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jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
Sat Nov 17, 2012, 05:04 PM Nov 2012

Name something America needs

I will start: Low-piss beer. The problem with beer is, you go to a sports bar to have a pitcher with your friends and watch a game or a race, and the winning touchdown or the pass for the win always happens while you're in the men's room. We need a beer that doesn't do that to you.

It would help if it didn't also taste like piss.

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Name something America needs (Original Post) jmowreader Nov 2012 OP
An enema. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #1
careful Major Nikon Nov 2012 #5
If the name starts with "Lite" or "Light" - get something real instead. HopeHoops Nov 2012 #2
legalized pot and hemp nt TeamPooka Nov 2012 #3
A ding dong bluedave Nov 2012 #27
They already make that. It's called whiskey. Major Nikon Nov 2012 #4
A good five cent cigar. cloudbase Nov 2012 #6
"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling trof Nov 2012 #9
"The Betrothed" by Kipling Moondog Nov 2012 #16
Ah, I see by another post Moondog Nov 2012 #18
Honest politicians. DaniDubois Nov 2012 #7
+100 larocks4552s Nov 2012 #13
Solution: TVs at the urinals. trof Nov 2012 #8
A gizmo that disables a cellphone when you start a car's engine. trof Nov 2012 #10
I was gonna say 24 volts delivered through the phone or BlueTooth, but we can do it your way. Kennah Nov 2012 #20
Not overly difficult... jmowreader Nov 2012 #26
My favorite bar ever was in rural Pennsylvania -- a huge rambling building right next to... MiddleFingerMom Nov 2012 #11
Brains hobbit709 Nov 2012 #12
A Precode Pissless Pilsner. Special Prosciuto Nov 2012 #14
High speed rail. Odin2005 Nov 2012 #15
A seven-cent nickel Brother Buzz Nov 2012 #17
More cowbell! ohiosmith Nov 2012 #19
An energy policy that really addresses Climate Change Kennah Nov 2012 #21
America needs Health Care that is NOT contingent on Employment. Tuesday Afternoon Nov 2012 #22
a progressive collective mind. BlueMan Votes Nov 2012 #23
Calvin says it best Angleae Nov 2012 #24
... littlemissmartypants Nov 2012 #25
Sanity. LiberalEsto Nov 2012 #28

trof

(54,256 posts)
9. "A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:03 PM
Nov 2012

I have no idea what that means.

Moondog

(4,833 posts)
16. "The Betrothed" by Kipling
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 09:13 PM
Nov 2012

It makes more sense, like so many things, when read in context. The quote in question is at the end.

Here's the whole thing -

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2738/

trof

(54,256 posts)
10. A gizmo that disables a cellphone when you start a car's engine.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:08 PM
Nov 2012

I'm no electronics expert, but I know it could be done.
As long as the engine's running, the phone is useless.

jmowreader

(50,562 posts)
26. Not overly difficult...
Mon Nov 19, 2012, 06:38 AM
Nov 2012

Engines produce a lot of electrical noise. Phones have GPS, which can sense motion. Set up the phone so it won't work if it sees motion over 5 mph plus electrical noise strong enough to indicate you're in the car.

MiddleFingerMom

(25,163 posts)
11. My favorite bar ever was in rural Pennsylvania -- a huge rambling building right next to...
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 07:25 PM
Nov 2012

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... what HAD been the oldest covered bridge in Pennsylvania (the bridge was still there,
but the "covered" part had been gone for some time).
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This bar, probably back in the 30's or even farther back, used to be men only in the bar --
though women could sit in the parlor or the dining room. It had a big rectangular bad and
it used to have a slightly inclined small trough with running water that circled the bar.
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If you had to go, you simply stood up (or sat forward) and urinated in place. I think it also
served a dual purpose as a spitoon.
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This was not a common feature, but not an unheard of facility in a number of stag bars
from the 19th century on.
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The trough was "gone", though the bar DID have a footrest that might have been put
in place to conceal it.
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http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2010/04/thats_not_just_any_foot_rest_i.html
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Odin2005

(53,521 posts)
15. High speed rail.
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 09:10 PM
Nov 2012

I can't drive and I consider the lack of decent mass transit to get from Fargo to elsewhere is a disgrace.

Brother Buzz

(36,458 posts)
17. A seven-cent nickel
Sun Nov 18, 2012, 09:17 PM
Nov 2012

The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?…A seven-cent nickel. Yessiree, we’ve been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that’s pretty near a hundred years’ daylight saving. Now, why not give the seven-cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we could have an eight-cent nickel. Think what that would mean. You could go to a newsstand, buy a three-cent newspaper and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a lifetime!

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