FAQ

There are only a few questions that get asked more than once.

What is this site all about?

A dozen years and several thousand beers ago, two Calgary boys had the idea to quaff a brew on a Tuesday. After a few hundred of these such days, they realized the idea had stuck, and so they gave it a name: Pint Day.

This site is dedicated to, and occasionally inspired by the fruits of that idea.

Why Tuesday?

At the pd.o, all important events are scheduled to occur on a Tuesday. This includes, but is not restricted to, job resignations, Web site launches, marriage proposals, births, and deaths. In short, if it is best done with a beer in hand (or requires the consumption of a beer shortly thereafter), it is best done on a Tuesday.

But why that day?

On Monday you just want to put your tail between your legs and scurry home. Wednesday is hump day, by Thursday you’re almost there, and Friday is home free. That leaves Tuesday. Tuesday needs help.

Drink as many beer as it takes to feel human again.

More specifically, Tuesday needs a couple of pints. Or more, depending on how the week is progressing.

The scale works like this: you drink as many beer as it takes for you to feel human again. A typical work week is a one beer week. When the pressure is on, such as a when an unidentified chartered bank inappropriately garnishes your corporate chequing account on behalf of the federal government, you might have a two beer week. Three beer weeks involve going live with eBay-style auction sites, or deregulating the Alberta electric industry.

You should keep four beer weeks to a minimum, except as a means to avoid overt physical violence, mob riots, and premature revolution. Federal elections always call for four beer weeks.

What’s with all the ranting?

Ranting is a task best done with a beer in hand. As such, participation in Pint Day ocassionally leads its participants to rant. Repeated participation in Pint Day tends to groove these rants. After a while, these grooved rants make their way here.

What if I don’t agree with what you have to say?

Then your opinion is wrong.

What is this pode thing you keep talking about?

It's short for podium. Every Tuesday, one of the Pint Day Saints climbs up on the pode and let fly at whatever is chapping his (or hypothetically, her) ass at the moment.

And the pd.o?

Are you even paying attention? pint day dot org, dum dum.

How many pints of beer should I drink a week?

As many as it takes to feel human again, my friend. Doctor’s orders.

Why does this site look like crap?

At the pd.o, we make extensive use of Cascading Style Sheets. CSS allows us to completely separate content from formatting. With stylesheets, we can update the entire look and feel of every page on the site in One-Swell-Foop. We like that.

If your web browser does not fully support CSS then you will not see the site in its full glory. This also means you are using a web browser who’s rendering engine was written over 5 years ago. In other words, you’re living in the past.

To get the most from your web browsing experience, we gently urge you to switch to a browser that does support web standards, such as Opera, IE 4+, a Mozilla-based browser, or Netscape 6.x. Please do not use Netscape 4, or IE 3. They are terrible, terrible pieces of trash.

If you have a current, standards-compliant browser, and the site still looks like crap, then that’s just your poor sense of style. Sorry.

Were you being sarcastic in your last rant?

Truth be told, we can't even tell anymore.

What is that thing in the bottom right hand corner of every page?

It’s ASCII art, printed on a beer mat. And since you had to ask, it’s ASCII art of a full pint of beer (Quelle surprise!).

Try squinting a bit.

Be you angels?

No.

We be men.

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