karaddin Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Started strong, but fell off in the home straight. 16/25 so I'm still true blue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 With a six out of twenty five not only am I not welcome here but am now abandoning all plans to visit Australia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I'm curious about which ones the foreigners are getting wrong. The two I got wrong were the colours worn by the Wiggles (I'm colourblind and don't have kids) and the one about the cane toads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MercenaryChef Posted November 13, 2013 Author Share Posted November 13, 2013 more important... how amazing are you people? come one! you live in a country almost completely inhospitable to human life filled with venomous creatures and yet there are still by all accounts no less than five hundred of you alive. son of a bitch! amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 more important... how amazing are you people? come one! you live in a country almost completely inhospitable to human life filled with venomous creatures and yet there are still by all accounts no less than five hundred of you alive. son of a bitch! amazing! Inorite? But it's not that hard to understand. Most of the venomous things are found in the ocean, the desert or the bush. Most of us live where the venomous things don't. Of course, take away the coast, the desert and the bush and there's not much left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zar Lannister Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I'm curious about which ones the foreigners are getting wrong. The two I got wrong were the colours worn by the Wiggles (I'm colourblind and don't have kids) and the one about the cane toads.I actually got both of those wrong... :shrug: I got the fanging one right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xray the Enforcer Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 19/25 -- true blue. I messed up on an ad jingle, something about a TV show, the name of a fly and what banknote a pineapple refers to. Oh, and some jackass's shoe size and some slang phrasing I've never heard of. Some of those correct answers were wild guesses, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arch-MaesterPhilip Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I'm curious about which ones the foreigners are getting wrong. The two I got wrong were the colours worn by the Wiggles (I'm colourblind and don't have kids) and the one about the cane toads. It might be easier to ask which ones this foreigner got right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warg Arry Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 more important... how amazing are you people? come one! you live in a country almost completely inhospitable to human life filled with venomous creatures and yet there are still by all accounts no less than five hundred of you alive. son of a bitch! amazing! Inorite? But it's not that hard to understand. Most of the venomous things are found in the ocean, the desert or the bush. Most of us live where the venomous things don't. Of course, take away the coast, the desert and the bush and there's not much left. 2 nights ago. While getting my son ready for bed. I dropped his PJs bent down to pick them up and saw a Brown ( at least that's what the guy said that came to take it away.) under his bed. I've been getting chills every 5 minutes since and we are trying to figure out how it got in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 2 nights ago. While getting my son ready for bed. I dropped his PJs bent down to pick them up and saw a Brown ( at least that's what the guy said that came to take it away.) under his bed. I've been getting chills every 5 minutes since and we are trying to figure out how it got in. That's not a good one to find under the bed, mate. :stunned: I must admit that the closest I've come to a venomous snake is in the car, when you see them stretched out across a couple of lanes to sun themselves. I'm not worried about admitting that if I was in your situation I might have shat myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andrew_ Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 15/25 shameful display. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rinzy Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 That's not a good one to find under the bed, mate. :stunned: I must admit that the closest I've come to a venomous snake is in the car, when you see them stretched out across a couple of lanes to sun themselves. I'm not worried about admitting that if I was in your situation I might have shat myself. While not venomous, I got myself bitten by a carpet python the other day. Didn't hurt as much as I thought it would, but I wouldn't recommend it :P I got 17/25 on the quiz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Warg Arry Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 That's not a good one to find under the bed, mate. :stunned: I must admit that the closest I've come to a venomous snake is in the car, when you see them stretched out across a couple of lanes to sun themselves. I'm not worried about admitting that if I was in your situation I might have shat myself. Once I had the situation under control. I admit to a small moment of screaming and running/jumping on the spot. Sounds weird I know. But the adrenaline rush was full on in that moment. To be fair. While I live in Suburban Brisbane. About 2 blocks behind us is bush leading up to and covering the mountain behind us. @Rinzy Were you playing Steve Irwin with an unsuspecting carpet snake? Cause you know they don't like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gryphon strike Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 18/25, still Australian according to the criteria.Call me old fashioned but it doesn't seem like an Aussie thread without a number, even if that number is made up...Made up? WTF? yeah I know it is 10 or 20 behind the thread count but it is definately not made up. There has been an Aussie thread since around 2001that means lots of threads started and closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin Of House Hill Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I tried again. 19/25 which attests more to my memory than knowledge. The funny thing is that three that I got right the first time, I got wrong, now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 Made up? WTF? yeah I know it is 10 or 20 behind the thread count but it is definately not made up. There has been an Aussie thread since around 2001that means lots of threads started and closed.I'm aware of the vast number of threads we've had, I may not have been posting since then but I've been lurking since then. It may have been more accurate to say estimated or guessed number, but I believe the original phrasing gets that point across... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Callum Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 And now Rudd's leaving which hopefully helps seal the end to quite a dysfunctional era. If it was me I would have spun it to say I had high hopes for the new parliamentary term but after seeing the government in action for a couple days couldn't bear the thought of 3 years of it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delete this account pls Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 So, some distant cousin I barely know got a hold of me and sent me a package which arrived today. A bunch of old family photos and stuff. Including one of my great grandad on my mum's side in his Anzac uniform before he got shipped off to France in 1918. So I rang my mum and ... this was news to her. Apparently nobody in the family knew about it. Anyway, among the photos was this little pocket bible that he carried with him in France, and on the front page is this inscription; "To Syd, from your beloved friend Ivy, 14/2/18. God be with you, til we meet again." Awwwwwww. Also one of the photos doubles as a postcard with a letter to his mum on the back, where he says France is "nice" and tells her not to worry because he'll be home soon (which he was right about, I guess) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubby Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 That's rather cool Braids. I know a distant rellie died in France in WW1 and that his name was Percy but I don't know much more than that. Will look into it one day. :dunno: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Every Posted November 13, 2013 Share Posted November 13, 2013 I need an Australian dish for a multicultural potluck. The complication is that I don't have access to an oven. I'm also vegetarian, and as a general rule better with desserts than savouries. I was thinking of doing a tweaked no-bake version of Anzac biscuits, although that may be sacreligious and/or illegal. Any other ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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