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I went to a small Catholic school for years 6-7 Memories Meeting two Korean kids and them teaching me how to spin plates Having a disagreement with a bully and both of us being placed on the school oval on chairs until we were friends A loving miracle where a large tree branch fell right along the length of a bench that a class had been sitting there 1-2 minutes prior Learning to play poker from a poker for dummies book that was randomly in the library Doing ballroom dancing and not being entirely poo poo at it A super religious teacher who just refused to believe bathyspheres and how deep they go
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Jestery posted:I went to a small Catholic school for years 6-7 
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CAMP FARTING ROCKS posted:it probably wasn't named echidna by the Goodjingburra people Well the sign says Booniny. Rolls off the tongue mate.
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Jul 23, 2023 13:10
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As a side note to the current poll if a plastic bag is small enough it is no longer a zip lock bag it becomes a saddie (you know I'm not sure I've ever had to spell this before, is it one or two d's?). You're not asking a mate to pass a zip lock bag to you at the pub when you're having nose beers.
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Jul 23, 2023 21:22
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CAMP FARTING ROCKS posted:it probably wasn't named echidna by the Goodjingburra people Our most well known native animals don't have conventionally Anglo names, either. It's all a bit weird.
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Jul 23, 2023 22:59
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Kangaroo is an indigenous word iirc, the story I heard is that it’s from “gunguru”, which was the local indigenous name for them when roos were first encountered by Europeans (when Cook stopped to repair Endeavour up at what’s now Cooktown in 1770)
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Jul 23, 2023 23:23
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How many things are now called what amounts to the local term for "gently caress off whitey"?
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Inceltown posted:How many things are now called what amounts to the local term for "gently caress off whitey"? Isn't that where oval office came from?
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Jul 24, 2023 03:45
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Inceltown posted:How many things are now called what amounts to the local term for "gently caress off whitey"? Some place names just mean poo poo like “white man in a hole” quote:Coober Pedy is considered by the senior Western Desert people to be the traditional land of the Arabana people country, but Kokatha and Yankunytjatjara people are also closely attached to some ceremonial sites in the area. The origin of the name of the town (decided in 1920[8]) is thought to derive from the words in the Kokatha language, kupa piti, usually translated as "whitefella – hole in the ground", or guba bidi, "white man’s holes", relating to white people's mining activities
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Speaking of place names, let’s check how Sydney’s suburb of Blacktown got its name, because yes it’s exactly what you think it is
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webmeister posted:Speaking of place names, let’s check how Sydney’s suburb of Blacktown got its name, because yes it’s exactly what you think it is Blacktown Australia posted:1820s - A number of land grants were made. The Native Institute, known as ' Black Town', was built at Plumpton to assimilate the Aborigines into European ways. It was abandoned by 1833. It would appear so.
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Inceltown posted:As a side note to the current poll if a plastic bag is small enough it is no longer a zip lock bag it becomes a saddie (you know I'm not sure I've ever had to spell this before, is it one or two d's?). You're not asking a mate to pass a zip lock bag to you at the pub when you're having nose beers. Never heard that. It's always been a baggie where i've lived.
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Jul 24, 2023 04:45
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Wait till you find out why it's called Boundary Street.
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Caedes posted:Never heard that. It's always been a baggie where i've lived. Short for satchel.
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Jul 24, 2023 05:01
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Inceltown posted:How many things are now called what amounts to the local term for "gently caress off whitey"? wikipedia posted:Lake Wendouree (/ˌwɛndəˈriː/) is an artificially created and maintained shallow urban lake located adjacent to the suburb of the same name in the city of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. The name Wendouree comes from a local Aboriginal word wendaaree which means 'go away': a story is told that when settler William Cross Yuille asked a local Indigenous woman what the name of the swamp was, that was her reply.
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Jul 24, 2023 05:04
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webmeister posted:Kangaroo is an indigenous word iirc, the story I heard is that it’s from “gunguru”, which was the local indigenous name for them when roos were first encountered by Europeans (when Cook stopped to repair Endeavour up at what’s now Cooktown in 1770) There's the apocryphal story that Cook asked what they called kangaroos and the dude said "kangaroo" which meant "I don't know what you're saying". Wish it was true
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Wait till you find out why it's called Boundary Street.  history posted:Two streets in Brisbane's West End and Spring Hill - either side of the city's CBD - are called Boundary Street. Looks like I just found out 
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Jul 24, 2023 09:39
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gently caress off Blow
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Jestery posted:gently caress off Blow Why? I seriously didn't know about Boundary St.
