Self-cooling Beer

[Pain_Man]

Have you dusted off the barbie yet corn ?

oh get bloody real

 

corny dusting of something

 

for shits sake he's always busy on the bloody forums

 

go on corn your turn

 

 

That's why we have laptops and wireless routers my dear.

[Pain_Man]

cools a beer can down to 30? Fahrenheit

 

Errm, if memory serves me right that's below freezing, who wants a fookin frozen beer.

 

 

Beer's freezing point is rather lower than water.

 

And, believe it or not, freezing beer doesn't hurt it.

 

I accidentally froze a bottle (thankfully not a can!) of Steinlager. I thawed it out and it tasted great. No damage at all.

 

Of course, in the immediate term I can't argue with you. Frozen beer is like uncured...er never mind. Just not much use.

[Pain_Man]

I never heard of either an "esky" or "chilly bin." I looked it up and, apparently, you all are referring to what we Americans call a cooler, plain and simple. All along I thought you guys were talking about some new "miracle" gadget that keeps your beer cold!

 

 

 

Thank you.

 

I had NO idea what the hell they were talking about.

 

I thought it was some Brit joke that Americans didn't get.

 

Instead its a cooler.

 

Uh, why don't y'all just call 'em...coolers?

 

 

This has got something to do with calling wrenches by the incomprehensible name of "spanner" doesn't it?

Edited April 30, 2006 by Pain_Man

[Pain_Man]

All along I thought you guys were talking about some new "miracle" gadget that keeps your beer cold!

Nope. Just an esky. It was invented in Oz in the 50s.

 

 

 

OK, I'll ask the dumb question.

 

What dost thou mean by "Oz"--and I'm assuming it's not an L. Frank Baum reference.

 

 

 

Bernard Shaw's old maxim just hit me full with force:

 

Britain and America: two nations separated by a common language."

 

'Cause frankly, much as we love y'all , ya do talks funny.

 

And don't even try the "it's our language" ploy ; we both speak dialects descended from 17th century English, whether from the Midlands or the south (sources of the Northern and Southern American dialects respectively).

 

'Sides, I suspect have more English blood than a goodly number of UK citizens.

 

You guys have 55M people in that tiny island (does that # include Scotland and Wales?). Yet all the British TV I watch, I see so much open space. London has 11M people, the metro area probably even more. You guys must be packed in in your cities.

Edited April 30, 2006 by Pain_Man

[Pain_Man]

Besides, any connisee..... conasseer..... connyser....

You must be far more of a conoisseur than I. I've never heard of that.

 

connoisseur ............... even i (the typo king) knew how to spill that one

 

 

You;l; not $teal my croun! Ask mintey, I'am the typo kIng! (!)

[Pain_Man]

Connie Sewer. She was a foul mouth porn star from the early 1990's.

 

Connie Suer. She was a rabid prosecuting attorney who successfully nailed Connie Sewer. First in real life for evasion of taxes and then in a bizarre twist in her one turn as a porn actress doing Connie Sewer in a film.

 

 

 

 

"doing Connie Sewer in a film"? Doing? You'll have to be a little more specific than that.

[dbminter]

Isn't it obvious?

[volvofl10]

I never heard of either an "esky" or "chilly bin." I looked it up and, apparently, you all are referring to what we Americans call a cooler plain and simple. All along I thought you guys were talking about some new "miracle" gadget that keeps your beer cold!

Cooler ?, isnt that a prison/Jail or a time out room ( steve McQueen as the Cooler King/kid in "the great escape" i think)

OK, I'll ask the dumb question.

What dost thou mean by "Oz"--and I'm assuming it's not an L. Frank Baum reference.

OZ as in AUStralia

dictionary excerpt

Oz (COUNTRY) Show phonetics

noun UK INFORMAL

Australia.

im now thinking where did they get the film title from " the wizard of Oz" ? , i didnt know Shane Warne was about when that film was released

 

Bernard Shaw's old maxim just hit me full with force:

 

Britain and America: two nations separated by a common language."

 

Volvofl10's old maxim Britain and America: two nations separated by a fooking BIG garden pond

 

'Cause frankly, much as we love y'all , ya do talks funny.

 

we love you to Pain man , but WHY oh WHY so many adverts in "House MD" and "Lost" , drop the amount of ads and we would love you a little bit more, even if you do call things by the wrong name

And don't even try the "it's our language" ploy ; we both speak dialects descended from 17th century English, whether from the Midlands or the south (sources of the Northern and Southern American dialects respectively).

