My dream job of driving trucks across America turned into a nightmare when I broke down in the desert hundreds of miles from civilisation.

After three days, the water ran out and I started drinking my own urine.

After a week, I could no longer recycle my urine, and I realised I was out of options and had to accept the inevitable...




So I opened some of the Budweisers that I was delivering.

SteveStrummerUK


My dream job of driving trucks across America turned into a nightmare when I broke down in the desert hundreds of miles from civilisation.

After three days, the water ran out and I started drinking my own urine.

After a week, I could no longer recycle my urine, and I realised I was out of options and had to accept the inevitable...




So I opened some of the Budweisers that I was delivering.

I had a co-worker of Germanic descent who loved Imported brews, he refered to most American Domestic beer as Panther P**S (think urine)

Well the "my dream job of driving trucks across America" part was very funny!

It is hard to get great British beer over here.  That is nigh an apocalypse.  I'll take killing zombies.

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Well I don't drink anymore but there was a time I enjoyed the odd bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale...having grown up within smelling distance of the brewery the taste of it is deeply ingrained in my soul. And they sell it in America so that was always my beer intake covered. I would never drink Budweiser in a million years. It reminds me of a super-cheap junk lager that the Scottish & Newcastle brewery used to make, called Federation Ace. I mean truly bottom of the barrel stuff. It's not that America doesn't have any good ales....Brooklyn Lager is fantastic....but why in the world so many people drink Bud is beyond me. It's the Hershey's Chocolate of beer (ie gross). 

sharke


Well I don't drink anymore but there was a time I enjoyed the odd bottle of Newcastle Brown Ale...having grown up within smelling distance of the brewery the taste of it is deeply ingrained in my soul. 

I used to love a bottle or three of 'dog' at one time
 
And, of course, always strictly observing the correct etiquette of topping up a half pint glass from a pint bottle.
 
I remember there was a fad at one time for mixing different beers in a pint pot. We used to drink "Black & tan" (½ pint bottled Guinness + ½ pint draught bitter), "Mixed" (½ pint draught bitter + ½ pint draught mild), and "Brown & bitter" (½ pint bottled brown ale + ½ pint draught bitter). It was considered sacrilege to use Newcastle Brown in a Brown & bitter, we always used an inferior drop like Mann's Brown for that
 
 
 

I need to make it back to the jolly ole Belgium Congo, or North Britain anyway.  We use to drink McKewens #3.  And Tennant's 80.  Or is it the other way around?  Beer, the best food in England.

Shiner has some good dark beer here in Texas, but it doesn't match Our British Cousins.

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Yep black & tan is a classic. 

One of my all-time favorite beers was McEwans 80/- (80 Shilling) although sadly I don't think it's made any more. 

And then of course there was Slalom D, another long gone classic. That was a legendary brew back when I were a lad in the late 80's/early 90's....a very powerful pint that would put you on your back very quickly. There was a legendary pub in Newcastle called The Broken Doll, epicenter of the city's underground/alternative/rotten scene, and Slalom D was the house ale there. Friday & Saturday nights were interesting. 

I'm learning the fine art of brewing so I can still have fresh beer in the zombie Apocalypse.


Got another batch aging in the bottles now.... first one gets cracked open on Thursday evening.... end of the world or no end of the world.... I will have a civilized beer. 

mike_mccue


Are you saying that you feel people are "entitled" to more than 1.5% interest on their savings account?

Actually when interest rates for credit and such from the same institutions are at 9-who-knows-how-high % it kind of makes one wonder...and then there is the issue of how much of a tax hit the interest on your savings has...

The risk takers just hit a new high at the DOW. 

And getting weirder by the week....


Seems like anyone that wants to work at it can cash in on the times... no matter when that happens to be.

...precisely