Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Cider usually means means soft in the US, and it's the hard that gets specified. In Europe hard is assumed. And I'm pretty sure you know that. —Alorael, who likes hard cider and soft cider. It's just that they often don't taste the same at all. Most hard cider isn't really sweet after fermentation, and some of it (bad cider?) doesn't even taste of apples anymore. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 We've had different experiences, because I've always had to specify soft cider. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Where have you had to specify that, Nico? In the vast majority of the U.S., people assume that "cider" refers to nonalcoholic "apple cider" that is often served to kids. Even Wikipedia says: 'In current usage of the term in the United States and Canada, the term "hard cider" is used for the alcoholic beverage discussed in this article, while the term "cider" usually refers to a non-alcoholic apple juice beverage.' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith i did not realise that, and instead pictured you roasting a whole boar on a spit or something in the middle of the lab, because that seemed like a very british thing to do Now that is a mental image I did not need. (Must resist bad puns!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk Nicothodes Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I've mainly been in Maryland and Massachusetts. Maybe I've just known a lot more people who mainly drink hard cider and that's their first thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Student of Trinity Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I think it may be a recent change, or still in progress. Hard ciders started getting more popular in the US somewhere around ten years ago, I think, probably as part of the general gentrification of alcohol that had begun a bit earlier. Wine coolers and the like seemed to have acquired some kind of stigma of artificiality, and you can only add so many flavors to bourbon before Jack Daniels returns from beyond to punish the wicked, so reviving a solidly traditional drink like hard cider was just the ticket. Soft cider seems to have gotten less popular at the same time, at least as a label, probably as fancy apple juice started getting marketed as juice, to ride the coattails of not-from-concentrate orange juice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Mea Tulpa Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 I don't think it's actually a change. Obviously there are situations in the U.S. where you can say "cider" and people will assume the alcoholic kind: namely, if you are at a bar or a party where alcohol is served. If you have moderate exposure to those circumstances and minimal exposure to people who drink nonalcoholic apple cider, it makes sense that you'd hear it used that way most of the time. That doesn't mean its general use has changed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Micawber Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Originally Posted By: Nicothodes I hope it makes its way to the UK soon. The lower quality of coffee has been the hardest thing to adjust to. I know Fortunately Italy is just 2 hours flight away... If you're in Oxford, have you tried the restaurant on the top floor of the Ashmolean? The tea there is quite good, but I haven't tried the coffee. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 23, 2011 Share Posted October 23, 2011 Well, however you like your coffee, I highly recommend not using this method of production. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast VCH Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 So has anyone here attempted to drink 4 litres of milk in one sitting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Tyranicus Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: VCH So has anyone here attempted to drink 4 litres of milk in one sitting? Here in the US, where we still don't use the metric system, that's known as the "gallon challenge." When I was in high school, a kid tried to do it in the cafeteria one day. It did not end well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 In my college dorm a guy was complaining about his Saudi Arabian roommate "accidently" drinking his 12 pack of beer (144 ounces - over 4 liters(. He had thought it was safe because the Saudi's religion forbade alcohol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Lilith Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer In my college dorm a guy was complaining about his Saudi Arabian roommate "accidently" drinking his 12 pack of beer (144 ounces - over 4 liters(. He had thought it was safe because the Saudi's religion forbade alcohol. so had this dude never met a Catholic who used birth control or what Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Aran Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Randomizer In my college dorm a guy was complaining about his Saudi Arabian roommate "accidently" drinking his 12 pack of beer (144 ounces - over 4 liters(. He had thought it was safe because the Saudi's religion forbade alcohol. The roommate was selflessly sacrificing himself to save him from that evil stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 If it was a whole twelve pack, it may have been a group intervention to save him. —Alorael, who could even see the Saudi taking the directorial role and leaving the actual protective drinking to others. Ideally they would give up alcohol immediately afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dantius Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Lilith Originally Posted By: Randomizer In my college dorm a guy was complaining about his Saudi Arabian roommate "accidently" drinking his 12 pack of beer (144 ounces - over 4 liters(. He had thought it was safe because the Saudi's religion forbade alcohol. so had this dude never met a Catholic who used birth control or what Wait, there are Catholics who actually pay attention to the Church's directives in the US? Since when? