Morrigan wrote:I come from Brisbane & I am proud of my crassness and rudeness.
Does anyone in Australia actually drink Forsters, or do we just send it overseas to poison unweary foreigners?
Fosters is that much crap I thought we only made it to export
VB is the work of the Devil.
Nay, the brew of the south has life in its waters!
Morrigan wrote:PS: Can we now have a long, pointless and ultimately inconclusive discussion about the origins of the word 'Pommy'?
Isn't it because sunburned Brits look like pomegranates?
Also, what's the difference between a bloke and a chap?
One's a British term, the other is Australian.
"Oh no, oh yeah, tell me how can it be so fair
That we dying younger hiding from the police man over there
Just for breathing in the air they wanna leave me in the chair
Electric shocking body rocking beat streeting me to death"
- A.B. Original, Report to the Mist
"I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
- George Carlin
jenat-lai wrote:A "Bloke" is a male human. A "Chap" is a posh, rich, self-richous looser.
So a bloke would punch a chap. The chap would sue the bloke.
Essentially correct. The unfortunate reality is that "chaps" are breeding beyond any reasonable limit to control, outnumbering the beleaguered blokes who are fast becoming a dying breed - like the blood of Numenor, all but spent.