What things are particular to Australia? 1. Beetroot in hamburgers and steak sandwiches. 2. Electric jugs. Elsewhere in the world they have electric kettles. 3. Corrugated iron water tanks. What else?
The other side??? You mean the CORRECT side! Its a know fact that for most people its safer to driver of the left hand side of the road in drive a right hand drive car. 9 in 10 people its saffer for. eg all rigth handed people
There are too many things to briefly mention - but a short summary would be: 1: Political freedom to believe whatever you want and talk about it peacably 2: Religious freedom to do the same 3: A government that invests in people - not weapons of mass destruction 4: True Multicutural society (Black, white, christian, muslim, straight - etc etc) There's obviously so much more (I've only scratched teh surface) but how many pages of text can one stand to read!!!???
Forum SA, thats a very idealistic view lovely to see that positivity, however do you really think its a true one? all of our institutions (media, education, etc) still instill a 'white' 'christian' way of looking at the world, and in doing so denigrate other views, perspectives, races and religions as being lesser. australias a great country, but we're not as perfect and free from oppression as you seem to believe. to get back to the topic - is chips and gravy uniqe to australia? ive never met an australian who doesnt like them anyway!
You've met one now! LOL!! Can't do gravy, I'd much rather have tomato sauce. The pavlova is uniquely Aussie! So is the Violet Crumble, Cherry Ripe, Vegemite.... Hmm, can you tell I miss eating aussie food! LOL!! How about, we could be the only nation that asks where the TOILET is, as opposed to bathroom/restroom etc.
Hey the Dutch have mayonnaise on their chips! There is the Crunchie bar from Cadburys.It is not that hard to make yourself if you can be bothered. The UK has Marmite.No connection to the brand of the same name sold here though. I always thought that Australia was bigger on using euphemisms than the UK.
What kind of Aussie are you?? :lol: The Crunchie bar is NOT the same as a VC. Neither is Marmite the same as Vegemite. And I don't know what the UK has to do with this - I live in the US. I've got one for you I bet you can't write off - how about Two Up?
That is your opinion. I consider it to be a case of comparing Guinness to another brand of stout in both cases. Having said that I prefer Vegemite to the Australian Marmite from Sanitarium, but there again I am not a big fan anything from Sanitarium. Indeed it is. I find the whole idea of gambling to be the antithesis of hippydom. NSW is the world leader in those stupid poker machines. We have more here on a per capita basis than anywhere else in the world.The underpinning philosophy of gambling is than greed is more important than meaningful human relationships, life is a contest and consumption equals fulfilment. I suppose lamingtons could be called oddly Australian. I was quite horrified to find the huge amount of sugar that goes into the coating. I ought to come up with an alternative version maybe based on coating the the side of the sponge with melted chocolate.There is not that much sugar that goes into the actual sponge. Vanilla slices although based on a Greek recipe that used filo pastry could just about be labelled oddly Australian.
Amen to that Mad Max. I was down oxford street in a tattoo parlor with a couple of girlfriends of mine. One of them was gettin a tattoo, and the other asks for the bathroom. The artist, stops work, leans back in his chair, looks at her and says quizically "What, ya wanna take a bath?" It was brilliant. I was laughing my ass (or arse) off. Since being down there (I lived in Sydney for 15 months, in Newtown) I've started asking for the toilet as well, cause it just makes more since. Some people actually get disgusted. I find that funny. What I find unique to Australia would be that beautiful drop Toohey's. I could kill a man for a six pack of toohey's dry. I also loved Toohey's old. I also liked that you have rum and coke on draught. Cool. I've been in quite a few hostels, mostly in Europe or Australia, but one in Cape Town. I would pay three times for one of the hostels in Oz compared to the BEST one in Europe. But they are of course LESS expensive in Oz. And of course the awesome animals. I LOVE a wombat. I gave a girlfriend a 4 foot tall stuffed kangaroo for her birthday a couple of years back. One of my students in Miami had a pet wallaby. I love your unique animals. I also miss the cuisine. Newtown has more different cuisines in such a small space than I have ever seen. West african, Peruvian, probably 5 Japanese, 4 Chinese, couple Thai, 3 Lebanese, bar food (lamb and peas pie at the Marlboro. Excellent after 8 schooners.), Mongolian, Greek, Italian and I don't know what else. Good stuff. People always say Miami is a melting pot. Miami is so diverse. NO ITS NOT!!!!! I used to have to drive 20 minutes to get a panang thai curry. It was a 10 minute walk in Newtown (If I had to live the rest of my life on one food, panang would be high on the list. Not tops, but very high.) Though, I must say, y'all can keep your vegemite. Along with your spiders, crocs, box jellies, snakes,
I keep thinking of things AFTER I wrote that massive thing. Football, AFL or NRL. Brilliant. Go Swannies!!! Go Sharkies!!!!
Here we go: Crook means: 1) a robber 2) to be ill Fruchocs The Holden Commodore Extremely Bad Soap Opera Acting Wheat Bix The Greatest Cricket team in the world
Ummm, Damn, in my excitement I misspelled it (I know I know I misspelled it twice, and the second time I didn't put the space, either. Oh dear, I do dispair that I shall be sent to hell for this terrible transgression.) I'm sorry to have desecrated the honor of the noble Tim Tam and offend you, oh perfect one. Ironic that being my one misspelled word in quite sometime (because I usually read through my posts before posting). Anyways, I am sorry to have such a disservice to a great Australian product, and I humbly request your forgiveness in light of my haste.
Fuck that. If you can't see the previous post is complete sarcastic bullshit, then please don't reply cursing me out. Just go away.
