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I think this is my favorite thread. Thanks, Calapine!
Thank you!!! Leago of nations. Don't cry when you see panel 8!
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DAAAAAMMMMMMMNNNN YOOOOOUUUUUUU!!!
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« Last Edit: June 21, 2020, 03:23:54 AM by calapine »
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One more!
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Best polandball ever right there.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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This is especially funny because German beer is garbage compared to Czech beer.
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*Poland Ball Comic* Edit: And don't you "but muh craft beer! " me. The US has a significantly better beer scene than Germany now. Every time I go back I'm actually pretty sad about the quality of beer there, I think it's been getting worst over the last decade. They've let a few major companies just dominate and serve only the same few mass produced options, and they haven't upped their game at all. The US is kicking the shit out of Germany for beer right now (and has been for awhile). Edit: And yeah, I think the Czechs have done a better job maintaining their quality and even innovating a bit over the last decade. Beer in general does seem better down their now when I visit.
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"My great-grandfather did not travel across four thousand miles of the Atlantic Ocean to see this nation overrun by immigrants. He did it because he killed a man back in Ireland. That's the rumor." -Stephen Colbert
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calapine
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*Poland Ball Comic* Edit: And don't you "but muh craft beer! " me. The US has a significantly better beer scene than Germany now. Every time I go back I'm actually pretty sad about the quality of beer there, I think it's been getting worst over the last decade. They've let a few major companies just dominate and serve only the same few mass produced options, and they haven't upped their game at all. The US is kicking the shit out of Germany for beer right now (and has been for awhile). That's why I said dont @ me with craft beer. It's a cheap joke, not a nuanced critique. I do like Dead Pony, and that's as far as my craft-beer knowledge goes. More a Most (=cider) person.
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Samwise
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I remember being really impressed by German beer when I went to Europe for the first time right after college, and then a few years ago when I returned to Germany after more than a decade I was disappointed to find that my fond memories were mostly the result of an unsophisticated palate. It's fine as far as mass market beer goes, but that's very faint praise.
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The minihorse slayed me.
As for craft beer, yeah, I think America is doing a pretty good job of it, except for all the assholes making IPAs whose only focus is "HOW MUCH MORE BITTER AND HOPPY CAN WE MAKE THIS, BROSEF?!!!"
Fuck your hops. Give me a good stout any goddamn day.
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Everyones beer tends to be the worst in their home country, just like everyones wine tends to be the worst in their home country.
No one exports the cheap shit. They're not selling 3 buck chuck in france
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Samwise
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Everyones beer tends to be the worst in their home country, just like everyones wine tends to be the worst in their home country.
No one exports the cheap shit. They're not selling 3 buck chuck in france
I don't think this actually works the same way for beer. Most of my favorite beers (both at home and some of those I've discovered abroad) don't get exported because they aren't produced in large enough quantities for that to make sense. None of my favorite local breweries are even able to ship their beer out of the state, much less the country. In the other direction, I'm sure I could technically get a case of Isle of Skye Black Ale airmailed to me if I went through the right channels but the shipping would add at least a 1000% markup, so for practical purposes stuff like that is inaccessible unless I go back to the place of origin.
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I actually signed up to (and am enjoying enough not to have cancelled) a craft beer subscription thing precisely because they are buying up craft beers from random countries that I think I'd only ever see in a few niche shops and even then probably not. The US beer 'revolution' has done a lot to produce some really interesting and enjoyable beers, even the fruit stuff has been interesting as more than just weirdly sweet Belgian cherry beer. Apart from the stupid IPA obsession I'm a fan of American craft beers, even if I still the UK has one of the better domestic beer scenes, probably because it's a style of beer I like and many of the breweries here have been flexible enough to improve or innovate their product lines.
I think Germany does have pretty good quality lager and some good Hefeweizens but, if you're not into crisp, clean lagers, I don't think it's got that much more to offer. Admittedly in summer that's probably enough
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Local store used to have an excellent variety of all kinds. Reds, ambers, stouts, honey ales. Twas lovely. Now it's a wall of easily 75% IPAs that are all different variations of juniper flavored moose piss. Fucking hipsters with their shitass taste.
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Samwise
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Local store used to have an excellent variety of all kinds. Reds, ambers, stouts, honey ales. Twas lovely. Now it's a wall of easily 75% IPAs that are all different variations of juniper flavored moose piss. Fucking hipsters with their shitass taste.
Find a better local store? My favorite taproom/bottle shop does a really good job of having a well-curated selection of dark beers (which is the reason it's my favorite bottle shop). Lots of it is stuff that sounds very suspect (flavored/smoked/aged in unusual ways) but it's generally pleasantly surprising. On the other hand, some people are hopheads and won't ever offer anything but west coast IPAs. You gotta know where to look.
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What kind of surprised me last time I was in Buenos Aires was how massively the craft beer scene there has grown and how much it really feels like some cargo-culted version of the US craft scene. Or at least it's very clearly a whole lot of people who, imo, enjoyed the hipster scene and the general culture of craft beer without really being particularly talented or interesting brewers but I think the low overheads for running the taprooms and popularity (along with a couple of newer Argentinean breweries doing stuff other than just mass produced lagers) caused a massive boom.
There are a few styles down there (like scotch ales) that I haven't really seen anywhere else but that might just be a labelling thing. Honey ales are also way more popular but it looked like nearly all breweries had a portfolio of IPA, golden ale, honey ale, scotch ale and maybe a stout. Those tended to be all similar - with 90% of the IPAs being hoppy undrinkable stuff, scotch ales being super malt heavy, honey ale being a bit cloyingly sweet and the golden ales usually being drinkable (personal taste bias might be affecting that).
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I guess I could always pit my mortgage against my future and open up a store with a decent selection. That'd probably work out for me.
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I laughed WAY too hard at that one...
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« Last Edit: August 07, 2020, 05:01:16 AM by calapine »
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I laughed way too hard at that. I am a bad person.
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New Zealand just watching the show with popcorn is 😁
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No reason to blame the US -- Japan likes to anthropomorphize military technology all on their own. See: KanColle and Upotte!!. And Girls Und Panzer, while it doesn't anthropomorphize tanks, is decidedly an homage to them (mostly of the World War II variety).
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I think that's a classic 'Hiroshima cause anime' type joke.
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I think that's a classic 'Hiroshima cause anime' type joke.
Eggsactly. The original:
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Gotcha, didn’t realize that was a thing.
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My usual comment when living in Japan and our group stumbled into something really weird was to wonder if this was our fault, or if we didn't drop enough nukes.
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Um...
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The polandball map of the world (2014) If you zoom in there is hilarious stuff all over the map.
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Nearly a year since the last post on this thread? A crime.
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Gimme tank back, lol
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