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Australian Flood Crisis - cities under water, sharks in the streets
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Salazar said:
Hell yes. Fuck beer.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
My mate's street in Victoria got evacuated a few hours ago. Levee bank broke and water was up to the top of the sandbags.
Another decent cider is Mercury. The Tasmanians know how to brew good beer and cider. I'm lately going through a Cooper's phase, which I thought would never happen since most people I knew who drank it were complete arseholes.
Crazy stuff. I hope everything is okay down south as they're expected to receive more.EatChildren said:
Hrmmmmmmm
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/floods/8196825/northern-tas-braces-for-rising-floodwaters
Phew it wasn't brisbane, though more details are needed on the nature of the dam burst, ie. were bubbles noticed, were fruit tree roots involved?
Webbots half-right!
And probably as 'right' as we'd like it to get
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/floods/8196825/northern-tas-braces-for-rising-floodwaters
Phew it wasn't brisbane, though more details are needed on the nature of the dam burst, ie. were bubbles noticed, were fruit tree roots involved?
Webbots half-right!
And probably as 'right' as we'd like it to get
shanshan310
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santouras said:
pear cider is fantastic
On a side note, everyone doing okay with the flooding?
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
shanshan310 said:pear cider is fantastic
On a side note, everyone doing okay with the flooding?
Cider in general is awesome.
Guzzled a whole carton around New Years. Potent stuff as well. Didnt get a hangover either which is awesome.
You'd be surprised at the comparisons and connections behind personal taste choices, especially when it concerns such a broad, diverse, and subjective beverage as alcohol. Working in a bar for so long whilst majoring in psychology gives you an incentive to try and connect the dots during the boring hours and realise the greater picture.Nemesis556 said:
Most rum drinkers won't touch it until they hit a threshold on beer, for example. Most scotch drinkers are completely different to other spirit drinkers in personality and how they carry themselves - the same method can also be used in who is more likely to drink gin vs vodka (even if they've never tried either). Out of the two big red wine staples in the country, mostly quiet and reserved people tend to drink shiraz whereas louder and more boistrous people are more inclined to drink merlot. I mean, yeah it may all be meaningless crap and full of co-incidences, but the examples were there for years for me. Having regulars every week also helped define personality traits.
In a way it's kinda like knowing that someone is likely to be from Queensland if they drink XXXX or someone is likely to be a Victorian when they drink nothing but beer from Foster's.
Very OT, but I just looked at the list of Australian breweries on wikipedia, pretty depressing. Lots of good microbrews, but only 1 independent large brewer. Go Coopers!trinest said:
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
trinest said:
"Queensland Spirit" means Rum. But beer is good as well.
EatChildren
Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
speedpop said:
I love my cider, but I'm not a huuuge Mercury fan. There's nothing wrong with it and it does the job, but even the dry is a little bit too sweet for my liking.
Also, on the subject of Crown, I like Crown. I like Crown in the same way that sometimes I like a heavy lagar. It's not even in the ballpark of being my favourite beer, but its refreshing at the right time.
Insane Metal
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Death toll is now 529! OMFGDead Man said:
shanshan310
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seems like a lot of people aren't going to get insurance payouts from their companies OR the government. :S
Dead Man said:
Coopers red for me - it puts hairs on your chest, even if you're female.
Going off topic - the floods. I turned on the tele for the first time in about 6 months to watch the 20Twenty match. Picked a good game to watch. Flicking over to 7's coverage of the floods made me want to throw up in my mouth. Just report it - don't put saccharine music behind everything and don't use words like Aussie, or battler, or spirit, or scenes of devastation in every fucking sentence. I really can't stand it - I think it's gotten worse in 6 months.
I was wondering why I would feel this unease and negative association before at the thought of turning the tele on - I think I answered my own question.
Anyway, anyone know of the best charity to donate to?
Coopers rock go to hell. Also Crownies taste like family Christmas to me. Don't shit on Christmas.Grug said:
I have nothing against fat yak, it's a nice beer but get your flavour of the month tastes out of this thread.
Is there a beer thread? I love to ramble about good beer.
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
Everyones cleaning shit according to the news. Maybe ok in unaffected places though.
There were a few restaurants and cafes open for trade in the city yesterday. Not sure about retail stores.Rlan said:
The city was very busy, and I made the mistake of driving through the CBD. There were a few traffic bottlenecks, the traffic lights were still out at a lot of intersections and I didn't want to stick around as cleanup trucks and emergency services vehicles were trying to get in and out.
I'm expecting the CBD to be more than 50% up and running on Monday and a lot of people, myself included, will be going back to work.
My hometown of Charlton in Vic has been flooded out, as well as a bunch of others in Northern Victoria. Doesn't sound nearly as bad as anything happening in Queensland but the phone towers, power and everything are down so I can't get into contact with them. Driving me nuts.
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