Let’s go back to the beginning:
Division of the human family into two distinct groups began some 12,000 years ago. Humans existed as members of small bands of nomadic hunter/gatherers. They lived on deer in the mountains in the summer and would go to the beach and live on fish in winter.
The two most important events in all of history were the invention of beer and the invention of the wheel. The wheel was invented by Man to get to the beer. These were the foundation of modern civilization and together were the catalyst for the splitting of humanity into two distinct subgroups: Liberals and Conservatives.
That makes for a good Sunday morning chuckle.
Great! Good way to start a Sunday @ work, I needed a good laugh! (sadly as with most humor, a large element of truth in it…… Happy Sunday!
Beer is certainly at the center of technical, cultural and social evolution. Man’s destiny and past is closely linked to beer.
The question for today’s cultural anthropologists is why beer does not dominate the Muslim cultures? Is there a link between arrested cultural/technical development and arrested beer culture?
While I sort this out I think I’ll quaff a Schneider weissbier
TOKYO (AFP) – Chinese beer consumption has doubled over the past decade, as the rising economic power toasts its new wealth with cold suds, a Japanese survey said Friday.
In 2006 alone, Chinese firms produced 35 million kiloliters (9.2 billion gallons), up 14.7 percent from the previous year and accounting for some one fifth of global beer production, according to Japanese brewer Kirin Holdings.
The amount reflected a 109-percent increase over the past 10 years, while global beer production rose 33.6 percent to 170 million kiloliters in the same period, said a Kirin study.
“Since overtaking the United States as the top beer producer in 2002, China has maintained its position and showed double-digit growth in 2006,” the study said.
“In addition to the improving quality of life in China, resulting from the strong eonomy, the culture of beer drinking has spread from the coastal areas to inner regions,” the study said.
While much of the world is alarmed by global warming, Kirin suggested that climate change may be helping global beer consumption.
“The general recovery of the global economy as well as increasing temperatures are believed to be the main drivers of the increasing production,” it said.
Beer consumption rose particularly in nations with rapid economic growth, while industrial nations saw either moderate growth or shrinking production, it said.
In the United States, the second largest beer brewer, production grew only 0.2 percent to 23.2 million kiloliters, while third-ranked German production fell 0.5 percent year on year to 10.7 million kiloliters.
Production in seventh-ranked Japan also fell by 0.4 percent, amid a falling birthrate, ageing population and increasing choices of beverages, Kirin said.
On the other hand, in the past decade, beer production in Russia and Ukraine nearly quadrupled, while Thai and Vietnamese production jumped by 158 percent and 212 percent respectively, Kirin said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070824/lf_afp/lifestylechinajapan_070824133412;_ylt=AuVSoWj2kTGoiCVlS_4W4bX1_sEF
“You can’t be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.” ( Frank Zappa)
ah, all those willing to drink chinese beer, please check that your health insurance covers “all perils”
“Big Rock” fan here…
So this is what he was getting at. That, what’s his name, Paul Martin’s ‘beer n’ popcorn adviser guy’.
Imagine a non-currency, all barter and trade society again. One where individuals decided what was worthy. (Not the “Intellectuals” — a misnomer if ever there was one.)
I’ll trade you a roof over your head for some flour ? Done.
I’ll install your cable connection, you fix my car ? Done.
Transportation for dental work ? Done
Diagnose & correct my eyesight for a copy of An Inconvenient Truth ?? …. Awhh, I’ll get back to ya on that. Besides, the hurricane on the cover is turning backwards.
Let’s send bombardion and taliban jack over to afghani with a few kegs. They could invite the taliban, have a kegger, sing kumbaya and work the whole thing out.
These days you need to be careful identifying yourself as a white, hetero, domestic beer drinker.
The last thing you want is the ethanol-bus pulling up in front of the house and finding Suzuki in your basement.
