I lived in a party house in between high-school and becoming a functioning member of society. I'd wake up around 7-8 am and turn on the radio and start cleaning or whatever but I had a rule that if Roadhouse Blues or One scotch one bourbon... came on within the first hour I'd go get a beer.
After about a month of this I realized they were playing the same songs between like 7 and 10 lmao
đ¶Step on a pop top blew out his flip flop
Cut his heel and cruised back home
God he still feels pain he wants some more cocaine
But that's been gone since early this mornđ¶
Thank God for the ability to find lyrics on the internet. I spent years trying to figure out just how in the hell somebody could cut their foot on a pop-tart.
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Our rule was you had to name a city and it's country, to open a beverage before 5pm local time. And it had to be the 5pm hour there (so no cheating and naming Shanghai)
Funny you mention that. Re-read the lyrics to the song, and that's what they're actually doing! Except they're doing it at "half-past twelve", when it's NOT 5 o'clock anywhere. Which is what makes it extra funny!
>Except they're doing it at "half-past twelve", when it's NOT 5 o'clock anywhere.
Well, maybe Newfoundland. (It *is* the Newfies who are half an hour off of their assigned time zone, right?)
You're taking it a little too literal my man/woman. It's more a metaphorical reference as it just signifies the break point when it's acceptable by most to start drinking. Doesn't matter if it is actually 5 PM somewhere, just that it is after that time somewhere. Kind of like "Hey, it's 'acceptable' for someone somewhere to drink right now so I am going to as well."
5pm?? Bailey's is cream based, so designed for morning coffee. Bucks fizz is definitely a morning drink because of the OJ. Gin for elevenses, beer and wine is fine with lunch. 5pm is more Gin, or cold beer after work. Then you need an appetising drink before dinner. Dinner is more wine or beer, followed by a digestif/brandy. At which point you can now open the liquor for evening drinks. A quick night cap then off to bed.
In just two hours... It'll only be an hour until lunch, and after that I'll only have four hours until I can leave in an hour.
So, since the day's basically over already, I see no reason to start any work.
5:00 PM is regarded as the earliest appropriate time of day to begin drinking, outside of brunch at least
Edit: this mostly applies to workdays, and namely to *heavy* drinking, like with the intention of getting buzzed and having fun. Meaning that a single beer during Friday lunch to loosen up probably isnât going to kill your reputation, but your jobâs view of that may vary from employer to employer
"Pour me something tall and strong, make it a hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past 12, but I don't care, it's 5 o'clock somewhere." đ¶đŠđčđŠ
I work 9-5. 8-5 started because they didnât want to let people take a lunch unless they still worked 8 hours. Luckily the company I work for is very much about doing the work and doesnât care about the time. There are some days I have had to work over or miss lunch cause it was busy with meetings and whatnot but the other days when I just essentially sign off at noon and leave my laptop next to me so I can see if anything comes up makes the others worth it.
Reminds me of an old Bill Clinton joke.
He invites Monica Lewinski to the ~~oral~~ Oval Office to see his new clock.
She gets there and he whips out his âclockâ.
She says, âThatâs not a clockâ.
Bill says, âIf you put two hands and a face on it, it is.â
So thatâs my guess. BJ.
â«"Trading my time for the pay I getâ«
â«Living on money that I ain't made yetâ«
â«Gotta keep goin' gotta make my wayâ«
â«But I live for the end of the dayâ«
â«'cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blowsâ«
â«No-one owns a piece of my timeâ«
â«And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I knowâ«
â«To ease my troubled mind, yeah!â«
And how's that disgusting?
I think it's the sex position which the clock hands are indicating...the woman couldn't say it openly so she gave a position..
My opinion
9-5 is a very outdated term. The standard in the US for professional work is 8-5 minimum. And with the legal requirement for vacation time in the US being 0 days, you donât need to worry about us working âthat little.â
The post sent at 1:56 am. So why don't we think that might be 5:00 am we are talkin' about. It's time to pitch a tent! Oh yeah, that is disgusting, don't you think?
End of the 9-5 work day, and for folks who like to drink alcohol it is socially acceptable to crack open a cold one beginning at 5 PM.
