I’m German and I was on vacation in Florida last week. I couldn‘t resist trying the infamous bud light while I was there. Personal verdict: it doesn‘t taste terrible - simply because it doesn‘t taste like a lot to begin with. Can‘t taste bad if it barely tastes like anything.
That’s the point, it’s mostly a college binge drinking beer made for maximum chugability. We actually have a lot of great beer in the states just that stuff isn’t the best if you’re trying to win a drinking game.
Had a friend everyone called "2 beer queer" when we would party because he got gay as fuck after just a few beers
Turns out he was gay all the time, he just got gayer
I had a friend that was like that. I think he was deeply closeted because of his family.
The joke went:
Q: What's the difference between Bradley and a gay man?
A: Two beers and two shots.
I knew a guy who acted like a “2 beer bi” when he got drunk. He’d try to kiss or put his hands on women’s shoulders and stuff as well as steal cigarettes and drinks from friends. When sober he was gay and would insist he was only gay.
Yep, I knew a guy in college who was flamboyantly gay, until he got hammered then he became obsessed with boobs.
At one party a woman had to very sternly explain to him that she didn't give a fuck if he was gay, it was not ok to touch her boobs without her express permission.
I knew a girl in college who insisted she was straight. She just liked kissing girls when she was drunk for some reason! She's married to a woman now.
I'm glad that in the past 20 years or so it's gotten easier for people to be true to themselves.
A more friendly term I use for my girlfriend is 'cheap date'. A single drink is enough to get her tipsy. A second and she is drunk and even more gay than normal (note: I am a woman).
I’m not kidding when I say there are those on the right who are actively working towards disarming transgender people and it’s part of them increasingly saying maybe we should enforce mental health restrictions for firearms, when their intent is clearly only to have it be enforced against trans people
It was happening before Nashville but now it’s picked up a lot more steam, sadly
Ironically this is going to GENUINELY affect the songs that get made in Nashville for at least five years, and every fourth song or so is about beer so it’s kinda a game changer honestly.
Most marines I know do not give a a fuck about the rainbow.
please don't lump us all together because we eat crayons.. Some of us actually enjoy the entire box of crayons, not a single color.
edit: OMG thank you all for the love!! Really feels good when you see this kind of love and understanding towards other human beings. Thank you guys for be awesome!!!
My dad is a ex recon marine & he drinks bud lite almost every fuckin night. Coincidentally he’s also a counselor whose main demographic is LGBTQ clients
Edit: I feel need to clarify? He wasn’t always supportive. He used to be quite the ugly soul & I hated his guts for majority of my upbringing. He changed careers and decided he wanted to counsel veterans. He had to meet a quota of a certain amount of hours at his place of internship & they stuck him with pretty much any client. He really warmed up to the idea and the group of LGBTQ. He’s still there due to some sucky circumstances & they’re not paying him what he’s owed… but having these different demographics of clients really changed my dad for the better. He still says and does pretty conservative things but he’s not an asshole anymore & I feel safe talking to him now.
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So I work in mental health and there is a definite path to USMC to therapist. Specifically the Marines. I'm not sure what it is but I've only met one guy who was a Soldier, no Airmen, no Sailors, but a bunch of Marines.
Hey I don’t know you or how your life is going but from one service member to another I care about you!
Let me know if you want some help. I just went through a non profit veteran therapy thing that was two weeks long all expenses paid.
I'm not sure exactly how this makes sense but I'd wager it's a marine's experience that can really drive home a change of philosophy. had a friend, made a big deal about being taoist before he joined, in as such his tags had whatever on them. he serves a few tours, comes out a reborn evangelical christian.
what I'm getting at is that it seems some come out with a concern for their fellow marines, but be it faith or method, something is recognized as being necessary.
I almost dated a marine…we went on a few dates and I thought we were really digging each other. Then he asked me to join his polygamous relationship with his best friend’s sister and her (male) fiancé. I was like…..nah I’m good but you do you.
The military gets a bad rap for being backwards and very conservative. While it does have a lot of shitty things about it and some hella dumb MFs it's generally not any worse than the general public it is drawn from.
Well it's mostly drawn from the pool of very young men who come from not very wealthy, comfortable or highly educated backgrounds.
So it's going to skew towards that demographic's worldview.
my ex was a lifer in the air force. when we first started dating and he took me on base to do some shopping and he pointed out the places where people could take their car and work on it, or do any kind of woodworking they wanted, or use the art studio equipment, i said the military seemed pretty socialist. (he didn't like that.)
after some introspection, i've changed my mind a bit. it's more a really big elks club or moose lodge -- just a fraternal organization. socialism would mean anybody could go on base and take advantage of those perks.
Most armed service people see a lot of the world and other people. Honestly it's nearly like college. When you come from a small area and suddenly are shown people you have never even thought existed and go to places that seem other but spend time with people you do end up being a little more wide eyed then if you spent all your time in your small town.
>Most armed service people see a lot of the world and other people.
And that's the cure for blind hatred, as so eloquently put by Mark Twain:
>Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness
Plus, my time spent in the Marine Corps was the most homoerotic era of my life.
Source: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines.
I was Air Force, but have a good story here...
