Looking Down Your Nose While Doing a Headstand

[Triple Zero]

I gotta say, though, that cheap bourbon is far superior - to me - than the expensive shit, because if it doesn't feel like a wad of burning fish hooks going down my throat, it doesn't do the job.  That, however, is a matter of personal taste.

You'd think if that shit were so expensive, they'd develop a few "special blends" that aren't smooth as fuck, bite and chafe your throat, but in addition to tasting really, really nice?

[LMNO]

I just dream of a world where we can hate on people not for the brackish, foul stuff in their glass but for the brackish, foul stuff in their souls.

Newsfeed.

[hooplala]

People don't just say "No, thank you." most of the time because that wouldn't automatically delineate their personal uniqueness to the audience around themselves.  That condescension is their metaphorical mark in the sand, saying: the masses may be able to tolerate that substandard shit, but I am an snowflake, both individual and precious, and shall not slurp from their collective trough.

The only correct response is a hammer.

[Richter]

No one accomplishes anything making a big deal out of their discerning food choices for any reason other than taste.

[LMNO]

But if we apply that as a general principle, half of the arguments at PD.com would dry up.

[P3nT4gR4m]

"Heineken?? Fuck that shit!"

In my experience this kind of snobbery is a lot more common, in some shape or form, than not. Most folks I've met (even really cool ones) have some fucking hobby horse, be it music or films or coffee or whatever bullshit. "intellectuals" (the kind in inverted commas) bug me more than most. They meet me and they think I'm the same as them and we get chatting about philosophy or some other bullshit and then they'll hit me with "Waht's your favourite film" and I'll tell them "Day of the Dead" and they'll look at me like my dick's hanging out my ear and burble some shit about only watching Fellini and I'll be all like "Who the fuck you trying to impress, there's no other complete wankheads involved in this conversation?"

"You're not your job. You're not how much money you have in the bank. You're not the car you drive. You're not the contents of your wallet. You're not your fucking khakis. You're the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world."

That's from my other favourite film. And before you go off on one, I know the book is better but I hardly ever read books (yeah I know) sue me!

[The Good Reverend Roger]

"I do this because I like to," as opposed to "I do this because everything else is fucking stupid."

As opposed to me.  I do everything BECAUSE it's fucking stupid.

[The Good Reverend Roger]

I gotta say, though, that cheap bourbon is far superior - to me - than the expensive shit, because if it doesn't feel like a wad of burning fish hooks going down my throat, it doesn't do the job.  That, however, is a matter of personal taste.

You'd think if that shit were so expensive, they'd develop a few "special blends" that aren't smooth as fuck, bite and chafe your throat, but in addition to tasting really, really nice?

If you can taste it at all, it isn't working.  You FEEL whiskey.

[Adios]

I gotta say, though, that cheap bourbon is far superior - to me - than the expensive shit, because if it doesn't feel like a wad of burning fish hooks going down my throat, it doesn't do the job.  That, however, is a matter of personal taste.

You'd think if that shit were so expensive, they'd develop a few "special blends" that aren't smooth as fuck, bite and chafe your throat, but in addition to tasting really, really nice?

If you can taste it at all, it isn't working.  You FEEL whiskey.

[Triple Zero]

Now you're making me wonder what a mixture of 40% ethanol 60% tapwater would taste like.

(before anyone says: no, vodka also has sugar in it)

Pure ethanol is hard to come by over here, without methanol and blue colouring added to it. Well I bet the apothecary would have it, but it's probably expensive as fuck.

[Adios]

Now you're making me wonder what a mixture of 40% ethanol 60% tapwater would taste like.

(before anyone says: no, vodka also has sugar in it)

Pure ethanol is hard to come by over here, without methanol and blue colouring added to it. Well I bet the apothecary would have it, but it's probably expensive as fuck.

Add hot sauce and piss to Jamison for the full effect.

[Slyph]

But harmless bigotry like this is the spice of life. It's fun.

[Richter]

But if we apply that as a general principle, half of the arguments at PD.com would dry up.

Works best with food. 

While it would be refreshing to try as a general principle, it would really kill any philosophical discussion.  Everything would be reduced to hypothetical situations and observable or citable data, unless I miss my guess.