People deleting threads. Don't do it if you want to be taken remotely seriously. @SiR I'm talking to you.

[restorer-john]

(You will have to unignore me to read this)

Ignored. /s

 

[voodooless]

only to hit reply and see it all disappear into a deleted thread. It's like all that time is just wasted.

Yeah, it happens, and it's damn annoying. But you may be able to save your typed content simply by using the browser's "back" button. If you're in luck the browser will have cached the old page and still show whatever you typed. With some more luck, it will come in handy at some other point in time

 

[Timcognito]

Yes, I think that I will join in solidarity with restorer-john by raising an adult libation to honor him for his contributions.
A nice Samuel Adams October Fest Hearty & Smooth brew (from Boston, MA: USA) seems about right.
I got the cap to spin on the bottle with my grip but I had to get a tool to get the cap off. Inside the cap it says: CHEERS

Might I suggest an Australian Beer like anything from Pirate Life but do not touch Fosters

 

[BlackTalon]

If nothing else, it would be helpful to edit the title of this thread to remove the SiR reference.

 

[krabapple]

I'm told time is subjectively experienced as a fraction of your elapsed duration alive. So, it accelerates. And becomes more precious with scarcity.

I feel my precious time slipping away reading this thread.

 

[krabapple]

If nothing else, it would be helpful to edit the title of this thread to remove the SiR reference.

And, just pin a post at the top with a link to the merged thread. If that is one of the mod superpowers.

 

[EJ3]

Might I suggest an Australian Beer like anything from Pirate Life but do not touch Fosters

I took the last 2 beers that were on hand in the refrigerator (since I am of Austrian Birth those would be October Fest Biers)
The other thing in the refrigerator that is labeled Coors Banquet Beer. We have it because my wife says that it's sole true use is for cooking.
Perhaps like Fosters may be good for cooking (yep, I had one once].
But when I was in Freemantle/Perth Australia for a month, I was happy to not see a Fosters in any place that served beer.
I will seek out something from Pirate Life when my supply for October is finished (due to Halloween gifting, that will likely coincide with the 1st of November).
Thanks for the suggestion (and the warning). Unfortunately, I had experienced what the warning was about previously.

 

[Timcognito]

I took the last 2 beers that were on hand in the refrigerator (since I am of Austrian Birth those would be October Fest Biers)
The other thing in the refrigerator that is labeled Coors Banquet Beer. We have it because my wife says that it's sole true use is for cooking.
Perhaps like Fosters may be good for cooking (yep, I had one once].
But when I was in Freemantle/Perth Australia for a month, I was happy to not see a Fosters in any place that served beer.
I will seek out something from Pirate Life when my supply for October is finished (due to Halloween gifting, that will likely coincide with the 1st of November).
Thanks for the suggestion (and the warning). Unfortunately, I had experienced what the warning was about previously.

That's okay there far more bad American beers than all of good ones in Austria and Australia.

 

[FrankF]

 

[DSJR]

 

[EJ3]

That's okay there far more bad American beers than all of good ones in Austria and Australia.

I have done pretty good finding German Style Beers at the micro breweries around the Greater Charleston Metropolitan Area.
But, when it was mainly the large American breweries, most of it was pretty bad.
If I had to choose one, it would be beers from D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.
I am a fan of some of the Pete's Wicked Ale that come from out your way.

 

[JSmith]

But when I was in Freemantle/Perth Australia for a month, I was happy to not see a Fosters in any place that served beer.

Yeah, that's right.

Prior to the mid 80's Fosters was a very popular beer in Aus and was available at most pubs.

Then they started marketing it internationally, mostly in the UK with ad's like these;

Surprisingly once that happened, over time Fosters became less and less popular in Aus... to the point where by the mid to late 90's Fosters wasn't purchased much by locals. It was mainly tourists who would buy it, mainly from the UK and US. Over time it was phased out of many pubs, apart from those in areas that maybe catered to tourists more.

Now it isn't marketed at all or stocked at most pubs and is predominantly an "export beer" (brewed under license in the UK though now). I believe it is still popular in the UK and is a staple at most popular pubs there.

Where John is from is a state called Queensland. Back in the day a beer called XXXX (said as four X) was the predominant beer in that state. It started to be marketed elsewhere and became popular in other states... so it then became less popular in Qld.


