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Apr 12th 2011 | 9:00 pm

#31

What_a_life

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Re: Changing Australia

Yep, P platers

Drink drivers

Bogan women with 5 kids under the age of 6,all behaving like little brats, while she is oblivious.
Shopgirls who do their best to ignore you while you are waiting to pay for stuff

Apr 13th 2011 | 1:44 am

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by HUP

Lakeside Pakenham

lol - I'd do Fountain Gate.

Apr 13th 2011 | 2:31 am

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by iamthecreaturefromuranus

All the 'World Famous' pie shops.

All pies. ('Cept Mrs Kiplings.)

Apr 13th 2011 | 11:41 am

#34

HUP

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by BadgeIsBack

lol - I'd do Fountain Gate.

Yep its certainly getting more feral

Apr 13th 2011 | 11:42 am

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Re: Changing Australia

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Cept Mrs Kiplings

Has she started making them now? Have they got divorced and shes trying to cash in on the name

Apr 13th 2011 | 12:20 pm

#36

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by HUP

Has she started making them now? Have they got divorced and shes trying to cash in on the name

Whoops!

Let's say, yes.

Last edited by brissybee; Apr 13th 2011 at 12:24 pm.

Apr 13th 2011 | 2:22 pm

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by scottishcelts

Indeed - you'll never hear us Scots moan about anything.

Nor renegade South Africans.....

Apr 13th 2011 | 3:37 pm

#38

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Re: Changing Australia

Anyone driving a flash car that Daddy bought them and think they have a right to maneuverer without signalling.

Apr 18th 2011 | 1:45 am

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by brissybee

All pies. ('Cept Mrs Kiplings.)

and 'cept Fray Bentos (bomb proof)

Apr 18th 2011 | 12:38 pm

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by alistairboyle

and 'cept Fray Bentos (bomb proof)

You know I discovered recently that Fray Bentos is a town in Uruguay! Why are tinned pies named after a town in Uruguay???

Apr 18th 2011 | 12:39 pm

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by bcworld

You know I discovered recently that Fray Bentos is a town in Uruguay! Why are tinned pies named after a town in Uruguay???

Maybe they named the town after the pies. They're a funny lot the Uruguayiannns.

Apr 18th 2011 | 1:09 pm

#42

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Re: Changing Australia

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Originally Posted by bcworld

You know I discovered recently that Fray Bentos is a town in Uruguay! Why are tinned pies named after a town in Uruguay???

They grow lots of beef there and: "In 1899 a company called "Anglo" began making corned beef there, which was sold as "Fray Bentos Corned Beef" in the UK. Fifty years later the Fray Bentos company diversified into soups, meatballs and tinned fruit" and the famous pie.