My Alcohol Challenge

[durangodawood]

Suit yourself.

I didn't call this a challenge for nothing.

Well you're answer is wrong.

Root beer does have flavor. So either you did taste it or something is wrong with your sense of taste....or you didnt drink it.

 

[Heissonear]

Well you're answer is wrong.

Root beer does have flavor. So either you did taste it or something is wrong with your sense of taste....or you didnt drink it.

A true story:

A man from France new to the United States took out for lunch a group of scientists he was assigned to manage.

As the waitress was taking the "drinks order" two answered "root beer please".

I noticed an odd expression on the French managers face and when the waitress asked for what drink he wanted he said "what those ordered". The waitress said root beer and he said yes.

When the many drinks came out and set before others, I noticed another odd expression from the new French manager.

When the waitress came back he jestered to her with his hand to come here, and when she was near him he said "I asked for a beer". Everybody laughed at the situation.

This story helps explain in real life the paradox of how both statements in the OP are true.

 

[durangodawood]

A true story:

A man from France new to the United States took out for lunch a group of scientists he was assigned to manage.

As the waitress was taking the "drinks order" two answered "root beer please".

I noticed an odd expression on the French managers face and when the waitress asked for what drink he wanted he said "what those ordered". The waitress said root beer and he said yes.

When the many drinks came out and set before others, I noticed another odd expression from the new French manager.

When the waitress came back he jestered to her with his hand to come here, and when she was near him he said "I asked for a beer". Everybody laughed at the situation.

This story helps explain in real life the paradox of how both statements in the OP are true.

Your story highlights an error in cross cultural communication. Nothing more.

The OP already told me that he considers root beer to be "beer". And he couldnt taste the root beer when he drank it. So whatever is going on, its not a naming issue. Its something else. And he's been cagey about it.

 

[Rudolph Hucker]

Can you make sense of this?

You've only drunk American beer?

 

[Kylie]

You've only drunk American beer?

He said beer, not water.

 

[AV1611VET]

You've only drunk American beer?

Root beer.

 

[Rudolph Hucker]

"Root beer".

Well, 'tis American and 'tain't beer.

 

[TLK Valentine]

Root beer.

Then you do know what beer tastes like, and your challenge is based on a falsehood.

 

[Belk]

Then you do know what beer tastes like, and your challenge is based on a falsehood.

You expected anything other then silly wordplay? How long have you been reading these forums?

 

[AV1611VET]

I've drank beer before ... many times

Yet I don't know what beer tastes like.

Can you make sense of this?

Root beer.

Then you do know what beer tastes like, and your challenge is based on a falsehood.

That is correct. I do know what beer tastes like.

And I do not know what beer tastes like.

Make sense of the "do not" part.

 

[HitchSlap]

That is correct. I do know what beer tastes like.

And I do not know what beer tastes like.

Make sense of the "do not" part.

Religion offers everything and nothing.

 

[TLK Valentine]

That is correct. I do know what beer tastes like.

And I do not know what beer tastes like.

Make sense of the "do not" part.

Simple -- you're being disingenuous.

 

[durangodawood]

That is correct. I do know what beer tastes like.

And I do not know what beer tastes like.

Make sense of the "do not" part.

You do and do not.

There is no try.

 

[jayem]

I'm not much of a beer drinker. If I don't drink it very slowly and carefully, I get hiccups. Sometimes they're really painful. It can feel like my diaphragm is being ripped with each spasm. It's the carbonation. Same thing happens if I drink a Coke too fast. But the worst hiccups I've ever had was after drinking 2 beers. They lasted about 4 miserable hours.

But I do enjoy a mixed drink before dinner. It's very civilized. I like a Manhattan (made with either Bulleit rye, or Maker's Mark bourbon.) Or a very dry Martini, or Gibson. (Which is a Martini with a cocktail onion rather than an olive.) Always straight up, but icy cold. Like James Bond, I use a shaker. And it must be made with either Bombay Sapphire or Tanqueray gin. These are both excellent products. To me, they rank right up there with Shakespeare, the Theory of Evolution, the Beatles, and penicillin as Britain's greatest gifts to civilization.

 

[Kylie]

That is correct. I do know what beer tastes like.

And I do not know what beer tastes like.

Make sense of the "do not" part.

You change the definition of "beer" from the first to the second sentence, yet give no clue that you have done so, in order to make your claims intentionally ambiguous.

 

[AV1611VET]

You change the definition of "beer" from the first to the second sentence, yet give no clue that you have done so, in order to make your claims intentionally ambiguous.

BINGO!

Only I don't change the "definition of beer," I change the "kind of beer:" from root beer to alcohol.

 

[AV1611VET]

Here's my OP again:

I've drank beer before ... many times

Yet I don't know what beer tastes like.

Can you make sense of this?

Now here's my OP with qualifiers:

I've drank root beer before ... many times

Yet I don't know what alcohol tastes like.

Can you make sense of this?

 

[Kylie]

BINGO!

Only I don't change the "definition of beer," I change the "kind of beer:" from root beer to alcohol.

Sop you are intentionally confusing (and some would say deceitful) and you think that's a good thing?

I would suggest that you try to keep your communications clear and easy to understand.

 

[AV1611VET]

Sop you are intentionally confusing ...

That is correct.

I once saw a book in a bookstore that was full of those kinds of literary illusions.

It was fascinating to flip through.

Here's another one:

Two train engines are on the same track, facing each other and going 100 m.p.h.

Despite the fact that they are just a mile apart, and in a dense fog and can't see each other, they never collide.

Why?

 

[Kylie]

That is correct.

I once saw a book in a bookstore that was full of those kinds of literary illusions.

It was fascinating to flip through.

Here's another one:

Two train engines are on the same track, facing each other and going 100 m.p.h.

Despite the fact that they are just a mile apart, and in a dense fog and can't see each other, they never collide.

Why?

Because they are going in reverse.

Now, what benefit do you think there is in deliberately making people think something other than what is really going on?