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Quote: Originally posted by miteyak: not to mention the ubiquitous surprise at gaijin using chopsticks... Happens when you go to a chinese restaurant as well. There I am, eating from a little bowl with chopsticks and the owners says "You use chopsticks very well" So hard not to be sarcastic and say "Yes, I've been eating chinese and japanese food for 40 odd years, so I'd hope I'd get the hango of it by now" Oh, and I prefer Japanese chopsticks to Chinese.

Quote: Originally posted by mina2: "Last time we spoke...." (when we never spoke before) When they really mean, the last poor sucker that had to call you. I caught them out one time, as I started taking their names, and keeping a log. "Hi, it's Michael, from Laser Print Supplies, and last time we spoke...." "Actually Michael, can you just hold the line?" Check list of callers from this company, and choose earliest on I can find in list. Wander off for a couple of minutes and get a coffee. "Thanks for holding Michael. Actually, last time I spoke to Jonathon, is he around at the mom

I used to have a GM that had the worst email manners. No intro, just straight into the message, no punctuation, no paragraphs. Damned hard to read, hard to answer, easy to ignore

I'd say that some people do change. I never wanted to have children, but now find myself thinking that it would be nice with the girl I am now with. She however, doesn't want to get married/settle permanently with anyone, but I am willing to wait and see if that changes. Bear in mind that I "knew" from age 16, that I didn't want children, saw 4 really good relationships die because of my "no children" policy, and now I think it would be nice, so go figure.

For me, the top ten would be: Blackadder Fawlty Towers Yes Minister Absolutely Fabulous The Young Ones Father Ted Red Dwarf Birds of a Feather The Brittas Empire Men Behaving Badly Keeping Up Appearances Probably not accurate, seeing I haven't watched TV for a long time. A lot of those shows never made it to AU, so I don't know if they are any good or not.

And he'd be the first to complain about guys with long hair too.

Now playing: Robbie Williams - The ego has landed.

I had the misfortune of getting a bus seat next to one of the great unwashed. Adelaide to Alice Springs, 1560k's & 20 hours. As long as he didn't move, it was not toooo bad, but when he moved, OMG, it was gross. I spent most of the trip talking to the drivers. Been lucky on planes so far, maybe I've been the smelly one

Quote: Originally posted by d=(^o^)=b: Mate, she looks great but you are looking a bit messy there. Did someone clock you on the snout or is that a shot from a scat session? That is a sun-spot. Too many years in the sun as a surfie in my teens, and now I have to worry about getting chunks of my nose cut off. To quote Baz "Trust me on the sunscreen"

These guys are better: Abbott: Alright, now whaddya want? Costello: Now look, I'm the head of the sports department. I gotta know the baseball players' names. Do you know the guys' names? Abbott: Oh sure. Costello: So you go ahead and tell me some of their names. Abbott: Well, I'll introduce you to the boys. You know sometimes nowadays they give ballplayers peculiar names. Costello: You mean funny names. Abbott: Nicknames, pet names, like Dizzy Dean - Costello: His brother Daffy - Abbott: Daffy Dean - Costello: And their cousin! Abbott: Who's that? Costello: Goofy!

Just took Hilltop Hoods (AU hip hop) and put in Pete Murray (AU rock)

And just because I can: English and gorgeous

I like Phoebe. I also like Lisa character in Romy and Michelle, and if you watch the last episode of Mad About You, she plays a very similar character.

We don't separate like that, but a lot of councils do recycle/green/the rest. When I lived by myself, I used to put out 2 recycle bins (60L) every fortnight, and about 20L of the rest. All my green waste went into a compost bin made from 4 pallets.

I shave every second day. If I shave every day, all I do is shave a rash. Interstingly, my father has to shave twice a day if he goes out at night, so I guess I got my mums genes, as far as hirsuteness goes.

Quote: Originally posted by Siren: I just met someone and I am so in love with her and I want to tell the whole world!!! She is like a dream and so perfect - everything I ever wanted - beautiful (a smile that could melt a stone), sensual, romantic, intelligent (Waseda law degree!), cheerful, passionate, fashionable, artistic and, strangely, doesn't think she is the centre of universe! It feels like we found each other! I feel like a teenager now and want to live in this dream forever!! Isn't that fantastic when that happens!!! I have a girl that I think is ssoo fantastic, it

Tho' I'm not in Japan, I have people confused with my "accent". I am Scottish, born in Aberdeen, lived near Aberdeen till about 4, the lived outside Glasgow till 8, but have English (London) parents, so spoke English at home and Scottish at school and with friends. Moved to Sydney (AU) till 15, then moved to Adelaide. Adelaide has a more refined (more english) accent than Sydney. My accent is now so confused, I pronounce some words using one accent, and other words using another accent. Damn funny watching/listening to people trying to work out where I'm from.

The other question is, "Did the work actually get done?" I have received invoices for what turns out to be something I never ordered and never received, but if you query it with the company they tell you it is a mistake.

My housemate #1 decided to download some file sharing program called Shareaza, which of course had gator and anothe trojan in it. She also set the FS program up so that her PC was a share node on the network. Then she got upset coz I told her she'd have to pay for excess bandwidth - "It's not my fault the program I loaded has this stuff in it. I didn't know it would do that... " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" /> " title="" src="graemlins/cry.gif" /> "

I hate sitting next to a fat person. They leave no room for you, and they often had a BO problem as well. My housemate #1 was asking me the other day, how she could get fit and loose weight. Well, I almost told her to stop eating 2 TV dinners at a go. (they are the "lite" meals, so maybe she figures that 2 of them are OK.) Today she has already eaten: A pack of oven wedges, a TV dinner, and is now onto her 4th Taco, with housemate #2, who also can't work out why he is 102kg.

Quote: Originally posted by riobranco: The real beauts in this world are the ones that are so without any makeup. Yes, I agree. I think that my g/f is pretty without make-up. She, of course, thinks otherwise - but that then is the nature of women. I don't think that make-up changes how kt looks, jusat makes her different, but still damn pretty.

I can remember going to one in London somewhere, when I was 7. It must be near'ish to Wandsworth. Any of you poms have any ideas which one that would be?

Seasons vary from excellent to rubbish. 2000 was very good, 2001 OK, 2002, absolute rubbish, 2003 good. Of course, every resort had some good weeks in the bad seasons and bad weeks inthe good seasons. If you are intersted in knowing more about the Aus snow scene, I'd suggest having a look at ski . com . au , and maybe joining the forums there.

where abouts in Aus are you?

maybe it's a bit like the addiction to puffer fish?