5pm means it's okay to have a beer, right?

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do you have hard and fast rules about certain things like this?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:04 (twenty years ago)

BEER THIRTY, DUDE.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

Yes; it's always noon somewhere in the world.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

It's a Leffe. I love Brooklyn delis so so much.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

go for it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Lunchtime beer (or wine) is one of life's great pleasures. I draw the line at booze before noon though, unless it's champagne-based and it's a special occasion. Or I'm on holiday.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:07 (twenty years ago)

Or it's a day that ends in "y".

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:09 (twenty years ago)

That's so wrong. 5pm = cocktail hour.

― robster (robster), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:10 (twenty years ago)

I will admit to having been in to watch Premier League games at a bar here in California and having my first pint at 6ish. Makes for interesting days.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:13 (twenty years ago)

Dude, how long did you live in England?

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

The first beer of the day's too good to leave til the afternoon.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Long enough to know that two-pint lunches are the work of the devil.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:17 (twenty years ago)

(helpful hint: you're meant to have food as well)

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

food = a packet of scampi fries, obviously

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:18 (twenty years ago)

Oh, so I'm supposed to slave in the backyard for three hours and then just sit there for another hour because it's not five o'clock yet? Nuh-uh.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:19 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I'm not knocking that! I just wondered if anybody felt a little tug and then looked at the clock and stopped themselves.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:20 (twenty years ago)

I just wondered if anybody felt a little tug and then looked at the clock and stopped themselves.

Only because my parents were home.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:21 (twenty years ago)

Dude, 11:30 am means it's okay to have a beer. Unless it's a workday. In which case, 5 pm means it's IMPORTANT to have a beer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:22 (twenty years ago)

I just wondered if anybody felt a little tug and then ... stopped themselves.

Only maybe if I was in danger of ending up under the host.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

Lunch is a GO, as far as I'm concerned.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah. my "workday" these days is very ill-defined, however. i feel the need to set limits on myself.

God, Leffe is incredible.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:24 (twenty years ago)

If you're hungover in the morning, it's more productive to have a beer before work. Before brushing your teeth, of course.

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:25 (twenty years ago)

Dude, how long did you live in England?

I never have.

Wine with lunch is great. However, I hate mixing work and drinks so I never do that during the week.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:28 (twenty years ago)

no work: after noon
work: after work
taking long flights with stopovers: no rules apply. drink whenever there's time in between flights regardless of time

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:34 (twenty years ago)

Ditto holidays. This Thanksgiving, I was HOUSED by 4pm.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:35 (twenty years ago)

Can I just interject here and tell people that drinking anything above, say, Red Stripe right out of the bottle should be punishable by law? YOU NEED TO SMELL IT, PEOPLE.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:37 (twenty years ago)

MMMMMMMMMM

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:38 (twenty years ago)

ah, rules

― detoxyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:41 (twenty years ago)

i need to STOP the beer at 5 pm

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:43 (twenty years ago)

And switch to bourbon?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

is it possible to get "bourbon belly"?

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

No, that's the beauty of it! Diet Coke and Maker's, please!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

bourbon it is, then.

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

What kind of cheese goes best with beer?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:45 (twenty years ago)

I'm switching to beer. BEER-OH.

― giboyeux (skowly), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

mozerella stix

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:46 (twenty years ago)

Bourbon still got plenty calories, I'm sure.

x post I don't like to eat when I'm drinking, but a decent mature cheddar = graet with beer.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:47 (twenty years ago)

i'm going with day-glo orange cheese spread

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:48 (twenty years ago)

First time I did acid I was eating one of those orange Kraft slices when it kicked in and I ended up mashing that shit everywhere.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

I like that this is all purely theoretical for the rest of us but Trace is LIVIN' THA DREAM.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:50 (twenty years ago)

i didn't realize acid could do that to a person!

xpost wallow in my decadence!~!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:51 (twenty years ago)

dude i am totally drinking gin as we "speak"

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:52 (twenty years ago)

I'm eating cheese. I think if I drink today I might die.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

Noodle, you're going to die anyway. Live a little.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:54 (twenty years ago)

haha someone told me a few months ago i was getting an "alcoholic's body" :-(

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:55 (twenty years ago)

x post

Savage bender yesterday. My liver has locked itself in the cupboard under the stairs and is refusing to come out.

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 22:59 (twenty years ago)

Ah, thanks for the suggestion. It's 3:12 pm right now and this beer has turned my day around.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

i think beer before 5 makes people start thinking this is sexy:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/behold.jpg

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

you can be the guinea pig, walter

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:13 (twenty years ago)

A guinea pig and a mouse? You're sick.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:18 (twenty years ago)

Beer in the morning means things are going either really well or really bad. I feel that, pre-10am, beer cannot be a "Sure, why not" kind of beverage.

