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ulmont posted:In the US I've never heard anything other than "El Camino" (after one of the earlier brands) used to refer to what you are calling a "small ute" (i.e., a car body with a pickup back). The Ute (Short for Utility Coup, apparently) as a concept started in Australia back in the '30s, as a way to have a car that could "Go to church on Sunday and bring the pigs to market on Monday," and has stayed pretty popular there even after the brief American love affair with the Ford Ranchero and the Chevy El Camino died in the '70s. Just less demand for that kind of vehicle in the States, especially when pickup trucks are already ubiquitous. Except, IIRC GM was actually going to bring the El Camino back in the late 2000s as a rebaged Holden Ute, until the stock market crash happened and the company had to drastically restructure itself to avoid total bankruptcy 
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I kinda don't think you needed to explain Steve Irwin THAT thoroughly, because he was pretty drat famous.
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Zagglezig posted:Quick backtrack to the update: was that place an Avatar the Last Airbender reference? You've got the moon and sea = yin and yang thing, plus the history of the town sounded basically the same as the two lovers story about Omashu, even down to combining names. Just that much more baffling that they put in all that effort to set up all those moon/waves themes and didn't actually make the gym leaders use appropriate types to reflect that. uh no it was just drawing on the same kinds of real world eastern cultural influences that the avatar writers did
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Acebuckeye13 posted:Just less demand for that kind of vehicle in the States, especially when pickup trucks are already ubiquitous.
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Waffleman_ posted:I kinda don't think you needed to explain Steve Irwin THAT thoroughly, because he was pretty drat famous.
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PMush Perfect posted:He died a decade ago, it's entirely possible that someone of voting age could have only vague memories of who he was. (And how's that for making you feel old?) 
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ulmont posted:...and when an El Camino looks as ugly as homemade sin. you take that back you son of a bitch the El Camino is beautiful fake edit: okay maybe not the later ones Late '70s/early '80s were not a good time for cars
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Acebuckeye13 posted:you take that back you son of a bitch the El Camino is beautiful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqn7vXeVCLE
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I love Stubbs for the large testicles hanging out of each leg.
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Coq au Nandos posted:Context for Theraynesarere: Thank you. I was wondering if anyone would remember the ad. Sure, the monsoon makes sense but why is it corn? That's why.
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Gridlocked posted:Aw man they don't explain Errwinn properly. They don't explain it because it doesn't need explaining.
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Golden Goat posted:So was there any point to It honestly wouldn't surprise me if that was how it was supposed to work, but they messed up. And then never tested it/just made sure the actual intended solution worked, but didn't try to just get equal #s.
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Brother Entropy posted:uh no it was just drawing on the same kinds of real world eastern cultural influences that the avatar writers did Ok, it just seemed a little too similar, considering this game's blatant use of pop culture references like the hokage stuff.
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Gridlocked posted:Theraynsarere: The Rains Are Here. Not 100% on this either but large weather events are both a blessing and curse in Australia. Often times there is drought where a spot of rain is most welcomed by farmers but typically when it happens it ends up being a LOT of rain and floods everything out. On the coast it's typically in the form of a cyclone (monsoon) that destroys fuckin' everything. It's almost certainly a reference to this ad campaign. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdxfurkPuTo
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Gridlocked posted:Blaccbox: The black box of an aircraft, used for recording flight data. Typically high sought post-crash to help discover the issue that caused the crash. Not found in the case of MH370. Blackbox- idk, I guess because Australia was the first place to make them mandatory and some dude worked on them here in the 50s? WiFi- because CSIRO
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No 'it's Showtime!' references when explaining any of the Bigs, for shame. You even had the titlular Big O. 
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Gridlocked posted:Elekidna: It's an Echidna. A native Australian animal that is a spiny anteater of the Monotreme family, that is mammals that lay eggs which are only found in Australia and some surrounding islands (and PNG). Isn't the joke here supposed to be that aussies tend to use "Nah" and "Yeah" rather than no and yes?