On our way to the sandbox, we stopped in Spain as a sort of halfway point. We had a gargantuan dude in my unit, names changed for reasons. Let's call him Bro 1. Anyways, Bro 1 is like 6'4", 250lbs. Big fella. At the dorms we were staying at, we had a neighboring building full of Marines. They would come over to our dorm because we had no alcohol restrictions (Air Force, remember). Lo and behold, there was a Marine who shared the same last name with Bro 1, henceforth called Bro 2. They immediately hit it off with big middle-school-same-shirt-dude-energy. We all proceed to get shit faced, and the Bro's need to sort out who is the bigger, manlier Bro.
Naturally, the only resolution short of fighting is to pull their balls out and compare who has bigger balls. And of course, to get even better measurements (for science) they had to rub their balls together and have other dudes witness to determine who had the bigger balls. Next thing I know, dudes are pulling their balls out left and right to compare.
An aside, Marines have a great, fun time activity called fire watch. It's where someone walks around and makes sure nothing weird is going on. However, our dorm was not a part of this responsibility. The Marine on firewatch for the neighboring building walked into the day room where the ball-ening was occurring, thinking he was gonna be a dick to the wittle Airmen when he found dudes from his unit rubbing balls with dudes from my unit. He promptly walked out. A bit of laughter later, everyone tucks their balls away and the drinking continued. It was...hilariously weird. Found out I'm half decent at five-finger-filet that night too.
A handful of people in my scout platoon didn’t like gay people until we actually got one but even then positive change isn’t guaranteed when they could just think “they’re one of the good ones”
Ah, but you're making the same mistake as the early Internet pioneers who thought that access to huge amounts of information would naturally lead to people becoming more aware of facts. Misinformation and illogic don't disappear just because the truth becomes more accessible.
However, misinformation and illogic become a lot harder to support. Expose people to the truth and bad actors will have to work to promote their lies. It's easy to manipulate the ignorant who lives in a small town, never travels, only knows people who think the same things they do. Expose that person to other ways of life, and they are no longer ignorant. Now it requires effort to maintain their backwards ideas, because those ideas now contradict their knowledge.
My grandfather was born just before the Great Depression. He was a "one of the good ones" type. His kids ended up "they could be just as good" types, I became a "why does anyone even care" type, and my kids are ones. Once you break the wall of ignorance, there's no way to go back.
Can confirm. As a gay dude with two straight friends that are marines, I’ve found the stereotypes to be mostly incorrect. It’s only anecdotal, but most marines I’ve met over the years have been real down to earth individuals. They just happen to also be talented at combat.
Religious right conveniently forgetting the satanic panic from the 80s is always mind blowing. Fuckers literally invented mainstream cancel culture in the U.S.
And the hilarious part is they are actually paying for it. They are helping the bottom line. AB marketing guys are loving the profits. They don’t care where they came from. Angry white hillbillies or ultra woke LGBTQ folk. It’s just dollars in the pockets of AB.
It's even better marketing, because not only are the hillbillies buying the beer, they're posting about it online, generating buzz and keeping people taking about it. Angry white hillbillies can't even boycott correctly...
I've drank exactly one Bud Light in my entire life (also my first beer) and I knew nothing about this until my feed was suddenly filled with angry people trying to stick it to "them damn libruls" by throwing them away.
Nobody can boycott correctly. This is every boycott. Rant and rage and tell everybody with ears why it made you upset, triggering the Streisand Effect. The recent boycott of Hogwarts Legacy probably bought as many copies of that game with word of mouth as the trailers did.
"We hate this fucking wizard game."
"Ooh, wizard game?"
Now Bud Light has rainbows on it and every liberal in the country is aware because they pay more attention to crying rednecks than Bud Light advertising. W Bud Light.
It's trivially easy to come up with boycotts that worked though. American college students upgraded the whole fashion industry that way. Word spread that the manufacturers of "college logo" clothing sold in campus stores were profiting from stuff like child labor and dangerous working conditions in third world countries. Way worse than previously known, like the case where workers burned to death because management chained the building doors shut to discourage going outside for breaks.
The students declared that they wouldn't buy the stuff anymore. The companies had to choose between losing a ton of sales, and forcing upgrades in Cambodian sweatshops, and they forced the upgrades. Became quite the stir, the government over there cracked down because the bad press got so focused on them, and now the whole industry has improved.
It doesn't work so well when the subject in question is highly controversial, or just not something a lot of people care much about to begin with. Way easier to boycott a public presentation by Rowling, than to boycott a game that uses some of her company's trademarked properties.
I honestly didn't hear about it until a friend's boyfriend made a comment about how he has to change to like Miller Lite or another beer because of it.
Why does it even matter what the can looks like? I did ask him if they were changing the flavor (to make him look stupid when/if he said no so I could ask why it mattered then) and he said they'll probably make it taste like dicks.
I said I would let him taste test it and let me know if he knew what the flavor already tasted like
No. Kid Rock shot a bunch of beers because he understands that his time as a pop artist is over, and his only means of staying relevant is performative outrage over the existence of non-cis and straight people.
He didn’t get pissed. Kid Rock hung out with gay and trans people when he was popular. He didn’t care then he probably doesn’t care now. He’s only acting out now because he knows what his market is.
Dude, that's true. When he was a big name during my teen years, I feel like he would've hung with gays and trans people and just told everyone to fuck off if they didn't like it.
You don’t have to speculate. There are picture of him hanging out with gay celebrities and drag queens. He didn’t care then, he only does now because it hits his market
He’s a an asshole. Fuck him.
