Meanwhile, on the flip side of the world (for flatlanders, anyway)...
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Saw this headline in today's NPR feed: "Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Saw this headline in today's NPR feed: "Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
stoneyowl2 wrote:
Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting
I guess it's warm down under? ;)
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Saw this headline in today's NPR feed: "Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting"
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, navigate a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects! - Lazarus Long
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Probably means they arent looking at the highway through wonky glass that distorts it and makes it look runny. :)
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stoneyowl2 wrote:
Meanwhile In Australia, Part Of A Highway Is Literally Melting
I guess it's warm down under? ;)
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Well it's 45 Celsius where I am today (you can convert that to fernheit ya weirdos. Done it in my headvbut not telling you) and the entire street and surrounding streets are blacked out. So no air conditioning, only beer to keep me going. Also the say after my Daughters 18th birthday piss up. I all good, she isn't.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Well it's 45 Celsius where I am today (you can convert that to fernheit ya weirdos. Done it in my headvbut not telling you) and the entire street and surrounding streets are blacked out. So no air conditioning, only beer to keep me going. Also the say after my Daughters 18th birthday piss up. I all good, she isn't.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
Well, wish her a happy birthday from Bullhead City, AZ, where 45C is a cool spring afternoon! ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
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Well, wish her a happy birthday from Bullhead City, AZ, where 45C is a cool spring afternoon! ;P
Will Rogers never met me.
Turned out we peaked at 47.3 Celsius.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Turned out we peaked at 47.3 Celsius.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
A friend in Sydney said that was the temp there. YOW!
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Consider someone gesturing that a fish they caught was "this big". Now, consider the same gesture with the words it was "literally this big" The first would be understood to more likely be an exaggeration than the second. We're jovial and informal by nature. Even our free-to-air tv ads shown at 4:30pm have words considered inappropriate in some parts of the world. A Toyota ad had people saying bugger. A word which, depending on context may mean damn, (as in this example) or go away - bugger off mate! Other examples of its use would be: bugger that for a joke! Or something's buggered - it's no good and doesn't work any more. It pretty much well never references any kind of sex-act. Calling someone a sod is a simple slight, telling 'em to sod off is merely way of telling someone to go away. In Aus and NZ it's a reference to dirt - again, not to a sex-act. A WorkSafe ad *from the government* had a girl cutting herself on a bread-slicing machine. She exclaimed: sh1t! So, getting back to the original question - it wouldn't be uncommon nor misunderstood if someone said the road was melting that it's bloody hot. If they said the road was literally melting, you know that well, the road is actually coming apart. :) A funny saying goes something like this: Australians - calls mates sunshine and calls sunshines mate. (sunshine rhymes with front doesn't it?)
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Consider someone gesturing that a fish they caught was "this big". Now, consider the same gesture with the words it was "literally this big" The first would be understood to more likely be an exaggeration than the second. We're jovial and informal by nature. Even our free-to-air tv ads shown at 4:30pm have words considered inappropriate in some parts of the world. A Toyota ad had people saying bugger. A word which, depending on context may mean damn, (as in this example) or go away - bugger off mate! Other examples of its use would be: bugger that for a joke! Or something's buggered - it's no good and doesn't work any more. It pretty much well never references any kind of sex-act. Calling someone a sod is a simple slight, telling 'em to sod off is merely way of telling someone to go away. In Aus and NZ it's a reference to dirt - again, not to a sex-act. A WorkSafe ad *from the government* had a girl cutting herself on a bread-slicing machine. She exclaimed: sh1t! So, getting back to the original question - it wouldn't be uncommon nor misunderstood if someone said the road was melting that it's bloody hot. If they said the road was literally melting, you know that well, the road is actually coming apart. :) A funny saying goes something like this: Australians - calls mates sunshine and calls sunshines mate. (sunshine rhymes with front doesn't it?)
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enhzflep wrote:
sunshine rhymes with front doesn't it?
Certainly does on this forum. :laugh: [edit] BTW how do you pronounce your name? [/edit]
Simon. ;P Oh.. my username :smirk: Basically, with a silent aitch. Enz-flep. It was my password to the unix computers at uni. So hard to remember, that once done I just couldn't forget it. It was unique then and remains so. I used to pronounce it E.N.Aitch.Zed - F.L.Ee.Pee - but my missus turned it into something far less tortuous and that's how it's remained.
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Simon. ;P Oh.. my username :smirk: Basically, with a silent aitch. Enz-flep. It was my password to the unix computers at uni. So hard to remember, that once done I just couldn't forget it. It was unique then and remains so. I used to pronounce it E.N.Aitch.Zed - F.L.Ee.Pee - but my missus turned it into something far less tortuous and that's how it's remained.
