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[quote=APAULT,258791]Well WestNor... you have introduced the noble sport of beer drinking competitions.  Now when I was a lad (haha) playing hockey goalie rather than soccer goalie, we used to down a few pints too - preferably after the game but at the annual festivals it was sometimes before the game as well :)

Now where was I...you know, as one gets older it's amazing how a yarn can get longer in the telling with each day that passes.  Ah yes, beer drinking competitions.  There is a well known one called a boat race.  Each team has eight drinkers like in a rowing eights event (you don't know what this is ...ok, well.... ah no,  to save me the time explaining just watch at the Olympics rowing in Beijing and you will remember my tale and understand what I was saying !)...yes we had to sit on the floor in  line of eight.  Usually each of us had a half pint or warm flat pommie (English) beer - on the word 'go' the first member of each team drinks his ale as fast as possible and when the glass is empty places the glass upside down on his head - so if you were inclined to cheat you'd get a beer shampoo!  Then the next team member did the same until the whole team had finished.  The first team to drink all its beer was the winner.  At the beginning of the evening it was a great way to quench a thirst, but by the end of the evening you felt a bit odd a bit like seasick..maybe that's why it was called a boat race.

At university we had a race where we ran 400m then drank a beer.  We did this around a circuit drinking 6 beers in all. I am ashamed to say I wasn't very good at this, I only came second.

Those were the days!  The days when I could down a pint (540ml if my old brain cells remember correctly) in 6 seconds, now a pint while I natter on here lasts an hour.

(Sorry to those of you who might be a bit puzzled by this yarn type narrative but I attempting to expose you to an aspect of British/Australian culture in a particular form of humour that explains the nuances of our lifestyle..or at least as experienced by  some old farts who can just remember when they were young!)  For a small fee, usually measured in pints, I would be happy to provide a translated version of this extraordinary piece of nonsense.[/quote]

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