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Continuing the language confusion thread

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    benjymous
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    To any Australians reading, if you're ever in the UK, and you need to stick something together, for god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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      To any Australians reading, if you're ever in the UK, and you need to stick something together, for god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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      Megan Forbes
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      benjymous wrote: Sellotape" not "Durex" :laugh: So that's what all these loose Australian tales come down to - a language misunderstanding! ;P


      I've always heard that there was an idea behind Win ME... I still can't figure out what that was... anyboy know??? I;ve herad the idea was that it was supposed to be n operating system but I doubt this. - Brian Delahunty

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        To any Australians reading, if you're ever in the UK, and you need to stick something together, for god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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        benjymous wrote: god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" Durex is a kind of glue down under? LOL, how bizarre. Here it is a type of burito...

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        Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

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          benjymous wrote: god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" Durex is a kind of glue down under? LOL, how bizarre. Here it is a type of burito...

          Paul Watson
          Bluegrass
          Cape Town, South Africa

          Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

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          Well, it's a kind of sticky tape in Australia (which could create huge embarasement if you tried to use Austrialian Durex for the purpose you'd use British Durex...) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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            Well, it's a kind of sticky tape in Australia (which could create huge embarasement if you tried to use Austrialian Durex for the purpose you'd use British Durex...) -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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            embarressment or permanently crippling? :wtf:


            I've always heard that there was an idea behind Win ME... I still can't figure out what that was... anyboy know??? I;ve herad the idea was that it was supposed to be n operating system but I doubt this. - Brian Delahunty

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              embarressment or permanently crippling? :wtf:


              I've always heard that there was an idea behind Win ME... I still can't figure out what that was... anyboy know??? I;ve herad the idea was that it was supposed to be n operating system but I doubt this. - Brian Delahunty

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              I suppose that all depends whether the area for application had been waxed beforehand *wince* -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                I suppose that all depends whether the area for application had been waxed beforehand *wince* -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                Paul Watson
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                benjymous wrote: waxed Ahh now there would be an interesting and revealing Soapbox question... :rolleyes: Next time I am down under I am going to ask for a ribbed six pack of Durex. And then when I go to London I am going to ask for three rolls of super sticky Durex. :laugh:

                Paul Watson
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                Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

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                  embarressment or permanently crippling? :wtf:


                  I've always heard that there was an idea behind Win ME... I still can't figure out what that was... anyboy know??? I;ve herad the idea was that it was supposed to be n operating system but I doubt this. - Brian Delahunty

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                  Brian Delahunty
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                  Megan Forbes wrote: embarressment or permanently crippling? I'd say the latter!!! X| Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                    benjymous wrote: waxed Ahh now there would be an interesting and revealing Soapbox question... :rolleyes: Next time I am down under I am going to ask for a ribbed six pack of Durex. And then when I go to London I am going to ask for three rolls of super sticky Durex. :laugh:

                    Paul Watson
                    Bluegrass
                    Cape Town, South Africa

                    Ray Cassick wrote: Well I am not female, not gay and I am not Paul Watson

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                    Brian Delahunty
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                    Paul Watson wrote: Next time I am down under I am going to ask for a ribbed six pack of Durex. And then when I go to London I am going to ask for three rolls of super sticky Durex ROTFLMAO... Now that'll be interesting. Please bring a camcorder or something and send me on the results! Regards, Brian Dela :-)

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                      To any Australians reading, if you're ever in the UK, and you need to stick something together, for god's sake ask for "Sellotape" not "Durex" :-D -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit!

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                      :) and you Aussies should've asked about the meaning of "Nads" here in the US before trying to sell a sticky hair-removal goo by that name to us... -c


                      "[it was..] one of those evenings when you feel that not only will there definitely be a revolution, but that the Association of Manufacturers will foot the bill." -- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

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                        :) and you Aussies should've asked about the meaning of "Nads" here in the US before trying to sell a sticky hair-removal goo by that name to us... -c


                        "[it was..] one of those evenings when you feel that not only will there definitely be a revolution, but that the Association of Manufacturers will foot the bill." -- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

                        Smaller Animals Software

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                        We are fully aware of the meaning of nads. I had no idea there was such a product (from us, of all countries!) of that name till I got here. I think there was a discussion about it previously. The shame, oh the shame... (And for what it's worth, no one back home would call sticky tape durex unless they were older than 65). cheers, Chris Maunder

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                          :) and you Aussies should've asked about the meaning of "Nads" here in the US before trying to sell a sticky hair-removal goo by that name to us... -c


                          "[it was..] one of those evenings when you feel that not only will there definitely be a revolution, but that the Association of Manufacturers will foot the bill." -- Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum

                          Smaller Animals Software

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                          Chris Losinger wrote: should've asked about the meaning of "Nads" here in the US before trying to sell According to their site[^], nads for men is also available X| "Nad's is organic, no chemicals, no heating and no animal testing" BW "I'm coming with you! I got you fired, it's the least I can do. Well, the least I could do is absolutely nothing, but I'll go you one better and come along!" - Homer J. Simpson

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                            We are fully aware of the meaning of nads. I had no idea there was such a product (from us, of all countries!) of that name till I got here. I think there was a discussion about it previously. The shame, oh the shame... (And for what it's worth, no one back home would call sticky tape durex unless they were older than 65). cheers, Chris Maunder

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                            Atlantys
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                            Chris Maunder wrote: sticky tape All too often people have no idea what I when I ask them to "pass me the sticky tape". It's tape, and it's sticky.. I don't understand the confusion. :-D

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