McGinn told local media he did it to show there were normal people in parliament
..as he's leaving parliament
this post was submitted on 24 May 2025
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Drinking beer from a shoe is normal now?
You never drank Bailey's from a shoe?
Want to go to a club where people wee on each other?
Do you love me?
Could you learn to love me?
No, but I hear it goes well with a nice Chianti.
Creamy
It is in Australia, apparently 🤷
The lady beside him seems like she should be chanting "Her-cules! Her-cules!"
Legend
That's fucking digusting, who thought drinking beer from a shoe was cool??
Aussies. And you'll do it with them, if you're ever lucky enough to be near their a celebrations
I know from Daniel Ricciardo popularized it in Formula 1
Id rather drink a fosters than beer out of a shoe
I'd rather drink my own fermented piss than drink a fucking fosters.
That's both Australian and I Australian at the same time. Well done. You've broken Aussie stereotypes forever. A real "yeah, nah"
Just a whole country of old Greg’s.
Less disgusting than allowing children to be slaughtered so that feeble excuses for men can own firearms to compensate for their inadequacies
Less disgusting than the genocide in Palestine
Less disgusting than Uighurs being used for slave labour because of their religion
There are many disgusting things in the world, this is light-hearted fun
I get that you're upset about these things, but they don't really have anything to do with this post.
Even the comment you're replying to is asserting a different kind of disgusting.
I'm Australian, and people often seize the shoey as a way of telling me that we're all uncivilised filth
It's a sore spot, especially when it's just a laugh
I've never actually done a shoey
I get that you dislike the stereotype, but it still doesn't have anything to do with the issues you listed.
To be fair, the Aussies that are doing shoeys are uncivilised filth. Ive also done a ton of shoeys and they are disgusting, you can taste the shoe.
I don't want to soak my shoes and have to keep wearing them, I buy good shoes and don't want to ruin them, and I sure as shit wouldn't do one from my work boots
Its funny when you're young, drunk and stupid. Turns out its actually pretty dangerous since shoes have a lot of bacteria that you shouldnt be drinking.
Oh, it definitely isn't on my to-do list, but it's not the worst thing in the world
I guess you're right about that, FistingEnthusiast
Those all sound like great past times, but I draw the line at drinking out of a shoe
and yes
It's a fucking joke
Ah yes, the two choices: drinking beer from a shoe or committing genocide.
Sir, this is a discussion about drinking beer from a shoe.
I've done didgeridooie
We found a prosthetic leg in the park and my mate did a legie from it
I've seen blokes do them through raw fresh fish too
That last one just sounds awful for the fish
Does this hurt the fishie?
According to Nirvana they don't have any feelings
From what I know it's mostly something you do as the loser of a bet.
It's not about being cool. It was a statement.
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I can't stop laughing at this thread. That's so effing gross... What the hell is wrong with you people?
Old Greg want supposed to be instructional.
What's his crime? Drinking a succulent beverage??
That's amazing. Good for him!
King shit
Unless you are a feet fetish sub, I can’t think of another reason to like this drinking style
Ewww!
Yeah... Nah...
Its a big thing in the whitewater community in the US as well
Nothing quite like a booty beer after a swim.
Australia expects us to respect them as a nation and then they pull this shit
And may I ask which oh-so-respectable nation you're from?
You're cringe
If you're that close to disrespecting them as a nation on the world order for having some unique tradition you don't share, you never really respected their culture and were waiting for a chance for it to be excusable
There are two very different types of respect; respect for a person as a human being, and respect for a person as an authority. But because we use the same word for these two different things, people often talk as if they were the same thing. So for example, when someone in authority says “If you don’t respect me, I won’t respect you.” What they’re actually saying (and justifying) is “If you don’t respect me as an authority, I won’t respect you as a human being.”