:eek: i was just about to ask about this! we have Marmite at a grocery store here in the U.S. but i can't find Vegemite! i want to try them both. and how should i eat Marmite since that's my only choice?
On toast ... but spread it thinly
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
It was the faces around him that truly indicated that I had made some sort of cultural faux pas He was laughing as I stammered my apology.
... and as you noticed we like to give everything a few names ... so the V sign ... the two fingered salute ... giving 'x' the fingers ... the "up yours"
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
Peace sign ... palm out ... reverse peace sign ... palm inwards. It's the equivalent of giving the finger ... so basically saying 'f*** you'
I thought they do that everywhere!
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Nah think it's just the usual suspects ... UK, Ireland, Oz, NZ ... we like to have more swear words than elsewhere so may as well have more rude hand gestures while we are it
Think most places it's the peace sign both ways round.
So are we strangers now? Like rock and roll and the radio?
ok, when you said 'spread it thinly' you really meant an extremely THIN layer right? :eek: i'm gonna try it again a few more times before i tell you what i think. i thought i had a thin layer, but no! not THIN enough! i can see how one would like it though....i just think i have to get the right THINNESS!
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I stand corrected. Wikipedia rules. Ringette is such a strange take on hockey, but I guess for girls, before they were allowed to play with men, it had all the skill of hockey with a little bit of a twist. Field hockey is cool, I like watching it if I get the chance, I think we have so much hockey here that it doesn't exist in too many places. It's mainly at the university level I believe, although I know our woman's field hockey team is going to kiss ass in China
Now there's a cultural conundrum! In Oz, kiss ass means subservience, needing to grovel for a place, along those lines, whereas kick arse means you the boss, the winner, the one on top.
So are you saying your women's field hockey team is gonna win ie kick arse, or lose, ie kiss ass?
Anyway, thanks for mentioning the ringette, I didn't know anything about it.
I don't mind "field" hockey or hockey as we call it but I've been a bit of a fan of ice hockey or hockey as you call it for quite some time. Think since I saw Rob Lowe in Youngblood.
I discovered, that in England when one is in a crowded, loud pub and trying to get the attention of your university instructor by holding two fingers up, in a reverse peace sign, does NOT translate into "let's go for a smoke" . . . if your British, you know what I mean
Also tab, snout, fag . . . how many ways can you say cigarette?
Don't think you'd get a particularly positive response to that in Oz either! Especially in a crowded pub!! :eek:
We call em smokes, gaffs, fags, ciggies, puffers, cancer sticks. There's other names but I can't think of them all now.
:eek: i was just about to ask about this! we have Marmite at a grocery store here in the U.S. but i can't find Vegemite! i want to try them both. and how should i eat Marmite since that's my only choice?
Always a good idea to start with a scraping just to get a taste and work your way up to more if you prefer.
I like it on toast, particularly wholemeal toast with butter, love it on fresh white bread sandwiches and with cheese sometimes too and I love to put a little scraping of it on toast and pop a poached egg on top. Oh and it's nice on toast with tomato too. You can cook with it. I often add it to stews and casseroles, usually just a teaspoon to add flavor.
I remember having to play field hockey in middle school, and it sucks. No backhanding the ball, the sticks are so short you have to bend over and break your back when stickhandling, plus I think you have to have both your hands together at the top of the stick when you shoot - like a baseball bat grip for a golf swing. Not sure if it's a rule or simply a technique, but either way, it sucks.
It should be called Golfey. Furthermore, the required dress for females (which, in class, was not required, thank goodness) is a fucking skirt. The rules are much more like Football/Soccer rules, with corners and yellow cards and whatnot. So maybe it would be more applicable if it where Footkey? Hockerball? :P
Slapping the balls around with no protection whatsoever, ouch! :eek:
pretty much like hurling then
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
my mum is now my mom
my jumper is now my sweater
fuel is now gas
prawns are now shrimps
the date is back to front
and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'
The only way I'd play hurling is if they got me drunk, and stuck a bottle of Jamiesons with me every time I get knocked near senseless.
that's the normal way to play it hinny
The Astoria??? Orgazmic!
