You too, can learn how to look like you have pinprick pupils due to overly-bright illumination reflection!

No way, fuck all of that stuff.

I realized the reason I couldn’t pick my favorite season is that I really don’t like any of them.

I do know that much. :) Was asking more about styles since apparently bourbon is not whiskey, Scotch is not whiskey, etc. - even though they are technically whiskeys.

I dunno, he’s willing to waste taxpayer money on the Bucks?!

I like the way you think.

Ugh, yeah. Sorry, little bit of subconscious denial going on there.

Yeah, I assume they’re trying to be funny. But considering what else they’ve written - and seemingly thought was funny - it really puts that purple prose in a worse light.

“I like my baristas like I like my coffee - bitter, uncompromising, and difficult to find.”

Sports content: He was enough of an idiot to push and approve $250 million in public funding for a Bucks stadium (while wanting to cut $300 million from the UW system budget).

I swear Fighting Bob LaFollette has been doing high-RPM grave spinning over the last several years or so. WTF, Wisconsin?

Yup yup, heard the “I work for a living” phrase a lot, though it’s been ages since I’ve been called a Commie, thanks. ;) I was translating for fellow civilians, so it was technically accurate - hey, it’s right there in the name - if not culturally so.

Frankly, if it’s a choice between spicy and aggressively bland, I’ll err on the side of spicy. At least the latter has some kind of seasoning. Using black pepper is considered being wild by some yet, and I even had a relative who insisted it was unhealthy for you to eat.

No, no cilantro - that’s “spicy” according to some bland-palated friends of mine. (Really.)

But there are big differences between Irish whiskys and rye whiskeys as well, so as far as I can tell, if you ask for “whiskey” and no clarification, you pretty much mean “Jack Daniels” or 3 other lesser-known brands of Tennessee whiskeys.

Isn’t Tennessee whiskey just charcoal-filtered bourbon? (*ducks the bottles thrown by bourbon/whiskey fans*) Hey, I’m a beer geek, I can tell you different styles of that, but try to explain the intricacies of various distilled alcohols and I’m shrugging.

But what’s a “(no modifier) whisky/-ey” then? I admit it’s not my strong suit, but I do know bourbon, Scotch, etc. to some degree due to friends who are fans of those styles.

Oh, absolutely - the first place I had Ethiopian food was in Minneapolis. But yeah, the stereotypical white Minnesotan food is considered to be bland.

Oh god, I only saw the splash page and already I love it - in a car-wreck kind of fashion.

Same with Old Fashioneds as well - brandy, not whiskey. There is a supper-club-saluting bar/restaurant on the Capitol Square in Madison called the Old Fashioned. (And when I was a kid, my mom’s go-to drink was a Brandy Old Fashioned Sweet, made with 7-up instead of sour mix.) I’ve also read that Wisconsin drinks more…