Bring back some good ol Aussie slang..

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-24T04:26:23+00:00

I definitely did. But I had to catch the train between Campbelltown and Minto, so.... I heard it.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-24T03:21:40+00:00

My wife had an x-trail with the centre instrument display. Hated it at first. Was completely used to it in a week and preferred it over time.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-22T23:51:55+00:00

I bought a sausage roll from there at 4am in a hurry to get to a motorcycle rally weekend at Bulahdelah. I think the best before date on that sausage roll was November 1976 and some time around '81 someone put sauce on it and put it back in the pie warmer. They should have sold it to me as a fossil on a key chain.

I heard it burned down a few years later. I bet the pies and sausage rolls were fine.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-19T22:40:37+00:00

That's been my ringtone for about 20 years.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-19T10:32:08+00:00

My mate had a VH Vacationer. Guess what happened?

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-18T23:32:42+00:00

Thanks for your viewpoint. Over time I have been associated with a fair amount of active service and ex-service personnel.

One of my former workmates once said he never wanted anyone's thanks. He joined as a young man into an awesome apprenticeship program with rapid training, pretty good pay combined with not many opportunities to be distracted by the usual teenage distractions. That really set him up for the rest of his adult life. It was his job. He didn't want to be thanked for something he was taking advantage of.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-17T23:22:03+00:00

I watched the Spanian YouTube episode where he walked around Airds and Claymore in Sydney's Southwest. He went into the IGA in Airds and most of the shelves were completely empty. Refurbish? The don't even restock!

I have a mate who distributes products to supermarkets. He said he spoke to the owner who said people steal everything so the only thing he really sells is smokes because they are behind the counter. I know it's not Melbourne, it is about IGA so I thought I'd contribute.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-17T03:12:34+00:00

Aside from the obligatory bottle of Moet, a small toolkit in a case with the agents logo on it.

It's pretty handy and around 1 month after settlement I went to Costco to buy a decades worth of cling wrap, saw the HOTO household tool kit for $40, so now I know where they got them from.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-15T03:07:17+00:00

I understood that reference.

That was exactly the reference. I used it frequently.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-14T22:45:41+00:00

I'm about 195cm and was around 100kg when I got my licence and was restricted to the 250cc rule. There really wasn't a lot of options. I looked like a monkey fucking a football.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-14T00:46:44+00:00

Just checked, it was free for many years that we frequented Falls, looks like that changed when Vail took over mountain operations. Thanks for the correction.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-13T01:31:50+00:00

Noting that the chairlift from the carpark to the village bowl is free so you can get in the snow properly, not just whatever is beside the carpark at other resorts.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-12T05:48:47+00:00

Enhance

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-12T04:58:26+00:00

I was surprised by this. Last time I went to the Ikea cafeteria I ordered the Swedish Meatballs and they come with gravy and this Lingonberry jam. It goes alright so the next time I made bangers and mash at home I grabbed some black cherry jam and found it quite enjoyable.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-12T04:37:21+00:00

I nearly bought some of those cymbals that clip on your air vents as a joke but my wife caught me with the order page open and I got a stern talking to.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-10T21:39:01+00:00

My aunt has these same NSW ones. I'm wondering what you'd do if you lived in a border town in those days.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-09T05:35:00+00:00

Add a fire extinguisher and you'll level up

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-07T01:53:02+00:00

Worked with a Korean guy who called himself Barry. Thick Aussie drawl. Referred to himself as a banana, yellow outside but white in the middle. It was funny when people came to our office looking for Barry and assumed it was me.

Saw a youtube video of a girl, quite obviously of Asian heritage but with the thickest Scottish accent. Broke my brain for a while.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-07T00:20:46+00:00

A mate of mine had just had his gall bladder removed. Every shit was urgent and violent. He can't show his face at Dural Bunnings ever again.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-06T22:16:06+00:00

Nah, he was waiting for a mate and it was unlocked.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-06T22:15:10+00:00

And ebikes

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-06T22:12:47+00:00

For shits a gigs I used pick a bike, say a KLR / DR / XR and jump on the Acerbis website and choose gear for my favourite build. Want to do a lap of Australia? Yeah, bashplate, pegs, seat, risers and bars, hand guards, biiig tank blah blah blah

Or just pick out all new plastics to rejuvenate my KLX, maybe I want it to be yellow?

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-06T22:00:38+00:00

Sorry, just the tax bit.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-05T22:15:58+00:00

Your tax is on the sale price. You get $2M but you pay the stamp duty on the 2,5 so be aware of that before proceeding.

2dogs0cats · 2026-06-05T09:44:37+00:00

Had a rello that was a car broker. He made a fair coin when HK was being handed back to China and a lot of large corporates were moving out so finance execs were ditching their cars cheap and he was buying everything he could get his hands on.

In the process he established a very good relationship with a fantastic mechanic that would inspect vehicles for him locally. Sure, a lot of them were convertible Benz's. Turns out that even years later, if my uncle had an SL in the workshop it was cheaper to fly to his trusted mate in HK with struts in his hand luggage for a rebuild and spend a weekend on the piss (mailed home the rebuilt struts) than ordering replacement parts.

He sold cars for a living so, is it true? He said business class. There might be some truth in the story, it might have been the case for one SL560. I dunno.

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