• Noite_Etion@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    As an Aussie I will say this, an ad played on American TV 30-40 years ago does not reflect Australian culture.

    We don’t eat shrimp, we eat prawns (it was changed to shrimp in the ad to avoid confusing Americans, which is a bit ironic).

    Barbie is the shortened word for barbeque in Australia, but we don’t even cook prawns on the barbie, we either boil them or fry them on a pan.

    This has been a PSA from an Aussie who has heard Americans making this dumb boomer-esque joke for their whole life; please come up with fresh ways to dunk on us, that way we can both laugh.

    That said the picture is pretty funny.

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      Now now. No need to be rude. We don’t actually think you do that.

      We DO however think you lost a national war against a flock of emus, when you had guns.

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        Love the emu wars, but calling it a “national war” is a bit of a stretch. It was 3 blokes with 2 guns between them, an “incompetent war” is a better descriptor lol.

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            No, a rifle is a rifle

            A sidearm is a sidearm, or a pistol

            A shotgun is a shotgun

            Etc.

            If you don’t know what a rifle actually is, then you shouldn’t be using them, because you don’t know how they actually work and how they behave