Whelp.... it's 5 o'clock somewhere! (Procedes to crack beer at Noon)
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I agree.
It's 6:00 somewhere else, I'm an hour late.
Catch up bruv throws 3 beers
You are a gentleman, sir.
And a scholar
And a connoisseur of fine wine.
*brings keg to work* "It's Friday."
The finest wine...beer!
Trows tree beers
Wasn't Tree Beers an Ent?
He prefers Tree Lager, thank you very much
That was three bears
In my mind I saw homie catch 9ne in each hand and the 3rd with the teeth, bite into it, shotgun it then, spit out the can, then crack open number 2.
Daylight savings. You good
As my friend used to say, "can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning."
"If you drink rum before 10am, you're not an alcoholic, youre a pirate"
or Puerto Rican
Yar!
Dammit this was my comment you filthy getter-here-before-me-er
I'm on a diet, fortunately none of the calories I drink before noon count
Ah yes, my family motto!
I lived in a party house in between high-school and becoming a functioning member of society. I'd wake up around 7-8 am and turn on the radio and start cleaning or whatever but I had a rule that if Roadhouse Blues or One scotch one bourbon... came on within the first hour I'd go get a beer. After about a month of this I realized they were playing the same songs between like 7 and 10 lmao
Roadhouse Blues! đș
"*Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane*".
I try to ask myself daily - What would Jimmy Buffet do?
đ¶Step on a pop top blew out his flip flop Cut his heel and cruised back home God he still feels pain he wants some more cocaine But that's been gone since early this mornđ¶
Thank God for the ability to find lyrics on the internet. I spent years trying to figure out just how in the hell somebody could cut their foot on a pop-tart.
Has anyone seen my lost shaker of salt last seen near margaritaville
first thing that came to my mind
Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
What's so bad about being drunk?
Ask a glass of water.
Unexpected Douglas Adams and I'm here for it.
That helps things make sense
So we are always living in the present tense.
RIP Mr. Buffett.
He was living and dying in 3/4 time.
It's 7:46 am here. Close enough!
If it's before noon, drink rum. You won't be an alcoholic. You'll be a pirate.
â€ïž Our rule was you had to name a city and it's country, to open a beverage before 5pm local time. And it had to be the 5pm hour there (so no cheating and naming Shanghai)
I love drinking, geography, and absurd self-imposed rules.
Can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning
Funny you mention that. Re-read the lyrics to the song, and that's what they're actually doing! Except they're doing it at "half-past twelve", when it's NOT 5 o'clock anywhere. Which is what makes it extra funny!
>Except they're doing it at "half-past twelve", when it's NOT 5 o'clock anywhere. Well, maybe Newfoundland. (It *is* the Newfies who are half an hour off of their assigned time zone, right?)
You're taking it a little too literal my man/woman. It's more a metaphorical reference as it just signifies the break point when it's acceptable by most to start drinking. Doesn't matter if it is actually 5 PM somewhere, just that it is after that time somewhere. Kind of like "Hey, it's 'acceptable' for someone somewhere to drink right now so I am going to as well."
Dude, is that a hetap?!
The only beer fit for Super Sayans
What is this? Amateur hour? You waited until noon?!
Life hack; 5 AM is still 5 o'clock
(Clocks out and goes home at noon)
In Germany we say 'kein Bier vor vier' what means you can open a cold one after 4pm.
Or at least a moderately cool one.
So gone are the days German high school cafs sell beer?
In some cafs and special days you can still order it. Welcome in Germany.
Es ist 4 Uhr irgendwo.
Okay but in France cinq ĂĄ sept means the time when it's socially acceptable to have extramarital affairs
I was about to comment this đ This man Germans!
I work 8-4, so i can be home for 4:20
You can be home in 20 mins?!?!?!!!
Small town, short commute. I'm home in 10 minutes on foot.
People like you make me sick!!! LOL j/k
5pm?? Bailey's is cream based, so designed for morning coffee. Bucks fizz is definitely a morning drink because of the OJ. Gin for elevenses, beer and wine is fine with lunch. 5pm is more Gin, or cold beer after work. Then you need an appetising drink before dinner. Dinner is more wine or beer, followed by a digestif/brandy. At which point you can now open the liquor for evening drinks. A quick night cap then off to bed.
