The totally off-topic thread

[drron]

:shock:I must apologise Cove.I had a completely wrong impression of you-

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[penegal]

Coming from RAdelaide I am independent. Sydney is a great place to visit but if I was to live interstate then Melbourne it is. My son lives in Sydney and it is a hard place to work although he does have a great party life. Too great.

What party?

All the bars close so early and lock you out... Clearly a delusional state government. Glad Melbourne ditched that ridiculous idea a few years ago.

It's funny that for a global city - Sydney has screwed its own late night bar scene.

 

[Pushka]

What party?

All the bars close so early and lock you out... Clearly a delusional state government. Glad Melbourne ditched that ridiculous idea a few years ago.

It's funny that for a global city - Sydney has screwed its own late night bar scene.

Sydneysiders create their own party.

Adelaide has the lockout too so used to those.

 

[anat0l]

It's funny that for a global city - Sydney has screwed its own late night bar scene.

In a way it (the council) has, and in another way people have proven they can't be trusted enough to deserve a good late night bar culture.

The same one in Brisbane, mainly propped up by the university students and upcoming young and enterprising professionals, is also similarly under threat, particularly - but unfortunately / unwittingly / unfairly - due to the latest incident of note involving the death of a young man.

 

[coco50]

What party?

All the bars close so early and lock you out... Clearly a delusional state government. Glad Melbourne ditched that ridiculous idea a few years ago.

It's funny that for a global city - Sydney has screwed its own late night bar scene.

In Sydney, you can still drink in a bar until 3 am. Isn't that enough to get a little tiddly? And if you haven't had enough there you can go home and get into it! What do people want? To stagger onto the street, elephant's trunk at 7 am when the righteous are arriving at work?

 

[anat0l]

In Sydney, you can still drink in a bar until 3 am.

1.30 am lockout, however, except for small bars, some restaurants and hotels.

I think at some point, even a 12 am lockout was being considered.

 

[coco50]

1.30 am lockout, however, except for small bars, some restaurants and hotels.

I think at some point, even a 12 am lockout was being considered.

Why do you want to go around "shopping" for a bar at 1:15 in the morning. Find a good one before that in dig in. What's wrong with people?

 

[JohnK]

What party?

All the bars close so early and lock you out... Clearly a delusional state government. Glad Melbourne ditched that ridiculous idea a few years ago.

It's funny that for a global city - Sydney has screwed its own late night bar scene.

Kids today are totally irresponsible. I see them at the casino regularly. Still drinking at 3:00am and they were wasted at 11:00pm. Too many innocent people getting killed. One dead in Brisbane earlier in the week and a waitress coward punched last night.

If it was up to me the lock down for kids would be 11:00pm and no alcohol served past 1:00am maybe 2:00am. Responsible adults wanting a quiet drink can drink all night.

 

[RooFlyer]

:shock:I must apologise Cove.I had a completely wrong impression of you-

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Although, "Australian living at its best" has a ring of familiarity about it!

 

[anat0l]

Kids today are totally irresponsible. I see them at the casino regularly. Still drinking at 3:00am and they were wasted at 11:00pm. Too many innocent people getting killed. One dead in Brisbane earlier in the week and a waitress coward punched last night.

If it was up to me the lock down for kids would be 11:00pm and no alcohol served past 1:00am maybe 2:00am. Responsible adults wanting a quiet drink can drink all night.

That kid who was killed (or at least as established by the information at hand in the media anyway - a dangerous thing, I suppose) in Brisbane was 'innocent' in all this. Not fair to drag him through the mud.

Define "kids" in your context. Under 25? The thugs who conked the Brisbane boy are aged 21, which is the higher drinking age of several jurisdictions around the world. The "MMA fighter" Shaun McNeil who killed a teenager in Sydney (the latter being also as innocent as the Brisbane boy who was just killed) with one punch and sentenced to a minimum seven years prison, was aged 27 when he committed the crime.

I assume the waitress you are referring to was the Mt Isa incident in the news. She was 36 and the thug was 28. Unless "kids" are defined as under 30 years of age (big stretch), she still wouldn't have been 'protected' from these kinds of incidents. On top of that, limiting anyone who is under 30 from being in bars after 11pm would probably mean a whole swathe of bars would have to close or find some ingenious ways to rework the club operation, since I'd wager that many of the bar staff (and maybe even bouncers) would be under 30 years. That would also apply to nightclubs, strip clubs...

I guess your proposal is fair enough. I'd wager it wouldn't be extremely popular, even to some of the "conservatives"; enforcing it would be another thing, too.

 

[TomVexille]

Kids today are totally irresponsible. I see them at the casino regularly. Still drinking at 3:00am and they were wasted at 11:00pm. Too many innocent people getting killed. One dead in Brisbane earlier in the week and a waitress coward punched last night.

If it was up to me the lock down for kids would be 11:00pm and no alcohol served past 1:00am maybe 2:00am. Responsible adults wanting a quiet drink can drink all night.

How ridiculous. Who gets to decide who is a responsible adult?? Some people would suggest that stumbling home from the casino at 4am and not remembering how you got home since you drank so much is irresponsible. But there's no way that anyone over the age of 25 would ever do that...

 

[drron]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

 

[Cruiser Elite]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

OMG - quote of the year - you should have posted that in 'Quoteable Quotes' thread!

 

[JessicaTam]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

The kids of today!

 

[Flashback]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

SYD-MEL? :mrgreen:

 

[qkslvr]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

Fill us in?

 

[marki]

OK this is how your boss looks like .... you don't go kicking him out from his own Casino

 

[JohnK]

That kid who was killed (or at least as established by the information at hand in the media anyway - a dangerous thing, I suppose) in Brisbane was 'innocent' in all this. Not fair to drag him through the mud.

Define "kids" in your context. Under 25? The thugs who conked the Brisbane boy are aged 21....

Kids are those who can clearly not handle alcohol. Holding 2 RTDs in their hand running around screaming and swearing. Responsible adults of any age drink and don't make issues for anyone.

That kid that was killed was indeed innocent. The scum that killed him were not. That wasn't an accident. The same goes for the coward in Mt Isa.

As for stumbling out of casino at 4:00am drunk if you had done that responsibly what does it matter? If I leave the casino at 4:00am I haven't even had one single drink but what would people commenting know?

 

[marki]

A Russian doctor has been captured on video punching a patient, knocking him to the floor and killing him instantly.

For a second I thought it was here in Australia but no this was in Russia. Can't trust being in a hospital will keep you safe.

 

[Foreigner]

Now to post in the right thread.Just survived our longest Y flight in 2o+ years.
Settling down with a few drinks.

How long was this longest Y flight?