Classics Reborn

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I'm an aussie I know our beer
Strangely enough apart from turning away from the big breweries in favour of the the micro breweries with the smaller bottles and expensive price tags, the other disturbing thing we are being told lately is that beer is at an all time low consumption in this country. Price is part of that (governments have worked out taxing the shit out of alcohol is lucrative), but generation today don't head down the local for a beer any more, they buy 4 packs of vodka and some weird flavour, or some other flavoured shit they can mix with an energy drink just to get smashed quickly.

 

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Imagine if you'd thought we all road kangaroos to school, hypnotised water buffalo and walked around saying "that's not a knife!"

Wait!....you don't?!!?!

 

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I don't think we've seen cans like that here for 30+ years. I'm sure aluminium replaced steel in the early 80's then there was a major advertising campaign in the late 80's that went something like "beer tastes better in glass" and people almost stopped buying cans and went back to the "stubbie" so much so stubbiie became a sought after trademark, but I don't think either company got the rights to it.

Both those names are still popular exports from two rival companies both now owned by the Japanese (I think). Tooheys is more widely drunk here than Fosters but both CUB (Fosters) and Nathan Lion (Tooheys) have multiple products that sell in much large numbers locally than what is exported.

When I was a kid there was an empty can of Fosters in the garage. I have no idea who it belonged to because my parents don't really drink. but it looked just the can in Neptune's picture. But I don't know if it was steel or aluminum. I wish I'd kept it.

 

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I'm an aussie I know our beer
Strangely enough apart from turning away from the big breweries in favour of the the micro breweries with the smaller bottles and expensive price tags, the other disturbing thing we are being told lately is that beer is at an all time low consumption in this country. Price is part of that (governments have worked out taxing the shit out of alcohol is lucrative), but generation today don't head down the local for a beer any more, they buy 4 packs of vodka and some weird flavour, or some other flavoured shit they can mix with an energy drink just to get smashed quickly.

Lol They're buying Zema...lofl

 

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Wait!....you don't?!!?!

Not since the animal rights people stepped in!

 

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When I was a kid there was an empty can of Fosters in the garage. I have no idea who it belonged to because my parents don't really drink. but it looked just the can in Neptune's picture. But I don't know if it was steel or aluminum. I wish I'd kept it.

It could be that we exported beer in steel because aluminium was too soft, I don't really know, but one reason they stopped using steal (aside from price) was because steel rusted, aluminium didn't.

 

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Not since the animal rights people stepped in!

I suppose you can't just saddle a croc too?! What a world.

 

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Lol They're buying Zema...lofl

I wouldn't even be able to name half the drinks people buy today. I do know Monster Energy drinks are sold in every bar/club/pub these days and if they aren't using that to mix bourbon and scotch they are sticking pills in it. Cider has become popular too, but again it's the micro breweries that are selling the most. There is so many brands on the market it's impossible to try them all.

 

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I suppose you can't just saddle a croc too?! What a world.

Only whimps saddle the things. Tough aussies ride them bare back. Low to the ground and go, go, go.

 

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I wouldn't even be able to name half the drinks people buy today. I do know Monster Energy drinks are sold in every bar/club/pub these days and if they aren't using that to mix bourbon and scotch they are sticking pills in it. Cider has become popular too, but again it's the micro breweries that are selling the most. There is so many brands on the market it's impossible to try them all.

Yeah man I can't keep up either. There's just dozens and dozens of these popping up every month it seems like.

 

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Only whimps saddle the things. Tough aussies ride them bare back. Low to the ground and go, go, go.

That's what I wanna hear!

 

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Yeah man I can't keep up either. There's just dozens and dozens of these popping up every month it seems like.

Yeah I don't drink that much these days but when I do it's pretty much just Jack Daniels

 

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That's what I wanna hear!

Just don't try and ride a sting ray, that's what killed the Crocodile Hunter.

 

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Aww poor Steve. That guy was so cool. Talk about someone who only gave.

 

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Interestingly enough he was not overly popular here in his early days. A lot of people just thought he was being a show pony and I think he got his break on maybe Letterman or one of those, then Oprah got interested and suddenly America seemed to really like him. We've had a lot of people over the years do what he did and many were better than him at actually making an educational TV show. He seemed to rely a lot of shock and telling people how dangerous it was and we already had a heap of that.

But there is no mistaking what him and his family have done for animal preservation, education and survival with Australia Zoo and the efforts that place put in. He was a legend but I think to Australia it was because of what he did after his TV break came.

 

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I've been seeing him since I was kid on various late night and talk shows and yeah it wasn't very educational but that's what those types of shows demand. He wouldn't have gotten on otherwise. I feel like once he got his specials and later the show is when he was allowed to educate. And I actually learned a bunch of stuff lol. And I'm sure he helped concrete the idea of appreciation and conservation I already had. Of course I can't speak to anything he did outside the US.
For me he could do no wrong. Education while he was right up in there. He really put a huge spotlight on animals that people would otherwise just be scared of and kill.
I feel like he's really needed these days. I don't think there's anyone that's really taken his place.
I was always concerned about his dog though lol

 

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Oh yeah I think he played exactly to the shows that paid him to be there and at the time tv stations in this country just weren't interested in that sort of thing, partly because we didn't have any successful late night shows, but mainly because people wanted to see docos not short five minute segments.

His kids and wife still do what he started out doing and his son is a dead ringer for him. Australia Zoo still do what he started and they employ heaps of experts in their field who handle different animals, it's an amazing operation that his visions set up.

The weird thing was that when he died it was such a freak accident that no one could have predicted it. Sure the stingray was dangerous and it was a risk but an inch either side of where it struck and he'd still be here today. It's like the stingray was a marksman its accuracy was so precise.

Funnily enough every guy we've had that has done something like Steve has also had a dog do what Steve's dog did.

 

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I do hear things about his park and family every once in a while. His daughter had a show but It was geared towards kids so I
didn't watch it. It's really great that they all are still active and bringing knowledge and appreciation about wild life to the people.
It unfortunately isn't as high profile as when Steve was alive. at least here. I feel like even though they said they were going to really honor hos legacy Discovery channel has fallen short. He really helped make them what they are.

Man you said it. His death is one of those things that as awful as it was that it seemed like it was meant to be. because it was so freak. That of all the things he faced it's a stingray on a trip that got him.

Man I wouldn't risk my dog like that! lol.

 

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Yeah Bindi was a star on one of those dancing shows over there. It was good publicity but that's about it. Bob is basically just doing what his father did and riding crocodiles We get fairly regular updates of what the family are doing over here so they aren't out of the news for long, which is good for their brand and good for what they do. There was a time where it felt like every time we turned the TV on one of the kids was on there but really that's just clever branding and while not everything they have done is for the betterment of animals what they have done brand wise is amazing. They might sell themselves to a TV show but that money goes back into brand Irwin so it's good in the end.

I guess for the guys who take their dogs everywhere it's not seen as a risk. Cattle dogs probably risk just as much trying to heard the grumpy fucking beasts that roam the paddocks. (although seeing a bull turn on a dog when it realises that it doesn't need to take orders from a little yappy four legged fur ball is funny). I had a Jack Russell once attack a fucking echinda because it thought the prickly little fucker was a threat to me, the same dog ripped a snake to pieces for the same reason. I don't know if dogs see fear in the same way as we do but some are just fearless it seems

 

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At least cattle aren't ambush predators that hide under the water lol. That would be my fear!
There are certainly dogs with no fear. I had a Norwegian Elkhound (Vikings used them to hunt bear) that was completely hostile toward everything except people which he absolutely loved!