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there are a number of stories circulating from the past few days about high arsenic levels in beer
easy to see why your "joke" was not funny
So if I am working with RO water, what ppm arsenic should I be shooting for? I usually add 1 tsp gypsum and 1 tsp cacl2 per five gallons... I want to do, like, a Triple IPA -- should I add triple the arsenic?
Campden can also help with this
Randy_Bugger said:Click here: http://www.reddit.com/
You apparently missed the joke as well.
I'm pretty sure there are plenty of people who post here that don't know what reddit is. I assumed you were one of them and extended you the courtesy of a link.
In order for your response to qualify as an obvious joke, you need to be more sensational in the context of this forum.
If you made the same post on 4chan, I would have known you were joking and wouldn't have laughed. :cross:
4chan?
Don't even Google it, if you don't already know what it is.
Sad, twisted young men post deviant things there. It's the Sodom and Gomorrah of the internet for frustrated, computer savvy dudes who never get laid. The forum "B" is an offshoot of 4chan and is one step lower in morality.
Both sites WILL use your IP against you!
I don't need to google it, I'm a mod there too. I should have used a BTW, I see you use the same name here and there... Hey Randy!
I've never posted there. There is more than one Randy_Bugger!
Silly! Everyone knows you fight poison with poison. I say 1 mg of cyanide per gallon.
homebrewdad said:For the record, I'm sufferingcubsfan on reddit - aka the guy who questioned your joke as ignorance/trolling. I did come back and edit my post (clearly marking it as an edit), stating that I had missed option three - that this was a joke.
I love a good joke. I missed the fact that this was a joke.
That being said, I think that's the kind of joke that would fly here on HBT in a thread with experienced members. On the other hand, that reddit post was from a rank newbie who *might* have had a tiny dot of mold in his beer, who was worried that the beer smelled terrible in the fermenter when he stuck his head down and breathed straight CO2.
Reddit is a notorious home for people who screw with other people, which is how the post seemed. Sorry to have taken it the wrong way, and next time, I'll preface my comments with "if this isn't a joke...".
But man, newbies worry enough about ruining batches as is. I'm not sure that you need to crack jokes about poisons in the beer due to a process flaw. I promise that somebody will believe you.
Randy_Bugger said:Up or down votes on the internet should not affect your self esteem.
terrapinj said:there are a number of stories circulating from the past few days about high arsenic levels in beer
easy to see why your "joke" was not funny
Cheers, man. I like your style. I only posted it here to see what HBT'rs thought. Interestingly, the OP and I have been having a pretty good conversation today... he thought it was a joke from the beginning.
So if I am working with RO water, what ppm arsenic should I be shooting for? I usually add 1 tsp gypsum and 1 tsp cacl2 per five gallons... I want to do, like, a Triple IPA -- should I add triple the arsenic?
I kind of feel, if they're going to base their decision to stay or leave the hobby on a single internet comment without further research, then maybe, just maybe mind you, it might be best then for them to leave the hobby.
Don't know how, but the quote in italics was not my statement, "for the record" as they say.
Teromous said:I've found a little side-humor in the fact that a person who types in reddit and greets people with "Word, man" didn't know what trolling was.
Brulosopher said:I'm confused. Word, man (<- Vanilla Ice).
People are too sensitive these days. Just look straight, make no eye contact, and don't say anything. It could be misinterpreted. Maybe we should all work from home and don't leave the house? Sad
To those who may have viewed this JOKE on Reddit, what say you?
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