 

'Sides, I suspect have more English blood than a goodly number of UK citizens.

we are kinda well known for "putting it about" when on our holidays ( sorry , vacation) abroad , or more commonly known as the British invasion

You guys have 55M people in that tiny island (does that # include Scotland and Wales?). Yet all the British TV I watch, I see so much open space. London has 11M people, the metro area probably even more. You guys must be packed in in your cities.

time for a politically incorrect joke here about major cities being packed with foreigners

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

Beer's freezing point is rather lower than water.

Just barely. Correct serving temperature for beer is around 3C or 38F, both above the freezing temp of water.

And, believe it or not, freezing beer doesn't hurt it.

Wrong. Sorry. Freezing beer kills the good bacteria making it go flat. The alcohol doesn?t freeze but the water does.

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

OK, I'll ask the dumb question.

 

What dost thou mean by "Oz"--and I'm assuming it's not an L. Frank Baum reference.

 

Orstraleya. Where it?s not unusual to see a wild dog running around with a baby in its mouth.

[dbminter]

Somewhere, in Australia, colloquially called Oz, there is a prison, called Oz. Inside Oz in Oz, there is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. Formerly an idiot, straw for brains, really, once he acquired education, he turned his mind to crime. Constructing a living robot, powered by a broken human heart, and a mutant anthropoid felis leo, knowing no fear through steroid overdose and gene therapy, he is waiting to invade the streets of the world in his armored balloon. He intends to steal the world's gold supplies, paving the streets of his own private nation of Oz with the booty. Any who dare to cross his path will feel the wrath of his weather dominator as he unleashes twister after twister. Yes, he's that smart! The guy's a real wizard! Cue Bond movie opening titles type music: HIS NAME IS BOLGER! BOLGER! HIS NAME IS BOLGER!

[spinningwheel]

WTF????

[Shamus_McFartfinger]

I think DB has been into the hormones again.

[spinningwheel]

[volvofl10]

Somewhere, in Australia, colloquially called Oz, there is a prison, called Oz. Inside Oz in Oz, there is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. Formerly an idiot, straw for brains, really, once he acquired education, he turned his mind to crime. Constructing a living robot, powered by a broken human heart, and a mutant anthropoid felis leo, knowing no fear through steroid overdose and gene therapy, he is waiting to invade the streets of the world in his armored balloon. He intends to steal the world's gold supplies, paving the streets of his own private nation of Oz with the booty. Any who dare to cross his path will feel the wrath of his weather dominator as he unleashes twister after twister. Yes, he's that smart! The guy's a real wizard! Cue Bond movie opening titles type music: HIS NAME IS BOLGER! BOLGER! HIS NAME IS BOLGER!

 

proof that frozen Bud still retains all the alcohol

gotta give it to DB , he does all the theory testing

[polopony]

Somewhere, in Australia, colloquially called Oz, there is a prison, called Oz. Inside Oz in Oz, there is the world's most dangerous criminal mastermind. Formerly an idiot, straw for brains, really, once he acquired education, he turned his mind to crime. Constructing a living robot, powered by a broken human heart, and a mutant anthropoid felis leo, knowing no fear through steroid overdose and gene therapy, he is waiting to invade the streets of the world in his armored balloon. He intends to steal the world's gold supplies, paving the streets of his own private nation of Oz with the booty. Any who dare to cross his path will feel the wrath of his weather dominator as he unleashes twister after twister. Yes, he's that smart! The guy's a real wizard! Cue Bond movie opening titles type music: HIS NAME IS BOLGER! BOLGER! HIS NAME IS BOLGER!

 

I'm off

[dbminter]

Yeah, say what you like, but, I bet not a one of you got the Bolger gag!

[crockettmann]

Ray Bolger was the scarecrow in Oz.

And as to the freezing temp of beer, I personally did almost 30 years of research before my addictive personality got the best of me. In the lands where it gets rather chilly on a regular basis, we've found that you can leave a beer in roughly -10 Farenheit for hours and open it, take the first big drink (think "brain freeze"), and the beverage will still be in liquid form, allowing you to finish it at a leisurely rate. BUT, if you hesitate too long, it will slush up and expand, pushing slush out of the top of the can. True, it is not the recommended temp at which to enjoy a "cold one", but it works for the desperate alcoholic.