Thecornershop
@Thecornershop@lemmy.world
- Comment on What is the shittest beer in Australia? 1 week ago:
I had a huge house party back in the late 90s when at uni. Filled the bathtub with ice, bought 4 cases of the cheapest beer I could get to make sure people didn’t go without even though it was byo. Party was huge. Band in backyard, cops coming, fence pailing going in the fire huge. About 3am we ran out of beer and so it wound down and everyone crashed out or went home.
Got up in the morning and there was at least two cases worth of this beer still in the tub. Went out back to pick up all the empties and almost every opened can of this beer was still almost full but had been abandoned.
This beer was so utterly bad that a bunch of rowdy drunk brike uni students wouldn’t even drink it!
That beer was Tasman Bitter.
- Comment on Double demerits begin now within NSW/ACT/WA (for 11+ days) 3 months ago:
As someone who grew up in NSW and moved to Vic after driving for a decade, I can say that in my experience a lot of people in NSW consistently drive at 15- 20 over on the freeway (especially Pacific hwy to Newcastle) and consistently 10 over on other roads. During double demerits they drop down in speed a bit.
In Victoria people seem to not drive at the same amount over the speed limit. More like 10 over on freeways and 5-10 over on other roads.
I always thought this was to a difference in policing. In NSW I never heard of anyone being booked for less than 10km over. In Victoria I have heard of people being done for as little as 4km over, and when I first moved here I got done for doing 6km over in an 80 zone (old habits died that day).
An additional observation, post COVID it feels like Victorians are driving faster, not to the same level as NSW but headed towards it.