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
my mum is now my mom
my jumper is now my sweater
fuel is now gas prawns are now shrimps
the date is back to front
and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'
but, it's all good
Oh yes love, it's all good EXCEPT PRAWNS will always be PRAWNS!!!
Oh I know they exist love. I have to make sure that the pizza guy doesn't put the creepy, weeny, crunchy little buggers on my pizza! :eek:
Glad you posted that link though, I like this bit, which is the sole reason for me always drawing it to people's attention in the first place.
Paul Hogan’s use of the phrase “I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you” in a television advertisement was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.
I have to make sure that the pizza guy doesn't put the creepy, weeny, crunchy little buggers on my pizza! :eek:
Well yeah, if they forget to take the shells off, then it would be crunchy. Otherwise, there quite good.
"The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “jumbo shrimp”).
Australia and other Commonwealth countries follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively."
Well yeah, if they forget to take the shells off, then it would be crunchy. Otherwise, there quite good.
"The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “jumbo shrimp”).
Australia and other Commonwealth countries follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively."
Wish they get their facts right. :rolleyes:
ha! No, here shrimp are teeny little things that look like fat maggots :eek: and they add absolutely nothing to pizza. Actually what we call shrimp here I simply cannot for the life of me work out why anybody would want to eat them in the first place. That's why whenever I hear people say shrimp I think of them ugly, teeny, pasty little maggot type things and ewwwwww!!!!
ha! No, here shrimp are teeny little things that look like fat maggots :eek: and they add absolutely nothing to pizza. Actually what we call shrimp here I simply cannot for the life of me work out why anybody would want to eat them in the first place. That's why whenever I hear people say shrimp I think of them ugly, teeny, pasty little maggot type things and ewwwwww!!!!
oh, i see...according to this ^^ shrimp are what we call popcorn shrimp, 'cause it's so small, and prawns are what we would call jumbo shrimp. i'm gonna start saying prawns instead of shrimp and see how people react. a revolution has got to start somewhere right. i'm such a rebel!
No need to be void, or save up on life...
You got to spend it all
oh, i see...according to this ^^ shrimp are what we call popcorn shrimp, 'cause it's so small, and prawns are what we would call jumbo shrimp. i'm gonna start saying prawns instead of shrimp and see how people react. a revolution has got to start somewhere right. i'm such a rebel!
Tad late, but I'm bored, and better late than never, eh? I always love topics like this...
Hockey is hockey; it was created in Canada, so I think we should get to decide what it's called. It is a game in English, but "un match" en francais... And it is the best sport going - a perfect combination of skill, grace, brutality and plain toughness.
Other Canadianisms:
- tuque is a wool hat that keeps your head warm;
- we call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" because we have English and French on all of our packaging (so it reads "coloured pencils crayons de couleur"
- two-four is a case of twenty-four beer
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It was the faces around him that truly indicated that I had made some sort of cultural faux pas
On toast ... but spread it thinly
... and as you noticed we like to give everything a few names ... so the V sign ... the two fingered salute ... giving 'x' the fingers ... the "up yours"
when i was in south america, i was told not to do the OK sign...that it was bad. no one ever told me what it meant. can anyone enlighten me?
and thanks for the Marmite info, i'm seriously going to buy some tonight and i'll let you know what i think.
You got to spend it all
Peace sign ... palm out ... reverse peace sign ... palm inwards. It's the equivalent of giving the finger ... so basically saying 'f*** you'
Often done using both hands and and flicking the hands from the horizontal to the vertical for added emphasis
... and with marmite there slogan is you'll either Love it or Hate it ... so good luck
http://www.marmite.com/
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Nah think it's just the usual suspects ... UK, Ireland, Oz, NZ ... we like to have more swear words than elsewhere so may as well have more rude hand gestures while we are it
Think most places it's the peace sign both ways round.
