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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#449851: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:37:19 PM

harper's probably gonna be out by the time we get a new president riht?

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#449852: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:37:53 PM

canadian elections are coming

very real chance harper's out

only to be replaced by corrupt socialist or idiot socialist

WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#449853: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:37:53 PM

Hey Norm/Pyro, I have a question as an ignorant American pig.

The fuck is a bloomin' onion? Is that strictly an American thing, like crab rangoons? Is there any Australian food that's not vegemite that just doesn't get sold elsewhere.

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449854: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:39:55 PM

@seer: still better than a trump presidency

edited 16th Sep '15 6:40:42 PM by Boxen

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HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#449855: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:42:18 PM

trump supports higher taxes on hedge fund managers

and retaining a system of progressive taxation

what the fuck kind of bizarro world am i in right now

edited 16th Sep '15 6:42:27 PM by HilarityEnsues

megarockman from The Sixth Borough (Experienced Trainee)
#449856: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:42:55 PM

That's not exactly mutually exclusive...

The damned queen and the relentless knight.
Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449857: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:43:34 PM

[up][up] wh

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thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
Jamais vu
#449858: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:43:48 PM

i'm not watching this debate what are the highlights if any

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Azure Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Fist from The World Since: Nov, 2012 Relationship Status: We finish each other's sandwiches
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#449859: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:43:51 PM

A blooming onion is an onion cut into strips, deep fried and arranged in the shape of a flower.

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HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#449860: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:43:52 PM

thats not what im saying mega

he doesn't seem like a person that would support either of those things

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449861: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:44:18 PM

carly fucking slammed trump

mike huckabee is a homophobic moron

scare tactics EVERYWHERE

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WonderSquid Since: May, 2012
#449862: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:45:05 PM

I know what one is, I've had them. But is there anything it's based off of, or does it just kinda exist?

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449863: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:45:50 PM

also 15 minutes devoted to discussing trump

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
all the loose ends
#449864: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:47:00 PM

donald trump is death destroyer of worlds

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449865: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:47:43 PM

what is mike huckabee

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#449866: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:48:09 PM

Oh Iunno. It does sound like one of those things we make here in America and this say its something else. Like Pizza, and Tacos.

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ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#449867: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:50:41 PM

I have never even heard of a bloomin' onion before. I thought you were making a Tony Abbott reference at first. I had to google to make sure you weren't making it up.

Apart from vegemite?

Tim Tams are a very Australian food, Aussie shops in Britain and other places stock them. I feel so sorry for you all that you have never experienced them.

Pavlova is an Australian/New Zealander food that is very important to us and I don't think is very common overseas.

Kangaroo meat products, although they're far from ubiquitous amongst Australians, some people consider people who eat Kangaroo weird.

ANZAC biscuits are probably our single most patriotic food how did I forget them before this.

Lamingtons are pretty Aussie too.

Damper, billy tea, bush tucker and the like are things you won't find anywhere else in the world too, but they're more "gimmick foods" than something you eat regularly. You make damper/billy tea/eat bush tucker once or twice in school for the cultural experience.

Moving away from food I believe the concept of a "goon bag" is fairly Aussie. On that note we don't drink Fosters ever really what is this stereotype.

Also we're apparently very big on coffee culture, in the cities at least. To the point where Starbucks has had a really hard time breaking into the coffee market (compared to say America) because Starbucks is awful.

Places like Melbourne really are a melting pot of many different cultures/cuisines though.

edited 16th Sep '15 6:51:53 PM by ThanatoSeraph

thespacephantom Jamais vu from the smallest church in Saint-Saëns Since: Oct, 2009
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#449868: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:50:50 PM

pizza and tacos are from places other than america

i mean they're popular in america but they're not like originally from here

I have never even heard of a bloomin' onion before. I thought you were making a Tony Abbott reference at first. I had to google to make sure you weren't making it up.

oh wow

that is actually great

edited 16th Sep '15 6:51:15 PM by thespacephantom

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eldritchseer all the loose ends from Cocytus Since: Mar, 2019
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#449869: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:51:01 PM

NOW...

tacos al pastor were originally a creation of ottomans who fled the empire into the new world, specifically mexico, and adapted the idea of the doner kebab into the new culinary landscape

you can find echoes of the doner kebab in all the places the ottomans held

the gyro, the shawarma

HilarityEnsues Since: Sep, 2009
#449870: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:52:55 PM

pruh foster's is Australian for beer

you are australian

therefore, every time you drink beer, you are drinking Foster's

Boxen whatever he can Since: Jan, 2013
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#449871: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:53:21 PM

qed

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SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
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#449872: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:54:53 PM

I once visited an Outback Steakhouse just for the surrealness factor of an American restaurant chain selling me what was allegedly Australian food.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?
ThanatoSeraph ARE WA DARE DA from The Land Down Under Since: Feb, 2012
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#449873: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:54:59 PM

@space: I am glad to have amused you with my Australian bumpkin ways

@hil: no but seriously

the first time I even heard of Fosters was in the context of the Australian Stereotype overseas

it is not big in Australia at all

[up] oh my goodness that'd be great

what did they have?

now I must vanish to a tute

edited 16th Sep '15 6:55:36 PM by ThanatoSeraph

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#449874: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:57:13 PM

Thing is what we Americans call a taco and what a Mexican might call a taco are different things.

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SR3NORMANDY Problem Child from N/A - In constant flux Since: Jul, 2012
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#449875: Sep 16th 2015 at 6:57:36 PM

Honestly, America has spent more time constructing Australia's cultural image than we ever bothered to.

What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?

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