Many of Melbourne’s bar and media people gathered at the new South Yarra bar The Emerson for the first Time Out Melbourne Bar Awards on Monday November 25th. Happening on The Emerson’s rooftop bar with its gorgeous view of Commercial Road (expect for the construction happening across the road), with many complimentary Rekorderlig ciders, Sail & Anchor beers, Havana rum cocktails and Tempus Two wines flowing (score!).
The Big Bang Theory has to be just about the most popular sitcom on TV at the moment, if not the most popular TV show in general, with 20 million viewers who tuned in to see the current season’s opening episode. Who’d thought that the simple premise of a hot blonde having to deal with four nerds’ social awkwardness could churn out season after season and get people laughing hysterically?
Another year, another lot of kids graduating high school, which means it’s bucks galore for Gold Coast nightclubs thanks to Schoolies. In fact, all of the Gold Coast’s businesses will be making a packet, and considering how much money Gold Coast businesses like its theme parks and resorts make thanks to the ridiculous amount of tourists that go there all year round, that’s saying something.
There have been many crazy theories about love and attraction throughout the years from whether girls like being treated like crap by guys to whether a silly pick up line will impress a woman enough for her to sleep with you. Another big one is whether two completely different people can be a perfect match for one another. Many people believe this to be the case, but can opposites really attract?
Society nowadays deems smokers as idiots and smoking as a horrible habit, so even at nightclubs smokers are like social pariahs. Sunday July 1st 2007 was the day smoking was banned in bars and nightclubs Australia wide, and what a horrific day it was for smokers, while simultaneously being a joyous day for non-smokers.
A recent study by VicHealth and RMIT University concluded that there are four types of drinkers out there (or at least in Victoria). Embodying Australia’s huge drinking culture, it comes as no surprise that not only are there a lot of drinkers in Oz, but drinkers can be categorised into subgroups. Yep, us Aussies certainly love slowly destroying our livers.
Whenever it’s late October or early November, Melbournians all of a sudden take a huge interest in horse racing. It’s amazing that for people who for the most part couldn’t care less about a bunch of horses going round a big grassy circle, they suddenly feel the need to dress up in their best clothes, or even buy new clothes just for this occasion. This phenomenon is what we in Melbourne call Spring Carnival.
Being a guy, I shouldn’t be admitting I’ve even heard of the movie Mean Girls, which is one of the quintessential chick flick of the ’00s. But I bring it up because there’s a part where said girls are getting ready for a Halloween party and Lindsay Lohan comments that Halloween is the one time of the year a girl can dress like a total slut and other girls can’t say anything about it (something that Lohan took up 365 days of the year in real life!).
Young Aussies who grew up on American movies and TV are already celebrating Halloween too, getting their friends to dress up and party like it’s the last night of their lives before they end up becoming the monsters they dressed up as. Though still nowhere near as big here as it is in the U.S., more Aussies are throwing parties at their houses or nightclubs to celebrate the day of witches, demons, ghosts and other ghouls. Everyone dresses up in wicked costumes, and it just simply kicks arse.
The toilet. Everyone has to go sometime, and many people have certain phobias and practices regarding going to the toilet. I’m not talking about the obvious like wiping your bum after giving birth to Mr Hankey, but I’ve heard so many people say how they don’t use public toilets or toilets at work and hold on until they get home (how do they hold it all in for that long?!). Imagine how these people feel about nightclub toilets!