I need to know....

[cracka]

No disrespect, but obviously you haven't been affected. There are many that have, by losing income from losing their job or receiving a reduced wage under job keeper, and then having to either pay large increases in mortgage payments or unable to rent.

There were instances of some people being better off under job keeping but I suspect that's the exception rather than the rule.

People who were able to ride the wave have prospered during the same period and the gap has widened, I think, much more than is usually the case due to these extra-ordinary events.

We can agree to disagree.

I was under the impression it was the rule rather than the exception as it wasn't thought through properly & easily rorted

[cracka]

Harvey Norman sales may be down by what about Amazon and Kogan etc?

And you can’t compare 50 year old white collar workers with older kids and minimal mortgage to 30 year old blue collar workers with young families and big mortgages.
It’s the blue collar families that are struggling the most

Don't put all blue collar in that bucket. I can tell you most blue collar would be earning well above my white collar salary.

About f****** time I say

[amber_fluid]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

[Brodlach]

Wedgie goes enough to cover us all.


I only go if I’m having a meal.

[Booney]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

Wednesday night 8 ball around the Port pubs and home every other week. ( Had a moment last night, broke in our doubles game and potted out. Haven't done that for years. )

Thursday after work I pop into the Woodshed for a couple on the way home, usually meet Mrs Boon there when she finishes.

Friday might have 1 or 2 at the Alberton after work.

Saturday 4 of us get together from 12:30 until 2pm, have two or three and some bloke time to have a yarn and a punt.

So, yeah.

[Spargo]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

I only go during happy hours or when I can use my free pint tickets when you enter your footy tips. I refuse to pay $9+ for a pint.
I still pop in 2-3 times a week, up until a few months ago (work change) I’d go most nights for 2 or 3.

[Booney]

At my local, on selected beers ( Pale, Draught, Super Dry, Carlton, Great Northern )

Mon-Fri 5-8pm $8 imperials
Sat-Sun 12-6pm $8 imperials

Just gone up from $7

[Brodlach]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

Wednesday night 8 ball around the Port pubs and home every other week. ( Had a moment last night, broke in our doubles game and potted out. Haven't done that for years. )

Thursday after work I pop into the Woodshed for a couple on the way home, usually meet Mrs Boon there when she finishes.

Friday might have 1 or 2 at the Alberton after work.

Saturday 4 of us get together from 12:30 until 2pm, have two or three and some bloke time to have a yarn and a punt.

So, yeah.

You’re a social butterfly

[Mr Beefy]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

I do, I drop into the Alberton most weekends. But drink more often at footy club, when its footy season.

[MW]

Very rarely, maybe once a month if that.
Nothing to do with cost, just not my thing.

[Booney]

My ability to do so is having 27 and 23 year old children and a wife who doesn't get upset if I pop in for an hour here and there, I'm not time poor with commitments with junior sport as I once was.

Saturday really is a great hour or so, check in with a couple of mates how their week was and how they're going, it's an open honest chat that I reckon is good for us all.

[Mr Beefy]

Very rarely, maybe once a month if that.
Nothing to do with cost, just got no mates to drink with.

EFA

[MW]

My ability to do so is having 27 and 23 year old children and a wife who doesn't get upset if I pop in for an hour here and there, I'm not time poor with commitments with junior sport as I once was.

Saturday really is a great hour or so, check in with a couple of mates how their week was and how they're going, it's an open honest chat that I reckon is good for us all.

Yeah agree, my hour or so debrief is heading to the Adelaide hills (Belair, Cleland, Shepherds Hill etc) with a mate and going for a run on the trails, and solving the worlds problems and our own. We do that 3-4 times a week. I guess that's my equivilent without the beer although on occasion one of us breaks out a couple after the run

[MW]

Very rarely, maybe once a month if that.
Nothing to do with cost, just got no mates to drink with.

EFA

you are right about one part, no pub mates to drink with. We are all like minded, some of us have younger (3 under 7 at 50! ouch) and mid aged (14-19) kids, and no inclination to overspend at the pub when we catch up at our houses (we all live close) and crack a beer, have a swim, talk shit, watch some footy etc.

[Pseudo]

Been going to the local sports club more often than any pub these days. Typically after work on irregular Fridays, meeting up with 2 or 3 other likeminded fellows for brews and bullshit.

[Vamos]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

I go probably 2 out of 3 Saturdays in Spring/Summer, sets me up nicely for an assault on some late night dim sims and ridiculous posting

Same goes for Thursday Night in Spring/Summer but at the Bowls/Footy club

[Wedgie]

Wedgie goes enough to cover us all.


I only go if I’m having a meal.

Not as much as I used to.
Usually the wife has to drag me there as I get bored at the pub plus I have a great setup in my mancave much to the wife's chagrin. Nothing to do with prices in fact I try to avoid Happy Hours. (Mind you it does help my savings as I'm planning a 2 month trip to the US)

We usually go for a meal and quiz night every Thursday night at the Halfway (theyre changing to once a month soon so that will change) and out for a meal and a band every 2nd Friday at the Excelsior. Plus other pubs when bands are on.
On top of that maybe once a week at the Hope to put in tips but didn't go once last weekend.
The wife has today and tomorrow off so might have a couple of counter meals.

Depends mainly on bands for me, for eg tonight I'll be at the Casino for a band and at the Walkers Arms after the footy tomorrow night for another band and mates catchup but will probably spend the rest of the weekend at home or watching the son play footy.

[Mr Beefy]

My ability to do so is having 27 and 23 year old children and a wife who doesn't get upset if I pop in for an hour here and there, I'm not time poor with commitments with junior sport as I once was.

Saturday really is a great hour or so, check in with a couple of mates how their week was and how they're going, it's an open honest chat that I reckon is good for us all.

Similarly, my kids are 24 and 23 and I am happily divorced

[Dutchy]

Friday night at the golf club for 9 holes and then beers for me with mates. Hardly ever head to the pub unless its for a feed.

Got some mates who have excellent backyard shed/deck set ups to watch sport so that where most drinking gets done.

[whufc]

Does anyone still drink at their local pub?
And if so how often?
I haven’t been to my local for 2-3 years now due to being time poor and also cost of beers these days.

Yeah couple of times a week but we dont have much else to do in our town

Eat there most Saturday nights.

Not uncommon however to go in there 3-4 a week (especially during footy season) but have a softy or even a coffee instead and a yarn to the locals.