C.L.I.T

[Graham.C]

Coors light Iced Tea, another shitty flavored corn fizz. At least this one has a good acronym.

[mr x]

lol, that's it.

[GAM]

Thats not what it tastes like.

Sandy

[Keggermeister]

That's one C.L.I.T that won't hit my tongue.

[jeffsmith]

That's one C.L.I.T that won't hit my tongue.

[erslar00]

Coors light Iced Tea, another shitty flavored corn fizz. At least this one has a good acronym.

[Timothy Doane]

CILT beer, that's right up there with the old BS Tax (blended sales tax, that later became HST)

[sleepyjamie]

coors light iced tea beer?

unfortunately some guys will never find it.

[OneEyedJack]

This thread wins 5 internets

[beckatkin]

As I was saying to liverdance in the store today....such a guys forum! ahaha. I appreciate the humour though.

[beckatkin]

That's one C.L.I.T that won't hit my tongue.

oh.my. haha!

[Graham.C]

As I was saying to liverdance in the store today....such a guys forum! ahaha. I appreciate the humour though.

Sadly, and I hope its changing, but it is more commonly a guys hobby. Maybe we need to find a way to reach out to more of the double X population. Any ideas?

[derek]

Sadly, and I hope its changing, but it is more commonly a guys hobby. Maybe we need to find a way to reach out to more of the double X population. Any ideas?

Start by eliminating the blatantly sexist content. My wife hasn't been back since seeing Keggermeister's avatar... And this thread isn't helping.

[Becky]

Sadly, and I hope its changing, but it is more commonly a guys hobby. Maybe we need to find a way to reach out to more of the double X population. Any ideas?

Start by eliminating the blatantly sexist content. My wife hasn't been back since seeing Keggermeister's avatar... And this thread isn't helping.

I'm a woman on this site, and that avatar doesn't bother me one bit. They're boobs. My own don't offend me, so why should those ones?

[beckatkin]

Men will be men... I dont think changing the avatar or this discussion matters at all. I think its kind of hilarious. Ill think of some ways to get girls into this beer brewing and message you

[derek]

Men will be men... I dont think changing the avatar or this discussion matters at all. I think its kind of hilarious. Ill think of some ways to get girls into this beer brewing and message you

Of course it matters - some people are offended. I'm glad you're comfortable with it, but most women I know aren't, and my wife in particular is not.

[mr x]

Well, everything and nothing matters under certain context. I like Bill Maher's column on being offensive.

And FWIW, adblockplus will take care of that avatar.

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Please Stop Apologizing

THIS week, Robert De Niro made a joke about first ladies, and Newt Gingrich said it was “inexcusable and the president should apologize for him.” Of course, if something is “inexcusable,” an apology doesn’t make any difference, but then again, neither does Newt Gingrich.

Mr. De Niro was speaking at a fund-raiser with the first lady, Michelle Obama. Here’s the joke: “Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?”

The first lady’s press secretary declared the joke “inappropriate,” and Mr. De Niro said his remarks were “not meant to offend.” So, as these things go, even if the terrible damage can never be undone, at least the healing can begin. And we can move on to the next time we choose sides and pretend to be outraged about nothing.

When did we get it in our heads that we have the right to never hear anything we don’t like? In the last year, we’ve been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitivity of Nike shoes, the Fighting Sioux, Hank Williams Jr., Cee Lo Green, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Kirk Cameron, Gilbert Gottfried, the Super Bowl halftime show and the ESPN guys who used the wrong cliché for Jeremy Lin after everyone else used all the others. Who can keep up?

This week, President Obama’s chief political strategist, David Axelrod, described Mitt Romney’s constant advertising barrage in Illinois as a “Mittzkrieg,” and instantly the Republican Jewish Coalition was outraged and called out Mr. Axelrod’s “Holocaust and Nazi imagery” as “disturbing.” Because the message of “Mittzkrieg” was clear: Kill all the Jews. Then the coalition demanded not only that Mr. Axelrod apologize immediately but also that Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz “publicly rebuke” him. For a pun! For punning against humanity!

