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Christmas Decorating?
Lots of traditions start for practical reasons. Ginger was useful where you get lots of older people gathering because it reduces flatulence. :) -
Christmas Decorating?
Australia is very British. For about 50 years migration was very restricted to anyone outside of Britain and because we're so far away from the rest of the world we had very little other foreign influences. That started to change in the 1960s. Here a Hot Toddy was a cure for the common cold... -
Christmas Decorating?
Egg Nog isn't a Christmas thing here. It was a very common and popular drink when I was growing up but it was cold rather than hot and it wasn't associated with any holiday, you don't see it very often any more. -
When I was growing up this style of kerosene heater was very popular. Added bonus - you can keep...
When I was growing up this style of kerosene heater was very popular. Added bonus - you can keep a pot of tea or coffee hot on it too. You need ventilation for them though, need to leave a window or a door open a crack.- Outdated
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Christmas Decorating?
Yes, a very dense and very heavy fruitcake. I can't remember all the process of making them though, Mum used to make 3 every year, one for us, one for her mother and one for her grandmother who was still alive back then, but she stopped doing it when we were teenagers. There were coins and... -
Christmas Decorating?
They can be had any time of year but have also become an almost essential part of any Christmas Lunch. The traditional desert was the very old fashioned English Christmas Pudding served hot with custard. These were a very dense dark fruitcake steeped in brandy and left hanging to cure for a... -
Christmas Decorating?
I actually don't like them, too sweet, but it's culturally unacceptable for me to say so. :) They also form part of the friendly rivalry between Australia and New Zealand over who invented it. Either way it was the Aussies that named it. For a while here there was a trend in Sydney that when a... -
Laptop suggestions?
Consider what you're actually going to be using it for, you're unlikely to expect it to process fractals for you for example when you've got a PC dedicated to that. My guess is that it likely only needs to be able to browse the net and run a word processor for the most part so having a really...- Outdated
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- Forum: Computers, Science & Technology
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Post something Weird or Random
Only time I ever heard my mother really swear when I was a kid - she reached in to the bathroom cabinet without her glasses on and started brushing her teeth with Dencorub. :)- Outdated
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Parrots
Our magpies are like that, they can remember around 100 human faces and they still remember 10 years later. Be nice to them and they'll always be your friend, be mean to them and the entire family will attack you on sight. Growing from a child in to an adult doesn't fool them either, they'll...- Outdated
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- Forum: Pets & Animals
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The Perfect Ring for An Autistic?
Is that what you've been doing all this time hiding out in the forest? :) -
Christmas Decorating?
No, it's a pavlova. A shell of meringue filled with cream - real cream, not fake sugary rubbish, and then topped with fruit. Incredibly popular here and in New Zealand. -
Christmas Decorating?
Yes. Christmas is for the most part only celebrated on the one day here. Kids get up on the morning of the 25th and open presents and there's a big lunch in the middle of the day that usually lasts for a couple of hours and leaves everyone except kids too stuffed to move. Especially if you have... -
The Perfect Ring for An Autistic?
There's an amazing assortment of different types of fidget rings. I strongly suspect that the "stainless steel" is just an electroplated finish over the top of a cheap bronze alloy and will wear off in places after a while, but they're cheap enough to replace that that doesn't matter. fidget... -
Christmas Decorating?
It's a very old English tradition that I suspect was borrowed from the French - Christmas Bonbons. These have a small cracker inside. You and someone else grab and end each and pull it apart with a bang. One person ends up with the majority of the bonbon and what's inside. What is inside: a... -
Christmas Decorating?
It's a tough life, but someone has to live it. :) -
'Holiday Music'
Excellent choice, Bon Scott is a national icon here and welcome at any time of year.- Outdated
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- Forum: Movies, Music & Television
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'Holiday Music'
These two have become Aussie Christmas classics that will get played to ad nausea every year. *Christmas is in summer here.- Outdated
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- Forum: Movies, Music & Television
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Christmas Decorating?
I don't bother with Christmas, it's just another day of the year to me, but a lot of people here get quite elaborate with their decorations. Traditional themes are fading out here though, as is to be expected if you think about it. A great proportion of our population have never seen snow, or... -
The United States has the world's smallest owl: Pygmy owl - Wikipedia
The United States has the world's smallest owl: Pygmy owl - Wikipedia- Outdated
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