Family booze bill tops $4000 a year

Herald-Sun ^ | 24 January 2005 | Sandra O'Malley

[Aussie Dasher]

Aussie's love their grog - no doubt about that.

How does this shape up against the American taste for a sip?

[NorCalRepub]

we'll spend that much on Super Bowl sunday........lol

[Viking2002]

Aussies are lightweights compared to the mead I can slam down. LOL

[Wallace T.]

My guess would be that Australian, and for that matter, European alcohol consumption, well outstrips American consumption. A larger percentage of Americans than Australians are teetotalers, and many others consume sparingly. DWI laws being what they are, one mistake can set you back several thousand dollars in lawyers' fees and court costs.

[b4its2late]

44 slabs of beer

What the hell is a slab?

[Aussie Dasher]

A slab is 24 cans of beer...better known as a damn good start!

[jocon307]

"The other trend is that young women have really caught up with men in their drinking."


But, but, don't we want them to be "equal"?

[freedom44]

My friends and I will slam down about $4000 during the Patriots game tonight.

[BipolarBob]

I'll drink to that.

[Aussie Dasher]

I must admit my consumption may rise a "little" when the football season comes around.

After the Tigers' performance last year, alcohol maybe the only thing to get me through...

[Choose Ye This Day]

We spend $0 on alcohol in our teetotalling household. But we're weird.

This whole thread reminds me of the Monty Python Australian Philosophers sketch (the Bruces):

"To Australians, American beer is like making love in a canoe...





"F***ing close to water."

[Aussie Dasher]

LOL! I won't say anything in case I say something!!!

[Polybius]

"To Australians, American beer is like making love in a canoe... "F***ing close to water."

That accurately describes Foster's Beer.

[Choose Ye This Day]

Really? I never had it, but I always assumed Foster's Lager was supposed to be potent.

[Choose Ye This Day]

G'day, Dasher. What time is it there?

[Graybeard58]

My wife and two adult daughters drink a glass of wine on Christmas eve. Our two sons and I don't drink.

We call them winos.

[Choose Ye This Day]

They only have one glass each year? Wow.

I guess they haven't heard all the studies "conclusively" demonstrating that having one drink a day will make them healthy, wealthy, wise, etc. < /sarcasm>

[Aussie Dasher]

Fast approaching 5 in the afternoon...nearly knockoff time!

[Choose Ye This Day]

Well, have a good evening, then! Talk to you later.

It's nearly midnight here in frozen Minnesota. About time for bed.

[Aussie Dasher]

Due to daylight saving, we've still got a few hours to enjoy the brilliant sunshine beating down on us. The next couple of days are for temperatures in the high thirties (somewhere around 100 on your scale).