Banter RDT 170 - The Joyce McKinney Experience

[Bender_]

Remember that one as a kid, got the community bus from town and came to Perth for the Coke factory, sit down lunch at Pizza Hut after - what a day.

Excursions are basically a thing of the past now given you need a teacher for every 10 kids. It’s basically impossible, so the kids miss out.

They get to enjoy incursions instead and stay protected from the scary outside world.

My kids go on excursions all the time - Scitech, zoo and other animal rescue places - if needed they just ask for parental help. They have a lot of incursions too but that's probably more of a money saver - can have the whole school take part in an activity on site in a single day without the need for transport and extra supervision.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

Oh gawd, the embarrassment of having your parents come along on excursions. I’m having flashbacks now.

 

[Bender_]

Oh gawd, the embarrassment of having your parents come along on excursions. I’m having flashbacks now.

I refuse to coz I know I'll lose my temper at someone else's kid.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Is there still a Coke factory somewhere?

Hazelmere I think.

Oh gawd, the embarrassment of having your parents come along on excursions. I’m having flashbacks now.

My mother was a teacher on my trip to the Coke plant.

 

[DanWCE]

We went to a brewery for a Yr 11 excursion once. Can't remember what subject that was.

How good was that!? The smell Can't remember which one it was, though. Or yeah, the subject..

Also went to Coke. Unfortunately also went to that Waste Water treatment plant around Woodman Point. That was ****ed. Walking around looking at shit water.

 

[Mr Eagle]

Peter's ice cream factory ftw.

 

[kane249]

We visited an ice cream factory when I was in school, can't remember if it was Peters/Pauls/Streets but I don't think they are still around in Perth any more

Edit: Mr Eagle might have solved that mystery, yet again

 

[Bender_]

Hazelmere I think.


My mother was a teacher on my trip to the Coke plant.

Were you just homeschooled and went to the Coke factory one time?

 

[Dazzler9]

How good was that!? The smell Can't remember which one it was, though. Or yeah, the subject..

Also went to Coke. Unfortunately also went to that Waste Water treatment plant around Woodman Point. That was f’ed. Walking around looking at shit water.

We went there too. It was sh!t.

See what I did there?

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[Truckosaurus]

Were you just homeschooled and went to the Coke factory one time?

Nah, just picked up an empty Coke can from the side of the road and carried it to the nearest bin while walking the dog. Just as educational as the real tour.

Also did Peters Ice Cream factory, that had fewer free samples though.

 

[Biggie]

I like Aldi no sugar coke actually

For 69c I’ve learned to enjoy it

Makes an actual Coke No sugar feel like Xmas tbh

 

[Bender_]

Nah, just picked up an empty Coke can from the side of the road and carried it to the nearest bin while walking the dog. Just as educational as the real tour.

Also did Peters Ice Cream factory, that had fewer free samples though.

 

[RookiePick]

Pretty sure we did the Swan brewery, Brownes in Balcatta. Coke factory.

I presume the companies did them free of charge so it was attractive to public school budgets.

 

[Ochre]

I don't remember doing anything like any of that

 

[kane249]

I don't remember doing anything like any of that

"You got no iceeecream, you got no iceeeecream"

 

[Bender_]

Pretty sure we did the Swan brewery, Brownes in Balcatta. Coke factory.

I presume the companies did them free of charge so it was attractive to public school budgets.

That and to get into the kids minds early to ensure a lifelong subliminal need to purchase their products.

 

[Miguel Sanchez]

We did an excursion to the Concert Hall. I remember nothing of the actual concert hall itself, all I remember is our bus sideswiping a parked car on the way there.

 

[RookiePick]

I don't remember doing anything like any of that

Ahh...taken to the less desirable chloroform factory and unreasonably low roof beam tours.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Coke factory? ice cream factory?

WTF

We just went to the ****ing zoo every single year.

 

[DanWCE]

Edit: Mr Eagle might have solved that mystery, yet again

So you're saying Mr Eagle = mysterygle?

 

[Dazzler9]

Pretty sure we did the Swan brewery, Brownes in Balcatta. Coke factory.

I presume the companies did them free of charge so it was attractive to public school budgets.

Cheap excursion for the public schools, and legal advertising to minors for the brewery. Everyone's a winner.

 

[Bender_]

Cheap excursion for the public schools, and legal advertising to minors for the brewery. Everyone's a winner.

Probably should've stopped at a TAB too.

 

[Truckosaurus]

Probably should've stopped at a TAB too.

Don't worry, the AFL's got that covered with kids.

 

[FKASC]

Indeed the right stout can mix nicely with a good dessert - fruitless of course.

Pretty sure you’ve brewed a stout with fruit in it? Or was that a different beer?

 

[Bender_]

Pretty sure you’ve brewed a stout with fruit in it? Or was that a different beer?

Stouts I've done with vanilla, coffee and hazlenut. Bunch of other beers with mangoes, mandarins, strawberries, guava, stone fruits, grapefruit - which really fruits in beer sounds so much worse than in desserts!