What if you lived in Australia? - Page 810

Hikarufan · October 22nd, 2018, 01:20 PM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

We use to have Guy Fawkes Night when I was little...until one kid too many blew a thumb off. We still take all the grandkids down the beach to let off under the counter fireworks...just with more supervision than we had.

Guy Fawkes was great! I still remember the sky rockets being launch out of beer bottles in my cousins backyard. I don't know how my dad and uncle never set the back fence or paddock on fire. They'd have those spinning wheels going on a wooden fence. One took off across the yard one year.

**Arturo2nd** · October 22nd, 2018, 03:26 PM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

Not to worry. In a week or so, all the Halloween stuff will be gone from the shelves and Christmas will have taken it's place. And then Easter eggs and hot cross buns in January.

Oz doesn't do Valentine's Day? It is a very big deal here, once again driven by the ladies and the retailers. All the single chicks work very hard at having boyfriends for Valentine's Day and the boyfriends damn well better do cards, bouquets, and spring for a restaurant meal. If he performs, he will get laid. Most of these relationships don't survive until spring.

If you are married, the day must be observed. So if you have kids in the U.S. you must observe Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, her birthday (conveniently forgetting the number of years), and your anniversary.

Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, Father's Day, and Halloween are all products of modern marketing and the advertising industry.

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Originally Posted by Hikarufan

Guy Fawkes was great! I still remember the sky rockets being launch out of beer bottles in my cousins backyard. I don't know how my dad and uncle never set the back fence or paddock on fire. They'd have those spinning wheels going on a wooden fence. One took off across the yard one year.

I have a saying: "If you can't be smart, you gotta be lucky."

Estreeter · October 22nd, 2018, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian249x

Oz doesn't do Valentine's Day?

I know many Aussie males who wish that were the case

Yeah

we do.

**Sir Honkers** · October 22nd, 2018, 08:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Brian249x

Oz doesn't do Valentine's Day?

We do, but it's more something you do or not do on your own initiative rather than being obligatory...or when you're young or get your photo in the local rag for being happily married for a century. As for father's day, I sure I've still got some unopened bottles of Old Spice out in a box in the garage.

**palo5** · October 22nd, 2018, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by loosegoose

I sure I've still got some unopened bottles of Old Spice out in a box in the garage.

Why not drink them? No sense wasting it

**Dr Pepper** · October 22nd, 2018, 09:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Estreeter

I'm sure it's already crept in

It has on our side of the Tasman-over 2 months till Xmas day and the local branch of 'The Warehouse' is awash in xmas trees, decorations, crepe, and coloured lights....likewise so are 'Farmers' branches-and its been like this for several weeks...

**effCup** · October 22nd, 2018, 11:14 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

Why not drink them? No sense wasting it

I doubt they'd taste very nice.

... & never a confirmed member of the band.

Estreeter · October 23rd, 2018, 09:01 AM

And in Geelong today

I parked my car here, not very far at all from the house I grew up in

visiting Mum

and took a lot of photos of the excitement

Even zoomed in on the Hospital, old Shell now Viva Oil Refinery and even the wheat silos

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Originally Posted by palo5

Why not drink them? No sense wasting it

Hang on Mr Putin

You're suggesting he drink Old Spice and you laugh at us for this

**blondifan** · October 23rd, 2018, 09:24 AM

Lets hear it for Cadbury's Tim Tam Vegemite Pavlovas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbe0k-Lz2wY&t=36s

**trailmaster** · October 23rd, 2018, 11:58 AM

Kevin here. G'day mates(actually it is 11 p.m. down under). Long ago when I was young all the men who worked for labor unions(plumbers, carpenters, brick masons, painters, plasterers, electricians, floor people, metal workers, etc,) were all caucasian and true blue American. Not anymore. No longer are male children following in their father's footsteps and joining the family business. Every kid now wants to go into computers or business. That where the big money is.

My question is what is it like in Australia? Are most of your labor people local Australians or foreigners from Poland, Czechs, Serbia, Bosnia, Russia, etc?

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October 23rd, 2018, 09:24 AM	#8099
blondifan Vintage Member Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 4,406 Thanks: 55,000 Thanked 60,211 Times in 4,401 Posts	Lets hear it for Cadbury's Tim Tam Vegemite Pavlovas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbe0k-Lz2wY&t=36s

October 23rd, 2018, 11:58 AM	#8100
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,898 Thanks: 1,329,029 Thanked 707,243 Times in 60,072 Posts	Kevin here. G'day mates(actually it is 11 p.m. down under). Long ago when I was young all the men who worked for labor unions(plumbers, carpenters, brick masons, painters, plasterers, electricians, floor people, metal workers, etc,) were all caucasian and true blue American. Not anymore. No longer are male children following in their father's footsteps and joining the family business. Every kid now wants to go into computers or business. That where the big money is. My question is what is it like in Australia? Are most of your labor people local Australians or foreigners from Poland, Czechs, Serbia, Bosnia, Russia, etc?