Q and I hit up the Beer on the Bridge tasting yesterday. Scheduled to take place from 4pm to 7pm, it was to consist of 44 tents and over 150 varieties of beer. In reality it had 37 tents (and 9 of those were for t-shirts or food, not beer) 121 varieties. Good enough, but still not quite as advertised. Things were going along swimmingly, for a while. The weather was fantastic, and there was a really nice crowd turnout. Then, well…let’s hear our exact words:
Yup, by 5:30pm the place had completely run dry. The event coordinators are lucky that there wasn’t a riot. We were there around 4, so we did at least get a little bit of a chance to sample, but what if you had bought a ticket in advance ($25) and showed up around 5 or 5:30? I’d be right pissed, let me just tell you. As it was I was a little pissed off, but in a way it was almost an expected outcome. People in Chattanooga half-ass everything, so why not this?
Here is a peek at the turnout:
And here is the sight they were greeted with:
I think Q said it best in the video above: Jackasses.
The first time in history, steel was melted by fire …it is physically impossible.
Just how the hell does Rosie think all of the steel in the world gets put into these magical shapes? For that matter, how in the hell does she think we MAKE steel? Rosie, have a look at the periodic table, do you see steel? No, you don’t. It has to be made. With a process that is fairly dependent on heat or FIRE! Does she think we just dig pre-formed steel girders out of the frickin’ ground?!?
All of that is really besides the point anyway (I just wanted to shout a bit.) She is starting off with a false premise by using the term melt. Yes, it takes great amounts of heat to melt steel, but the steel didn’t have to melt to become unstable, it just had to get hot.
My wettest dream would be for a physicist to show up and give her a verbal bitchslap on live TV. While she was tied to a chair with duct tape over her mouth so she was forced to let him talk. Popular Mechanics has already posted a rebuttal, but I want someone to get in her face and just destroy her notions of “beyond ignorant” or “physically impossible” and explain to her just why none of it “defies reason” at all. Not that any of it would matter in the long run. People like her would rather be loud than right.
I wish the damn building would have fallen on Rosie. At least then we would have something positive to take away from the tragedy of the WTC attacks.