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The Something Awful Forums > Archives > Comedy Goldmine > BYOB Goldmine: Gold Mango > Australian idioms with Stoner Sloth
 
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roomforthetuna

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One of the best things about having lived in the UK, Australia and the US is that the various slangs and phrases overlap in comical ways. For example, "BOGOF" in Australia is the same as "BOGO" in the US (but better because it describes what it actually means, where the US version really just describes an ordinary transaction). But in some areas of the UK, "bog off" is essentially a variant of "piss off", so it's fun to see it on shop signs.

* # ¿ Sep 20, 2021 02:13
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roomforthetuna

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Here's a similar game while you wait - is this part of a real jingle from an Australian TV advertisement, or something I made up just now?

Paint supplies, paint supplies, for factory surplus batches,
you'll pay less at paint supplies for cans with dents and scratches.
Paints for this and paints for that, for town and country too!
One call on the dog-and-bone, it's on the road to you!

* # ¿ Sep 21, 2021 03:19
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roomforthetuna

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Also, this might be my favorite ad from my time in Adelaide, except for the one infomercial for a juicer at 2 in the morning that had a guy with huge eyebrows growling about how DEATH DEATH DEATH is what most food is made of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj-B3cwXllQ

* # ¿ Sep 21, 2021 03:24
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roomforthetuna

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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:

i guess if i spent my entire life being chased by venemous marsupials i would try to shorten words wherever posso (possible)
Except short words, which you would need to longo.

* # ¿ Sep 23, 2021 03:30
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roomforthetuna

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Stoner Sloth posted:

a show called 'rubbery figures'
That's a genius name for such a show. (The UK's one was called "Spitting Image" which doesn't have any fun connotations about government corruption *or* really describe the puppets.)

* # ¿ Sep 24, 2021 14:07
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