My Girlfriend is a Lush and I Have the Data to Prove It :)

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by k_abuhakmeh • 12 years ago

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eneifert• 12 years ago

Gotta love programmers and their abilities to solve awesome problems like this :)

jzelinskie• 12 years ago

I had never heard of Untappd. Thanks -- it looks awesome.

curiousHacker• 12 years ago

Untappd anniversary party tonight at The Pony Bar in the Upper East Side of NYC. 3h & 18 minutes remain.

prawn3• 12 years ago

Not sure if it's improved, but I found it a very slow process to add past beers (rather than only add them as I went) and abandoned it.

It did however beat my previous method which involved adding beer names to a list in the Notes app on my phone and then having limited idea of when and where I'd tasted it, or no search option to check whether something was already on the list.

jbranchaud• 12 years ago

Untappd is great. Another awesome beer tracking app is BeerTab (http://beertabapp.com/).

prawn3• 12 years ago

Is this what you mean by "a lush"?

"lush. one who becomes intoxicated after a few drinks and flirts with everyone." [Urban Dictionary]

It's not a term I've encountered before in Australia.

johngalt• 12 years ago

A lush is someone who overindulges in alcohol enthusiastically, but doesn't rise to the level of being an alcoholic. It is commonly used to tease someone about their drinking without calling them a drunk.

dllthomas• 12 years ago

I would say "may not rise to the level of being an alcoholic." I would not think it weird for the term "lush" to be applied to a (friendly/happy - as you say, "enthusiastic") alcoholic.

benrhughes• 12 years ago

I'm Australian and thought it was in fairly common usage.

gaelian• 12 years ago

Maybe it's a generational or geographical thing within our country? Because I'm also Australian and I've never heard "lush" used in conversation around me, with this meaning.

Although this thread has just explained a line from a song by a US artist that I've heard where "lush" is used in this context and it now makes more sense to me.

Curmudgel2• 12 years ago

Perhaps that's what the term means to the author. To others, it's a synonym for a drunkard or alcoholic and has nothing to do with flirting.

prawn3• 12 years ago

Maybe it's an affectionate way of saying boozehound, as you might needle a friend.

NamTaf• 12 years ago

I've encountered it once or twice here in AU. It is rare though.

cylinder• 12 years ago

It's rare here in the US as well. I find it an odd term.

maxerickson• 12 years ago

It's pretty common in the Midwest.

(I guess it wouldn't come up in a lot of conversations, but it isn't obscure)

jackhammer• 12 years ago

Seems a little bit weird that untapped is charging you $50 for downloading your own data.

cooper12• 12 years ago

It's also strange that he didn't use scraping since he knew it in the first place (Although I acknowledge that for some people time saved > money) and had to use it later anyway.

benzesandbetter• 12 years ago

Everyone needs a hobby.

kak9• 12 years ago

This reminds me of this research:) http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~jamieson/me/BeerMapper.html

My Girlfriend is a Lush and I Have the Data to Prove It :)

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