Insufferable Man Utters Words ‘Craft Beer Movement’

[dfc]

If you don't like the Onion (satire), don't click on it, but they did a story about us home brewers.

http://www.theonion.com/sponsored/insufferable-man-utters-words-craft-beer-movement,110/?utm_source=Facebook&utm_medium=SocialMarketing&utm_campaign=LinkPreview:1efault

 

[KPaul]

They could have picked a better pic for their "insufferable" man parody. It looks like he's drinking a Michelob Ultra.

 

[unionrdr]

Well, oh-my-God!!!! Heaven forbid our beers should come out better than the lawnmower beers they drink insistently. One guy in the beer cooler isle at wallyworld that helped me once (I was in a brokebackbuggie) said, " & I'll pick the safe one"- reaching for coors extra.

 

[Einherjar]

I like that this is an ad sponsored by New Belgium.

 

[mjdonnelly68]

That's racist.

 

[Hello]

I'd utter those words, unironically.

 

[catdaddy66]

Well, oh-my-God!!!! Heaven forbid our beers should come out better than the lawnmower beers they drink insistently. One guy in the beer cooler isle at wallyworld that helped me once (I was in a brokebackbuggie) said, " & I'll pick the safe one"- reaching for coors extra.

It's satire... Poking fun at home brewing.



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[kh54s10]

I must be missing something... I can't figure out what the point is???? Commercial craft beers? Homebrewing? Good? Bad? What is insufferable??? What is unironic??

 

[hunter_le five]

I must be missing something... I can't figure out what the point is???? Commercial craft beers? Homebrewing? Good? Bad? What is insufferable??? What is unironic??

It's poking fun at overly-obnoxious beer geeks.

If you aren't picking up on the humor, then maybe you are one.

 

[catdaddy66]

It's poking fun at overly-obnoxious beer geeks.



If you aren't picking up on the humor, then maybe you are one.

Lol!


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[user 30639]

It appears there are people unfamiliar with The Onion. I didn't think that was possible.

 

[hunter_le five]

It appears there are people unfamiliar with The Onion. I didn't think that was possible.

About once a month or so one of my cow-orkers will get all riled up about some outrageous article they read online and start b!tc#!ng about it to everyone, to let us know how infuriated she is I guess.

"You won't believe what that O-Bama did now! He killed 100 puppies in front of a kindergarten class, AND LAUGHED when they started crying. How did we elect that MONSTER?!?!?"

When I ask her where she read such a thing, it's invariably either The Onion, The Daily Currant, or a chain email.

After literally YEARS of this sort of behavior she still never checks her sources or questions anything she reads online. I have to remind her what satire news sites are pretty much constantly, she just is incapable of picking up on it.




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[kh54s10]

It's poking fun at overly-obnoxious beer geeks.

If you aren't picking up on the humor, then maybe you are one.

It appears there are people unfamiliar with The Onion. I didn't think that was possible.

I have never seen The Onion before.

I don't consider myself an "overly-obnoxious beer geek"

I must be dense because I did not get any "satire" from it. I got nothing... I could not figure out what it was about at all.

 

[Teromous]

They could have picked a better pic for their "insufferable" man parody. It looks like he's drinking a Michelob Ultra.

They should have gone with one of the Nacho Punch characters. It might kill the subtle humor of the onion though.

 

[Homercidal]

I have never seen The Onion before.

I don't consider myself an "overly-obnoxious beer geek"

I must be dense because I did not get any "satire" from it. I got nothing... I could not figure out what it was about at all.

That one article is fairly indicative of The Onion's Humour. They usually try to refrain from making it too obvious.

Thechive is a similar kind of satire (ok, not often satire so much as just goofy stuff) site. I don't know if they are related, but The Chive name kind of indicates that it's at least poking fun at The Onion.

I'm checking out Currant now!

 

[yyvjpv]

They could have picked a better pic for their "insufferable" man parody. It looks like he's drinking a Michelob Ultra.

That's what makes him insufferable

 

[pickles]

Not about beer, but one of my favorite Onion stories: http://www.theonion.com/articles/members-of-twisted-sister-now-willing-to-take-it,6374/

 

[yyvjpv]

Not bad, but they've certainly done funnier stuff. I love their ongoing Joe Biden stories. For example when he fixed up his Trans Am on the White House Lawn.

 

[kombat]

A little dark, but still one of my favorite Onion articles.

 

[yyvjpv]

A little dark, but still one of my favorite Onion articles.

That is dark, but I have to admit I laughed. First I looked up to make sure there were no rain clouds though.

 

[Tutsbrew]

I've heard of groups of people who read the onion, who even help perhaps sell advertisements, edit or write some of the content. You know those groups, "onion rings"...

 

[gr8shandini]

The Onion also has a Buzzfeed parody site called "Clickhole" that posted this the other day:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/11-microbrews-you-have-try-summer-423

Actually some pretty savvy humor in that one.

 

[tgmartin000]

About once a month or so one of my cow-orkers will get all riled up about some outrageous article they read online and start b!tc#!ng about it to everyone, to let us know how infuriated she is I guess.

"You won't believe what that O-Bama did now! He killed 100 puppies in front of a kindergarten class, AND LAUGHED when they started crying. How did we elect that MONSTER?!?!?"

When I ask her where she read such a thing, it's invariably either The Onion, The Daily Currant, or a chain email.

After literally YEARS of this sort of behavior she still never checks her sources or questions anything she reads online. I have to remind her what satire news sites are pretty much constantly, she just is incapable of picking up on it.




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Please tell me one of those rants was about the Abortionplex. Classic. Total classic.

 

[hunter_le five]

I've heard of groups of people who read the onion, who even help perhaps sell advertisements, edit or write some of the content. You know those groups, "onion rings"...

Dad? Is that... is that you?

 

[yyvjpv]

The Onion also has a Buzzfeed parody site called "Clickhole" that posted this the other day:

http://www.clickhole.com/article/11-microbrews-you-have-try-summer-423

Actually some pretty savvy humor in that one.

I loved their list of Friends Episodes:

http://www.clickhole.com/quiz/how-many-these-friends-episodes-have-you-seen-260