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Friday, June 30, 2006 by TheGuyPC | Discussion: Virtual Communities
Everyone at Joe User is just so happy and fun! You have to have a sense of humor with a name like Joe User!
I was considering starting a blogsite dedicated to the discussion of marriage. I was going to call it Harry Crabs. My wife balked, so I digress.
There is really no virtual community to compare to the honest, open perspective that Joe User has. There should be more like it. This world would be a much richer, more diverse place.
I, as soooooooo many others are just grateful to be blessed by the absolute intelligence that this community offers.
Thank you so much. And to do it all for free?! Wow!
PC
I was considering starting a blogsite dedicated to the discussion of marriage. I was going to call it Harry Crabs. My wife balked, so I digress.
There is really no virtual community to compare to the honest, open perspective that Joe User has. There should be more like it. This world would be a much richer, more diverse place.
I, as soooooooo many others are just grateful to be blessed by the absolute intelligence that this community offers.
Thank you so much. And to do it all for free?! Wow!
PC
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starkers
Reply #162 Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:14 PM
Yeah, but U.S. beers are generally not as strong as the Oz stuff (4.8 alcoholic vol), so if I were you and still drinking, I'd be going through 4 or 5 cartons (Carton = 24 x 375ml cans/stubbies) to get appropriately "blitzed", not that it'd help make some whiny arsed individuals tolerable....
In fact, some are so insipid, I'd have to
just to get me through the day. 
Oh well, it takes all kinds to make up a world, and without ridiculous we'd seriously be lacking in the entertainment department.
Reply #162 Sunday, July 16, 2006 3:14 PM
| I'll stick with you as well. Keep the Jack and the Tetley. I'll have a beer. |
Yeah, but U.S. beers are generally not as strong as the Oz stuff (4.8 alcoholic vol), so if I were you and still drinking, I'd be going through 4 or 5 cartons (Carton = 24 x 375ml cans/stubbies) to get appropriately "blitzed", not that it'd help make some whiny arsed individuals tolerable....
In fact, some are so insipid, I'd have to
just to get me through the day. 
Oh well, it takes all kinds to make up a world, and without ridiculous we'd seriously be lacking in the entertainment department.
Dr Guy
Reply #163 Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:28 PM
I cut my teeth on German Beer! You guys still dont hold a candle!
Reply #163 Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:28 PM
| Yeah, but U.S. beers are generally not as strong as the Oz stuff (4.8 alcoholic vol) |
I cut my teeth on German Beer! You guys still dont hold a candle!
MasonM
Reply #164 Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:46 PM
Reply #164 Sunday, July 16, 2006 5:46 PM
4.8? The beer I drink is 6.0. Dunno what it is in Oz
starkers
Reply #165 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:09 PM
Ah, but the 4.8 stuff isn't our strongest, it's just the preferred strength for sale in pubs....we have others around 6.5% alcoholic volume, with some boutique beers weighing in around 8 to 9%. I used to brew my own around that, tho on occasion it would come closer to 10 - 11%....which would make anyone legless after a couple of long-necks, seasoned drinkers included.
Yeah, but are we talking 6% proof, used to measure the strength of spirits, or 6% alcoholic volume, used to measure beers and wines? There is a difference, and Oz has among the strongest 'pub' beers in the world. We get beers imported from all over the world here, and a friend of mine used to drink New Zealand or American beers cos he reckoned he could drink far more of it than he could of Oz beer and still not get pissed....which seemed to bear out as he'd get totally legless if he drank VB or Fosters.
Anyway, it was nice talking with you about beer, but my drinking days are over and it's not addressing this conspiracy thing. I mean, what if TheGuyPC is a plant from someone like the StyleXP people, sent to try bring Stardock down from the inside by casting aspersions on management, etc? Did anyone stop to think about that? No, of course not, it was assumed, taken for granted, even, that he's a whiny assed "commie-pinko-tree-huggin-fag-lovin-god-and-america-hating-liberal", when in actual fact he could very well be quite intelligent and something far more sinister. It would not appear to be that way, with such comments as "my bung hole tastes like chocolate!", but was that just an act to dupe and have us drop our guards? >
Personally, I think Brad should get to the bottom of this ASAP with his filtering/Liberal detection gear...and while he's at it, maybe he could use the software that turns PC speakers into transmitters as well as receivers to check if all those complaining about slow page loads on Stardock sites are genuine, rather than competitor plants, sent to incite dissatisfaction/dissent. Those heard to be cussing and using expletives could be considered to be genuine, and those not cussing could be considered suspects.
