Confusing cultural conundrums

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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Urban Hiker wrote:
    It is a maple donut with bacon on top. Anthony Bourdain became addicted to those during his trip there. :p

    OMG!!!! :eek: OMG!!!!!! :eek:

    I just don't get how you guys come up with this stuff!!!! :eek:

    That would probably explain why he looks like he's about to have a coronary occlusion. :D
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  • Urban Hiker
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    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Amusingly, I made one part of that story up, and it wasn't the name of the drink. :p I got that in a regular nightclub.

    Damn, It's just like a politician to lie about being in a gay bar. ;)
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  • Urban Hiker
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    Jeanie wrote:
    OMG!!!! :eek: OMG!!!!!! :eek:

    I just don't get how you guys come up with this stuff!!!! :eek:

    That would probably explain why he looks like he's about to have a coronary occlusion. :D

    It's a conspiracy spread by a country with for profit health care. We are determined to make the most unhealthy foods the most delicious and sought after. ;)
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  • Jeanie
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    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Well, what was in it? :D

    :D:p :eek:

    http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/4202-Diamantina-Cocktail
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  • Jeanie
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    It's a conspiracy spread by a country with for profit health care. We are determined to make the most unhealthy foods the most delicious and sought after. ;)

    :D Well that makes sense. :D

    I just ....well some stuff.... the combinations....they leave me flabbergasted. Slack jawed, confused, horrified and strangely curious! :D
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Damn, It's just like a politician to lie about being in a gay bar. ;)
    Except usually, they'd be lying about not being in a gay bar. Just like Obama, I'm changing the way politics work in the most ineffectual manner possible. :D
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  • Rhinocerous Surprise
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    Jeanie wrote:
    :D:p :eek:

    http://www.cocktailmaking.co.uk/displaycocktail.php/4202-Diamantina-Cocktail
    Haha! "Beat the Emu egg well (or 12 regular eggs if you don't have an emu egg to hand)."

    What self-respecting cocktail enthusiast doesn't have a stash of emu eggs lying around? :D
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  • Jeanie
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    Tone wrote:
    My MUM will ALWAYS be MUM! :D I have friends over here who flatly refuse to ever be called Mom.

    As for the others, I've been brain washed... errrr... programmed... errr... talk around to the NA way of saying things...

    Jumper now sounds so weird to me, cause I actually start picturing what people in NA picture and then I giggle.

    Prawns will always be prawns... this jumbo shrimp thing is just ludicrous! [/b]It's a king bloody prawn mate![/b]

    And some others:

    Note is now a bill (money)
    Footpath is now sidewalk
    Hire is now rent
    Ring is now call (for phones)
    Mobile is now cell
    Lift is now elevator
    Engaged is now busy (phones)
    Bonnet is now hood (car)
    Boot is now trunk (car)
    Toilet/dunny/loo/bog/shitter/crapper/lavvy etc became washroom (Canada)
    Washroom became restroom (US)

    I'm still battling the whole "replacing 's' with a 'z'" thing but the one I have the most problem with is removing the 'u'! And, 4.5 years later the date thing still confounds me! I have a good English friend here and I witnessed her berating an American about it one day... "days go into months, months go into years just as seconds go into minutes and minutes go into hours... IT BUILDS IN A LOGICAL WAY!!!" LOL.

    OH! The other thing I've noticed over here... they remove the second "L" in words like "travelling" but then they add an extra one to the end of words like "enrol". I laughed one day and said: "It's like they have these excess "L's" and they don't know what to do with them, so they shove them at the end of words like 'enrol'", it makes me giggle.

    BTW, after 3.5 years in Canada... "hockey" is very definitely played on ice. Baseball, however, is cricket on valium but still fun ;)


    :D Good one tone!! There's some beauties there. :)
    Glad I can count on someone to see sense when it comes to PRAWNS! :D
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  • Tone
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    Jeanie wrote:
    :D Good one tone!! There's some beauties there. :)
    Glad I can count on someone to see sense when it comes to PRAWNS! :D

    Oh yeah, I'll back you up on the prawn business any day! It's funny how it's one thing Australians flatly refuse to conform to over here... we'll say "cell" and "sweater" and change the way we spell words, but don't ask us to call a prawn a shrimp! LOL ;)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Rhinocerous Surprise wrote:
    Haha! "Beat the Emu egg well (or 12 regular eggs if you don't have an emu egg to hand)."

