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Probably the wrong way!
I've attached a picture I thought you might enjoy from our illustrious President's visit abroad.
Uhm... Canadian lighthouses have RADAR?
I didn't know us Canadians had lighthouses.
Barrk:
Accents:
South African: iz ez you derty kifa! Sout Efrican.
Sout Efrican axcent comes from it's Dutch Heritige.
Australian: Is long aaanndd drawwn outt. Maate.
NZ= Well thets joost choice hey bro!
(Us ozzie pay out on this big time if fing hillarious)
Gaffer: As usual :D Damn poms learnt how ro bowl damn you!:mad:
WAR: Meh we have the best SAS just ask chrisjk:rolleyes:
Ciberthug: Baseball better than cricket. ahahaha you pretty funny ciberthug i thought you said baseball was better than cricket!!
Yes sometimes test cricket is drawn out a bit and is a bit boring on TV but go down to test match get pissed it's much better. Or watch a 1 day game!
Perhaps the difference is baseball doesnt require skill!!
Come on any old clown can hit a f__ing ball over a fence where i grew up hitting the ball over the fence was 6 and out!
Ohh just so you dont hurt you precious hands or are you too unco-ordinated to actually catch a ball in your own hands without a glove.
Cant bowl a ball so you throw it as well.
Not that it matters anyway last i heard we were betaing you at baseball as well!!:)
tis true, tis true ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Beacon
WAR: Meh we have the best SAS just ask chrisjk
Beacon ..clean up the drool you are leaving on the floor and for god's sake put that cow-sized tounge back into your head okay ;)Quote:
Not that it matters anyway last i heard we were betaing you at baseball as well!!
thanks buddy :rolleyes:
Sorry blame it on australias sporting culture dammit!!
p.s Dont speak to me when we lose.... Causes depression.
When both our countries lose in sports..we drown ourselfs in alcohol :)
well atleast i do!!
And when we win we drown ourselves in alcohol with a smile!:)
And when we watch sport while were losing we drown ourselves in alcohol while abusing the other team, our team and the white maggots!:D
That's the referee right?
yes!!
Commonly used sentence in Aussie Rules:
"That was high you f__king blind white maggot"
I lived in Yugoslavia when I was a kid, and was going out with an American girl there - Shelby. She apparently once had the following conversation with a schoolfriend in Oregon when she told her she was going to Yugoslavia for the summer:Quote:
Originally posted by Boredbert
No, it's more like, "We don't care if there are other countries outside the US."
:rolleyes:Quote:
Friend: "So, are you going to drive there?"
Shelby: "Um, no - it's in Europe."
Friend: "Duh! Take the bridge..."
Oops, I forgot to mention that we don't claim Oregoners. They tend to be wacky; maybe it's all the rain?Quote:
Originally posted by InvisibleDuncan
I lived in Yugoslavia when I was a kid, and was going out with an American girl there - Shelby. She apparently once had the following conversation with a schoolfriend in Oregon when she told her she was going to Yugoslavia for the summer:
Jeez, this thread took so long to read I've forgotten what I was going to say....
Oh Ja (as we say here in South Africa where we speak like Australians apparently), I remember. By strange coincidece there was a Sports Trivia question on a local FM station this morning: Why is the World Series so called, when Tim Buk Too (who's he, anyway) can't play? Answer was- cue trumpet fanfare- "The World" newspaper was (or is?) the major sponsor.
Hey I've got an idea: Crocodile Dundee in LA is such a sh*t movie according to last night's newspaper, maybe he should make one here. Crocodile Dundee Rides a Johannesburg MiniBus Taxi, or Crocodile Dundee Gets Caught in a Johanesburg Electric Fence.... he'll meet his match here, that's for sure. And what's more, he'll be able to understand what we say, seeing as we all speak Oz.
BTW I've just realised why the guy at the top of the thread thinks South Africans (pronounced Seff Effrikins) sound like Ozzies: so many SA doctors have moved to Oz, that he thinks the SA accent IS the Ozzie one. Easy really.
Hambe Gahle Amigos,
Oh I forgot... we played 6 and out over the fence cricket too. The only trouble is, the guy in the house behind's got 2 f-ing great big Rottweilers, so not only do you get given out, but you have to go negotiate with the guy's dogs too.So it's best to hit the ball into the pool, then you can score runs all arvie (or arvo, in OzSpeak) because no one knows where the leaf scoop thingie is!
Anyone know the test score BTW?
