“Unarmed Syrian unc” he said ‘who must go?’ Before disarming the shooter
We were looking for a new lion of Damascus anyway
Syrian born Australian Jew, Ahmed al-Ahmed
FTFY (I am Netanyahu)
It’s amazing how brazen it is. Always have been but it still occasionally makes me sit up and go “…huh”. I know the Israeli government is used to speaking to Israel but still. Even Aussies can mostly tell that “Ahmed al-Ahmed” probably isn’t a Jewish name.
Shit like this is where the medal of freedom should come into play but instead it goes to Charlie Kirk (yes I know that’s american idk the aussie version).
He’ll probably get the cross of valour and Australian of the year. Maybe be made a member of the order of Australia. The titles are silly, but this guy deserves some recognition.
Ahmed al-Ahmed, CV, AC, FS(Fruit shop)
Might even take a GSL
There are a lot of calls for him to be awarded the Aussie equivalent, the Cross of Valour. So don’t discount it yet.
Pretty sure Mr. Al Ahmed is a shoe-in for Australian of the Year, and probably a lifetime of free beer in all Sydney pubs (which he wouldn’t be able to enjoy, unfortunately)
eh, there are different levels of observance in the community.
I am not really practicing muslim anymore but I tried beer and didnt like it lol.
I’ve eaten humanoid bugs and even I can’t stand beer
yeah it usually tastes bad. idk how people delude themselves into liking it.
the “everyone with different subjective tastes than me is delusional” tone of this comment is incredibly reddit
It would be one thing if they were just making a hyperbolic statements as a joke, but they have doubled down in calling everyone else liars for having different tastes than them - and even murderers now, using their “dead friends” (presumably from alcoholism) to try and bludgeon their way to a pointless debate victory. Very redditor coded behavior
It’s an acquired taste. Do you think people “delude” themselves into liking coffee and spicy foods too? Most people just need to drink a couple and they will begin to enjoy it as their pallet adapts and becomes more sophisticated
my parents are white midwesterners and i liked spicy food the first time, thanks.
sophisticated
fuck outta here lol. forcing yourself to like something you didn’t like the first time isn’t sophistication it’s conformity.
Appreciating a wider variety and depth of flavor is indeed sophistication. There’s no virtue inherent to being close minded about food, while the inverse is not true - being open minded and willing to try and appreciate new things and gain new acquired tastes is a positive trait. You sound like a tourist who goes to a new country and complains about the food being terrible because you don’t have the acquired taste. It’s just close-minded and chauvinistic to assume you are right and have the perfect pallet already and everyone else is just wrong and stupid for liking things.
It’s fine to try new things and dislike it and not personally enjoy something. It’s not ok to proclaim your taste as the objective truth of reality and mock and shame people who do like it, or to refuse to try new things.
Taste is subjective, it’s the same with all sorts of things. It’s like coffee, some people hate the taste, some people will only drink it with milk/cream/sugar, and some people like the taste of coffee all on its own. What tastes delicious to one person can be disgusting to another, both are correct.
Edit: people can even have preferences within categories of drinks. Sticking with the coffee example, I don’t like darker roasts because they just taste burnt to me, but medium/light roasts have a better flavour. It’s similar with beer, personally I’m not a fan of domestic beers like Coors/bud/Molson but there are other beers that are pretty tasty, but again it’s to each their own
Having to explain the difference between subjective tastes and objectivity to children who haven’t yet developed theory of mind and think their immediate visceral reaction is fundamental truth is kind of hilarious. My five year old niece is more mature and understanding of other mindsets and tastes than the people in this thread
Never thought I’d see
over something as simple as “different people like different things”
One of my most unpopular takes is that toxic masculinity is at the root of people pretending to like/deluding themselves into liking beer
is it really that hard for you to imagine that other people like things you don’t like? breathtakingly solipsistic
beer being independently invented in multiple cultures by various peoples
Uh aktually, people have just been pretending to like beer for 13 millennia. Every beer ever made tastes exactly like that warm cup of Budweiser my dad gave me this one time when I was 10 years old.
Actual baby brains in here without object permanence or theory of mind lmao
I don’t like most beers, but taste is purely subjective.
Also Guinness slaps
See, I like a lot of beers but Guinness isn’t one of them. Taste really is subjective, lol.
probably some of that yeah, but i think toxic masculinity is a subset of fitting in with the cool kids kinda shit because women do it too and highschool girls generally aren’t trying to prove their manliness.
Beer is good, this is so silly and childish of an outlook. People having personal tastes isn’t a misogynist conspiracy it’s a fact of life
too many people who don’t like their first beer keep drinking until they like it because of shitty social norms that literally get people killed but ok
I know a German who had their first taste of beer at like 8 years old and immediately loved it. Probably has to do with ones familiar cuisine and maybe genetics a bit.
What flavours you’re introduced to as a child makes a huge impact on your palate as an adult
I actually like the taste and drink it to enjoy it. Mind you I usually only drink 1-2 beers a month when I go out for dinner as a treat. I even try different types of beer and some types I like more or less than others.
Different beers have different tastes. Sour beer tastes like vomit to me. Dark beer tastes much nicer.
Ehh, I think the acquired taste comments are true, but I used to think I liked double IPAs, but that was out of wanting to get drunk cheap and quick, nowadays I like a good stout or porter cause most of them taste like dark chocolate.
Taste can also shift over one’s lifetime. As a child I hated onions, but as an adult I can’t get enough of them
