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misterstomach wrote:
EDIT: i just checked wikipedia. basically, when we americans speak of malt liquor, we are talking about a shitty beer in which sugar, or some other cheap sweetener is added to the barley malt to increase the potential alcohol content. as you can imagine, this produces a fucked up beer.

and

misterstomach wrote:i may have figured out that one part, but i'm pretty sure we still don't know what malt liquor really is. who knows what they're putting in that shit?

are not selling it.

snob.

Iommic Pope wrote:

dub wrote: Here the ghetto choice is premixed cans of bourbon and coke.

Farkin Woodstocks MATE!

Ah, New Zild's great contribution to binge drinkers everywhere.

When I was in high school the drink of choice (other than fruity fucking premixers) were these watered down spirits in 1 litre bottles. About 17-18%, they were basically half yourchoiceofvodka/bourbon/rum/southerncomfortknockoff half water. They weren't really much of a deal over an actual bottle of spirits, just affordable on pocket money I guess, aha.

Then there was a freak out alongside the drinking age getting lowered and they stuck the tax up on that particular alcohol bracket (which stung the pensioners and their port...) so all the bogans moved to the premix cans. One of the worse things I ever saw was a tequila sunrise goon box.

BAHA! Premixers in goon bags. Fucking classy!
We just had passion pop (shudder).
Wait up, I thought you guys were always 18+???

maz, wine is way too classy for this thread.

It was 20 until 1999, I think they also extended opening hours too. NZ used to have some backwards alcohol laws, which encouraged binge drinking, but then they liberalised really quickly. (Although I think the drinking culture really comes from the whole place being one small town and what else is there to do but get shitfaced and fuck your cousin)
Kids are actually drinking less now... but they keep threatening to put it back up. They're about to enforce four o'clock closing here in Welly, which will just shove everyone up at that hour out onto the street at the same (royal rumble) time.

The thing about wine is it can be hella classy or it can be hella cheap. I don't know a thing about good wine, but I know I can get tipsy off a three dollar bottle of it.

misterstomach wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:Slip It In>Damaged.

you're drunk, right? that's the craziest thing i've heard anyone say in a month, besides the dude who responded to "am i punk or what?" by talking about the bobble heads in his office. slip it in is a fine album and all, but it's no damaged. .

Would I have more street cred if I sat in a cubicle like the hoi polloi instead of an office? Or better yet, if I didn't have a job at all?

dub wrote:It was 20 until 1999, I think they also extended opening hours too. NZ used to have some backwards alcohol laws, which encouraged binge drinking, but then they liberalised really quickly. (Although I think the drinking culture really comes from the whole place being one small town and what else is there to do but get shitfaced and fuck your cousin)
Kids are actually drinking less now... but they keep threatening to put it back up. They're about to enforce four o'clock closing here in Welly, which will just shove everyone up at that hour out onto the street at the same (royal rumble) time.

Yeah, binge drinking is just an engrained part of Australian culture as well. Kids will drink no matter what you set a legal age limit at. They'll find a way.
We have 3am lock out in Brisbane. That is exactly what it does.
Its fucking stupid.

misterstomach wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:Slip It In>Damaged.

you're drunk, right? that's the craziest thing i've heard anyone say in a month, besides the dude who responded to "am i punk or what?" by talking about the bobble heads in his office. slip it in is a fine album and all, but it's no damaged.

Albums?

I'm talking about title tracks.

Nora Billy wrote:

misterstomach wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:Slip It In>Damaged.

you're drunk, right? that's the craziest thing i've heard anyone say in a month, besides the dude who responded to "am i punk or what?" by talking about the bobble heads in his office. slip it in is a fine album and all, but it's no damaged. .

Would I have more street cred if I sat in a cubicle like the hoi polloi instead of an office? Or better yet, if I didn't have a job at all?

Street cred is great and all, but it won't bring home the fuzz boxes. Or the 40s.

Well, maybe the 40s. But that's about it.

I pay my bills with street cred.

To clear up the earlier confusion: Malt liquor just means beer, really. The reason the word malt liquor exists is become some US states used to have (and one fucking backwards state STILL has) laws that say that you couldn't sell beer higher than 5% alcohol, so they came up with malt liquor as a way around the dumb prohibition-era laws. And back in the days before craft beers hit it big, the easiest way to make high alcohol beer was to spike the recipe with a ton of corn sugar and rice sugar, which made a thin, tastes-like-piss beer that had a lot of alcohol. Now that most of those laws are gone, they've just kept the malt liquor name on the thinner and more piss-like high-alcohol beers, because that's what people were used to calling them. But there isn't any technical difference between "malt liquor" and "beer"

dub wrote:They're about to enforce four o'clock closing here in Welly, which will just shove everyone up at that hour out onto the street at the same (royal rumble) time.

This is so good
Royal rumble is a perfect analogy.

D.o.S. wrote:I pay my bills with street cred.

Does Paypal accept street cred now? Because... well, I still wouldn't be able to buy the equipment I'm GASsing for. But it would be pretty neat.

bigchiefbc wrote:To clear up the earlier confusion: Malt liquor just means beer, really. The reason the word malt liquor exists is become some US states used to have (and one fucking backwards state STILL has) laws that say that you couldn't sell beer higher than 5% alcohol, so they came up with malt liquor as a way around the dumb prohibition-era laws. And back in the days before craft beers hit it big, the easiest way to make high alcohol beer was to spike the recipe with a ton of corn sugar and rice sugar, which made a thin, tastes-like-piss beer that had a lot of alcohol. Now that most of those laws are gone, they've just kept the malt liquor name on the thinner and more piss-like high-alcohol beers, because that's what people were used to calling them. But there isn't any technical difference between "malt liquor" and "beer"

Yeah, some friends and I read up on it over the summer. Crazy stuff. What's really awesome is that back in the 50's, it was being billed as the "high class" drink to bring to suburban parties. Crazy stuff. And if you start looking, you'll find it all over the place - Sam Smith Chocolate Stout is actually labelled as a "malt beverage" if you look closely. I'm not sure if that's because of labeling laws, or they were just trying to sound fancy, but I was amused.

jrmy wrote:

D.o.S. wrote:I pay my bills with street cred.

Does Paypal accept street cred now? Because... well, I still wouldn't be able to buy the equipment I'm GASsing for. But it would be pretty neat.

bigchiefbc wrote:To clear up the earlier confusion: Malt liquor just means beer, really. The reason the word malt liquor exists is become some US states used to have (and one fucking backwards state STILL has) laws that say that you couldn't sell beer higher than 5% alcohol, so they came up with malt liquor as a way around the dumb prohibition-era laws. And back in the days before craft beers hit it big, the easiest way to make high alcohol beer was to spike the recipe with a ton of corn sugar and rice sugar, which made a thin, tastes-like-piss beer that had a lot of alcohol. Now that most of those laws are gone, they've just kept the malt liquor name on the thinner and more piss-like high-alcohol beers, because that's what people were used to calling them. But there isn't any technical difference between "malt liquor" and "beer"

Yeah, some friends and I read up on it over the summer. Crazy stuff. What's really awesome is that back in the 50's, it was being billed as the "high class" drink to bring to suburban parties. Crazy stuff. And if you start looking, you'll find it all over the place - Sam Smith Chocolate Stout is actually labelled as a "malt beverage" if you look closely. I'm not sure if that's because of labeling laws, or they were just trying to sound fancy, but I was amused.

In some places in Texas, there are beers that can't be purchased except in a liquor store because of their ABV. They get classified as a "malt liquor."