In Florida, the reverse peace sign still means peace.
THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!
ok, when you said 'spread it thinly' you really meant an extremely THIN layer right? :eek: i'm gonna try it again a few more times before i tell you what i think. i thought i had a thin layer, but no! not THIN enough!
You got to spend it all
So are you saying your women's field hockey team is gonna win ie kick arse, or lose, ie kiss ass?
Anyway, thanks for mentioning the ringette, I didn't know anything about it.
I don't mind "field" hockey or hockey as we call it but I've been a bit of a fan of ice hockey or hockey as you call it for quite some time. Think since I saw Rob Lowe in Youngblood.
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We call em smokes, gaffs, fags, ciggies, puffers, cancer sticks. There's other names but I can't think of them all now.
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Always a good idea to start with a scraping just to get a taste and work your way up to more if you prefer.
I like it on toast, particularly wholemeal toast with butter, love it on fresh white bread sandwiches and with cheese sometimes too and I love to put a little scraping of it on toast and pop a poached egg on top. Oh and it's nice on toast with tomato too.
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It should be called Golfey. Furthermore, the required dress for females (which, in class, was not required, thank goodness) is a fucking skirt. The rules are much more like Football/Soccer rules, with corners and yellow cards and whatnot. So maybe it would be more applicable if it where Footkey? Hockerball? :P
Meh.
Real hockey is played on ice!
Street hockey is played on the street.
Slapping the balls around with no protection whatsoever, ouch! :eek:
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
Pretty much except a regular hockey stick is used with either on foot or roller skates.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_hockey
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
my jumper is now my sweater
fuel is now gas
prawns are now shrimps
the date is back to front
and where i used to spell a word with an 's' in it, more than often i now i use a 'z'
but, it's all good
Verona??? it's all surmountable
Dublin 23.08.06 "The beauty of Ireland, right there!"
Wembley? We all believe!
Copenhagen?? your light made us stars
Chicago 07? And love
What a different life
Had I not found this love with you
See? Even in Washington State, they're PRAWNS!!!
http://www.westport-islander.com/hmbbg.htm
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Prawns are of a distinct biological suborder of Decapoda, everyone knows that. :rolleyes:
You see, shrimp do exist! :eek: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimp
Glad you posted that link though, I like this bit, which is the sole reason for me always drawing it to people's attention in the first place.
Paul Hogan’s use of the phrase “I'll slip an extra shrimp on the barbie for you” in a television advertisement was intended to make what he was saying easier for his American audience to understand, and was thus a deliberate distortion of what an Australian would typically say.
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Well yeah, if they forget to take the shells off, then it would be crunchy. Otherwise, there quite good.
"The term “prawn” is also loosely used to describe any large shrimp, especially those that come 15 (or fewer) to the pound (also called “jumbo shrimp”).
Australia and other Commonwealth countries follow this European/British use to an even greater extent, using the word “prawn” almost exclusively."
Wish they get their facts right. :rolleyes:
ha!
http://oddsnsods.camio.co.uk/node/6
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oh, i see...according to this ^^ shrimp are what we call popcorn shrimp, 'cause it's so small, and prawns are what we would call jumbo shrimp. i'm gonna start saying prawns instead of shrimp and see how people react. a revolution has got to start somewhere right. i'm such a rebel!
You got to spend it all
WOOOHOOO!!!
Vive la revolution!!!
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The currents will shift
Hockey is hockey; it was created in Canada, so I think we should get to decide what it's called.
Other Canadianisms:
- tuque is a wool hat that keeps your head warm;
- we call coloured pencils "pencil crayons" because we have English and French on all of our packaging (so it reads "coloured pencils crayons de couleur"
- two-four is a case of twenty-four beer