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Old 11-06-2023, 10:02 AM   #11041
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Sydney where?

BC? Nova Scotia? North Dakota? Vanuatu? Australia? You've gotta be more specific!
Like "London" and "hockey", Australian Sydney is the standard and top dog. It needs no extraneous additions. It's all the lesser Sydneys that need to add further context.
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Sydney Australia is a world-class City near a warm ocean with world-class beaches. Kind of hard to compare that to Canada
and when you're there, you're the one with the sexy accent.
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Sydney Australia is a world-class City near a warm ocean with world-class beaches. Kind of hard to compare that to Canada
But...you can see the mountains from the river valley!
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Australia.
The greatest Sydney.
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Like "London" and "hockey", Australian Sydney is the standard and top dog. It needs no extraneous additions. It's all the lesser Sydneys that need to add further context.
Then you've clearly never been to the Sydney in Vanuatu!
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Old 11-06-2023, 04:01 PM   #11046
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Sydney where?

BC? Nova Scotia? North Dakota? Vanuatu? Australia? You've gotta be more specific!
It's Sidney, BC, you ignoranimus!

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Old 11-06-2023, 04:54 PM   #11047
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There’s only one Sydney that is worth a damn and she’s not a city.

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Restaurants that post fake deals on food delivery sites, whereby they advertise some promotion that is undercut due to them finding a way to boost the price of the item. I.e. "buy one get one free" that ends up costing $20 for two of an item that normally costs $13.

Actually really any business that advertises a sale but deceptively inflates the "normal" price of the item.
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Old 11-06-2023, 05:32 PM   #11049
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Sydney Australia is a world-class City near a warm ocean with world-class beaches. Kind of hard to compare that to Canada
Yeah, but then you gotta live with Australians...

(kidding, super fun people and friendly. But in my experience on trips, they only have 1 gear, and it's loud & boozy. Fun when you're in the mood, but it's a bit much when it's every day lol).
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Old 11-06-2023, 05:40 PM   #11050
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Yeah, but then you gotta live with Australians...

(kidding, super fun people and friendly. But in my experience on trips, they only have 1 gear, and it's loud & boozy. Fun when you're in the mood, but it's a bit much when it's every day lol).
Lol!

I remember being in Belgium and running into some Aussies and they loved that they encountered a Canadian...I dont know why, they were pretty hammered.

Then one of them bet me that he could rip a 'No Parking' sign out of the ground.

I'm not taking that bet. Thats insane. No thank you.

But he did it anyways, he put his shoulder under that sign, hauled it right out of the ground, asphalt and all, and carried it around to every pub all night.

Why? Because he's Australian. Thats why.

"Tis not my duty to question why the Australians do things, just hang on and enjoy the ride.

We also ended up with a bush. And I mean a full-sized hedge. Where that came from....God only knows...they strapped it to the roof of their 'Ute.'

Australians are remarkably industrious even when pathologically intoxicated. In its own way its actually rather impressive.
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We spent two months in Australia last winter. I love Aussies.
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Australians are awesome when they're in Australia, anywhere else and they're annoying ####s
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Old 11-06-2023, 06:05 PM   #11053
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Australians are awesome when they're in Australia, anywhere else and they're annoying ####s
I think that was my problem, I was in Greece. IMO they're the Americans of the southern hemisphere, for better and for worse.

Again I really enjoyed them, still keep in touch with a couple. Had some awesome times. But yeah, after a couple weeks I had my fill and needed some quiet time lol

Kiwis on the other hand...those are my people.

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Old 11-06-2023, 06:19 PM   #11054
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Austrailians are the best.

Played a bit of rec rugby in college, and the best players were all Australian exchange students. Anyway, we won a game and me and 2 Australians went out for post-game sushi.

They insisted on ordering the dinner for 10.

We finished it. Well... THEY finished it. I participated.

Then we went drinking. I don't remember much, but it was damn fun. Again... I participated. They were chugging pitchers of beer out of the pitcher like it was a stein.

Anyway... Australians are awesome.
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Old 11-06-2023, 08:02 PM   #11055
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Sydney is my favorite city on Earth. It’s pretty sweet but don’t try and tell me Bondi is the best beach in the city because it’s not. Best beaches are north of the harbor.
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Old 11-06-2023, 09:15 PM   #11056
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I’ve never been with one, but I have a massive crush on the idea of an Australian woman.
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Kiwis are the Canadians of the southern hemisphere, I love them
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Aussie accents can range between very sexy and grating. Margot Robbie demonstrate a this perfectly.

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Old 11-07-2023, 01:27 AM   #11060
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Does it feel like every grocery store has mediocre to poor meat with stupidly high prices now? I despise shopping for meat at any standard grocery store now. But the problem is there was a period of time where the standard grocery stores went bonkers and it was actually beneficial to go to high end/locally owned meat stores.

Except they "caught up" to grocery store price differences and are now out of 80% of the populations budget.
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