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Generally speaking, I think life is too short to drink light beer...having said that, I do enjoy a good Michelada or red beer on occasion, usually made with a lighter style of Mexican beer...
 
Dustin Chromers said:
Now come on, these Christmas fireworks aren't going to light themselves. Grab your brother and me another beer. This is gonna be great.
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All of my uncles were those guys.

Extended family too. An example that sums it up: Drinking malt liquor while fishing for groundhogs with a treble hook covered in peanut butter, then blasting them with a shotgun once you’ve fought them within 10 feet of your lawnchair…at 9am…on a Tuesday. “Mos’ folks don’ know jess how hard these fuckers fight. I practically invented this kina fishin’. Hoooeee! There’s a biggun! Y’ana turn?”
 
Northern said:
That's funny - 'cause when I went off to college, I only ever drank hard liquor at parties because I literally could not swallow "beer"...because I'd only ever tried Bud, Coors, Hamm's, etc.
Then somebody handed me a Shiner Bock, and my world changed!
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That was our cheap beer of choice in Austin. It was the keg beer of choice for most parties.

Most of the dumb things I've done were probably fueled by Shiner Bock. We made a pilgrimage to the brewery one weekend... somehow ended up in Nuevo Laredo a few hours later... good times!

Unfortunately, it does not qualify as cheap beer in the PNW. It's a solid beer, but we've got better options galore up here for what they charge for Shiner Bock locally, so I don't buy it much these days, but every once in a while, perhaps when I'm feeling the need to revisit my youth or something, I'll pick up a 6 pack.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
He looks like a drunk dinner table racist uncle "who keeps it real" that is essentially issued to children at holiday time in my area. They normally come with a Camero or Firebird with at least one primer body panel, three DUIs and a suspended licence.

Bonus is you get to drive the Camero at age twelve to go to the store with him and get more bud light while he cranks Def Leopard or Skynard and talks to you about life, divorce, and how much your dad thinks he's better than him.

Notable skills are bringing fireworks to Christmas, drinking all the top shelf booze before dinner, making your mom uncomfortable with too many compliments on inappropriate things, and leaving twin streaks of rubber in the driveway when dad finally has enough and tells him to leave. You can always tell his replacement by that one cousin who thinks he's really cool. This is the cycle of life in my area for many a young boys.
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This is way too real
 
Jake Watrous said:
All of my uncles were those guys.

Extended family too. An example that sums it up: Drinking malt liquor while fishing for groundhogs with a treble hook covered in peanut butter, then blasting them with a shotgun once you’ve fought them within 10 feet of your lawnchair…at 9am…on a Tuesday. “Mos’ folks don’ know jess how hard these fuckers fight. I practically invented this kina fishin’. Hoooeee! There’s a biggun! Y’ana turn?”
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Who needs to head to the hill to ski. We got perfectly good dirt skiing at the landslide up on weyco ground.
 
Evan B said:
This is way too real
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This is why non fiction is so compelling. The details, the authenticity, the story, the realness. Generation of these things comes best from lived experience. I tell the stories of my people to those who know not of my people. I am their ambassador to the civilized world. I lived among them like an anthropologist or keeper of the tales. As awful and majestic as they are, they are real.
 
Dustin Chromers said:
Bonus is you get to drive the Camero at age twelve to go to the store with him and get more bud light while he cranks Def Leopard or Skynard and talks to you about life, divorce, and how much your dad thinks he's better than him.
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Hey hey now... dawgin' Skynrd is getting close to crossing that there line now...

KR always sucked and he especially sucked after he appropriated every Alabama redneck's favorite song, me included. My boys the Dexateens said it best: Lower Alabama is the real LA, stop playing that shit on the radio waves...
 
Thomas Mitchell said:
Hey hey now... dawgin' Skynrd is getting close to crossing that there line now...

KR always sucked and he especially sucked after he appropriated every Alabama redneck's favorite song, me included. My boys the Dexateens said it best: Lower Alabama is the real LA, stop playing that shit on the radio waves...
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For all of uncle Rico's faults taste in music was not one of them. Where do you think I got my vintage Skynard vinyls?
 
Funny how drunk rednecks have better taste in music than educated city types..

Yes, I'm saying Def Leppard and Skynard blow U2 COMPLETELY out of the water..

Not a Def Leppard fan but I will admit that Watergate does not bother me.
 
Rob Allen said:
Funny how drunk rednecks have better taste in music than educated city types..

Yes, I'm saying Def Leppard and Skynard blow U2 COMPLETELY out of the water..

Not a Def Leppard fan but I will admit that Watergate does not bother me.
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Both are terrible. Hair bands ruined rock. Unfortunately one of the only radio stations I get in the Gorge is a classic rock station. Recently they have transitioned from the old classic rock to more 80s stuff and it just plain sucks.

They've also been playing some Nirvana and Red Hots lately. While it sounds a lot better it pisses me off that that is old enough to be classic rock now...
 
Yard Sale said:
Both are terrible. Hair bands ruined rock. Unfortunately one of the only radio stations I get in the Gorge is a classic rock station. Recently they have transitioned from the old classic rock to more 80s stuff and it just plain sucks.

They've also been playing some Nirvana and Red Hots lately. While it sounds a lot better it pisses me off that that is old enough to be classic rock now...
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Yeah.. Def Leppard as bad as they are is still better than the stuff modern people like.

"Marlin? Sword fish? Cut through piano wire like that?" You tell me my business again.

"That doesn't prove a thing."

"Well it proves one thing Mr. Hooper, it proves you rich college types don't know enough to admit when you're wrong"

Sorry watched jaws the other day and that class struggle moment came to mind.

My life is perfectly content without U2, Def Leppard and Skynard, just poking the bear in humor :)
 
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I think the only music that's objectively terrible is the last decade or so of pop "country." there's other music I dislike, but it's hard to find any redeeming qualities in anything that manufactured and formulaic with lyrics that are basically a mad libs game of every cliche pandering rural life trope.
 
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