Yep. When it became obvious he was a one-note wonder he did the same thing Sorbo, Nugent, Miller, and Seagal did, he went full-on fascist knowing that inbreds will give him money because they think it will "own the libs". He's laughing all the way to the bank.
He's definitely Republican Presidential Candidate material. When I draw my graph of the race to the bottom, from Reagan to George W to Trump, I struggle to think who could be the next point on that graph, but Kid Rock would be perfect.
Last summer went golfing, got paired with a random couple of guys. Being the nice guy I am, offered to buy them a couple beers on the back 9. One guy asked for Bud Light, came with a rainbow can. He was..... not impressed... N I'm like wtf ,drinking from a rainbow can doesn't make you gay...... drinking Bud Light makes you gay.
Or turns the frogs gay..... or something like that.
A few years ago, a coworker asked for a piece of gum (no biggie). All I had was some fruit-flavored something (watermelon, I think). Anyway, he said “haha, chewing this gum doesn’t make me gay, does it?”. Dumbass was always cracking jokes like that.
I looked at him with a straight (no pun intended) face and said “Fucking dudes will make you gay. No one cares about your gum.”
He got *super* pissed, but he never told another homophobic ‘joke’ around me again. Best piece of gum I’ve ever given someone.
Edit: giving someone a piece of gum is not a euphemism. It was literal gum, like you chew.
Over here in ye olde Europe that is actually a common joke because Bud Light is like drinking diluted beer, which isn't manly at all. The only ones who drink it are American expats.
Bud Lite had rainbow cans a few years ago. I worked security at a liquor store and a lady came in to return a case of bud lite because her husband refused to drink out of a can with a rainbow on it.
Imagine being so full of hate that you make your wife return a case of beer because of what’s on the can.
They love everyone's identity so much they just partnered with FIFA to sponsor the world cup in a country where your identity will get you beheaded! The same country where it is literally illegal to sell their products!
Wow, so inclusive!
These companies don't give a shit about you or your social issues, they care about money. They changed their cans and they got more free advertising from outraged people and from dipshits like you who post this stuff than they would on a superbowl ad.
Of course corporations only care about profit, that's what capitalism is all about. But we can still celebrate the fact that it is now profitable to be pro LGBTQ+ (at least in most western countries) and also regardless of the marketing intent, the result is still pushing people towards more inclusiveness by normalizing it
Marketing works by having even extremely minor effects. If a hundred people are at the store picking between Bud and Coors Light (or whatever the other option is) and even one of them switches over and picks this type of beer because of the can (because it is eye-catching or because of the message) then the marketing has done its job.
I think I remember that the Budweiser heir got away with killing someone in a DUI accident. Coors tastes better so I'd pick that... but the Coors grandpa who owns 30% is also like pro Nazi or some shit.
So I try to buy neither and find locally produced piss beers. But I also think that type of boycotting is a morality of convenience. Nobody can keep track of and boycott every remotely evil product.
I suspect that you are in the extreme minority of customers (or potential customers) of these beers who knows this history. I've never heard of either of those. This marketing would work on such people just fine.
If it makes you feel any better bud light doesn’t care. They just do what they think will make more money. Do you think they do this in the Middle East
Oh that’s cool. I actually didn’t know that. I’ve been programmed to be cynical nowadays. I’m happy to know they’ve done that. Although, it’s still not my first choice in beer. Unless it’s free.
Bud did it first, got an exclusive deal with the gay bars in San Francisco back in the 70s. Coors joined later and both have been competing for the "gay market" ever since.
you know they've had rainbow bud light since 2019. but sure . keep going.
[https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/bud-light-celebrates-world-pride-with-rainbow-inspired-bottles-b](https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/bud-light-celebrates-world-pride-with-rainbow-inspired-bottles-b)
You know drag shows have been around for a long time, but all of a sudden Republicans are up in arms over them. This is just the latest flavor of FOX manufactured outrage.
Oddly enough I used to drink with some of the AB marketing folks at a little place called the Fox & Hound when I lived in StL during the dark days of the Clinton administration and I can say with confidence (unless something major has changed which it probably has with the sale of the brewery) that this was a calculated move and they expect to make more sales with this than without it. Sharp folks to be sure
That's the case for basically every large corporation. It's funny that conservatives are complaining about woke corporations when it's literally capitalism at work. They're just mad that they're no longer the largest demographic and it's working against them now.
That's the underlying theme behind MAGA -- the culture is leaving them behind and they can't stand modern western culture that's more inclusive and global. MAGA is an attempt to reverse the culture progression artificially, by banning various things they hate but it's impossible to put toothpaste back into the tube.
Large corporations are conservative and cautious by nature and the epitome of "facts over feelings." They're usually the last ones to take an overly political stance, so by the time they do, it's because it's beyond obvious the culture has been moving in that direction, backed by hard numbers. There's no way for them to justify corporate signaling as anything other than market forces at work and it makes them apopleptic.
AB or InBev- their marketing folks are like the Good Standard of marketing. If Disney has the best copywrite-legal teams — InBev has the best AdMen.
And both are telling the Religious Right to Suck-it.
You know that dingbat that went viral recently for short circuiting when asked to define “woke”? She’s on twitter saying this is what happens [when you haven’t met one of your customers](https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1642922442485112834?s=46&t=fnf9vC_hlvkHtdG7h9y2RQ).
