think_too_mut Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Is it how a de-industrialised nation responds to the everyday's life? No company in Oz knows how to make a light bulb. Or an iron, to iron the clothes. Cashed up and horny miners from Perth don't represent the nation. Only 5% of all employees in Oz are in mining. But they have fcuked all Oz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huumlaar Posted September 28, 2013 Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 I remember being able to buy amazingly cheap booze in Yugoslavia and Hungary in the mid to late 80's, doesn't seem to equate with Japan's cheap booze? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 I remember being able to buy amazingly cheap booze in Yugoslavia and Hungary in the mid to late 80's, doesn't seem to equate with Japan's cheap booze? Not same thing. Those were Lao Khao equivalents, not world class drinks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huumlaar Posted September 28, 2013 Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Errr - actually it was pretty good vodka, and Red Bull or whatever the Hungarian wine was called was dirt cheap and pretty famous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Errr - actually it was pretty good vodka, and Red Bull or whatever the Hungarian wine was called was dirt cheap and pretty famous. You were in a good mood. Those years, whatever was good went for export (Hungary and Yugoslavia not target markets). The Hungarian wine might had been "Tokai". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huumlaar Posted September 28, 2013 Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 Egri Bikavér - Bulls Blood Wine, good stuff, I spent quite a while in the area, great places in those days. The "Yugoslavs", though fixated even then with fighting each in a bar, and had only enough money for a few drinks would insist or even fight each other to buy us drinks, dam friendly people, to anyone from outside. Hungarian women I never forget, had a fling with a girl who was a fencer, very common sport there then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
think_too_mut Posted September 28, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 28, 2013 From a distance, I can say it's "scarcity mentality". People who have no money for anything above 100$ would try and fight to make their presence known within the 100$ bill. It's usually misinterpreted as hospitality. Edit: I am glad to hear you had had a good time there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bust Posted September 29, 2013 Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 I'm over girls in bikini's seen thousands of them in Bangkok, boring Gee aren't you the lucky one....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cavanami Posted September 29, 2013 Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 When I was living/working in Japan, I would always find a good red wine at a reasonable price! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huumlaar Posted September 29, 2013 Report Share Posted September 29, 2013 TTM - I definitely didn't have $100 at the time, had more but not that much, could only afford a few drinks in a bar, so mostly bought bottles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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