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The Aussies didn't waste any time after adopting US-style smoking restrictions and have now set their sights on alcohol....
1 posted on 06/14/2008 5:38:13 PM PDT by hreardon
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To: hreardon

To any Aussie worth the title, four drinks is an appetizer.


2 posted on 06/14/2008 5:39:55 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Given such dismal choices, I guess I'll vote for the old guy.)
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To: hreardon

Ha! Like Australians are going to take that seriously...


3 posted on 06/14/2008 5:42:23 PM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: hreardon

Aussies are the hardest drinkers I know. Four beers ain’t nuttin’!


5 posted on 06/14/2008 5:43:40 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: hreardon

Aussies are the hardest drinkers I know. Four beers ain’t nuttin’!


6 posted on 06/14/2008 5:43:44 PM PDT by tsmith130
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To: hreardon

i met a couple aussies vacationing in the u.s. once. they seemed to be floored by the idea of 5% beer and how easy it was to get it in the states. i laughed in their faces.


7 posted on 06/14/2008 5:44:34 PM PDT by rightwinggoth
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To: hreardon

I’ll be binge drinking all this weekend.


8 posted on 06/14/2008 5:45:45 PM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham (Barack Obama--the first black Jimmy Carter.)
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To: hreardon

This is simply a government virus reclassifying an existing issue to create a bigger bureaucracy.


9 posted on 06/14/2008 5:46:04 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: hreardon

Oh good heavens......Aussies must be laughing to death in their pubs over this.....


10 posted on 06/14/2008 5:46:54 PM PDT by RightOnline
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To: hreardon; M0sby

Wasn’t that an enlistment bonus at Tun Tavern?


11 posted on 06/14/2008 5:50:39 PM PDT by AZ .44 MAG (Do I waste my time explaining? He had such trouble with my name.)
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To: hreardon

At the least, there should be some allowance made for the drinker’s weight.

Here’s a handy B.A.C. calculator:

http://www.dot.wisconsin.gov/safety/motorist/drunkdriving/calculator.htm


12 posted on 06/14/2008 6:12:21 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: hreardon

Four mid-size beers? That’s the first sip.


13 posted on 06/14/2008 6:18:16 PM PDT by JohnLongIsland
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To: hreardon

I have had friends who have done business in Australia. From what I have been told, 4 beers may be what they have at lunch if they have to go back to the office.


15 posted on 06/14/2008 6:28:21 PM PDT by Ghengis (Of course freedom is free. If it wasn't, it would be called expensivedom. ~Cindy Sheehan 11/11/06)
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To: hreardon
Just four mid-sized beers will be classed as binge drinking ...

Crikey, that’s the child’s portion.

16 posted on 06/14/2008 6:29:20 PM PDT by dighton
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To: hreardon
was a time when that was called lunch...
18 posted on 06/14/2008 6:41:09 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©® - CTHULHU/SHOGGOTH '08 = Nothing LESS!!!)
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To: hreardon

You’ve had your limit! Autralia is missing an S. No more for you, Mister.


19 posted on 06/14/2008 6:44:24 PM PDT by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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To: hreardon

I’m considered to be what’s called ‘A 2 pot screamer’ - means I can’t drink that much, but 4 beers - I know 80 year old grandmothers who drink more than that. 4 beers is just a really quiet night in!

Mel


21 posted on 06/14/2008 7:36:26 PM PDT by melsec (A Proud Aussie)
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To: hreardon

That’s nothing!
A “Social Worker” friend of mine in Canada once asked me how much I drank. I told him that I have two beers every night when I get home from work, before dinner. He looked at me somewhat startled, and said quite seriously, “You know, according to Health Canada standards, you have a drinking problem.”
What?!?!?
So glad I don’t live there any more.


24 posted on 06/14/2008 9:11:44 PM PDT by mkleesma (`Call to me, and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.')
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