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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Neat, but swim bladders don't hold urine. They're more akin to a ballast tank on a submarine.
I have learned more than I expected today, thank you for sharing!
Beer tastes like piss because it is. It's yeast piss. The bubbles are yeast farts.
Yogurt isn't liquid because of bacteria shit.
And just wait until you find out why cheese smells like feet.
Are you a fish? I'm so confused, how did you type this?
I removed the fish from my bladder, obviously, he's typing these comments.
I once had an old timer in an Ireland pub tell me 'the Guinness isn't as good as it used be since they stopped using the fish guts.' I can now imagine he was referencing this process? I wonder if Guinness stopped using this step as a cost reduction? Or maybe they still use it and he was just an old timer in an Irish pub. He probably doesn't like people fact checking him on the internet so I'll just let him have this one.
I think many brewers use agar now which comes from seaweed or something. Prices in homebrew shops seem similar to isinglass. I'd guess the agar price in bulk may be more stable with less dependency on fish stocks.
I don't notice any difference in taste. The isinglass/agar is just for clarifying, it's not in the final product in more than trace amounts. But any type of clarifying can change taste based on what and how much flavour it removes.
I never noticed the difference personally. guiness has never been a very flavorful stout anyway though, it's more about the creaminess and that its available when there's nothing other than lager.
Lots of trendy modern ales go 'unfined' (cloudy) to preserve all flavours.
Personally, I've never liked the taste of beer. It's just not my thing.
I've always assumed I wouldn't like the taste of piss either, although I never tried and I never imagined the flavors would be similar.
I'm left wondering how you determined that beer tastes like piss. Did you do a comparison? Did you do a peepsi challenge?
pee bee arr
You swim in idle waters
And drink other fish's piss
-bauhaus, The Three Shadows Part III