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gently caress off blow
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Inceltown posted:How many things are now called what amounts to the local term for "gently caress off whitey"? The name of Melbourne's yearly festival Moomba is a word which, in a at least a couple of Aboriginal languages (there are many) means "Stick it up your arse." This isn't just rumour, I've seen it in a book about Aboriginal languages. And it's exactly what I might suggest if I had suffered decades of systemic racism and was asked by a government worker what to name their festival. 
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BigBadSteve posted:The name of Melbourne's yearly festival Moomba is a word which, in a at least a couple of Aboriginal languages (there are many) means "Stick it up your arse." Yes, this is what I'm here for. Wendouree is what made me think there has to be more of them out there.
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Jul 24, 2023 21:36
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It's even on the official wikipedia etymology section for the festivalquote:The festival was originally named Moomba by organisers in the belief it was a native word meaning 'let's get together and have fun.' Credit is usually given to Bill Onus, a unionist and member of the Australian Aborigines' League for proposing the term, which he used in a play, Aboriginal Moomba in 1951.[4] In 1969 Luise Hercus glossed the word mum (rhyming with 'vroom')[5] as meaning 'bottom, rump', and suggested mum-ba meant something like 'bottom and..', and had been introduced from Healesville usage as a joke.[6] In 1981 Barry Blake analysed the word as combining as mum (anus) and –ba, a locative suffix meaning 'at, in, on'. This would give the sense of 'up your bum/arse'.[7][8]
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lmao at saluting the flag and WAY more white people see alcohol as an obligation than a choice.
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I knew I never trusted that bluey character. Always seems like a right wanker.
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Why is that show so popular. It's for children but adults are stoked about it for some reason
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Because its not the dull 2+2 is 4 poo poo that is usually made for kids. And it has Ray "Rabs" Warren in it
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The Peccadillo posted:Why is that show so popular. It's for children but adults are stoked about it for some reason While I will agree that the love for it is incredibly overblown, you do have to contrast it against all the rest of kid's TV which is mostly zero-effort dreck.
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Jul 25, 2023 04:29
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Guess I need to have a kid
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Non Compos Mentis posted:Because its not the dull 2+2 is 4 poo poo that is usually made for kids. And it has Ray "Rabs" Warren in it Also the lead singer from Custard plays the dad. And if you have alittle kid and are subjected to the morass of candy coloured mediocrity that is young childrens TV, then Bluey is a breath of fresh air. A breath of fresh air where the dad is voiced by a 90s Queensland Indie Rocker.
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dr_rat posted:I knew I never trusted that bluey character. Bargearse is gonna show up to piss on your front door for this.
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Also it tackles things that are on the mind of every child, like the state of origin and the ashes and was is dad so grumpy and sleepy today
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Non Compos Mentis posted:And it has Ray "Rabs" Warren in it BrigadierSensible posted:Also the lead singer from Custard plays the dad. Absolute Gen X bait, aimed squarely between the eyes of 90's kids who now have kids of their own, oh it's Dave McCormack, how hip, he who refused to play Lucky Star in 2000 while supporting Steve Malkmus, saying "we dont play that old poo poo", but then gladly did it while supporting TMBG a few months later
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spaceblancmange posted:have an extremely cursed australiana image "I am a loving dog."
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spaceblancmange posted:have an extremely cursed australiana image What the gently caress kind of "australian" has ever saluted the flag?
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spaceblancmange posted:have an extremely cursed australiana image spending ages adjusting my dictionaries so the key words are underlined by MS word
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The Lone Badger posted:What the gently caress kind of "australian" has ever saluted the flag? We had to do it at Monday morning assembly when I was a little tyke. I have no idea why it was only on Monday. We had to recite this pledge and the boys had to salute. quote:"I love God and my country, I honour the flag, I will serve the Queen, and cheerfully obey my parents, teachers and the law".
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The Lone Badger posted:What the gently caress kind of "australian" has ever saluted the flag? The seig heil is still a salute
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Lolie posted:We had to do it at Monday morning assembly when I was a little tyke. I have no idea why it was only on Monday. Your school was hosed mate.
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