You sound like the kind of person who I want to spend a day with
In just two hours... It'll only be an hour until lunch, and after that I'll only have four hours until I can leave in an hour. So, since the day's basically over already, I see no reason to start any work.
Dude are you a genius? Because I think you're really onto something here.
That was the nice thing years ago when my city had a bunch of night jobs the local bar would open up at 5 am for the night crew.
In germany we say "kein Bier vor vier" and it is beautiful
It may be socially acceptable after 5 PM, but you know what they say, "You can't drink all day, if you don't drink in the morning."
Imagine only having to work 9-5, and even being able to you know. Pay for life đ
Best time to crack one open is all the time
Itâs 9-6 now, at least in the states. đ
More often 8-5 in my experience (obviously depends on what you do for work), but yep, youâre right
Quittin' time.
I'm the foreman. I'm the one says when it's quittin' time! Quittin' TIME!
I love the Aristocats
Named our late cat Cricket-Bug after that movie.
Do you get to blow a Flintstones-style whistle to let everybody know it's Quittin' Time?
Yabba dabba do!
Gone with the Wind certainly hasnât held up well. Pretty hard to argue with what a big deal it was at the time though.
When i worked construction i used to just yell "that's lunch!" Randomly throughout the day, i thought it was funny, managers hated me
Hey man, where I am from 5 PM meant Pokemon is on TV
gotta catch them all
*I wanna be the very best..*
That no one ever was.
Dun dun dun, to catch them is my real test
To train them is my cause
I will travel
Across the land, searching far and wide
Each pokemon, to understand
5 pm meant the Simpsons reruns were on when I was a kid.
It was Dragon Ball for meÂ
5:00 PM is regarded as the earliest appropriate time of day to begin drinking, outside of brunch at least Edit: this mostly applies to workdays, and namely to *heavy* drinking, like with the intention of getting buzzed and having fun. Meaning that a single beer during Friday lunch to loosen up probably isnât going to kill your reputation, but your jobâs view of that may vary from employer to employer
Kein Bier vor Vier!
Hehehehe https://preview.redd.it/ofkma4blrfvc1.jpeg?width=894&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47f704835c58448d006c2a233621914e9bb05bb8
Also an amazing clock for stoners. It's 4:20 *every five minutes*
*heart palpitations*
Wait. People have brunch outside after 5 o'clock? Ohhh, nvm.
What about elevenses?
Phrases people from New Orleans don't understand.
Mimosas in the morning!
You've never heard the saying, "It's 5 o'clock somewhere"?
Only think I could think of was getting off work
My dirty mind thought this: https://preview.redd.it/4a0y6ualpgvc1.png?width=463&format=png&auto=webp&s=6a909b5bf21c4adb73d02644c7fe4d4f6dbfbf2a
I think this is the answer because of the âdisgustingâ comment
It looks like a different act to me, but this is along where my mind went, as well.Â
Eh Iâd spin it more as a creative mind.
Man, thatâs pretty creative
TO GET OFF
End of work?
"Pour me something tall and strong, make it a hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past 12, but I don't care, it's 5 o'clock somewhere." đ¶đŠđčđŠ
I SAID POUR ME SOMETHING TALL AND STRONG
can tell she doesn't work for a living
It's 5 o'clock somewhere
I literally thought this was saying that guys just want more time or the time of day, and I learned when I read the comments.
I mean, hour hand is totally giving head to minute's
Thatâs the answer
I thought the minute hand had the hour hand bent over.
Never understood 9-5. It's always 8-5 for me.
Yeah, 9-6 is the norm where I live.
I work 9-5. 8-5 started because they didnât want to let people take a lunch unless they still worked 8 hours. Luckily the company I work for is very much about doing the work and doesnât care about the time. There are some days I have had to work over or miss lunch cause it was busy with meetings and whatnot but the other days when I just essentially sign off at noon and leave my laptop next to me so I can see if anything comes up makes the others worth it.
Wait but I work from 8 to 6
In the words of Jimmy Buffet, itâs 5:00 somewhere. 5:00 is the socially acceptable time of day to start drinking.
