My US Visit

talasiga · Post by **talasiga** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:35 am

I visted the US once in my life so far. In the beginning of 1969 I spent a few days in San Francisco (after a few days in Honolulu).
Has it changed much?

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:54 am

Geographically? No... it's all in the same location!

BoneQuint · Post by **BoneQuint** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:07 am

talasiga wrote:I visted the US once in my life so far. In the beginning of 1969 I spent a few days in San Francisco (after a few days in Honolulu).
Has it changed much?

More computers.

brewerpaul · Post by **brewerpaul** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:16 am

Come back again and see!

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:47 am

Has it changed much?

Has Oz changed much since '69?

emmline · Post by **emmline** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 6:57 am

If you're going to San Francisco, it's no longer de rigeur to wear flowers in your hair.

Joseph E. Smith · Post by **Joseph E. Smith** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:35 am

emmline wrote:If you're going to San Francisco, it's no longer de rigeur to wear flowers in your hair.

... now I'm gonna have that song playing in my head for the remainder of the day.

Innocent Bystander · Post by **Innocent Bystander** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 7:37 am

....And Seattle is all Metronatural now.

Cynth · Post by **Cynth** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 10:12 am

Well I don't know when I've ever been so disappointed! Do you realize that when you visited San Francisco in 1969 you were just 65 miles north of where I was a college student at UC Santa Cruz? You could have come down and played your flute in the redwood forest. It would have raised my coolness quotient by quite a bit to be seen with someone who played the flute in the forest! Dang!

Post by **Nanohedron** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:27 am

You'll find more concrete and more automobiles, at least urbanically. Less innocence and yet less learned for it, too, I'm afraid. But I'm something of a cynic.

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 11:48 am

I dunno. I tell you to come to Cornwall, entice you with the offer of Doom Bar bitter, and next thing you say you're going to the US! I can only conclude that beer is very low on your list of priorities, as no-one goes to America for beer.

Rod Sprague · Post by **Rod Sprague** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 12:28 pm

There are some good microbrews. Sheesh!

SteveShaw · Post by **SteveShaw** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:57 pm

Rod Sprague wrote:There are some good microbrews. Sheesh!

I'm sure there are, Rod. But I come from a land where we real drinkers of beer consume warm bitter, or mild, or stout. And I'm fresh back from the Czech Republic, where they understand lagers with heart and where Pilsener beers were invented. You don't have to drink Czech beers stone-cold to appreciate them. Beers with body, not water-thin alcoholic bottled commercial gassy liquids that have to be chilled to the bone before they're even remotely drinkable. Beer, Rod. You're on the right path. Seek out the best of your microbreweries and start a real beer movement! We did, over 30 years ago, and we sidelined the horrible, sweet, commercial, artificially gassed-up keg brews forever.

Denny · Post by **Denny** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:17 pm

The "water-thin alcoholic bottled commercial gassy liquids that have to be chilled to the bone before they're even remotely drinkable" are still available.

Rod Sprague wrote:There are some good microbrews. Sheesh!

Rod is correct.

Tyler · Post by **Tyler** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:02 pm

But I come from a land where we real drinkers of beer consume warm bitter, or mild, or stout. And I'm fresh back from the Czech Republic, where they understand lagers with heart and where Pilsener beers were invented. You don't have to drink Czech beers stone-cold to appreciate them. Beers with body, not water-thin alcoholic bottled commercial gassy liquids that have to be chilled to the bone before they're even remotely drinkable.

Oh, blah blah blah blah blah, nya nya nya nya nya!
Where's the schrader valve so I can let the hot air outta your head...

Jus'kiddin Steve!

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