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.
Yeah we love to heart logical definitional explanations and such. Thanks
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.
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.
We call a rifle a rifle here,
Because we actually understand them and we don’t think they make our dicks magically bigger
So, you call every gun a rifle then?
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
We had a very real effort to officially change the currency to the “dollarydoo”
I hope to see it happen in my lifetime
lemmy is getting stranger by the day, but it’s working.
Does Starlight enjoy eating plastic children?
Another.
And now I’ve got Adam Buxton’s sushi song in my head, cheers
Those are prawn not shrimp
They’re the same thing. There’s no real distinction.
Writing in 1980, L. B. Holthuis noted that the terms prawn and shrimp were used inconsistently “even within a single region”, generalising that larger species fished commercially were generally called shrimp in the United States, and prawns in other English-speaking countries, although not without exceptions.[7]
And yet any Aussie can tell you they are shrimp.
Prawns, cunt
You’re PM of Australia now. No takebacks.
Still better than albo
Oh, fuck off
He’s way better than the many years under Lib incompetence and corruption
He’s better than the libs, yes. But he’s got a long way to go. He’s centrist. We need left, not centrist
While everyone else was struggling to eat, he and his partner bought a luxury property
Strange plastic women laying around distributing shrimp is no basis for a system of government.
It never ceases to amaze me that of all the fucked up bullshit to come out of Australia… this is what we make fun of?
Especially because it’s not even Aussie.
Curious to know what other fucked up bullshit you’re thinking of though.
The stupid idea that our wildlife is dangerous
We don’t have bear, mountain lions, coyotes, or Texans
Throw another one on!
This is pretty racist, I think.
As an Australian citizen, I decree this not to be racist, and that you would find life far better if you removed the stick
As an Aussie, you might need to get checked, mate. This was a joke.
Gotta make it clear then
The written word doesn’t translate that kinda humour well
For what it’s worth, I’m not one of the downvoters
I appreciate that. To me, a downvote is just like an upvote. I just like the attention, if I’m being honest.
If it helps, I’m a dual citizen, so Australia is great when I choose, and full of idiots when Pauline Hanson, Clive Palmer or someone gets popular
Against who? Barbies? Shrimp?
Prolly the shrimp, idk
Well, don’t leave us hanging here. Are you gonna put another one on or what?
How do you know the 4th one wasn’t it?
Is Barbie the source of Mar-a-lago Face or Is it the other way around?
I think it’s more an expression of being wealthy enough for plastic surgery as the world is in decay rather than anything else.
It’s a show of financial (and hence social) status, their version of claiming they have fuck you money.
Which is funny, because I have no money, and have no problem saying “fuck you” to anyone.
Kinda makes their most prized possesion meaningless, no?
Funny you say that. I’ve grown up poor, life without money didn’t stop me from living great. Just by devaluing it, it’s slowly come to me faster than others that live by it. Now I’m sort of at the point where enough is enough, it’s a hassle at a point and I can’t succeed in life if I’m not living, just bound by it.
So I kinda see it as a failure. Like something that gets in the way and holds a person back in life if they lack the capacity to think much for themselves. I’ve met very few rich people of substance or value in anything beyond their accounts. Not saying they’re worthless; just not of much consideration for value.
Just wait. You’ll know when.
