Poll: Stouts or Porters?

Is this poll for real?

 

Stouts are "stout porters", so by inference, porters are weak stouts.

 

No, we're in the matrix. Nothing is real.

 

where is the "they are the same" option?

 

Some people call those Black IPAs

 

My mind is free.

 

I thought the correct reply is:
"...And nothing to get hung about..."

 

I'd like to know who changed their vote after reading all the comments and which one comment did it.

 

I did, completely forgot about Founders Porter which is the only one I buy, unless I fina a barrel aged porter.

 

Matrix, not odd Liverpudlian orphanages.

 

That film gave me a bad case of airsickness.
(Being on a plane contributed to that, I suppose, since it happens regardless of the movie).

 

Precisely.

So an imperial stout is a stout stout while a porter is a session stout unless its branded as an imperial porter in which case it may be either a stout or stout stout especially in the case of Baltic porters, imperial Baltic session stouts aside....

 

Ten fidy runs at 100 ibu and is certainly not hoppy

 

My new catchphrase is "The more complicated the better"
Feel free to use it as your catchphrase too!

 

Complicated, or complex? I don't mind my beer being complex, but complicated is just too much work.

 

I like both. But Stout for sure.

I think it's easy to tell the difference between the 2.

 

My preference is for stout porter.

 

I'm friends with him on Untappd...he's pretty active still, however his scathing analysis of our vastly inferior US-beer scene seems to have waned. He's the hero we need.

EDIT: Oh, and my answer is Stout Porter.

 

I prefer stouts if we're talking about huge imperial stouts like Ten Fidy; if we're talking about lower abv ~6% dark beer I tend to prefer porters, e.g. Bell's Porter. If that makes any sense.

Or I could just say I like them both.