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#151 2010-12-21 08:36:32
#152 2010-12-21 10:44:23
- Big Tony
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#153 2010-12-21 10:46:38
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#154 2010-12-21 17:59:54
- fxh
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
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#155 2010-12-21 19:24:06
#156 2010-12-21 22:11:12
- fxh
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
Our (godzone) perception of BBQ is vastly different to what one begins to understand about our septic brothers is when one visits say Texas - (its so big that only two of our 7 states are smaller).
For us a BBQ essentially means cooking outside and standing around drinking whilst someone burn fatty tough chops or steak and sausages then serves them up with fresh white bread and tomato sauce. Americans, at least in Texas where I've experienced it , have a whole way of gently cooking meat so it has a smokey tender flavour and many great sauces and dressings.
Now admittedly our BBQ has improved in the last 10 years with shaslicks, koftas, seafood and Asian stuff on a stick. But I'd be very embarrassed to take a proper Texan to most Australian BBQs. They simply do it better.
#157 2010-12-22 09:06:04
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
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#158 2010-12-22 09:06:55
- eg
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
I see considerable confusion here between real BBQ and "grilling".
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#161 2010-12-22 09:21:44
- fxh
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
http://www.bunnings.com.au/products_category_barbecues_117.aspx?page=1
Above theres a whole lot more typical Oz ones - most backyards would have a variation on these
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#162 2010-12-22 09:25:20
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
Note to fellow aussies - I feel somewhat patriotic in (inadvertently mind you) being the first to bring Bunnings into the Cultural Reference thread. {wipes tear from eye - bites trembling lip]
#163 2010-12-22 09:31:50
- Maximilien de Robespierre
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#164 2010-12-22 10:10:38
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
My Christmas present for all you aussies:
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=215082
"All in all they are a pretty sleazy bunch."
--Cruiser
"Can one safely bone the cordovan of the dead?"
--Quay
#165 2010-12-22 16:11:21
#166 2010-12-22 22:11:05
- eg
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
Mine's a Weber Summit S-420 (natural gas hook-up rather than propane)
http://www.weber.com/explore/Grill_details.aspx?glid=3&mid=13
#167 2010-12-23 04:23:25
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
We're going to have a Brazilian BBQ on Xmas Day: we're having some neighbours for lunch. I'll bear in mind how long brisket takes.
#168 2010-12-23 05:15:24
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#170 2010-12-23 10:46:09
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
Ha ha ha! Yo! Farofa is like sawdust and most cachaca tastes of motor fuel.
#171 2010-12-23 10:52:11
- Big Tony
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
Make sure to let us know if you burn off those dark (dyed?) eyebrows of yours, Nicholas, or that luxuriant 'stache. I suggest leaving the panama inside the house and using a tie clip (if you've ever operated heavy machinery, you'll know why).
"What sort of post-apocalyptic deathscape is this?"
"I don't want to look like a cock hungry sailor after all !!!"
"When it comes to infidelity, broken families, and reckless fatherhood, the underclass are amateurs."
#172 2010-12-23 12:35:09
#173 2010-12-28 20:06:37
#174 2010-12-28 21:53:14
#175 2011-01-03 00:45:43
- fxh
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Re: Cultural Reference thread
http://www.styleforum.net/showthread.php?t=216010
I couldn't decide if the above was for inanities or not.
I was then going to comment but found myself in an unfamiliar state, as the cliche goes, stuck for words.
I'm not sure if the particular treatise, (by christinedaae - the nick itself first suggesting troll to me, but now I'm thinking its serious) in several parts, on "dating" women (I suspect it really is girls not women) is an example of a specific american youthful peculiarity or if it has spread and is not confined to the US of A.
It seems to me that what is unique is the combination of unexamined arrogance and a superficial appearance of articulateness mixed with an underlying naivety not recognised by the "baller" personality I assume our poster sees in the mirror.
The whole "dating" thing is an Americanism I've never really understood.