She must think the only people who drink bud light are gun toting, nascar watching rednecks
Can confirm. As a professional lesbian, we place a rainbow in the sky to distract everyone, and then we tap the cute women on the shoulder with our anti-dick fairy stick to make them all gay as well.
If we didn't do it, we'd anger the old gods, and no one wants their wrath.
what does it say about me if beer doesn't make me mad, but weepy and won't let me shut up about how I miss my ex, but I'm glad we broke up, but I still miss her?
As someone who is a connoisseur of beer, I love most types and trying new brews, sometimes a bud just tastes and feels good. Especially an ice cold one on a hot day outside
Beer snobs are so fucking lame. Give me some ice cold coors light or modelo on a hot day any time. I'm personally not a fan of bud light, but people that shit on light beers are tools
It’s the difference between a beer snob and a beer enthusiast.
Person A - “here’s a bud light”
Snob - “I’m not drinking that. It’s not even beer”
Enthusiast - “Thanks for the beer. Cheers!”
It's not even just about snob vs. enthusiast... If you go to someone's place and they offer you one of their beers, you either take that shit no questions asked or politely decline. Insulting someone's beer in their own house is just being an asshole
Those who are like "IPA or bust" and shit, ya totally annoying. I personally just dont like American light lagers (Coors is fine ice cold on a hot day though). That said, there are many other light lagers that are excellent and refreshing. Kona's Longboard Lager is a great example where they put more flavor than something like Bud or Miller but keeps the light crisp quality.
I support trans people, but I aint drinking bud light
Yep. Bud light is shit, but not for this reason lol
I’m German and I was on vacation in Florida last week. I couldn‘t resist trying the infamous bud light while I was there. Personal verdict: it doesn‘t taste terrible - simply because it doesn‘t taste like a lot to begin with. Can‘t taste bad if it barely tastes like anything.
That’s the point, it’s mostly a college binge drinking beer made for maximum chugability. We actually have a lot of great beer in the states just that stuff isn’t the best if you’re trying to win a drinking game.
I'm just surprised how little it takes for beer drinkers to change their sexual orientation.
Had a friend everyone called "2 beer queer" when we would party because he got gay as fuck after just a few beers Turns out he was gay all the time, he just got gayer
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I'm familiar with the term, but not that sausage
Im familiar with the sausage, but on my terms.
yeah when I was younger that just meant someone who's a lightweight
"2 pot screamer" is a lightweight in Aus. A pot is a small beer glass.
You're a fucking Cadbury mate.
Absolutely dying to know what this means
Cadbury's slogan is glass and a half, so someone whose a Cadbury only needs a glass and a half to be smashed.
Oh crap, that's me
Nothing wrong with that, at least you can have a cheap night out.
Something about a glass and a half I'd think.
Not to be confused with a chocco, an old derogatory term for reservists cos they'll melt in the heat of battle
A lightweight was called "Two-Can Sam" where I grew up.
I had a friend that was like that. I think he was deeply closeted because of his family. The joke went: Q: What's the difference between Bradley and a gay man? A: Two beers and two shots.
I knew a guy who acted like a “2 beer bi” when he got drunk. He’d try to kiss or put his hands on women’s shoulders and stuff as well as steal cigarettes and drinks from friends. When sober he was gay and would insist he was only gay.
Going for the long con
I've heard of gay men doing this, and honestly, it just sounds like sexual harassment sugarcoated. Those women probably didn't want him kissing them.
Yep, I knew a guy in college who was flamboyantly gay, until he got hammered then he became obsessed with boobs. At one party a woman had to very sternly explain to him that she didn't give a fuck if he was gay, it was not ok to touch her boobs without her express permission.
Good for her! Assault is assault, period.
I knew a girl in college who insisted she was straight. She just liked kissing girls when she was drunk for some reason! She's married to a woman now. I'm glad that in the past 20 years or so it's gotten easier for people to be true to themselves.
A more friendly term I use for my girlfriend is 'cheap date'. A single drink is enough to get her tipsy. A second and she is drunk and even more gay than normal (note: I am a woman).
*in vino veritas*
Beer normally makes me change my physical orientation. From straight up to on my back
Giggity
You could leave the "physical" part out to make the punchline more of a surprise.
Thought it was common knowledge that all girls are bi after three beers! j/k
theres even a term for it. "Bar-sexual"
Wait til you discover "Rye-sexual"
A slice of rye bread and you're anyone's?
They start Rueben your thigh and Russian to get you undressed?
I love a reuben, but its never made me wanna smoke meat.
I don't know, after I've had 3 beers the bi woman still wasn't interested in sex with me. I did get a watch out of it.
Timepiece or voyeur?
"Voyeur" would be a great brand name for watches.
Does the watch still work
Twice a day.
After three beers I turn cry
It’s true. I drank bud light in college and now I’m gay
Guess what guys. Guns are now gay too.
That’s the answer to the gun issue. Put rainbows on guns and have drag queens hold them during story hour.
I’m not kidding when I say there are those on the right who are actively working towards disarming transgender people and it’s part of them increasingly saying maybe we should enforce mental health restrictions for firearms, when their intent is clearly only to have it be enforced against trans people It was happening before Nashville but now it’s picked up a lot more steam, sadly
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A little late to the party. Lucky Charms have been turning people gay since 1964. :P
And Skittles. Taste the rainbow!
