The Ladies Australia Keeps it Classy
posted by September 18 at 12:47 PM
onThe Saint in Melbourne—that would be the same bar made notorious back in June, when it employed a shirtless, bar-dancing midget to pour shots of Jagermeister into patrons’ mouths—has a new promotion called “No Undie Sunday.” Female patrons who take off their underwear and put them on a clothesline above the bar get $50 Australian in free drinks. That’s five or six drinks after a patron is sufficiently uninhibited to take off her panties. (Women too modest to drop their drawers can flash their bra or panties at bar staff for a free glass of champagne.) Catherine Price at Broadsheet speculates that “if we are choosing our offensive promotions based on what elements of a woman’s sexuality rhyme with weekdays,” women who patronize the Saint can look forward to “Give Head Wed.!” “Fuck a Guy Fri.!” and “Shave Your Pubes Tues.!”
Bonus points for class: According to Agence France-Presse, the bar is promoting the event with a photo of Britney Spears flashing her shaved business to the paparazzi.
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they need to work on their rhymes. even with the aussie accent, undie=sunday and tues=pubes?
really?
too hetero for me
ECB - lighten up, sounds like fun sex games
Must be a slow news week. Presidential election? Meltdown of the economy? Screw that stuff. We must get the word out about this bar in Australia.
Don't want to show your panties? Don't. Don't want to support this bar? Don't patronize it.
I would do this in a heartbeat. $50 Australian for a pair of panties? Which I guarantee I can take off without anybody seeing anything untoward? No brainer. Just because I’m a feminist doesn’t mean I don’t like a little sexy fun and/or free drinks…
I'm there next Wednesday for sure.
That reminds me, I'm late for "Drink-till-your-vision-blurs-day Thursday" at my local pub. Jesus, it's almost 1PM -- I need to make up for lost time!
I love this idea!
Also, who says a woman has to have achieved a certain level of inebriation to voluntarily take off her panties? Some women don't need to drink away the stick that is up their ass.
ECB needs to keep that in mind next time she goes down under.
If McSame gets elected, we need to start having SLOG night at *this* bar.
One more thing: I wish I could walk into a bar, hand over my man-ties and get $50 for my troubles. And I have some damn sexy man-ties!
I am sure the crowd that patronizes this type of bar absolutely loves this idea.
well if all this free, multi-national publicity doesn't put the kibosh on these obnoxious stunts, pray tell nothing will.
@5: Marry me?
Also, you should all know that I've got that famous Britney Spears photo framed in my apartment. No, really, in my entryway. It was an Xmas gift last year, and one I love.
BTW, $50 Australian is $40.06 USD. That's several drinks at most bars here, or two at the Chapel. Zing!
Can't the woman wear a dress or skirt instead of trousers or slacks when she removes her panties? If so, then it doesn't seem all that sexist and humiliating a bar promotion stunt.
Damn, I would definitely do it. That's a good deal!
By the time I'm drunk enough to think I'm a woman, I'd definitely do it.
@13. Be forewarned that marrying me does not mean that you get any of my free booze.
solution: wear 2 layers of panties, take 1 off for the drinks.
This discriminates against ladies who don't wear panties.
@18 my thoughts exactly, but lets go further.
one step further solution. Sell additional cheap underwear to women outside the bar.
even further solution. Have men bring underwear to give to women to put on and take off, in exchange for splitting the drinks.
Is their music too loud for you too, ol' lady??
What you're leaving out is that the promotion was quashed by the authorities, and was probably a promotional stunt to begin with. So no free drinks, but a crowded bar for sure.
1) Is it part of the contract that feminists have to be killjoys? Do you take no solace in the fact that you are pulling this story from (almost literally) the OTHER SIDE OF THE PLANET? I mean seriously ... that's going pretty far afield to get your ire-on.
2) Why go to such lengths? Why not head down to the 5-Point? There's a moose-head over the bar that's covered with bras - and last I checked, you didn't get anything for it.
I can understand ECB's indignation at this stunt; next thing you know, that bar will be sponsoring their own amateur porn contest and offering cash to pressure people into publicly debasing themselves.
Julie @5, I thought you were cool already for your smart commentary. Bonus points for you!
why are there bra & panty trees at every ski resort i go to? for instance: crystal mtn. all the way over on snorting elk bowl.
I dunno. I'm definitely pro sex and not particularly modest, but this sounds like a lot of assault waiting to happen. Don't you people watch Law & Order SVU?
I am outraged!
Actually this is a rip-off of a Sydney promotion (also called no-undies-sunday) that went on every month for three or four months. It was at Q-Bar and I'm pretty sure boys got money for reliquishing their underpants too.
Which just goes to show that Melbourne is just a shittier, behind the times version of sydney with worse weather.
Thickturd @ 1 - you fail to take into account Australian pronunciation. It is not uncommon for Aussies to pronounce the days of the week as 'Sundy', 'Mundy', 'Chewsdy', 'Wensdy', 'Thursdy', 'Fridy' and 'Satdy'.
The concept of 'no undy Mundy' has been established as an office joke for several years. I guess they had to change it to Sundy to take into account the limited commercial appeal of a Monday night...
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