[PublicAnimalNo9]

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

At school functions and meals....I shit you not....there were often bottles of beer or kaoliang(116 proof hooch made from sorghum) on the teachers tables. I remember visiting my wife's school on a few occasions and going to the principals office where we(the principal, myself and one of the VPs) knocked back a bottle or a few shots. The Chinese like to mislead foreigners about what they are drinking, often calling everything except beer, wine.

When I was teaching at a high school in Germany, we hosted an array of foreign students and teachers (10 students, 2-3 teachers per group from 7 countries) from all around Europe for a student film project. At a student post-project mixer, the teachers from Bulgaria broke out their rocket-fuel Rakia and hoooo-boy good times

Teaching in the Czech Republic was 1-1 with business professionals and students and the like, and it was quite often we'd just meet at the pub... they'd pay for my drinks, and then pay for my time and then we'd keep drinking...

Remind me why I'm looking for an office job in Nova Scotia again?!

Cuz yer liver's gonna sue you for non-support if you keep it up

[martin14]

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

At school functions and meals....I shit you not....there were often bottles of beer or kaoliang(116 proof hooch made from sorghum) on the teachers tables. I remember visiting my wife's school on a few occasions and going to the principals office where we(the principal, myself and one of the VPs) knocked back a bottle or a few shots. The Chinese like to mislead foreigners about what they are drinking, often calling everything except beer, wine.

When I was teaching at a high school in Germany, we hosted an array of foreign students and teachers (10 students, 2-3 teachers per group from 7 countries) from all around Europe for a student film project. At a student post-project mixer, the teachers from Bulgaria broke out their rocket-fuel Rakia and hoooo-boy good times

Teaching in the Czech Republic was 1-1 with business professionals and students and the like, and it was quite often we'd just meet at the pub... they'd pay for my drinks, and then pay for my time and then we'd keep drinking...

Remind me why I'm looking for an office job in Nova Scotia again?!

yer asking the wrong guy

[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

Remind me why I'm looking for an office job in Nova Scotia again?!

For me it's summer gets pretty dull 12 months of the year...can only spend so much time on the beach or fishing.

[maldonsfecht]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

$1:

Remind me why I'm looking for an office job in Nova Scotia again?!

For me it's summer gets pretty dull 12 months of the year...can only spend so much time on the beach or fishing.

Hah hah... man I wouldn't last 2 weeks out there... I need fog, rain and snow... I could live without complaint in Iceland, go back to my old stomping grounds in Stockholm, or the traditional homeland in Northern England and the Highlands of Scotland... Nope, Nova Scotia's climate is fine by me...

Anything over 25 degrees and I start getting antsy... -30 is better for me than +30

[ShepherdsDog]

25 degrees with <70% humidity is a winter day here. The only time we hit the mid 20s in the summer is if there is a major typhoon happening, but then the humidity is.... well not much different than the ocean.

[Lemmy]

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

-30 is better for me than +30

I like ice fishing, but, uhhhh, no:

[martin14]

[ShepherdsDog]

Lemmy Lemmy:

I like ice fishing

his wife almost flooded the house and drowned them, trying to cook what he caught last winter.

[Lemmy]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

his wife almost flooded the house and drowned them, trying to cook what he caught last winter.

No shit. We didn't get winter in Canada last winter. I could have fished from my boat in the same place my ice-hut normally goes.

[bootlegga]

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

well, I just chose that number at random... I didn't want to anger Canada by talking about the half litre lagers I got in Germany for .50 or the Czech pilsners for half that... Man I miss living in a BEER culture... (I love me my local Halifax microbrews, as well as Keiths and Moosehead, but we are still not a country where business people have .5-1 litre of beer at lunch and then go back to the office...)

You were just born 50 years too late - the two martini lunch used to be the standard lunch in lots of places in North America!

[martin14]

bootlegga bootlegga:

maldonsfecht maldonsfecht:

well, I just chose that number at random... I didn't want to anger Canada by talking about the half litre lagers I got in Germany for .50 or the Czech pilsners for half that... Man I miss living in a BEER culture... (I love me my local Halifax microbrews, as well as Keiths and Moosehead, but we are still not a country where business people have .5-1 litre of beer at lunch and then go back to the office...)

You were just born 50 years too late - the two martini lunch used to be the standard lunch in lots of places in North America!

Thats the thing I used to love about East Europe, they were 50 years behind in just
about everything !

Sadly, it's changing very quickly.

[Zipperfish]

martin14 martin14:

Thats the thing I used to love about East Europe, they were 50 years behind in just
about everything !

Sadly, it's changing very quickly.

Tell me about it. I was hosting a bunch of railway execs for lunch and they all ordered Cokes. I'm like "It's on me guys." They said they weren't allowed to drink at lunch anymore. I told 'em to grow a pair and drank two pints.