Life is [apparently] better without booze

news.com.au reckons that life is better without booze.

Let's examine why they are full of it.

1. Your health gets better.

Really?  I was planning to drop dead of cholesterol related heart disease secondary to eating everything I feel like eating, with sitting behind a desk 12 hours a day as a contributing factor.  I don't see how booze changes either.


2. Your looks improve.

I doubt it, matey.


3. It's easier to maintain the weight you want

The Handbrake and I  today made the decision to cut out all carbs and most fats, and actually eat sensible portions to stave off lap band surgery.  I doubt a few bourbons will achieve this one way or the other.


4. You have more time to get stuff done.

You're assuming I don't get stuff done while having a drink.  I draw the line at power tools at potential digit removal, but I am as equally productive with a glass of wine as without.


4b. You can even finish a book.

I read on the [enforced] train to and from work. I have no desire to write one.  Set me up, bartender.


5. You have more patience.

No, I quite assure you I will not.  I suffer lack of patience due to being forced to work with stupid people.  I'll try being nicer if you try being smarter.  Guess which one is controllable?  Protip: not the one you'd like.


6. You find out who you really are.

Tree-hugging hippy crap.  I'm quite happy the way I am, thanks.  What makes you think that anything else is automatically an improvement?


7. You feel good about your life.

See above.  I rarely get hangovers, and if I do they are easily dealt with.  This is a just another form of trendy-speak rubbish designed to convince people that they're not responsible for their own actions.

Question:  what happens when you're completely sober and you discover you're *still* an arsehole or useless know-nothing hanger-on?

Ah, yeah.  Bugger.  Kinda counting on the get-out-of-gaol-free card there.

Tax sucking politicians

Making some booze today.

A basic kit (pure sugars, yeast, filter media) is $55.  (I could do this cheaper, but it's not worth trying to source pure dextrose in the small quantities I need.  The storage alone would be a pain in the arse.)

Add $4 for carbon slurry, and maybe $5 (generous) for steriliser and power.

For this, I end up with 10 litres of 40% neutral spirit.  Flavouring costs me about $1 a litre to make bourbons, it's mostly time.

So the upshot is that I can make bourbon that fools people that it's Jim Beam black for $7.40 a litre.

Dan Murphy's wants $41 a bottle... for 700ml, or $58 a litre.  And of that, the government has their hand out for over $20 of that 700ml bottle.

No thanks, time to check the condensor temp on the still, and put another batch down in the fermenter I think.

Bloody photocopiers

Telling it like it is

I'd like everyone to take the few minutes to read this.

http://harrisburg.craigslist.org/rnr/3901646435.html


Then read this.

http://www.news.com.au/business/detroit-becomes-largest-us-city-in-history-to-file-for-bankruptcy/story-e6frfm1i-1226681727792


It's what happens when white flight occurs.

Zimmerman acquitted

http://www.news.com.au/world-news/jury-finds-george-zimmerman-not-guilty-in-trayvon-martin-murder-trial/story-fndir2ev-1226679155243

 

Of course.

 

Scum need to keep out of areas they shouldn’t be in.

Ho Lee Fuk indeed

Edit - I see some gormless little fuck has just intimidated Youtube into taking down the video.  Well done.  And fuck you, here's a still, of which there are approximately 11,827,856 out there by now.

Welcome to the internet, you useless waste of oxygen.

At last, a logical religion

Religion in all forms puzzles me, because I can't see why people are who are apparently supposed to be grown adults still haven't relinquished the concept of having an imaginary best friend.  Or can't deal with the idea that sometimes shit just happens, there doesn't have to be a master plan.  Or that you need to wear a specific type of underwear and avoid bacon to gain the approval of your illusory deity, who nevertheless thinks it's OK to blow other people up.

That said, if you have to believe in a religion to provide justification for your own actions and experiences because our victim culture-of-blame society has conditioned you completely to the mistaken belief that it's always someone else's fault, then you might as well pick one where you don't need to worry about it too much, right?

There's no virgins at the end either way, but at least you get bacon in the meantime.