Whether you succeed or not, we will likely both enjoy the disputation as beer follows beer. The beer will be as ashes in our mouths, and we will have no more than two. There is none. But more than the difference itself, it's the failure to note the nature of the difference that leads to mischief and shattered careers. And yet by convention some response is required.
Some response is required.
I've been after this grail for some time now and must confess myself as much at a loss for useful gambits as ever. What I have got though is a little stratagem that may at least keep such situations from spiraling out of control. First, borrowing from Soviet military tactics, you must determine what category of situation it is that you find yourself in. This information may be found in the nature of your immediate reaction. What you are experiencing is merely a difference of taste and you may feel free to have it out in whatever manner best suits your personal lifestyle choices.