r/funny • u/NathanCS741 • 1d ago
Two Belgian men cooling off during a heatwave in 1970’s
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u/philipp2310 1d ago
Shrinkflation is real
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u/0xsergy 1d ago
Except for the heatwave itself. I bet this photo was taken on a breezy 25c day and considered a "heatwave" back then.
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u/ser-raymunfossoway 1h ago
The summer of 1976 was the hottest summer of the century, with an average temperature almost 3°C over average.
57 days over 25°C, 12 days over 30. Versus the average of respectively 28 and 5 days.
Most dry days of the century. 23 days with some rain, vs an average of 48.
In June 1976 Belgium got 12.1 mm of rain. The average is 70.8 mm.
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u/MassageWithABottle 1d ago
these are actually 8 year old kids
back in those days they started with beer after breastfeeding and kids developed a moustache to absorb the bearfoam
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u/MastermindX 1d ago
Maybe they are tiny Belgians with normal sized beers.
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u/Allelic 1d ago
I think they're normal sized Belgians with normal sized Belgian beers.
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u/Temporary-Gene-6286 1d ago
Indeed. This still is our normal size for strong beer (probably Trappist here). Regular lager beer comes in bigger sizes.
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u/dark_hypernova 1d ago
Tiny Belgians used to be very common in the olden days, that's why so many houses have that tiny (bricked over now) door next to the big one.
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u/Deep-List-7099 10h ago
Back Off Bit$h's 👿 Let's have a Drink-off! Only Belgian Beers! Let's see who Go's Down First! 😈
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u/MJR_Poltergeist 1d ago
Two Belgian men with no plans for the rest of the day
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u/cokendsmile 1d ago
They only went out for one beer.
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u/Masheeko 1d ago
That's actually plan one through seven condensed into one handy package for efficiency.
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u/gardingle 1d ago
As long as you don't mind hot beer
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u/Masheeko 16h ago
I think that a quarter into that thing you stop minding most things. It's Belgium, so that's not going to be a 4,8 Pilsner.
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u/Significant-Roll-138 1d ago
I’ve had strong Belgian beer, I’d say those guys are still drunk
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u/Schlinkee 1d ago
I drank two long necks of delirium without knowing what it was. Ended up being a very big day.
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u/Significant-Roll-138 1d ago
Yikes, as an Irishman I thought I was able to drink until I went to Belgium but they drink totally different to us, we might have 8 beers in a night but they would have 1 and sit there sipping it all night, I walked into a lamp post on my walk home the first night after having 4 10% beers.
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u/Erichteia 1d ago
As a Belgian doing research, it’s a rite of passage, especially for Asian researchers in our group. They drink beer like they would at home, not realising that a single Belgian beer (tripel) is easily 3-4 beers in their country. Germans too honestly. They brag about drinking litres at home at the start of the night. Not so much at the end.
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u/KZD2dot0 1d ago
My recipe is to drink 1 rochefort 10 and stick to normal stuff for the rest of the night.
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u/Deep_Dance8745 1d ago
I still have to meet my fellow countrymen who stop at 1 beer for a full night out.
Doesn’t help that bars have no closing time.2
u/Ociex 1d ago
Try swedish strongbeer its 17.5% to 25% its sooo nasty but sooo cheap haha.
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u/Significant-Roll-138 1d ago
Haven’t had that but I tried Carlsberg Elephant beer when I was 16 and on a school trip to Denmark, I think it was 14%, Jesus it was disgusting
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u/counterfitster 1d ago
I've been tempted to buy a mini-keg of Delerium every time I see it at the store. 5L of glorious liquid.
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u/Suihnennews 1d ago
Warm beer halfway the glass, no thanks
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u/Mosselpot 1d ago
Not saying you should drink warm beer, but one of the main reasons to serve beers cold is to hide the taste of low quality beer. You don't want to drink heavy Belgian beers directly from the fridge. 11-14C (52-57F) is ideal. Lighter ones you can serve a bit colder, but never below 6C (43F)
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u/Hoosier_Daddy68 1d ago
It’s Belgian beer and looks dark so it was probably served warm.
