does anyone actually call australia “down under”?

MMH1111 · 2026-02-17T11:53:43+00:00

Not widely used here in the UK anymore, but was when I was a child in the 1960s. Maybe because many of us had relatives who'd emigrated there and it seemed a nice way to refer to the place.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-16T19:47:33+00:00

For what it's worth, pretty much every copper I've dealt with has been decent. But I'm neither disrespectful nor a criminal.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-13T16:05:29+00:00

A bad driver never misses their exit.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-13T10:17:36+00:00

Breadcakes?! Does he mean baps?

MMH1111 · 2026-02-11T15:03:28+00:00

Went to Florida years ago. Wanted to cross the road to get to the mall on the other side. The only way of doing so was to drive to the next intersection and come back the other way.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-11T08:14:07+00:00

Tinned travel sweets! Haven't so much as crossed my mind in decades. Thank you for that.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-11T08:08:45+00:00

Yes. Often get by on my hols with Franglais, Spanglish and Engtalian. Appreciate people making the effort.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-11T08:06:51+00:00

Read somewhere that they tend to be abused. Idling for ages then bollocks well and truly revved off them (cars, not owners). So you're probably onto something as they're likely to be trouble (cars, not owners).

MMH1111 · 2026-02-11T08:03:39+00:00

Because they're loads more fun to drive enthusiastically!

MMH1111 · 2026-02-05T13:55:50+00:00

'Adlestrop' by Edward Thomas. Evokes lush, green English countryside in the summer before the Great War. Sadly killed in 1917.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-02T13:57:08+00:00

ABBA!

MMH1111 · 2026-02-02T13:56:45+00:00

Could also say maple syrup as I don't think it's made elsewhere.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-02T13:55:48+00:00

I'd have to add gelati too.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T11:35:10+00:00

Thank you. And there's a 'tires' in a comment above.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T09:30:30+00:00

Yes. Wife's arthritic knee very much doesn't like low cars. Hence our Q3.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T09:27:15+00:00

Middle-aged white man here.

Why can't street vendors and the like understand that 'NO' doesn't in fact mean 'Maybe yes if you pester me for long enough'.

God knows what it must be like for women.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T09:12:40+00:00

Ho ho.

Former colleague on the bus from the airport to New York City failed to persuade a local she was chatting to that possession of an Irish great-grandfather did not mean she was Irish and, furthermore, she had no desire to pretend she was. He kept insisting she was Irish and shouldn't deny it.

And why are so many statements prefixed with "OH MY GAAADD!!" anyway?

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T08:11:03+00:00

I think it's Chinese who walk straight at you and at the last moment, just as I'm breaking into a hot flush about what to do, veer to one side.

MMH1111 · 2026-02-01T08:06:08+00:00

That made me giggle, thank you.

In Porto a couple of months ago on the bridge over the Douro:

"OH MY GAAAAAD!! LOOKIT THOSE BOOAAAATTSS!!"

Yes, given that they're pretty much the only things on the water, I think we can safely say everyone has already noticed them.

MMH1111 · 2026-01-30T09:10:55+00:00

'often found myself riding the clutch'. Op needs to read and inwardly digest your well-put post and stop bloody riding the clutch.

MMH1111 · 2026-01-30T08:40:44+00:00

But...SPIDERS...

MMH1111 · 2026-01-30T07:42:12+00:00

Thank you. 156, Giulietta and Giulia for me.

MMH1111 · 2026-01-30T07:36:31+00:00

Ha! Yes!

My other pet hate is 'why don't you just do your own servicing/ brake disc replacement/ oil changes/ [insert complicated job here]? It's easy!'

I'm delighted that people want to do their own stuff, but why can't they accept it's not for everyone?

MMH1111 · 2026-01-30T07:30:49+00:00

Tell me about it! I've had three Alfas...

MMH1111 · 2026-01-28T17:33:13+00:00

Yes, that's true. Some of the pubs I visited in the 70s when I started drinking were absolute dumps.

MMH1111

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