So, a small bar owner is calling for other small bars to be prevented from opening in his area, because $10 cocktails. Jeezus after fighting restrictive legislation for a decade, the sector is now calling for legislation to prevent people from opening? It’s a perfect storm all right. A perfect storm of fuck off back to the Soviet Union comrade. Un fucking believable. I think this is from the West. I didn’t check. I was in a small bar.
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The Worst of Perth 
A good cocktail is hard to find
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Krazy Kym and I are on the train RIGHT NOW to find one.
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Where are the $10 ones?
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They don’t let you in if you’ve just got a singlet on.
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So I have to spend $30 on a shirt? That’s where they get you.
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The small bars are failing because everyone is at EQ.
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What price the v- word ? Just be thankful it’s not New York style overdressiness for which cocktail bars keep on hand spare jackets that never fit the few bare- sleeved ones who dare to be among their customers
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New York Style ?
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‘ Ici , l’academisme dit ” Non ! ” ‘
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Actually New York style is to pay the mob to go beat up the competition . Much more decorous here in Perth .
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In a town with $12 pints there can be no good $10 cocktails
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I had $10 rum cocktails at 399. Mt Gay promotion I think. Very nice.
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You have answered your own question then ! But one cannot shop promotions forever !
In fairness to 399 , they are specialists … So I have no doubt the drinks were good .
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Trains need small bars particularly on the long haul routes to , say , Australind
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Mr Palmer and his five lovely daughters
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I did once get them to reconstruct the Gore Vidal recipe for a razzledazzle at 399 …
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I’ve never been able to forgive that plonker for making the booth tables too small. They’re like a metre away from the seat. What the fuck am I supposed to do with my elbows? I should’ve guessed he’d be a communist.
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Pack ’em in and charge ’em $20 for an espresso martini.
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Maybe I wasn’t clear. The booths are large, but the table is tiny. You have to lean forward to reach your drink, and sit awkwardly upright. Am I really the only person who’s bothered by this?
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WBTHTGB
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the booths are designed for canoodling. If you need to put your glass on the table you’re not drinking fast enough. Are you sure the table is too small and it’s not that your arms are too short? I believe John Curtin had a similar problem.
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Sometimes I like to lean forward to deliver a hilarious punchline, make a salient point in an argument, or support my drunken head. These weird booths deny me that opportunity.
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but of the table is too close to the bench it restricts one’s manspreading.
It’s a tricky balance.
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If you want to run a business where government licensing stops any competition and guarantees customers are forced to pay inflated prices buy a taxi plate. Oh hang on …
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Little bit more complicated than that RWL , involving , inter alia , guaranteed supply of Indian taxi drivers during the mining boom , thanks Lannie McT. As Lenin or was it François de Charette , who know history forgotten, who decried ” without an omelette, heads will roll and mighty engines of vibrancy will fail , this is war”. So up over the parapets vibrancy warriors and no whinging “Oo, I think I’m going to go broke” and face the machine guns.
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Just move to Australia ( in general ; W A in particular ) !
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So a posse of black marines from the uss belleau wood rocks up dressed in $500 Harlem Globetrotters singlets dripping gold bling surrounded by st Hilda’s leavers and Perth small bars deny them entry? Really?
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It s the panties they wear on their heads
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They could always bring back the black bars where a badly dressed whitefella could relax with his peers
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What a morose bastard that guy looks. No doubt he had a hand in the politkovskaya hit.
Listen boris: Just being small is not enough; bar needs to be good. I don’t remember the folks at the glengarry tavern carrying on about perfect storms and High unemployment during the Keating recession and calling for intervention. Or the guys running the Knutty in North Perth. Nyet. That’s business.
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I’ve been there many times. I like the drinks. The booths don’t really work, but that’s fine. But I don’t like the suggestion that someone else should be prevented from opening one nearby.
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That’s not him btw. That’s another owner.
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A plea of extreme poignancy to a government by the party that is the self proclaimed champion of small business[es] ?
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Forgot to fill in the name field in my rage. That comment was me.
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One does feel a bit sorry for the barkeeps like mr 399 . His standards are so high one must never trifle with his mixologists over the contents of an echt martini .
But grog is so expensive in Australia that basing a profit margin on slinging decent cocktails esp after the g f c is quite starry eyed .
We always stand at the bar at 399 in case a quick departure is called for .
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If the dying small bars served Ernest Hemingway’s daiquiri they wouldn’t be whingeing:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/02/06/ernest-hemingway-s-adventures-in-alcohol.html
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Daiquiris were the favourite cocktail of jackie Kennedy . Most Europeans found her a bit mannish
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I wonder what they make of Mrs. Turnbull, evidently “channeling” Mrs. K. in her recent revamping of Canberra’s Lodge.
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I look forward to The West interviewing the proprietor of an Inglewood massage parlour complaining that there are too many rug-and-tug establishments opening on Beaufort Street and that there should be some sort of quota for topless hand shandies to stop oversupply reducing their margins.
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Rub&tug merchants eyeing off Bayswater lebensraum. No sign of market saturation (ew) yet.
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