Schooner

Actually, I spent 100 merits last night on random recipe drops. I didn't get anything I wanted but I made about 20 million influence by selling the ones that dropped. At the moment I have 616 Reward Merits.

Have I done something to offend you, enrious2? I'm not quite sure where your bitterness is coming from. Most of the other people in this thread have at least had the common decency to welcome me and give advice. I would have thought that someone who supports the mentor project would be a bit more supportive.

Oh, LOL. I'm sorry I misunderstood you. We call it tap beer as well. As soon as I read your post I had visions of Barney from The Simpson's drinking straight from the tap at Moe's. Not something I would have thought a lady wearing a hula skirt (pa'u?) would attempt. Me and my stereotypes. My bad.

I've never been a big fan of drinking tap water. Not only has the Queensland Government purposefully added Fluoride to the states water system, but studies worldwide have shown that everyday tap water can contain many harmful chemicals. Chlorine, Pesticides, Lead, Benzene, Arsenic, Mercury, and Cadmium are just a few of a long list. Personally I believe water purification goes a long way to reduce these and other unwanted chemicals, and would suggest it to all of you not already implementing it.

As to keep this discussion game related, here's a quick update as to my characters progress:

A great in game experience one again. Although the XP has seemingly slowed down dramatically, the fun certainly has not. Many people to thank for advice, assistance, education and team participation that saw Schooner rise to level 30 (completed the Synapse TF, the Ernesto Hess TF and the Citadel TF today), sadly though, too many to name. In particular however, I would like to single out @adhna, who gave up what they were doing on a different character just to to switch out and help me out of a difficult corner.

I was soloing the "Looking through the Glass" story arc from Special Agent Jenni Adair (which is both challenging and entertaining) when I came across the final mission of the arc. For those of you that haven't run this story arc; it is an epic battle with what turned out to be for me a +2 Elite Boss named Protean, with more tricks up his sleeve than Harry Houdini. Only after I ran into trouble did I notice the disclaimer at the bottom of the mission description suggesting I bring friends.

Needless to say, I was in a pickle. Consequently, I asked in one of the Justice global channels if anyone could spare some time to help me defeat this Protean. Although it was very late and not many people were online, @adhna came to my rescue with a pimped out regeneration scrapper. I was suitably impressed and forever in their debt.

Thanks again for all your help and hope to see you soon in game.

Schooner

While I am a massive fan of Kevin Smith and Mallrats, and understand that a Schooner is a type of sailing vessel, I must point out that my character's name has no connection to boats.

As some of you may have already guessed my avatar is in fact a Schooner. I guess I should explain myself. I am from Australia. We have seven different territories/states and each has its own rules. Let’s start where I am from, in Queensland. A Schooner is 425 mL so it’s about three quarters of a pint and is probably the most common measurement that a typical Aussie man would ask for in a bar. Alternative measures are a pot, which sounds bigger but isn’t, it’s 285 mL. Or you could ask for a glass which would be 200 mL.

Over in New South Wales, schooners and glasses are the same but a pot is called a middie. In Victoria it is all the same as Queensland but in South Australia a glass becomes a butcher, a pot turns into the schooner and a pint is only 425 mL, which is a schooner in everybody else’s language.
In Western Australia a glass is a bobby, a pot is a glass and a schooner is a pot, according to some sources. But others say it works out the same as it is in Queensland except a pot is a middie as it is in New South Wales. That’s because in Western Australia a pot is 575 mL which is slightly more than a pint but close enough to be called a pint by all the English people who live there.

I am not making this up, it’s for real.

In Northern Territory a schooner is a schooner but a pot is a handle and a glass is a seven. Although another source tells me that a glass is a six not seven, because the seven is actually a pot and the handle is 425 mL which of course, in most other places is a schooner.

Stick with me on this, we only have Tasmania left to go.

In Tassie, just as in N.T. (probably) a glass is a seven. But a pot is a ten and a pint only 425 mL.

And if your still confused by all the mL's. Just remember that 425mL is equal to about 14.3 oz.

Hope this helps to clear the confusion.

Schooner