A shout is the round of beers. There are five mates in a pub. You go and get
5 beers. then the next bloke gets the next round. This is a shout. The worse
part is after 5 beers you may need one more. So you go and get another
round. And you can't leave until that shout is finished. By the time it is
finished, so are you.
Shouting is the norm in Australia. If you don't shout, well it just isn't
worth the consequences.
Foxy
----- Original Message -----
Nice gesture. I wish I could take you up on it. Now, just to show you
how ungrateful I am: you still didn't enlighten me. By saying that you
will "shout" us a beverage, did you refer to a large, crowded beer hall
or tavern, smokey and noisy, in which you have literally to shout your
beer order to receive that well-earned beverage? Or does "shout" have
some other meaning?
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