taste good warm, cold is only hiding the beer's skunkiness. That's why more complex brews are often served in tulip or brandy glasses that you can hand warm. Cellar temp beats ice cold.

[mtree]

Any warm beer is gross.

If it doesn't taste good warm, cold is only hiding the beer's skunkiness. That's why more complex brews are often served in tulip or brandy glasses that you can hand warm. Cellar temp beats ice cold.

Perhaps you didn't read my details. Once beer gets much above 55 degrees F it tastes like spit and drool. That's warm beer. And I don't care if its more complex than string theory, its gross. I'd rather have ice cold beer than warm beer. You can't change my mind no matter how much snobby gobbly gook you spew. Warm beer sucks. Period.

[TallGrass]

Beer's been around for thousands of years, wide-spread consumer refrigerators for about a century. Measured by liters consumed, ...
"Ice cold" is a marketing mainstay of yard beers, or as Motel6 ads would say, "All rooms look the same with the lights off." Ever see a BudLite-scented air freshener?

[mtree]

Beer's been around for thousands of years, wide-spread consumer refrigerators for about a century. Measured by liters consumed, ...
"Ice cold" is a marketing mainstay of yard beers, or as Motel6 ads would say, "All rooms look the same with the lights off." Ever see a BudLite-scented air freshener?

I don't care how long its been around, warm beer is gross. It was gross thousands of years ago and its gross today. I can just imagine an ancient Mesopotamian on a hot and dusty afternoon after working the hummus fields. He saunters into his stone house after the sun settles low, grabs a stone cup, and cracks a stone kegger. He pours his vessel to the top with his wife's finest ale and kicks off his stone sandals and lays down on his stone couch. Takes a manly quaff and ...spits it onto the stone floor! "Holy moly, that tastes like SPIT! Evana! Get in here. Can't you find some way to cool off this swill?! Its disgusting warm. I want you to carry my keg to the Eurphrates and drop it in there until it cools off. Bring it home nice and cool like I ask or there's going to be lashes for you tonight. And hurry! I'm freakin' thirsty. Dang, those Vikings have it good."

Thus the search for refrigeration began.

You can't change my mind no matter how much snobby gobbly gook you spew. Warm beer sucks. Period.

[highpilgrim]

Thus the search for refrigeration began.

While this sounds like a description of Bedrock, I have a new appreciation for your thinking on this, mr.tree.

Add this to my list of things to not do: Don't drink with anyone who argues for the merits of warm beer, excepting in extremis.

[AndrewLyonsGeibel]

I’d say all of this depends on what is important to you. I used to drive a highly modified Audi S4 because that was important to me at the time. When I moved to Colorado I sold it and bought a 750 dollar vehicle so that I could buy nice gear because that is more important to me now. Do I really need that arcteryx puffy, no, but hey don’t screw around with what’s important to you. Same thing with people. I used to torture myself trying to be a social introvert. Much happier now by myself and been here several years with no local friends and that’s how I like it.