JSmith

 

[Doodski]

I have done pretty good finding German Style Beers at the micro breweries around the Greater Charleston Metropolitan Area.
But, when it was mainly the large American breweries, most of it was pretty bad.
If I had to choose one, it would be beers from D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.
I am a fan of some of the Pete's Wicked Ale that come from out your way.

I enjoy a very cold crispy lager, an icy ale and a warm Old English Porter too but lately for the past years I preferred whiskey and gin'n tonics. For whiskey I was sipping rye and Crown Royal whiskey but one of the people here at ASR advised me to try Jameson Triple Distilled Irish Whiskey and I have been buying that regularly. I tried some beer that tasted like grapefruit juice a few weeks back and I liked it but after 4 beers I was done with the flavor overload. I think I need to go back to basics and that's a German style lager with a crisp clean finish.

 

[G|force]

It's a beer thread
I remember imported Australia Fosters that came in the "oil cans" in the 80's like I remember Miller High Life in the 80's before MGD (miller genuine draft) ruined the brand. Yech.
Back then, Fosters, Mickeys, Bass, Heineken
Moosehead, Labbats, Molson were imported and they all were tasty and different, made from different ingredients. Yeah even our domestic Miller was a good tasting one before marketing and cost reduction over quality and heritage were important.
Today in the USA none of those brands are the same products and have not been for 20+ years.
40 years.
(like we wouldn't notice)

 

[Axo1989]

Might I suggest an Australian Beer like anything from Pirate Life but do not touch Fosters

Australian beers? Today's selection:

*there may be a kiwi or two in the mix

Edit: turning into a sullen, maybe rainy arvo so went with The Notorious F.I.G.

 

[somebodyelse]

Now it isn't marketed at all or stocked at most pubs and is predominantly an "export beer" (brewed under license in the UK though now). I believe it is still popular in the UK and is a staple at most popular pubs there.

I don't remember the last time I saw it in a UK pub. Maybe the ones I go to aren't popular enough?

 

[amper42]

@restorer-john would it be best to delete this thread?

 

[Roland68]

There is an option to alert people who have posted that posts have been moved, but would that have helped in this case?

I did mention it in the thread it was moved to, and the old thread disappeared so that search results just go to one thread in the future. It is clearly imperfect.

A quick check on @SiR 's posting history would have shown his post in a new thread with the same content, but assuming we just deleted the whole thing for no apparent reason did make for a lovely Aussie G'day mate.

I figured the OP deleted his own thread and that was the source of my frustration. Not directed at @BDWoody or any other moderators.

Not in this particular case, but I've typed a long, considered replies, full of device-specific technical information, sectional marked-up scans of schematics and particular details to help someone, only to hit reply and see it all disappear into a deleted thread. It's like all that time is just wasted.

Along the same lines as members who sign up on the day, send a PM asking for help fixing some piece of gear, get their personalised help and disappear, often with no thanks, adding nothing to the ASR community except getting free repair advice, often for their "technician" who they are paying to fix something he's given up on because it's too hard.

Those PMs now get told by me to start a thread and I'll join in, so it can help everyone down the track.

Though maybe this case is different, I too have a few times replied with some detailed info when someone posts asking about a problem, only to find when I hit Post Reply the post is gone. Not moved, not merged, the OP deleted it. Sometimes a very similar post reappears in a new thread a few hours later or never appears again.

I find it even worse when entire threads are deleted that already contain many useful answers.
I noticed this very negatively this year with a thread about DIY for active monitors that simply disappeared. The OP had announced something like this beforehand because he didn't like many of the answers and the thread wasn't going in the direction he had imagined.

 

[JSmith]

I don't remember the last time I saw it in a UK pub.

It's been a long time since I was in the UK, so I gather by your comments it's also fallen out of favour there over time. I probably shouldn't have assumed the market taste was still similar.


JSmith

 

[somebodyelse]

It's been a long time since I was in the UK, so I gather by your comments it's also fallen out of favour there over time. I probably shouldn't have assumed the market taste was still similar.

I suspect the market has moved on based on TV advertising, but as I tend to go to ale pubs the lager selection isn't typical of the mass market. The comment about the pubs not being popular enough wasn't entirely a joke.