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 Originally Posted By: Tyranicus Originally Posted By: VCH So has anyone here attempted to drink 4 litres of milk in one sitting? Here in the US, where we still don't use the metric system, that's known as the "gallon challenge." When I was in high school, a kid tried to do it in the cafeteria one day. It did not end well. My son's cross country team participates in the gallon challenge over the summer at XC camp. Only they use chocolate milk. ... and a bucket. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Rowen Posted October 24, 2011 Share Posted October 24, 2011 I drank just under a gallon once. I then vomited, vomited again, regretted drinking the milk, vomited once more, and ended wishing I was not a such an idiot for doing it in the first place. I hated high school pep-rallies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I once drank Two jugs of YEAR OLD milk, and drank a bottle of ketchup. I didn't throw up once. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Sudanna Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I call BS. Did you drink that year-old milk with a spoon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Wait, where did you all say it had to be true? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Because if people were bragging about things that weren't true, they'd do a better job of exaggerating their exploits. —Alorael, who once drank fourteen gallons of 10 molar hydrochloric acid, followed it with with a slug (mass unit) of sodium. And he didn't melt or explode even a little bit! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I once swam in the nuclear reactor core of a nuclear power plant, and jumped out of a plane 1,000,000 yards in the sky which I flown my self, without a parachute, and didn't get a scratch either time. Yes, Im that awesome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I don't understand as to why people brag over how many liters of milk they have drunk, when the reported numbers are so small. I would say that I have drunk hundreds of gallons milk, if I were to estimate. When compared to the age of the Universe, my drinking of the milk was all successive, too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Oh yeah? Well, I once went back in time and ate an entire herd of Giraffatitans in a single sitting, ate an Allosaurus for dessert, and then traveled to the future to wash it all down with the blood of hyperbolic teenagers (the ones who tell lies, not the kind you can graph). Dikiyoba only returned to the present because there's no good Dr. Pepper in the future and the constant horde of butterflies in the past protesting "Don't step on me!" got really annoying. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ineffable Wingbolt Tirien Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord I once swam in the nuclear reactor core of a nuclear power plant, and jumped out of a plane 1,000,000 yards in the sky which I flown my self, without a parachute, and didn't get a scratch either time. Yes, Im that awesome. The only reason why you didnt get scratched from the nuclear power plant is becuase you were getting cancer, not scratches. I once changed the subject name of this thread for my own amusement, wondering why anyone would want to make themselves puke from drinking that much milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Understated Ur-Drakon Callie Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord I once swam in the nuclear reactor core of a nuclear power plant, and jumped out of a plane 1,000,000 yards in the sky which I flown my self, without a parachute, and didn't get a scratch either time. Yes, Im that awesome. Not to mention somehow flying a plane at an altitude higher than that of the Hubble Space Telescope. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 It's actually pretty easy to fly when you're in microgravity. It's steering that's hard. —Alorael, who is forced to retract his previous statement. Now it's perfectly acceptable to lie atrociously in this thread. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Goldengirl Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Present Ongoing Breakup —Alorael, who is forced to retract his previous statement. Now it's perfectly acceptable to lie atrociously in this thread. I maintain my utter honesty in respect to this thread; I have drunk much milk, indeed, far more than mere liters or gallons. That said, this consumption has been spread out over the current span of my life. I also brew a fairly good cup of coffee. I'd rather have that under my belt than flying in microgravity, or swimming in nuclear reactors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Actually, I'd like to fly in microgravity. If space tourism ever becomes affordable I'll sign up. —Alorael, who swam in a nuclear power plant and did get a scratch. Oh well; beats radiation poisoning, which he avoided thanks to all that milk he drank. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I've got nothing to brag about. I've only donated 6 gallons of blood. A pint at a time over many years. You have to wait 8 weeks between donations; not 7 weeks and 6 days, 8 weeks. Other people have donated much more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Oh yeah? We haven't invented the time machine yet! and even if we did, who said you would be the one to have it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unflappable Drayk ĐªгŦĦ Єяŋϊε Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 you're only assuming we haven't invented the time machine yet. what if we just didn't tell you about it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 It would be all over the media. Unfortunately for you, I watch the news. