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Old May 25th 2012, 3:16 am
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Originally Posted by Amazulu
That would be a fun drive across the Nullabor
You'd know you were in Australia, that's for sure.
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....the fire alarms talk to you
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A Ford Capri overtakes you...and surely it can't be a Capri...

it looks like a Lotus Elan.
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Perhaps more likely in Australia than other countries, Not funny I suppose for those involved..

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/sheep-rain-...070304569.html
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YKYIAW Your ready salted chips/crisps are in a blue packet not a red one
Oh yeah, forgot about that - so used to blue now!
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You have bar-like conversations with Woolies checkout girls. Today, I collected my son from college and we popped into Woollies for a few things on the way home. The chirpy smiling checkout girl says to us "Happy Poets Day", Yeah okay I thought and smiled politely back at her. Next she says "Do you know what poets day is all about?" "...Uh no" I replied. So she shouts at the top of her voice "P**s Off Early - Tomorrow Saturday!!!" and then proceeded to laugh uncontrollably like an Aussie Barbara Windsor. :dropjaw::bemusedlook: x 2
When the toilet paper is scented. I only realised after about 8 or nine years of living here that loo paper only came in white (if you don't count the little pictures and embossing on it, that is).
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When the toilet paper is scented. I only realised after about 8 or nine years of living here that loo paper only came in white (if you don't count the little pictures and embossing on it, that is).
I knew there was something missing from my life.
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When the toilet paper is scented. I only realised after about 8 or nine years of living here that loo paper only came in white (if you don't count the little pictures and embossing on it, that is).
As it should be. Anything other than white toilet roll should be illegal, it's so wrong
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As it should be. Anything other than white toilet roll should be illegal, it's so wrong
Indeed. Why would you
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When the toilet paper is scented. I only realised after about 8 or nine years of living here that loo paper only came in white (if you don't count the little pictures and embossing on it, that is).
Scented? how? lemon, rose petals, cinnamon. mountain spring, flowered meadow, spring shower? It's still poo, just flush quick and often.
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Scented? how? lemon, rose petals, cinnamon. mountain spring, flowered meadow, spring shower? It's still poo, just flush quick and often.
I have no idea what the smell is supposed to be but the one time I bought it by mistake the pack had to stay out on the verandah for a fortnight until the smell had gone. I'd rather smell shit to be honest.
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I have no idea what the smell is supposed to be but the one time I bought it by mistake the pack had to stay out on the verandah for a fortnight until the smell had gone. I'd rather smell shit to be honest.
Agree. My place of employment had air 'fresheners' in the toilet. Every so often it sprayed a mist of cinnamon. I do not know what mixes with poo, but CINNAMON certainly does not! A more revolting grouping of er... aromas I have never encountered.
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Originally Posted by moneypenny20
I have no idea what the smell is supposed to be but the one time I bought it by mistake the pack had to stay out on the verandah for a fortnight until the smell had gone. I'd rather smell shit to be honest.
Its foul isn't it, I loathe the toilet roll aisle in the supermarket, makes me feel physically sick cos of the scents. I'll only buy the hypo-allergenic rolls, they can't put scent in those :sneaky;
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Originally Posted by Scubaemma
As it should be. Anything other than white toilet roll should be illegal, it's so wrong
You mean you don't like 80's pastel peach bog roll?
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You mean you don't like 80's pastel peach bog roll?
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