What language differences are there?
#17
Re: What language differences are there?
Aus to English
bingle is a prang
Spunk is a hunky/gorgeous person
rego is car road fund tax
doona is duvet
bingle is a prang
Spunk is a hunky/gorgeous person
rego is car road fund tax
doona is duvet
#20
Re: What language differences are there?
Beer comes in pints or bottles or litres and half-litres (in Germany). End of. Half-pints or anything else around that size are bullshit
#21
Re: What language differences are there?
Some pubs - usually trendy, gastropubs - have been trying to replace the 568ml with a 480ml and still advertise it as a pint, with a pint price. There's been a bit of a backlash against this and some of these places have reverted to serving genuine pints
Beer comes in pints or bottles or litres and half-litres (in Germany). End of. Half-pints or anything else around that size are bullshit
Beer comes in pints or bottles or litres and half-litres (in Germany). End of. Half-pints or anything else around that size are bullshit
I've not seen this, but will keep my eye out.
It's actually quite hard work to make a complaint about weights and measures as we found out when we tried to complain about a pub that was insisting on adding huge scoops of ice to pints of cider. State fair trade referred us to Federal weights & measures, and they did the opposite.
We just stopped drinking there.
S
#22
Re: What language differences are there?
I've not seen this, but will keep my eye out.
It's actually quite hard work to make a complaint about weights and measures as we found out when we tried to complain about a pub that was insisting on adding huge scoops of ice to pints of cider. State fair trade referred us to Federal weights & measures, and they did the opposite.
We just stopped drinking there.
S
It's actually quite hard work to make a complaint about weights and measures as we found out when we tried to complain about a pub that was insisting on adding huge scoops of ice to pints of cider. State fair trade referred us to Federal weights & measures, and they did the opposite.
We just stopped drinking there.
S
#23
Re: What language differences are there?
This place in Glebe was adding huge scoops of ice like MacDonalds - but they wouldn't have it that they were watering the beer down.
S
#24
Re: What language differences are there?
I've not seen this, but will keep my eye out.
It's actually quite hard work to make a complaint about weights and measures as we found out when we tried to complain about a pub that was insisting on adding huge scoops of ice to pints of cider. State fair trade referred us to Federal weights & measures, and they did the opposite.
We just stopped drinking there.
S
It's actually quite hard work to make a complaint about weights and measures as we found out when we tried to complain about a pub that was insisting on adding huge scoops of ice to pints of cider. State fair trade referred us to Federal weights & measures, and they did the opposite.
We just stopped drinking there.
S
#25
Re: What language differences are there?
Yeah, we tried that - they insisted it was house policy to always add a scoop of ice to cider and that they wouldn't serve it without ice. They then got smart and then started pouring short measures saying that it would have been made up by the ice.
Hence why we decided to try and escalate it to the powers that be...
S
#26
Re: What language differences are there?
Yeah, we tried that - they insisted it was house policy to always add a scoop of ice to cider and that they wouldn't serve it without ice. They then got smart and then started pouring short measures saying that it would have been made up by the ice.
Hence why we decided to try and escalate it to the powers that be...
S
Hence why we decided to try and escalate it to the powers that be...
S
#27
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Re: What language differences are there?
If you ask for a schooner in VIC, you tend to get blank looks.
Even if you ask for 10 oz or the 425ml then they might not have the glass.
In NSW a Schooner was so common.
Even if you ask for 10 oz or the 425ml then they might not have the glass.
In NSW a Schooner was so common.
#28
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Re: What language differences are there?
Wow - some really iffy booze-practices to watch out for then!
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Re: What language differences are there?
Well to be fair, I have young children, so we're not exactly drinking out all that often (as in, never really!), so the above is far more likely