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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 week ago (1 children)

McGinn told local media he did it to show there were normal people in parliament

..as he's leaving parliament

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Drinking beer from a shoe is normal now?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (3 children)

You never drank Bailey's from a shoe?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Want to go to a club where people wee on each other?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Do you love me?

Could you learn to love me?

[–] CH3DD4R_G0BL1N 2 points 1 week ago

No, but I hear it goes well with a nice Chianti.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

It is in Australia, apparently 🤷

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago
[–] Lucidlethargy 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I can't stop laughing at this thread. That's so effing gross... What the hell is wrong with you people?

Old Greg want supposed to be instructional.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

What's his crime? Drinking a succulent beverage??

[–] n3m37h 15 points 1 week ago (5 children)

That's fucking digusting, who thought drinking beer from a shoe was cool??

[–] CaptDust 45 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Aussies. And you'll do it with them, if you're ever lucky enough to be near their a celebrations

I know from Daniel Ricciardo popularized it in Formula 1

[–] n3m37h 40 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Id rather drink a fosters than beer out of a shoe

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago

I'd rather drink my own fermented piss than drink a fucking fosters.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

That's both Australian and I Australian at the same time. Well done. You've broken Aussie stereotypes forever. A real "yeah, nah"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

Just a whole country of old Greg’s.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I've done didgeridooie

We found a prosthetic leg in the park and my mate did a legie from it

I've seen blokes do them through raw fresh fish too

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

That last one just sounds awful for the fish

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Does this hurt the fishie?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

According to Nirvana they don't have any feelings

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

From what I know it's mostly something you do as the loser of a bet.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not about being cool. It was a statement.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

That's amazing. Good for him!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Unless you are a feet fetish sub, I can’t think of another reason to like this drinking style

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yeah... Nah...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Its a big thing in the whitewater community in the US as well

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Nothing quite like a booty beer after a swim.