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[Upgraydd]

Rather like the days before Neighbours reached our shores and the only sentences which rose in pitch at the end actually were questions.

What really annoys me about the Australian language at the moment is when people end a sentence with or? Are we going to the cinema or...? Are we shagging a sheep or...? I don't know when or why it started but I wish it would stop.

And what does lucked out mean? My wife and I argue about it constantly. I contend that it means that you have run out of luck and she says it means that you have got lucky.

[fsn]

I always too "lucked out" to be a good thing.

[getagrip]

Lucked out is lucky in my book but it doesn't really make sense 

[FierceKitty]

I think your wife is right. That phrasal verb's been with us for decades.

[FierceKitty]

What really annoys me about the Australian language at the moment is when people end a sentence with or? Are we going to the cinema or...? Are we shagging a sheep or...? I don't know when or why it started but I wish it would stop.

Do Aussies still end sentences with "but" to imply strong emphasis?

That Fierce Kitty's a beaut tactician but!

[Upgraydd]

Yeah they do, I wouldn't worry about it but.

We will also never tell you how things are, just how they aren't;

How are you? - "Not bad"

How's your broken arm? - "It's not good"

and so on.

[FierceKitty]

Is that different from classic Anglo-Saxon understatement?

[getagrip]

Is that different from classic Anglo-Saxon understatement?

it's exactly the same but with better barbecues.

[Leman]

Never really liked barbecues - vastly overrated in my opinion. Then again I don't like meat very much.

[FierceKitty]

We do them much better in SE Asia.

[barbarian]

Don't do the barbecue, you'll end with bad burns in the wrong place.

[FierceKitty]

As one grows older, one looks for new sources of excitement.

[Leman]

Re. barbecues, that may well be more sauces of excitement.

[FierceKitty]

I was hoping nobody would say it.

[Techno]

Re. barbecues, that may well be more sauces of excitement.

No, no, no, no, nooooooo...........  
Cheers - Phil.

[Leman]

I was hoping nobody would say it.

That has to be the biggest joke.

[Luddite]

Never got on with barbeques either, even in Oz.

I did go to a gathering at a farm a few miles out of Canberra.  A pit was dug and a tree thrown in and set on fire.  The food was roasted on a huge grill over that.  That was pretty good...but then the longnecks and 'local buds' probably clouded my judgement.

We headed back to the city about 4am.  Getting off the farm involved a 3 mile journey down a dirt track.

Sat on the bonnet of a severely overloaded Holden Ute, bent out of shape, and directing the driver to avoid the wheels dropping into the ruts and beaching the car was quite an intense experience...

Good times...

[getagrip]

So, Ofsted are now deliberating and meeting the Head of School and Executive Head.

My meeting was fine, all good this end.

I can now go back to my real job which is actually doing stuff rather than talking about doing stuff to people who don't do any stuff

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Good man

[fsn]

Good show Grip. To celebrate have this photo of a Scottish Barber Queue.