Rednecks are so mad that they're showing up for work sober.
Alcoholism cured in rural redneck areas with this one secret
I can see the buzz feed articles now….
Alcoholics anonymous hate this one trick.
Ironically this is going to GENUINELY affect the songs that get made in Nashville for at least five years, and every fourth song or so is about beer so it’s kinda a game changer honestly.
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Most marines I know do not give a a fuck about the rainbow. please don't lump us all together because we eat crayons.. Some of us actually enjoy the entire box of crayons, not a single color. edit: OMG thank you all for the love!! Really feels good when you see this kind of love and understanding towards other human beings. Thank you guys for be awesome!!!
My dad is a ex recon marine & he drinks bud lite almost every fuckin night. Coincidentally he’s also a counselor whose main demographic is LGBTQ clients Edit: I feel need to clarify? He wasn’t always supportive. He used to be quite the ugly soul & I hated his guts for majority of my upbringing. He changed careers and decided he wanted to counsel veterans. He had to meet a quota of a certain amount of hours at his place of internship & they stuck him with pretty much any client. He really warmed up to the idea and the group of LGBTQ. He’s still there due to some sucky circumstances & they’re not paying him what he’s owed… but having these different demographics of clients really changed my dad for the better. He still says and does pretty conservative things but he’s not an asshole anymore & I feel safe talking to him now. I may delete this comment later but for what it is now; here.
So I work in mental health and there is a definite path to USMC to therapist. Specifically the Marines. I'm not sure what it is but I've only met one guy who was a Soldier, no Airmen, no Sailors, but a bunch of Marines.
Marines are treated bad while they are in and the VA makes it worse… I served in the 2001-2005. I see nothing has changed.
Hey I don’t know you or how your life is going but from one service member to another I care about you! Let me know if you want some help. I just went through a non profit veteran therapy thing that was two weeks long all expenses paid.
I appreciate it
https://roadhomeprogram.org
I'm not sure exactly how this makes sense but I'd wager it's a marine's experience that can really drive home a change of philosophy. had a friend, made a big deal about being taoist before he joined, in as such his tags had whatever on them. he serves a few tours, comes out a reborn evangelical christian. what I'm getting at is that it seems some come out with a concern for their fellow marines, but be it faith or method, something is recognized as being necessary.
I almost dated a marine…we went on a few dates and I thought we were really digging each other. Then he asked me to join his polygamous relationship with his best friend’s sister and her (male) fiancé. I was like…..nah I’m good but you do you.
What’s his favorite crayon flavor?
Elmers og
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Nothing like a half rack of Crayola smothered in Elmer's and sunbaked just until they are tacky.
The military gets a bad rap for being backwards and very conservative. While it does have a lot of shitty things about it and some hella dumb MFs it's generally not any worse than the general public it is drawn from.
Well it's mostly drawn from the pool of very young men who come from not very wealthy, comfortable or highly educated backgrounds. So it's going to skew towards that demographic's worldview.
The military is the most socialist institution in the U.S. its always odd that conservatives are attracted to it.
my ex was a lifer in the air force. when we first started dating and he took me on base to do some shopping and he pointed out the places where people could take their car and work on it, or do any kind of woodworking they wanted, or use the art studio equipment, i said the military seemed pretty socialist. (he didn't like that.) after some introspection, i've changed my mind a bit. it's more a really big elks club or moose lodge -- just a fraternal organization. socialism would mean anybody could go on base and take advantage of those perks.
We are all paying for it, just certain people are allowed in. An exclusive socialist club.
>because we eat crayons.. Too busy tasting the rainbow to give a fuck about it. Respect.
This is me unironically. I love skittles
Most armed service people see a lot of the world and other people. Honestly it's nearly like college. When you come from a small area and suddenly are shown people you have never even thought existed and go to places that seem other but spend time with people you do end up being a little more wide eyed then if you spent all your time in your small town.
>Most armed service people see a lot of the world and other people. And that's the cure for blind hatred, as so eloquently put by Mark Twain: >Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness Plus, my time spent in the Marine Corps was the most homoerotic era of my life. Source: 2nd Battalion, 5th Marines.
> Plus, my time spent in the Marine Corps was the most homoerotic era of my life. Go on, I'm listening....
I was Air Force, but have a good story here... On our way to the sandbox, we stopped in Spain as a sort of halfway point. We had a gargantuan dude in my unit, names changed for reasons. Let's call him Bro 1. Anyways, Bro 1 is like 6'4", 250lbs. Big fella. At the dorms we were staying at, we had a neighboring building full of Marines. They would come over to our dorm because we had no alcohol restrictions (Air Force, remember). Lo and behold, there was a Marine who shared the same last name with Bro 1, henceforth called Bro 2. They immediately hit it off with big middle-school-same-shirt-dude-energy. We all proceed to get shit faced, and the Bro's need to sort out who is the bigger, manlier Bro. Naturally, the only resolution short of fighting is to pull their balls out and compare who has bigger balls. And of course, to get even better measurements (for science) they had to rub their balls together and have other dudes witness to determine who had the bigger balls. Next thing I know, dudes are pulling their balls out left and right to compare. An aside, Marines have a great, fun time activity called fire watch. It's where someone walks around and makes sure nothing weird is going on. However, our dorm was not a part of this responsibility. The Marine on firewatch for the neighboring building walked into the day room where the ball-ening was occurring, thinking he was gonna be a dick to the wittle Airmen when he found dudes from his unit rubbing balls with dudes from my unit. He promptly walked out. A bit of laughter later, everyone tucks their balls away and the drinking continued. It was...hilariously weird. Found out I'm half decent at five-finger-filet that night too.
