Schooner or Pot or Middy

[getthefooty]

I agree that schooners are an ideal size to drink. There's something about the smaller surface area of the glass that makes it easier to drink and they will never go lukewarm.

I think the key to not being ****ed over by pricing is always knowing what you're in for before you go out, target happy hours, and get pissed beforehand. I just refuse to pay $9+ for a pint every weekend, it's not feasible. I mean, the Workers Club has $6 jugs on a Monday. That's pretty ideal for students. New Guernica $2 pots on Thursdays, if you're into that kind of scene. There's some good deals still out there, but generally if you just rock up to an average pub on a Saturday night you have to expect to be gouged.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I agree that schooners are an ideal size to drink. There's something about the smaller surface area of the glass that makes it easier to drink and they will never go lukewarm.

I think the key to not being ****** over by pricing is always knowing what you're in for before you go out, target happy hours, and get pissed beforehand. I just refuse to pay $9+ for a pint every weekend, it's not feasible. I mean, the Workers Club has $6 jugs on a Monday. That's pretty ideal for students. New Guernica $2 pots on Thursdays, if you're into that kind of scene. There's some good deals still out there, but generally if you just rock up to an average pub on a Saturday night you have to expect to be gouged.

Is the Workers still busy on a Monday? I remember the way it was heaving until about 12pm then go intensely quiet as soon as the $2 pots stopped flowing. I never knew how cheap their jugs were.

Also, so many people seem to dig, rightfully, schooners but then when you ask a pub if they've got them they look at you like you're a prick. I mean I am a prick but not because I want a schooner.

Then there's all the shit little parts of bad pubs, usually gentrified holes with shiny walls, but has anyone else experienced the rareness of being given a schooner or pint with a jug? Probably the only way to make sinking jugs anything other than fun.

A way to tell a shit pub: when you have to get ID out. True.

 

[getthefooty]

Is the Workers still busy on a Monday? I remember the way it was heaving until about 12pm then go intensely quiet as soon as the $2 pots stopped flowing. I never knew how cheap their jugs were.

Relatively. It used to be insanely busy which wasn't great because it's not the biggest of pubs and was hard to get a seat. It's cheap beers till 10 though which can catch you out - I ordered 3 pints at 3 minutes past 10 and paid $27 for them having not spent even close to that beforehand. Seems to get busier as the night progresses. It's always been $1.50 pots, $3 pints, $6 jugs which is logical...

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Hipster joint I take it?

 

[HBF]

Pot or a pint when I go out.

 

[getthefooty]

Hipster joint I take it?

I don't know what hipster is anymore. Any pub or bar in Fitzroy seemingly gets labelled a hipster joint. I suspect the term is overused. There are probably still hipster douchebags that wear glasses with no lens and have shitty little moustaches but honestly most people I see when out just seem to be regular people.

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

So it's hipster. Cheers might have a look

 

[Silent Alarm]

It's one of the least hipster joints in Fitzroy, as getthefooty said it's a pretty varied group – except for the bar staff. I did a few nights there and it was unbearable shit, conversation about K-holing, spiritual enlightenment at Meredith festival, and one dude literally rolled into work on rollerblades. You know the real hipsters when they use the term "jock." And they did.

 

[Plugger35]

People still use rollerblades? I guess they're so old now that they've become retro hipster cool.

 

[Silent Alarm]

People still use rollerblades? I guess they're so old now that they've become retro hipster cool.

Yeah it's like irony or something

 

[The Passenger]

People still use rollerblades? I guess they're so old now that they've become retro hipster cool.

i was sitting in la roche in st kilda a few years back on a sunday morning easing my way through some very tough beers - made slightly easier by the $10 jug price tag - when one of the st kilda crazy's came screaming through on roller blades.

he must have been doing about 30km/h plus. yelling "get out of my way", "move it" etc,. at the various pedestrians in his way... there was about four of us and we sat there startled looking at each other "did that just happen?"

then about 10 seconds later he came back coming from the other direction moving even quicker (he must have whipped around a lamp post like the apollo 13 crew did with the moon) yelling the same stuff when he suddenly put his hands to his head and pointed at this kid and yelled like homer simpson "ARRRRRGHHHH. a child" and darted off into the acland street traffic without looking, across the tram tracks (no trams) and onto the footpath on the other side of the road and into the entrance to the mall where coles in located never to be seen again.

the whole thing over within 60 seconds.... it was truly one of the most bizarre minutes of my life.

 

[Plugger35]

i was sitting in la roche in st kilda a few years back on a sunday morning easing my way through some very tough beers - made slightly easier by the $10 jug price tag - when one of the st kilda crazy's came screaming through on roller blades.

he must have been doing about 30km/h plus. yelling "get out of my way", "move it" etc,. at the various pedestrians in his way... there was about four of us and we sat there startled looking at each other "did that just happen?"

then about 10 seconds later he came back coming from the other direction moving even quicker (he must have whipped around a lamp post like the apollo 13 crew did with the moon) yelling the same stuff when he suddenly put his hands to his head and pointed at this kid and yelled like homer simpson "ARRRRRGHHHH. a child" and darted off into the acland street traffic without looking, across the tram tracks (no trams) and onto the footpath on the other side of the road and into the entrance to the mall where coles in located never to be seen again.

the whole thing over within 60 seconds.... it was truly one of the most bizarre minutes of my life.

I could never be a crazy rollerblading hipster, I only tried rollerblading once and I was hopeless at it.

It wasn't just rollerblading either, it was rollerblading hockey that was played on a tennis court, kind of like ice hockey. I got roped into it by my mate, who was a leisure instructor at a Pontins holiday park in England, back when I staying there with him as a visitor. I fell over about 3 times just going a couple of hundred metres from the equipment storeroom to the tennis courts and about 300 times trying to play hockey against kids who were rollerblading rings around me. Thankfully we had all the protective equipment like knee pads, elbow pads and helmets but I was still pretty sore afterwards.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

It's one of the least hipster joints in Fitzroy, as getthefooty said it's a pretty varied group – except for the bar staff. I did a few nights there and it was unbearable shit, conversation about K-holing, spiritual enlightenment at Meredith festival, and one dude literally rolled into work on rollerblades.

 

[Paul Kersey]

I drink pints everywhere I go in Melbourne. They're all imperial.

Whoever came up with this 'guide' has no idea.