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Shithouse Dave posted:Seconding this. Fast food in general is better in Australia, but I didn't know what a really good small shop pizza was until Id been to the US. I've never been to italy though, so I kinda wanna reserve final judgement on pizza until I've been. Let your final judgment fly: pizza in Italy is pretty much in its own category, imo. Not to say that it's better or worse overall, but the ingredients and methodology are totally different. The ingredients differ not only in variety, but also in quality- Italians don't gently caress around with that sort of thing- even most pedestrians buy their groceries daily, so their ingredients are always fresh, and don't even get me started on Italian cheese and meat. The methodology is similar prima facie, but something is distinct about the consistency of the bread, and it's rarely formed into a nice circle with a ring of crust (this depends on the region) but will instead look a little amoebic and lie flat. The bread is also often burnt slightly, and the whole dough-sauce-cheese strata paradigm isn't the norm. What I'm trying to say is that it's apples and oranges, and that you're totally qualified to say that American mom and pop pizza shops rule their league.
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ColtMcAsskick posted:It's mandatory for all people in Australia to attend at least one Cricket test match ever year, so I hope you like 5 days of the sport equivalent of grueling trench-warfare. Also, it comes with obscure rules and incomprehensible terminology that not even the players properly understand. Cricket and Snooker are both things that I've observed briefly and decided to never try to understand.
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Feb 5, 2015 07:34
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Also, can anyone recommend a good Pho place in Melbourne? I've tried a few, but have been striking out. I used to live near Philly's Little Saigon, and have been spoiled by Pho Ha (6th and Washington, check it out if you're ever in the area, because Jesus Christ).
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Feb 5, 2015 07:37
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In case you haven't worked it out already, you can add -o to just about anything. Schnitto (schnitzel), bottlo (liquor store), cunto (a good friend), traino (train station), dero (derelict, or bum), abbo (a native Australian), servo (gas station), drongo (a stupid person), wallabo (a small kangaroo), muzzo (an islamic person), jizzo (a house of ill repute), hospo (a person who works in hospitality), tinno (a can of beer), seppo (an American person)
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Feb 5, 2015 07:40
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docklands has a few vietnamese places. I doubt youll ever find your way to springvale but its the level best for all tjings azn
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Slugnoid posted:docklands has a few vietnamese places. I doubt youll ever find your way to springvale but its the level best for all tjings azn its true, my asian weed dealer lives in springvale and i always get some good dumplings when i go down there to see him
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Feb 5, 2015 07:48
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praxis posted:They will assume you have witnessed approximately 23 brutal murders and are, somehow, carrying a gun on you at all times. No, thats only Baltimore tourists. But I assume other americans think that about Baltimore folks too. (A friend of mine from baltimore told me he thinks its really funny when I complain about angry drunks keeping people awake on my street. He reckons where he lives, they worry more about the drive-bys keeping people awake)
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Neurosis posted:pre-mixed drinks are even more disgustingly expensive ($70 for 24 of them is a bargain) Hip flask of whiskey and just order diet soft drinks. Show them your diabetes bracelet and they'll never get sus. steve cardigan posted:I'll keep that in mind, thanks. Bringing a 20F rated bag, hope it cuts it. Coopers Pale Ale is something you can't go wrong with, its probably the best of the mass produced beers, and holds its own with most craft beers. Of the craft beers, just see what they got. duck monster fucked around with this message at 08:08 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 08:05
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rugby league sucks, rugby union is great, afl owns
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Feb 5, 2015 08:14
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Slugnoid posted:docklands has a few vietnamese places. I doubt youll ever find your way to springvale but its the level best for all tjings azn Or just get off the train in Footscray. Don't get off the train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXbX0TYB2Ic
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Feb 5, 2015 08:29
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Shithouse Dave posted:AFL is bullshit footy that only people from Melbourne enjoy. It's so bullshit that you get a point for almost kicking into the goal. Go to a league or union game for real sport, or go to an AFL game anyway if you like doughy bums in really short shorts. I think it's got a lot to do with which code you grew up with. I grew up in Victoria and then moved to Perth (so I grew up with old VFL rules, too), so I didn't come across ARL until I moved to Canberra in my twenties. To this day, I still understand gridiron better than I understand ARL. Schnitzel was pretty much always weiner schnitzel (veal) here for a long time. It does pretty much refer to any crumbed, boneless, flattened meat now but that wasn't always the case. It could well have changed since I lived there, but Canberra used to have great Vietnamese and Lebanese restaurants (crappy Chinese, though).