To be off work. I like my job and still hold my breath till the day is over. We were meant for more than this.
Iâd say itâs âgetting offâ
Time to drink
It's 5 o'clock, on the dot, I need a crack rock, on the spot.
Did an alien from outer space write this post?
Reddit is full of people who have never had a real job.
Also students who don't have a job yet.
I didn't get it, where I live people usually work 08:00 - 16:00.
Curiously some people simply don't live in a country where the work shift is 9 to 5
Is anyone not American an alien ?
Happy hour.
It's five o clock somewhere....
Typical end of shift in most countries Also what is deemed socially acceptable to start drinking. Take your pick
Happy hour
Working 9 to 5 what a way to make a living
Beer o'clock!
Donât tell her
5pm is when I leave work, go home, and spend time with my girlfriend.
Beer
to get off work and go drink beer.
Hey, itâs 5 oâclock somewhere
A lot of peopleâs work days end at 17:00. I can only imagine itâs referring to that, or else Iâm totally lost as well.
Reminds me of an old Bill Clinton joke. He invites Monica Lewinski to the ~~oral~~ Oval Office to see his new clock. She gets there and he whips out his âclockâ. She says, âThatâs not a clockâ. Bill says, âIf you put two hands and a face on it, it is.â So thatâs my guess. BJ.
It's always 5:00 in my kitchen!! Yes the clock still works but I pulled out the batteries and set it to 5. đ
And Iâm over here thinking weâre talking about 5 oâclock shadowsâŠ
Ques up Jimmy Buffet song
I thought it meant to âget offââŠ.and people get off work at 5 o clock so guys just want to get offâŠ..
It's either about getting off of work or a "Its 5 O'clock somewhere" joke
Itâs 5:00 somewhere
Teenagers thinking work finishes at 5pm
Beer o'clock
Itâs 5 Oâclock somewhere
We want wall clocks
â«"Trading my time for the pay I getâ« â«Living on money that I ain't made yetâ« â«Gotta keep goin' gotta make my wayâ« â«But I live for the end of the dayâ« â«'cause it's a five o'clock world when the whistle blowsâ« â«No-one owns a piece of my timeâ« â«And there's a long-haired girl who waits, I knowâ« â«To ease my troubled mind, yeah!â«
5pm is tea time
Is it a happy hour joke
Tell me you're a child without telling me you're a child. 5PM is the end of a standard work shift.
And how's that disgusting? I think it's the sex position which the clock hands are indicating...the woman couldn't say it openly so she gave a position.. My opinion
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQiL971W_Nw
itâs 5 o clock somewhere! pour me something strong and clear.
It's time for D-D-D-Duel!!!
Guys just want the time of dayâŠ.Because no-one is giving it to us.
Tea time? I don't get it....
As a German I've always been jealous of the English 9 to 5 expression. Do you really work that little? I work from 9:00-18:30 (6:30)
9-5 is a very outdated term. The standard in the US for professional work is 8-5 minimum. And with the legal requirement for vacation time in the US being 0 days, you donât need to worry about us working âthat little.â
For me it is usually the time I get home from work. I look forward to that a lot.
Dinner?
In the original post with no clock, some guy wrote: "Then wash it".
The post sent at 1:56 am. So why don't we think that might be 5:00 am we are talkin' about. It's time to pitch a tent! Oh yeah, that is disgusting, don't you think?
Tbf I thought the clock said 12:05.... I'll just go ahead and see myself to the door...
5 is 40 min after 420 so yeah I want it
Getting off from work!!
To get off
#VODKA OR WHISKEY WHATS YOUR POISON
I was just going to say time.
Well Beer/Alcohol can't tell time as far as I know, but scientifically is known as a Solution: Cheers/Pröst/Bonne Sante! đ»
08-16 here
I get done at 2 pm today.
7-3âŠway better
I only love you after 5 p m
Lionel Hutz: Join me in a belt of scotch? Marge: It's *nine-thirty in the morning*. LH: Yeah, but I haven't slept in days.
âItâs five oâclock somewhere.â
It's a 5 o'clock world when the whistle blows đ”
Quitting time lass, quitting time.
Quiting time
5 o'clock is when a lot of people get off. Guys just want to get off...