“So, you’re telling me that you keep the shit food and shit weather, and we get the Great Barrier Reef and lobsters the size of canoes?… I’m Jack the Ripper, where’s the boat?”
Australia? Why would any one want to go there? It is a quarter of a mile from the surface of the sun, and the sea is exclusivly inhabited by animals designed to kill you.
It’s been pissing it down in Melbourne all Spring so far. Great weather my arse.
Britain could do with better brunch culture though, minus the bizarre Australian urge to stop serving food the very instant lunch time or dinner time is over.
We call fries fries, we just don’t call chips fries. It’s useful to have a distinction between thin-cut and thick-cut potato rectangles.
Likewise, we call cookies cookies but we’re don’t call biscuits cookies. (And we don’t call American biscuits anything, they’re a total mystery to us.)
Both the US and the UK have at times used “gaol” in our histories, but it’s super archaic in both places. You might be thinking of one of the other 57 countries for which English is an official language?
(You’re probably thinking of Australia, but they also generally only use “gaol” in a historic context, even though it’s retained in some place names with that spelling.)
@PugJesus Very American. British also sent convicts to the US. ;)
"Transportation from England to America started in 1615 and officially lasted until 1775 when the American War of Independence meant that this destination became unusable and convicts were sent instead to Australia and other colonies."
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“So, you’re telling me that you keep the shit food and shit weather, and we get the Great Barrier Reef and lobsters the size of canoes?… I’m Jack the Ripper, where’s the boat?”
The great barrier reef is full of boxhead jellyfish and the land is stuffed with spiders bigger than small dogs and snakes.
Dylan Moran is a national treasure and a musical Icon
It’s been pissing it down in Melbourne all Spring so far. Great weather my arse.
Britain could do with better brunch culture though, minus the bizarre Australian urge to stop serving food the very instant lunch time or dinner time is over.
Explanation: Aussieland got its start as a British colony.
… a penal colony, to be precise.
I guess a one-way ticket to the Danger Continent is cheaper than prison.
Well the UK used to send its convicts to a different colony, so they had to find somewhere new once treason had broken out.
I’ve never validated if this is true or not, but apparently the first police officers in Melbourne were selected from the best behaved prisoners.
Heh. “Penal”
A penile colony you say. 🤔
Think they still got room?
UK - School
US - Gun range
We call fries fries, we just don’t call chips fries. It’s useful to have a distinction between thin-cut and thick-cut potato rectangles.
Likewise, we call cookies cookies but we’re don’t call biscuits cookies. (And we don’t call American biscuits anything, they’re a total mystery to us.)
Speak English!
Now do jail/gaol.
Sure. We call jail jail.
Both the US and the UK have at times used “gaol” in our histories, but it’s super archaic in both places. You might be thinking of one of the other 57 countries for which English is an official language?
(You’re probably thinking of Australia, but they also generally only use “gaol” in a historic context, even though it’s retained in some place names with that spelling.)
I think we differentiate between jail/gaol and prison
But…its the tube?
interchangeable
source : grew up in and lived in london.
Not in Glasgow it’s not.
@PugJesus Very American. British also sent convicts to the US. ;)
"Transportation from England to America started in 1615 and officially lasted until 1775 when the American War of Independence meant that this destination became unusable and convicts were sent instead to Australia and other colonies."
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PRISON RIOT LET’S GOOOOO
Bet you feel dumb now: