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A Pack of Kobolds posted:lol okay I'll just take my stupid seppo rear end down to the store and buy a dirty thirty of PBR for $19. The conversation is about beer, not whatever the gently caress blue ribbon is supposed to be.
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duck monster posted:The conversation is about beer, not whatever the gently caress blue ribbon is supposed to be. I think its actually made from racoon urine. Or possibly ferret piss.
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Jun 24, 2021 06:34
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Ohhh, it's Fosters.
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:lol okay I'll just take my stupid seppo rear end down to the store and buy a dirty thirty of PBR for $19. No wuckers mate, try not to get shot on the way
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Jun 24, 2021 07:00
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A Pack of Kobolds posted:lol okay I'll just take my stupid seppo rear end down to the store and buy a dirty thirty of PBR for $19. there's water in puddles and that's free, probably a better deal
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Jun 24, 2021 08:11
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duck monster posted:I still remember bitching to my friends when VB cartons first broke the $20 mark. At the time a "middie" (about half a pint, common in WA until about 15 years ago when preferences starting switching to pints) of beer was $2 and a jug $6 When did beer start getting expensive? I remember when I was 18 or 19 you could buy a six pack of Coopers for $15 and that was only a bit over a decade ago. I don't know when's the last time I saw a six pack for less than $20 unless it was on special or paid much less than $10 for a schooner.
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Jun 24, 2021 08:17
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This is why the real drunks go for wine, it's cheaper, tastier, and faster to get clobbered on, probly
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Jun 24, 2021 08:45
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:the first political party to build a nationally owned brewery designed to pump out 5 dollar schooners and 40 dollar cartons will remain in power until the end of days gently caress that, elect me and I'll do schooeys for $4 and slabs for $30
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Jun 24, 2021 08:55
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:gently caress that, elect me and I'll do schooeys for $4 and slabs for $30 Don't listen to this madman. They want to standardise beer sizing names to the ones from your rival state and force everyone to call sausage in bread "bogan hotdogs"
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Jun 24, 2021 08:58
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Ghost Leviathan posted:This is why the real drunks go for wine, it's cheaper, tastier, and faster to get clobbered on, probly Legit talk, I was a hardcore alcoholic earlier in my life, not too long ago. I would go through a couple hundred bucks a weekend at times, plus whatever I went through during the week. It was not nice. Wine is definitely cost efficient in terms of ABV/$ but you end up going so low in quality to maintain it that even as an alco I went back to cartons of whatever was on special. Yeah, you can get 5x$4 clearskins from Dano's but there's a good chance at least one is sulphur hosed or something, and being an alcoholic you better believe you'll choke that poo poo down anyway. At the end there was a local pub drive-through that did $40 (maybe?) cartons of Pointers, so we'd get a few every weekend and a few through the week. poo poo was expensive. And also not fun at all. I really hope no one here has to deal with that poo poo. I'm only just relearning, cautiously, to enjoy alcohol at all in small amounts. Alcohol is good and tasty and fun. Right til it isn't.
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Inceltown posted:Don't listen to this madman. They want to standardise beer sizing names to the ones from your rival state and force everyone to call sausage in bread "bogan hotdogs" Only a problem if that state is South Australia. They can't even get pints right. Anything smaller than a schooner (425 ml. gently caress you SA) should be abolished anyway.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:I mean, the last snake I saw was in 2019 5km from the Sydney CBD in my back courtyard but it was only a Red-Bellied Black and buggered off on me as soon as I got near it (I thought it was a hose so I didn't notice it until it moved) I live within spitting distance of the Melbourne CBD and although we never get snakes in our backyards there's a popular walking/cycling track along a creek that runs right through the suburb which frequently has snake sightings all the way through the warmer months. If there's a permanent source of water and a bit of scrub there's guaranteed to be snakes as well. duck monster posted:Not relevant to anything, but I had a dream a couple of nights ago about a movie called "Honey, I glassed the kids" staring Paul Hogan. That sounds pretty lovely and dumb ........ so it would have been a marked improvement on the films he actually did make recently which were extremely lovely and dumb.  Also it should come as no surprise to anyone but he's been a massive rear end in a top hat during the pandemic: https://www.news.com.au/entertainme...76fe10889117b07
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syntaxfunction posted:We have a job and we get it done, drat the expense. We're a nation of go getters, as long the the getting is loving hammered. Same deal for punching darts, paying $90 a pack or whatever the gently caress they cost these days
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I live within spitting distance of the Melbourne CBD and although we never get snakes in our backyards there's a popular walking/cycling track along a creek that runs right through the suburb which frequently has snake sightings all the way through the warmer months. If there's a permanent source of water and a bit of scrub there's guaranteed to be snakes as well. I used to see the odd tiger snake on the Merri creek trail
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Re: expensive beer. I am old enough to remember being outraged, outraged I tell you, when the pub next to Uni raised the prices so a pot of beer was more than $2. What? You expect me to pay more than one coin for the glass of beer I am drinking instead of going to my afternoon lecture? The scoundrels!
