iPod More Popular Than Beer? 258
prostoalex writes "Whenever someone says college students, the first thing that comes to mind is drinking beer, right? Wrong, says new research by Student Monitor, which claims than in 2006 73% of students it surveyed said iPods were in, while beer drinking and Facebook.com fought for the second place with 71% of popular votes."
Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
Story is about american students. Summary headline should read:
Apple: iPod more popular than flavourless brown fizzy drinks.
(I'll leave the facebook==beer popularity jokes to others:)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
American beer is like sex in a canoe, its fucking close to water.
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Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:4, Informative)
There are plenty of very good (and close mainstream, pun intended)
beers from the US these days. Avery, New Belgium, and Victory breweries
are some of my favorites. (beware the Golden Monkey)
Of course, most of those brew English or Belgium style,
*shudder*so props to the originating countries for showing the way.
I just wish I could convert more of my 'NASCAR' type friends
from 'Bud' and the 'Silver Bullet'. When they come over and peruse
my fridge full of tasty, bottled treats they give a blank look
and whine: but where is the Coors?
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Then again, I'm very near the aforementioned Portland, OR. (That's Oregon, for the joker with the followup.)
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They are available...but Lagers still rule. (Score:3, Informative)
Fancy brews are no good on a hot day at the track. (Score:2)
I have a weakness for the floral hops in Magic Hat brews, although it seems that they use them indescriminately and some styles would benefit from a different type.
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:2)
Given that beer from those megabreweries is generally shit, one could very realistically say that American beer is indeed fucking close to water.
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Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:3, Funny)
Easy mistake.
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:3, Insightful)
I mean iPod isn't just a 1 time purchase thing, it's the ongoing usage. If I purchase a bunch of beer, but because it's to accomodate my guests that I hang out every week, it doesn't mean I'm into beer.
Just thought it was something to think about.
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:2)
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I think the process is get a european beer, drink beer, urinate into bottle, lable as American beer.
*Ducks away from American Mods, making sure not to spill his Newcastle Brown*
bud is the #1 beer in Ireland (Score:2)
Bud is the #1 pacakged beer in Ireland.
http://www.checkout.ie/MarketProfile.asp?ID=2 [checkout.ie]
Beer snobbery knows no bounds. Projecting your opinions on an entire continent just to bolster how you feel about something. Astounding.
Re:bud is the #1 beer in Ireland (Score:3, Informative)
Uhhm, Budweiser [wikipedia.org] or Budweiser [wikipedia.org]? Because, you know, the latter comes from Budweis, Czechia, and is indeed quite popular in Europe, though it has nothing to do with the American one (different company, entirely different beers), but both sold under the same name.
Read this:
Re:bud is the #1 beer in Ireland (Score:2)
Bud (Score:2)
Bud is usually sold under the name "Bud", due to the unclear ownership of the other trademark.
And in my post I said "Bud", I meant "Bud".
No one would confuse the sales of Bud with Budvar. Even in Europe, Bud outsells Budvar by many orders of magnitude.
Re:bud is the #1 beer in Ireland (Score:2)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:2)
Canadian beer is the best, just stay away from Molson or Labatt's.
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Why are you calling Standard American Lager [bjcp.org] brown? It's yellow.
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bzzzzzzzzzt! (Score:5, Informative)
Or they have become popular because they are damn convenient. I have plenty of knowledge of MP3 players, and the software for most of them sucks balls. The next option is using an MP3 player that you can totally ignore the software, but I have a very large music collection and prefer the automation of transferring songs. For cataloging music iTunes is an excellent program, and having an MP3 player that links up to it is a great bonus. Now on many grounds the iPod is not the best player (in some cases far from it) but the iPod definitely isn't in the suck category.
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Hmm, I don't know where you get your translations from, but we call it 'peanut butter' and a 'moving van' is known as 'removal van'.
Not just college students (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Not just college students (Score:2, Funny)
You're having a laugh! Twenty five people in your car using Apple products? Did you have four elephants in the boot running Windows laptops, as well?
Re:Not just college students (Score:2)
I just got back from an African Safari. The close proximity with nature is amazing. Why, on my first day I got out of bed and shot an elephant in my pajamas. How the elephant got in my pajamas I will never know!
(No, the elephant was not listening to my iPod. Apparently they don't like the earbuds either.)
Go away, you're not 21 (Score:4, Insightful)
For one thing, beer is never going to be popular with more than 37 percent of law-abiding college students in the United States, where the legal age for possessing an alcoholic beverage is somewhere in the junior year. With an iPod, on the other hand, any college student in the United States can rip CDs and buy DRM'd tracks from iTMS.
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:5, Funny)
Pfft. Those two guys are a little creepy anyway.
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:5, Funny)
Individually, I understand every word in that snippet.
But together.... just not parsing.
Good lord, have you been to college? (Score:5, Interesting)
I was at one of those schools in a state where the drinking age was 21. What I can tell you is it's easier to get beer than a nice glass of ice water!
People are used to easily availiable beer starting in high school!
Re:Good lord, have you been to college? (Score:2)
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:2)
That's why I love Europe (Score:2)
Living in Europe, I really can't understand this 21 thingy. Here, we can drink beer and wine starting from 16, and harder stuff starting from 18.
Same goes for cigarettes, starts with 16 here. But hey, if you're younger, then there's always a vending machine near you which can't check IDs.
Oh, those were the days, sweet memories and all (or sometimes no memories at all...).
