Tim McDonald: The description is a bit misleading really. It's quite similar to the Leffe. The cat's adorable
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Tim McDonald is drinking a Bourgogne des Flandres Brune / Bruin by Brewery John Martin & Brewery Timmermans at Untappd at Home
I didn't think I'd like this, but it's actually very pleasant. The picture is of a local cat I've named Mochi
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Peter McDonald: Sounds like a standard Flanders ale then, which would be very pleasant. Is the cat friendly? There’s a very handsome black cat who lives 2 doors from me but unfortunately, I haven’t been able to make friends with him/her
Tim McDonald: Yes. They were on our porch and they came into the house and had a look around and sat on my lap for a bit. It turns out they belong to somebody on Stratford Street across the crossroads, but are well known around the area.
Peter McDonald: Lucky you! Just don’t have the cat in, just before you go to Hooky and see TInTin
Peter McDonald: Are there 2 cats?
Tim McDonald: Only this one, though I see the neighbours extremely fluffy one in our garden sometimes
Peter McDonald: Antibiotics are a tricky subject because over prescription by doctors & misuse in agriculture have raised resistance levels amongst bacteria. What we need now are new antibiotics & it will be the desire for profit that drives companies to create them
Peter McDonald: It’s a mad world but that’s how things have and will probably continue to work; for better and worse, it’s capitalism that seems to come up with solutions to problems, based on a mixture of a desire for a better world but backed by a profit motive
Tim McDonald: I just said that they've stopped making them precisely because they aren't profitable. And scientists create them, not companies. Capitalists are just parasitic middle men.
Tim McDonald: Scientists don't create for the profit motive, but out of a mixture of societal necessity and their own curiosity. The need for profit and the capitalist ring fencing of funds has the opposite effect on innovation.
Tim McDonald: This hasn't always been the case by any means and capitalism had been a source of progress in the nineteenth and arguably some of the twentieth century, but those days are long gone.
Peter McDonald: New families of antibiotics will be enormously profitable if they are not subject to the resistance constraints of current varieties & while scientists do create, companies often fund either directly or through grants to universities
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