iPod More Popular Than Beer?

prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."

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Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt!

[Sponge Bath]

...its fucking close to water

There are plenty of very good (and close mainstream, pun intended)
beers from the US these days. Avery, New Belgium, and Victory breweries
are some of my favorites. (beware the Golden Monkey)

Of course, most of those brew English or Belgium style,
so props to the originating countries for showing the way.
I just wish I could convert more of my 'NASCAR' type friends
from 'Bud' and the 'Silver Bullet'. When they come over and peruse
my fridge full of tasty, bottled treats they give a blank look
and whine: but where is the Coors?

*shudder*

Re:bud is the #1 beer in Ireland

[dorkygeek]

Uhhm, Budweiser or Budweiser? Because, you know, the latter comes from Budweis, Czechia, and is indeed quite popular in Europe, though it has nothing to do with the American one (different company, entirely different beers), but both sold under the same name.

Read this:

In many countries, the beer produced by Budjovický Budvar is the only beer that may be sold as "Budweiser" - in those countries, the American Budweiser is usually marketed as "Bud." Since both Budjovický Budvar and Anheuser-Busch have trademarks for the name "Budweiser", they have been party to many lawsuits in a number of countries. In some places where it competes with the American Budweiser it is marketed with the names Budvar and Budweiser Budvar. Budjovický Budvar recently started having limited distribution in the USA and Canada under the name Czechvar.

Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt!

[c_forq]

And iPod's also suck. Overrated electronic devices, becoming a fad because of people's lack of knowledge regarding mp3 download services/devices. I don't approve of corperations[sic] luring stray unknowledgable[sic] people in, and locking them down with their shit proprietary formats of mp4, and m4a.

Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.

They are available...but Lagers still rule.

[FatSean]

As far as imports go, Ales lose out to Lagers. There are a few, but for English imports stouts seem to have the upperhand. Germany has a majority share of the imported brews I find here in Connecticut. There are lots of European brews imported as well. Belgian trappist brews are quite popular as well. Alas, even in my favorite local beer super-store (Amity Discount Wine and Spirits) Canadian beer is sadly underrepresented. Only the major breweries are available, and while a decent drink, you miss some of the funky unique stuff that seems to flood in from Germany.

I need to go on a drinking vacation to Germany.