Ask An Australian

such a loaded question.

but the answer is CD

Do koalas shag well?

Do you really say "G'Day Mate" to eachother?

I say "g'day" quite a bit actually.
And when I have to speak to someone (a dude) I don't know I think I almost always call them "mate".

I think Kiwis say g'day too?

I dont say g'day unless I'm taking the piss, but I'll say mate sometimes (usually when I'm shitty at someone ie "mate cut it out")

yeah, mate has become a really passive aggressive term. i like calling people "cobber". G'DAY COBS

Do you really kill innocent people in the outback for sport?

What is your favorite Australian beer? Do you hate Fosters?

innocent is such a relative term

Everyone claims to hate fosters. ive never had it so i dont know. ill drink the "ice" beers because im a vodka drinker and those are about all i could stand. when i was trying to be cool in school id drink VB - the REAL Oz beer (made by the same people as fosters btw)

A HARD EARNED THRIST NEEDS A BIG COLD BEER, PEOPLE!!!

http://www.world-discovery.de/Bilder/diary/Victoria%20Bitter%20-direkt%20nach%20Haake%20Beck!.jpg

Whan shagging koalas, does vegemite make a good lubricant?

I also luv VB. Even though they lowered the alcohol content by 0.1% or whatever.
I was in a bottle shop the other day and these two sweaty middle-aged builder types were looking at beers alongside me, they pondered teh new VB thusly: 'It's a fucking disgrace.' 'fucken oath.'

aww i kind of miss fuckin oath

nutella is better (xpost)

astrailians -

why is Adelaide a half hour behind Sydney? why not a whole hour?

i like how you said sydney.

waht does an australian look like? i mean in general there is some sort of look. i was waiting for the airtrain a few weeks ago and there was this couple standing there waiting too an i realized that i thought they were australian. not like i thought to myself oh i bet those are some australians right there. no. i had subconsciously labeled them australian. like w/o even thinking abt it. turns out they werent australians. but there must be some way australians looks like. im pretty sure there is.

i like how you said sydney.

-- sunny successor, Friday, August 24, 2007 9:48 AM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

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not melbourne or brisbane (also on the east coast). screw those suckers.

when i say a guy looks australian its usually stumpy calves and long torso. some australian guys have REALLY long torsos. the women? large slightly wonky eyes, mean lips and plain faces.

i dont know my Aus geography from my Karachi geography. i just find it fascinating that two major cites could be a half hour apart instead of one hour.

or two or zero or whatever.

lol i dont even know if Adelaide is a "major city"

yaha ss i think they did pretty much look like that

wau

Adelaide has a WOMAD and I don't think Peter Gabriel would give it to some pissy little town, no sir.

Also, VB is nothing more than cat's piss for bogans. Coopers is the beer to drink, son.

An Australian has yet to answer my question.

Some states observe DST and some don't which makes it even more fucked up.

Still not an answer, but I'm no Australian either.

I wouldve thought because Adelaide's not all that far from the east coast rly? Like Perth is 3 hours behind us but Adelaide isnt 1/3 of the way along (which'd mae a 1 hour diff plausible)

PS I am talking out of my arse. I have no idea.

i had no idea there were any time zones on the planet half an hour off from any others before today.

Check out China for something really fucked up.

its just a measurement from the 180 degree mark, right? nepal has 1/4 hour time diffs.

so yeah, what trayce said

Central Standard Time (pretty much Adelaide and Darwin) is a retarded and woefully out-of-date system made about a million years ago for god knows what purpose of having us 30 minutes behind the East Coast.

We should have switched to EST a loooong time ago but everytime The Man tries to do that, a bunch of whiny farmers complain about having to get up at 7am or something and thus, we're held back by a bunch of toothless hicks.

Which only sort of answers your question, Gradski.

lol EB with the str8 answer.

thanks!

2. Pato:

Spanish slang used in Panama and other central american countries that defined a homosexual male.

Ese man es manso pato.
That man is very gay.

Yep King of the pato's mr King Boy

thats not a question

And not even Australian-related.

what the fuck

is john howard going to win this election? what happened to kim beazley? THX!!xoxoxox

No, because we have RUDDMANIA!! Kim Beazley was harpooned by Japanese whalers. No probs. XXOXOXOOXX

On teh news last night they were saying that it could be a Labor landslide at this stage.

And yes, non-Australians, that is how the Australian Labor Party spells Labor, ok?

Also they were saying in a poll that 85% of Labor voters feel that Rudd's strip club visit shows him to be a "normal aussie bloke" or some shit like that.

why does "Australian Labor Party" spell labour wrong?

From teh Wiks:

While it is standard practice in Australian English to spell the word labour with a u, the Party has spelt it without since Labor cabinet minister King O'Malley thought he would "modernise" the name;[6] at the time, it seemed likely that Australia would move to American spellings.

^that was in 1912.

that is how we spell labor in the USA.

Yep, hence the "Labor cabinet minister King O'Malley thought he would "modernise" the name;[6] at the time, it seemed likely that Australia would move to American spellings."

I know americans spell like that, but australians are our brothers in english spellings.