Positive - Football Sundays, vacation by the pool, Football Saturdays, yardwork on weekends, Hair of the Dog, etc.

Negative - Johnny Cash singing "Sunday Morning Coming Down", "I gotta get drunk before I face that rush hour traffic", Hair of the Dog, beer on your cornflakes

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Anytime you can hold a beer is an okay time for a beer.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

It's a Leffe. I love Brooklyn delis so so much.

1) leffe pwnzors
2) brooklyn delis pwnzor

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:38 (twenty years ago)

It's only unacceptible to drink before noon. The surefire cure for this is to sleep until 11.59!

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 08:59 (twenty years ago)

but that leaves you with a whole sixty seconds of AGONY

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:05 (twenty years ago)

No, that's the beauty of it! Diet Coke and Maker's, please!

Heathen.

― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:06 (twenty years ago)

xpost jbr i was about to say that!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:09 (twenty years ago)

If you weren't meant to drink before noon, pubs wouldn't open at 11.

And supermarkets at 8.

Fuck it, they can sell you booze whenever they want now, can't they?

― Amity Wong (noodle vague), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

i once tried to buy beer on a sunday and they told me it was too early and they couldn't sell it to me til later. :-\

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

You should be in church, you heathen. It's so that the only booze available on Sunday mornings is communion wine.

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

actually, this was after my church gig!

i would expect this in sc (there you can't buy it at all on sun) but not ny!

― tres letraj (tehresa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:27 (twenty years ago)

i once tried to buy beer on a sunday and they told me it was too early and they couldn't sell it to me til later. :-\

Sounds like Texas. No beer before noon on Sunday, no beer after midnight any night. I'm so glad I live in a yankee city now. You can buy beer at 7 am anywhere, any day.

Fuck a Bible Belt.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:29 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and liquor? Cut off is nine pm. Texas is a bastard about this kind of stuff. It's not like they're preventing alcoholism or anything.

― Paunchy Stratego (kenan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

is it really true that it's always noon somewhere in the world?

(what about when it's 1-59 minutes past the hour?)

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

It's always noon somewhere in the universe.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:19 (twenty years ago)

Yes, but on some planets, their days are earth months or even EARTH YEARS so their noon could last our entire lifetime!

― Control your ponies, children! (kate), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:21 (twenty years ago)

Anyway, a beer at 5pm/after-work is one of live's small regular luxuries. Who has been telling you otherwise?

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 11:44 (twenty years ago)

2pm means it's okay to have a beer, right?

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

It's not just for breakfast anymore, you know.

― Lars and Jagger (Ex Leon), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:09 (twenty years ago)

excellent.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:10 (twenty years ago)

I believe the grain content can be reasonably counted as 'lunch'.

― robster (robster), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and liquor? Cut off is nine pm. Texas is a bastard about this kind of stuff

Well, you'd sure hate Canada. Particularly Ontario. All beer, wine and liquor has to be purchsed from provincial government-operated stores, and it's only in the last few years that they have started keeping 'reasonable' hours, like, you know, open after 6pm or on Sundays...

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Still, nothing comes close to the absurdity of Sweden's control-freakishness over alcohol sales... (OK, I'm sure there are FAR stricter countries, but I was just irritated by not being able to find a bouze store ANYWHERE in Stockholm.)

― Rob Bolton (Rob Bolton), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:20 (twenty years ago)

robster is wise.

― jeffrey (johnson), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

Thanks to the new licensing laws, passed by Tony B-inge-air, in the UK it is now okay to have a beer at 5am.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 15:17 (twenty years ago)

Scottish licensing laws are arse on a Sunday because when the football kicks off at 12.30 you can't have a pre-match pint. Also when the matches occasionally kick off at noon and you are watching them in the pub, you have to stand there with a can of Irn Bru until 12.30 when you are then trampled in the stampede for the bar.

In my old days of coming down from up North to Glasgow to watch football, starting drinking on the bus/train at 9am was nothing out of the ordinary.

I love how this is a thread for the drinkers and no-one has said "no, you shouldn't be drinking whenever the hell you want".

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

Hand's cheese poster is fun!

― the bellefox, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

Thank you, pinefox. I'm not sure where I found that, or exactly why, at this point. I may have been tipsy.

Spaten.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:02 (twenty years ago)

I'm not sure where I found that

"found"

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

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