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My goal was to give you a sporting chance this week. The net result was no barrel of laughs. No need for you to go pounding on pints, either.
Note, by the way, that something like beer is measured in glorious ounces, not in crapi-liters.
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W∴ Balboos wrote: Note, by the way, that something like beer is measured in glorious ounces, not in crapi-liters.
That's absurd! Who would walk into a pub and ask for 19.2152 ounces of beer? You'd be there for a month if you were shouting in a big round, especially if it was late in the evening.
Beer should most definitely be measured in imperial pints as God intended it to be.
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PeejayAdams wrote: in imperial pints as God intended it to be.
Absolutely true, if purchasing it in its native wild state.
Else, there's six-packs of twelve-ounce bottles.
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As much as UK pubs always deal in pints (and always will, I suspect), bottles and cans here have been metric for as long as I can remember.
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PeejayAdams wrote: bottles and cans here have been metric for as long as I can remember.
who let the kiddies in??
you realise they only went metric (not that long ago from my pov) to serve less for the same price.
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Cans? Are you saying they have cans these days??
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I'm no spring chicken and it may well be that it's the contents of said cans that have fogged my memory, but I really can't remember the changeover (and yes, I'm sure the opportunity to screw us on the deal wasn't wasted!)
I can remember tobacco moving to metric (late '80s, I'd guess and I'm still moaning about it) but not beer. Any idea when it happened?
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American goods sold here in Norway often go by imperial units, but much less now than a thirty years ago. It may be about that long ago when the "Sun-Maid Raisins" cardboard boxes got a shiny yellow banner over on a top corner, "Now: Metric Pack".
So the pack size was now 227 grams, rather than half a pound.
It took several years before they increased the pack size to 250 grams.
And: Most beer we import from GB come in half liter cans, but some of the more exclusive brands try to maintain their exclusiveness by coming in pint sized cans. If you complain about the price tag, they always point out that the can i larger.
Then, some beers are sold i US pint size, almost 10% smaller cans. Both alternatives makes it difficult to compare prices - except that nowadays, the stores always post the price per liter on the shelf. Maybe they are required by law to do that nowadays.
You might say "Who worries about a few pennies difference in price?" Then you haven't been to Norway, or at least you haven't considered beer prices here. Even when you buy the local beer in the grocery store, you won't find any cheaper than LBP 2.50 per half liter can. Import beers are typically twice that price, and may be three times as high. So you are probably not surprised that home brewing is not uncommon here. (Very few are experts, though - the great majority just buy a simple DYI kit with all ingrediens read: Add water to the syrup, add the enclosed yeast, and leave it fermenting for a couple of weeks.)
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Everyone I know from the UK that has ever been to Scandinavia has always come back saying something to the effect of "My God! I thought that our beer was expensive but it's just ridiculous over there!"
I'd definitely be in the home-brew club at those prices!
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Actually, the primary reason why I started home brewing myself was that thirty years ago, there was hardly any beer import at all, and all domestic beer was of the lager type. On trips to GB I acquired a taste for bitter, and since you couldn't buy it here (at least not in the grocery store on the corner), the only option was to brew it yourself.
It must be admitted that one thing that the North Sea Oil has given Norwegians is a much higher alcohol consumption. A significant part of our oil money goes to having others do what we once did ourselves. Like illegal moonshining  - there is very left of that nowadays (earlier known as Norway's biggest home industry). Nowadays we import both spirits and beer, to avoid the hassle of making our own.
One of my colleagues, an American fellow, invited our entire department to participate in a home brewing project, for making special beers - he is on the hobby expert level. And he was very eager to have his own poultry operation, to get egg that tastes like egg rather than nothing, and hen that tastes like hen rather than chicken that tastes like whatever spice it is soaked in. I follow him a long way, although I haven't set up my own chicken house yet. Then, a couple weeks ago, another colleague revealed that the reason why he had developed such an expertise in making your own food is that his parents are so dirt poor that they would starve if they had to buy all their food. Their son, who is an excellent, highly educated professional thanks to academic grants, goes to Norway to earn money to send home to his parents in the USA for them to buy food...
I am offtracking a little bit here, but I would put in a recommendation for a really funny children's book that won a "Newbury Medal" (awarded by the American Library Asocciation). After reading (and chuckling throughout) this book, I wrote a letter to the author, Susan Patron, asking if the poverty really could be that bad, or if it was meant as sort of a dystopic world. She returned a very nice letter, telling that lots of people have that standard of living (or lack of...) in the desert districts of Cailfornia. If you read the book, you will understand why I bring it up here. And do read the book! It certainly deserves the medal!
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There's a lovely line on poverty in The Poor Mouth by the great Irish novelist Flann O'Brien: "All I had before me was a plateful of hunger. And not even a bit of salt to go with it!"
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No no, it's John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever nebula 
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Is Lip Sync Battle just a kissing show in France?
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is that a thing?
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Maybe French kissing in the USA
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Can one lip sync to a mime performance?
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Infoworld's "Off the record" blog[^]?
It's now almost a year since the last story was posted.. The signs are clear, most likely people nowadays rather sell their stories themselves to the media instead of anonymously feeding my lust for entertainment and stories about horrible workplaces.
I only have a signature in order to let @DalekDave follow my posts.
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They're called "whistle blowers" now...
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The Register does a couple of weekly features on similar lines - On Friday they do one called "On Call", usually about dealing with moronic support calls, and on Monday's it's "Who, Me?" which is a mea culpa about royally stuffing something up.
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Wake up Griff!
The reason I didn't put a note in my calendar to post the CCC today was ... I didn't win. 
@petepjksolutionscom (pkfox) did - he posted about one minute ahead of me.
I plead stupidity brought on by a head cold ...
Pete, do you want todays? Or leave mine up there?
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Was just about to say that
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Well done for posting - I plead stupidity for having amnesia and a head cold 
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Quote: I didn't win.
You clearly were involved in a fight again 
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Qualified to be right or wrong (11)
Sorry about that - I forgot to put a note in my calendar...
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