What grinds your gears?

[Trigga*happY]

Aaaah yeah ok, sorry I thought you were talking about it's link to depression rather than it's generation/reuptake. If that's the case, I'd be sticking with the reuptake inhibitors heh

[gentle]

Aww xor you're such little wiener.

[Thomas Meatball]

Originally Posted by gentle

Let me guess, as final arbiter of the results you're exempt?

Uhh... I don't meet the criteria anyway

[Baal]

waaaaaaaat

[xor]

Originally Posted by gentle

Aww xor you're such little wiener.

Keith Galbraith, owner/head brewer of Galbraith's Alehouse: "In most pubs a 'pint' is a glass far smaller than a real pint (568ml). When I took this up with weights and measures a few years ago I was informed that this practice was acceptable because pints are not the legal standard in New Zealand, litres are. I prefer to look at per litre prices when judging the value of beer served in pubs and believe it should be mandatory for bars to advertise all beers served on a dollar per litre basis."

[StN]

xor dropped the G-Bomb - it's on!

[Thomas Meatball]

568ml glasses at 10 paces!

[dylan]

Once when I was in Auckland at a pub called the Horse and Trap I asked for a pint and they said "and will that be a little pint or a big pint?"

It was the most perfect occasion for this emoticon: o.O

[doppelgänger of someone]

^^^ emoticon fail

o_0

[Trigger]

[madmaxii]

Dylan, that would be Frank, the Irish barman - lovely fellow

[dylan]

Really? Well I dunno what Frank has been putting in the drinks up there but he certainly had a nice pair of tits

[xor]

I should hand my Irish passport back in. I didn't even know it was St Patricks day today, even worse is that someone asked if I wanted to go to Deschlers this evening for a drink. I don't think this is the sort of place I had in mind for Paddies day: www.deschlers.co.nz

And that's a really bad website. DAaaaaaaaaaayum

[Nich]

deschlers is shit.

[crocos]

I've never been there and I came to that same conclusion from the website.

So the website is an accurate advertising tool, if not an effective one

[Diirk]

To be fair, there are 3 different definitions of 'pint'... think it was something like the imperial pint, the US wet pint and the US dry pint. Pubs here are cheap assholes and serve a pint roughly equivalent to the smallest of these ;(

[chiQ]

The old glass pint milk bottles were 600 ml. That's my idea of a pint. How big are 'pint' glasses at pubs?

[Diirk]

Originally Posted by chiQ

The old glass pint milk bottles were 600 ml. That's my idea of a pint. How big are 'pint' glasses at pubs?

That's a nice round metric number they picked because it was vaguely near the size of the imperial pint (568ish ml?) when we went metric. Think pubs usually use 450ml glasses here (The US wet pint is 470 ml I think? So close to that).

[xor]

Originally Posted by Nich

deschlers is shit.

Hell yeah, St Paddies day and nobody is there. We left pretty quickly.

Annnnd it has a D rating. So I was pretty scared. The TV program Inspectors is turning me into Howard Hughes

[Ab]

Try travelling around Australia and ordering beer, it's enough to do your head in. Every state has its own terms, and even where the terms are shared they refer to different volumes.

[StN]

It's a strange country that uses the same names for boats, horses and music systems as a unit for beer provision.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...r#Beer_glasses

/edit - they should make a wallet sized card of this for backpackers...

[Ab]

What do you expect, the country was originally populated by Irish criminals.

Yeah, when I first moved to Adelaide I had to train myself to specify "Imperial pint please".

[pkp|ex]

Buy a thinkpad off of trademe.

It arrives, 5 days later, and I find it had been left in standby mode (ie, the moon light was still showing).

Pull it out, set it up, and I notice the main body is all loose and bits are apart, because some fuck stick had taken it apart at some point, and neglected to put around about 10 or so screws back in it. GRR.

I have a spare thinkpad which I think I can steal the missing screws from though, hopefully.

Fuckers.

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by Ab

What do you expect, the country was originally populated by Irish criminals.

Yeah, when I first moved to Adelaide I had to train myself to specify "Imperial pint please".

"Jug"

Sorted.

[Rince]

when I think 'pint' I think UK pub pint

[MoP]

Originally Posted by StN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austral...r#Beer_glasses

Jeepers who'd order anything smaller than a pot?

[chiQ]

Originally Posted by Rince

when I think 'pint' I think UK pub pint

I remember pulling pints up two stories from the cellar twenty years ago in London. I had great biceps. We had pint-to-line glasses where I worked. I'd actually forgotten about those.

Our cellar-man was a bit of a craftsman. He used to be really territorial about the cellar. Ah memories...

[Cyberbob]

Originally Posted by MoP

Jeepers who'd order anything smaller than a pot?

Sky_ and I got a couple of Stella and Hoegaarden from what seemed to be an authentic Belgium pub a few days ago, they came in tiny 250ml measures.
Cost more too.

[Lightspeed]

I thought that's what they usually serve? Either 250ml or 500ml.

Although, I haven't been to Belgium, so I guess I wouldn't really know.

[xor]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news...ectid=10632939

Mari politicians don't really do anything to change the perspective that whitey has on them. Oh well, if they do get a Mari team to play in the world cup then the whole world will see a few blonde haired, blue eye'd 'Maori' on the field.

[PopPop'saNazi]

Traffic. And Cops. But mostly traffic

[CCS]

Can we have a white motherfuckers rugby team plz?

[xor]

1/32 bru

[chiQ]

NZ internet filter (only just read about it - slow on the uptake)

[fixed_truth]

Originally Posted by xor

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news...ectid=10632939

The team shouldn't play in the World Cup because it is not a national team. That is all.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by PopPop'saNazi

Traffic. And Cops. But mostly traffic

Random fact. If you see a cop on the side of the motorway wearing a white hat - then you can go speed past him or do burnouts or whatever - he's not a sworn officer, but a motorway support guy. They drive the proper cop cars, but can't pull people over or issue tickets.

Of course, they could radio to their real cop buddies, so maybe not such a good idea to do burnouts in front of them.

[Thomas Meatball]

I once got into trouble for beating up a motorway support officer at the side of the motorway. They said "You can't beat up a policeman!" and I said "But he's not a real policeman!" and they said "Hmmm, fair call."

[StN]

The Café @ work running out of food at lunch time.

I might have to venture out.

Or just push out all those milestones that had "After lunch" attached to them.

[Rangoon Attack]

WGMG?

My boss is now making us ask permission to leave our desks and we have to give a reason why.

"I need to go to the bathroom, my bladder is full"
"I need to go to the printer, I printed a document"
"I need to go to the water cooler, I'm dehydrated"

FUCK YOU ARSEHOLE FUCKEN MICRO MANAGEMENT FUCKEN ARSEHOLE BITCH CUNT

maybe if I was 3 years old and in kindy, yea sure
if I was in retail and I was the only one on the counter, yea sure

but in a fucken office environment?
FUCK OFF

seriously, I'm gonna burn that mother fucker to the ground and stab my boss in her fat ugly eye

[Thomas Meatball]

lol, just ignore that cunt.