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Monday, July 13th, 2009
The much loved Manly local Audrey Myrden in March this year was delivered the devastating news that she was suffering from Glioblastoma Multiforme (an aggressive brain tumor). Audrey’s case is unfortunately considered terminal and very rare. But despite the odds Audrey is determined to fight it. Afraid of leaving her young boys to grow up without their ‘mummy’ and her husband a widower she has shown an immense amount of courage in her battle. To find out the full details of the families plight, you should read Audrey’s story posted over at her blog on the Audrey’s wish website.
I have personally known Audrey for around 9 years and had the pleasure working along side her at the Barking Frog Cafe, in 2001. She is a fantastic lady with a heart of gold, who in this case has unfortunately been dealt a rough hand. To help ease the financial burden on the Myrden family covering medical bills and the upkeep of the young boys a couple of fund raising events are coming up, which need your support!
July 30th Golf Day: This may fall on a weekday, but if you love your golf this is a rare opportunity to play the Manly course not to be missed! The fun kicks off at 10am on the green, and is followed by a cocktail reception at 5pm. Tickets are $185 per person for the full day or $75 per person for just the cocktail reception, check out the site for the full details.
August 15th Benefit: A fashion parade and cocktail evening at the International College of Management Sydney in Manly. This black tie evening should be great with fashion, entertainment and silent auctions! Tickets are $75 per person, bookings can be made along with the full details of the event over at the Audrey’s Wish site.
Donations can also be made at the Audrey’s Wish website, for those that can’t make the events but would like to show their support for this well loved Manly family.
Tags: Charity, Cocktails, Golf
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Monday, June 15th, 2009
Ever been left unattended in a bar full of booze and not been able to decide what to drink? No either have i, but if in some strange parallel universe this scenario was to happen i would have no trouble deciding on a tasty shot to drink with the iShot machine application.
After installing the application on an Apple iPhone or iPod touch, simply load it up, shake the device, the reel of the old school style pokie will start spinning and you will be presented with the recipe for a shot to drink.
You can then add the selected shot to your favorites list and rate it, the rating is uploaded to a central server for a social drinking 2.0 feel. If you don’t like the random approach to choosing a drink you can always just browse the drinks database, which contains the recipes for over 3,000 shooters.
Your search over the database can even further be refined to limit the recipes returned to certain types of spirits to match your tastes and spirit types to hand. At $2.49 AUD this app won’t cost you the earth and if you like drinking shots or the challenge of making them, i think its worth the purchase just for a mobile database of shot recipes.
iTunes Link: iShot Machine page
Publisher: Oasys Mobile
Tags: Cocktails, iphone, ipod, shots
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Friday, April 10th, 2009
Claims have been made that Channel 9 encouraged participants of its Ladette To Lady reality tv show to partake in binge drinking during the filming of the show. According to a contestant Bianca Stevens channel 9 brought her “goon” and then allegedly took her and a mate out on the town spending another $150 dollars on getting them tanked. Really is this a surprise? Mix semi retarded television wanna bees, with scum bag TV producers and it had a fairly predictable outcome.
Of course the contestants are taking no responsibility for getting blind and its all Channel 9’s fault they got in a state. If channel nine knows what is good for them they will see a follow up reality show in this where they take contestants from the shallow end of the gene pool and teach them to take responsibility for their own actions.
Channel 9 is understandably trying to distance its self from the claims it trys to lure innocent young ladies to wreck and ruin via strong drink, with a spokesman saying “We of course reject any assertion that these girls were somehow plied with alcohol. The whole point of the program is to reflect the participant’s typical behavior , which is precisely what happened.”
Tags: binge drinking, goon, television
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Thursday, April 2nd, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald today published a sad story informing us that the Government plans to raise the taxes on all beer wine and spirits to help boost the budget by 3 billion dollars.
So if if you think drink prices are steep already expect it to get worse, I myself would prefer they just stopped spending the money they have on crap as opposed to poaching us for more, but as if that’s likely to happen.
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Saturday, March 7th, 2009
Kevin Rudd since coming to power has been pretty keen to prove himself the king of Wowsers, first with his tax hike on premixed drinks then with his war on binge drinking. Finding yourself in incarcerated, assaulted, or lying in a car wreck by the side of the road normally has more to do with dickheads rather than booze, but if the government ad’s are to be believed any of these and worse could happen every time you crack the top off a cold stubby.
Rudd’s campaign has cost a pretty penny but then again you don’t get comedy writers of any caliber cheap, looking at their website whatareyoudoingtoyourself.com (as if i can remember a URL that long after a bender!). I saw this beautiful paragraph warning kids how your night can go downhill if you hit the piss a bit too quick:
When you’re falling over, pissing yourself, or having a go at someone it’s too late to realise you’ve hit it too fast. It could have been a great night. Now it’s an embarrassment, or worse.
Hmm definitely some top notch advice they are offering there, and if i thought a website with a super long URL was the end of it though i couldn’t have been more wrong. Going to the loo at the Harbour View Hotel in the city the other week i was greeted by the gem below. I have long admired the posters of ice addicts passing out and ruining their lives on the walls of the men’s toilets, I cant argue with their placement of these ones though. After all if you are indeed binge drinking you are going to be looking this poster every 20 minutes or so for the duration of your night every time you visit the urinal. Well that is until before you end up incarcerated, assaulted, or lying in a car wreck by the side of the road anyhow.
Click for full size image.
Tags: binge, drinking, kevin rudd
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Friday, March 6th, 2009
Had this blog post from the Sydney Morning Herald’s Jamie Watson yesterday titled “A big beer gutful of hippie brews” emailed to me this morning. The blog post had struck a nerve with most friends of mine, regarding marketers ability to take some thing already perfected and destroy it, through multiple “variations”. They say variety is the spice of life but there seems to be a growing consensus this saying only stretches so far before you end up with something not fit to pass over the lips of a dog.
I remember the days when like beer, buying margarine and milk was a simple choice these days i have trouble finding the original through the swarms of “improved” variations. I think it also highlights the gullibility of the majority of the general public, giving up quality for some imagined benefit, the quote below says it all really:
Skinny beer is similarly pathetic. The truth is that if you want to get
rid of a beer gut it takes hundreds of hours of vigorous exercise. Sitting
on a bar stool drinking some reformulated low-carb concoction isn’t going
to do the trick
Tags: Beer, marketing
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