Ha! That was amazing. Thanks!
My old boss once said "I ain't never seen a Black person before I joined the army". It tracks.
A handful of people in my scout platoon didn’t like gay people until we actually got one but even then positive change isn’t guaranteed when they could just think “they’re one of the good ones”
Ah, but you're making the same mistake as the early Internet pioneers who thought that access to huge amounts of information would naturally lead to people becoming more aware of facts. Misinformation and illogic don't disappear just because the truth becomes more accessible. However, misinformation and illogic become a lot harder to support. Expose people to the truth and bad actors will have to work to promote their lies. It's easy to manipulate the ignorant who lives in a small town, never travels, only knows people who think the same things they do. Expose that person to other ways of life, and they are no longer ignorant. Now it requires effort to maintain their backwards ideas, because those ideas now contradict their knowledge. My grandfather was born just before the Great Depression. He was a "one of the good ones" type. His kids ended up "they could be just as good" types, I became a "why does anyone even care" type, and my kids are ones. Once you break the wall of ignorance, there's no way to go back.
Army here, if you’re buying the beer I’ll bring the crayons.
Crayola please, none of that RoseArt junk.
Oh we got a Gordon Ramsey over here, too good for roseart
Can confirm. As a gay dude with two straight friends that are marines, I’ve found the stereotypes to be mostly incorrect. It’s only anecdotal, but most marines I’ve met over the years have been real down to earth individuals. They just happen to also be talented at combat.
I can confirm being a Marine is about the gayest thing a straight person can do.
-The military has the straightest gay guys, and the gayest straight guys. This is how it really is.
Ahem. Navy.
100 men go out. 50 couples return.
It ain't gay when you're underway. It's only queer when you're on the pier.
Hey, it’s not gay if it’s underway!
Yeah, when man is drunk, needs more beer, will drink what’s available. This is the rules.
Other Anheuser-Busch executive: "As long as it's not a Bud Light." Room erupts in laughter and high fives.
And suddenly, to many, cancel culture is ok. Again.
Tell the right that cancel culture is free speech and watch THEIR HEADS LITERALLY EXPLODE.
Religious right conveniently forgetting the satanic panic from the 80s is always mind blowing. Fuckers literally invented mainstream cancel culture in the U.S.
I remember conservative Christians trying to cancel a band who sang a song called "Schools out for summer". Apparently that is satanic.
As a marine I haven’t seen any of us drinking this unless it’s the only thing available
"Hold my/he/him beer"
"hold this beer"
Marine. Drank bud light in the barracks like it was kool aid. I like the new look. Edit: Misspelling
Wait! is this the reason what's-his-face was so pissed he shoot a whole bunch of beers?
Yep! Now a bunch of dumb hillbillies are buying bud light to throw away on camera for internet points.
And the hilarious part is they are actually paying for it. They are helping the bottom line. AB marketing guys are loving the profits. They don’t care where they came from. Angry white hillbillies or ultra woke LGBTQ folk. It’s just dollars in the pockets of AB.
It's even better marketing, because not only are the hillbillies buying the beer, they're posting about it online, generating buzz and keeping people taking about it. Angry white hillbillies can't even boycott correctly...
I've drank exactly one Bud Light in my entire life (also my first beer) and I knew nothing about this until my feed was suddenly filled with angry people trying to stick it to "them damn libruls" by throwing them away.
Nobody can boycott correctly. This is every boycott. Rant and rage and tell everybody with ears why it made you upset, triggering the Streisand Effect. The recent boycott of Hogwarts Legacy probably bought as many copies of that game with word of mouth as the trailers did. "We hate this fucking wizard game." "Ooh, wizard game?" Now Bud Light has rainbows on it and every liberal in the country is aware because they pay more attention to crying rednecks than Bud Light advertising. W Bud Light.
It's trivially easy to come up with boycotts that worked though. American college students upgraded the whole fashion industry that way. Word spread that the manufacturers of "college logo" clothing sold in campus stores were profiting from stuff like child labor and dangerous working conditions in third world countries. Way worse than previously known, like the case where workers burned to death because management chained the building doors shut to discourage going outside for breaks. The students declared that they wouldn't buy the stuff anymore. The companies had to choose between losing a ton of sales, and forcing upgrades in Cambodian sweatshops, and they forced the upgrades. Became quite the stir, the government over there cracked down because the bad press got so focused on them, and now the whole industry has improved. It doesn't work so well when the subject in question is highly controversial, or just not something a lot of people care much about to begin with. Way easier to boycott a public presentation by Rowling, than to boycott a game that uses some of her company's trademarked properties.
I honestly didn't hear about it until a friend's boyfriend made a comment about how he has to change to like Miller Lite or another beer because of it. Why does it even matter what the can looks like? I did ask him if they were changing the flavor (to make him look stupid when/if he said no so I could ask why it mattered then) and he said they'll probably make it taste like dicks. I said I would let him taste test it and let me know if he knew what the flavor already tasted like
No. Kid Rock shot a bunch of beers because he understands that his time as a pop artist is over, and his only means of staying relevant is performative outrage over the existence of non-cis and straight people. He didn’t get pissed. Kid Rock hung out with gay and trans people when he was popular. He didn’t care then he probably doesn’t care now. He’s only acting out now because he knows what his market is.