Please check back tomorrow, same time same channel, for another gripping episode of "Brad the Stardockian Meets the Masters of Deceit & Espionage Head On"
Reply #165 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:09 PM
| I cut my teeth on German Beer! You guys still dont hold a candle! |
Ah, but the 4.8 stuff isn't our strongest, it's just the preferred strength for sale in pubs....we have others around 6.5% alcoholic volume, with some boutique beers weighing in around 8 to 9%. I used to brew my own around that, tho on occasion it would come closer to 10 - 11%....which would make anyone legless after a couple of long-necks, seasoned drinkers included.
| 4.8? The beer I drink is 6.0. Dunno what it is in Oz |
Yeah, but are we talking 6% proof, used to measure the strength of spirits, or 6% alcoholic volume, used to measure beers and wines? There is a difference, and Oz has among the strongest 'pub' beers in the world. We get beers imported from all over the world here, and a friend of mine used to drink New Zealand or American beers cos he reckoned he could drink far more of it than he could of Oz beer and still not get pissed....which seemed to bear out as he'd get totally legless if he drank VB or Fosters.
Anyway, it was nice talking with you about beer, but my drinking days are over and it's not addressing this conspiracy thing. I mean, what if TheGuyPC is a plant from someone like the StyleXP people, sent to try bring Stardock down from the inside by casting aspersions on management, etc? Did anyone stop to think about that? No, of course not, it was assumed, taken for granted, even, that he's a whiny assed "commie-pinko-tree-huggin-fag-lovin-god-and-america-hating-liberal", when in actual fact he could very well be quite intelligent and something far more sinister. It would not appear to be that way, with such comments as "my bung hole tastes like chocolate!", but was that just an act to dupe and have us drop our guards? >
Personally, I think Brad should get to the bottom of this ASAP with his filtering/Liberal detection gear...and while he's at it, maybe he could use the software that turns PC speakers into transmitters as well as receivers to check if all those complaining about slow page loads on Stardock sites are genuine, rather than competitor plants, sent to incite dissatisfaction/dissent. Those heard to be cussing and using expletives could be considered to be genuine, and those not cussing could be considered suspects.
Please check back tomorrow, same time same channel, for another gripping episode of "Brad the Stardockian Meets the Masters of Deceit & Espionage Head On"
Jafo
Reply #166 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:46 PM
Reply #166 Sunday, July 16, 2006 9:46 PM
| Yeah, but are we talking 6% proof, used to measure the strength of spirits, or 6% alcoholic volume, used to measure beers and wines? |
starkers... legislation requires that all beers available for sale in Oz are labelled with alc/vol...whether local or imported.
My 'usual' is 5.8 [Coopers Sparkling] ...though the 'best' [fave] is the Vintage...at around 7.0 [but it's a vintage so not available year-round].
I did get sick as a dog when I was 16 on home brew reportedly over 11 ....people were amazed I survived 3 glasses [but then I 'didn't']....
As for that fine-tasting Pommie beer...I think cat's piss possibly also has more alcohol...
Dr Guy
Reply #167 Monday, July 17, 2006 7:39 AM
Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer).
But in the effort of fairness, should I ever get an occassion to visit Oz, I will look you up so my palate can compare your homebrew with those it remembers from Frankfurt am Main.
Reply #167 Monday, July 17, 2006 7:39 AM
| Ah, but the 4.8 stuff isn't our strongest, it's just the preferred strength for sale in pubs....we have others around 6.5% alcoholic volume, with some boutique beers weighing in around 8 to 9%. I used to brew my own around that, tho on occasion it would come closer to 10 - 11%....which would make anyone legless after a couple of long-necks, seasoned drinkers included. |
Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer).
But in the effort of fairness, should I ever get an occassion to visit Oz, I will look you up so my palate can compare your homebrew with those it remembers from Frankfurt am Main.
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #169 Monday, July 17, 2006 12:57 PM
Reply #169 Monday, July 17, 2006 12:57 PM
It never ceases to amaze me how Australians to a man are familiar with the taste of cat's piss. Must be that unique Australian culture...
starkers
Reply #170 Monday, July 17, 2006 11:01 PM
NOT bloody likely!! This thread has become an independent entity of its originator, has become a cultural and comedic past-time that transcends political conspiracies and international borders, has a lifeforce much greater than any individual and is too darned BIG to be stopped...even the armies of the world (perhaps even the universe)are poweless against it now.
