What if you lived in Australia?

[Tmee2020]

Had a trip with a couple of mates towards the end of last year. We played three golf courses, The Murray course at Yarrawonga and the two at Tocumwal which we mix-and-matched between the four lots of nine holes.It's a great set-up.

The golf pics are mostly small, I just dredged them off the net.

Murray course:



Tocumwal:



This was our digs at Bendigo, it was a beautiful old place restored, and brilliant value. We stayed there Friday and Saturday night, I couldn't get over how cheap it was.



The burnt-out old mill is on the railway line at Tocumwal. An example of rural decay in a lot of these places. The golf course is a big employer for the local area. The Terminus Hotel is probably about 1890-1900. It's missing a bit off the corner on the top verandah, stll looks great though, like so many pubs in country Australia.

The model of the Liberator is at the entrance to the golf course. Tocumwal was a big RAAF base during the war.



Our digs at Tocumwal:

[9876543210]

judy84,

Originally Posted by judy84

I remember when the pubs closed at 6 pm. Men finished worked and drank as much as they could in the hour or so until closing time...hence "the six o'clock swill".

I think I can do you one better.

Back in the early 70's I worked a few summers as a temp at a couple of factories. Just like clockwork, at noon, most of the factory employees would clock out and then sprint for a bar just a block away from the factory. Once there, many of these employees would just chug down the beers (did it a few times myself, with negative results). It was the thing to do for a lot of these people.

Wonder if many people still do that today?

[Sir Honkers]

Originally Posted by 9876543210

Back in the early 70's I worked a few summers as a temp at a couple of factories. Just like clockwork, at noon, most of the factory employees would clock out and then sprint for a bar just a block away from the factory. Once there, many of these employees would just chug down the beers (did it a few times myself, with negative results). It was the thing to do for a lot of these people.
Wonder if many people still do that today?

Back in the late sixties, or maybe early seventies, one of my cousins used to work for Carlton And United Breweries in Abbotsford and the canteen supplied beer at lunchtime and after work.
Imagine the kerfuffle if that happened these days.

[blondifan]

I did one Saturday morning with a serious hangover in early '81, walking around on 9" beams above a boiler at the Cascade brewery in 35C temperatures, in Totalitaria. All you could smell was flat beer.

I managed to make it to morning smoko, before throwing up.

The guys who worked there took 'beer breaks'. Dunno if they still do.

[blondifan]

...according to the Australia Institute, the mining industry received government subsidies of up to $4.5 billion dollars in the past year alone.

Receiving over $400 million in direct subsidies, the cost to the taxpayer is compounded by infrastructure the industry relies on, as well as tax cuts and loopholes to which the ordinary Australian has no access.

Australia's largest coal miner, Glencore, paid virtually no tax at all over the past three years, despite its $15 billion income.

They achieved this by taking unnecessarily large loans from their overseas associates, almost guaranteeing that not a single cent earned by them will stay inside our borders to benefit the Australian public.

https://newmatilda.com/2014/07/22/li...lfare-bludgers

[MaxJoker]

I`d have already been president for three decades (Elected aged eleven) and be waging a twenty nine year successful war with the rest of the world , that had left only Malta as the last bastion (I said bastion) of rebellion.

Uh huh I agree me forum Mates , probably time to try out those dust gathering Nukes

[effCup]

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

I`d have already been president for three decades (Elected aged eleven) and be waging a twenty nine year successful war with the rest of the world

Right, but would you have been able to match Bob Hawke's (then) world record for downing a yard glass (#2)?

No, alright, he probably wasn't 11 at the time ... though curiously, his record was 11 secs.

[Tmee2020]

Originally Posted by effCup

Right, but would you have been able to match Bob Hawke's (then) world record for downing a yard glass (#2)?

No, alright, he probably wasn't 11 at the time ... though curiously, his record was 11 secs.

And this was Bob at the 5th Ashes Test at the SCG, 12 months ago, reprising that role.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hima6KCQ-yE

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by tmee2000

The Murray course at Yarrawonga and the two at Tocumwal which we mix-and-matched between the four lots of nine holes.It's a great set-up.

Originally Posted by MaxJoker

I`d have already been president for three decades

Good Lord That's a double edged sword if I ever heard of one

Hey, Pres Joker, do tell me, would you re- introduce public floggings

[andw]

Originally Posted by Estreeter

Hey, Pres Joker, do tell me, would you re introduce public floggings

...and of particular importance, will you ensure that floggings will fall under the "sport's anti-siphoning rules" ensuring free-to-air (as opposed to pay-tv) televisual feasts for all?

If so, I might just vote you in for the fourth decade.