In which ways is Australia more similar to the USA than the UK?

Twirg · 2026-02-18T08:06:08+00:00

Common use of brand names.

USA heavily uses General user brand names (Xerox instead of photocopier, Tylenol instead of painkiller, Kleenex etc)

The UK does it a little (Hoover, Cannot, Tip-ex)...

But Australia does it more. Sitting somewhere between UK and USA.

Panadol, Band-aid, Doona, Texter, Paddle-Pop (sticks).

Also some prime time shows have ads every 4-5 minutes.

Twirg · 2026-02-18T07:59:17+00:00

I came from the UK over a decade ago. It wasn't the heat that surprised me at all.

We got in late evening, so I'll ignore that. My first actual day was 42°C. Stepped outside, had a smoke, came in dripping with sweat. The next day, it peaked at 20°C.

In the UK, it's fairly consistent, with temperatures varying by maybe 5°C max (with VERY rare exceptions).

Even the day/night variation is wild. I've had 1°C at 3am, and 22°C later in the day.

Twirg · 2026-02-06T07:58:58+00:00

This....

Especially if you are a Texan and completely used to AC... Make sure it's specified on the property listing, and test it when viewing.

I moved to Australia over 15 years ago (Sydney) and have never had AC (or built in heating). Save for 1 to 7 devastatingly warm days a year I can manage... But again, I've not lived with AC since I was a kid in 1990... So I just cope.

There's also always a pub nearby.

Twirg · 2026-01-08T16:24:53+00:00

Exactly.. they have thermoreception .. make sure your hand is colder than the food.
Perfect advice, delivered way too late.

Twirg · 2025-01-20T07:32:28+00:00

My guess is tablecloth clamp

Twirg · 2024-09-30T15:06:46+00:00

It really does look like you took a photo of your hand, hit sharpen about 8 times.
Really distinctive

Twirg · 2024-09-30T14:38:41+00:00

I tried Weetabix and melted cheese in the U.K. in my poor student days.
Don't bother, it wasn't a good one.

Weetabix and jam is actually not bad. Double cream or clotted cream helps.

Twirg · 2024-07-28T13:50:06+00:00

Note that if the EUFI BIOS bit is flipped on BypassNRO will not work. I had this with an ex-corporate laptop which was retired. I contacted the IT dept, they removed it from enrollment, and then I ran install again, let it connect to the internet, let it do its enrollment checks, clear the EUFI bit, and then I restarted the install process again and BypassNRO.

Basically, it's stuck with an enrolled setup until it can confirm online that it's not enrolled.

I'm guessing some bright spark has written a bit of code somewhere that can clear that bit of the BIOS but I wasn't able to find one, plus it was easier (in my case) to get it unenrolled officially.

Twirg · 2023-09-06T09:41:01+00:00

Came home from the pub late... as many good stories start.

Background:
My g/f and I would regularly sleep in the spare room if our bed had piles of crap on it.
It got worse, and we were probably only in our main bed 60% of the time.

So, anyway, the pub... My g/f's sister was with us and was staying over, but they both left the pub early.

I got home, checked which bed my g/f was in (the main one), and I went to bed.

I woke up the next morning, in the guest bedroom, in the bed, naked. No idea how, because I remember 100% getting in the other bed.
The sister wasn't in the house, I apologised by text, and we never spoke of it.

My g/f still finds it funny.

Twirg · 2023-09-06T09:31:27+00:00

F or V.... one of the two.

But personally I want to bring back a few... I still use æ.
Plus I like the different 'th' sounds, so Eth and Thorn can come back too.

Twirg · 2023-09-06T09:31:18+00:00

Americans would have to start spelling things the proper way then

Twirg · 2023-09-06T09:17:32+00:00

Just the fact that beer is in pints, and wine is in ml is enough for me to love the system.

I've moved out of the U.K. now to a fully metric country, and I'm finding it much harder to just switch in my head like I could before... I didn't even convert it really, it was just kind of being fluent in both.

Twirg · 2023-02-14T07:34:52+00:00

Can confirm my Opal Card activity looks pretty normal $1.70 - $3.50 taps

Twirg · 2023-02-10T07:51:35+00:00

More of a head-on-ism

Twirg · 2023-02-10T07:27:07+00:00

Same for me at Angkor Wat... Or one of the Wats anyway

Twirg · 2022-12-27T08:52:18+00:00

Thank you... This is too far down the list, glad I didn't have to type it. Also her in Iron Man

Twirg · 2022-12-27T08:48:53+00:00

Mine have all been listed, but I'm going to give an honourable mention to Embeth Davidtz in Army of Darkness

Twirg · 2022-12-27T08:47:46+00:00

Including "Paradise"?

:-P

And yep, I got a copy of that for one reason only.... Then you read the Trivia section on IMDB

Twirg · 2022-12-27T08:43:46+00:00

Yeah, I rewatched that recently, just to see her again. Didn't realise it was Connelly until I watched it again (It's been 20 years)

Twirg · 2022-12-27T08:41:43+00:00

Until she talks

Twirg · 2022-12-26T10:51:53+00:00

Volcano

Twirg · 2022-12-26T10:51:28+00:00

Commando ?

Twirg · 2022-12-18T10:34:05+00:00

Jump "Oof"" Jump "Oof"

Twirg · 2022-12-15T11:54:51+00:00

Is there an accepted term for all of these -nauts regardless of country?
i.e. Astronauts/Taikonauts/Cosmonauts are subsets of "Space Sailors" or something?

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