Avenger
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When did I endorse that?
the "Headline That Caught My Attention or the WTF" thread
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When did I endorse that?
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Avenger
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Sorry. The phrasing sounded presumptive.
We were discussing the subject of the Post article. I wasn't looking to comment on everything that ails our society.
My bad I thought I replied to your comment on smelling weed from someone smoking it ahead five cars ahead of you and how bad it is
Still the same price to get it legally a friend told me so
Avenger
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Sigh. You did. But I was crabbing about pot smell and DWH. I didn't know I had to cover all the other aspects of impairment in the conversation. But if it makes you feel better I don't support that either.
Really I'm inclined to think driving while incompetent is probably, in real math, a bigger threat than both of them. But it wasn't my intention to discuss generally $#itty drivers either.
Avenger
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Funny. Same thing happened when prohibition ended.
Totally ambivalent, wasn't trying to make any point. Just find it ironically amusing that the highly anticipated cash cow that states were counting on isn't coming to fruition and seems to necessitate additional legislation to keep it afloat.
In the interest of full disclosure, I did more than my share of "inhaling" back in college, but then lost interest. I did try some after it was legalized up here and it was more of a been there, done it, seen it event than a grand homecoming.
All good............... You didnt cover all aspects I just threw a new situation out there some thing that has been going on long before NY being weed friendly
Avenger
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Avenger
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No worries. I'm sure it was going on long before legalization. It just wasn't as conspicuous. Nor as skunky.
Not at all Sir My driving anything under the influence of anything ended a long time ago
Its always been skunky thats how ya know its good lol
Avenger
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I guess all the "smokin' in the boys room" crowd were burning oregano when I was in school.
'Skunk weed' was not a positive recommendation.
Rick67
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Four men arrested for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in western India
Four men have been arrested after one of the accused’s phones was discovered to contain a video of them gang-raping a Bengal monitor lizard at the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashthra, India. CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Department showed the four men lurking around the forest and...
Avenger
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Four men arrested for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in western India
Four men have been arrested after one of the accused’s phones was discovered to contain a video of them gang-raping a Bengal monitor lizard at the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashthra, India. CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Department showed the four men lurking around the forest and...news.yahoo.com
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C'mon Scots love sheep, so why shouldn't Indonesians be banging monitor lizards??Four men arrested for ‘raping’ Bengal monitor lizard in western India
Four men have been arrested after one of the accused’s phones was discovered to contain a video of them gang-raping a Bengal monitor lizard at the Sahydari Tiger Reserve in Maharashthra, India. CCTV footage from the Maharashtra Forest Department showed the four men lurking around the forest and...
You know why a Scot wears a kilt, don't you? A sheep can hear a zipper at 1,000 yards!!!
Justice is mine sayeth the Lord!!!
In America, the slogan “the Champagne of Beers” that decorates cans of Miller High Life is rarely taken literally, but European regulators took it at face value last week, seizing and destroying thousands of cans that were deemed counterfeit Champagne and thus “illicit goods.”
Belgian authorities and the French committee for the protection of Champagne ordered that 2,352 cans of the American beer be emptied and crushed, after they were intercepted after they entered the port of Antwerp, in Belgium’s north, to be exported to Germany.
The authorities thoroughly documented the operation for the news media, in what looked like a clear warning to the world not to mess with Europe’s most prestigious sparkling wine brand. Pictures of the carnage showed workers emptying the golden and red cans of what they considered counterfeit Champagne before pressing them against each other.
The destruction, the authorities explained, was a consequence of the European Union’s strict rules regarding the protected designation of origin of several wines or foodstuffs produced, processed and prepared in a specific geographical area using a recognized know-how. Protected products include Kalamata olive oil from Greece, Buffalo mozzarella from the region of Campania, Italy, and paprika from the Murcia region of Spain.
If goods infringe on a protected product in an E.U. member state, those goods are considered counterfeit. Molson Coors, the beverage company that owns the Miller High Life brand, doesn’t export it to the European Union and a spokesman said they didn’t know how the beer arrived in Belgium. The person who was to receive the beer in Germany was informed of the plan to destroy the cans and did not contest the decision, the Champagne committee and Belgian customs authorities said in a statement.
Molson Coors said in a statement that it respected local restrictions regarding the word Champagne, “but we remain proud of Miller High Life, its nickname and its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provenance.”
“We invite our friends in Europe to the U.S. any time to toast the High Life together,” the company wrote.
Kristian Vanderwaeren, an administrator at the Belgian customs service, said that every year the agency performed thousands of checks on protected designations of origin, and that the Champagne committee helped train the customs teams to identify whether products were genuine or counterfeit.
Marie-Anne Humbert Genand, the head of the legal department at the Champagne committee, said that the committee had cases of counterfeit products in Belgium, France and India, and that goods had also been destroyed. In 2016, the Italian news media reported that the country’s financial police had seized thousands of bottles of Prosecco bearing a fake Moët & Chandon Champagne label. The first hint came from a bottle with a label that lacked a manufacturing serial number, the police reported.
This time, it might have been the fact that the name Champagne was featured on cans of beer that came from Milwaukee.
“When a counterfeit is detected, as is the case here, we also agree on the decision to destroy these goods,” Mr. Vanderwaeren said in a statement.
Miller High Life was created in 1903 and soon after began being presented as the Champagne of bottled beer; it was sold in clear bottles with elongated necks and sloped shoulders. The glass was also meant to show the beer’s purity and establish it as a high-end brand, as it was more expensive than many other beers back then, according to the Molson Coors website.
These days, the beer, a drinkable light lager, is considered a “go-to lowbrow beer of choice,” said Zachary Mack, a beer expert and the owner of a beer company.