Re:Go away, you're not 21 (Score:2)
Sir, you exclude all those alcoholics who spend three years as a freshman. For shame. ;)
Stupid kids. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stupid kids. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Stupid kids. (Score:2)
In other news... (Score:4, Insightful)
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Re:In other news... (Score:2)
And for the record, a sandwich pretty much implies two guys. That's not what most guys picture when they think of threesomes.
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
Not at all. That's only a tiny fraction of my quota. Time to get cracking!
No it doesn't. Though, you couldn't tell from the dictionary [reference.com]; "She was sandwiched in her airplane seat between two fat men" ... But seriously, a man can definitely be the filling in a sandwich, it's just not as much activity for th
Re:In other news... (Score:2)
A new phrase. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:A new phrase. (Score:2)
Re:A new phrase. (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it includes free spam [freeipod.com]?
Tomarrows headline: (Score:5, Funny)
Oh crap! (Score:4, Funny)
I just bought an iPod! THE HUMANITY! Beer, I miss thee already!
(heh)
Re:Oh crap! (Score:2)
Age factor? (Score:4, Insightful)
Barring underage drinking, it is more likely than not that students over 18 years would vote for beer, while iPod's would appeal to the younger agegroup as well. Infact early teenagers seem to be the target of their marketing campaigns, and people who're more likely to vote iPod over alcoholic beverages.
Given the fact that most students in the country comprise of the 0-18 age-group, and a minority in the 19 and over age group, the results aren't surprising, and infact skewed.
Re:Age factor? (Score:2)
Again, most of which can't legally drink, but a lot less of a percentage than your post would indicate.
Re:Age factor? (Score:2)
I thought collage was like uni... wouldn't that mean that people would go at 18 and be there untill 21? Also, because they can't legally drink then the "ooh... beer" thing wouldn't be there. besides did they ask if I would rather have one beer or an iPod (because I'd take the iPod) or was it whether you could never have one... because then I'd have to protect the beer...
Well, I say I'd take the beer; it didn't say which
Age not a factor (Score:2)
If anything I would expect the 18-year olds to vote a bit more heavily FOR beer, because it is a "forbidden pleasure" still. By 21 it's lost some of the lustre.
Re:Age factor? (Score:2)
Or, for those of us who didn't drink, a week of nonstop entertainment!
Statistics (Score:5, Insightful)
Still whats better than jamming out with your iPod while surfinf Facebook and getting drunk?
Re:Statistics (Score:2, Funny)
Posting on slashdot while drinking beer, listening to an iPod and 'sufinf' facebook.
Re:Statistics (Score:2)
Heh, but not this one story! Unless you are REALLY drunk!!
Ha! (Score:2)
Frack, mine. Guess you have a point.
I dizagrea (Score:5, Funny)
huh? (Score:4, Funny)
You might want to check your math, you drunk facebooking iPod dancing freaks!
Im ny day we studied in college, humming along to an 8 track! And that's the way we liked it!
Re:huh? (Score:2)
Re:huh? (Score:2)
Flawed Survey (Score:5, Insightful)
Not everyone likes beer. The percentage is higher with college females. Why didn't they ask 'alcohol' instead of 'beer'?
Re:Flawed Survey (Score:4, Insightful)
Because they have an agenda.
SB
Re:Flawed Survey (Score:2, Funny)
cover all your bases (Score:2)
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Budweiser beats Barry White everytime (Score:5, Funny)
Once again the education system fails us.
Why, those young punks.... (Score:3, Insightful)
These kids nowadays with their $250 iPods... Sheesh!
What are they learning in college these days? (Score:2)
Fear... soon the metric will not be Olympic pools of beer drank by college students, but rather Gigabytes or Terabytes of data (music) purchased from ITUNES by college students!
Just another reaon to feel that college students these day are "lacking that quality education we enjoyed back in the day."
Something seems fishy... (Score:3, Funny)
Google Fight says iPod wins (Score:2)
Re:Google Fight says iPod wins (Score:2)
perhaps (Score:2)
Perhaps they avoid it because GoogleFight references are hack, even with the if-it's-a-meme-it's-a-funny /. crowd?
Not a very representative poll, now is it? (Score:2)
wha? huh? pass me another ipod.. burp.. (Score:2)
what's "in" (Score:2)
iPiss (Score:2)
hold them both and squeeze (Score:2)
Not a particularly accurate survey (Score:2)
Probably... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Who is prostoalex? (Score:2)
Re:Who is prostoalex? (Score:2)
Well, in fact prostatalex is the most active submitter on slashdot, with nearly as double as much posts than the number two. See [slashdot.org] for yourself.
Re:Who is prostoalex? (Score:2)
Re:Who is prostoalex? (Score:2)
Who cares really - he doesn't seem to be pimping anything like Roland or beatlesbeatles were, so *shrug*
Re:Nice (Score:5, Funny)
Depends on the Study (Score:2)
Re:Popular != Uptrend (Score:2)
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BYOi (Score:2)
You make a good point. Which party would you rather go to? One with a keg or one with everyone standing around listening to their own iPods? It would be like partying with a group of autistic people. (Note: I've given up drinking, but I like being at a gathering where people are enjoying themselves with alcohol.)
The phenomena you describe is quite interesting to me. I've noticed it not just with personal mp3 players, but also with cell phones and even automobiles. People are creating enc
Hey, nerds drink too! (Score:4, Interesting)