Publican regrets offering free beer if it hits 45 degrees.
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As the sun hits hard across the country and the globe continues to warm, Adelaide has broken a heat record set in 1939.
That’s right, South Australia is melting and South Australians are excreting sweat left, right, and centre. Perhaps none more than publican Stephen Firth, who created a **Beer-o-metre promotion** at the Red Lion Hotel. Basically they promised free beer when and if the temperature got to 45 degrees.
Around 1:30pm Adelaide time today it hit 45 degrees. Stephen joined Veronica and Lewis on-air right around the 46 degrees mark.
So did Steve actually think he would ever have to deliver on this promise? “Not during Winter [laughs]. I’ve run it since last March and we got away with it quite well through there but yeah, we have to pay the piper today unfortunately.”
“I tell you what, it’s interesting watching all these people in the bar willing it to 45 degrees.”
Adelaide publican lives to regret offering free beer if it hit 4..
Lol. 45C is 113F by the way.
Saw this on Oz Bargain last night
Damn....
I'd brave that for free beer too, slap on some factor ginger and no bother at all.
I'd probably die from heatstroke though after
Damn, and I thought we had it bad when we peaked 41C last summer.
That beer better be some really good and ice cold beer.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-24/back-up-generators-turned-on-in-sa-to-deal-with-extreme-heat/10747886
Just came in
Electricity has been at the market cap of A$14,500 per MWhr since 3pm and is predicted to still be there at 7pm.
I'm struggling to keep up with this weather please make it stop
44c max tomorrow here in Melbourne
am not keen at all
Dude it's been fucking cold and rainy in Perth wtf is going on
Perth ain’t even Australian. Dont the fucking westerners believe that so much that they want to secede?
Please keep us I don't want to secede
when I said it was cold today it was only 22 degrees celsius. We can't do the cold
I never set my air conditioner below 23c lmao. It would be too cold and use too much electricity anyways
22C is hot for me..
It's sort of mind blowing to me to see how ludicrously different temperatures are around the world. Today where I live it is supposed to hit -20F (-28C) with windchill bringing temperature feel all the way down to -48F (-44C).
it's crazy talking to Canadians as an Aussie, they're like aw yeah it was pretty warm today, a nice toasty 10c and i'm like the fuck mate that's freezing i would die
but then when i call a 20c day the perfect temperature they say that would kill them
amazing what the human body can get used to
Meanwhile in America people out here arguing that global warming is impossible because it snows still.
I mean, they're kinda busy with trying to not get evicted so can you really blame them?
20 C is nothing but once it gets over 30 C most canadians start melting
Pardon my ignorance, but if it's fucking 46 degrees in winters, what the fuck is it like in the summer
Southern hemisphere my guy
I knew that the southern hemisphere is basically flipped in how temperature goes but I always figured they'd still call the cold season "Winter" and the hot season "Summer".
i feel pretty retarded now
thanks
They do call the cold months winter and the hot months summer. The publican started this last March, on the lead in to their winter (when it's incredibly unlikely for it to get to 45 degrees). He probably should have ended the promotion before summer started.
I live in the Canadian Pacific Northwest, and technically the local climate is temperate rainforest (except obviously I live in a city, not in the middle of a rainforest). If it was a stable 20C during the daytime year-round I would never, ever leave for the rest of my life, no matter what happened. I'm sure all Vancouver FPers agree with me. You could have BC pull a BCexit and have the place reduced to 19th-century farming but with mobile phones in the ensuing economic collapse and I'd still be too happy with perpetual edge-of-summer t-shirt weather to flee to somewhere that survived the apocalypse.
But at the same time I'll leave my house and walk to the grocery store at -2C with a foot of snow on the ground without looking like I've escaped from a space capsule like it's no big deal, aside from putting my hood up and wrapping a scarf around my neck to keep direct wind off my cheeks and lips to avoid windburn. But if it hit 45C I would honestly be submerged in cold water in my tub nearly 24/7. I'd look into getting myself a neck life preserver that I could strap down so I could sleep in the tub without drowning or strangling myself. My house doesn't have any kind of AC, only heating, because it never really got above 30C here until the 90s when the climate started going noticeably off the rails.
I feel like more than ever, this chart is absolutely relevant...
https://i.imgur.com/5dfyCDn.jpg
Thankfully up here in QLD it's hovering in the mid 30's, but we get our regular heatwaves into the 40's. I've got family in Adelaide and friends in Melbourne, some without aircon... Fuck I feel for them, I know the pain and I wish I could do anything to help.
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