Yes, I knew that...but my question related to how the beer alcohol content was being measured, as some mistakenly do so by the 'percentage/proof' method and others by alcoholic volume, which is correct and totally different strength-wise. Alcohol volume equates to the entire amount of alcohol content per brew, whereas alcohol percentage or 'proof' is the quantity of alcohol per mil or ounce, whatever....if beer weighed in at 33 to 45 proof, it'd rot shoe leather and pickle yer socks as well as your liver. Actually, my grandfather used to drink a viscious drop of cider (Cider Royale) that came in around 120 proof and was supposed to be drunk only in nips....now a 'pint' of 'that' would pickle the floorboards you're standing on as well.
So why d'ya wait so long? My first time legless was around 12 or 13 when some mates and I found a carton of 4 x 8 pint cans of scrumpy (cider, for the uneducated outside of England's South) and we got well 'n truly stuck into it....and yes, it actually fell off the back of a truck The next 4 or 5 days afterwards were much of a blur and I was ill, I mean really ill, which my parents thought punishment enough....not that I agreed, having to have 4 days off school to recover.
Maybe they can't be beaten, but they'd have some serious competition in some of the potently nasty boutique stuff I sampled over the years. Geez, looking back on it, I'm glad I no longer partake....so sorry about that, Dr Guy, no palate pleasers here, as I brew my own no more.
Well we wouldn't be familiar (with cat's piss) if Pommie brewers didn't export it here, and then for us to have ex-patriates serve it up when it's their 'shout' at the pub is unforgivable. Hence, the unique Aussie culture has become that Pommies are 'sent to coventry' while at the pub, unless of course they learn the error of their ways and actually drink/shout 'real' beer.
Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it.
Reply #170 Monday, July 17, 2006 11:01 PM
| This has gotta stop!! |
NOT bloody likely!! This thread has become an independent entity of its originator, has become a cultural and comedic past-time that transcends political conspiracies and international borders, has a lifeforce much greater than any individual and is too darned BIG to be stopped...even the armies of the world (perhaps even the universe)are poweless against it now.
| starkers... legislation requires that all beers available for sale in Oz are labelled with alc/vol...whether local or imported. |
Yes, I knew that...but my question related to how the beer alcohol content was being measured, as some mistakenly do so by the 'percentage/proof' method and others by alcoholic volume, which is correct and totally different strength-wise. Alcohol volume equates to the entire amount of alcohol content per brew, whereas alcohol percentage or 'proof' is the quantity of alcohol per mil or ounce, whatever....if beer weighed in at 33 to 45 proof, it'd rot shoe leather and pickle yer socks as well as your liver. Actually, my grandfather used to drink a viscious drop of cider (Cider Royale) that came in around 120 proof and was supposed to be drunk only in nips....now a 'pint' of 'that' would pickle the floorboards you're standing on as well.
| I did get sick as a dog when I was 16 on home brew reportedly over 11 .. |
So why d'ya wait so long? My first time legless was around 12 or 13 when some mates and I found a carton of 4 x 8 pint cans of scrumpy (cider, for the uneducated outside of England's South) and we got well 'n truly stuck into it....and yes, it actually fell off the back of a truck The next 4 or 5 days afterwards were much of a blur and I was ill, I mean really ill, which my parents thought punishment enough....not that I agreed, having to have 4 days off school to recover.
| Pshaw! A good German Bock beer still cant be beat (yeast dies at the 12% level that is why you cant get higher Alcohol content in your beer). |
Maybe they can't be beaten, but they'd have some serious competition in some of the potently nasty boutique stuff I sampled over the years. Geez, looking back on it, I'm glad I no longer partake....so sorry about that, Dr Guy, no palate pleasers here, as I brew my own no more.
| It never ceases to amaze me how Australians to a man are familiar with the taste of cat's piss. Must be that unique Australian culture... |
Well we wouldn't be familiar (with cat's piss) if Pommie brewers didn't export it here, and then for us to have ex-patriates serve it up when it's their 'shout' at the pub is unforgivable. Hence, the unique Aussie culture has become that Pommies are 'sent to coventry' while at the pub, unless of course they learn the error of their ways and actually drink/shout 'real' beer.
Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it.
Suspeckted
Reply #171 Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:13 PM
Reply #171 Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:13 PM
Wow, this post sure got a lot more attention than it deserved....but that's nothing new in the blog-o-sphere I suppose. Just thought I'd say hi to all of JU. I'm not "back" perse', just droppin' in to say hello and see if anyone has ransacked the place. I guess I'll know who to go after if I'm looking to boost my blog ten of thousands of points.
