A HANDY GUIDE TO FUCKHEADEDNESS
1. Make a forceful statement for no real reason other than you are fond of the sound of your own voice. Preferably an incorrect statement. It helps if you are talking about something you are ignorant of.
Beer isn't distilled at all, stupid analogy, fancy putting that on the front of the book2. When someone points out part of the substance of your error ("The quote doesn't suggest beer is distilled. It suggests whisky is distilled"), unfurl your full array of fuckheadedness:
* add another error to create confusion and to hear that sweet, sweet roar of your own blustery gobshite:
Whisky isn't twice distilled either, it is generally continuously distilled until as much of the ethanol as possible is taken out of the distilling liquid. * create the illusion you know what you're talking about.
I was at Laphroig a year ago and saw the process. Some Whiskey is double or triple distilled but it doesn't make it better so I don't understand that at all. * if you can - and let's face it, you can - be pretentious.
I'll stick with Nietzsche or Camus.* compound your initial error by demonstrating you really don't understand what you are talking about. Remember, be forceful in your stupidity.
Face it, it is a crap analogy. Whisky not beer I get but why bring distillation into it and confuse matters?3. When someone tries harder to point out your real error - and not get sucked in by your diversionary lies and bluster - ("For one thing, that quote on the cover is a blurb, not an aphorism, and for another, if you can't understand
the idea of the distillation of prose then I don't think it's worth discussing modern literature with you") - well, go straight back to step 2 and go in harder. Life is an online argument, after all, and the last one standing, shouting ill-informed shit, is plainly the winner.
And for your information Beer is distilled, it is how you make Whisky.
It helps if you completely ignore what others say -
It is just a rather confused metaphor because I imagine they realised just a simple whisky/beer analogy would be hackneyed so they tried to gussy it up and just made you think "what the fuck are they doing that for?". - and make up what they said instead. That's far easier to argue against and brings extra fuckhead points.
Goodness gracious me.