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Socialising and drinking
Topic Started: Oct 12 2004, 05:26 AM (827 Views)
gvok
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To my American senses Austrailia seems like a strange and wonderful place. Some day I must visit her.
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gvok
Oct 13 2004, 05:42 PM
To my American senses Austrailia seems like a strange and wonderful place. Some day I must visit her.

From my experience Australia is pretty much the same as here. The level of differences would be a kin to a New Yorker going to Georgia (or visa versa)
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somerled
Oct 13 2004, 10:52 AM
Desaint :
That probably makes you an OMO. (Not inferring one drink is enough to make you merry.)

OMO?
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gvok
Oct 13 2004, 04:42 PM
To my American senses Austrailia seems like a strange and wonderful place. Some day I must visit her.

While you're there - if you make it - dlip across the Tasman Sea and visit us in NZ.

We're generally a friendly people :D
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doctortobe
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Unless you've had a couple beers?
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desainte
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doctortobe
Oct 14 2004, 01:09 AM
Unless you've had a couple beers?

I didn't say we were ALL friendly . . . :P
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Oct 13 2004, 03:28 PM
Wouldn't it be easier to have a poll that asks if you are a non-drinker, a light drinker, a moderate drinker, or a heavy drinker?

This way the colloquialisms don't confuse the rest of the readers.

I've never heard OMO used in that way either.


And its 'Cadbury' as a glass and a half, not milky way, he stuffed it up
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Did you know that the drinking age in Holland is 16 years and older ?? :D Thats at least one positive thing about my country i think :P :angel:
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Dr. Noah
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Proton: touche. ;)
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^^ depends on where in Australia you live.

Here Newcastle and North Coastal NSW it's a Milky Bar. The Banana Benders use a different term that eludes me right now. Used more by people in my generation than Protons (who probably don't use it at all). ;)

And I have heard the term Cadbury used similarly down south.
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Desaint :
OMO - can imply either a very small quantity of hard stuff is enough to satisfy you and relax you, or that it takes very liitle to have you very become very garrilous and merry.

Surely you have similar local words with different meanings over there.
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somerled
Oct 16 2004, 01:05 AM
^^ depends on where in Australia you live.

Here Newcastle and North Coastal NSW it's a Milky Bar.

Bulldust.

The ads for Cadbury Chocolate said "a glass and a half of full cream dairy milk in every 200g block", thats were it came from.

I go up to Byron and QLD every year, I have never heard anyone use the term 'Milky bar'. The Milky bar ads used to have the Milky bar kid remember!


Just admit that you stuffed it up in the first place as you were WRONG!!, you were thinking Milky Bar when you should have thought Cadbury, and instead of admitting your mistake you tried to concoct some BS ;)
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doctortobe
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So is there a number limit that we're looking for here to help distinguish one from another? I myself set a personal best a couple weeks ago by having 15-17 (for some reason, I was having trouble keeping count) beers. The only thing that stopped me was that happy hour ended and I didn't feel like paying extra for the drinks. I don't know if it was the 3 point water or the 6 point half decent stuff. I was trying to goad my fellow cadets into a vodka shot contest but retained enough common sense to remember the good old rhyme about beer then liquor. :sick:
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Proton:
I'm not going to argue this with you.

How often have you heard the term "cabury" or "omo" as well ? You would not have very often - if at all. None is commonly used , but used sometimes under special circumstances.

I've heard the term "milky bar" used in a social setting maybe twice (and the context wasn't obvious, yes I knew what a milky bar was - we had them when I was a kid too.)

Citations - they'll be out there - look hard enough you'll find them.
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somerled
Oct 16 2004, 10:13 AM

How often have you heard the term "cabury" or "omo" as well ? You would not have very often - if at all. None is commonly used , but used sometimes under special circumstances.

Yeah, cos the person that said it got confused.

You've seen the ads, why would 'Glass and a half' refer to anything but a Cadbury?
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