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Post by JimC » Mon Nov 19, 2018 5:58 am

The place I'm staying at has a very Aussie name: "Bruce's Waterfront Units'

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Post by rainbow » Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:32 am

Forty Two wrote:
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I always cook my snails thoroughly, with lots of butter and garlic. They're nommable.
Yeah, the thing with escargot is that you may as well just have little bits of mushroom drowned in garlic and butter. All one tastes is the butter, garlic and salt anyway.
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:37 am

JimC wrote:
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The place I'm staying at has a very Aussie name: "Bruce's Waterfront Units'

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Why "Units"? Sounds so clinical. Mental hospital?
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Post by pErvinalia » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:53 am

It's the Australian term for apartments.
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Do you have apartments in mental hospitals?
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No we have units in hospitals. :hehe:
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Post by Scot Dutchy » Mon Nov 19, 2018 8:59 am

That what was I was asking. Even the yanks would call them apartments.
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Re: Straya!

Post by Forty Two » Mon Nov 19, 2018 12:59 pm

rainbow wrote:
Mon Nov 19, 2018 6:32 am
Forty Two wrote:
Thu Nov 15, 2018 4:30 pm
laklak wrote:
Tue Nov 06, 2018 12:31 am
I always cook my snails thoroughly, with lots of butter and garlic. They're nommable.
Yeah, the thing with escargot is that you may as well just have little bits of mushroom drowned in garlic and butter. All one tastes is the butter, garlic and salt anyway.
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Post by Hermit » Sat Nov 24, 2018 11:54 am

The Victorian state Labor government has been re-elected with a popular vote that is over 5% higher than it received in the previous election four years ago. With about half the votes counted It now stands to get at least 60 of the 88 seats in the lower house. The opposition, consisting of the so called Liberal and the National Party coalition won't get many more than 20. For "Liberal" read "Friedmanite with a touch of theocratic" and for "National" read "Agrarian Socialists", where "Agrarian" stands of major, predominantly foreign-owned agricultural corporations.

Hopefully, this is a harbinger for things to come on the federal level next year.

I'd like to finish this post up with an obligatory derogatory comment regarding Melbourne, but I can't think of one - especially in light of the the way voters in New South Wales keep tolerating its conservative Premier's policies, which are not much less disfuckinggusting at all than those proposed by the failed leader of Victoria's troglodyte opposition.
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Post by pErvinalia » Sat Nov 24, 2018 12:05 pm

:yes: :toot:


(I wonder who Jim voted for. Labor would be too left for him.. :coffee: )
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Post by Hermit » Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:25 pm

pErvinalia wrote:
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(I wonder who Jim voted for. Labor would be too left for him.. :coffee: )
Well, the "centrist" Democrats, who kept selling out to the reactionaries is no more is no more, so he has no options left but to vote Labor. Having spent 40 years as a teacher in a boys-only, catholic-run school, his natural choice would have been Australia's equivalent of the of the US's political wing of NAMBLA, but that never existed either, so the next best choice would be whatever the Family First Party is named nowadays. ;)

On a serious note, with just over 70% of the vote counted now, the swing to Labor has shrunk to 4.8% with a total of 42.9% of the primary vote now, but the swing against the so called Libs is 6.1% (30.4% of the primary vote) and their coalition partner has lost 0.2% (5.2%). The conservatives are dead in the water.
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Re: Straya!

Post by laklak » Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:55 pm

So is this a good thing, or a bad thing?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.

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