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:
London
Walkabout pub*, Temple Place, Temple
Drinkers Paradise, Castlehaven Road, Camden
Kris Wines, York Way, Camden
Morrisons, Camden Town
Reading
Walkabout pub, Wiston Terrace
Glasgow
Walkabout pub, Renfield Street, Glasgow
The Beer Cafe, Merchant Square, Glasgow
Paris
Bières Cultes, Rue des Halles
Cafê Oz*, Rue St Denis, Châtelet
Cafê Oz Grands Boulevards, Boulevard Montmartre
Cafê Oz, Place Denfert-Rochereau
*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.
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
