Miscellaneous
A page dedicated to things I didn't know how to categorise or got to lazy to figure out how to categorise.
Where to find a Coopers Pale Ale
A handy thing to know when you're abroad is where to find your local brew. For me, being a South Aussie, that brew is a nice cold Coopers Pale Ale. Being a relatively popular beer in Australia, it is fortunately exported to a fair few places in Europe and isn't too hard to find if you look hard enough. But, to save you some time when you're looking for that thirst-quenching taste that only home can provide, here is a list of places I have found it so far:
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London
Walkabout pub*, Temple Place, Temple
Drinkers Paradise, Castlehaven Road, Camden
Kris Wines, York Way, Camden
Morrisons, Camden Town
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Reading
Walkabout pub, Wiston Terrace
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Glasgow
Walkabout pub, Renfield Street, Glasgow
The Beer Cafe, Merchant Square, Glasgow
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Paris
Bières Cultes, Rue des Halles
Cafê Oz*, Rue St Denis, Châtelet
Cafê Oz Grands Boulevards, Boulevard Montmartre
Cafê Oz, Place Denfert-Rochereau
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*Coopers can be found at any Walkabout pub in the UK or Cafe Oz in Paris, so to save you even more time (when you are really in a rush because the thirst is immense) it might at times be easier just to google these places. I've only written the locations I know.
A List of Things I Do That Annoy Armir
A while ago now, I used to work in a pub in Camden called The Oxford Arms. One of my managers there was a real level-headed and chilled out guy named Armir. We got along quite well and the shifts I worked with him ran quite smoothly until I slowly figured out that it was quite easy to get under his skin if you had the mind to. Or rather, in my case, just about everything I did annoyed him in some way. One day we were joking about and he said to me "you should start a book that is literally just full of things that you do to annoy me in one shift". I thought this was a rather reasonable idea and so on my next shift with him, a day shift on the 15th of March 2016, the Ways I Annoyed Armir Today was born. The original list had such an effect on him that soon enough it became a running joke between us and those who knew us and has since expanded into a general list of things that I do to annoy him. To this day, the list is still being added to.
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Ways I annoyed Armir today: 15/3/16
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Made this list
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Put cloth in glasses very particularly
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Pouring Doom Bar into a Pride glass
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Not moving chair
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Dropped food on floor
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Being alive
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Left Malibu out
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Trying to charge 20p for a try of Hells
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Forgetting to write last point and havng to ask Armir what it is
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This list!
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Thinking I can do what he does
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Making dad jokes
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F**king up Armir's sales
Things I do that annoy Armir
Forgot most of this list - Made a poor joke on WhatsApp group convo - Constantly attempting puns - Literally "getting on the floor" when told to "get on the floor" at work - Repeating what he says - Having a difficult to spell name - Having a pillow that is too flat for his liking when he borrows my bed for a nap - Deliberately taking everything he says literally - Probably this list