And I agree that 1-day cricket's great, even tho' the Ozzies won the last World Cup. Now you see, Yanquis, this is a REAL 'world' event, because even bloody Scotland, PNG and Canada play. Didn't have to cheat by getting a newspaper to lend their name. Hey. if anyone knows a newspaper like 'Galaxy' or 'The Daily Universe' or 'Milky Way Gazette' or something, we can have a baseball series even bigger than the so-called World Series by just getting them in as sponsor, and we can play in that Tim Buk Too guy's back yard.
Oh one more thing. (What the heck, it's Friday afternoon and I'm knocking off soon.) Why am I a Junior Member, I was bloody 45 last month. Can't wait to be an Addicted Member, that sounds like fun. Not too keen on being a Fanatic though.
Busy are we, Jim? :rolleyes: ;) :D
Now now, there's no call for Sarcasm, Squire!
I'm sleeping off a curry.
Do you know the Test Score? Probably bloody raining, anyway.
Is Yugoslavia actually in Europe?- I thought it was a bit further over to the right, as you look at the globe with England at the top where it belongs, and Oz tucked away out-of-sight round the back and down at the bottom. (Mind you, I can't be sure because I can't find anything called Yugoslavia on a map anyway.)
There's always call for sarcasm :D :rolleyes:
Definitely in Europe - Europe stretches across to the middle of Turkey (Istanbul & the Bosphorus).
And you won't find it these days - it's now Serbia, Croatia, Montenegro...
Oh, and England's not quite at the top - Scotland's on top of it, which is as it should be... No idea what the cricket score is, partly because I've no idea what the hell any of it means.
Jings, sorry Mon- I meant the UK actually, not England. Hoots Mon. It's just that I'm a Sassenach myself y'see, so I keep forgetting about the bit on the other side of Hadrian's wall. (If I was born any further south than I was, I'd have been French. Now that's a scary thought. Sacre Bleu.)
I see those pesky Ozzies won again.
Jim:
Timbuktoo - is a small province in the south of mali, africa.
"BTW I've just realised why the guy at the top of the thread thinks South Africans (pronounced Seff Effrikins) sound like Ozzies"
Umm i'm at the top of this thread coz i started it and i never said that aussies sound like s effricans?
"Oz tucked away out-of-sight round the back and down at the bottom. "
And whom said that England/Europe was at the top of the world???
Also give my regards to you Mr Gibbs and Cronje will you. Has gibbs learnt too catch yet?
And i would get caught jumpin over that guys fence coz the way things are i hear in Jo'burg you'll probably get shot b4 the dogs get you.
I did know where Timbuktu is actually. and when I said at the top of the thread I probably should have said towards the top
There is a wonderful world map which I know has been published but I've no idea where- I saw it on the cover of a book in the geography library at the local U. It's a map drawn to break those very misconceptions about the north being the 'top' and the so-called antipodes being the 'back'. This map was a) 'upside down' at least compared to what we normally see on a map (ie south at the top) and b) the 'middle' of the world where the Greenwich Meridian normally is was Australia or thereabouts.
This puts Oz in the prime spot!
Well done on the Ashes.
Take it easy.
ok ta!
wasnt bieng snappy:D
I think the first person to do put oz on top was some ozzie artist forget his name though!
Not forgetting the Ukraine. The Ukraine stretches even further east than Turkey I believe...Quote:
Definitely in Europe - Europe stretches across to the middle of Turkey (Istanbul & the Bosphorus).
And we mustn't forget old Finland, with the most northerly capital in Europe. :)Quote:
Oh, and England's not quite at the top - Scotland's on top of it...
Simon, I think Rejkavik is further North, and possiblt Spitsbergen is above that (but I think also that is a Norwegian dependancy...)
They might be further north than Helsinki but they're not capitals. The capitals of Norway and Sweden are Oslo and Stockholm respectively but they are further south.Quote:
Simon, I think Rejkavik is further North, and possiblt Spitsbergen is above that (but I think also that is a Norwegian dependancy...)
Reykjavik is definitely a capital, technically European and further North than Helsinki.
Capitol of which country?Quote:
Reykjavik is definitely a capital, technically European and further North than Helsinki.
It's OK, I know now. Iceland.
If that's in Europe then I concede defeat! ;)
I suppose I was talking about mainland Europe.
Like I said, technically in Europe :). But then, even Israel can get into the Eurovision Song Contest... :rolleyes:
Israel won didn't they, with Hava Nagila if my memory serves me, and one of their guys wrote all the Psalms. And Iceland's in the EuroVision contest too aren't they. But Scotland's not Duncan ;-)
Billy Connolly, Nil Points (pronounced neel pwa)
Old Goon Show joke: The man walked with a pronounced limp, l-i-m-p, pronounced 'limp'.
