Australian Belly Tank

[Rex Schimmer]

Rev,
You are setting in a meeting and doing your E mail, sounds like the company I formerly worked for, everyone would walk into the meeting with their laptops, open them and start doing E mail, screw the meeting!!

Interesting that the Chi-coms have an Aussie working on a big steel structure project, here in the Bay Area of California we are rebuilding the Bay bridge and using Chi-com steel, engineers and workers!! So much for hiring local labor.

Rex

[kiwi belly tank]

China Town!
  Sid.

[Stan Back]

Never mind.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

No need to start a new thread for this tidbit, but -- what's going on, mates?  I was eating my breakfast and came across this in the latest edition of The Economist(British newsmagazine, published since 1843 or so) - and therefore likely to be correct:

"The consumption of beer in Australia has fallen to a 65-year low, according to official figures.  The average Aussie drinks just 4.23 litres (7.5 pints) of the amber nectar a year.  The consumption of wine and spirits has soared."

Will one or two of you please explain what's going on?  How'd you fail our beliefs in you?

[Milwaukee Midget]

No need to start a new thread for this tidbit, but -- what's going on, mates?  I was eating my breakfast and came across this in the latest edition of The Economist(British newsmagazine, published since 1843 or so) - and therefore likely to be correct:

"The consumption of beer in Australia has fallen to a 65-year low, according to official figures.  The average Aussie drinks just 4.23 litres (7.5 pints) of the amber nectar a year.  The consumption of wine and spirits has soared."

Will one or two of you please explain what's going on?  How'd you fail our beliefs in you?

Strictly a hypothesis -

Team Sunshine, as a whole, spent a total of ~60 man/weeks out of the country last year.  That explains the beer.

As to the increase in the consumption of wine and spirits, Team Sunshine, as a whole, spent a total of ~60 man/weeks out of the country last year.

Perhaps the rest of the country was celebrating?

 

[Tman]

You might be onto something MM?

[kiwi belly tank]

LOL, you guys are on to it!
  Sid.

[grumm441]

No need to start a new thread for this tidbit, but -- what's going on, mates?  I was eating my breakfast and came across this in the latest edition of The Economist(British newsmagazine, published since 1843 or so) - and therefore likely to be correct:

"The consumption of beer in Australia has fallen to a 65-year low, according to official figures.  The average Aussie drinks just 4.23 litres (7.5 pints) of the amber nectar a year.  The consumption of wine and spirits has soared."

Will one or two of you please explain what's going on?  How'd you fail our beliefs in you?

Slim
This is clearly a misprint and has been lost in translation somewhere. it should read "the average Aussie drinks just 4.23 litres of beer per week which puts them just ahead of the average Kiwi at 4.2 litres and well ahead of the average German at just 4 litres per week"

G

[rgn]

I was eating my breakfast and came across this in the latest edition of The Economist(British newsmagazine, published since 1843 or so) - and therefore likely to be correct:

I was reading exactly the same thing whilst I was drinking mine!

[kiwi belly tank]

So are you claiming the Kiwi's living in Oz in the Ozzy count or the Kiwi count?
  Sid.

[Dr Goggles]

With two glut years and a very high Aussie dollar matched with market downturns in Europe and the US there has been a collapse in the Australian wine export market.

They can't afford our wine, and there's even more of it than usual. Result......domestic market has "bargains" available through wholesalers and online stores like have never been seen.

You can still go to the bottle shop and buy the same fifteen dollar bottle of red that you always did, meanwhile you can find cases of stuff that retails for a hundred dollars a bottle for fifteen in the dozen....I'm serious.

There is a downside.

Anyone can enjoy good wine, but to be able to enjoy cheap wine means you'll always be happy.... an educated palate is hard to fund....... this glut won't go on forever.

So yeah, maybe I'm letting the side down a little....drank a fair bit of beer already this weekend but.

[Freud]

Dr. G..........

It's gonna be a real slap in the face when the $100 bottle goes back up to $100 and you lust for it.

Don't buy wine out of your neighborhoods price range.

You will suffer later.

In the US of A the $3.00 wine has gone up to $5.00 because so many people are buyin' the cheap stuff.

Over here the $100 bottle still costs $100.00.

FREUD

[SPARKY]

Racers don't dig chicks that have $100. wine tastes 

[Dr Goggles]

Dr. G..........

It's gonna be a real slap in the face when the $100 bottle goes back up to $100 and you lust for it.

yeah, like I said..."Anyone can enjoy good wine, but to be able to enjoy cheap wine means you'll always be happy.... an educated palate is hard to fund....... this glut won't go on forever.
"

Don't buy wine out of your neighborhoods price range.
You will suffer later.

I've done the sums, offsetting the future pain against real time gains I've amortized the intangible  against the quaffable.

Racers don't dig chicks that have $100. wine tastes 

Send me that $100, it's more than I've ever spent on a bottle of plonk.....besides Bill you know where my priorities lie..... :wink:anyways.....where's the corkscrew?

[kiwi belly tank]

You might have to get yourself an Ipad mate, it's the latest thing in endless beer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=6a8Eimr-fm0
  Sid.