Dublin fire brigades have finally managed to quell the flames that were consuming the contents of a warehouse at Guinness Brewery’s headquarters this afternoon, but the extent of the damage is apparently quite severe. Brave firefighters risked life and limb to salvage what they could, but a great deal of beer may have been lost despite their valiant efforts.
The mood on the street was somber as Irishmen contemplated the prospect of a Guinness shortage on New Year’s Eve; some openly wept as the black smoke billowed skyward from the flaming storage facility. Members of a roofing crew suspected of accidentally setting the fire have reportedly been keeping a very low profile.
As far as we know at The Spearhead, Guinness has not yet indicated what effect the conflagration will have on beer supplies and distribution. Men around the world await word with bated breath.
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Toured that place on my honeymoon…wish I were in the fire.
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HOLY COW!
Well, it’s still better than a Molson’s Canadian Brewery catching fire. That would be a true tragedy. Phew!
Btw, beer drinkers. If you should ever happen upon Amsterdam, I highly recommend a wander by the Heinekin Brewery. It has been a while, but I recall that it only cost me 2 Guilders to get in ($1.40 Canadian), and they served me beer the whole way through! And, at the end (and thankfully, we were the first group, and so had to wait the longest), we were all moved into this big hall, where there was free cheese and free BEER, and we drank, and drank, and drank… did I mention it was free? And then, when all the other tour groups arrived, they asked if it was anyone’s birthday, and low and behold, another Canadian, from Ontario (snicker), rose from the crowd and declared it was his day.
The brewmasters donned my fellow Canuck with a large beer stein and filled it to the brim. His task was to down the entire thing and put it upside down on his head before the crowd had finished singing Happy Birthday. Even though he was from Ontario, my fellow Canuck did not let me down, and was grinning happily during the final refrain.
I got kicked out at about 11:30 am. I was loaded! Took the tram back to my room, and passed out for the rest of the day. Ah, good memories!
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I’ll admit I like a Canadian brew from time to time. Kokanee is generally my choice. Where do they make those, anyway? Vancouver?
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This is made doubly funny by the fact that I just got back from Price Chopper with two twelve-packs of Guinness. Looks like I grabbed ‘em in the nick of time.
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Sorry to derail this thread, but this right here is the real tragedy.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6614808/paramedics-refuse-help-woman-dies
I can still say with a straight face this would never happen in Australia, WTF is happening to you guys over there? There must be something in your water.
She was a pregnant woman FFS.
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Caliph:
Sadly, with the anger built up out there, we’ll be lucky if this sort of thing doesn’t become common.
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I already predicted this:
I can foresee a day when many people working in all these cake jobs in government and education simply stop getting paid, and the police and first responders start taking a half an hour or more to respond to 911 calls, because there aren’t enough of them, and those that remain are apathetic and demoralized.
This is what’s happening here.
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I’ll never advocate white knighting, but as ‘MEN’ and we try to claim a moral high ground, if we allow ourselves to become reduced to standing idly by while a pregnant woman, woman though she maybe, dies and refuse to help (at least for the sake of the unborn fetus), though i note no mention or her “surviving by a partner and hers kids”, just her toddler is mentioned.
Safe to assume no active daddy in this scenario, but still…regardless how cranky folks are about women folk this right here is a bridge too far.
I just hope her gender has nothing to do with that decision and they were just arseholes.
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Keep in mind that there’s a better than even chance that at least one of the people on the crew was a woman.
Trust me, they’d leave a man to die too.
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@Welmer
Until right now i just thought that sort of statement was hyperbolic.
Please be wrong, i hope to whatever is out there, you’re wrong.
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10:30 comment was in response to welmer’s 10:20 comment
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Kokanee is made in Creston, BC
It used to be hip, when they only sold it in BC – and that was their marketing gimmic… it went through the roof! They wouldn’t sell it anywhere but in BC, and people from Alberta were driving here to buy it… and then they went national… so I went back to Molson’s… fucking Coors, buying my Canadian. Silly bastards, now I will have to buy it back!
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I read this waiting for a punchline… I’m not sure what is more disappointing, the lack of a punch line or the fact that the fire is real.
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Regarding the medics, is anyone at all surprised that the EMTs were union workers?
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Not hyperbolic at all. It’s been that way in the really bad ghettos for some time. I don’t know whether you’ve ever heard that Public Enemy rap “911 is a Joke.” It was just a matter of time before it started catching up to the rest of us.
In fact, the NY Times just ran an article about how the Sacramento FD is taking significantly longer to respond to fires due to California’s budget crisis.
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”””””””’The Caliph December 21, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Sorry to derail this thread, but this right here is the real tragedy.
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6614808/paramedics-refuse-help-woman-dies
I can still say with a straight face this would never happen in Australia, WTF is happening to you guys over there? There must be something in your water.
