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Kopijeger posted:When you are going somewhere as a tourist yourself, find yourself in an area full of tourists and other tourists ask you for directions. What makes them think they are the only non-locals around? This but in a foreign country where you don't speak the language. I was in Spain a few years ago and a British lady asked me for directions to some church. I pulled out my TOURIST MAP to assist her. She thanked me for my assistance and complimented me on my English. I am Australian, with an Australian accent. English is my only language. In fairness, a Spanish-speaking tourist approached me for directions a few days later. Maybe I just have a 'helpful' look about me.
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Stoatbringer posted:In Southwest England they call you "my lover", which is a bit odd the first time you hear it when paying for petrol. Yorkshire can be like this. I worked a pub in Leeds many years ago and being called "love" or "darling" by older men who looked like they ran with the Krays was slightly surprising, especially being a man myself.
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Stairs posted:loving recipe reviews. https://youtu.be/aMuOvE940KE
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Memento posted:Where the gently caress are people even buying a "plain cheese pizza"? Do they mean a Margherita? Tiggum posted:Nope; you can actually get pizzas with nothing but sauce and cheese on them from some places. God knows why. Keep in mind that US pizza is usually, like, one topping, maybe two, at most. Whereas in Australia, you pile that poo poo as high as you can. My sister worked for a place that you'd, no joke, have an inch of toppings, even on a basic Hawaiian. (La Lupa's in Tyabb, down the Mornington Peninsula, if you're curious. Recommended for a tasty, tasty heart attack.)
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Brawnfire posted:Everything is Australia sounds like the speaker is inventing names on the fly. Rubbish, the little town I grew up in of... *Looks around, sees cow Moo... *Sees kangaroo near cow ...roo... *Flock of ducks fly past ...duc... ...is totally a legit name for a town.
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Feb 27, 2019 23:02
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InediblePenguin posted:if you've got your entire loving cart full of poo poo DON'T USE THE loving SELF-CHECK it's not meant for that, there isn't room for that, and i just want to buy a loving quart of milk but now i'm stuck behind your entire family's shopping for the next month this person has tWO FULL CARTS i hope they trip and fall in the parking lot and feel foolish in front of everyone Ugh, bet they were really, really slow too. I've never seen someone doing this in a swift and organised manner.
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm still waiting for MMA, american football, and larping to finally join together and give me my future favourite sport: organized mass combat. Germany and Australia have you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugger
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Yeah but not THAT small. Now it seems like (based on what I see in the stores anyway) you're extremely lucky to get a half-size bar, where back when I did it only the lame houses gave out half size and it was always a race to get to the full size bar houses before they run out. Now it's pretty much all "fun size" candy for ants. There's nothing "fun" about that size. https://youtu.be/3iYM-lJXMDw&t=12m42s I know you now, yeah I eat rear end Elissimpark has a new favorite as of 18:47 on Oct 29, 2019 |
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Self-checkout machines should tell you they are card-only before you start scanning. Stop making me have to shuffle away and unbag my first item like an idiot, machine. You are the idiot! This, but in reverse. My local supermarket clearly labels the card only machines with big green signs and there's usually a staff member to point this out if there's a line. Scan your first item: this is a card only machine, do you want to continue? I can read and my ears work, stop bothering me!
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Nov 18, 2019 23:06
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ZakAce posted:Seriously...Australia...shithead, racist... There you go! I also feel, as an Australian, that idiocy is often under played as a national characteristic.
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Nov 25, 2019 02:19
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm sorry It's okay, it's only temporary.
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Nov 25, 2019 09:14
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bobjr posted:When you're watching a movie or tv show with a group of people and one person likes to pause to explain things to another person or point out an actor that was in something else. I feel like the pause bit is the worst part of that. My wife is watching Call the Midwife at the moment and she'll probably murder me if I keep saying "Twirlywoos" quietly whenever Linda Bassett is on screen.
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Jan 1, 2020 09:56
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Memento posted:Counterpoint: I don't bring my regular glasses to the supermarket, I take off my sunglasses and squint a bit. Countercounterpoint: I just wait for my transition lenses to go clear. Then remember I don't have transition lenses on my current glasses, these are my actual sunglasses and I left my normal glasses in the car. Thankfully, I'm short sighted, so don't really need to squint.
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oldpainless posted:Hoods are great. Lots of my friends wear hoods. More like oldunpentientless. Cos this is a Spanish Catholic thing, right?
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Tiggum posted:Weirdly, it will suggest things that start "you suck at cooking" it just won't suggest that phrase by itself or remember that I've searched it before: How often do you listen to the Murmurs to get that to pop up? I haven't listened to that song in ages. The video clip is painfully early/mid nineties. Missing some b+w street scenes shot at odd angles though, so could be worse.