Latah,
suspeckted
Latah,
suspeckted
Dr Guy
Reply #172 Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:29 PM
Reply #172 Tuesday, July 18, 2006 8:29 PM
| Actually, when I lived over there, I quite enjoyed a pint or 6 of Whitbread Tankard, Newcastle Brown, John Bull Best Bitter, etc, etc, etc...but oh, this rivalry between we Aussies and the Brits, wouldn't be without it |
yea, but your Tee-Totaling deprived me of some home brew! And I will never forgive you for that.......At least for the next 24 minutes. 
starkers
Reply #173 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:29 AM
No worries, I'll survive!
But we can still have fun without the grog, poking fun at politicians and conspiracy theorists, etc. And if we were to ask Brad nicely enough if we could use his Liberal detector and other surveilance equipment, maybe we could weed out a few more to hold up for public ridicule...I mean, not all of 'em are silly enough to volunteer us the opportunity, are they!!
Ah, so you missed the wild party, then! The one that almost turned orgiastic and saw the place in dire need of redecorating....the police taking away unruly gatecrashers who convinced the Stardock Cheerleaders to participate in a wet T-shirt comp, and kept yelling: "Take it all off!".
As you can see, they've managed to clean up the forum, but the consequences of the food fight are proving more difficult....
Reply #173 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 2:29 AM
| yea, but your Tee-Totaling deprived me of some home brew! And I will never forgive you for that....... |
No worries, I'll survive!
But we can still have fun without the grog, poking fun at politicians and conspiracy theorists, etc. And if we were to ask Brad nicely enough if we could use his Liberal detector and other surveilance equipment, maybe we could weed out a few more to hold up for public ridicule...I mean, not all of 'em are silly enough to volunteer us the opportunity, are they!!
| just droppin' in to say hello and see if anyone has ransacked the place. |
Ah, so you missed the wild party, then! The one that almost turned orgiastic and saw the place in dire need of redecorating....the police taking away unruly gatecrashers who convinced the Stardock Cheerleaders to participate in a wet T-shirt comp, and kept yelling: "Take it all off!".
As you can see, they've managed to clean up the forum, but the consequences of the food fight are proving more difficult....
Suspeckted
Reply #174 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:34 AM
Reply #174 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:34 AM
Where did this conversation turn into homebrewing? Start a new thread boys!
Dr Guy
Reply #175 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:44 AM
Reply #175 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 11:44 AM
| Where did this conversation turn into homebrewing? Start a new thread boys! |
Ah! But this one is so much fun.
Suspeckted
Reply #176 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:52 PM
Reply #176 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:52 PM
Well, in that case, I recently went to my friends "tour de bier" where there were jerseys given like the tour de france for beer with highest alcohol content, beer from farthest away, and the participant who sampled the most. We won the highest alcohol and farthest away jerseys for having a french beer that was 13% alcohol and a beer from new zealand.
yeehaw!
yeehaw!
Fuzzy Logic
Reply #177 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:58 PM
Reply #177 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 12:58 PM
| Well we wouldn't be familiar (with cat's piss) if Pommie brewers didn't export it here |
You still haven't explained how you know what cat's piss tastes like, you must have made a comparison somewhere 
Dr Guy
Reply #178 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:11 PM
Reply #178 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:11 PM
| We won the highest alcohol and farthest away jerseys for having a french beer that was 13% alcohol and a beer from new zealand. |
The French make beer?
Congratulations on your wins however.
Demosthenes Locke
Reply #179 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:25 PM
If this post was created before theguypc had a blog site, that would mean it only exists on the forums right? In which case, wouldn't he only be receiving points for his posts, not all responses? I thought that was the way it used to work, although I could certainly be wrong, since I have two blog sites and have never actually written an article.
Reply #179 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 1:25 PM
| Enjoy the points. |
If this post was created before theguypc had a blog site, that would mean it only exists on the forums right? In which case, wouldn't he only be receiving points for his posts, not all responses? I thought that was the way it used to work, although I could certainly be wrong, since I have two blog sites and have never actually written an article.
Jafo
Reply #180 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:55 PM
Reply #180 Wednesday, July 19, 2006 4:55 PM
It'd be 'nice' if he WERE getting points for it.....make the original premise just that little bit more sad and pathetic....
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Reply #161 Sunday, July 16, 2006 12:13 PM
I'll stick with you as well. Keep the Jack and the Tetley. I'll have a beer.