And the other one: The voice came from a man with a military bearing, which he tossed in the air an caught. He emerged from the darkness and walked into the light. (Sound effects: Bonk!) (OK, that sounds better on radio.)
Hands up all the Goon Show and Monty Python fans? One day lad, all this will be yours. What the curtains?
Not to mention Hancocks Half-Hour: A pint? That's a whole armful.
Anyway, going back to the point of this thread, I think the USA won the swimming didn't they?
Which is where we came in.....
OMG How did Iceland manage to get relegated to only being 'technically' part of Europe???? Iceland is quite categorically part of Europe and has been for ages.Quote:
Like I said, technically in Europe . But then, even Israel can get into the Eurovision Song Contest...
:rolleyes: :p
I don't know if they are actually part of Europe. Britain has only been technically part of europe for the last twenty odd years (and I'm not just talking about the common market) and considering how far away Iceland is, I certainly think it's questionable.Quote:
OMG How did Iceland manage to get relegated to only being 'technically' part of Europe???? Iceland is quite categorically part of Europe and has been for ages.
Indeed, they are nearer Greenland which should make them part of North America. Infact, seeing as North America only has three or four countries (I can't remember if Greenland is it's own country) then they need it more than we do. Considering how small Europe is and how many countries that divide it, it's only fair that fringe countries (such as Iceland) are handed over to more needing continents. ;)
Actually, we get lumped in with the UK entry and do startlingly badly - a fact of which we are rightly proud. ;)Quote:
Originally posted by Jim Brown
And Iceland's in the EuroVision contest too aren't they. But Scotland's not Duncan ;-)
The Goons were before my time (although I do seem to recall one about an ejector seat, which was extremely funny). Monty Python was funny in parts, though. "NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!" :D
(I wouldn't repeat that about the swimming, BTW. There's a couple of antipodeans here that'll have your head.)
:rolleyes: And ur history source is??? :pQuote:
Britain has only been technically part of europe for the last twenty odd years
Ruled by Denmark, as are FaroesQuote:
(I can't remember if Greenland is it's own country)
Alaska is closer to Russia than any other state of U.S so hand that back to them i say. Hawaii? Hmmm England now, Gibraltar?
Sometimes our ski season is slow to start and they need to use snow making equip.. does that make us needy enuf to qualify? :pQuote:
, it's only fair that fringe countries (such as Iceland) are handed over to more needing continents
I think we'll need an adjudicator here soon... about what's Europe and what's not.
So what about the Falklands then.
(Or Islas Malvinas if you prefer, which sounds more like a pudding.)
Our weapon is surprise. That's all. And fear. Our TWO weapons are.... I can Bore-for-Britain on Monty Python BTW. How about the EuroVision Bore-for-Europe Contest , or should that be BoreForEurope to go with the VB naming convention.
I f**king live in the country. I don't have to quote my history source to an American! :p If you don't believe me, go find out for yourself!Quote:
And ur history source is???Quote:
Britain has only been technically part of europe for the last twenty odd years
I'm not talking about handing over countries to different owners. Purely about continental membership is all. :pQuote:
Alaska is closer to Russia than any other state of U.S so hand that back to them i say. Hawaii? Hmmm England now, Gibraltar?
I think it's safe to say that the Falkland isles are not in Europe.Quote:
So what about the Falklands then.
LOL language language :rolleyes: Emmm check location.. not American. Also, just cos u live there doesnt mean u know history. If u are talking land masses even then britain is definitely attached to the continent. What is ur condition for being part of europe that only happened in the last 20 odd years? Economic? Political? Military? hmmm Waiting for enlightened response :DQuote:
I f**king live in the country. I don't have to quote my history source to an American! If you don't believe me, go find out for yourself!
Oh! :o I'm terribly sorry. I hope you can forgive the insult! ;)Quote:
Emmm check location.. not American.
OK, you have a point but the ownus must be on you to prove my idea of British history wrong. If I questioned your idea of Australian history, it would be up to me to find evidence to the contrary.Quote:
Also, just cos u live there doesnt mean u know history.
Eh...What? Not since the last ice age have we been actually attached to Europe.Quote:
If u are talking land masses even then britain is definitely attached to the continent.
I think it's down to self-recognition. Britain didn't regard itself as part of Europe. It was definitely a political thing anyway.Quote:
What is ur condition for being part of europe that only happened in the last 20 odd years? Economic? Political? Military?