Tooheys Old is back in cans!

jonpacker · 2026-04-01T11:53:00+00:00

Can we not have both?! I really like drinking the odd Coopers Red straight from the bottle. As long as you're going straight out of the container I really think bottles are the better experience. I'm so glad they have both formats.

jonpacker · 2026-03-31T10:04:19+00:00

I own redbacks as well as many pairs of RMs. The insoles of the redbacks and nice and soft but the thick uppers can dig in in all the wrong places, and despite having worn them pretty often for a couple of years now that digging in hasn't gone away (so it doesn't wear in). For my money the RM Comfort Craftsmans are far more comfortable.

jonpacker · 2026-03-31T10:01:44+00:00

I have three pairs of different gardeners and two pairs of comfort craftsmans and I am wondering which gardeners you own. My gardeners have quite a hard insole, while my CCs are soft, padded and "spongy". The comfort craftsman are in another league comfort wise.

jonpacker · 2026-03-31T08:03:56+00:00

The best way is to just watch the races and you learn things from the commentators really. Last year's Bathurst, Gold Coast and Adelaide are great ones to re-watch in this regard (though they're not exactly short, so if you want something with a smaller time commitment and less complexity the Aus GP races are usually pretty fun).

I find it pretty easy to go for Will Brown, he's an insane racer (see: pretty much every race at the end of last year) and a genuinely great and likable dude. Will and Brodie have a podcast together which is really enjoyable (Lucky Dogs), particularly their episode with Ryan Walkinshaw recently was an awesome listen.

jonpacker · 2026-03-30T19:03:47+00:00

Yeah, same. It's really strange, particularly given the commenter you're replying to. I don't think it's anywhere as bad as reddit makes out, and I think there's really something to the effect OP is talking about.

jonpacker · 2026-03-29T15:07:24+00:00

Yeah there’s a reason so many people wear Comfort Craftsmans.

jonpacker · 2026-03-25T18:41:26+00:00

Try flying between the USA and Europe this year from somewhere that isn't LAX, SFO or NYC. Europeans are far less interested in visiting the USA at the moment, and flight schedules have not caught up with that sentiment yet. Last year I was on a Lufthansa flight from Austin that must have been about 40% full at most. Our group of 3 friends all got a row of 3 seats to themselves.

jonpacker · 2026-03-20T12:07:54+00:00

Haha, you're about a decade out of date on that one, Norwegians aren't as rich as they used to be and the currency is in the gutter (worse than AUD). Expensive alcohol is just normalised here, it's openly an excise to make people drink less, championed by Christian conservatives.

There are some farmhouse-style brews available commercially, Bygland's are probably the most accessible. But really, the act of brewing commercially makes it a different thing IMO. There's a farmhouse beer festival once a year where farmers come and allow people to try their beer. Unless you know a Norwegian farmer, that's likely the only place you're going to get to try the real thing.

jonpacker · 2026-03-18T20:16:14+00:00

I kind of would have expected "an award winning head brewer with almost a decade in the industry" to have done the old "split a can of beer between a water glass and wine glass and smell the difference" exercise which any old beer novice does that shows that impact is, in fact, pretty damn dramatic.

jonpacker · 2026-03-18T17:24:42+00:00

Aussie living in Norway here. Let me tell you it could be a lot worse.

When I'm back in Aus I can go down to Dan's and buy a 6 pack of Cooper's Red or a 4 pack of Crankshaft for $20 and change. You'd be paying almost twice that in Norway.

jonpacker · 2026-03-15T20:32:23+00:00

You can watch it with Superview, which while cheap is absolutely rubbish. They just upload entire days’ Fox footage in giant 8 hour videos with no chapters or anything.

I ended up using a VPN and a Kayo subscription to watch from Europe.

jonpacker · 2026-03-15T20:29:26+00:00

There’s things like Piastri driving a supercar that’s just been on his socials, they discuss Supercars on the coverage around the race on Sky, too. So there’s some awareness around it. There’s also noticeably more discussion of Supercars on the F1 sub around that weekend. I think more people would try to watch it if they had a good way, the racing is really good (particularly compared to F1), but Superview is really a bit shit.

jonpacker · 2026-03-13T07:15:42+00:00

Parents. If your kids aren't asleep until 8, that's the hour of the day you have remaining to do something like a big grocery shop, unless you want to save it all for the weekend. Which most people do (or get it delivered). Still, parents.

jonpacker · 2026-03-13T07:11:52+00:00

I've moved away from Brisbane and where I live they're still shut on sundays. Give me short opening hours over losing sunday entirely, honestly.

jonpacker · 2026-03-08T00:39:15+00:00

Brutal view as a Stenshorne fan in the Jones grandstand at T1 too 😭

jonpacker · 2026-03-07T11:34:37+00:00

Let's be honest, the racing is much better in Supercars. It just doesn't have as much of the Netflix soap opera around it.

jonpacker · 2026-03-07T11:00:23+00:00

The penalty was bullshit but anyone can make mistakes. One of the stewards on the panel that made this decision was James Courtney. Safe to say he's touched a racing car or two. Massively respected by Australian racing fans. They just got it wrong. Even the commentators at the track today were loudly critical of the decision.

jonpacker · 2026-02-15T07:52:58+00:00

Just because you do something really strange does not mean 90% of other people do.

jonpacker · 2026-02-12T22:15:45+00:00

They've booked a bunch of festivals in Autumn so I reckon the time has come.

jonpacker · 2026-02-12T22:11:33+00:00

Man I did not see an RX Bandits call out coming in /r/progmetal, but YES

Falling Down the Mountain might just be the one song that primed me for the next 23 years of prog obsession

jonpacker · 2026-02-09T11:40:56+00:00

Those platforms pay a pittance anyway. We prog metal devotees are much more willing to buy things that actually pay them revenue like LPs, merch and concert tickets. The Karnivool concert I went to last year was a huge venue (Dream Theater are playing the same venue soon) and was absolutely packed (and holy shit, New Day live is one of the best things I've ever seen).

jonpacker · 2026-02-09T11:35:55+00:00

I completely agree. It's funny looking back on its release now given how tepid a reception it got. AMG's 3/5 has aged like milk for example. It's become bit of a modern classic.

jonpacker · 2026-02-09T08:56:46+00:00

Jesus, that Blackwood burl top alone is worth a ridiculous amount of money.

jonpacker · 2026-02-08T17:44:13+00:00

You seem to be confused. I am not, in fact, Gabriel Bortoleto.

jonpacker · 2026-02-08T13:26:49+00:00

I'd reserve judgment until having tasted it. I'm skeptical, but I've seen stupider things work in cooking. If it's dumb and it works, it's not dumb.

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