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The States: North Dakota is Still the Worst

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Here is the thing, I dont care if people peacock to try and make themselves seem smarter, trendier, hipper, cooler or whatever. I just enjoy the hell out of when they get exposed, and you know what, if they have any self esteem they love it too. Getting called out on your BS can be fun as heck! We are all full of crap on some level, we all speak out of our butt about things and we misrepresent our tastes. I may grouse at first when I get called out but 5 minutes later I am laughing my *** off and I usually tell the story more often than my friends do.

I got a buddy who is super into whiskey...specifically bourbon these days. Now leaving aside that he has always kinda followed me in this regard unlike me he has gotten a bit snobby about it. He LOVES to brag about the bevy of types of whiskey he has from all over the world. He is also very generous with it so he isnt a jerk but he speaks out of his butt ALL THE TIME trying to impress with his knowledge and choices. Currently he is on a huge Blanton's kick. I have drank enough of it (there is a bar that my bar buddies and I drink at for free and we killed their supply one summer a decade ago) to know it is a good bourbon but not worth the price in any way. You can pay $15-20 less for a bottle and drink much better stuff imho. Whatever though you like what you like.

Anyways he always kind of goes off about how great it is when he drinks it and sort of side eyes that I will choose something else from his collection. I know he is full of it and he knows he is full of it and I am pretty sure he knows I know he is full of it but whatever he is a former actor and teaches in the city so he kind of has an ego. Well one day soon when he has me pour I will pour a Blantons and Buffalo Trace (same Distillery and a much cheaper bottle) which I usually have and switch them. 99% chance he doesnt notice but he will still pontificate about how great Blantons is while drinking their "lesser" whiskey. (which to be fair I always kind of liked better) I wont embarrass him about it but I will always know...

The people who do it to impress others (not friends but strangers) are the ones that need to have their ego deflated a bit though :)
 
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Handyman said:
"Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in your first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker."

:D ;)

(just kidding)
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Hey. You could be right. :-)

But that's not somebody fooling others to seem smart, it's somebody fooling himself.

The only real question with Dump is is he fooling himself? Is he the Apotheosis of Dunning-Kruger? It does seem like it. It actually seems like Dump is so dumb he thinks he's smart and that smart people are dumb. That's... well, it's interesting to watch, anyway.
 
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Handyman said:
Here is the thing, I dont care if people peacock to try and make themselves seem smarter, trendier, hipper, cooler or whatever. I just enjoy the hell out of when they get exposed, and you know what, if they have any self esteem they love it too. Getting called out on your BS can be fun as heck!
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Joel Goodson: Hey, Mr. What-The-F-ck. I mean, what about "exploring the dark side" and all that? Or was that just bullsh-t?

Miles: That was just bullsh-t, Joel. I'm surprised you listened to me.
 
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Handyman said:
Anyways he always kind of goes off about how great it is when he drinks it and sort of side eyes that I will choose something else from his collection. I know he is full of it and he knows he is full of it and I am pretty sure he knows I know he is full of it but whatever he is a former actor and teaches in the city so he kind of has an ego. Well one day soon when he has me pour I will pour a Blantons and Buffalo Trace (same Distillery and a much cheaper bottle) which I usually have and switch them. 99% chance he doesnt notice but he will still pontificate about how great Blantons is while drinking their "lesser" whiskey. (which to be fair I always kind of liked better) I wont embarrass him about it but I will always know...
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I had a college friend who was like this about vodkas. She'd go on and on about top shelf vodka and because she was obscenely rich she could and did buy everything possible.

So one hockey trip my friends and I all got drunk, blindfolded her, and lined up 16 quarter shots from all the ridiculous $100 bottles she had plus a variety of middle shelf bar stock down to Smirnoff, Stoli, and the rest of the bat guano.

She nailed every one of them. We tried mixing them and she still got something like half of the combinations. She couldn't get any that were divided into thirds -- she said they all tasted like mud though by that time she was probably about 6 FTE shots in. I've not seen a sincere standing ovation for drinking since. God bless Cortland girls.
 
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If you run middle of the road vodka through a Brita filter like twice it becomes top shelf.
 
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Handyman said:
If you run middle of the road vodka through a Brita filter like twice it becomes top shelf.
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IIRC, Mythbusters ran this experiment years ago, and while the professional vodka taster they brought in correctly ranked all 10 filtrations, Kari Byron thought the least filtered shot was the best one. :rolleyes: :D
 
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[T]here is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.
 
