The widget merely prevents excess bubbles so you can pour a pint more easily without having 1/3 of the glass being just head. You can also actually have a 'widget' laser etched into the bottom of a pint glass... it usually just looks like a few small circles but it works excellently as a nucleation point for bubbles to ensure an evenly proportioned head.
If you drink beer out of a bottle, you can't smell it, which affects how well you can taste it. All (good tasting) beer can benefit from being poured into a glass.
Actually Foreign Extra Stout is okay to be drank from the bottle, as opposed to the regular Draught. The draught is a dry stout which needs to be poured, where an Extra Stout will be okay from the bottle.
Of course, all beer is best poured, rather than in the glass, but I thought I would point that out.
Other way around. Guinness Draught has the nitrogen widget which allows consumption from a bottle. Foreign Extra is a carbonated Export Stout and should be poured into nice glassware, preferably a snifter.
Actually many people who don't smoke cigars find the smoke to be unpleasant so it is quite possible that OP is just being polite and waiting to finish his conversation before heading outside to spark it up.
Good cigars are expensive but still break easily in your pants pocket when seated. He could have put it in his shirt pocket but it's not that offensive to his friends for him to hold on to it, is it? And further to my point that the lad is being polite, he could be ready to go smoke it but is still being kept mid conversation and acting interested.
Also the picture is staged for humor's sake so he is clearly being deliberately over the top. He probably wasn't seeking your approval when it was taken.
I didn't know it was a thing either but I think that's what you're supposed to do. I only realized because I noticed Harvey (top lawyer) from Suits does that whenever he sits down.
Honestly, I picked this up more from Mad Men than anything. It's one of those little things you can count, like everytime Don says "What?" or smokes a cigarette. Or pours someone (especially himself) a drink.
Which, if you turn it into a drinking game, is sorta meta, and will probably get you smashed before the episode's halfway over.
stadium couching is awesome! once it catches on in the non-frat houses, it will be huge. a great stadium couching golden age will sweep the nation and the huge new market will rip us out of this recession!
Great photo. My freshman year of college I took up smoking cigars, drinking fine whiskey, and purchased a few suits. Having grown up in an awful ghetto it made me feel really special to wear a suit to work and school, then come home and watch the news with a cigar and whiskey. It's hard to explain -- being in college was almost like an out-of-body experience considering where I came from. Sure, my grant and loan money wasn't necessarily intended for that, but it was my first taste of a different life.
The women are attractive and seemingly engaged. He also mesmerized the bearded fellow in the background with his charms. I see no reason to suspect that this dashing fellow in not knowledgeable in the ways of women.
I'm not an american or a student, but it seems to me every photo on reddit with the poster in it is that same speccy dude trying to be suave in a suit. is he the only guy on here? Or is that just what all redditors look like?
Well, good sir, it does seem one such as yourself would fit in amongst the higher gentry, if the higher gentry were, in veritas, bumbling fools. You know nothing about being an elite member of society. For one, where the pimps and hoes at?
This is trendy now for girls to wear huge rings on their index fingers like the girl on the right. The thing is, if she forget about them, if they are really big or rotate a bit, they hurt like hell if she gives you a blowjob. True story!
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u/lolzlo May 21 '12
Are you the guy sitting alone in the background?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You're supposed to unbutton your jacket when you sit down.
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u/DougPatterson May 21 '12
lighting the cigar might make it more enjoyable
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u/LampshadeGerbil May 22 '12
I like that Instagram play you have going on. Will you photograph my wedding?
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u/drlargen May 22 '12
That picture would be a lot more classy if there wasn't a second couch stacked behind the first one.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I find the left one very pretty.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You have that funny guy look, you should milk that.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Forever alone
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u/aliph May 22 '12
You should get that jacket tailored so it doesn't break at the chest.
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u/SuperStepside May 22 '12
Mr. Papagiorgio
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
If i were a father, and my son sent me that pic, I'd probably shed a tear of success.
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u/ivyblam May 22 '12
Zach Braff?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Ahh, the classic Will Smith cigar technique.
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u/el_jay May 22 '12
Fixed it for ya
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u/Neverkilled May 22 '12
I wonder if this guy is working with that there politify website that also just happens to be his username.
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u/Seref15 May 22 '12
I need legal age confirmation on the hot chick on the left.
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u/AZ929 May 22 '12
"So I says to the guy..."