    What self-respecting cocktail enthusiast doesn't have a stash of emu eggs lying around? :D


    :D Yeah, egg!!! :eek:

    Emu eggs, man you'd be lucky to crack one they're that hard, let alone eat it!!! :eek: I'd rather eat the emu! :p
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  • Jeanie
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    Tone wrote:
    Oh yeah, I'll back you up on the prawn business any day! It's funny how it's one thing Australians flatly refuse to conform to over here... we'll say "cell" and "sweater" and change the way we spell words, but don't ask us to call a prawn a shrimp! LOL ;)

    Yeah, I think it's coz of that Paul Hogan thing, "Throw another shrimp on the barbie". I'll never forget that campaign because it was the first time I realized that Americans didn't understand us and that they would need a translation. Not to mention, those shrimp you get on pizzas well they really are gross little things!!! :eek: There's just no comparison to a nice big fat juicy king prawn. :)
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  • Tone
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    Jeanie wrote:
    Yeah, I think it's coz of that Paul Hogan thing, "Throw another shrimp on the barbie". I'll never forget that campaign because it was the first time I realized that Americans didn't understand us and that they would need a translation. Not to mention, those shrimp you get on pizzas well they really are gross little things!!! :eek: There's just no comparison to a nice big fat juicy king prawn. :)

    Darn tootin'! Sorry, you "realised" or "realized"!? LOL ;)

    I tell every American who quotes "throw another shrimp" that we don't call them shrimp! Anyway, blame Tourism Australia, they came up with those bloody ads and 20+ years later, we're still in their shadow.

    Oh, you may call this a cultural conundrum... people over here are TERRIFIED of spiders... moreover, they're terrified or OUR snakes and spiders! I've had so many people tell me they'd be terrified to go to Australia cause of the venomous little buggers we have (and let's face it, as Australians we love to freak people out by talking about them). Personally, I think a little perspective is in order... THEY HAVE RUDDY BIG BEARS THAT'LL RIP YOU APART!!! Frankly, bears are waaaay more terrifying than a funnelweb, redback or brown snake... I'm just sayin' ;)
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  • Urban Hiker
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    Tone wrote:
    Darn tootin'! Sorry, you "realised" or "realized"!? LOL ;)

    I tell every American who quotes "throw another shrimp" that we don't call them shrimp! Anyway, blame Tourism Australia, they came up with those bloody ads and 20+ years later, we're still in their shadow.

    Oh, you may call this a cultural conundrum... people over here are TERRIFIED of spiders... moreover, they're terrified or OUR snakes and spiders! I've had so many people tell me they'd be terrified to go to Australia cause of the venomous little buggers we have (and let's face it, as Australians we love to freak people out by talking about them). Personally, I think a little perspective is in order... THEY HAVE RUDDY BIG BEARS THAT'LL RIP YOU APART!!! Frankly, bears are waaaay more terrifying than a funnelweb, redback or brown snake... I'm just sayin' ;)


    Bears are nothin', it's the cougars you have to watch out for. I mean that in a strictly wildlife-out-in-nature way, not as reference to "older" women on the prowl. :)
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  • Tone
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Bears are nothin', it's the cougars you have to watch out for. I mean that in a strictly wildlife-out-in-nature way, not as reference to "older" women on the prowl. :)

    LOL, right! I meant to mention cougars (as in "in nature" cougars ;) )
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  • mert
    mert Posts: 167
    Jeanie wrote:
    :D hehe! Created in Canada hey? Ice hockey right? ;)

    :) I'm actually currently sitting in one of the cities that claims to have held the first ever hockey game!

