Budweiser fights soccer hooliganism by sucking.

[TalkingDog]

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2010-06-18-op...

See, we watch a lot of sport here in South Africa. We also drink a lot of beer. Sometimes we drink a lot of beer while watching sport, then we get into our cars to drive home and die along the way. We also start bar fights, beat up our domestic partners and engage in various forms of anti-social behaviour after watching sport and drinking beer.

Remarkably, that kind of behaviour has seen a sudden decline since the start of the World Cup. We've noticed a distinct reduction in the incidence of drunk driving and wife beating and so on, at least among people who go to watch the games in person.

It has to be due to your beer, because the only thing that has changed is that Budweiser is now the only booze available in sporting stadiums. For reasons we can't quite fathom, that has led to our sporting fans drinking two or, at most, three beers during the course of a game of soccer. And we're talking about people who would normally be knocking over that many in the course of half-an-hour.

[Oregone]

1. LOL

[TalkingDog]

2. made me laugh too...

i have friends who drink it, but only because it's cheap

[A Simple Game]

21. Please don't imply that Bud tastes bad because it is cheap.

I don't drink anymore, but in the past I have enjoyed several beers that taste much better and were also cheaper than Bud.

Bud is bad because it is made that way, not because it is cheap.

Like another poster said down thread, I have never had Bud without getting a headache.

[miscsoc]

26. Bud is comparatively expensive in the UK

People buy it though

[SpiralHawk]

3. "We are so SORRY that Budwieser (R) is the BP of beers." - Republicon Brown Nosers

[TalkingDog]

5. Yellow sour water...what is the point?

I want a beer that stout enough to stand up and smack me one across the chops if I make the mistake of freeing it from it's glass by spilling it on the counter.....

[Dulcinea]

4. All Anheuser-Busch's products give me a headache.

I never drink them. I've boycotted them ever since they ruined Rolling Rock.

[Taitertots]

6. I don't like Budweiser

I also don't like beer snobs. Why don't you realize that your OPINION of Budweiser is only an OPINION, not a statement of fact?

[TalkingDog]

9. You addressing OP or the article's author?

either way, I think it's pretty evident that it's an opinion piece....on both counts.

Getting your knickers in a twist over "beer snobbery" when you don't even like the product suggests some schizoid ideation....you might want to ingest something soporific to calm you a bit...say a beer. And by beer I don't mean Budweiser.....

[Taitertots]

11. The title claims that Budweiser sucks

Sounds like some beer snobbery to me.

[TalkingDog]

19. "Sounds like some beer snobbery to me."

Ummm...where did I claim I wasn't a beer snob? I copped to the OP and the article being opinion so what, exactly, are you looking for?

I mean, if you want to throw an itty bitty tantrum about somebody holding an opinion you don't like, fine. I'll wait here while you stomp your little feet, clench your little fist and and try to hold your breath til you turn blue.

Feel free to begin at any time..commence...I'll wait........right here...... It's oooookay.

[Taitertots]

22. If you want to be a gauche beer snob then I can't stop you

I don't care what your opinion of different beer is. I just think it is boorish and loutish to bemoan what other people (south africans) are drinking.

[TalkingDog]

24. Did you READ the linked article? The dude that wrote it was from South Africa....

The people (not) drinking the beer (because it is universally panned as being less than stellar beer) are also South African.


Do you need a chart? I can use smaller words if that will help you understand it better.


Seems to me you just need something to whine about.... do you need a nap?

[rocktivity]

7. Don't look at us--Bud isn't an American beer anymore!

rocktivity

[KamaAina]

8. Pity Canada didn't qualify

they compare Bud and other mass-market US-brewed swill to having sex in a canoe....
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because it's fucking close to water!

[TalkingDog]

10. Ba Dum Bump *rimshot* nt

[rocktivity]

16. .

rocktivity

[madrchsod]

12. that`s what they get for buying a crappy american beer company....

now that bud is a South African company we say....it`s all yours South Africa!

[nichomachus]

13. Hey, South Africa, just consider it payback

for vuvzelas.

[Barack_America]

15. Hmm, you do have a point there.

Could you imagine the volume of the vuvuzelas if the WC was serving decent beer?

It would probably be "11".

[Barack_America]

14. Oh God, I had hoped they weren't serving that swill at the World Cup.

Talk about a diplomatic disaster.

[nemo137]

18. They've been sponsors for at least two Cups now,

There was some flap about it during the 2006 cup in Germany, IIRC.

[awnobles]

17. Made with Cereal Grains

Instead of barley malt, cheap hops. All AB products suck to me.

[blondeatlast]

20. LOL! So damn true. nt

[Initech]

23. In Germany they actually took steps to outlaw sale of budweiser during the world cup.

[miscsoc]

25. Budweiser tastes horrifying warm.

It's okay very cold but warm it doesn't really taste like beer at all. I find it difficult to drink a lot of compared to other mass market shit beers like Stella or Heineken or Carlsberg or even Coors Light. I imagine that in a stadium it'll warm up pretty quickly.