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    Image of badasscat badasscat
    02/16/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    Pilsner is a style, not a brand.


    Heineken is the Dutch equivalent of Budweiser.


    Beck's is the German equivalent of Budweiser, except that you'd be laughed at for drinking it in its home country. Nobody does.


    Whoever wrote this knows nothing about beer himself. Budweiser, Coors and Miller are only slightly worse than the brands he likes.


    My point being not that I or anyone else has better taste than he does, but that if you're going to pretend to be a beer snob, at least try to know a little about the subject. If you really cared about quality rather than just having a snooty "imported" label on the bottle, then you'd have been complaining about Heineken and Beck's long before this.

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    02/15/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    I have a theory that nobody can really tell the difference between anything. Wine and beer snobs are....snobs.
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    Image of DeadliestSin DeadliestSin
    02/15/09

    @Senor_Macho_Solo: Hear hear!
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    Image of ValborgMelbo ValborgMelbo
    02/15/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    Well, the bottles in middle on the top shelf with the blue and gold label look like Fosters (Australia) and the bottle on the far right might be Stella. Great reporting, Mr. Thomas. (I assume you aren't related to Helen Thomas.)
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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    02/15/09

    @ValborgMelbo: Man YOU should totally be the reporter, GOOD EYE
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    Image of Justifan Justifan
    02/15/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    its exactly what the europeans do themselves. i remember an economist article on the highly nationalistic car purchasing behavior of europeans. the french buying french cars and the germans buying german cars disproportionately have nothing to do with quality. perhaps we should join the game they are already playing:P
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    Image of leonleonleon leonleonleon
    02/15/09

    @Justifan: :P
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    Image of Justifan Justifan
    02/15/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    whats wrong with buy american?:P
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    02/16/09

    @Justifan: seriously. It's not even like Budweiser is even an American-owned company anymore. It's been bought buy those dirty, thieving Belgians--the number 1 threat to America.
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    02/15/09

    In reply to Google Buys American for Friday Beer Bash
    Oh boo-hoo. I don't feel bad that I don't feel bad for the googlers. No imported, fancy pants beer for your TGIF crap? Some people don't even have jobs let alone company-provided beer and "TGIF" events. So drink your Budweiser and shut up; at least it's not Natty Lite. And shame on you, Gawker, for buying into it.
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    Image of shag_carpet_bomb shag_carpet_bomb
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    It is kind of whiny, BUT, sometimes the office parks are miles away from any kind of food service industry. So, you know, get in your car and drive to 7Eleven for a Mt. Dew? Or??? My husband actually buys sodas he likes (hansens diet!) and people at his office drink his damn sodas. The mini fridge he kept his lunch in was banned, and now people eat his damn food. It kind of sucks. He works at a big 3 game co. Bunch of morons.
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    Image of Chocolate Sex Bunny Chocolate Sex Bunny
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    My company made the list and everyone is creaming themselves.


    They put up "thank you signs" and are totally whoring out the status.

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    Image of Nearsite00 Nearsite00
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    At what point do we stop with the 'just be happy you even have a job' bit? What if all those of you that are complaining about the original poster, had to pay for parking at work every day? Should we not complain becuase 'free parking' is a perk? Someone's gotta pay to maintain the asphalt, why not the implementation staff whose back the company profits from in the first place. Dam, I sound like a socialist.
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    Image of NOLA girl NOLA girl
    02/12/09

    @Nearsite00: I pay $160/month for parking. Yes, free parking is a perk. Shut the fuck up.
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    Image of tammyfey tammyfey
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    Hey, it's a great place to work!


    Wait, oh, I see. I thought we were talking about Crisco.

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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/12/09

    @tammyfey: And by "work" you mean "roll yourself around in warm vats of lard making soft cooing noises all day."
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    Image of MisterHippity MisterHippity
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    Wow, that's rough. Next thing you know, Cisco employees will have to start paying for their daily foot massages.
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    Image of yourfriendandneighbor yourfriendandneighbor
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    this falls under the category of white whine.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/12/09

    @yourfriendandneighbor: Yeah, I think any place that still offers paychecks would be one of the best places to work.
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    Image of misslinda misslinda
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    Never ever ever take away your employees' caffeine. Productivity will go down, grumpiness will go up, and if they weren't so darned sleepy, those employees could stage a coup d'etat.
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    Image of ShrabanaDampyre ShrabanaDampyre
    02/12/09

    @misslinda:

    Not true at all. I'm guessing you've never worked as a dev/engineer. Get back to work you gawker troll.
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    Image of Nic Fit Nic Fit
    02/12/09

    @misslinda: I've never understood why companies give employees bad coffee. It's like they are saying, "Please take 20 minutes 2 or 3 times a day to go down to the coffee place and buy drinkable coffee. It's cool. We won't miss you."
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    02/12/09

    @ShrabanaDampyre: To be fair, employees who spend all day in search of their next caffeine fix instead of working are usually too addled to believe that not everyone shares their all-consuming craving for the bean.


    Sorry, that wasn't really fair at all :/

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    Image of nirreskeya nirreskeya
    02/12/09

    @celery: This is all reminding me that I need my afternoon fix.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    I'm just happy when I don't get the lash.
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    Image of BookishLookish BookishLookish
    02/12/09

    @BadUncle: Wait, I thought you were happy when you did get the lash. So confused...
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    02/12/09

    @BookishLookish: It depends if it's the "happy lash," or the "sad lash."
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    02/12/09

    In reply to Cisco, the Best Lousy Place to Work
    These seem like logical cost-cutting measures to me.
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