To love Canberra is to love Mooseheads

mooseheads. my 2 cents is that it’s a shame that when it burnt down there was time for the clientele to get out unscathed.

As it is looking increasingly likely that Sarah Palin will be visiting Canberra on official business Mooseheads had better look out!

I was never much of a fan of the Moose and have only been in a handful of times. They used to (maybe still do) cheap pints on Friday lunchtimes when it was all very quiet and civilised. Drinking at lunchtime just seems like a remnant of a bygone age in my trade these days.

Went there after a Xmas Party with some bright and lovely young things and offered to shout the first round. Suddenly the round changed from pints to vodka and red bull and I nearly wept when I saw the change out of a fifty. My kids don’t need shoes that much.

Only other time it was reasonably OK was in the wee small hours after the school reunion I organised about four years ago. The drunks started to thin out at about 3am and it was quite pleasant, though my enduring memory is of two mates being hoisted through the door for some minor infraction. It took me three hours to walk (mostly sideways) home to Macquarie and I was still rotten hungover until 6pm. Bah!

New Yeah said :

I remain surprised that Mooseheads has been able to rise from the ashes to be Canberra’s preeminent club.

Price, and sponsorship of university events.

I remain surprised that Mooseheads has been able to rise from the ashes to be Canberra’s preeminent club.

Gee, and those ashes weren’t suspect?!

Mind you, this topic really is grasping at straws as a conversation piece.

I take back this previous comment of mine JB – it’s turned out to be quite entertaining! 😛

Mooseheads hasn’t always been ‘the’ premier booner joint in Civic.

When I had a predilection for dubious beer halls and the wild women within, Mooseheads was no better than the other half dozen clubs nearby, such as Pandoras and the Bin.

I remain surprised that Mooseheads has been able to rise from the ashes to be Canberra’s preeminent club. Like others here, I don’t begrude its existence, but it is a place I do my best to avoid.

I just find it extremely ironic when these buses have “SCHOOL BUS” labeled on the LCD panel, despite Krudd’s efforts to curb binge drinking in our youth.

mooseheads? headmooses?? head? moose? hmmm i think i would rather not get head from a moose.

^^ What a horrendous story. So a TV came down on a girls head?!?! Far out.

I have never stepped inside the place, myself. From the stories i’ve heard I really don’t think it would be my cup of tea.

Was never a real fan of the place, but seemed to end up there after a dozen too many. I can remember one night when some drunk punter pulled the tele down on a young unsuspecting sheila. Made a ripe mess of her. I don’t know how it didn’t knock her unconscious, but it sure split her open. Claret everywhere, which I’m sure would’ve led to a nice sewing job. Now that was going back a few years. Don’t think I’ve been back in a semi sober state since, not since the fire anyways.

Mooseheads is a classy place. Feet stick to the floor? Check. Sleazy guys who all think they’re it-and-a-bit? Check. Drunk Army boys? Check. Drink spiking incidents? Check.

But every now and again I get dragged to that long winding line to go inside, and as i’m handing over my money I sigh at the irony of paying to go somewhere knowing that chances are I will be hit on by a freak/have a drink spilled on me/have some lovely young woman want to punch me for no reason.

Winner of a place!

I used to hang out there when I was at Uni last century. There was only the ground floor, we knew all the staff, we knew all the punters. So there is much affection for the memories I have of the place, but it is certainly much changed. Now I’m just glad when the regular Moose crowd walks past the Phoenix, rather than walking in…

I thought Mooseheads was representative of the youth of Canberra?? As a very busy old fart who gets two nights out a year on a good year, I love to finish off that night at Mooseheads to watch people, it’s very funny. Is there somewhere out there more entertaining?

c’mon guys its a great place to have a spiked drink spilt on you and see a few quality knifings !

Funniest moose story I can relate was a pi$$ed guy who informed a biggish lad in a hawaiian shirt he was a “fag” and started pushing him around.

*just* b4 einstein threw his first and only punch he missed seeing the other 15 (even larger) guys also in hawaiian shirts who were off duty coppers about to fly out to Timor for peacekeeping duties.

Quickest fight I ever saw in the moose… 🙂

It should read:

I am a bogan-bonehead. I love Mooseheads

threeze said :

I love that Mooseheads exists. If I don’t go there, I don’t have to associate with the type of people who ruin a good night out.

It sucked when they all migrated to Toast and caused that place to start sucking too.

The problem is that there are a tonne of other Mooseheads type clubs in the city and on the weekend the streets are spilling over with the drunk hillbillies that populate this town.

Mooseheads is a Shithole

When I was working in Defence in 1990 Mooseheads had just opened and the girls said they liked to go there to pick up ADFA boys. I thought they were talking about Noosa Heads.

I love that Mooseheads exists. If I don’t go there, I don’t have to associate with the type of people who ruin a good night out.

It sucked when they all migrated to Toast and caused that place to start sucking too.

The one time I went my handbag was stolen so my views on the establishment are tainted.

It was totally out of my experience, but I was invited to a birthday party there. Not bad, until the music got too loud for elderly ears. I’d go back if they had a special room for codgers.

> (thats option two, they just worded it all fancy like)

No, it’s not.

justbands said :

> Where is the vote for “I love Canberra, but HATE Mooseheads”? That would have been my pick hands down.

My thoughts exactly. I think RiotACT polls are designed such that I’m never able to provide a response.

(thats option two, they just worded it all fancy like)

> Where is the vote for “I love Canberra, but HATE Mooseheads”? That would have been my pick hands down.

My thoughts exactly. I think RiotACT polls are designed such that I’m never able to provide a response.

Where is the vote for “I love Canberra, but HATE Mooseheads”? That would have been my pick hands down.

Mind you, this topic really is grasping at straws as a conversation piece.

jakez said :

I don’t have a problem with the place existing, but I hate its concept and clientele with a burning passion.

Haha! You said ‘burning’…

Lesson learnt from last time, if there is a fire, they should seal the exits first!!! Bwahahahaha!

I don’t have a problem with the place existing, but I hate its concept and clientele with a burning passion.

It was pretty good fun on a Thursday until the ‘pink polos’ came along.

It was pretty good fun on a Thursday until the ‘pink polos’ came along.

Should’ve never re-built the shithole.

justbands said :

Do we love Mooseheads for concentrating the ADFA folk and their hangers on, thereby freeing up the city for the rest of us?

Almost – but ummmmm no.

A sh1thole is a sh1thole as the place has only 1 job – to be a sh1thole…

You’ll just have to settle for unrelated eh?

Love Canberra, hate Mooseheads option?