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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Hey I was watching AU survivor and the woman got a big jar of “Lollies”. Is that just a generic word for candy of is it something specific? Is it like a lollipop without the sick? Yeah "lollies" is any non-chocolate candy in Australia.
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The Fuzzy Hulk posted:Hey I was watching AU survivor and the woman got a big jar of “Lollies”. Is that just a generic word for candy of is it something specific? Is it like a lollipop without the sick? Yep. Lollies are what we call candy. Except the younger generation raised on American TV who now use the terms interchangeably.
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Oct 10, 2017 21:30
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So you know how some months back there was a whole bunch of memes about bee movie? Right now I'm watching ChipCheezum's gextralife videos and got to Bee Movie the game, for the PS2. Confused, I looked it up and it was actually released in loving 2007. I'd been thinking it was some recently released thing for the last year or so and in reality its already 10 years old.
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Oct 10, 2017 22:57
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The_White_Crane posted:I'm in the UK, quick survey of four people shows a 3/4 majority in favour of "al-mund" and one man who prefers "ar-mund". What, no one for walnuts?
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Oct 10, 2017 23:32
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gleebster posted:What, no one for walnuts? Winnots are an entirely different kind of berry
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Snowglobe of Doom posted:I heard the Mr. Mister song 'Kyrie' on the radio the other day. I hadn't heard it for a decade at least and I'd always vaguely assumed it was about a woman because Kyrie sounds a bit like Kirrily and the song seems to be addressed to someone ("Kyrie eleison, where I'm going will you follow?) and I never really listened to it that closely anyway. Ah yes the Carry A Laser song
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Oct 11, 2017 06:11
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Phy posted:Ah yes the Carry A Laser song 
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Oct 11, 2017 07:08
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OK this one I really should have learned a lot earlier: draconian derives from a guy called Draco.
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Oct 11, 2017 07:19
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I had no idea that iOS apps could have multiple icons that are selectable within the app.
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Oct 11, 2017 07:46
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Memento posted:Yeah "lollies" is any non-chocolate candy in Australia.
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Oct 11, 2017 10:00
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Tiggum posted:Like if you had a jar full of snakes, freckles, and licorice it wouldn't be at all unusual to call animal control and a doctor in that order
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Oct 11, 2017 11:53
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Avocado tastes like slimy walnut.
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Oct 11, 2017 13:07
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Tiggum posted:It can be chocolates too. Like if you had a jar full of snakes, freckles, and licorice it wouldn't be at all unusual to refer to the whole thing as a jar of lollies. Australia needs to go
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Oct 11, 2017 13:48
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Tiggum posted:a jar full of snakes, freckles, and licorice whose... whose freckles are they 
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Australia needs to go        (They did change the Chicos packaging to make it less racist)
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Croccers posted:
Yet we somehow still have COON cheese on the shelves.
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Oct 11, 2017 21:23
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I miss Golden Gaytime bars, the strawberry was my jam.
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iajanus posted:Yet we somehow still have COON cheese on the shelves. Glazier posted:I miss Golden Gaytime bars, the strawberry was my jam. 
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Besesoth posted:whose... whose freckles are they  What do you call them? Croccers posted:I thought it was named after the dude that made it.
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Croccers posted:I thought it was named after the dude that made it. Even when there's a reason for the name we've used our brains occasionally and stopped using the names http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-08-29/ten-racist-names-queensland-wiped-off-maps/8852536 Does take a bit of time to do that, though. People here are a little slow...
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Oct 12, 2017 07:03
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Croccers posted:I thought it was named after the dude that made it. There's some decent evidence that it was named Coon because it came in a black wrapper to start with, and that the dude it was supposedly named after was a factory hand who was a convenient fiction to let them keep their name. iajanus posted:Even when there's a reason for the name we've used our brains occasionally and stopped using the names Regardless of why it was called that, this is true.
