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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Vasco DG on May 24, 2015, 08:22:08 AM
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Perth, Western Australia. Where you go into a pub and order a beer and a gin and tonic and it costs you $24!
Uncicilized! Inhuman! It's like going back to the Dark Ages!
And nothing is open after six o'clock in the evening or mid-day on Saturday and you can't even get take away beer on a Sunday! It's worse than Arkansas! ;D
Pete
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I'll never forget buying a pitcher of beer on Long Island, NY around 1980, and paying $7 for it, when the same thing back in MD would have been about $3. I'd bet that you can find a place to charge you $24 for a beer and gin and tonic in NY today without too much trouble. They don't close at six PM though. :D
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At $24 a round they were lucky I didn't write obscenities on their dunny wall with a turd crayon!
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I thought going to a different bar was an Irish guys idea of a vacation ???
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Glad you are enjoying your time off.
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Sounds like they must have hit the tourist button on the cash register. How's a man to get properly trashed at those prices?
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I'll never forget buying a pitcher of beer on Long Island, NY around 1980, and paying $7 for it, when the same thing back in MD would have been about $3. I'd bet that you can find a place to charge you $24 for a beer and gin and tonic in NY today without too much trouble. They don't close at six PM though. :D
Still cheaper than buying a hot dog in some locations:
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/man-selling-30-hot-dogs-at-ground-zero.html
Well, PT Barnum's Museum was right around the corner until it burned down in 1851 so there is a tradition......
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Obviously you were mistaken for a FIFO miner.
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Weelll, if the market will bear it. Try renting an apartment in New York. Run-down, tiny dumps in tenement slums (and almost all apartments in NY are slum-quality) cost $3,000 a month.
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Weelll, if the market will bear it. Try renting an apartment in New York. Run-down, tiny dumps in tenement slums (and almost all apartments in NY are slum-quality) cost $3,000 a month.
Not really.
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Cheap, apartments in SF go for $4000+ and that is just to get on the list.
Next, they'll outlaw beer anyway so get it while you can. :BEER:
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There are times Pete, when you remind me of Cap'n Haddock.
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Perth, Western Australia. Where you go into a pub and order a beer and a gin and tonic and it costs you $24!
Uncicilized! Inhuman! It's like going back to the Dark Ages!
And nothing is open after six o'clock in the evening or mid-day on Saturday and you can't even get take away beer on a Sunday! It's worse than Arkansas! ;D
Pete
Pete,
When was the last time you were in Arkansas?
Lateness.
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2013. 'Dry' counties. Good lord! It's like Saudi Arabia!
Pete
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Try Indiana. ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that
retarded conservative law.. ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like ::) "you're kidding, right??"
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Try Indiana. ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law.. ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like ::) "you're kidding, right??"
Yes! My God!! Her BABY might have needed that beer to survive!!
Anyone who can't buy enough alcohol in six days to last them for seven has a serious problem, I'd say ....
Lannis
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Arkansas dry counties? Ok with me, keeps out the rif raf, biker gangs, poker runs and all that nonsense. It's not hard to get a drink in a dry county anyway, just look for the old boy with the mason jar dent in the bridge of his nose😄
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2013. 'Dry' counties. Good lord! It's like Saudi Arabia!
Pete
Just stay out of Baltimore this week. 29 people shot, 9 killed just this past weekend.
Not that YOU would get shot, far from it, but based on recent experience, I'm thinking there will be HUGE demonstrations in the streets protesting the unnecessary and violent deaths and injuries of Baltimore citizens at the hands of ....
... Oh, wait a minute. Never mind.
Lannis
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Yes! My God!! Her BABY might have needed that beer to survive!!
Anyone who can't buy enough alcohol in six days to last them for seven has a serious problem, I'd say ....
Lannis
It's got nothing to do with 'Needing' a drink Lannis as you well know and everything to do with weirdo conservative dogma. Liking a drink of an afternoon does not mean one has a 'Problem'. Banning the sale and consumption of booze based on barely post-medieval wowserism is, in this day and age, just plain daft! If you want to encourage alcoholism and all of the other associated problems it brings with it like domestic violence and property crime what better way to achieve it than stigmatise people who like a drink so it becomes a dirty little secret that only gets done behind closed doors? Sends a great message to kids too! NOT!
Pete
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Try Indiana. ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law.. ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like ::) "you're kidding, right??"
They had that same stupid law in Georgia back in 1981. Ruined our Superbowl.
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Just stay out of Baltimore this week. 29 people shot, 9 killed just this past weekend.
Not that YOU would get shot, far from it, but based on recent experience, I'm thinking there will be HUGE demonstrations in the streets protesting the unnecessary and violent deaths and injuries of Baltimore citizens at the hands of ....
... Oh, wait a minute. Never mind.
Lannis
Yea, no headlines there. Nothing to protest. Just another day in the hood.