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syntaxfunction posted:Legit talk, I was a hardcore alcoholic earlier in my life, not too long ago. I would go through a couple hundred bucks a weekend at times, plus whatever I went through during the week. It was not nice. What shits me the most about my newfound and happy sobriety is the 0% 'liquors' that charge like they have an alcohol tax attached to them. Heaps Normal is a pretty amazing 0% beer, but after 2, it's like "What's the point?", beer isn't popular because it tastes nice. As my uncle, a career boozer who I've never seen actually acting drunk once confessed "I don't drink beer for the taste, it's the effect."
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gently caress it. My next big vacation is going to be Australia. I want to drink with shirtless bogans and mistake snakes for hoses.
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Jun 24, 2021 12:42
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I've not had a drink since October, I've been using a Sodastream with fruity cold teas It's a real nice soft drink that isn't too sweet but hits that spot for me
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Megabound posted:The best brewery in Brissie at the moment is Sea Legs imo. They are always on point. I paid a visit to Nomad Brewing Co on Sydney's northern beaches last time I was there, they had a good selection of their own brews including one made with water taken from Freshwater Beach. I promptly bought a handful of cans to bring back with me to America, handed them off to mates and told them I'd swam in the beer.
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Aerith Gainthborough posted:gently caress it. See you in 2028 when we finally let you plague-ridden hordes back into our oasis of good health gently caress you Sydney you’re the shittest city go away with your spicy cough
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Nam Taf posted:See you in 2028 when we finally let you plague-ridden hordes back into our oasis of good health 2028 im sleeping on your couch.
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BrigadierSensible posted:Re: expensive beer. When I was at Sydney uni back in 2010, you could get a schooner at the union bar for something like $3.50. Of course, I was a poor unemployed student so it didn't really help me that much.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Aussie kid flies across the country to visit her parents who she hasn't seen for 1.5 years due to the covid border lockdowns I'm glad it didn't go longer, it was their moment and that little bit already made me cry
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Malcolm Turnbeug posted:the first political party to build a nationally owned brewery designed to pump out 5 dollar schooners and 40 dollar cartons will remain in power until the end of days dan andrews sells chop chop out the back of his office in noble park 
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syntaxfunction posted:It just shows how dedicated Aussies are to getting shitfaced. Americans have dirt cheap alcohol and still complain about prices, cause they're prissy little bitches. I went to college with a guy from Oz, (I'm in Canada) and I sent this to him in a text message. His reply was: "Haha oh yea, that's us. Shitfaced is good". He also mentioned something about you (the poster of the above) being a oval office. But I think that means "good guy" or something like that.
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A pack of "farts" here in middle America runs about 5 to 10 us dollars. It's insane but probably for the best. Pure poison. If we had a proper national healthcare system this would make more sense. I do wonder what my city does with the tax
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I read some official word that it is inconclusive, and absolutely depends on the metric used as to whether an aging population costs the state more or less than a smoking one
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Navigating the lockdown laws is fun, good thing the only part that changes over the next fortnight is whether or not I go to pubs. It's not like the first lockdown where were rocked up to the Townie bottlo and got them to fill up squealers and growlers (and a dozen fresh homebrew bottles) with whatever we wanted from the taps. Since we knew the bartender well we paid maybe $28 for about 8 litres of Grifter and Young Henry's brews. We finished them that night and went back the next day, they had a better pricing system by then. (Better for them)
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Jestery posted:I'm imagining it like 2001 a space odyssey or arrival Time to listen to Red Sails in the Sunset again.
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Navigating the lockdown laws is fun, good thing the only part that changes over the next fortnight is whether or not I go to pubs. Oh you think this is only going to last a fortnight? The heal;th minister said the aim was to get cases back to zero, they ain't going from 29/30 cases a day to zero in just 14 days.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh you think this is only going to last a fortnight? The heal;th minister said the aim was to get cases back to zero, they ain't going from 29/30 cases a day to zero in just 14 days. This is a six-weeker. Minimum. If we're very lucky and things go absolutely perfectly. (Which they won't, because NSW Health and the Premier are both loving idiots).
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This is a six-weeker. Minimum. If we're very lucky and things go absolutely perfectly. (Which they won't, because NSW Health and the Premier are both loving idiots). I'm hanging out for your inevitable Melbourne-style anti-vaxx protests, the Sydney cops probably won't know what to do with them so it should be a hoot.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh you think this is only going to last a fortnight? The heal;th minister said the aim was to get cases back to zero, they ain't going from 29/30 cases a day to zero in just 14 days. No, I don't. Mind you don't be shocked at the LNP easing restrictions far too early, either. It's anyone's game right now.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:This is a six-weeker. Minimum. If we're very lucky and things go absolutely perfectly. (Which they won't, because NSW Health and the Premier are both loving idiots). Apparently, we have passed the number Melbourne had all up for their last lockdown and ours is still rising, today's reports are not at all confidence building. This was inevitable and just a matter of time, Covid is not a Melbourne exclusive.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I'm hanging out for your inevitable Melbourne-style anti-vaxx protests, the Sydney cops probably won't know what to do with them so it should be a hoot. They’ll create a mass casualty event.
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:Oh you think this is only going to last a fortnight? The heal;th minister said the aim was to get cases back to zero, they ain't going from 29/30 cases a day to zero in just 14 days. It's going to be fun when the school holidays end. Everyone hated online learning during the first lockdown.
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