Buffalo slammed with six feet of snow

[Ed Anger]

Right now, Mart is rubbing 2 potatoes together.

[Jacob]

It's like holding a shield in front of the Medusa.

It's like Marty employing a metaphor.

[derspiess]

No shit.  Artie Donovan would disapprove.

Now I did have a Bud Light in my hand when I met him.  That's all they served in the Giants Stadium press box back then.

[garbon]

Nobody expected letting Martinus back in would lead to all this meta-Marti analysis.  We expected more hostility from Mart, yes; we expected more homophobic trolling from you know who, yes; we expected more self-indulgent "life of .01% Warsaw" threads, and the hate on them, yes.  But nobody expected this kind of "if Martinus, then hyperbole" or "topic of discussion : interpretation :: Martinus : Martinus' own comment" level shit.

[derspiess]

Fuckers are worse than wine snobs.

Certainly.

No.

[garbon]

It's like holding a shield in front of the Medusa.

It's like Marty employing a metaphor.

[garbon]

Fuckers are worse than wine snobs.

Certainly.

No.

But like really yes.

[derspiess]

But like really yes.

No, sir.  And all your hipster buddies would agree with me.

[Jacob]

But like really yes.

No, sir.  And all your hipster buddies would agree with me.

You're using hipsters attempting to deflect accusations of being an insufferable git? #notyourshield

[derspiess]

They're your people, too.

[garbon]

But like really yes.

No, sir.  And all your hipster buddies would agree with me.

Umm, I live in the Village. We don't really have hipsters here as the bohemian lifestyle was pushed to the Lower East Side and Brooklyn long ao.

[Jacob]

They're your people, too.

Yeah, but I don't attempt to convince anyone here that I'm not an insufferable git

In any case, the general rule is that if you appreciate the finer points of a particular thing, it's because you have good taste; if someone appreciates the finer points of a particular thing you don't care about, they're pretentious fools or similar.

The issue here, of course, that pretty much the only thing Ed appreciate the finer points of is his bowel movements, so if you appreciate anything he'll think you're a poseur. For garbon, et. al. the issue is that they're on the other side of that general rule.

And yeah, I like beer and I like wine, and being into the finer points of either is pretty much the same thing (though one has more hipsters). Same with food. It's all, IMO, good - but you're going to get people attempting to assert their superiority through a mixture of animosity and indifference.

As an aside, apparently my neighbourhood has been zoned one way or the other due to a historic brewery being here and all of a sudden there are microbreweries showing up all over the place. I think there's something like five within a 15 minute walk radius. If you ever get up here, we'll do a tour - you probably have a more refined palette than me on this stuff

[derspiess]

. I hoisted a Mikkeller in your honor the other day, Jake.

[Jacob]

. I hoisted a Mikkeller in your honor the other day, Jake.

That's the beer from one of the two feuding brothers, right?

[Ed Anger]

that pretty much the only thing Ed appreciate the finer points of is his bowel movements

CORRECT