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There is a poem I quite like the illustrates the confusion in the English language: Gerard Nolst Trenité - The Chaos (1922) Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you'll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving poet, Make my coat look new, dear, sew it! Just compare heart, hear and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word. Sword and sward, retain and Britain (Mind the latter how it's written). Made has not the sound of bade, Say-said, pay-paid, laid but plaid. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as vague and ague, But be careful how you speak, Say: gush, bush, steak, streak, break, bleak , Previous, precious, fuchsia, via Recipe, pipe, studding-sail, choir; Woven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, shoe, poem, toe. Say, expecting fraud and trickery: Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, Branch, ranch, measles, topsails, aisles, Missiles, similes, reviles. Wholly, holly, signal, signing, Same, examining, but mining, Scholar, vicar, and cigar, Solar, mica, war and far. From "desire": desirable-admirable from "admire", Lumber, plumber, bier, but brier, Topsham, brougham, renown, but known, Knowledge, done, lone, gone, none, tone, One, anemone, Balmoral, Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel. Gertrude, German, wind and wind, Beau, kind, kindred, queue, mankind, Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, Reading, Reading, heathen, heather. This phonetic labyrinth Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ninth, plinth. Have you ever yet endeavoured To pronounce revered and severed, Demon, lemon, ghoul, foul, soul, Peter, petrol and patrol? Billet does not end like ballet; Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Banquet is not nearly parquet, Which exactly rhymes with khaki. Discount, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward, Ricocheted and crocheting, croquet? Right! Your pronunciation's OK. Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Is your r correct in higher? Keats asserts it rhymes Thalia. Hugh, but hug, and hood, but hoot, Buoyant, minute, but minute. Say abscission with precision, Now: position and transition; Would it tally with my rhyme If I mentioned paradigm? Twopence, threepence, tease are easy, But cease, crease, grease and greasy? Cornice, nice, valise, revise, Rabies, but lullabies. Of such puzzling words as nauseous, Rhyming well with cautious, tortious, You'll envelop lists, I hope, In a linen envelope. Would you like some more? You'll have it! Affidavit, David, davit. To abjure, to perjure. Sheik Does not sound like Czech but ache. Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, loch, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed but vowed. Mark the difference, moreover, Between mover, plover, Dover. Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice, Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label. Petal, penal, and canal, Wait, surmise, plait, promise, pal, Suit, suite, ruin. Circuit, conduit Rhyme with "shirk it" and "beyond it", But it is not hard to tell Why it's pall, mall, but Pall Mall. Muscle, muscular, gaol, iron, Timber, climber, bullion, lion, Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor, Ivy, privy, famous; clamour Has the a of drachm and hammer. Pussy, hussy and possess, Desert, but desert, address. Golf, wolf, countenance, lieutenants Hoist in lieu of flags left pennants. Courier, courtier, tomb, bomb, comb, Cow, but Cowper, some and home. "Solder, soldier! Blood is thicker", Quoth he, "than liqueur or liquor", Making, it is sad but true, In bravado, much ado. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Pilot, pivot, gaunt, but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand and grant. Arsenic, specific, scenic, Relic, rhetoric, hygienic. Gooseberry, goose, and close, but close, Paradise, rise, rose, and dose. Say inveigh, neigh, but inveigle, Make the latter rhyme with eagle. Mind! Meandering but mean, Valentine and magazine. And I bet you, dear, a penny, You say mani-(fold) like many, Which is wrong. Say rapier, pier, Tier (one who ties), but tier. Arch, archangel; pray, does erring Rhyme with herring or with stirring? Prison, bison, treasure trove, Treason, hover, cover, cove, Perseverance, severance. Ribald Rhymes (but piebald doesn't) with nibbled. Phaeton, paean, gnat, ghat, gnaw, Lien, psychic, shone, bone, pshaw. Don't be down, my own, but rough it, And distinguish buffet, buffet; Brood, stood, roof, rook, school, wool, boon, Worcester, Boleyn, to impugn. Say in sounds correct and sterling