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Huh, it doesn't show on my phone, but my PC YouTube search matches yours more or less. The video only has 300k views too. A mystery indeed.
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Disgusting Coward posted:Last time this happened I cut the engine, switched off my lights and got out. Yelled "loving GOOOO" at the guy and he still wouldn't go. It's un loving real. This is a wonderful image. I hope you have a thick, incomprehensible Glaswegian accent like you do in my head.
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And yet Launceston is pronounced Lawn-cest-un rather than the shorter (and legit) Lons-tn. Very un-Australian.
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HOLY gently caress posted:oldpainless! Speaking of spraying water on oneself, ice cream scoops, like the proper solid aluminium ones, are a cursed monkey's paw wish. The curve that is designed to make perfect balls of ice cream is coincidentally the most efficient way to redirect the water from the tap on to the bench around the sink and also your crotch, no matter how you hold it as you rinse it.
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...or a vet.
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A knife for poop or knife of poop?
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The Perfect Element posted:I hate how even pretty expensive bottles of whisky still have all the stupid marketing blurb all over the box and bottle about the sacred history of the distillery and the purity of the spring water and blah blah blah. There's a boutique whisky distillery attached to a dairy co-op near where I live. When you take the tour, it's explicitly "the co-op board decided to diversify and boutique distilleries seemed to be doing well..." The whisky is good too.
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Brawnfire posted:I call myself Rain Man because I'm makin it RAIN Please stop throwing nickels at me.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:His eyes are dimensional portals to a dimension of pure force and no I have no idea how that works. I feel that should mean instead of photon-based sight, he had some kind of echolocation but with punches instead of weird squeaky noises.
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Aug 25, 2021 04:23
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Where did all these forks come from?
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Oct 13, 2021 23:11
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Tiggum posted:I'm only annoyed by it because I can't tell where the bike is or how fast it's going though? Is the light red or blue?
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Nov 27, 2021 06:00
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Nostradingus posted:Margarine seems to have become "plant based butter" sometime in the last year and it's pissing me off I don't know where you are, but often there is a technical definition for margarine. In Australia, I believe it has to have a minimum of 80% oil/fat to be called margarine. A lot of "margarines" have less fat than that, so everything is "table spread" now.
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SubNat posted:Worst of both worlds design. Why have something do 1 thing well, when it instead can do 2 things poorly. The top drawer in our dishwasher is adjustable. No idea if you've looked, but there could a locking mechanism towards the back on each side of the drawer.
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Brawnfire posted:Which is frustrating when I'm like, trying to find a song I like and all I can remember is wheemem ooo anana AY New Sims soundtrack sounding good.
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credburn posted:Musical fruit
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Brawnfire posted:I just shouldn't have to vacuum every time we have rice Tell me you have small children without saying you have small children.
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The Perfect Element posted:My three year old keeps accidentally-on-purpose waking up my two month old, and it makes me wanna abandon her at an orphanage. Why drive to an orphanage when there's a bin right there?
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Indolent Bastard posted:Which reminds me of a peeve. Oh god, some genius decided to try a takeaway smoked BBQ joint up the road from where I live (in semi-rural Tasmania) and this is exactly why it failed. There's no culture of BBQ or smoking meat like in the US, and everyone I heard complaining about them, complained about the 'uncooked' meat. I think they lasted maybe a month.
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Bargearse posted:When you're driving and the sun is just low enough in the sky that your sun visors don't quite shield your eyes from it. Related: when you're tall and the sun is just low enough that lowering the sun visor blocks the sun, but also your view of the road.
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Seriously, it's just been nothing but trouble since it formed from the mess of the Big Bang and I can't wait til it collapses into a brown dwarf or whatever.
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I just converted to Digambara Jainism and haven't had to deal with washing machines in years.
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That was a really funny link, Tiggum!
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Tunicate posted:Protagonists sharing the author's initials to emphasize how cool they are, I Am Looking At You JMS The anti-peeve of this is the fact that the protagonist of J G Ballard's Crash is J G Ballard. Either the man LIKED his cars or he's comfortable enough with himself to make himself the weirdo car pervert main character in a book about weirdo car perverts.
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oldpainless posted:Everyone always talks about the time warp from rocky horror when the real ones know hot patootie is the actual banger Hot Patootie is the banger, but the best BIT is Planet Hotdog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r48DlxpLvC4 Its a great username or band name and its great for singing at small children and adults alike to confuse them.
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Brawnfire posted:I remember the first time I grew my hair long and went to my usual barber to get a trim. He was a middle-aged Italian man who asked if I was "a gay" and I ended up with a Prince Valiant haircut Hm, this script for the No Country for Old Men prequel needs some workshopping.
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