Yanks and Aussies.

Tim Tams are awesome and I have photo documentation of me eating my first one...

Biting off opposing corners, slurping the coffee through the "biscuit" and then popping that melting morsel of yumminess into your mouth...ahhhhh.
 
Achromatic said:
Probably a "Tim Tam", a beast of epic legend.

I have the 'best of both worlds', born and childhood in Scotland, most of my life in Australia, now in the Pacific NW.
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Thats it!! Thanks for telling me neighbor. I didn't even have to kill anyone. :P

akflightmedic said:
Tim Tams are awesome and I have photo documentation of me eating my first one...

Biting off opposing corners, slurping the coffee through the "biscuit" and then popping that melting morsel of yumminess into your mouth...ahhhhh.
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*sighs dreamily* I'll never forget my first Tim Tam experience. The vet I worked for way back when had a sister that lived down under. She sent the box to the clinic. When it got down to the last few, it became a do or die between all us techs. :lol:
 
I have some questions about Australia:
Do you have to wear a helmet when you ride the 'roos to school?
Do you get to ride in the pouch? Is it sticky?
What portion of your infant mortality rates are due to dingos getting them?
Can you teach me how to play the Didgeridoo?
Why the hell do you think Fosters is good?
Is it true that you all convicts and pick pockets?
Is wrestling crocs the national pastime?
I heard that Koalas loved to be hugged and cuddled... true?
What will you do when the Indos invade? Will the Kiwis give you shelter?
Is it true your country is being consumed by bullfrogs? Are they stealing your children from the dingos?
What do you call a someone who is half Kiwi and half Aussie?

;) ;) ;)

Chicks with Aussie and Kiwi accents = haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawt
My primary impression of Aussies is that they all teach skiing and like to have a good time because that's what all the Aussie seasonal workers around here do (which is exactly what everyone else around here is like too).
 
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acrid-tasting, sour-fungus spread

I traveled around Central America for a while with an Aussie girl back in the early 90's.
She was hot. And she had this way of saying, "Well, I don't give a sh**!" with that Australian twang that just seemed to punctuate the phrase so well... you knew she meant it!
She carried this jar of some sort of acrid-tasting, sour-fungus spread for bread. She loved it, but I thought it was just plain disgusting. Worse even than the food here in El Paso.
What is that stuff called?
 
R.O.P. said:
I traveled around Central America for a while with an Aussie girl back in the early 90's.
She was hot. And she had this way of saying, "Well, I don't give a sh**!" with that Australian twang that just seemed to punctuate the phrase so well... you knew she meant it!
She carried this jar of some sort of acrid-tasting, sour-fungus spread for bread. She loved it, but I thought it was just plain disgusting. Worse even than the food here in El Paso.
What is that stuff called?
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Sounds like Vege-mite...
 
Yeah its vegemite. I love it.

As an interesting lol, Vegemite brought out a new line of spread and held a competition for the naming of said spread. As a result there is now a jar of "iSnack 2.0" on shelves everywhere in Australia....Democracy...just ...doesn't ...work.
 
Vegemite

AHA! That's it! I remember now.
I've eaten some pretty nasty stuff, but I only TRIED that! Haha
Nothing against the Aussies other than that. The ones I've known were a fun loving bunch.
 
Just one question... how often do you eat shrimp on the "BAH-bee"?
 
R.O.P. said:
AHA! That's it! I remember now.
I've eaten some pretty nasty stuff, but I only TRIED that! Haha
Nothing against the Aussies other than that. The ones I've known were a fun loving bunch.
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Vegemite is weird. More power if you want to eat that stuff. I've eaten ox tongue in France, escargot. I've had races to the bottom of catering sized bags of dried chillis, I've eaten brain. But vegemite, you can have my share.

As an aside, though, Vegemite is one of the world’s richest known sources of B vitamins, specifically thiamine, riboflavin, niacin and folic acid, but unlike Marmite and some other yeast extracts, it contains no vitamin B12.

It's essentially like spreading beef buillion on your sandwiches. Yummy.
 
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Summit said:
I have some questions about Australia:
Do you have to wear a helmet when you ride the 'roos to school?
Not a helmet so much as an acoubra hat with crocodile teeth embedded in it.

Do you get to ride in the pouch? Is it sticky?
What an absurd question...we wash the pouches out before we ride. Honestly how don't you know that?;)

What portion of your infant mortality rates are due to dingos getting them?
Almost zero, the dingos don't eat them, they take them and raise them as creepy tarzan style nature people that eventually reintegrate with society, start a TV show and say crikey alot.

