Blog Post of the Day: Guinness Lamentations

This story by Eolaí at Irish KC is the best post I've read in a long time.

Nice job, Eolaí, keeping up the Irish reputation for poetry, story telling and sardonic humor.

"...Nowadays neither statistic holds but worse is another statistic of a people drinking wine instead of beer. Back in the days of the transition from non-cold Guinness to stupidly-cold Guinness, wine was something that came off a boat and came in a box. And it was free of duty. Wine didn’t have a name; it was merely red or white much as your dog was a bitch and it didn’t matter if she was a springer spaniel. Because all wines were mongrels. Or at least we thought they were..."

Srsly. Go read it now. You won't be disappointed.

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