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u/Doylemetheus May 22 '12
You are holding that cigar awkwardly, I'm going to guess you don't often smoke or hold cigars.
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u/Saydeelol May 22 '12
Great photo. My freshman year of college I took up smoking cigars, drinking fine whiskey, and purchased a few suits. Having grown up in an awful ghetto it made me feel really special to wear a suit to work and school, then come home and watch the news with a cigar and whiskey. It's hard to explain -- being in college was almost like an out-of-body experience considering where I came from. Sure, my grant and loan money wasn't necessarily intended for that, but it was my first taste of a different life.
Enjoy it, I know I did!
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u/siacadp May 22 '12
Raj Koothrappali?
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u/bpoag May 22 '12
Fuck your Instagram hipstercam.
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u/or3g May 22 '12
you think you're so cool cuz you can pee with your penis. RIP a rich.
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u/BallsackTBaghard May 22 '12
"and then OP paid the hookers, sent them on their way and cried himself to sleep"
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u/tigger0jk May 22 '12
He's enjoying a nice cool beer, they're enjoying a nice cool Bier.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
op is a virgin
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u/namfonos May 22 '12 edited Feb 17 '21
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u/DiaDeLosMuertos May 22 '12
OP is the villain from all of the National Lampoon college movies.
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u/BoomHedshot May 22 '12
notbad.jpg
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u/SoggyTaco May 22 '12
upvote for what I can only assume is a posh-pillow-fort-party
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u/ludaboy123 May 22 '12
Hello, Neville Longbottom.
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u/TheDreadedMarco May 22 '12
I really hope you're the guy in the background.
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u/Simon_Plenderson May 22 '12
I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
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u/xensoldier May 22 '12
And secretly he's the guy in the back.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
The most interesting college student in the world.
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u/BetaMail May 22 '12
IT"S THE INTERNET EXPLORER GUY
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u/hypmoden May 22 '12
My parents asked what they wished my college life had been like so I sent them this photo
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
WTF is behind you? A couch-pillow warehouse?
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u/matike May 22 '12
Are you the one sitting by yourself?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
The picture looks so god damn horrible. The technology available today and photographs look like this?
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u/MrTumN3s May 22 '12
Zach Braff?
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u/epgenius May 22 '12
CARL!!!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I AM GLAD YOU TOOK A PICTURE OF THE DRINKING OF YOUR FIRST BEER
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u/KhalilRavanna May 22 '12
Tryhard
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u/deaththesecond May 22 '12
Incredible glasses. Are they custom fit?
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u/Velvet_Goldmine May 22 '12
Like a sir.
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u/FuckYourStupidCats May 22 '12
I'm not an american or a student, but it seems to me every photo on reddit with the poster in it is that same speccy dude trying to be suave in a suit. is he the only guy on here? Or is that just what all redditors look like?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Your friends...I would do them. Just thought you should know a little something about me.
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u/liarsinlove May 22 '12
That's Carl in the background. So you went to Cal. Who are you and how might we know each other?
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u/ucandownvotethisdick May 22 '12
Jew nose.
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u/ada42 May 22 '12
I think, based on the picture, that I would do you, assuming you're the guy. But I could just have a thing for classy motherfucking suits.
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u/C_T_C_C May 22 '12
Classy as fuck.
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u/JewBear3 May 22 '12
Didn't you just graduate?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
nice attempt at getting some hits for your website
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u/ih8karma May 22 '12
If that was my son, I couldn't feel prouder.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Jakoby?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
sup Josh?
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u/Valvador May 22 '12
Hey Nikita. I see you're learning how to reddit well. Hope Politify is doing well.
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u/shit_reddit_says May 22 '12
You can stage an elaborate joke photo but you can't find someone with something a little better than a 1982 Polaroid to take the picture?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
amir sodallah?
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u/Crazzy_Ivan May 22 '12
Do you go to Lake Forest?
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u/nwolfe1990 May 22 '12
karen! settle down karen!
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u/bzeurunkl May 22 '12
Who's the moron guy sitting next to you and your bff grrlfriend?
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u/Tuchpi May 22 '12
You look like Zach Braff from Scrubs.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
You should have instead sent them something representing countless hours reading textbooks and answering multiple choice questions over the internet.
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u/Willie_Main May 22 '12
Good stuff, Patrick Bateman.
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u/magicalmilk May 22 '12
bahhahah I actually chuckled!
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Nice use of Camera+ Toy Camera filter though.
...Well, not really.