The question for today’s cultural anthropologists is why beer does not dominate the Muslim cultures? Is there a link between arrested cultural/technical development and arrested beer culture?
Good question. As a culture Muslims don’t seem to have much in place to take the edge off or cultivate wholesome relationships.
They seem to pattern their lives on revved up, bonkers Mohammed. The guy needed a drink. If Muslims could throw a few beers back at the pub after the vitriolics at the mosque maybe they would be a kinder gentler group.
“Let’s send bombardion and taliban jack over to afghani with a few kegs. They could invite the taliban, have a kegger, sing kumbaya and work the whole thing out.”
I thought I made it clear that history teaches us that you cannot trust anyone or any nation who do not make and drink beer…kapish?
What nations are the unstable global wankers these days?…and do they have a rich evolved beer culture? Huh?
Mooselim beer? Not bloody Likely. Allah is some goat milk chugging faggot
Chinese beer? Gimme a break. More tea sucking faggots
Ruski beer? Vodka sots.
Ein Prosit ! ;D
Now I have another little bit of proof that there really is a god, he gave us beer didn’t he?
Iberia,
Conservatives get the beer, meat, money and therefore the girls.
Of course, leftards get girls too. If they can actually be identified as such.
So, if you understood the post (which is obviously too much to expect) – you have another date with the palm sisters, limp wrist.
Probably another reason why leftards aren’t reproducing.
My, you’re sensitive irwin. Maybe it’s because a “man” whose name is “daisy” doesn’t get a lot of girls…unless of course he pays them or offers them candy.
How appropriate that you begin your missive with “My” iberia.
The description ‘limp wrist’ doesn’t need to be mentioned.
It is appropriate since it was a response to you.
BTW, isn’t there a Muslim around for you to insult? You usually do much better in that department, probably because they can’t reply since there are no Muslims reading SDA.
What?!!!?
ah, all those willing to drink chinese beer, please check that your health insurance covers “all perils”
Including the yellow one?
I’ll just add that there is a Monty Python-inspired brew called, “Holy Grail”.
Iberia, lighten up.
Irwin – go grab yourself a beer and ignore lberia; conversations degenerate in his presence, as is his intent.
he hot summer days went great with a hoppy IPA. Presently, I’m enjoying an Innes & Gunn ale (aged 77 days in oak) – marvelous. The days are cooling off, and I’ll soon switch to an oatmeal stout, then wine for the winter (red, of course – white wine is an abomination).
Liberals still tell us we came from apes what a load of bull kaka and i.,ll tell you we birds did,nt come from no reptile were not a dinosoars reletive AND IM GOING TO GET VIOLENT WITH THE EVOLUTION WACKOS IM GOING TO PICK THEIR EYES OUT SQUAWK SQUAWK
The thread of the fable is correct, but the word BEER is wrong. Listen to Tenerif, Ale is what will finally bring Conservative control of Canada, and therefore the world. Export, Fifty, and I.P.A is what made this country and once the poofs who drink the cutesy stuff of which dishwater is compared realize that, WE WILL RISE AGAIN.
Liberals still tell us we came from apes what a load of bull kaka and i.,ll tell you we birds did,nt come from no reptile were not a dinosoars reletive AND IM GOING TO GET VIOLENT WITH THE EVOLUTION WACKOS IM GOING TO PICK THEIR EYES OUT SQUAWK SQUAWK
Posted by: spurwing plover at August 26, 2007 9:07 PM
Ahh yes….someone who fails basic grammer and punctuation is shouting down Evolution. Perhaps it’s the fact that you can’t read a scientific paper that you reject it. Best have someone who can read to tell you tales of the great spaghetti monster in the sky LOL!! I guess some of us haven’t quite made the complete jump from the apes, huh spurwing?
HITLER USED EVOLUTION TO DEHUMANIS THE JEWS
Perhaps it’s the fact that you can’t read a scientific paper that you reject it.
