URGENT! Bottle Shop Worry! Please Help!

[MoparKevUk]

After the severe disappointment of having no beers for a beach fish due to Bottlo's being closed on a Good Friday (What's THAT all about?), I need some advice please.

I'm off to a Mopar Pal's Place Northside on Saturday for a bonfire and bush bash. I obviously need to arrive with a cold case of piss. Do I risk buying it near his or are all the Bottlo's closed for ANZAC day?????? Please help as this is obviously very important!

[Terry H]

Not sure to be honest Kev.

All I know is some of the clubs are open as per normal. I know The Met is open 9pm-5am. So yea, not too sure about bottle shops :blush: But I'll be needing to pick up some Bundy Red before sat night so if you find out please let me know!

[Feral]

Pubs etc dont sell take aways until after 1:00pm on Anzac day. YOu can get a drink in a pub if it is open before them if your having a meal.

Open up the bottle shop one for the legal trading hours.

http://www.olgr.qld.gov.au/industry/liquorLicensing/annualLicencefees/index.shtml

[Davo_Dinkum]

not sure either

but i always play it safe and get grog before public holidays etc.

[dhess]

Have to agree what a crock of sh!t, shops whatever kind they may be not allowed to be opened because of someones religous holiday.

I thought we had had a secular government, with bottleshops et. trading hours limited we might as well become a country ruled by christian fundementalist law.

[Feral]

Aaah Anzac day is not a religous event. Its a memorial of those killed at Galippoli by the stupidity of Churchill and Kitchener.

[dhess]

Thats very true. I don't have a problem with not being able to buy booze on Anzac day. Not being able to buy alcohol on gay friday and christmas day really cheezes me off though.

[ellicat]

You're sounding like a man deprived of adequate sleep Dom :laugh:

May be better to follow the Christian way rather than no booze at all :laugh:

[Whiskers]

Hmmmmm correct me if I'm wrong but arn't they shut every year?

Maybe get in ahead and stock up;)

[reelchippy]

dhess wrote:

Thats very true. I don't have a problem with not being able to buy booze on Anzac day. Not being able to buy alcohol on gay friday and christmas day really cheezes me off though.

Well i think the people that work in those shops like a day off with their families

Bit strong with those words may i say cant we keep religious comment out cheers

[tugger]

my brother in law owns a pub and looks forward to those 2 days only each year to get away as a publican and holding the liquir licence he has to be there for all opening hours. i don't think anyone would diagree with pubs not opening before 1pm on anzac day.

[shortie]

dhess wrote:

Thats very true. I don't have a problem with not being able to buy booze on Anzac day. Not being able to buy alcohol on gay friday and christmas day really cheezes me off though.

I bet you and your family enjoy the fact that you get these days together and you dont have to go to work. I also bet the people in bottleoes enjoy the time as well.

It doesnt take a genius to buy in advance.

[tugger]

the christian religion can't be to bad as they don't mind you having a drink and even jesus did party tricks with turning water into wine .he must of been into home brewing as well

[Beefa]

tugger wrote:

my brother in law owns a pub and looks forward to those 2 days only each year to get away as a publican and holding the liquir licence he has to be there for all opening hours. i don't think anyone would diagree with pubs not opening before 1pm on anzac day.

Having only recently just got out of the pub game 4weeks ago (family owns pubs)after 12 years of managing them I can tell you my 2 favourite days of the year were Good Friday and Xmas Day plus a little bit of a sleep in on Anzac Day. It still amuses me that pubs/clubs/bottlo's have been closed on these days for a very longtime now but still I would have people ring the pub asking if we were open and turning up at the door.

Heath

[MoparKevUk]

Whiskers wrote:

Hmmmmm correct me if I'm wrong but arn't they shut every year?

Maybe get in ahead and stock up;)

Only been here since last July and still learning the ropes! Didn''t want to start a row about christianity or anything! Will take warm piss a bit earlier and let it cool down in me Mopar Mukka's fridge........

On a positive note I am totally bowled over by the passion, love and respect shown to all the Diggers for Anzac Day. Exactly how it should be. In the UK, Remembrance Day has been somewhat diluted over the last few decades, exactly how it shouldn't be! Good on yer, Australia

[Angus]

I think Shortie hit the nail on the head guys. I dont think the holiday is specifically due to the fact that its a Christian Holiday, but more so people get the opportunity to have a holiday in the first place.

Id just stock up in advance.

Angus

[big al]

if not being able to get booze on holidays is all you are worried about BREW YOUR OWN then always be able to get pissed:laugh: :laugh:

[kriso]

just called 1st choice liqour barn for ya kev, they will be open from 1pm till 9pm so i would take most bottle shops will be doing the same so depending on what time your kicking off you can buy on your way or the night before.

[MoparKevUk]

Service beyond the call of duty, Sir! Take a pound out of the till

[Whiskers]

MoparKevUk wrote:

Whiskers wrote:

Hmmmmm correct me if I'm wrong but arn't they shut every year?

Maybe get in ahead and stock up;)

Only been here since last July and still learning the ropes! Didn''t want to start a row about christianity or anything! Will take warm piss a bit earlier and let it cool down in me Mopar Mukka's fridge........

On a positive note I am totally bowled over by the passion, love and respect shown to all the Diggers for Anzac Day. Exactly how it should be. In the UK, Remembrance Day has been somewhat diluted over the last few decades, exactly how it shouldn't be! Good on yer, Australia

Ok sorry mate didn't know

[MoparKevUk]

No worries at all mate! I'd rather go without a beer for 1 night than not be in Oz!! (Just making sure it was only the 1 night though )

[Whiskers]

yeah mate chrissy, easter and anzac other than that we can drink till we :X