She was a pregnant woman FFS.
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Well they don’t get paid shit know that. Cable guy that came to my house said he was making 7 something an hour as a paramedic after he went to two years of school. Maybe they should pay at least close to nurses since by the time they get to hospital the paramedics already stabilized the person. They the ones between life and death at the location. That is amazing to me.
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””””Double Minded Man December 21, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Regarding the medics, is anyone at all surprised that the EMTs were union workers?
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Plus yea a lot of volunteer fireman too. Carrying beepers to respond at any time for no money.
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Yep. Prediction, not prescription: this sort of thing will become more common.
Women have made it perfectly clear that they are fully independent and do not need men for anything.
So be it.
I will not join in the finger-wagging at men who take no action to save a woman’s life. Chickens are coming home to roost.
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Sorry, not a drop of beer involved.
Guiness is a stout, not a beer.
Foul, awful stuff.
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Paramedics in question were Jason Green, six years experience and Melissa Jackson, four years experience. They have been suspended. They were in uniform and on duty, even if on break. They had duty to act. City employees, union. Where I live, paramedics start at 35K a year, much less than nurses. NYC cops, firefighters and EMT-Ps start surprisingly low. Certs and years experience bring it up significantly; gov’t benefits are generous. If you’re a thrill-seeker or power-tripper, you get a lot of that for a two year degree. Full-time paramedics are callous and cynical very quickly. Volunteer EMTs, much more slowly.
Paramedics see fake seizures often – treatment is Ativan if seizure does not stop. Maybe they thought histrionic drug-seeker drama queen. Maybe they thought tough shit, we’re on break. Probably the latter as fake seizures don’t look like the real thing. True respiratory distress is obvious and scary as shit.
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“some openly wept as the black smoke billowed skyward from the flaming storage facility.”
Ha ha ha ha, THAT’S hilarious.
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AfOR December 22, 2009 at 4:37 am
“Foul, awful stuff.”
Thems fighting words AfOR!! LOL!! I really love guiness….when I first moved to Ireland I could not drink as I suffered liver damage from a stint in Manila. (Poisoning not alcohol). A few years back my liver had recovered well enough to start drinking again…7 years it took….Now? Guiness is the only beer I can drink in the UK…the rest is crap.
In Germany they have wheat beer which is the concain of beer….really bad for me but I just can not stop drinking it. LOL!
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The Caliph December 21, 2009 at 10:09 pm
“I can still say with a straight face this would never happen in Australia”
Gents, recently in Australia a man was working in a roof cavity installing insulation. He became distressed with heat stroke. His mate called 000 and asked for an ambulance. The WOMAN who took the call refused to dispatch an ambulance and hung up on the man because he did not provide a house number (no house number is very common in the couuntyside). She claimed ‘All houses in Australia have a number’. A MAN dies because a WOMAN ambulance dispatched refuses to dispatch an ambulence and no-one hears about it. THAT is the ONLY difference. The gender of the person who died.
“she was taken to hospital but later died along with her unborn baby girl.”
Two less feminists to torment men in the future? GOOD! HOORAY! The sooner these feminised women die off the better in my book. I have no sympathy AT ALL for ANY western woman who dies. I was actually quite pleased when Jade Goody died. What did she ever do that was of any earthly use?
When more men start celebrating the death of feminised women the same way women celebrate the death of a man at the hands of a woman we might start seeing some of the so called ‘good women’ take note.
If the so called ‘good women’ want is to feel sorry about their number dying then it might be time for them to start taking note of the tens of thousands of men who commit suicide because of the abuse they receive by the corrupted state wielded by vicious and cruel women.
Until then I remain staunchly indifferent to the deaths of western women. We are better off without them. They can be easily replaced by non-feminised women. Good riddance as far as I am concerned. And I don’t have much time for men who sympathise over these feminised women dying while those self same men are not exerting all efforts to assist those men who are dying.
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I can’t believe we’re playing Name That Race on this site. The pregnant woman’s name was Eutisha Revee Rennix.
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@Afor
“Sorry, not a drop of beer involved.
Guiness is a stout, not a beer.”
It’s a beer.
And it is spelt with two n’s
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A stout is a type of beer.
Guinness is a stout, thus it is a beer.
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wow. God, that is sad. New man law: when your favorite brew’s warehouse or whatever necessary to supply burns, tears are not only acceptable, but apropos.
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In response to ‘Globalman’
‘Western Woman’? My my, isnt someone a being a bit of a douche? The point of the story is that trained medical professionals willingly refused to aid someone in need. You are turning this into something about culture now? In that case you stupid towel head, go fuck a camel.
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NNNNNOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!Why? why did guiness have to burn, and screw canada, ireland has truly suffered a tragedy.
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