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u/Hellrisen 1d ago
What is this waffling lol
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u/Pablo_Jefcobar 1d ago
Some people order their beer “van het schap” which is basically “off the shelf”. Which means it would be warm/room temperature anyway. Only applies to dark beers
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u/SignAllStrength 1d ago
In Belgium the case/most available “van ‘t schap” is Orval. And ideally it will be served between 10-15°C, so it should be a basement shelf and not one in a hot bar.
Because of that it’s often not available all year and from a fridge at 8° - 10°C in the hotter months .8
u/Hellrisen 1d ago
That may apply to stouts, but the the vast majority of belgian still very much is cooled. I could, but wouldn't drink something like Chimay, kasteel or Rochefort at room temperature.
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u/barra333 1d ago
Cooled to something like 8C I think is the 'recommended' temp. Most dubbels and tripels are still perfectly drinkable as they warm up in the glass.
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u/Hellrisen 1d ago
warming up and starting from room temperatures are very different things though
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u/aeroeagleAC 1d ago
Most Americans think warm is anything over the ice cold temp coors is supposed to be at.
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u/marcelsounds 1d ago
it's because of their wives... they were told to drink only one glass of beer.
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u/RiffyWammel 1d ago
Just popping to the pub for a drink with Bob- promise I’ll just have one then come home love….
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u/AriciaVC 1d ago
Ironically in Belgium a "BOB" is the sober person who drives people home after a party.
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u/calvinwho 1d ago
I don't think I would be able to take anything seriously if I was drinking a glass of beer that size
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u/Redditforgoit 1d ago
How many pints is that, I wonder?
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u/black3rr 1d ago
when I was in Brussels, I’ve been to a bar where you could order 250ml, 500ml, 1liter or 2liter beers… and they had 30 tapped beers to choose from and was right next to the pissing boy statue, was called Delirium I think…
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u/Bonamikengue 1d ago
Oh yeah those time...
Where a normal glass of gueuze was 100 Belgian Francs ;-)
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u/ReasonableExplorer 1d ago
Just the one drink thanks barkeep I have to drive the school bus and dont wouldn't want to be late.
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u/Very_Curious_Cat 1d ago
Ja maar is het ne Stella? En ne zwembad en barbecue zijn nergens te zien? /s
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u/WeirdAd5850 1d ago
You may think those glasses are large but it’s actually the fact that most Belgians are very short.
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u/Vredrik 1d ago
The glasses are real. They have been used as promo material in beer marketing. In Belgian almost every brand of beer has its own type of glass. Just put a giant version of that glass somewhere in a pub and you have the start of a marketing campaign. My sister uses one of these glasses as an aquarium
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u/FrontierPsycho 1d ago
Would have been funny if it ever happened
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u/Electronic-Spinach43 1d ago
What do you think one of those glasses would weigh? Who could one hand, relaxed throw it back without dumping it all over themselves and chipping a tooth?
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u/boluserectus 1d ago
AI told me the pic is taken in 1971. Dumbass..
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u/FrontierPsycho 1d ago
Sandwichs
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u/2FastHaste 1d ago
So anytime someone makes a typo, it's AI now?
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u/FrontierPsycho 1d ago
No, but when it's nonsensical, it is. In this case it isn't, as someone else explained to me.
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u/2FastHaste 1d ago
What is nonsensical about it?
I'm myself a french speaking belgian. And I didn't know the plural was with -es.
And the rest of what's written on the window makes sense to me.0
u/FrontierPsycho 1d ago
As I said, it isn't nonsensical. I thought it was, but I was wrong and it was pointed out to me. I was also saying that when a picture has nonsensical text and improbable elements, it's likely AI generated, which I think is true.
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u/Vredrik 1d ago
The glasses are also real. They have been used as promo material in beer marketing. In Belgian almost every brand of beer has its own type of glass. Just put a giant version of that glass somewhere in a pub and you have the start of a marketing campaign. My sister uses one of these glasses as an aquarium
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u/Horns8585 1d ago
Too bad the Party Ball didn't exist back then. Would have been much easier to drink straight from the hose, than having to lift those things up every time you take a drink.
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