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Feb 5, 2015 08:38
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steve cardigan posted:Also, can anyone recommend a good Pho place in Melbourne? I've tried a few, but have been striking out. I used to live near Philly's Little Saigon, and have been spoiled by Pho Ha (6th and Washington, check it out if you're ever in the area, because Jesus Christ). Victoria street between Abbotsford and Richmond is a kind of little vietnam. You can get Pho all down that street and its good. Also probably the biggest open air heroin market in australia. I used to work right at the centre of the heroin strip and the public toilets had a guy working 70 hours a week hauling smackheads out of the stalls. Isaac fucked around with this message at 08:45 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 08:41
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I grew up in NZ so I'm all about the union, but when I lived in Australia, I was working in broadcast tech and I worked on a bunch of league stuff and didn't mind it. Sydney doesn't get into the AFL so much, I think. Or at least, I wasn't required to care about it.
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Shithouse Dave posted:I grew up in NZ so I'm all about the union, but when I lived in Australia, I was working in broadcast tech and I worked on a bunch of league stuff and didn't mind it. Sydney doesn't get into the AFL so much, I think. Or at least, I wasn't required to care about it. WA and VIC (NT maybe?): AFL Everywhere else is public school league and private school union
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Shithouse Dave posted:In case you haven't worked it out already, you can add -o to just about anything. abbo (a native Australian), muzzo (an islamic person), Probably don't want to use these two if you don't want to be a racist derro. Please don't want to be that 
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You will also look like a fool, the correct term is "Muzza"
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Isaac posted:You will also look like a fool, the correct term is "Muzza" a muzza isn't a muslim, a muzza is this http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=muzza
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Isaac posted:You will also look like a fool, the correct term is "Muzza" And tinny. Expect people to corrupt your name in some way, too.
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aw man, I was hoping Stevo here would be in the boozo at smoko smashing a tinno and looking like a drongo in front of his wifo and their relos, but you're right, learning what you can't -o is as important as learning what you can-o. also yes do not say the racist things, it is not nice. You'll hear them tho.
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Shithouse Dave posted:also yes do not say the racist things, it is not nice. You'll hear them tho. It's going to take the poor guy a year to work out what's a slur and what isn't.
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Isaac posted:WA and VIC (NT maybe?): AFL I'm pretty sure it's the other way around and only NSW & Queensland (and the ACT) give much of a poo poo about League/Rugby. Everywhere else is about Aussie Rules. Although I suppose it all depends on whether you consider SA & TAS as worthy of consideration (probably not). Lolie posted:It's going to take the poor guy a year to work out what's a slur and what isn't. Just assume that everything is a slur and that everyone else thinks it's perfectly acceptable. Bill Posters fucked around with this message at 10:06 on Feb 5, 2015 |
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Feb 5, 2015 10:03
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One question OP Why would you move to the surface of the sun that is also a hell gate to the poison death dimension
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strap on revenge posted:rugby league sucks, rugby union is great, afl owns Agreed except swap Rugby union and AFL. Also OP, Australia just won the Asian cup in soccer, so also expect to be able to make small talk about that on top of rugby, AFL and cricket. V8 racing too if you are hanging with idiots.
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Isaac posted:Victoria street between Abbotsford and Richmond is a kind of little vietnam. You can get Pho all down that street and its good. Also probably the biggest open air heroin market in australia. It hasn't been an open air heroin bazaar for months. The cops did a thing and pushed it all into the back streets. Actually, if you go there now there are cops everywhere. Cars patrolling around (there's probably at least 3 on continuous daytime patrol just in that area), foot patrols (ALWAYS in pairs or more, never a lone copper but that's standard practice, armed and with stab vests etc). Besides, the drug problem is all ice now. The store owners are realising how good they had it when it was just heroin because the addicts would just sit there all dopey or shamble around, but the ice addicts are loving nuts. But there are good pho places there, and a whole lot of other restaurants (look inside before you go into a place, only go to a place where locals are eating). And a bunch of stores and supermarkets you can get specialty Asian stuff.
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If you see Tony ABbot on the streets you're legally allowed (and required) to punch him in his cunto
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you'll miss the cheap alcohol in the states
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December Octopodes posted:you'll miss the cheap alcohol in the states Aussie alcohol tax is weird. In that, along with following weird conservative social outrage (like with the alcopops stuff), tax is much higher for spirits and beer than it is for wine. It keeps wineries in business I guess, which is good, because there are heaps of wineries in Victoria and South Australia which are great to visit. But yeah, you can do all sorts of D&D-type arguments about how it introduces biases in the system and makes other businesses suffer excessively in comparison. But blah, that's boring, wine is cheap in stores but expensive in restaurants. That's another point here. Any wine you see on a restaurant wine list you can buy for a mere fifth that price (or better) at the nearest Dan Murphy's. Buuuuut...it's how they make money, so give us your cash american scum!
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