The right side of America is mad at President Obama because he hugged Derrick Bell, a law professor who believed we live in a racist country, 22 years ago; the left side of America is mad at Rush Limbaugh for seemingly proving him right.

If it weren’t for throwing conniption fits, we wouldn’t get any exercise at all.

I have a better idea. Let’s have an amnesty — from the left and the right — on every made-up, fake, totally insincere, playacted hurt, insult, slight and affront. Let’s make this Sunday the National Day of No Outrage. One day a year when you will not find some tiny thing someone did or said and pretend you can barely continue functioning until they apologize.

If that doesn’t work, what about this: If you see or hear something you don’t like in the media, just go on with your life. Turn the page or flip the dial or pick up your roll of quarters and leave the booth.

The answer to whenever another human being annoys you is not “make them go away forever.” We need to learn to coexist, and it’s actually pretty easy to do. For example, I find Rush Limbaugh obnoxious, but I’ve been able to coexist comfortably with him for 20 years by using this simple method: I never listen to his program. The only time I hear him is when I’m at a stoplight next to a pickup truck.

When the lady at Costco gives you a free sample of its new ham pudding and you don’t like it, you spit it into a napkin and keep shopping. You don’t declare a holy war on ham.

I don’t want to live in a country where no one ever says anything that offends anyone. That’s why we have Canada. That’s not us. If we sand down our rough edges and drain all the color, emotion and spontaneity out of our discourse, we’ll end up with political candidates who never say anything but the safest, blandest, emptiest, most unctuous focus-grouped platitudes and cant. In other words, we’ll get Mitt Romney.

[Jimmy]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

[derek]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

No, really it doesn't. mgc asked how we attract more women to the Brewnosers, and I suggested we could start by being more considerate of the women we'd like to attract here. Of course you can't avoid offending everybody, but there's absolutely no need to go around intentionally trying to offend people.

If you want this to remain a mainly-guys forum, keep it up, but it's a choice.

[mr x]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

Sums it up nice for me too.

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[Jimmy]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

No, really it doesn't. mgc asked how we attract more women to the Brewnosers, and I suggested we could start by being more considerate of the women we'd like to attract here. Of course you can't avoid offending everybody, but there's absolutely no need to go around intentionally trying to offend people.

If you want this to remain a mainly-guys forum, keep it up, but it's a choice.

No one is _intentionally_ trying to offend people...everyone has certain things that will offend them, and it's different for every person. If we try to censor everything on this forum that _may_ offend someone, it would result in some pretty bland discussion...While we are at it, lets ban swimwear at beaches, because it _may_ offend someone.

Introducing, the burkini....

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[mr x]

Even Nigella had enough.

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[BBrianBoogie]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

Sums it up nice for me too.

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Yup.

[derek]

The last paragraph sums it up nicely

Sums it up nice for me too.

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How does adblock work for people who haven't been here before? You've got to know what you want to block before you can block it.

Look, I don't care what people post here, but you have to realize that if you're going to indulge in juvenile male humor, you'll get mostly juvenile males.

[mr x]

Yes, you do have to know what you want to block. Then you block it. Most adults can do that and move on without permanent mental scarring.

I don't see how it's juvenile male behavior, and on top of that, who's to say a woman wouldn't post that, because I've been on quite a few forums, and seen more suggestive stuff than that from females. So what? If the girls want to post pictures of firemen in speedos as their avatars, go ahead. If i don't want to see it, i know what to do.

If this was a forum that was also targeting kids, I'd say yeah, that's over the line. But that's not the case. There is a line somewhere that we don't want to cross, but I don't think that avatar has crossed it. If there was a democratic outcry of angst over anything, then I'd say it should be looked at. As it stands, that isn't the case IMHO.

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