I could be the dwarf on No Undie Sundie.....

no undies, midgets pouring drinks down your throat, sounds like a blast! Just need a pole in the center and it'll be like it's straight out of austin powers/Beverly hills cop :)

Could it be abused? ie the leave your undies on the bar - what if you brought a second pair? Do the bar staff keep them as a kind of payment? surely you could show a bra strap and no the actual bra, thus showing your bra without much exposure? And lets be honest - most women flash the back of their knickers when they bend down anyway so arguably they'd all get cheap/free drinks?

NB: Drink responsibly

More of this is needed around the world! If the 'Lay-dee' wants to remove the offending band of cotton, then fine!

Magic ;o)

Paris, because she would get a card every visit (thanks for putting the icon back to normal El Reg!)

all round then.

yea, well, I thought you'd post it anyway..

I'll keep on supplying you with that sort of stories although you failed to mention me for supplying the story (*sob*)

Paris, for already earning a couple of those 50$ coupons in the past..

If they'll introduce it in the Walkabout chain over here..?

"...makes them more vulnerable to sexual assault"

Oh ok then, is that how it works down under - you can enter the defence plea 'she already had her knickers off, your Honour' and get away with it? Suppose that's what you get when you start an entire nation off with a penal colony (no pun intended).

Can't say I'd want to be queuing at a bar with strings of ladies undies above the bar though - it's somewhat less than sanitary!

So, let's see. There's no law forcing people to wear underwear. There's no law against giving away drink vouchers or free drinks (in fact a few places do it for promotions). There's no law against advertising venues or events. The ads didn't contain images or language likely to offend. So what exactly is wrong? A few people don't like the fact that not all females may be chaste or tea-total? Just what part of "free country" don't they get?

I bet Paris would show up if she was in town, and we all know her moral standards are beyond reproach.

We need to be told

Paris, well she knows about being out in public without underwear

Don't know about the Ozzies, but £20 worth of beer tokens wouldn't really get me or anyone I know "irresponsibly" drunk...

Do they have to prove they're not wearing two (or more) pairs?

Can guys claim the prize too? :P

And do they get their underwear back at the end of the night, or are the bar's costs recouped by selling them on to local japanese guys...

...the Register runs non-IT stories. Hopefully Lester's marvellous Aussie tech piece should put an end to such low calumny!

They have just discovered the bra in Australia, right?

Mine's the one with the beer-stained tassels...

'event's cancellation "because it was likely to encourage irresponsible drinking".'

Not because it was sexist or degrading, but that you might get too many "Sheila's" turning up and taking too many of the free cards, thereby cutting profits!

Sue Maclellan, who met landlord Cameron Manning and ordered the event's cancellation "because it was likely to encourage irresponsible drinking" - We can all do that already fully clothed you muppet!!

Carolyn Worth of Melbourne Centre Against Sexual Assault was more forthright, slamming the event as "stupid and dangerous". She said: "It sends a very bad message, and it is one made very explicit. It's almost an invitation to sexual assault." - Like a pair of knickers normally stop this kind of thing

Port Phillip mayor Janet Cribbes explained: "... It fuels the fire for irresponsible drinking, irresponsible behaviour and puts young women at risk and makes them more vulnerable to sexual assault. - Another muppet

Many women already DON'T wear knickers too might I add. Those moaning are just a bunch of prudes!

i'm sure paris doesn't wear any, she survives ok!

I wonder how much outrage there would be if a Scottish landlord organised a similar event but requested the men be the ones to abandon underwear in return for the drinks voucher.

No doubt such an event hosted in Scotland with focus on men being the ones to 'let it hang' under the kilts would be a roaring success, with women turning out by the bus loads for a chance to tease and abuse the men.

See, women think that if they are encouraged to take off their knickers in a public place, they're opening the door for abuse. Yet us poor Scots get abused by women every time we go out drinking, to the point where some of my friends now refuse to wear a kilt except on special occasions. Women can be such cruel hypocrites.

Considering the offer was only available to the ladies, wouldn't that make it a bit sexist, too? What happened to equal opportunity?

Mine's the one with the holes in the pockets.

I bet if I whipped of my undies It wouldn't be a $50 drinks voucher I'd be getting.

are they opening up as my local?

the man's a marketing genius!

Time to throw out my keyboard and get a new one...now if I can gouge that image out of my brain.

If it weren't for IT we wouldn't hear about this until someone brought the news by ship after a 6-month voyage.

Hurray for the IT connection!

That it is a pub and there is drinking involved. The long hallowed hobby of us pasty IT types. naturally ladies going commando also should have been enough since cell phone video camera + youtube = ....well you know

"She said: "It sends a very bad message, and it is one made very explicit. It's almost an invitation to sexual assault.""

Great, an expert witness for my sexual assult trial, "she invited me, honest, the aussie woman said so!".

Doing that in Scotland would likely win you free entry into the Sex Offenders Register. Luckily, both me and my kilt are far, far away from that madness.

Just interested if there's a Centre For Sexual Assault?

I thought sexual assault was one of those things that you could safely assume that folks were, by and large, against in the first place.

Mine's the one with the printer's proof for the "Men Against Castration"* newsletter

*(MACtard?)

St Kilda is Melbourne's home for the red-light area.

This kind of activity is tame compared to what goes on around the pub.

The $50 for drinks will buy you about 7-9 drinks in a Melbourne pub, unless you go for cocktails which will get you about 4. That's plenty to get an 18-25 year old waif-like lass well and truly liquored up.

And this is a bad thing how?

(I'm going to hell...)

I am more than a little pissed off that these arseholes seem to think if I turned up to the pub and saw a couple of hairy beavers it would incite me to either drink more or commit an act that is completely vile. It appears they don't hink the male population, in general, have evolved past the missing link

it also seems to have slipped their tiny little minds that you can just drive the road and see more than a map of tassie in the nuddie bars But once again the extermists views of the minority are force upon the originally uncaring majority I'm guessing from this thinking these "women" are bitter, old and single

Alien... beam me up there's no intelligent life here

Yes a few girls going commando for $50 in drinks... that'll be "an invitation to sexual assault"... The prostitutes wandering the streets in this corner of Melbourne or the kerb crawling lowlifes who use their 'services' are no problem though.

St. Kilda is one of those areas of town where the night life gets a little wilder than average. We all know it and the problems there are not that the pubs run risque promotions but that all levels of bureaucracy still insist on policing the easy/mostly irrelevant laws rather than the ones that matter. And as has been noted, if the pub had broken any actual laws, plod would have been right round, rather than just making vague hand wavy threats in a national newspaper.

E.

Is it possible to vote not to have them as all they seem to do is ban everything or spend lots of taxpayers money fucking things up.

I'm being oppressed!

only in Oz!

lol :p

Actually in my Student days my (London) College Student Union had a row of such garments, some obviously unwashed since last worn, pinned up over the bar... I imagine they're long gone by now though...

Paris Hilton angle - do you need to ask?

That's probably the closest the men in there could have come to actually having sex with a woman. How sad.