Comments by "H B" (@capitalb5889) on "Asianometry" channel.

  1. I saw a lot of that and then later looked up the real life Scottish lady. In the "asa-dora" she is presented almost as the Japanese ideal of an innocent Edwardian/ foreign/American lady, wearing dress that Japanese would be familiar with from Little House on the Prairie. In photos she is shown wearing the dress of a sophisticated, educated 1920s woman. It is funny how even recent history is altered to meet modern stereotypes.
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  2. I think it’s still quite easy to pick these up. Perhaps not the Trappist one, but the others are quite standard.
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  3.  @billykuan  of you're talking about Theakstons Old Peculiar, it is sold in Sainsbury's and Tesco. I think Lowenbrau lager is just in Tesco.
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  4. I went to San Francisco in about 2009 and found a really varied selection of beer compared to London, which was still stuck in a mass product lager phase. Within a couple of years that changed with loads of microbreweries opening up. The US really helped Britain rediscover beer. However, like in the US, a lot of the beers are overly hopped to cover a lack of real flavour.
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  5. Absolutely. There is hardly a pub in the country that is worth more as a pub than as flats. Selling pubs to convert to flats is now part of their strategy.
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