Matt Simpson, the owner the Beer Sommelier, a consultancy based in Atlanta, said that beers like Miller High Life were “as simple as beer can get.” Although they are not bad beers, he said, they are usually seen as the “opposite of sophisticated.”
The crossed wires over Miller High Life are the latest in a series of spats around protected origins in Europe. Two years ago Prosecco winemakers and local officials in Italy rose up after the European Union agreed to consider an application by Croatia to recognize a method of making a dessert wine called Prosek. Other fights involved whether the term “glen” for whisky produced in Germany could suggest that it was a product of Scotland, whether Gruyère cheese could only come from the region around the Swiss town of Gruyères, and whether Parmesan cheese could be considered a generic name (in the European Union, the answer is no).
Last week, Charles Goemaere, the managing director of the Champagne committee that protects the wine’s producers and its multibillion-dollar industry, said that the destruction of the American beers “confirms the importance that the European Union attaches to designations of origin.” It also rewards the Champagne producers’ “determination” to protect their designation, he said.
In America, experts said there was no threat.
“No matter how relatively simple in understanding the typical Miller High Life drinker is academically,” said Mr. Simpson. “I think at the very least they understand the difference between beer and wine.”
Miller High Life Crushed by Fist of Champagne Police
Customs authorities in Belgium forcibly recycled thousands of cans of America’s “go-to lowbrow beer of choice” after they took issue with its slogan: “the Champagne of Beers.”In America, the slogan “the Champagne of Beers” that decorates cans of Miller High Life is rarely taken literally, but European regulators took it at face value last week, seizing and destroying thousands of cans that were deemed counterfeit Champagne and thus “illicit goods.”
Belgian authorities and the French committee for the protection of Champagne ordered that 2,352 cans of the American beer be emptied and crushed, after they were intercepted after they entered the port of Antwerp, in Belgium’s north, to be exported to Germany.
The authorities thoroughly documented the operation for the news media, in what looked like a clear warning to the world not to mess with Europe’s most prestigious sparkling wine brand. Pictures of the carnage showed workers emptying the golden and red cans of what they considered counterfeit Champagne before pressing them against each other.
The destruction, the authorities explained, was a consequence of the European Union’s strict rules regarding the protected designation of origin of several wines or foodstuffs produced, processed and prepared in a specific geographical area using a recognized know-how. Protected products include Kalamata olive oil from Greece, Buffalo mozzarella from the region of Campania, Italy, and paprika from the Murcia region of Spain.
If goods infringe on a protected product in an E.U. member state, those goods are considered counterfeit. Molson Coors, the beverage company that owns the Miller High Life brand, doesn’t export it to the European Union and a spokesman said they didn’t know how the beer arrived in Belgium. The person who was to receive the beer in Germany was informed of the plan to destroy the cans and did not contest the decision, the Champagne committee and Belgian customs authorities said in a statement.
Molson Coors said in a statement that it respected local restrictions regarding the word Champagne, “but we remain proud of Miller High Life, its nickname and its Milwaukee, Wisconsin, provenance.”
“We invite our friends in Europe to the U.S. any time to toast the High Life together,” the company wrote.
Kristian Vanderwaeren, an administrator at the Belgian customs service, said that every year the agency performed thousands of checks on protected designations of origin, and that the Champagne committee helped train the customs teams to identify whether products were genuine or counterfeit.
Marie-Anne Humbert Genand, the head of the legal department at the Champagne committee, said that the committee had cases of counterfeit products in Belgium, France and India, and that goods had also been destroyed. In 2016, the Italian news media reported that the country’s financial police had seized thousands of bottles of Prosecco bearing a fake Moët & Chandon Champagne label. The first hint came from a bottle with a label that lacked a manufacturing serial number, the police reported.
This time, it might have been the fact that the name Champagne was featured on cans of beer that came from Milwaukee.
“When a counterfeit is detected, as is the case here, we also agree on the decision to destroy these goods,” Mr. Vanderwaeren said in a statement.
Miller High Life was created in 1903 and soon after began being presented as the Champagne of bottled beer; it was sold in clear bottles with elongated necks and sloped shoulders. The glass was also meant to show the beer’s purity and establish it as a high-end brand, as it was more expensive than many other beers back then, according to the Molson Coors website.
These days, the beer, a drinkable light lager, is considered a “go-to lowbrow beer of choice,” said Zachary Mack, a beer expert and the owner of a beer company.
Matt Simpson, the owner the Beer Sommelier, a consultancy based in Atlanta, said that beers like Miller High Life were “as simple as beer can get.” Although they are not bad beers, he said, they are usually seen as the “opposite of sophisticated.”
The crossed wires over Miller High Life are the latest in a series of spats around protected origins in Europe. Two years ago Prosecco winemakers and local officials in Italy rose up after the European Union agreed to consider an application by Croatia to recognize a method of making a dessert wine called Prosek. Other fights involved whether the term “glen” for whisky produced in Germany could suggest that it was a product of Scotland, whether Gruyère cheese could only come from the region around the Swiss town of Gruyères, and whether Parmesan cheese could be considered a generic name (in the European Union, the answer is no).
Last week, Charles Goemaere, the managing director of the Champagne committee that protects the wine’s producers and its multibillion-dollar industry, said that the destruction of the American beers “confirms the importance that the European Union attaches to designations of origin.” It also rewards the Champagne producers’ “determination” to protect their designation, he said.
In America, experts said there was no threat.
“No matter how relatively simple in understanding the typical Miller High Life drinker is academically,” said Mr. Simpson. “I think at the very least they understand the difference between beer and wine.”
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