Nothing whatsoever to do with writing, but…

[gunhilltrain]

OK - but you made your comment relying to me taking about Yuengling, not Rolling Rock. That’s why I was super confused.

Em

Now I have to go through a hundred posts of this thread! It appears that Lifestyle66 first mentioned Rolling Rock, and in post #65 I used his reference as a pretext to promote my own story (plus the story is very dependent on Pennsylvania, so I felt no guilt in doing that). Then in post #67 you wrote, "Yuengling is much, much nicer." That's the way it seems to to me up to that point. Maybe I said something else later.

 

[Lifestyle66]

The beer mentioned is Rolling Rock. Even though it's in the year 2114 on another solar system, the product is still around. The android even asks him for a bottle, and he gives it to her.

He looked at his bottle and said, "Rolling Rock, brewed in Latrobe; a product of Pennsylvania like I am. I wonder if they kickback something to Penn-Doc [the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections], that's all I ever get. Can't complain too much I guess, it's not like they gave any out back on Earth."

You might want to re-think that Rolling Rock reference. Their former brewery in Latrobe, Pa was making merely fruit juice (last I heard when visiting family there.)

I know, ... the Rolling Rock reference is showing my age, too.

 

[gunhilltrain]

You might want to re-think that Rolling Rock reference. Their former brewery in Latrobe, Pa was making merely fruit juice (last I heard when visiting family there.)

I know, ... the Rolling Rock reference is showing my age, too.

The story was posted in 2019 and now I have to correct it?! I looked at their site,and it's not very specific about what's going in in Latrobe right now. Maybe by 2114 they moved back.

 

[Lifestyle66]

The story was posted in 2019 and now I have to correct it?! I looked at their site,and it's not very specific about what's going in in Latrobe right now. Maybe by 2114 they moved back.

WHO in their right F-ing mind moves BACK to that area any more?

Arnold Palmer was the last one, back when the steel mills were still growing. Mr. Rodgers even moved away from there.

"It's a beautiful day in some other neighborhood ... "

Edit: But then again, ... ninety years later, ... can we really say people are smarter? So, maybe a comeback for Rolling Rock in Latrobe is not a far reach.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Actually they do see the benefits; it's how they get decent roads. They just choose to take their benefits for granted and focus on what other regions need that they don't, and thus see as unimportant. Meanwhile, much of their infrastructure continues to be paid for by tax revenues collected from urban interests while these "country folk" don't contribute much, if anything, to urban needs like mass transportation, such as the T in Boston that alohadave mentioned.

While we're here, don't forget trade policy. The effects of agricultural protectionism are less obvious than those of taxation and infrastructure spending, but it is very much a transfer of value from urban to rural populations, with a net loss in value.

 

[gunhilltrain]

WHO in their right F-ing mind moves BACK to that area any more?

Arnold Palmer was the last one, back when the steel mills were still growing. Mr. Rodgers even moved away from there.

"It's a beautiful day in some other neighborhood ... "

Edit: But then again, ... ninety years later, ... can we really say people are smarter? So, maybe a comeback for Rolling Rock in Latrobe is not a far reach.

You seem to have some - skepticsm, grudge? - about Latrobe. I think I went through there once in a bus in the middle of the night. Anyway, I'm definitely not going to repost the story, that's for sure.

Latrobe? I live in THE BRONX!

 

[gunhilltrain]

While we're here, don't forget trade policy. The effects of agricultural protectionism are less obvious than those of taxation and infrastructure spending, but it is very much a transfer of value from urban to rural populations, with a net loss in value.

We're going to get Emily upset if this thread drifts any further.

 

[TxRad]

Should I throw out the anchor?

 

[Bramblethorn]

We're going to get Emily upset if this thread drifts any further.

something something cuttlefish subsidies and technical restrictions on squid imports

 

[Bramblethorn]

WHO in their right F-ing mind moves BACK to that area any more?

Had me confused here, because there's a Latrobe Valley in Australia and that's exactly how a lot of people feel about it.

 

[Rustyoznail]

Had me confused here, because there's a Latrobe Valley in Australia and that's exactly how a lot of people feel about it.

The Latrobe Valley is a nice place - as long as you stay away from the bloody great holes in the ground and the unemployed bogans.

 

[Bramblethorn]

The Latrobe Valley is a nice place - as long as you stay away from the bloody great holes in the ground and the unemployed bogans.

What writer doesn't dream of living right next to the factory where paper is made?

 

[MrPixel]

What writer doesn't dream of living right next to the factory where paper is made?

Have you ever been around a paper mill? The stench is unbearable.

 

[Bramblethorn]

Have you ever been around a paper mill? The stench is unbearable.

I see my sarcastic tone of voice still needs some work.

(And, yes, used to live not far away from one. Fun times.)

 

[alohadave]

Have you ever been around a paper mill? The stench is unbearable.

I used to live miles from a paper mill and when the wind shifted, everyone knew.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I used to live miles from a paper mill and when the wind shifted, everyone knew.

Yet we all use and need paper, and it's got to be made somewhere. Just not in my backyard (NIMBY). Anyway, Emily is going to kill us for this thread drift/hijacking.

 

[djrip]

Yet we all use and need paper, and it's got to be made somewhere. Just not in my backyard (NIMBY). Anyway, Emily is going to kill us for this thread drift/hijacking.

Paper... you use that for smut, right?

 

[gunhilltrain]

Paper... you use that for smut, right?

You could, but Literotica is entirely digital. Even writing my stories is entirely digital. Besides, Lit is not smut, it's erotica.

 

[MillieDynamite]

You could, but Literotica is entirely digital. Even writing my stories is entirely digital. Besides, Lit is not smut, it's erotica.

Or at least erotic smut!

 

[gunhilltrain]

Or at least erotic smut!

As TxRad said above, it may be time to throw out the anchor. But I have unwittingly seen a bit of un-erotic smut. It's not pretty.

 

[TxRad]

As TxRad said above, it may be time to throw out the anchor. But I have unwittingly seen a bit of un-erotic smut. It's not pretty.

That's the reason Laurel banned scat.

 

[onehitwanda]

That's the reason Laurel banned scat.

Eeuw.

 

[TxRad]

Eeuw.

Hey! You're the one who brought it up, in more ways than one.

 

[ElectricBlue]

That's the reason Laurel banned scat.

Not according to the very bizarre follower i got one day - lesbian shit play, apparently, is a (fairly small) sub genre. Who knew?

It was my own fault. I'd recounted a hot little piece of published erotica in an anthology I'd bought decades ago, where a cute girl punches out a poo into a handkerchief, amongst other goings on. My version went off into a diversion (Gunhill thread hijack style) about scat girl porn, with Russian girls taking a shit in the forest. It's a thing, plenty of videos. Anyhow, the story got faved, so I did what I always do, and checked the follower out.

Well. As I say, who knew? She had a dozen or so authors she followed, and twenty or thirty favourite stories, all with the same theme, lesbian scat. My bizarre curiosity stopped with a story about two girls in a barrel. It was nothing like that scene from The Hobbit.

 

[MelissaBaby]

Oh. Hang on, I know this! Pennsylvania has a town called Intercourse in it, doesn't it?

We were driving from Detroit to Chicago on I-94, and in western Michigan, I saw a sign that read "Climax, 1 Mile."

I said, Jesus, they need to give me more time.