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Cake day: August 11th, 2023
  • weirdboy@lemm.eetoBeer@lemmy.world•I don't like beer, so obviously I spent ~$200 on beer and made a spreadsheet to confirm this fact about myselfEnglish
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    12 days ago

    If you’re not a huge beer drinker, you should probably avoid giving much weight to the ratings on BeerAdvocate. I always treat those ratings with a huge grain of salt. They tend to rate “extreme” and/or hard to find beers much higher than I think they normally would be rated if people were doing a blind taste test.

    Conversely, they also rate some of the more common or easy drinking beers – beers that are world class examples of their respective styles – much lower than deserved because they are not flavor explosions.

    Finally, so many of those top rated beers on BeerAdvocate are going to be way to over the top for most people. E.g. I notice from your sheet that you have beers like KBS and Speedway Stout on there. If you have not already been drinking bourbon in your coffee before you began this journey, those are some heavy hitters that take a lot of palette adjustment to be able to appreciate.

  • weirdboy@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?
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    20 days ago

    I had a similar thing with a promotional card at a bar called Wurstküche in LA some years back shortly after it first opened. The card said something like “one free sausage” on it. The intent was you use the card once, and then they take it away and next time you want a delicious gourmet sausage you need to pay. All of my friends had one of these cards, and eventually they all were taken away, but they never took my card and we kept going back to that bar over and over again to get sausages and drink beer.

  • weirdboy@lemm.eetoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's the best loophole you've ever found or learned about?
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    21 days ago

    When I was in high school my friends and I were always finding creative ways to skip school and instead go out and do stuff. But, there was a limit of X days that you could be absent throughout the year, or else you’d have to make up the time by attending summer school.

    In a conversation with some school admin staff I discovered that if you attend just one class during the day, any absence for the rest of the day was counted as 0.5 days in the attendance system.

    So, we effectively doubled the number of days we could skip school by showing up for the first hour and then getting out to e.g. attend a dentist appointment.

  • weirdboy@lemm.eetoMicroblog Memes@lemmy.world•Build your throneEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Yeah I’m not so sure about that. I played Bards Tale when it came out and yes of course I did a lot of my own research, etc. but that kind information still got around in the form of BBSes, magazines, AOL, CompuServe and of course word of mouth. Everyone knew the Contra code despite the lack of ubiquitous internet.