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Old Dec 21st 2011, 9:14 pm
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No no, it has to be the Southern Cross

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I'm embracing my inner bogan. Already got the beginnings of a beard and an appointment with the tattoo artiste next week for some Nipponese fertility symbols across my shoulders and arse cheeks.
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Old Dec 22nd 2011, 2:11 am
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the austika
but scarily accurate in some ways!
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Old Dec 22nd 2011, 3:11 am
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Originally Posted by Turban Explorer
I'm embracing my inner bogan. Already got the beginnings of a beard and an appointment with the tattoo artiste next week for some Nipponese fertility symbols across my shoulders and arse cheeks.
These might be well known but I had to laugh at the various synonyms for this:

Tramp stamp

Arse antlers

Slag tag.
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Old Dec 25th 2011, 4:14 am
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Ykyaiaw the paper Christmas cracker hat sticks to your head and finàlly collapses soaked in sweat!
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Ykyaiaw the paper Christmas cracker hat sticks to your head and finàlly collapses soaked in sweat!
That should really read You know when you are in FNQ when .......... The weather in other parts of Australia isn't the same funnily enough.
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Originally Posted by northernbird
That should really read You know when you are in FNQ when .......... The weather in other parts of Australia isn't the same funnily enough.
.....even the roast turkey pleads for the aircon to be turned on.
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The weather is perfect!

(Here anyway )
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Originally Posted by Sherlock Holmes
The weather is perfect!

(Here anyway )
not bad here today, not too horrendously hot and humid
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Originally Posted by northernbird
That should really read You know when you are in FNQ when .......... The weather in other parts of Australia isn't the same funnily enough.
I see Father Christmas still didn't bring you a sense of humour.
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Originally Posted by Turban Explorer
I see Father Christmas still didn't bring you a sense of humour.
No, he must have bypassed Australia.
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Originally Posted by Sherlock Holmes
The weather is perfect!

(Here anyway )
Um, yeah right!
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Um, yeah right!
Sorry about your storm old boy....where I am always seems to escape the worst of everything - apart from having a dozen frosts a year.
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