All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American
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We also have a Snickers which is the same as the US Snickers from the sound of it.
And we have a Milky Way which sounds the same as the US Three Musketeers.
I think Australian chocolate bars are generally identical to UK ones, except that the UK ones are much, much nicer. The chocolate is creamier for a start. If anyone I know is going to the UK I always ask them to bring back Mars bars and Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Nou, it sounds as though you're the victim of a campaign to spread misinformation about Australia!
Saddam International. I'm beginning to really think that its namesake is chatting with Stalin in Hell right now.
I think we all know that if Saddam is in Hell he won't be wasting time chatting with Stalin, he'll be getting busy with Satan.
Oh, also: the Bali bombers certainly knew they were killing Australians (among others). I don't quite agree that the Australian victims were "collateral damage"; in fact I'm not even sure that phrase makes any sense in the context of mass terrorism. I agree of course that the bombers weren't only targetting Australians, but Australia's slavish support for GWB wouldn't have escaped their notice, and in fact Australia gets a good deal of negative press in Indonesia (over East Timor as well, of course). So Islamic fundamentalists in that particular part of the world hate us as well as America (although probably not as much), for what it's worth.
Where I completely agree with jimi is that our government has tried to manipulate Bali to garner support for invading Iraq, just as the US govt has manipulated 9/11, and equally speciously.
I think Australian chocolate bars are generally identical to UK ones, except that the UK ones are much, much nicer. The chocolate is creamier for a start. If anyone I know is going to the UK I always ask them to bring back Mars bars and Cadbury Dairy Milk.
Angus. You have Haigh's in
the same city.
What motivates this turning to the chocolates of Old Blighty?
Well, true, Haigh's is the best, props to Adelaide etc. etc., but there's something particularly invigorating about something that looks like a Mars bar but tastes really good, trust me.
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G'day bt! Haven't seen you around for a while.
G'day bt! Haven't seen you around for a while.
G'day yourself. Or howdy, to use a traditional Philadelphia greeting. Yeah, I shouldn't be here now either. I've gone (mostly) dark while preparing for an exam. However, today has been unpleasant for reasons not immediately apparent (except for the extraordinary levels of lethargy). I think homesickness may be involved, images of Canberra and Melbourne life keep popping up unbidden (granted, as long as the alternative is memorising a list of the many varieties of swap contracts, this is probably to be expected). I should probably also find a way to blame the war, I'm sure otherwise the terrorists have already won. So I thought I'd pop in and look for a mood-lightener. Haigh's (and, for that matter, Aussie Milky Ways) could be it. If they were over here, that is...
Incidentally, friends of ours just sent word that they're exploring a move to Cooma, and asking if we'd heard of it. Given I grew up in Canberra and Bec in Bega, that would be an affirmative. I've been dreaming up some bitter mockery of their worry that it might get a bit chilly there.
Ha!
Oh well, nice to see you even if you are wagging. Why
not
blame the war? Everyone else is doing it!
Yay billytea! I hope John H will be showing up this weekend for Australian talk.
Nou, it sounds as though you're the victim of a campaign to spread misinformation about Australia!
I just learned the Cloud 9 thing in a blog today. And that other Australian also told me a story about a woman having a heart attack on his plane over the ocean and the stewardesses couldn't resuscitate her. "Taking the piss" is telling the gullible American stories about dropbears -- this guy was just lying to pass the time. What a booger.
Oh well, nice to see you even if you are wagging. Why not blame the war? Everyone else is doing it!
Heh. If only I were. I'm interspersing all this with swappy goodness.
On the plus side, I have got through an obscene amount of study over the last couple of weeks. Which is good, because a couple of weeks ago I was mildly panicking along the lines of "I'll never cover everything in time at this rate". Failed to consider that I'd basically left all the stuff I'm most familiar with till last.
Hey, did you hear about the colossal squid they caught off Antarctica? Sharp, tooth-like hooks on its tentacles that it can rotate 360 degrees (the hooks, that is). And it was caught near the surface.