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Try Indiana. ;D Can't buy take out beer on Sunday.. I think the last state in the union with that retarded conservative law.. ~; :BEER:
Had to give the bad news to a lady at Costco Sunday. She was obviously from out of state, and had two cases of beer in her shopping cart. She was like ::) "you're kidding, right??"
Chuck, ride on down on a Sunday. My Brother bought a gas station/grocery store that has one of three licenses in the State that allows cold beer and wine sales on Sunday. Can't leave the property on Sunday with an open container or package on Sunday though. But you can drink all you like in the parking lot.
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:o What sort of cro-magnon wants to drink in a parking lot? And if you want more than one beer how in hades do you get home? Apart from the obvious irresponsibility you may, if you decide to take your own vehicle, have to have a chat with P:). If you are over the limit its boring and expensive and you may have to spend some time in a cell with a large, friendly, soddomite!
No thanks!
Pete
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Banning the sale and consumption of booze based on barely post-medieval wowserism is, in this day and age, just plain daft!
Pete
Good thing we've got different countries and states and counties, then ... makes room for different opinions about how to live. Choices are good - absolute dogmatism on 24/7/365 liquor sales is not everyone's choice, nor is it a basic human right ... and maybe not even daft!!
Lannis
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:o What sort of cro-magnon wants to drink in a parking lot? And if you want more than one beer how in hades do you get home? Apart from the obvious irresponsibility you may, if you decide to take your own vehicle, have to have a chat with P:). If you are over the limit its boring and expensive and you may have to spend some time in a cell with a large, friendly, soddomite!
No thanks!
Pete
There is an inside dining area, outside patio area and the walk home is not to far. Beer is cheap also. Free, if you know the owner.
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Well, s'not a parking lot then is it? ;D
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I grew up in small town Arkansas. It was great fun on sunday to stand t the 3-way stop sign and point people towards Missouri, 50 miles north. If it was any consolation, didn't matter that it was Sunday, most of the counties in Arkansas were dry 7 days a week. Things have loosened up a bit lately. The adjoining county-Sharp County- voted itself wet a couple years ago.
Tonight, I paid $26 for 2 ales and a burger in Sunnyside WA!
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Used to pick up cheese at the Sunnyside Dairy plant to haul to Wisconsin, to be packaged as Wisconsin cheese. The dairy had a GREAT ice cream parlour next to it. :food :drool
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Dairygold os my client for 2 more days. Mapping a 4800' long-60' wide route for a wastewater pipe into an existing lagoon. Gonna work hard for 2 days and maybe goof off on day 3. The icecream bar is not open every day.
2weekends ago, Gail and I stopped at the Tillimook Cheese Plant in Tillimook OR for some tasty ice cream.
Bill Lovelady is
Eskimo Spy
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Much much cheaper if you guys increase the size of your operation and go for volume! ;-T
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"AKA Rural Unlicensed Biofuel Manufacturing Co-op." ;)
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Sadly Pete that is the price of having pubs without those #%cking blood sucking poker machines and an economy fed by bullshit mining wages which generate higher prices for everything.
It was a bit of a shock when I was there a couple of times in the last few years, certainly not a place to get pissed regularly at least not in WA pubs unless you have the bank balance of Gina Reinhart.
Food prices aren't a lot better.
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Dairygold os my client for 2 more days. Mapping a 4800' long-60' wide route for a wastewater pipe into an existing lagoon. Gonna work hard for 2 days and maybe goof off on day 3. The icecream bar is not open every day.
2weekends ago, Gail and I stopped at the Tillimook Cheese Plant in Tillimook OR for some tasty ice cream.
Bill Lovelady is
Eskimo Spy
It may have been Dairygold rather than Sunnyside Dairy. It is south of 82 about a half mile and east of the exit, the ice cream shoppe is on the north and west side of the plant. Can't remember the name, but I remember how to drive there. ::) Maybe. :D
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It may have been Dairygold rather than Sunnyside Dairy. It is south of 82 about a half mile and east of the exit, the ice cream shoppe is on the north and west side of the plant. Can't remember the name, but I remember how to drive there. ::) Maybe. :D
Sunnyside is the town. Dairygold is the cheese factory, 1/2 mile south of the interstate. Your memory is good for a scotchswilling, cigarsmoking trucker.
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Here in SC we had "Blue Laws" which controlled what you could or not buy on Sunday. One could buy toilet paper but not paper towels. Work on Sunday was frowned upon. Tanning Lotion? Nope. Sharia Law with a Christian tone? The Thumpers did not realize the Sabbath was not a Sunday event but it didn't stop them from forcing their brand of morality on the rest of the citizenry. Thankfully, the voters finally were allowed to change the Draconian laws.
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Sunnyside is the town. Dairygold is the cheese factory, 1/2 mile south of the interstate. Your memory is good for a scotchswilling, cigarsmoking trucker.
LOL Guilty as charged. :D ;D :D ;D