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iajanus
Aug 17, 2004

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WhiskeyWhiskers posted:

Who the gently caress says sausage sandwich? Unless you freaks in NSW use two bits of bread? Sausage in Bread is simple, sharp and to the point.

People who know what the gently caress they're talking about and can cope with polysyllabic words for their sausage accoutrements.

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Onions, tomato sauce and mustard required.

And it can cost no more than $2.50.

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Spudd posted:

You eat them on non-election days?

Most weekends when driving past masters or Bunnings I can't help but stop in and grab one.

And as if potato cake makes any more sense then potato scallop.

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asio posted:

Maybe if this thread wasn't so borgeoioes - white bread and margarine is how its served - we could argue semantics on more important issues instead, like illegal/unlawful

gently caress off the margarine, the fat from the sausage is more than enough on the bread. Fascist.

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Anidav posted:

People actually exist who call burgers sandwiches.

People cannot distinguish between bread and bun.

A Big Mac Sandwich please!

Burgers consist of minced meat between bread products with other things to assist. A sandwich is non-minced meat in a similar configuration. The bread/bun dichotomy is irrelevant to the "burger" definition hth

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I'm going to miss getting my weekend sausage sizzle from Masters near us. Thankfully there's a Bunnings 200m away that also has them so it's not a big loss, although the plant range was much better at Masters.

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Recoome posted:

This didn't get the recognition it deserved. It's a poo poo situation, working in hospitality sucks and to top it off some owners feel like it's acceptable to gently caress their employees around. But hey guys they are foreigners who cares lol

The best quote was from the suit from Restaurants and Catering Australia trying to blame the complexity of award structures for systemically underpaying people.

"It's so complicated! Those international students might have been 15 years old so clearly I wasn't being a fuckwit paying them as such. How was I supposed to know how old they were or that $11 an hour was ridiculously low for an adult?"

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Zenithe posted:

You can buy 40 standard drinks for like 10 bucks. Alcoholism has never been more achievable.

Truly we live in a golden age.

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SynthOrange posted:

People who describe themselves as 'gamers' unironically.

As someone with over 800 games in my collection I shudder at being associated with the current crowd of self-proclaimed "gamers". Nothing positive there.

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Sometimes you come across ideas that are pure genius. The mobile phone, the microwave oven, genome sequencing and the internet are all examples of this.

And sometimes you come across ideas that are pure stupidity.

An example of that latter is the decision by surfwear chain City Beach to sell beer bongs in their stores in time for Australia Day.

Is the beer bong consistent with the surf chain's brand aspiration of playing a part in the lives of our youth?

Actually, Australia Day, Christmas Day, or any day in between, it would still be a stupid idea.

For those of you who don't know what a beer bong is, it is a funnel attached to a length of plastic tube. Beer is poured into the funnel which is held at full stretch above the head of the drinker, who sucks the beer through the tube at the other end. Gravity, and the differential pressure between the top of the funnel and the end of the tube, force-feeds the beer down the tube.

What you can't do when drinking from a beer bong is stop the flow, so you effectively turbocharge your consumption of beer. To be honest, I cannot think of any circumstance in which this is a good idea.
Moreover, the use of a beer bong requires the assistance of at least one other person, so the potential for peer pressure to indulge in irresponsible drinking games is high.

A quick internet search reveals scores of videos which demonstrate this point and more. In some cases the beer bong looks more like a tool for victimisation than a party trick, but when alcohol is involved, the line between the two can be very thin.

For a surfwear shop to sell these items surpasses comprehension.

It suggests the company thinks the irresponsible and excessive consumption of alcohol is the perfect complement to a day at the beach. It isn't.

Royal Lifesaving Australia's 2014 report showed that of the 266 victims of drowning in 2013-14, 81 per cent were male. Contrary to popular perception, all but 30 victims were aged over 14 years of age.

In other words, most of the people who drowned were adult or adolescent males. Worse still, the report identified excessive alcohol consumption as a significant factor in many drownings.

So the question for the management of City Beach is whether they have given the slightest scintilla of thought to the possibility that selling beer bongs in a surfwear store could contribute to people drowning.

When they've finished answering that, they might also want to ask themselves why they should sell an item that a pub or liquor store would be prohibited from selling under laws governing the responsible consumption of alcohol.

Finally, they might give some thought to whether selling beer bongs is consistent with their brand aspiration of "playing a part in the day to day life of Australia's youth culture and lifestyle".

There are very few opportunities for companies to make a genuine difference to the community. For City Beach, this is one such chance.

Let's hope they seize the opportunity, and remove these items from their stores right away.
:australia: Won't somebody please think of the children! :australia:

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Brisbane needs either a trainline or set of busroutes going from the Wynnum area to the Beenleigh area in a timely fashion so I can stop driving to work everyday and catch public transport like a sane person.

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