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyshakk Koan Skwish-E Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 I invented the time machine next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Every timeline in which a time machine is invented has two possibilities. One, the time machine remains secret. Two, the time machine is revealed, and the timeline becomes increasingly snarled until it eventually settles into either of the two stable timeline states: time machine secrecy or time machine nonexistence. —Alorael, who missed something somewhere. Why are there time machines in this thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 What if a time machine somehow brought two timelines together in co-existence, like if you brought 5 seconds ago over and now, couldn't you see your-self, and wouldn't that create a paradox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magnificent Ornk Dikiyoba Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Quote: —Alorael, who missed something somewhere. Why are there time machines in this thread? Because Trenton foolishly assumed Dikiyoba needed something as banal as time machine to travel through different periods of time in order to complete Dikiyoba's brag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 It is not foolish! how else is you gonna travel time? Is Dikiyoba a magical time traveling creature? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord What if a time machine somehow brought two timelines together in co-existence, like if you brought 5 seconds ago over and now, couldn't you see your-self, and wouldn't that create a paradox? Yes, you'd see yourself, which isn't necessarily itself a paradox. But if future-self then murdered past-self, there are some causality problems. The temporal physics are quite complex, but it eventually resolves into one of the two states: no time machine, or no public time machine. —Alorael, who finds it all much simpler when several selves just make out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast The Mystic Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Originally Posted By: Harehunter I've got nothing to brag about. I've only donated 6 gallons of blood. A pint at a time over many years. You have to wait 8 weeks between donations; not 7 weeks and 6 days, 8 weeks. Other people have donated much more. Good for you! I'm about halfway through my 7th gallon myself, with a minimum lifetime goal of 10 gallons. Also, I figured out once that if you donate blood every eight weeks to the day, It's possible to give 13 units every 2 years. (I don't recommended it, though; listen to the voice of experience and stop after 6 (EDIT: 6 donations per year, I mean)) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Trenton. Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Perssonaly, I wouldn't make out with a man even if it is myself, or kill anybody. I would rather go play video games with my self >.> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Harehunter Posted October 25, 2011 Share Posted October 25, 2011 Ever have one of those weeks where everything that could go wrong, did, and you have to move at such high speed trying to put out the multitudinous fires that you leave yourself behind. Later you find yourself meeting yourself as you pass each other in the hall. Finally, at the end of the day, you finally catch up with yourself, and drag your exhausted hinny home. That has described my whole last week. Ah well, I knew the job was dangerous when I took it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Originally Posted By: Trenton the dragon lord Perssonaly, I wouldn't make out with a man even if it is myself, or kill anybody. I would rather go play video games with my self >.> Video game rage takes a tragically high number of time-traveling lives each year. —Alorael, who has never, even at his most busy, exceeded light speed in the course of his work. He thinks that might be an OSHA violation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast Dintiradan Posted October 26, 2011 Author Share Posted October 26, 2011 Make out? If I ever meet a future version of myself, the first thing I'll do is try punch future me in the face. I figure that would be the perfect way to distinguish between a future version of myself and a doppelganger. Future me will be expecting the punch. Also, it would be cool to get into a fight with someone who's exactly as (un)skilled as I am. (While we're on the topic of time travel, I must remind everyone that . Seriously, don't do it. Bad things will happen.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I would never make out with myself. I have standards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Alorael at Large Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 What if, in anticipation of that punch, future you trains to become a blackbelt? And brings a taser? —Alorael, who just realized that action films are sadly lacking in taserjutsu. That really ought to be rectified. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Well-Actually War Trall Niemand Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Quote: What if, in anticipation of that punch, future you trains to become a blackbelt? And brings a taser? Future Dintiradan will surely remember, however, the basic usefulness and importance of the doppelgänger test, and will use his expectation (and possibly his blackbelt unarmed combat skills) to dodge, or non-harmfully disable Past Dintiradan. That is, unless he's worried about doppelgängers who would attack him on sight, not to mimic Past Dintiradan, but simply because they plan to kill him and take his place. I'm glad I don't have such dangerous life as the Dintiradans. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Easygoing Eyebeast keira Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 I seem to remember watching a movie about something like this, where there were a whole bunch of different universes, and Protagonist has to stop Antagonist (who is Protagonist from Different Universe) from killing all the third-party duplicate Protagonist and absorbing their power. It may have had an Asian man as the Protagonist. I can't remember. Any hits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hatchling Cockatrice Randomizer Posted October 26, 2011 Share Posted October 26, 2011 Jet Li in The One. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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