If you asked someone "what's your favorite beer?" and they answered Bud Light, would you let them order a beer for you?

I would. I like Bud Light.

I just don't really care what anyone thinks about my level of informedness about any food or alcohol. I like some finer things and some cheap-ass nostalgia food. And if a dirty martini is the way I like a martini, it's not going to bother me if anyone thinks it's blasphemous. (Not that I do, because I hate olives.)

I guess I don't understand why anyone cares. Who lets other people order for them that often? If I'm not making you drink a dirty martini and spoil good gin, why do you care if I like it that way?

Edited to make sense.

66 posts over night. I was wondering what happened. A booze debate. Huh, would have never guessed that. Surprised the semi-colon argument didn't derail it and cause a 3rd debate (as the cheese/food portion is a spin off). Guess that proves, you have a successful spin off from a single show, but not a successful spin off of a spin off.

{{{{{{ Fay }}}}}}} Tons of ~ma to you. All kinds. Your family too.

{{{{{{ Shir }}}}}}} you too!

Waiting for final moving estimate peson to arrive. Now 10 minutes late. Not a good impression. First dude was early and sat in his car for 15 minutes (yup, saw him arrive, and watched him wait. Maybe it was a driveway moment on NPR). Second dude was pretty prompt give or take a minute. Today, nsm. Not scoring any points on the "we want your business" deal, I tell you what.

ION- today I should get an e-mail with the application for the apartment. Which means tonight I will Fed Ex it with the check. Wheee!

If I'm not making you drink a dirty martini and spoil good gin, why do you care if I like it that way?

Why do people point and laugh at the pics on Go Fug Yourself? Nobody's forcing anyone else to wear those clothes. Why do people bemoan blurbs for embarrassingly bad novels in Literary? Nobody's forcing anyone else to read the finished book.

So, a vodka martini isn't a real martini?

How much food/beverage cred does someone need to establish before they can use a phrase like "the good stuff" without someone wondering if I mean microbrewed stout or Bud Light?

If you asked someone "what's your favorite beer?" and they answered Bud Light, would you let them order a beer for you? Knowing nothing else about their food/drink preferences?

That didn't really answer my question. I referred to my brother's "good stuff" (beer), and you asked "What is "the good stuff" if we're only defining quality by what people like without taking into account their level of informedness on the subject at hand?"

I asked how much cred needs to be established in order for a phrase like "the good stuff" to be understood as microbrew or Bud Light.

So, how much?

In context, I was talking about someone who works for a brewpub whose beer has won awards, so some external authority considers their microbrew to be "good." I also mentioned that he has (1) Miller and (2) microbrew at home. I referred to the Miller as crap, so process of elimination means that when I say "good stuff" in reference to the beer he has available at home, that leaves one choice.

So really, I didn't even need beer cred to call the microbrew the "good stuff," since process of elimination should have made it evident.

But again, what level of cred does one need so that, when discussing someone who has Miller and microbrew available, and they say "the good stuff," you can assume they don't mean the Miller? Is all possibility of cred gone if they say they like Bud Light AND La Chouffe? And if so, how do you figure out what "the good stuff" is?

oh, now someone's just stirring up shit :)

looks at quester, pops popcorn, gets comfy and waits for the fireworks to begin.

If you asked someone "what's your favorite beer?" and they answered Bud Light, would you let them order a beer for you? Knowing nothing else about their food/drink preferences?

If someone was ordering for me, I'd think it would be more useful for that person to know my preferences than for me to know theirs.

oh, now someone's just stirring up shit :)

What? It was a serious question!

I'm skipping to update:

Lou pulled another Lazarus, and on steroids now to help with the edema. Next 3 days will be critical to see if he'll react well to it, but he's back, and eating, and most definitely not in pain at the moment.

We just need the tumor not to spread out down, to the throat. The more we'll have, the better chance Lou has.

My heart, however, is a wreck. Give me chocolate and a Buffy marathon and a week off, and I just might recover from this month.

I usually trust my sister to pick out wines for me. I don't know much about wines, and so a wine list that just tells the names and years doesn't give me any useful information. But I trust my sister not just because she can actually get useful information from that list, but because she also knows me and knows what wines I like -- if I ask her "Will I like this?" her answer isn't based on how good a wine it's supposed to be, but on how it compares to others that I've liked and haven't liked. Asking the world's greatest wine expert "Will I like this?" would be about as useful as me randomly picking something from the wine list if that expert doesn't know anything about what I like.