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Blanton's is the new hyped bourbon, hence the increase in price. Same with Weller and Michter's.

I will order an Old Fashioned if I think they know how to make a good one AND it's not crowded at all. I plan on ordering one in Houghton next week. There's a place that makes outstanding ones.

I rarely if ever drink macro beers. Outside of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, I cannot recall the last time I had a macro besides a prank or two. Most of it is because I want to support the craft breweries.

That being said, if I start talking about beer and describe the "nose" or "mouthfeel" of it, feel free to punch me. I'll describe the taste/flavors, whether it's thick or thin, and that's about it. Layman's terms.
 
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Blantons is the most overrated and overpriced bourbon I’ve ever bought. Several years ago I bought a bottle and it ended up being my manhattan or old fashioned whiskey. It just wasn’t as good as its price.

Weller and Michter’s are both very good.
 
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The Rube said:
Blanton's is the new hyped bourbon, hence the increase in price. Same with Weller and Michter's.

I will order an Old Fashioned if I think they know how to make a good one AND it's not crowded at all. I plan on ordering one in Houghton next week. There's a place that makes outstanding ones.

I rarely if ever drink macro beers. Outside of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, I cannot recall the last time I had a macro besides a prank or two. Most of it is because I want to support the craft breweries.

That being said, if I start talking about beer and describe the "nose" or "mouthfeel" of it, feel free to punch me. I'll describe the taste/flavors, whether it's thick or thin, and that's about it. Layman's terms.
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Mouthfeel is the same thing as thickness. So say cheese.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Mouthfeel is the same thing as thickness. So say cheese.
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I don't say "mouthfeel," to sound all pretentious. That's the point. "This is thick" compared to "The mouthfeel on this is viscous."

I was always unimpressed with Bulleit, TBH.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
IIRC, Mythbusters ran this experiment years ago, and while the professional vodka taster they brought in correctly ranked all 10 filtrations, Kari Byron thought the least filtered shot was the best one. :rolleyes: :D
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I believe that is correct although IIRC the expert also said there was little difference between the like "7 filtered" and the top of the line but it has been a while since I watched it.
 
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The Rube said:
Blanton's is the new hyped bourbon, hence the increase in price. Same with Weller and Michter's.

I will order an Old Fashioned if I think they know how to make a good one AND it's not crowded at all. I plan on ordering one in Houghton next week. There's a place that makes outstanding ones.

I rarely if ever drink macro beers. Outside of Goose Island Bourbon County Stout, I cannot recall the last time I had a macro besides a prank or two. Most of it is because I want to support the craft breweries.

That being said, if I start talking about beer and describe the "nose" or "mouthfeel" of it, feel free to punch me. I'll describe the taste/flavors, whether it's thick or thin, and that's about it. Layman's terms.
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Blanton's isnt newly hyped, it has been hyped for years. The price has been like $54 at the places I shop for well over a decade. Buffalo Trace had the big price increase cause the Hipsters found it. Used to be able to buy a bottle of that for $19.
 
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I don't get why people are so judgmental of others for the choices they make with music, clothing, beer, etc. As long as it doesn't harm you who cares if someone is a hipster? I remember the goths from high school and while I thought they looked like idiots I was friends with a quite a few of them despite being a "jock" and not all of them were melancholy, sour, morbid, etc. - some of them just liked the look. If someone prefers a lager over a pale ale or a stout have at it. My older son likes music that's closer to my own tastes, the younger one likes a lot of what I like, but he also listens to broader range of hip hop and pop. That's awesome. My younger boy likes the same sports I do, the older prefers anything involving an engine. Cool. My best friend in the world likes a lot of the same music as I do but he likes country which on the whole makes my ears want to bleed. I would never look down on him for it. Not everyone that drinks craft been does so because it's trendy, the same for those were smoking cigars in the 90's or hopped on the single malt train 20 years ago. Freaking let people be what they want if it doesn't infringe upon you and get over thinking your tastes are more honest, sophisticated, etc., and get over yourselves.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Mouthfeel is the same thing as thickness. So say cheese.
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It's a term of art in food science. I have a friend whose doctorate involved the mouthfeel of Twinkies. It had biochemistry in it that is well beyond every person on this forum.

Foodies are weird people to me but I don't get why they threaten or anger some. Think of them as cosplay eaters.
 
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