Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Jan 20th 2005, 1:55 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by mlbonner
Start calling flip-flops thongs, and thongs g-strings. ie: middle of UK shoe-shop "Mr Smith, let me try on that thong you've got in your hands"
Don't be shy about having your umbrella up on a hot sunny day
Get used to brands like Heinz & Cadburys, tasting different by adding salt/sugar/grass to them now.
At your local deli, ask for a half kilo of sangers. Walk past the 100 types of cheese on display and only buy block or grated cheese.
At 6pm shut all your curtains and put your lights on. Go to bed at 8pm, make sure you have poured water all over your sheets (as this is how you'll wake up in the morning). Then turn a fan on over you, this way you can also wake up with a bad neck. Get up at 5am, cut the lawn, do the washing, go for a powerwalk, clean the house. Then sit in the bath (to emulate the pool) for the rest of the day.
Leave your curtains shut all day, so the furniture doesn't fade.
Go through Amber lights at traffic lights, it might cause an accident in the UK, but in OZ they have a much longer time on them.
Roll in some nettles - just like a day at the beach (jellyfish) or in the bush (ants)
Don't be shy about having your umbrella up on a hot sunny day
Get used to brands like Heinz & Cadburys, tasting different by adding salt/sugar/grass to them now.
At your local deli, ask for a half kilo of sangers. Walk past the 100 types of cheese on display and only buy block or grated cheese.
At 6pm shut all your curtains and put your lights on. Go to bed at 8pm, make sure you have poured water all over your sheets (as this is how you'll wake up in the morning). Then turn a fan on over you, this way you can also wake up with a bad neck. Get up at 5am, cut the lawn, do the washing, go for a powerwalk, clean the house. Then sit in the bath (to emulate the pool) for the rest of the day.
Leave your curtains shut all day, so the furniture doesn't fade.
Go through Amber lights at traffic lights, it might cause an accident in the UK, but in OZ they have a much longer time on them.
Roll in some nettles - just like a day at the beach (jellyfish) or in the bush (ants)
Jan 20th 2005, 3:03 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Tassie (or Sainsburys........ )
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Originally Posted by mlbonner
Please look under S Aussie Slang we can both be right with this one 
I have actually, quite a few types now, but I'm sure you know the point I was making
I have actually, quite a few types now, but I'm sure you know the point I was making
And perhaps you could direct Polly to the places for cheese, she doesnt seem to have found any yet
Jan 20th 2005, 3:15 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by mlbonner
Please look under S Aussie Slang
She'll be apples - all is well (rhyming slang).
Rhyming with what, I wonder? Apples to me is stairs ("apples and pears") so is this "apples and pear" = "square"? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Jan 20th 2005, 3:34 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by MarkMyWords
Fascinating...
She'll be apples - all is well (rhyming slang).
Rhyming with what, I wonder? Apples to me is stairs ("apples and pears") so is this "apples and pear" = "square"? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
She'll be apples - all is well (rhyming slang).
Rhyming with what, I wonder? Apples to me is stairs ("apples and pears") so is this "apples and pear" = "square"? Seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Jan 20th 2005, 3:41 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by bondipom
Anyway I am off to the garry glitter.
Jan 20th 2005, 3:42 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by bondipom
Anyway I am off to the garry glitter.
Jan 20th 2005, 3:44 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Scossie
Would that be for a Barry White?
Jan 20th 2005, 3:46 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Scossie
Would that be for a Barry White?
Jan 20th 2005, 3:55 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by MrsDagboy
And perhaps you could direct Polly to the places for cheese, she doesnt seem to have found any yet
Good for the waistline as I eat far less here than back in the UK Sorry, just having a lousy day and wish I could go home.
Jan 20th 2005, 3:57 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Pollyana
just having a lousy day and wish I could go home.
Nah, just go straight to the pub!
Jan 20th 2005, 4:00 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Found plenty thanks, not the same as Middle Farm homemade stuff, but I'm now resigned to the fact I am stuck here for life so I have made up my mind to enjoy whatever I eat here Good for the waistline as I eat far less here than back in the UK Sorry, just having a lousy day and wish I could go home.
Good for the waistline as I eat far less here than back in the UK Sorry, just having a lousy day and wish I could go home.Well you know what Quink would say - make your own...
Jan 20th 2005, 4:07 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by mlbonner
Nah, just go straight to the pub!
Jan 20th 2005, 4:55 pm
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Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
X-Files fans. Create the effect of being abducted by aliens by drinking two bottles of vodka. You'll invariably wake up in a strange place the following morning, having had your memory mysteriously 'erased'.
Minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and grazes with thin strips of bacon.
Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate. eg Mr. KVL 741Y,
Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.
Avoid jet lag by simply taking an earlier flight, thus arriving fully refreshed and on time.
Pass yourself off as Welsh by putting coal dust behind your fingernails and talking gibberish all the time, stopping occasionally to sing loudly, or set fire to someone else's house.
Putting just the right amount of gin in your goldfish bowl makes the fishes' eyes bulge and cause them to swim in an amusing manner.
Save time when crossing a one-way street by only looking in the direction of oncoming traffic.
I thankyou
Minor skin grafts can be performed on pigs by covering any cuts and grazes with thin strips of bacon.
Save money on expensive personalised car number plates by simply changing your name to match your existing plate. eg Mr. KVL 741Y,
Don't waste money buying expensive binoculars. Simply stand closer to the object you wish to view.
Avoid jet lag by simply taking an earlier flight, thus arriving fully refreshed and on time.
Pass yourself off as Welsh by putting coal dust behind your fingernails and talking gibberish all the time, stopping occasionally to sing loudly, or set fire to someone else's house.
Putting just the right amount of gin in your goldfish bowl makes the fishes' eyes bulge and cause them to swim in an amusing manner.
Save time when crossing a one-way street by only looking in the direction of oncoming traffic.
I thankyou
Jan 20th 2005, 7:49 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by Pollyana
Pubs closer I guess, take me 15 minutes. Home would take 24 hours.
Cheers,
DagBoy
Jan 20th 2005, 7:53 pm
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Re: Let's have (another) Top Tips Thread
Originally Posted by DagBoy
And I always thought the public transport on the northside was as good as everywhere else in Brisbane?
Cheers,
DagBoy
Cheers,
DagBoy
oh very good! Off to the pub now, expect drunken posts later.....
