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That is a bit snobbish. Nobody should have to apologize for their beverage of choice.
by jevinskie 13y ago
That is a bit snobbish. Nobody should have to apologize for their beverage of choice.
- coldtea 13y agoWhy not? If something is worth doing, it's worth doing right.
- dmm 13y agoAmerican Lagers are a fine style of beer. And many of the most popular ones are fine examples of that style.
- coldtea 13y agoWell, one would hardly consider them beers in the first place.
- JonnieCache 13y agoOptimising every aspect of your life like that has rapidly diminishing returns. Before too long you end up like that one guy writing blogs about your bespoke fucking japanese spoons or whatever it was. Pick a few things and maximise those. Presumably the guy buying the 18 pack of beer chose something else.
- BugBrother 13y agoNo. You're factually correct that it is like premature optimizing code, but it is a hobby for quite a few people to optimize their lives. Others collect money. Some friends do board games. Or sport. (Personally, I spend a lot of time learning about some odd interests.)
- adventured 13y agoThere is no such thing as "right" when it comes to the subjective world of taste (whether food or beer). There are only snobs that claim there is a "right" and everybody else who enjoys what they like regardless of the snobs.
- Avshalom 13y agoI'mma go with Chesterton on this: if it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly.
- barrkel 13y agoDo you optimize your choice of cups? Of USB cables? Brake fluid in your car? How far do you go to get the perfect sugar? I get my olive oil from an electrical hardware store around the corner from where I work - http://mroliveoil.com/page19.htm http://mroliveoil.com/page19.htm - how far do you go to get yours? Lots of things are worth doing - often unavoidably so - but that doesn't mean you need to optimize each and every one of them until they're "right".
- lmm 13y agoCups and USB cables are tools, a means to an end. (I do buy fancy sugar, because I bake as a hobby). Beer is supposedly something you do for fun - it's not like it's nutritious - and if you're just drinking to fit in or using it as a way to get drunk, you might have a problem.
- ngoldbaum 13y agoYou're the Ron Swanson of olive oil.
- coldtea 13y ago>Do you optimize your choice of cups? Of USB cables? Brake fluid in your car? How far do you go to get the perfect sugar? No, I don't "optimize" everything, but I do optimize a lot of stuff. If you like beer enough to consume 16 cans a week, then it sounds like something worth optimizing. In general most things diet related are quite important to leave to chance. And if fun is involved too, then optimizing them can be fun too. You don't have to be OCD about it, just to try different brands and experiment. >I get my olive oil from an electrical hardware store around the corner from where I work how far do you go to get yours? Hmm, that's a bad example, as we value olive oil very much in my country, so I even have my own olive trees and produce my oil in cooperation with the village mill. Well, my parents do at the moment, as I live abroad now.
- a3n 13y agoThe question wasn't meant for people to justify or apologize for their choice of beer. Despite its (unavoidable?) snobbishness, it really was the bare question itself, "what kind of beer that comes in 18 packs is worth drinking?" A few responses actually answered that; "beer that I can, or choose to, afford" was the essence of many of those. Or "because I like it" were some others. Interesting, and probably not surprising, that most responses addressed the snobbishness behind the question, and that was as valuable to me as the responses that addressed the question.