Microblog Memes

5907 readers

5920 users here now

A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

Rules:

Please put at least one word relevant to the post in the post title.
Be nice.
No advertising, brand promotion or guerilla marketing.
Posters are encouraged to link to the toot or tweet etc in the description of posts.

Related communities:

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

ReadyUser31

aeronmelon

1212

Got tired of rating tires (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by nifty to c/microblogmemes

104 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] [email protected] 66 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Guiness the beer company giving out world records.

Beer companies in general have a stadium/arena named after them, it gets confusing after Saku (town) has a beer company names saku and they have a stadium/arena in Tallinn (hosted Eurovision 2002 btw)

[–] FlyingSquid 45 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

The world records thing started as a way to settle bets in bars, meaning they stayed in the bars longer and drank more Guinness. So that makes sense. Similarly, the Michelin guide was something to make the idea of driving more attractive by giving tourists dining information.

[–] WhatYouNeed 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Going to have to have a Guinness while I ponder your response.

[–] ivanafterall 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I betcha can't do two.

[–] P1nkman 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Easy. I'll down one now.

Ugh. I'll wait a bit before the next one.

Fact: it's really hard to down a Guinness. I tried it once. Never again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Weird, I've never thought so. People say it's so thick and heavy and you can just drink one or whatever, but I find it more filling to drink lager. It is ackshually more calories in a standard lager than in a Guinness, or so I heard. Feel free to fact check as I can't be arsed.

[–] Omgpwnies 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Compared to many craft stouts/porters, Guinness is super thin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Guinness has a similar amount of calories as a typical American light beer

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Guinness is not gassy, so it's a bit easier than normal beer.

[–] P1nkman 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not gassy is true. Easier than normal beer? From experience, the heavyness of Guinness makes it harder.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, it's more viscous. Like downing an average milkshake.

[–] P00ptart 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or motor oil

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 3 points 4 months ago

I suspect motor oil is more viscous, but I haven't downed a pint of it to confirm.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

My favourite is the Busch Stadium.

Sportsman's Park was renamed Busch Stadium in 1953; then-team owner August Busch Jr. had planned to name it Budweiser Stadium, but at the time league rules prohibited naming a venue after an alcoholic beverage. Busch named the stadium after himself, and the Anheuser-Busch corporation later introduced "Busch Beer".

[–] swan 1 points 4 months ago

I don't know how I never put 2 and 2 together on that. wow