| Author | Message | ||
     Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1815 Registered: 4-2016 |
For those of you who are contemplating coming down under to visit Australia, please click through the following slides. I though maybe these were to "over the top", but in the end I thought. Yep, that pretty much is us here, so I decided to share these with all you great folk. http://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/you-know-youre-australian-when/ss-AAsY3LG?ocid=ientp#image=107 | ||
| Brian Vogel Grand Master Username: guyslp Post Number: 2538 Registered: 6-2009 |
https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/you-know-youre-australian-when/ss-AAsY3LG?ocid=ientp#image=001 . . . takes you to the first slide in the show. | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1816 Registered: 4-2016 |
Thanks for fixing that up Brian. | ||
| Brian Crump Prolific User Username: brian_crump Post Number: 169 Registered: 2-2007 |
Or pictures from Aunty (the affectionate name given to the Australian Broadcasting Commission); http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-29/abc-open-pic-of-the-week/7653724 Regards, BC | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1817 Registered: 4-2016 |
That is a great link Brian. Some amazing work there. Thanks for sharing it with us. | ||
| ross kowalski Grand Master Username: cdfpw Post Number: 694 Registered: 11-2015 |
Patrick R, Conspicuously absent? VB, UTEs, Dame Edna Everage, Kangaroo races, Holden Torana, marmite, Strop, desert lizard target practice, SLSA, road trains, Australia day, and rabbits. | ||
| John Kilkenny Prolific User Username: john_kilkenny Post Number: 273 Registered: 6-2005 |
MARMITE ? YOU MUST BE JOKING | ||
| Brian Crump Prolific User Username: brian_crump Post Number: 170 Registered: 2-2007 |
Hmmm - Marmite and rabbits are both British.  | ||
| Larry Kavanagh Prolific User Username: shadow_11 Post Number: 136 Registered: 5-2016 |
I've a friend who spent 15 years working in Australia. He tends to drink a lot of beer and whenever he has a hangover he says "I'm as sick as a chocolate frog". Is that an Australian expression or is it just his way of describing his condition? | ||
| John Kilkenny Prolific User Username: john_kilkenny Post Number: 274 Registered: 6-2005 |
Marmite is a pale imitation of VEGEMITE | ||
| Brian Crump Prolific User Username: brian_crump Post Number: 171 Registered: 2-2007 |
Larry - I have never heard that one. Mind you, a chocolate frog would be pretty sick here today. The temp. got up to 47.3 C; the hottest since 1939. That's about 117 F. Even the bees are falling out of the sky with the heat. Regards, Brian | ||
| ross kowalski Grand Master Username: cdfpw Post Number: 701 Registered: 11-2015 |
iSnack 2.0? | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1818 Registered: 4-2016 |
Ross, You know more about this than we do. You have mentioned some gems, especially the iSnak2.0 | ||
| ross kowalski Grand Master Username: cdfpw Post Number: 702 Registered: 11-2015 |
Patrick R, I seriously doubt that, my "knowledge" on the subject consists of eating marmite once ever. However, having spend the last 24 hours sitting in front of a computer parsing a 133 page technical manual it's no effort to google marmite vs vegemite. Which my the by turns up a product called iSnack 2.0 which is cheese and vegemite. Hard to believe that's a thing. | ||
| Patrick Ryan Grand Master Username: patrick_r Post Number: 1820 Registered: 4-2016 |
The iSnack2.0 wasn't a bad thing. My kids didn't mind it, but I found it a bit weak on the Vegemite side. Cheese & Vegemite sandwiches are quite popular here. It was the name that caused the huge controversy.  There was a national competition to name the new product. iSnack won, then there was an uproar as to how stupid it wss, so KRAFT just named it themselves. The above images show all 3 products. I have the same 3 unopened bottles  |
