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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Mon Dec 12, 2016 4:32 am

cmsellers wrote:Better than that: try to convince them that you celebrate it on 25 June because that's winter down there. I think people are more likely to believe that because most people have at least heard that the seasons in Oz are opposite ours and it sounds plausible, what with Christmas originating as a pagan celebration of the winter solstice.

I figured I'd tell them it's a small, religious festival, celebrated only by an observant minority with quiet religious services. Possibly in August.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby CarrieVS » Mon Dec 12, 2016 10:32 am

In the UK it's common knowledge that Aussies all celebrate Christmas with a barbecue on the beach, but maybe it'd fly in the US.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Sun Dec 25, 2016 4:27 am

CarrieVS wrote:In the UK it's common knowledge that Aussies all celebrate Christmas with a barbecue on the beach, but maybe it'd fly in the US.

For the record, I don't know anyone who does that.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby NathanLoiselle » Sun Dec 25, 2016 4:32 am

What's important is that everyone knows that Australians use the Julian calendar. Named after the patron saint of alcoholics everywhere, Julian of Trailer Park Boys fame.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby satan_n_stuff » Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:36 pm

random_nerd wrote:
Piter Lauchy wrote:If "awesome" describes something very good and "awful" something very bad, what exactly is aw(e)? Those words imply that having a bit of aw(e) is good, but being full of it isn't.

Also, if you got beat up, shouldn't you be upbeat?

english u so silly


Also beating somebody up and beating somebody down mean roughly the same thing, they're just degrees of one another.

You can beat me up but you can't beat me down.
On second thought you probably can't beat me up either, the internet protects me from all physical harm. ;)
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby octoberpumpkin » Fri Dec 30, 2016 10:16 pm

If a tree falls in the woods and there are no pics, did it really happen?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby RatElemental » Sat Dec 31, 2016 2:45 am

octoberpumpkin wrote:If a tree falls in the woods and there are no pics, did it really happen?

One thing is for certain: It has no tits, and therefore must gtfo.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby jbobsully11 » Sat Dec 31, 2016 3:28 am

random_nerd wrote:
octoberpumpkin wrote:If a tree falls in the woods and there are no pics, did it really happen?

One thing is for certain: It has no tits, and therefore must gtfo.

Are you sure about that?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Fri Jan 13, 2017 11:44 pm

So what's the deal with hairdressers, anyways? They're like barbers, but they don't do beards and cost twice-thrice as much.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby iMURDAu » Sat Jan 14, 2017 10:37 pm

So like everything is rebooted, reimagined, dredged up from obscurity from decades previous, etc.

Where's the Mr. Ed show/movie? It could easily be done with computers so no horses would have to deal with the pressurized schedule of shooting a TV series. Kids today don't even see Mr. Ed on Nick at Nite. Kids today don't even see Nick at Nite! Unless that's what the block containing Full House and Friends is considered :roll:
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:24 am

iMURDAu wrote:So like everything is rebooted, reimagined, dredged up from obscurity from decades previous, etc.

Where's the Mr. Ed show/movie? It could easily be done with computers so no horses would have to deal with the pressurized schedule of shooting a TV series.

And it could be made by the same people who gave Archie a gritty, noirish reboot.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Twistappel » Wed Feb 01, 2017 6:58 pm

I notice that an answer I wrote to a question on Quora some years ago about advice for Americans moving to Brisbane has been getting an unexpected amount of attention lately.

I wonder if there is *cough* a reason for that.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby Australia » Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:13 pm

Well, I did move to Brisbane last year. I can't help it if everyone loves me. All it takes is a little effort.
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby cmsellers » Sat Feb 11, 2017 5:31 pm

If we could somehow change the color of chlorophyll so that it was purple, would insect predators be able to identify those plants as food?
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Re: Today I Wondered

Postby iMURDAu » Sun Feb 12, 2017 2:42 pm

Now that he's not in office what do we call Obamaphones?

Because I'd imagine a Trumphone (the P is silent duh) would be ostentatious as all fuck.
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