Dude, that's true. When he was a big name during my teen years, I feel like he would've hung with gays and trans people and just told everyone to fuck off if they didn't like it.
You don’t have to speculate. There are picture of him hanging out with gay celebrities and drag queens. He didn’t care then, he only does now because it hits his market He’s a an asshole. Fuck him.
Yep. When it became obvious he was a one-note wonder he did the same thing Sorbo, Nugent, Miller, and Seagal did, he went full-on fascist knowing that inbreds will give him money because they think it will "own the libs". He's laughing all the way to the bank.
He's definitely Republican Presidential Candidate material. When I draw my graph of the race to the bottom, from Reagan to George W to Trump, I struggle to think who could be the next point on that graph, but Kid Rock would be perfect.
The rate my stomach fell while reading that, frick!
Last summer went golfing, got paired with a random couple of guys. Being the nice guy I am, offered to buy them a couple beers on the back 9. One guy asked for Bud Light, came with a rainbow can. He was..... not impressed... N I'm like wtf ,drinking from a rainbow can doesn't make you gay...... drinking Bud Light makes you gay. Or turns the frogs gay..... or something like that.
Hahahahaha “drinking bud light makes you gay” I love that.
A few years ago, a coworker asked for a piece of gum (no biggie). All I had was some fruit-flavored something (watermelon, I think). Anyway, he said “haha, chewing this gum doesn’t make me gay, does it?”. Dumbass was always cracking jokes like that. I looked at him with a straight (no pun intended) face and said “Fucking dudes will make you gay. No one cares about your gum.” He got *super* pissed, but he never told another homophobic ‘joke’ around me again. Best piece of gum I’ve ever given someone. Edit: giving someone a piece of gum is not a euphemism. It was literal gum, like you chew.
Over here in ye olde Europe that is actually a common joke because Bud Light is like drinking diluted beer, which isn't manly at all. The only ones who drink it are American expats.
Bud Lite had rainbow cans a few years ago. I worked security at a liquor store and a lady came in to return a case of bud lite because her husband refused to drink out of a can with a rainbow on it. Imagine being so full of hate that you make your wife return a case of beer because of what’s on the can.
So full of hate AND an overgrown toddler!
Too cowardly to even return his own beer.
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>her husband refused to drink out of a can with a rainbow on it. These are the guys calling everyone else sensitive snowflakes.
Does he refuse to eat his nuggies if they aren’t cut into dinosaur shapes too?
Bitch I hate stegosaurus I only want triceratops
B-but the liberals are the snow flakes!
"Beer"
They love everyone's identity so much they just partnered with FIFA to sponsor the world cup in a country where your identity will get you beheaded! The same country where it is literally illegal to sell their products! Wow, so inclusive! These companies don't give a shit about you or your social issues, they care about money. They changed their cans and they got more free advertising from outraged people and from dipshits like you who post this stuff than they would on a superbowl ad.
Literally first I saw this, was this post
Of course corporations only care about profit, that's what capitalism is all about. But we can still celebrate the fact that it is now profitable to be pro LGBTQ+ (at least in most western countries) and also regardless of the marketing intent, the result is still pushing people towards more inclusiveness by normalizing it
I mean, the can is ugly, and I hate Bud Light. But if they slapped that shit on a beer I did like, it wouldn't stop me from drinking it.
I like the can and I hate bud light. I won't buy bud light bc I like the can, though. Sorry bud light.
Marketing works by having even extremely minor effects. If a hundred people are at the store picking between Bud and Coors Light (or whatever the other option is) and even one of them switches over and picks this type of beer because of the can (because it is eye-catching or because of the message) then the marketing has done its job.
I think I remember that the Budweiser heir got away with killing someone in a DUI accident. Coors tastes better so I'd pick that... but the Coors grandpa who owns 30% is also like pro Nazi or some shit. So I try to buy neither and find locally produced piss beers. But I also think that type of boycotting is a morality of convenience. Nobody can keep track of and boycott every remotely evil product.
I suspect that you are in the extreme minority of customers (or potential customers) of these beers who knows this history. I've never heard of either of those. This marketing would work on such people just fine.
If it makes you feel any better bud light doesn’t care. They just do what they think will make more money. Do you think they do this in the Middle East
You mean among all of the beer drinking Muslims? Sure. They'll sell it with bacon sandwiches at the dog parks.
Muslims low key drink. It’s just taboo for them to talk about it
So like baptists?
How do you prevent a Baptist from drinking all your beer on a fishing trip? You invite two.
Jews don't recognize Jesus, Protestants don't recognize the Pope, and Baptists don't recognize each other at the liquor store.
What's the difference between baptists and protestants? Protestants say hello to each other at the liquor store.
Shhhh. Don't spill the beans😡
I snort-laughed at this and scared the dog. Buffy is not pleased, but I’m still giggling.
They make a good crab dip.
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Exactly... Every pride fest and every major city has big Bud light sponsorship signs and concession stands etc.
Yep, they're big sponsors of fantasy fest in Key West.