Can you teach me how to play the Didgeridoo?
No. I broke mine when I fell off my kangaroo

Why the hell do you think Fosters is good?
We don't. No body does.

Is it true that you all convicts and pick pockets?
Don't forget sheep thieves and nare-do-wells.

Is wrestling crocs the national pastime?
For children...yes. Its a little too easy for Aussie blokes once we turn about 12.

I heard that Koalas loved to be hugged and cuddled... true?
Correct. Come and cuddle one. I promise you they will not eat your eyes.

What will you do when the Indos invade? Will the Kiwis give you shelter?
No. They hate us because we pronounce our 'I' correctly and rarely marry our cousins.

Is it true your country is being consumed by bullfrogs? Are they stealing your children from the dingos?

Cane toads. Its what we fight once we grow out of crocodiles. (They're big buggers)

What do you call a someone who is half Kiwi and half Aussie?
probably "half kiwi and half aussie".
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EMTinNEPA said:
Just one question... how often do you eat shrimp on the "BAH-bee"?
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I don't often as I don't like shrimp. But its fairly common. Esp around christmas time. A more common bar-bee food are snags. I'll leave that one with you.

AK: post your Tim Tam photos! For lulz. Tim tams are pretty much the best thing we've ever done as a nation, aside from maybe Jennifer Hawkins.
 
Is it Aus that likes to do the sneeky peaky with sheep or is that the neighbors New Zealand?

I wounder what Aus & the "yanks" thinks of us in South Africa hmmmm can just imagin... a few times I caught some people out in America bout me having wild animals in my garden and riding to school on my pet elephant hahahahaha
 
Oh Dear. Its hard to tell who is joking and who is serious in this thread :p Although I did have a pet dingo until she died at the age 14 recently. I would like to see someone cuddle a Koala they are angry :censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored::censored:s!

(B*stards is a swear on here?)
 
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R.O.P. said:
I traveled around Central America for a while with an Aussie girl back in the early 90's.
She was hot. And she had this way of saying, "Well, I don't give a sh**!" with that Australian twang that just seemed to punctuate the phrase so well... you knew she meant it!
She carried this jar of some sort of acrid-tasting, sour-fungus spread for bread. She loved it, but I thought it was just plain disgusting. Worse even than the food here in El Paso.
What is that stuff called?
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El Paso. The only place in the US where you can't get good mexican food.
Would you like an extra jar of dirt for that burger? Bleck. Not missing El Paso by a long shot. :P
 

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Sasha said:
Yankees? How rude of you to only include the northern US :P
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Actually, it's just "Yanks". Not the entire "Yankees". And, it goes much farther back than the Civil War. Pretty much every nation that is part of the British Commonwealth refers to Americans as "Yanks" regardless of the region of the States they hail from. It stems from that rousing Revolutionary War song "Yankee Doodle Dandy" (which, btw, is derogatory towards Americans and insinuates that they are Sissified pretty boys that don't know how to fight or dress themselves).

I have heard the term many times and have been referred to as a "Yank" just as many times since becoming part of the general population of Beautiful Alberta, Canada.
 
AK : haha nice.

When I think of South Africans all I think of is the accent. I love the accent. All I can think of is Tony Greg doing his "peech ripORt" when the cricket's on.

What confuses me about you yanks (cheers ResQ) is your odd propensity to use double negatives.

"I can't hardly wait"
"I ain't got nothing"
Both mean the opposite of the intended meaning because of the double negative.

And when you need a negative...you don't use them....
"I could give a damn"..."I could care less", surely you mean you "couldn't care less" - your trying to show your lack of interest, but saying you could care less mean you do care a little. :wacko:

On the plus side you fry everything and seem to have waitresses at bars, so I guess I can forgive you ;) Also we aussies have much to learn about hot dogs, perhaps you can teach us how to have hot dog venders on every corner and we can school you in how to make beer. B)
 
While it's true that Americans tend to use Double negatives and don't seem to grasp the concept of "COULDN'T care less", at least we don't add letters to words that aren't there. IE: Alu-mi-ni-um. The word is spelled A-l-u-m-i-n-u-m.

Other than that, I have a friend here in Canada from Australia. His accent is pretty cool. As well as some of his more colofrful expressions. Took me at least a year to understand he was exclaiming "Shocker" and not some Aboriginal word that was adopted by the population.
 
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