Beer ads and 40s

There is this series of really funny ads in Sydney for Carlton Draught, one of the more popular beers here. They feature unattractive, portly, middle-aged men mimicking ads for beauty products like l'oreal and neutrogena. One shows a man with his shirt off, looking all sultry and the caption on the bottom says, "Because you're worth it." Another shows a man splashing beer on his face and the caption reads, "Deep-cleansing formula." Very amusing.

On another beer-related note, I met this girl from California last Monday while hanging out with some co-workers. She was the girlfriend of one of the guys, an Aussie. We were having fun talking about things the Aussies had never heard of, such as 40s. I remarked a while ago that I wished they had 40s here because that would be so cool to walk around with, since you can drink alcohol openly here. Well, on Monday, they had brought home some 40s and I got very excited. Of course, they wouldn't call it a 40 here...it's more like a 750 mL, but you get the idea. Another thing we talked about was the band Sublime. We were both saying how awesome the band is and how much Australians would love them because it's great lazy, beachy music, but most had never heard of them. She was even considering burning a whole bunch of CDs and just handing them out to people on the streets.