If it were actually good beer, you couldn't enjoy it ironically.

Funny thing, is that PBR sponsors my bro's rugby team (before it got hip) and whenever I go to the drink up, I feel very self conscious. Not because I'm drinking cheap beer, but because I don't want people to think I'm a hipster douchebag (HDB for short. smonster and I saw many of them when we went out when she was here)

Back in the (read: my) day, the bar beer of choice for the tragically hip was, shudder, Rolling Rock.

I loved Rolling Rock. When I was in England, I was out with some people and one of the guys said "Oh, here's a great new beer" and handed me a Rolling Rock. I was like "um, can I have a bass?" We were secretly amused that they were standing around feeling superior and drinking Rolling Rock

Someone told my boss that the university is no longer allowed to provide food for meetings that involve staff, because the food is a taxable benefit for the employee and would have to be noted in our paycheck. Does this sound crazy to anyone else? (I also just came from a meeting that had food)

Sounds like bullshit to me. In that case, they would have to tax coffee, the water cooler, etc.

Budweiser has a weird sort of cachet in the UK, too.

Used to be in Canada too, where at college bars anyway, only the douchebags trying to show they had a lot of money would order Bud. (ETA: it certainly was priced like a premium there, and was at the time one of the only American beers you could get.)

The One And Only Ping-Pong Kitty (VIDEO)

Get ready to ready to be bombarded with cuteness. It's a cat on a ping pong table and well, quite frankly, it doesn't get much better than that. On a side note, one of the people filming (two are required to capture this awesomeness) seems set on sending this clip into "America's Funniest Home Videos," meaning it's very likely that this is an artifact from thousands of years ago.

I suppose in reality it's too much to ask most women to be copacetic with their high school boyfriend being a contract killer. However, it would disturb me so much less that it made me impatient.

You being you, I can see that. I personally liked that she stood up to him at first. "You don't get to have me"

Is hipster douchebag redundant? Nevermind, I like the way it rolls off the tongue so much I'm going to keep using it even if it is.

When I was in Scotland 15 years ago, they were all about Miller beer.

I've been informed by my company that the IRS will not let me expense food on a day trip unless I am away from home until after 7pm, and even then I am only allowed to expense dinner. However, that is "expensing a meal for individual travel" and not "providing food for a meeting" which is a different issue (and a whole different category in my expense reports!)

FAFSA was a pain last time, asking for stuff I had to really dig up. Since I haven't yet done my "dump all the receipt bags on the table and sort out the tax stuff" dealie yet, the digging up was worrying me. Yeah, 2 in college and one on the way - and FAFSA has no field for "tuitions paid to Jewish day schools" which handily eat up more than half the family income. I know, 1st world problems I chose for myself, but still grrrr.

Sent from my crackberry- hope this works.

One thing to remember about the FAFSA is that you can do estimated tax info, and go back and fix it later.

I think of PBR as beer soda. You know, like orange soda or grape soda.

I kind of like the (possibly outdated) British use of "Robin" as a nickname for Robert.