I guess it’s time I write my newbie note.

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Roger Rosenberg

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Hello, my name is Roger. I’ve been lurking for quite a while and joined a week or so ago. I’ve made a few posts, and I guess it’s time I write my newbie note. I live in the UK, but spent most of my teenage years in the US. My Pop had a job that kept us moving around. I’m something that I find very rare these days in the UK and that’s a Christian. I served in the Royal Navy aboard the HMS Sheffield, the only ship to sink during the Falkland War; I was injured and send home. I Finished college and since then have been lucky and made a living as a writer, and am looking forward to meeting some new interesting people.

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I just started posting in January and I never wrote a newbie note. Was I supposed to write a newbie note? Do I now need to write a newbie note? What if I don't want to write a newbie note? Am I required to write a newbie note or is it just considered polite? Have I been impolite?

Oh, and welcome Roger.
 
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Roger Rosenberg said:
Hell the French don;t even make a good Beer. Has anyone heard of a good French Beer? I bet not.
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Belzebuth.... interesting experience... I guess the exceptionally high (for beer) alcohol content turns off most of the beer "experts" (what a way to make a living...) by overpowering whatever subtleties of its flavor may have otherwise been more enjoyable, however...
 
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Roger Rosenberg said:
Well the French underground had some balls in WWII.
(If you can't say anything nice...)

Hell the French don;t even make a good Beer. Has anyone heard of a good French Beer? I bet not.
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The same can be said amount the USA after prohibition, people got used to such watered down beer, and they saved money brewing that light junk after prohibition. Now we have a few good beers, Samuel Adams being one. What would you pick, New Castle or Bass Ale?
 
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Welcome to the forum Roger. Why are people from the UK so liberal?
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Up until 1979 (thank you Maggie) we were a very socialist country. Then a conservative movement swept the country, left 1/2 of use unemployed. We are a people who believe in the rights of the working class. America never had to go thru serfdom, were you had 2 classes the nobility and the surf (slave). It’s not an easy question to answer. I’d say read The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, that will give you a better idea that I can in 1 or 2 sentences in the middle of the night. I will say this liberalism is not the same in the US as it is in the UK. I’ll do a little more research and try and find you a better answer.
 
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Ktoyou said:
The same can be said amount the USA after prohibition, people got used to such watered down beer, and they saved money brewing that light junk after prohibition. Now we have a few good beers, Samuel Adams being one. What would you pick, New Castle or Bass Ale?
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Don't be so hard on American beer. Truthfully I like it when I'm in the States. It's more of a snobbish European thing; they don't like American’s so they take it out on their beer.

That being said I will take an American beer to a French beer anyday.
 
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King cobra said:
I just started posting in January and I never wrote a newbie note. Was I supposed to write a newbie note? Do I now need to write a newbie note? What if I don't want to write a newbie note? Am I required to write a newbie note or is it just considered polite? Have I been impolite?

Oh, and welcome Roger.
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I was told if I didn't a big snake would bite me in the ares.
 
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King cobra said:
I just started posting in January and I never wrote a newbie note. Was I supposed to write a newbie note? Do I now need to write a newbie note? What if I don't want to write a newbie note? Am I required to write a newbie note or is it just considered polite? Have I been impolite?

Oh, and welcome Roger.
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:sozo:You shall be hung until dead!
 
Ktoyou

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Roger Rosenberg said:
Don't be so hard on American beer. Truthfully I like it when I'm in the States. It's more of a snobbish European thing; they don't like American’s so they take it out on their beer.

That being said I will take an American beer to a French beer anyday.
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Not for me, not at all, I was a beer drinker usually Budweiser until I tried Heineken, then went on to much better beer, my top choice is Pilsner Urquell, or Guinness, then Grolsch then Bass ale and New Castle, followed by Becks, St Pauli Girl and Fosters, followed by Sam Adams and others with a similar heavy taste.

Why would I be snobbish about what taste good to me?
 
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King cobra said:
I just started posting in January and I never wrote a newbie note. Was I supposed to write a newbie note? Do I now need to write a newbie note? What if I don't want to write a newbie note? Am I required to write a newbie note or is it just considered polite? Have I been impolite?

Oh, and welcome Roger.
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You shall be mocked!


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Hi, Roger. Does the number 51 mean anything to you? :)

Welcome to TOL.
 
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Not for me, not at all, I was a beer drinker usually Budweiser until I tried Heineken, then went on to much better beer, my top choice is Pilsner Urquell, or Guinness, then Grolsch then Bass ale and New Castle, followed by Becks, St Pauli Girl and Fosters, followed by Sam Adams and others with a similar heavy taste.

Why would I be snobbish about what taste good to me?
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If you are only going to have one or two.

With Miller you can drink all day long.

Was it Miller who said, “If you are going to drink all day, you have to start first thing in the morning”?
 
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:cheers: Chrys!


Didja know that beer and hard liquor consumption in colonial America was much higher that it is now? Besides the obvious appeal of imbibing, converting grain into beer or whiskey was an effective way of transferring the caloric content of the harvest into a more easily transportable and more spoil-resistant form.
 
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Ktoyou said:
Not for me, not at all, I was a beer drinker usually Budweiser until I tried Heineken, then went on to much better beer, my top choice is Pilsner Urquell, or Guinness, then Grolsch then Bass ale and New Castle, followed by Becks, St Pauli Girl and Fosters, followed by Sam Adams and others with a similar heavy taste.

Why would I be snobbish about what taste good to me?
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I never said you were snobbish. One thing i don't want to do is go on to an American forum and start bashing Americans.
 
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