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This thread has taught me more about Australia than I would have ever imagined.
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Make this thread the official June Auspol thread. If you do, I'll get a Girafarig named Healthy Harold.
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that the yin-yang is a symbol of Daoism, which is distinctly not Zen Buddhism. Granted, Daoist thinking influenced Chan Buddhism, which became Zen Buddhism when it spread to Japan, but man those are some pretty serious degrees of separation. Also those Australian pokemon rule.
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everything from asia are the same. but yeah, I'm pretty sure yin-yang is more of a chinese thing than Japanese.
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Did you know your pokemon can die in the latest grimdark mobile pokemon game? It's a game where you raise magikarp and if you get a bad roll a pidgeotto will swoop down and devour it alive.
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Tunicate posted:Did you know your pokemon can die in the latest grimdark mobile pokemon game? uhhh No, it just steals the Magikarp and forces you to catch a new one. The pokémon doesn't die on-screen or anything like that.
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There's also an event where a pidgeotto appears in the forest as Magikarp splashes his way home with his friend Pikachu, who thundershocks the pidgeotto so it doesn't brutally murder your Magikarp, and when I showed it to a friend his only comment was to quote Psalm 23. Now that's some dumb fuckin fan art I really want to see
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Aerdan posted:uhhh
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Another fail state is for a Voltorb to blow your Magikarp to kingdom come.
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Aerdan posted:uhhh Yeah, the magikarp only dies if you run into a pokeball on your way back from training and try to take it. Most of the time it's a voltorb and it blows your magikarp to smithereens. Magikarp Jump is pretty great. e: 
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Kurieg posted:Isn't the joke here supposed to be that aussies tend to use "Nah" and "Yeah" rather than no and yes? Probably sounds about right yeah. Look in all fairness I'm pretty big on pop-culture but I didn't really RESEARCH anything. Everything was off the top of my head so I probably did miss a few bits and pieces.
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I'm sorry you don't appreciate the inherent sublimity of business in the front, party in the back
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Aerdan posted:uhhh Yes yes, I know pidgeotto takes it to a nice farm where it can splash around.
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Tunicate posted:Yes yes, I know pidgeotto takes it to a nice farm where it can splash around. Nah, he just knocks it unconscious
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If I recall correctly it was established in season 1 that magikarp is actually completely inedible ("just scales and bones").
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Scarodactyl posted:If I recall correctly it was established in season 1 that magikarp is actually completely inedible ("just scales and bones"). This is also what the Pokedex says in... at least early generations; not sure about later on. Also, as far as I can tell, there are (at least so far) three "failure states" that force you to retire your fish in that game. One is exploding it via Voltorb, one is getting it snatched by a bird (there's a few events that can do this), and one is.... overclicking your fish, breaking its everstone, and evolving it into a Gyarados. Apparently this competition is only for lovely fish, not awesome murderfish.
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KataraniSword posted:This is also what the Pokedex says in... at least early generations; not sure about later on. There's also a later event where a scientist asks to experiment on your magikarp and it has the chance of evolving it (thus forcing retirement)
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The Gyrados ones was definitely a 'Congratulations... but Gyrados can't compete, so yeah'
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I shed a tear when my Magikarp got murdered. Luckily it wasn't a gold one.
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Kurieg posted:Isn't the joke here supposed to be that aussies tend to use "Nah" and "Yeah" rather than no and yes? IIRC it's not only that, but that they say "nah, yeah" to mean "yes", and "yeah, nah" to mean "no".
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:IIRC it's not only that, but that they say "nah, yeah" to mean "yes", and "yeah, nah" to mean "no". Yup. Ignore all but the last word; we've even got "Yeah, no-- yeah", which means "I agree."
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Nah yeah nah, you're right, that's how we talk.
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Sorites posted:Yup. Ignore all but the last word; we've even got "Yeah, no-- yeah", which means "I agree." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRlqmTKyQx0
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