Maybe King O'Malley should've tried modernizing the name.

super karachi bros

touche xp.

I like that we had a minister called King O'Malley. He sounds like he should be Moomba king or some shit :D

QGP

don't horn in on my racket, jim

was just keeping the theme. no cut lunch

Why is this on The Soup blog?? Do I need to come down there?

http://www.thesouptv.com/latest/if-you-re-sexy-and-you-know-it-film-your-dance/295333

No, because we have RUDDMANIA!! Kim Beazley was harpooned by Japanese whalers. No probs. XXOXOXOOXX

― King Boy Pato, Tuesday, August 28, 2007 7:24 AM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

let's all win soccer on the moon hulahguahlaughhlaghualagh

― carbonara not glue (electricsound), Friday, February 6, 2009 3:09 PM (5 years ago)

when did u start saying "look!" b4 every sentence

― zvookster, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:53 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

(cld just be sportsmen)

― zvookster, Sunday, 9 January 2011 21:54 (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ppl often say it when they're trying to be truthbomby iirc

― yuoowemeone, Sunday, January 9, 2011

This Australian tonal usage is now pervasive throughout Irish sport, btw, presumably through the influence of your rugby coaches.

Incidentally there's a rough equivalent with English working class football people, where they'll suddenly say, "but no" and follow it with something serious, as if switching from a BANTER mode that often wasn't actually present.

Pollies do it too, a bit. "look the thing is, [insert massive load of bollox here]"

is courtney barnett very famous in australia

At least among the young/indie/JJJ crowd, yeah for sure.

My friend looks like her.

mine looks like Penn Gillette.

But seriously, how did Australia get away with not doing putting a supergroup together to fight hunger in the 80s? UK did. USA did. CANADA DID, WITH VERSES IN FRENCH EVEN.

You had the Peter Garrett, Colin Hay, the INXS dudes, Olivia Newton John... Could've called it "Southern Cross (To Bear)" or something like that.

Some curly-headed dude going balls out on the chorus, rest of the world goes Wow, who's that? And you all are, IT'S JIMMY BARNES, MATE. YOU'RE THE ONES WHO HAD STEVE PERRY AND BURTON CUMMINGS IN FRONT ON YOURS.

Hm... no, we did do one, I think. Wait here I'm gonna look it up. I think it involved the chantoozies or some horror. LOOK WHAT YOURE MAKING ME DO.

OK so we did a concert. No singles I can recall.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/OCyREBfnilA/maxresdefault.jpg

I dont ever recall watching Oz for Africa tho, it looked like balls.

A concert. May as well have done an ice bucket challenge too.

S-' friend really does look quite a lot like courtney barnett.

rest of the world goes Wow, who's that? And you all are, IT'S JIMMY BARNES, MATE.

ahahahaha!!

kinoath.

Can any fellow Australian interpret this for me? Maybe it's regional:

"whazzat mate? You want me to give you a fair go? There's no need to bung it on with me, you stunned mullet. Your pals left you like a shag on the rock. You managed to sneak by the doorman but I know a ring-in when I see one. Once I reach into my utility pouch it's all over for you. You've got me hopping mad now."

― Neanderthal, Saturday, March 26, 2016 12:12 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"What was that, good sir? Do you implore justice in my judgement? Sir, you are an imbecile and, as such, your buffoonery is quite transparent. Your friends left you complete alone. You may have initially fooled them into acceptance but I can detect a charlatan when I see one. Prepare for the end, good sir. It will come at the hands of an item in my gentleman's pouch. Possibly a tool of some sort. You have certainly vexed me. "

Chuzwozzer.

where should I go in Canberra to drink good local craft beer and whisky

Sydney.

My man knows of what he speaks.

http://i.imgur.com/i9TKtyq.jpg

Wig and Pen in the CBD (Civic) isn't too bad.

For beer anyway.

Be aware that the assholes in Canberra dont let you smoke anywhere you can drink, not even outside :(

Awesome, Wig & Pen is just around the corner from where I'll be holed up.

so how was it?

Flying out Saturday. Are there any kinds of American candy that Australians like and can't easily get a hold of?

Flying to the land of Tim Tams and Kinder Surprise, and you ask them if they want Reese's Pieces?

yeah, I don't know what I was thinking.

http://www.grubstreet.com/2014/06/piccolo-me-australia-nutella-iced-coffee.html

Yes, that's a glob of Nerd-spiked Nutella on a stick.

I mean if you get all the wonka stuff, sour patch kids and now all the haribo shit is available there, I'm basically out of options! Thank goodness for this now-defunct blog about candy in Australia (http://lollyaddict.blogspot.com/)

I used to be excited to get those spicy cinnamon bullet things when people visited from America, but I went to the US each of the last three years and didn't even think of them

You mean these things?

http://i.imgur.com/2QXSti3.jpg

America sure is known for some gross shit.

Who was the guy who used to call Tombot "Reese's Pieces" b/c El Tomboto = E.T.? What a trip.

Oh, maybe that's the solution. I could bring Atomic Fire Balls

Bring some northwestern beers and local artisanal doughnuts imo

Veg has an Australian friend visiting. She might have some good ideas.