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A question for the Aussies

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A question for the Aussies

from JoeUser Forums
Is there a nice bloke out there to help me out, pretty please?

A friend of mine needs to know what kind of power (AC) is there in Australia. I dont think it's the same as in Europe, but never know... He's from Costa Rica and has to go to Australia for a meeting but needs to know if he needs a converter for his laptop, I guess it goes by the american standards...

If anyone knows please help.

Thanks!
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Reply #76 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Gah...trying to get into Ticketek Oz to book for the Ashes....no chance.

Looks like every man and his dog wants to see the Poms get their arses kicked this Xmas....

Reply #77 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Gah...trying to get into Ticketek Oz to book for the Ashes....no chance.

Looks like every man and his dog wants to see the Poms get their arses kicked this Xmas...


Dammit...time to get extra friendly with Richie Benaud and/or Greg Chappell...a fire chief with access to cherry picker. Scared of heights, but I'll overcome that to watch the Poms on a hiding to nothing over the Belrive Stadium's roof.

There again, I could always suck up to Tony Grieg and tell him how great an England captain he was
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Reply #78 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Looks like every man and his dog wants to see the Poms get their arses kicked this Xmas


So you've already booked your one way ticket to Fantasy Island?

I'll overcome that to watch the Poms on a hiding to nothing over the Belrive Stadium's roof.


Oh, you as well heh?
Reply #79 from JoeUser Forums Top

Looks like every man and his dog wants to see the Poms get their arses kicked this Xmas


So you've already booked your one way ticket to Fantasy Island?

I take it that is the Aussie version of trash talking?

Reply #80 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So you've already booked your one way ticket to Fantasy Island?

5 tests....25 days.....if it doesn't rain it'll be all over in about 12.

The Barmy Army half pissed would make a better team than the English Eleven..

Reply #81 from WinCustomize Forums Top
5 tests....25 days.....if it doesn't rain it'll be all over in about 12


So you will be home from Fantasy Island in time for Xmas to open all of your lovely pressies and be with your nearest and dearest.

Aaaahh isn't that sweet...
Reply #82 from WinCustomize Forums Top

So you will be home from Fantasy Island in time for Xmas to open all of your lovely pressies and be with your nearest and dearest.

Er....remind me.....how are the English going with their current games?

Did I see something about Muri getting 8 for 70 ...and the two 'top' batsmen in the one over?

Don't confuse 'premonition' with 'fantasy'....

Reply #83 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I take it that is the Aussie version of trash talking?


Nope...that bit was imported. No true blue Aussie in his right mind 'd dare to say such a thing, for fear of being ostracised outback with the dingos.

The Barmy Army half pissed would make a better team than the English Eleven.


Don't think so! Catches win matches, and the Barmy Army couldn't catch a cold 'cause no self respecting germ would wanna invade a body riddled with that much alcohol....

They'd only be coming to enjoy our weather, escape the crappy Brit stuff, and to enjoy our superior beers....wouldn't be to watch cricket 'cause there'd only be one side playing it (ours) while the other (theirs) makes its procession to and from the pavillion, bats hardly used.

Don't confuse 'premonition' with 'fantasy'...


Ummmm! Shouldn't that be: "Don't confuse fantasy with I've bet the farm on Oz winning back the Ashes 4 - 0" (rain stops play in the 5th, resulting in a draw)
Reply #84 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Er....remind me.....how are the English going with their current games?


Er.. I dunno.. let's see. Remind me who currently holds the Rugby Union World Cup. Or maybe I should mention the Ashes.

Who, with or without Mr. Rooney actually have a decent chance of winning the greatest sporting tournament in the World and are not there just to get a free ticket to Europe, which you actually don't need considering that most( dare I say it ALL ) of your squad actually play here?

The only reason you guys are so good at sport is that your governments have CHEATED by actually giving money to build sporting academies and the like and investing in the future

I mean let's face it, sport is doing just fine over here when you consider that the building of our new national stadium is a complete farce. What kind of environment is that for success?

And as for the Olympics, don't even go there... literally. The only reason we got it in the first place is because some muppet pushed the wrong button!

They'd only be coming to enjoy our weather, escape the crappy Brit stuff


And on the other matter I'm quite happy living without skin cancer, acid rain is enough

enjoy our superior beers


Yeah right, try telling that to the English, Irish, French German, Belgium Czechs, Italian , Kiwis , Spanish, Mexicans etc

I mean who really names a beer sounding like some nasty disease you would catch on a lads night out or even after a 70's martial arts cartoon dog?

The only thing worse than Ozzie beer is American beer, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone
Reply #85 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The only thing worse than Ozzie beer is American beer, and I wouldn't wish that on anyone


Wrong! It is Mexican beer. Even the Mexicans prefer American beer.
Reply #86 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Wrong! It is Mexican beer. Even the Mexicans prefer American beer.

Doesn't that simply only prove that Mexicans neither can make good beer nor have good taste?...

I mean who really names a beer sounding like some nasty disease you would catch on a lads night out or even after a 70's martial arts cartoon dog?

Carlton United....sounds like an English football team.....

Victoria Bitter [the most commonly drunk beer in Oz] sounds like an old English Queen with a bad dose of attitude....

Coopers .....sounds like someone who makes barrels...oh, yeah....