    Spelling: The letter "z" is underused by Americans.... ;) And it's pronounced "zed." The letter "u" is another one that doesn't get used enough... Words like favourite, honour, and colour just look weird with no "u".

    As for scary animals, we're just not used to dealing with little animals that can kill you, like snakes and spiders. Bears rarely attack, and are more likely to run away from you when they see you. We had a few bears living on our property growing up, but we never saw them. Wolves are the same, and coyotes... Cougars are scary and intense because you have no way of knowing they're there until they are eating you, but luckily there are very few cougars in the wild where I am.

    The scariest animals here where I live are unexpected ones. Don't ever mess with a beaver! 40-60 pounds of anger coming right at you! :)
  • Urban Hiker
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    mert wrote:
    :) Cougars are scary and intense because you have no way of knowing they're there until they are eating you, but luckily there are very few cougars in the wild where I am.

    The scariest animals here where I live are unexpected ones. Don't ever mess with a beaver! 40-60 pounds of anger coming right at you! :)

    Cougars and Beavers! :eek: What is this thread turning into? ;)
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  • mert
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    Urban Hiker wrote:
    Cougars and Beavers! :eek: What is this thread turning into? ;)

    LOL! I knew someone was going to make that comment.... :)
  • Urban Hiker
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    mert wrote:
    LOL! I knew someone was going to make that comment.... :)

    Damn animal traps! ;):p
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    Tone wrote:
    Darn tootin'! Sorry, you "realised" or "realized"!? LOL

    I tell every American who quotes "throw another shrimp" that we don't call them shrimp! Anyway, blame Tourism Australia, they came up with those bloody ads and 20+ years later, we're still in their shadow.

    Plus! Don't come the raw shrimp with me, mate, just aint got the same ring to it! :p

    Thank goodness, "Where the bloody hell are ya?" didn't take off! :D

    Tone wrote:
    Oh, you may call this a cultural conundrum... people over here are TERRIFIED of spiders... moreover, they're terrified or OUR snakes and spiders! I've had so many people tell me they'd be terrified to go to Australia cause of the venomous little buggers we have (and let's face it, as Australians we love to freak people out by talking about them). Personally, I think a little perspective is in order... THEY HAVE RUDDY BIG BEARS THAT'LL RIP YOU APART!!! Frankly, bears are waaaay more terrifying than a funnelweb, redback or brown snake... I'm just sayin'

    Yeah, I guess we can thank Steve Irwin and those World's Most Deadliest docos for that. :rolleyes:
    I'm with you!! I keep asking about the bears EVERY time we discuss going to the National Parks. Someone told me to wear bells, but I think they were just shitting me. :D
    I don't get why people freak out so much over spiders and snakes, they mostly leave you alone. But if a roo decides it doesn't like the look of you, you're in big trouble, not to mention how bloody feral wombats can be on a bad day, or tassie devils. I've always been nervous of emus and the odd cassowary myself. They can rip you open if you look at them wrong. And the drop bears are lethal! ;)
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  • Jeanie
    Jeanie Posts: 9,446
    mert wrote:
    :) I'm actually currently sitting in one of the cities that claims to have held the first ever hockey game!

    Spelling: The letter "z" is underused by Americans.... ;) And it's pronounced "zed." The letter "u" is another one that doesn't get used enough... Words like favourite, honour, and colour just look weird with no "u".

    As for scary animals, we're just not used to dealing with little animals that can kill you, like snakes and spiders. Bears rarely attack, and are more likely to run away from you when they see you. We had a few bears living on our property growing up, but we never saw them. Wolves are the same, and coyotes... Cougars are scary and intense because you have no way of knowing they're there until they are eating you, but luckily there are very few cougars in the wild where I am.

    The scariest animals here where I live are unexpected ones. Don't ever mess with a beaver! 40-60 pounds of anger coming right at you! :)

    Sounds like a wombat!!! Those things can knock you off your feet if they decide to charge and their claws are sharp!!! Cranky too! :D

    Yeah, I never got x, y, zee. :D
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