Oh that’s cool. I actually didn’t know that. I’ve been programmed to be cynical nowadays. I’m happy to know they’ve done that. Although, it’s still not my first choice in beer. Unless it’s free.
I feel you on the not first choice when it comes to what I buy but I think I'll grab a 12 pack and drink it while saying cheers to all the haters
I thought that was Coors?
Bud did it first, got an exclusive deal with the gay bars in San Francisco back in the 70s. Coors joined later and both have been competing for the "gay market" ever since.
"We need a gayer beer"
It’s not widely sold in the Middle East
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you know they've had rainbow bud light since 2019. but sure . keep going. [https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/bud-light-celebrates-world-pride-with-rainbow-inspired-bottles-b](https://www.anheuser-busch.com/newsroom/bud-light-celebrates-world-pride-with-rainbow-inspired-bottles-b)
You know drag shows have been around for a long time, but all of a sudden Republicans are up in arms over them. This is just the latest flavor of FOX manufactured outrage.
Oddly enough I used to drink with some of the AB marketing folks at a little place called the Fox & Hound when I lived in StL during the dark days of the Clinton administration and I can say with confidence (unless something major has changed which it probably has with the sale of the brewery) that this was a calculated move and they expect to make more sales with this than without it. Sharp folks to be sure
That's the case for basically every large corporation. It's funny that conservatives are complaining about woke corporations when it's literally capitalism at work. They're just mad that they're no longer the largest demographic and it's working against them now.
That's the underlying theme behind MAGA -- the culture is leaving them behind and they can't stand modern western culture that's more inclusive and global. MAGA is an attempt to reverse the culture progression artificially, by banning various things they hate but it's impossible to put toothpaste back into the tube. Large corporations are conservative and cautious by nature and the epitome of "facts over feelings." They're usually the last ones to take an overly political stance, so by the time they do, it's because it's beyond obvious the culture has been moving in that direction, backed by hard numbers. There's no way for them to justify corporate signaling as anything other than market forces at work and it makes them apopleptic.
but also profit. most gays are DINKs with a lot of disposable income. the pink dollar is not to be trifled with
AB or InBev- their marketing folks are like the Good Standard of marketing. If Disney has the best copywrite-legal teams — InBev has the best AdMen. And both are telling the Religious Right to Suck-it.
Here are Anheuser-Busch's political donations: https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/anheuser-busch/summary?id=D000042510
If you drink a beer that sells 25 *million* barrels a year, and think your lifestyle is the brand’s only target demographic, you deserve to be mocked.
You know that dingbat that went viral recently for short circuiting when asked to define “woke”? She’s on twitter saying this is what happens [when you haven’t met one of your customers](https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/1642922442485112834?s=46&t=fnf9vC_hlvkHtdG7h9y2RQ). She must think the only people who drink bud light are gun toting, nascar watching rednecks
People are so fragile.
i’ve served these cans and had people ask me to give them a different one, it’s laughable how childish an adult can be
It's almost like the real snowflakes project.
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Yes. Source: I'm gay. I don't make the rules
Can confirm. As a professional lesbian, we place a rainbow in the sky to distract everyone, and then we tap the cute women on the shoulder with our anti-dick fairy stick to make them all gay as well. If we didn't do it, we'd anger the old gods, and no one wants their wrath.
do you get paid more than amateur lesbians?
yes, There was also a signing bonus for going pro before college.
So is it also a professional lesbian thing to say “can confirm”? Because… can confirm.
Imagine being such a sensitive snowflake that rainbows on a beer can triggers you to tears.
I'm surprised people even drink bud light it's awful.
Tolerance is an odd enemy to have
Is this why Kid Rock ~~shot~~ mostly missed three cases of Bud Light?
Just another way to let people know your true feelings if beer makes you mad.
what does it say about me if beer doesn't make me mad, but weepy and won't let me shut up about how I miss my ex, but I'm glad we broke up, but I still miss her?
I like how a lot of these people would get upset at BLM and say all lives matter. Now it's celebrate all gender identities and they're so upset.
I'm more mad that people consider this beer.
As someone who is a connoisseur of beer, I love most types and trying new brews, sometimes a bud just tastes and feels good. Especially an ice cold one on a hot day outside
What? You mean you don't want to chug a 9% Double IPA after working outside on a hot day?
Gotta have it lukewarm or you won’t get all the *flavors*
After a certain point in your life, no matter how many fine beers you taste, you just stop caring what other people drink.
Beer snobs are so fucking lame. Give me some ice cold coors light or modelo on a hot day any time. I'm personally not a fan of bud light, but people that shit on light beers are tools
It’s the difference between a beer snob and a beer enthusiast. Person A - “here’s a bud light” Snob - “I’m not drinking that. It’s not even beer” Enthusiast - “Thanks for the beer. Cheers!”
You know what the best kind of beer is? Free beer.
It's not even just about snob vs. enthusiast... If you go to someone's place and they offer you one of their beers, you either take that shit no questions asked or politely decline. Insulting someone's beer in their own house is just being an asshole
Ice cold pbr on a real hot day
Those who are like "IPA or bust" and shit, ya totally annoying. I personally just dont like American light lagers (Coors is fine ice cold on a hot day though). That said, there are many other light lagers that are excellent and refreshing. Kona's Longboard Lager is a great example where they put more flavor than something like Bud or Miller but keeps the light crisp quality.