Hearse, hear, hearken, year and yearling. Evil, devil, mezzotint, Mind the z! (A gentle hint.) Now you need not pay attention To such sounds as I don't mention, Sounds like pores, pause, pours and paws, Rhyming with the pronoun yours; Nor are proper names included, Though I often heard, as you did, Funny rhymes to unicorn, Yes, you know them, Vaughan and Strachan. No, my maiden, coy and comely, I don't want to speak of Cholmondeley. No. Yet Froude compared with proud Is no better than McLeod. But mind trivial and vial, Tripod, menial, denial, Troll and trolley, realm and ream, Schedule, mischief, schism, and scheme. Argil, gill, Argyll, gill. Surely May be made to rhyme with Raleigh, But you're not supposed to say Piquet rhymes with sobriquet. Had this invalid invalid Worthless documents? How pallid, How uncouth he, couchant, looked, When for Portsmouth I had booked! Zeus, Thebes, Thales, Aphrodite, Paramour, enamoured, flighty, Episodes, antipodes, Acquiesce, and obsequies. Please don't monkey with the geyser, Don't peel 'taters with my razor, Rather say in accents pure: Nature, stature and mature. Pious, impious, limb, climb, glumly, Worsted, worsted, crumbly, dumbly, Conquer, conquest, vase, phase, fan, Wan, sedan and artisan. The th will surely trouble you More than r, ch or w. Say then these phonetic gems: Thomas, thyme, Theresa, Thames. Thompson, Chatham, Waltham, Streatham, There are more but I forget 'em- Wait! I've got it: Anthony, Lighten your anxiety. The archaic word albeit Does not rhyme with eight-you see it; With and forthwith, one has voice, One has not, you make your choice. Shoes, goes, does *. Now first say: finger; Then say: singer, ginger, linger. Real, zeal, mauve, gauze and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, age, Hero, heron, query, very, Parry, tarry fury, bury, Dost, lost, post, and doth, cloth, loth, Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath. Faugh, oppugnant, keen oppugners, Bowing, bowing, banjo-tuners Holm you know, but noes, canoes, Puisne, truism, use, to use? Though the difference seems little, We say actual, but victual, Seat, sweat, chaste, caste, Leigh, eight, height, Put, nut, granite, and unite. Reefer does not rhyme with deafer, Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Dull, bull, Geoffrey, George, ate, late, Hint, pint, senate, but sedate. Gaelic, Arabic, pacific, Science, conscience, scientific; Tour, but our, dour, succour, four, Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Say manoeuvre, yacht and vomit, Next omit, which differs from it Bona fide, alibi Gyrate, dowry and awry. Sea, idea, guinea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean, Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion with battalion, Rally with ally; yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay! Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, receiver. Never guess-it is not safe, We say calves, valves, half, but Ralf. Starry, granary, canary, Crevice, but device, and eyrie, Face, but preface, then grimace, Phlegm, phlegmatic, rear end, glass, bass. Bass, large, target, gin, give, verging, Ought, oust, joust, and scour, but scourging; Ear, but earn; and ere and tear Do not rhyme with here but heir. Mind the o of off and often Which may be pronounced as orphan, With the sound of saw and sauce; Also soft, lost, cloth and cross. Pudding, puddle, putting. Putting? Yes: at golf it rhymes with shutting. Respite, spite, consent, resent. Liable, but Parliament. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen, Monkey, donkey, clerk and jerk, Asp, grasp, wasp, demesne, cork, work. A of valour, vapid vapour, S of news (compare newspaper), G of gibbet, gibbon, gist, I of antichrist and grist, Differ like diverse and divers, Rivers, strivers, shivers, fivers. Once, but nonce, toll, doll, but roll, Polish, Polish, poll and poll. Pronunciation-think of Psyche!- Is a paling, stout and spiky. Won't it make you lose your wits Writing groats and saying "grits"? It's a dark abyss or tunnel Strewn with stones like rowlock, gunwale, Islington, and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Don't you think so, reader, rather, Saying lather, bather, father? Finally, which rhymes with enough, Though, through, bough, cough, hough, sough, tough?? Hiccough has the sound of sup... My advice is: GIVE IT UP!
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Tiggum posted:These things: The sprinkles are called nonpareils. That particular kind of treat in the picture is a chocolate nonpareil, though everyone just calls them nonpareils. Apparently in Australia, it's the same deal except they're called freckles instead.
