G'day from Up Over

[SawDustJack]

Well I C I got you chaps talking beer .. I gave up the stuff myself after I got out of the Navy after 12 years .. Took in my share ..
Some Dark Ales in England were my favorite .. You guys had some nastee crap yourselves , as I recall .. We have some nastee beer here as well .. Budweiser is the awfullest horse swill ever invented .. The best cheep beer ?? Old Milwaukee , or PBR ( redneck , white socks , and Blue Ribbon Beer ) ..
Someone asked who shot JFK , easy one there , The Mob ..
What kinda wood werking ?? With wood of course ...
Built a 17 foot canoe a few years back , cedar stripped with fiberglass , and a matching set of paddles .. Never Again .. Was a task .. Course , if you are short on clamps for wood werk projects , build a canoe , you'll have plenty before its over ..
Other than that , I repair furniture for my wife who sells the stuff .. I get lots of green hardwood , from a little sawmill , all first cuts , butts , or slabs , whatever you may call them .. For a song , a pickup , oopps ute load at a time , a dollar a board .. Let it dry for a couple months , straighten it up , and do whatever comes to my mind ..

[Rossluck]

We have a beer here that is pretty good: Crown Lager. Unfortunately it's a little on the expensive side, but I for one can't fault it. Not long ago someone produced a beer called Blondie, now that was bad ....:mad:

[Honorary Bloke]

And what is it with a 21 age limit anyway? You can be sent off to war and get your a$$ blown off but you come home and cant have a beer. Very cruel.

Fair go, Bleedin'. When I was in the military the age was 18. The reasoning was as you suggested, if you can be shot, you can have a stubbie. The law changed sometime in the 1970s due to a namby-pamby government full of do-gooders who wanted to protect us from ourselves. So they lowered the voting age from 21 to 18, but raised the drinking age from 18 to 21. They got both #### backwards.

Like most such generally unpopular laws, it is essentially unenforceable, so our university kids drink beer and everyone turns away unless there is an accident or something and then it's hand-wringing time.

[SawDustJack]

That law depends on the particular state as well .. AFAIK all hard likker everywhere is a 21 age minimum .. Here in Alabama beer is 21 as well , tobbacco is 19 .. In the 70's and 80's in Virginia , you could have what was called 3.2 beer at 18 ( 3.2% alcohol ) , and everything else at 21 .. IIRC , also if you were in the military , you could drink at the base at 18 , even if the state said 21 ..
Bob yawl still got the green dot or green front stores ???
Well ya has to consider who we had in office back then , even if he was from Jawga ..

[Honorary Bloke]

Bob yawl still got the green dot or green front stores ???

Yes we do. Actually they are Red Dot stores. The Red Dot stands for sunup and sundown. The story is, after the Civil War (sometimes referred to around here as the Late Unpleasantness), they (the Yankees) wanted to keep the black people from getting liquor, so the stores were open from sunup until sundown (thus the Red Dot, signifying the sun). Since blacks worked until sundown in the fields, it would be too late for them to purchase liquor and "run wild." It's embarrassing, but true.

Even today in South Carolina, liquor store hours can change from day to day, to coincide with sunup and sundown.

[Iain]

We have a beer here that is pretty good: Crown Lager. Unfortunately it's a little on the expensive side, but I for one can't fault it. Not long ago someone produced a beer called Blondie, now that was bad ....:mad:

I thought Crown was just horse p!ss in a flash bottle with a high price tag, tatses the same as Carlton draught to me.
Stick with the Becks, Heineken and Bavaria (Dutch beer with a German name made for an Australian supermarket chain).
Lot of microbreweries popping up now, vary from not too bad to excellent and are much better than the mega swill, or, make your own, bit of an art but when you get the hang of it, it tatses great, hate bottling though and keg now which can be a bit of a trap on a hot day, not that we have had many of late:mad: .

[Doughboy]

...... and still America is considered a world leader .....

Mind you Canberra has a very bad reputation as well. We have a employment ratio that has public servants somewhere in the vincinity of 73% of our workforce. Now since this is the parliamentary capital of Australia we also have a Median wage of well over 45k so we are somewhat 'sheltered' from the real world.

Let me just say that the other 27% of the workforce tries to distance ourselves from the upper elite. Lawmakers, while having some of the most edu-ma-cated advisers have what I call ''textbook'' education. They have access to a privelaged working life. I used to be the Executive Chef in Aust. Parliament House and while there I was amazed and mystified at the level of luxuries afforded our pollies.

They have access to a fully stocked and fully serviced bar seven days a week and twenty four hours a day. There was no charge for any alcohol and only minimal charge for any foods.

We wonder how the powers that be come up with sometimes ludacress (?) laws that they see as incredibly important to the wellbeing of the people. Yet they seem to be oblivious to the genuine basic needs of the majority.

Petrol is one such item, considered a luxury? I dont think so, yet the price fluctuations from state to state, city to city, town to town and even on the same street seem senseless to me. I know that oil companies are all powerful and they contribute extensively to the coffers of our political parties. Can these people not see that this is wrong on so many levels?

Anyway I have digressed yet again. I feel like a beer or three.

Pete

[SawDustJack]

Yeah , I was stationed in Charleston for a while back then , I , for some reason recalled them as green .. We still have a few counties here , who vote every four years to remain dry .. Needless to say the border towns in the adjacent counties do a booming liquor buisness ..
The "Late Unpleasentness" , haven't heard that one in a while .. I always liked Granny Clampett , on the Beverly Hillbillies definition .. She called it , The War Between the Americans and the Yankees ..

[SawDustJack]

DoughBoy don't feel pregnant mate , we have the same politicians here .. The best money can buy ..

[Iain]

Pollies, wonderful creatures and such intellect.
We had one a couple of years ago who proposed that a river be dredged under a bridge so ships could pass under without raising the bridge
I think they have an IQ test to get in, those who fail are in for life

[SawDustJack]

So I reckon he thought the water level would fall by the amount dredged ??

Where do they find these people ??:eek:

Educated Beyond Their Intelligence

Plain and simple ..

[Iain]

Educated Beyond Their Intelligence

Too many oxymorons there to contemplate
Another one was whining about a report of E Coli in a river system, took a glass and held it up and said he couldn't see any then proceeded to drink it.
Even the E Coli were afraid of this idiot.

[rrich]

The rings of the trees in Oz go counterclockwise while those up here go clockwise.

[rrich]

...... and still America is considered a world leader .....
Pete

I can't understand why you would think that with the idiot we have running the show.

[echnidna]

That applies toi native species

What about US natives grown downunder thouigh?