Four 'X' [XXXX] sounds like a serial devorcee....[but that's only for morons who can't spell 'beer']

Reply #87 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yeah right, try telling that to the English, Irish, French German, Belgium Czechs, Italian , Kiwis , Spanish, Mexicans etc


You know of course that Oz is one of the most muti-culural nations on Earth....and of course I converse with many ex-patriots of various nations who tell me British beer is atrocious.... (not that I needed convincing...tried it..YUK)

The Irish call it 'swamp piss'
The French....Englaise kaput
The Germans....Hopsch Achtung!!!
The Spanish....El Toro Mordorer....

And the Mexicans...."English beer? We don't need no steenkin' English Beer!!!"

As for the skin cancer theory...we can slip, slop, slap and put on a hat, etc. With acid rain...well you're a cooked goose 'cause it soaks through everything.

BTW, Vikram....best 'o luck in the soccer & Ashes, etc....Poms're gonna need it.
Reply #88 from WinCustomize Forums Top
The French....Englaise kaput


I didn't know that your French friend was actually German and can't even spell 'english' properly in his/her own language. Let me guess your French friend DOESN'T EXIST

Wrong! It is Mexican beer. Even the Mexicans prefer American beer.

Doesn't that simply only prove that Mexicans neither can make good beer nor have good taste?...


No it means that the Mexicans only SAY they prefer American beer so they won't get bombed or invaded. Anything to keep the neighbours happy
Reply #89 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Ignore them Vikram, they are just a bunch of primitives indulging in their national sport of 'sledging'. The best response is...     
Reply #90 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I didn't know that your French friend was actually German and can't even spell 'english' properly in his/her own language. Let me guess your French friend DOESN'T EXIST


Actually, Vikram, I do have a Frenchman as a friend, but it wasn't English beer he referred to as Englaise kaput. As you know, the English call condoms 'french letters' ....well one day the conversation got on to that subject, and Maurice said that the French call condoms 'Englaise kaput'. Obviously, for the purpose of a stir, being that it's our "national sport of sledging", I just hehashed the condom comment to fit the beer scenario.

BTW....I was born in Devon England and migrated to Oz in 1969, so I have a British heritage and am proud of it. I'm also proud to be an Aussie now...this has been my home for the last 36 years, my kids and grand-kids are Aussie born, so I'm more than happy to be here. Oh, and I really don't mind Brit beers, either. We have the Brittania Inn here and it imports/brews a variety of Brit beers, all of which, before I gave up, I sampled frequently, sometimes to excess.

As for the Pommie cricketers....well yeah, I barrack for Australia. However, me thinks, somewhere deep down inside, 'cause of my original roots, I secretly want England to retain the Ashes Sorry Jafo!!
Reply #91 from WinCustomize Forums Top

I secretly want England to retain the Ashes Sorry Jafo!!

Yes...but they have a way to do that...by not letting the original 'urn' out of the country even WHEN they haven't actually won it.

Sort of....

"Who gives a toss if we lose?...we don't give it up, anyway"....

Reply #92 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Quite right too. Bloody Aborigines...
Reply #93 from JoeUser Forums Top
Doesn't that simply only prove that Mexicans neither can make good beer nor have good taste?...


Careful - I married one.

Wait, you are probably right if she married me.
Reply #94 from WinCustomize Forums Top
Yes...but they have a way to do that...by not letting the original 'urn' out of the country even WHEN they haven't actually won it.


Quite frankly, I don't give a toss about the Ashes...who has 'em, who doesn't or where they're kept. I enjoy cricket for the sake of the game, the great spirit in which it is played. Yeah, we have the age old rivalries with the Kiwis and Poms, but those are traditionally enjoyed by all sides and they/we can shake hands, have a beer together afterwards. Nothing wrong with that!

I had a great day with the Barmy Army at the Gabba a few years ago...'twas a fantastic atmosphere and we enjoyed a lot of laughs, a few beers together, plenty of singing (all mine totally out of tune ). They didn't care too much if the Poms won or lost (Aussies won handsomely), it was the sheer enjoyment of the game, being there to see it live. That's the spirit!!

Bloody Aborigines...


Yep, we got some of those....apart from the Aussie born and breds, we got Indian ones, some Pakistani ones, some European and Asian ones, a few U.S. and Canadian ones....even some Pommie ones. Fact is, Pommies make up the largest contingent

What we have "is a great big melting pot...." la, la, la
Reply #95 from WinCustomize Forums Top

being there to see it live. That's the spirit!!

...only if bloody Ticketek didn't go tits up.

I gave up trying to get a ticket...damn MCG is too bloody small.  We could fill it if it were TWO hundred thousand seats....

Reply #96 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I gave up trying to get a ticket...damn MCG is too bloody small. We could fill it if it were TWO hundred thousand seats....


Could fill 500 thousand...interest in this Ashes series is phenomenal, in all States & territories. Every cricket fanatic I know wants to be there live...would if I could be there, but alas...
Reply #97 from WinCustomize Forums Top
I gave up trying to get a ticket...


Well then why don't you do what most sensible people do. Dress yourself up as a terrorist and you'll get in, no questions asked.

It worked at Prince William's 21st.

But then again I guess the Ashes are a helluva lot more important than that event