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in my trade as a pole climber/ power lineman its was always cold beer here in Minnesota. in the older times, when i first started climbing 45 years ago cold beer was always around after 3pm . heck even the supervisor would have a cold case ready on Friday P.M. when we got in, then it was head to the local bar for one or 20 and the old saying was there is a pork chop in every beer.
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When I was a teen, I worked at a livestock sale barn. The guys in the hog barn would go across the tracks mid to late morning and buy a couple cases of beer. And they started on that right away. Non-stop all day long.
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For me it's iced tea.....pretty good stuff.
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Never have liked beer, started late in life occasionally putting whiskey in a coke. Mostly I drink water.
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I never liked beer. Drink one, piss four, can't possibly drink enough of it to get a good buzz. A good drink for ladies if they can stand the taste.
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looks like you guys missed a lot of fun and h-ll raised ?
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In the dim dark past, before the Air Force went PC, it wasn't the beverage, but the place. Every Friday evening, it was nearly mandatory to go to the Stag Bar, which was a males-only section of the Officers' Club. On many bases, that worked out to be the Pilots' Pit. It was raucous, crude, featured broken furniture from horseplay, and smelled of randy goats due to the elbow-to-elbow sea of sweaty flight suits. Any and all varieties of alcohol flowed like Niagara. Every left hand held a drink, and every right hand mimicked some impossible aircraft maneuver of the past week - "There I was, when suddenly..."
Gone. All gone. First, it was a quiet disapproval of drunken rowdiness, then an overt recommendation/near order to avoid drinking. That closed the Stag Bars, and that in turn bankrupted Officers' Clubs everywhere. Today's Air Force might as well be Baptist or Mormon. No drinking, no carousing, no horseplay, no bars.
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For the Dock builders it was beer for sure,always a cooler around.just make sure you gave the foreman some $ for your share.
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For me it's iced tea.....pretty good stuff. Me too. I dont drink alcohol. I drink iced tea almost every afternoon.
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In the dim dark past, before the Air Force went PC, it wasn't the beverage, but the place. Every Friday evening, it was nearly mandatory to go to the Stag Bar, which was a males-only section of the Officers' Club. On many bases, that worked out to be the Pilots' Pit. It was raucous, crude, featured broken furniture from horseplay, and smelled of randy goats due to the elbow-to-elbow sea of sweaty flight suits. Any and all varieties of alcohol flowed like Niagara. Every left hand held a drink, and every right hand mimicked some impossible aircraft maneuver of the past week - "There I was, when suddenly..."
Gone. All gone. First, it was a quiet disapproval of drunken rowdiness, then an overt recommendation/near order to avoid drinking. That closed the Stag Bars, and that in turn bankrupted Officers' Clubs everywhere. Today's Air Force might as well be Baptist or Mormon. No drinking, no carousing, no horseplay, no bars. ya our watering hole went to h-ll too ,maybe for the best ? but did we have fun,sounds like you did too. i went on a ice fishin trip this winter and we went to the bar every nite for evening meal around 9 pm after about 4hrs. of beer and a couple of shots. this bar. these locals in this bar by the lake were just as fun as the old days in my old watering hole was,with lots of stories ! these guys all vote RED,shoot guns,hunt,fish, tell nasty jokes too and ya some naughty ladies in there too if you wanna take a chance ? myself i just bellied up to the bar enjoyed the stories with a cold Busch lite & couple shots of Jack!
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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In the dim dark past, before the Air Force went PC, it wasn't the beverage, but the place. Every Friday evening, it was nearly mandatory to go to the Stag Bar, which was a males-only section of the Officers' Club. On many bases, that worked out to be the Pilots' Pit. It was raucous, crude, featured broken furniture from horseplay, and smelled of randy goats due to the elbow-to-elbow sea of sweaty flight suits. Any and all varieties of alcohol flowed like Niagara. Every left hand held a drink, and every right hand mimicked some impossible aircraft maneuver of the past week - "There I was, when suddenly..."
Gone. All gone. First, it was a quiet disapproval of drunken rowdiness, then an overt recommendation/near order to avoid drinking. That closed the Stag Bars, and that in turn bankrupted Officers' Clubs everywhere. Today's Air Force might as well be Baptist or Mormon. No drinking, no carousing, no horseplay, no bars. even 35 years ago the O club was crap. the NCO club was better food and an ok time. the airmens club was where the fun happened on base. no O's, just us enlisted peons
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looks like you guys missed a lot of fun and h-ll raised ? just because one doesn't drink doesn't mean they can't have as much fun as the next folks... if you need alcohol that in itself is a problem. I've had as much fun with and without...
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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looks like you guys missed a lot of fun and h-ll raised ? just because one doesn't drink doesn't mean they can't have as much fun as the next folks... if you need alcohol that in itself is a problem. I've had as much fun with and without... > always one stick in the mud ,but we could use someone like you to drive us back home ? GRIN
LIFE NRA , we vote Red up here, Norseman
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looks like you guys missed a lot of fun and h-ll raised ? just because one doesn't drink doesn't mean they can't have as much fun as the next folks... if you need alcohol that in itself is a problem. I've had as much fun with and without... I was a designated driver at a large party once. I drank water while they drank alcohol. I guarantee you that I didn’t have as much fun as they did.
He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.
- Albert Einstein
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a dear friend said this : if i feel good when i get up in the mourning and inside of my mouth doesn`t taste like crap, i must not have had much fun last night.
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Depended upon the company but mostly beer.
It is WI, the Brandy Old Fashioned is pretty popular as well.
I work in transportation.
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In the ‘70’s and early ‘80’s, the O-clubs at NAS Oceana and NAS Miramar each had a “flight suit bar” and would have strippers on Friday nights. Most squadrons would have a good representation. It wasn’t “mandatory” but most everybody would show up for at least a while.
Stripper night would come and go depending on who the base CO was. I know one occasion where the wife of the base CO wanted to know what all the noise coming from the back bar was all about. She stuck her head in, saw what was going on and that was the end of that....at least for a while😁
Then, the “Tailhook” debacle ended it for good. As Dean Wormer said, “No more fun of any kind!” 🤬
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i live in the country but 6 miles north of me in a little town with a gas station and 2 bars one bar is a stripper`s bar ,all my neighbors have a few beers there,matter fact about once a year i have a beer or 2 there. all`s i can say these girls are sure kind fun to only talk too . GRIN
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In the dim dark past, before the Air Force went PC, it wasn't the beverage, but the place. Every Friday evening, it was nearly mandatory to go to the Stag Bar, which was a males-only section of the Officers' Club. On many bases, that worked out to be the Pilots' Pit. It was raucous, crude, featured broken furniture from horseplay, and smelled of randy goats due to the elbow-to-elbow sea of sweaty flight suits. Any and all varieties of alcohol flowed like Niagara. Every left hand held a drink, and every right hand mimicked some impossible aircraft maneuver of the past week - "There I was, when suddenly..."
Gone. All gone. First, it was a quiet disapproval of drunken rowdiness, then an overt recommendation/near order to avoid drinking. That closed the Stag Bars, and that in turn bankrupted Officers' Clubs everywhere. Today's Air Force might as well be Baptist or Mormon. No drinking, no carousing, no horseplay, no bars. If you read about WW1 and WW2 fliers, many of them went on combat missions well hung over or even drunk.
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Plumbers-pipe fitters drink beer.
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