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[–] 71 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (9 children)

As an Aussie I will say this, an ad played on American TV 30-40 years ago does not reflect Australian culture.

We don't eat shrimp, we eat prawns (it was changed to shrimp in the ad to avoid confusing Americans, which is a bit ironic).

Barbie is the shortened word for barbeque in Australia, but we don't even cook prawns on the barbie, we either boil them or fry them on a pan.

This has been a PSA from an Aussie who has heard Americans making this dumb boomer-esque joke for their whole life; please come up with fresh ways to dunk on us, that way we can both laugh.

That said the picture is pretty funny.

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  • [–] 14 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    Now now. No need to be rude. We don't actually think you do that.

    We DO however think you lost a national war against a flock of emus, when you had guns.

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  • [–] 37 points 4 months ago (5 children)

    We had a very real effort to officially change the currency to the "dollarydoo"

    I hope to see it happen in my lifetime

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  • [–] 27 points 4 months ago (3 children)
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    [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    Those are prawn not shrimp

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    They're the same thing. There's no real distinction.

    Writing in 1980, L. B. Holthuis noted that the terms prawn and shrimp were used inconsistently "even within a single region", generalising that larger species fished commercially were generally called shrimp in the United States, and prawns in other English-speaking countries, although not without exceptions.[7]

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    You're PM of Australia now. No takebacks.

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    [–] 7 points 4 months ago

    i love austrians

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    Is Barbie the source of Mar-a-lago Face or Is it the other way around?

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  • [–] 7 points 4 months ago* (2 children)

    I think it's more an expression of being wealthy enough for plastic surgery as the world is in decay rather than anything else.

    It's a show of financial (and hence social) status, their version of claiming they have fuck you money.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    Which is funny, because I have no money, and have no problem saying "fuck you" to anyone.

    Kinda makes their most prized possesion meaningless, no?

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Funny you say that. I've grown up poor, life without money didn't stop me from living great. Just by devaluing it, it's slowly come to me faster than others that live by it. Now I'm sort of at the point where enough is enough, it's a hassle at a point and I can't succeed in life if I'm not living, just bound by it.

    So I kinda see it as a failure. Like something that gets in the way and holds a person back in life if they lack the capacity to think much for themselves. I've met very few rich people of substance or value in anything beyond their accounts. Not saying they're worthless; just not of much consideration for value.

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  • [–] 5 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    Well, don’t leave us hanging here. Are you gonna put another one on or what?

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  • [–] 3 points 4 months ago

    Throw another one on!

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Does Starlight enjoy eating plastic children?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago

    Just wait. You’ll know when.

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  • [–] 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    lemmy is getting stranger by the day, but it's working.

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