[FRIAM] Rocky Mountain Tumwater (oysters?)

[Prof David West]

Beer conversation makes me nostalgic for the classic "Wild Rainier" TV ads that were ubiquitous when I lived in Portland.

davew


On Thu, Mar 13, 2025, at 12:19 PM, glen wrote:
> Excellent ideas. But I couldn't even bring myself to flip off the 
> cybertruck driver the other day. I suppose I've fully matured out of my 
> road rage days. So purposeful vandalism might be beyond me at this 
> point. (Of course, I'm fully on the rhetorical side of the vandals, 
> though ... assuming their targets are ethical ... i.e. small 
> businesses: no, their landlords: yes, banks: yes, credit unions: no, 
> etc.)
>
> It's similar to Trump&Vance's bullying of Zelenskyy. No good really 
> comes from literal vandalism. It's temporary self-indulgence. 
> Figurative vandalism is much more effective. E.g. commenting on the 
> predictive inferences one might make based on the size or type of some 
> rando's vehicle ... like Subarus and leftists, liberals, and lesbians 
> ... or the inverse relationship between one's vehicle and penis sizes.
>
> And since we have the universe at our fingertips, I assume you know 
> "tumwater" means "waterfall" ... or at least according to this site: 
> https://www.ci.tumwater.wa.us/visitors/our-history But we may as well 
> log it here, anyway.
>
> Re: Coors - to be honest, it's the best of the macros. I tend to stick 
> to Ranier or PBR when I hang out with hipsters. But Coors (not Light) 
> is actually better. But I haven't consumed it in at least 5 years. Your 
> comment about the refineries for macros is spot-on. They *are* 
> refineries, which is why their product isn't actually beer. Beer is 
> *alive*, not pasteurized and filtered (dead) to export to the other 
> side of the planet or sit on the shelf (warm, even) for 10 years. 
> Brewer's yeast is nutrient dense. If your beverage doesn't have yeast 
> in it, you're missing out.
>
> My doctor just this morning told me there's no health benefit to beer. 
> He's wrong in 2 ways: 1. Those of us with social disorders need 
> something ... kava, SSRIs, etc. in order to lead a healthy life. And 2. 
> real beer has dormant yeast in it. But I'd already told him I prolly 
> wouldn't take a cholesterol pill or statin even if he recommended it. 
> So I didn't argue about the beer. 8^(
>
> On 3/13/25 9:19 AM, steve smith wrote:
>> 
>>> Ha! Yeah, an anarchist wrap on a vehicle would be the ultimate irony, especially if the vehicle were new ... and not yet paid off.
>> 
>> My fantasy is an Anarchist and/or a Swastika stencil kit with an aerosol or better spray-bottle of slow-acting stainless steel corrosive to be applied opportunistically to CyberTrucks (aka WankPanzers).  Playing on Irony, rather than adding corrosives, perhaps simply applying strong wax/polymer solvents selectively to allow the natural elements to do their work while the larger area remains "protected"?   Like sunburn stencils.  Saltwater and road-salt environments seem like good locales for such...  The Swastika and Anarchist's A both share the quality of being recognized even when created by the sloppiest gesture?
>> 
>> Did you ever see any of the time-delay moss-paint graffiti emerge in the wet-season on concrete structures when you lived in Portland?  Same Idea.
>> 
>> Another direct-public-action (less destructive) thing I heard of and looked up for this occasion:
>> 
>> https://www.dailydot.com/culture/cybertruck-hunters-projections/
>> 
>> Liberal activists being as mild as they often are:  A Taos group asked Nambe Pueblo Governor "permission" to hold a protest at the Tesla "showroom" in Pojoaque and decided not to do so when the governor refused permission.   There is a small block of CyberTrucks on the front-line there, if they faced away from the frontage road, they would be excellent "projection screens".
>> 
>>> Smuggling Coors is exactly analogous to smuggling fentanyl. That stuff ain't beer.
>> 
>>     What?  No "Rocky Mountain Tumwater"?   What is Tumwater, sounds vile?   Best served with "Rocky Mountain Oysters"? I still remember the first time I drove past the Coors Golden plant... looks like a refinery?
>> 
>>     I would say in defense of Fentanyl, at least it is strong enough to get things stirring... who even thought up the idea of "Coors Light"?  Redundant term?
>> 
>> </end BeerAndOysterSnobbery>
>> 
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