Sorry, but it had to be said

[ihadtosayit]

I have been a longtime lurker in this community, and I have watched time and time again posters get reamed for not being "cool" or "clever" enough, along with posters who clearly think they are the cleverest people in the world poke fun at their students for not living up to their higher than thou expectations. The saddest thing about all of this

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[either_or]

thanks!

[ihadtosayit]

For a community so hard-pressed to point out my own lack of originality, you sure do seem fast to applaud unoriginality in beer choices!

[coendou]

Wow, you really care, don't you?

Hint: Most of the people here don't. Maybe you should try caring less.

[ihadtosayit]

Care about what? Drinking good quality beer? Maybe more of the people here should care about that!

[coendou]

Care about what gets said here.

[snowspinner]

Hm.

The defining characteristic of good beer is that it produces pleasurable sensations when applied to taste-buds. Given a general homogeny among the sensations enjoyed by human taste-buds, originality seems to me to be more or less irrelevant to the judgment.

Put another way, "Crazy Larry's Fermented Battery Acid," while a highly original choice of beers, is not necessarily a good one.

[ihadtosayit]

http://beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/321/27804

[snowspinner]

Ah, sorry, I seem to have left you with the mistaken belief that I give a fuck about beer.

Gin or white wine for my intoxication, please.

But then, obscurity is hardly a meaningful virtue there either.