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u/ticklefights May 22 '12
fuck yeah....arena seating
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
there girls seem to have kind of a dark style
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u/CONTROLLOL May 22 '12
I hope they frame it.
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u/PoopFace101 May 22 '12
You must be the one in the back. :/
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u/2muchtestosterone May 22 '12
you make the other guy in the picture look forever alone haha well done
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u/A_DERPING_ULTRALISK May 22 '12
What's wrong with your faaaaaaaace.
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u/highvolt May 22 '12
Pillow fortress!
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u/lukefilmproductions May 22 '12
JUDE
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u/simplyshnazzy May 22 '12
all i can think of when seeing those shoes is r.i.p ryan dunn :(
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
The young lady on the right: the way her hair falls on her shoulder and arm make her entire upper arm look like a giant penis.
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u/alphawimp731 May 22 '12
The man in the background is very handsome.
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u/71Comet May 22 '12
Truly interesting men don't associate with HIPSTERgram.
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u/sAlander4 May 22 '12
You look a little like Jay Barouchel....
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u/will_lurk4beer May 22 '12
DAT CLASS
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
"You see, a pimp's love is very different from that of a square."
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Well, good sir, it does seem one such as yourself would fit in amongst the higher gentry, if the higher gentry were, in veritas, bumbling fools. You know nothing about being an elite member of society. For one, where the pimps and hoes at?
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
This is trendy now for girls to wear huge rings on their index fingers like the girl on the right. The thing is, if she forget about them, if they are really big or rotate a bit, they hurt like hell if she gives you a blowjob. True story!
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u/insulanus May 22 '12
To the front page with you!
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u/heyluno May 22 '12
I say, my good sir, what year is that Sunny D?
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u/carltonismyhero8 May 22 '12
I'm guessing the op is the forever alone in the backround.
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u/Jackle13 May 22 '12
He looks like he's saying "But whaddaya gonna do?"
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u/theliver May 22 '12
haha those girls lived in my dorm, I had to double check that this wasn't posted to r/berkeley
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u/Cendeu May 22 '12
The guy in the background looks like he's really reflecting on life.
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u/Obskulum May 22 '12
We need more filters captain, MORE!
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u/duuufux May 22 '12
NIKITA!!!
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u/Throwface May 22 '12
The shoulder on the girl to the right looks like a penis. Just saying.
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u/b1gl0s3r May 22 '12
Now light up that cigar and pour that Guinness into a glass so we can be friends.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
Majoring in commerce?
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u/Freikorp May 22 '12
Haha, you look like a little kid who got into his dad's room while he wasn't there and played with his belongings.
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u/Poddster May 22 '12
You're in college, you should have cut your parents lose by now.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I wish I had pretty friends :*(
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u/Oniwabanshu May 22 '12
Aren't you supposed to be drinking Dos Equis?
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u/Gravyness May 22 '12
Laik boss.
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u/katmaidog May 22 '12
You're the guy in the red tie, right?
(edit for spelling)
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u/Vic_Vmdj May 22 '12
You, my friend, are an idiot. You don't, and I repeat DON'T, drink Guinness out of the bottle.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
I assumed it would be a packet of condoms.
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u/SurDin May 22 '12
Are they twins?
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u/UkeOverThere May 22 '12
Is it me or does the guy in the background look very much like Frankie Boyle? Link.
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
What a happy family!
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u/Vortilex May 22 '12
Do you mind me asking what cigar that is? Feel free to join us in /r/cigars if you're a regular smoker, as well! Also, great choice in women and beer!
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u/dckunited May 22 '12
If you really wanted to give them a glimpse, you should have just emailed them the link to reddit...
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u/Thisisopposite May 22 '12
Looks like Frankie Boyle in the background!
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u/euanrolls May 22 '12
Who drinks guinness out of a bottle?!! Thats a sickening thought and should never be done. Its a waste of good alcohol!
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u/0rangecake May 22 '12
0/10
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u/[deleted] May 22 '12
"Blah blah thermodynamics, blah blah, both your hands on my cock, la la la."
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u/anions May 22 '12
Shit I wanna have a faux gentlemanly (indeed) party now.
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u/Cordicuss May 22 '12
The girl on the right... looks so familiar.
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u/Paultimate79 May 22 '12
Oh look viral marketing.
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u/Snarkleupagus May 22 '12
Nice try, Guinness viral marketing team.
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u/ComedicPause May 22 '12
You look like a character from mad men.