Steve Irwin is officially fucking nuts

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-01-07 11:36am

Man, you Aussies would pull your fucking hair out if you ever heard the radio ads for "Outback Streakhouse". Just imagine the strongest, most annoying exaggerated Australian accent in the world, with the whole add peppered with "bonzer" and "sheila" every 5 fucking seconds.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-07 12:11pm

Lord Poe wrote:Man, you Aussies would pull your fucking hair out if you ever heard the radio ads for "Outback Streakhouse". Just imagine the strongest, most annoying exaggerated Australian accent in the world, with the whole add peppered with "bonzer" and "sheila" every 5 fucking seconds.

well i will testify to the fact that the Melbourne Steak at the Outback is indeed a bonzer. whatever the hell that means.

IRG CommandoJoe · Post by **IRG CommandoJoe** » 2004-01-07 03:53pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:
Lord Poe wrote:Man, you Aussies would pull your fucking hair out if you ever heard the radio ads for "Outback Streakhouse". Just imagine the strongest, most annoying exaggerated Australian accent in the world, with the whole add peppered with "bonzer" and "sheila" every 5 fucking seconds.
well i will testify to the fact that the Melbourne Steak at the Outback is indeed a bonzer. whatever the hell that means.

Is that a good thing a or a bad thing?

Axis Kast · Post by **Axis Kast** » 2004-01-07 08:17pm

The Outback is quality eating for college students. I'll thank you not to take our equivalent of a five-star meal for granted.

Thirdfain · Post by **Thirdfain** » 2004-01-07 08:19pm

Mister Kast speaks the complete truth. I LIVE for a king-sized slab of beef and a "Bloomin' Onion." Actually, I'd say that it's pretty good food by ANY standard. Huge amounts of meat and grease and sauce, MM MMM!

The Morrigan · Post by **The Morrigan** » 2004-01-07 08:54pm

Col. Crackpot wrote:Yeah, he cracked his way into our public conciousness. He did it by perpetuating the stereotype that Aussies are a bunch of bushwhacking hicks in crocodile skin boots (a la Paul Hogan). Are you sure you want that?

[shrugs]

I did say grudging respect.

Lord Poe wrote:Man, you Aussies would pull your fucking hair out if you ever heard the radio ads for "Outback Streakhouse". Just imagine the strongest, most annoying exaggerated Australian accent in the world, with the whole add peppered with "bonzer" and "sheila" every 5 fucking seconds.

[weeps disconsolately]

Mind you, you should hear some of the ads for Irish pubs that we have to put up with over here.

Lord Poe · Post by **Lord Poe** » 2004-01-08 12:32am

Thirdfain wrote:Mister Kast speaks the complete truth. I LIVE for a king-sized slab of beef and a "Bloomin' Onion." Actually, I'd say that it's pretty good food by ANY standard. Huge amounts of meat and grease and sauce, MM MMM!

Don't get me wrong; the food is great (Rockhampton Rib-Eye!!) but the commercials are annoying!

Post by **Vympel** » 2004-01-08 12:34am

What the fuck is a bonzer?

*points to his location*

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-01-08 12:35am

Vympel wrote:What the fuck is a bonzer?

*points to his location*

I think it means really good.

*used to live in the "outback," still not sure*

Raxmei · Post by **Raxmei** » 2004-01-08 12:38am

http://www.anu.edu.au/ANDC/Austwords/bonzer.html

Outstandingly good. Also used as a noun meaning ‘something outstandingly good of its kind’. Bonzer is possibly an alteration of the American bonanza, or from French bon ‘good’. In the early records the spelling bonzer alternates with bonser, and it is just possible that it is from British dialect bouncer ‘anything very large of its kind’. First recorded 1904.

Hundred-year-old slang. The term is no longer in common use.

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-08 08:01am

bah, it's just you yuppie southerners getting up in the posh world

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-01-08 08:01am

Gandalf wrote:
Vympel wrote:What the fuck is a bonzer?

*points to his location*
I think it means really good.

*used to live in the "outback," still not sure*

i thought it meant "fucking huge" because it was used to describe a 20 oz T-Bone steak

Hethrir · Post by **Hethrir** » 2004-01-08 08:10am

uh, how much is an ounce?

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-08 08:20am

let me think 16oz = pound almost two pounds in a kilo

so about 1/30th of a kilo

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-08 08:26am

or I guess about 28 grams to an ounce, and over half a kilo in each one of those stakes....

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-01-08 08:28am

Note from simple metric conversion table 1oz=! 28 grams, new drug movie out called 28 grams, was wondering where they got that title from....