I reject it because It’s flawed
If Muslims could throw a few beers back at the pub after the vitriolics at the mosque maybe they would be a kinder gentler group.
Aren’t they allowed wine and drugs?
Perhaps it’s the fact that you can’t read a scientific paper that you reject it.
I reject it because It’s flawed
Posted by: DrWright at August 27, 2007 3:15 PM
Ha Ha Ha! I’m convinced now, Wow, you sure showed me LOL! Only a moron would rebut with a link to that lame site.
Gary,
Perhaps you haven’t read about the latest discovery, setting the clock back for the first appearance of apes to ten million years ago – and therefore putting the so-called split back far further. Which seriously screws up things.
The sound of settled science?
Reading a ‘scientific paper’ has nothing to do with believing it. Especially when those scientific papers are continually in a state of flux and revision. If evolution is a fact, as you obviously believe, then why after such a long period of searching, theorizing and public inculcation, is it still not so? In fact, still not any closer to being fact?
If you can’t answer that, then I suggest you stop with your pompous attitude and ad hominem attacks against others.
Reading a ‘scientific paper’ has nothing to do with believing it. Especially when those scientific papers are continually in a state of flux and revision. If evolution is a fact, as you obviously believe, then why after such a long period of searching, theorizing and public inculcation, is it still not so? In fact, still not any closer to being fact?
Posted by: irwin daisy
Irwin. The long period of searching you speak of has been what, 150 years? Hardly much time when they are trying to piece together the several BILLION of years this rock we live on has existed. Yet Christianity has offered ZERO proof in 10 times that span. Science comments on the facts present in the here and now and if another fossil comes up out of the blue to challenge the previous consensus, a bit of humble pie will be served, but the march to the truth will continue. Until an iota of proof is offered by your team, I will continue to belittle bogus web sites that pander to the likes of the good DrWright.
Gary when I was in university I heard a million times that evolution “is real” the proof because predators eyes evolve to the front of their heads and herbivores evolve to the sides of their heads. No one who took biology in a socialist craphole university would hear different but the proof is there for any who open their eyes.
Any way “Gary” feels like I hit a nerve,
only a moron would rebut a rebut solely with an hominem rant and nothing of substance.
You are defenceless to explain the t-rex vs koala evolutionary conundrum.
I’ll again submit the t-rex vs koala as my proofs. Oh wait you are too smart to have to look at actual evidence of your flawed thinking.
If Christianity doesn’t offer a lot of proof does it have to? 80% of Canadians are christians so the consensus says you are wrong. Or does that just work for global warming?
If you can’t answer that, then I suggest you stop with your pompous attitude and ad hominem attacks against others.
Ie trolling.
The likes of me wonder what that means? I thought I was an individual now there seems to be a lot like me. The horror.
the ‘good’ DrWright, geeze,….
Comparing a T-Rex to a Koala. Apples and oranges and about 60 million years apart. Did you know that a T-Rex had stereoscopic vision?? Figured not. Way to ignore the FACT that he also had HUGE olfactory lobes that could smell your b.s. a mile away. Oh, and how about that mouthful of razor sharp, banana sized teeth? What do you suppose they were used for Einstien. Christians selective and misrepresented arguments are all you have. Funny how we need to provide facts but you seem to dismiss the need for facts for yourself. Your 80% figure is also debatable. I was born into a Christian defined family, but I don’t class myself as one even though I may be counted as such. Also, 75% of Canadians voted for a left of center party, so by your definition, why do we have a Conservative government when consensus says left? Not quite sure what the global warming thing has to do with the argument except maybe the fact that it was warmer during the reign of dinosaurs. Must have been all that flatulence. To close, you are not an individual but a member of the flock. In other words a sheeple, and yes it is horrific in this day and age, witness the Muslim sheeple. Perhaps one day you will all wake to smell the coffee……or not.
Get the truth from ANSWERS IN GENSIS you will kmow much more then ignoramuses like RICHARD DAWKINS