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Solumin posted:The sprinkles are called nonpareils. That particular kind of treat in the picture is a chocolate nonpareil, though everyone just calls them nonpareils. In Britain those things (the entire sprinkle-coated disk of (usually fake) chocolate) are referred to as "jazzies". The sprinkles are called "hundreds and thousands". Yes, I know those are dumb names.
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The_White_Crane posted:In Britain those things (the entire sprinkle-coated disk of (usually fake) chocolate) are referred to as "jazzies". I'm not sure I trust your explanation of what food is called.
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Solumin posted:The sprinkles are called nonpareils. That particular kind of treat in the picture is a chocolate nonpareil, though everyone just calls them nonpareils. No, the chocolate with sprinkles on is called a freckle. The sprinkles are called sprinkles or hundreds-and-thousands. I've never heard anyone call hundreds-and-thousands "freckles".
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BioEnchanted posted:There is a poem I quite like the illustrates the confusion in the English language: Holy poo poo poet dude, YOU MADE YOUR POINT IN THE FIRST LIKE THREE STANZAS. STOP. e: what do them green doritos taste like
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Bertrand Hustle posted:I'm not sure I trust your explanation of what food is called. C'mon, be fair. It's not like he was talking about pastries.
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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:Holy poo poo poet dude, YOU MADE YOUR POINT IN THE FIRST LIKE THREE STANZAS. STOP. Boring considering the colour of them. Lime and Black Pepper. They were fine, but if you're making bluegreen Doritos you might as well make a wacky flavour to go with them.
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GAINING WEIGHT... posted:e: what do them green doritos taste like Lime and pepper.
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You never had blue corn chips before?
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I've had blue corn chips before but that picture looks like a pile of dryer lint
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Proteus Jones posted:C'mon, be fair. It's not like he was talking about pastries. I believe those are shrimp.
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The Snoo posted:I've had blue corn chips before but that picture looks like a pile of dryer lint Carful, is super flammable! And also INflammable!
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80% Ignorant American, 20% Never Had To Deal With It on this one. Two content creators I pay attention to are both in Australia. Their circles don't overlap too much, but whatever, they both live in that place, maybe a crossover could happen? I'll just google maps the two cities and... Sydney to Brisbane is a hour-and-a-half flight, or a ten-hour drive. Australia is big, folks.
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The Bloop posted:Carful, is super flammable! And also INflammable! I'm sorry, I need at least thirty more stanzas to understand your point. MisterBibs posted:Sydney to Brisbane is a hour-and-a-half flight, or a ten-hour drive. It's smaller than the lower 48 states of America, so meh? rydiafan has a new favorite as of 05:09 on Oct 13, 2017 |
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MisterBibs posted:80% Ignorant American, 20% Never Had To Deal With It on this one. And there's literally nothing of value between them. Or at either end. (for reference, I am from Sydney and now live in Brisbane and have a large amount of extended family in country NSW between them. I know what I'm talking about w.r.t. east Australia being a desolate wasteland full of things that rightfully want to kill everyone).
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I had to think about this for a while when doing a 'create a setting' for a tabletop game in thinking how some of the game assumptions change a little when applied to Australia, because while Australia and the lower 48 US states are roughly equivalent in size, there absolutely not in population. If you connect up those orange lines parts on the Eastern side, that's where over 50% of the population lives, maybe even 70%? And outside of that orange there is just NOTHING. Despite the 'rivalry' the cities have, divisions in Australia tend to be between 'Melbourne-Sydney' (which are 900 kilometres apart) and possibly Brisbane if we're feeling charitable, and 'literally everywhere else'.
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iajanus posted:(for reference, I am from Sydney and now live in Brisbane and have a large amount of extended family in country NSW between them. I know what I'm talking about w.r.t. east Australia being a desolate wasteland full of things that rightfully want to kill everyone). As opposed to Western Australia somehow...? Face it, there's zero parts of Australia outside the one good city that are worth being in.
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