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.
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.
Had enough ammo to build a house out of it
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.
light mode
Heckin strang
Edit : another shrimp mention right under this post for me…
You’re PM of Australia now. No takebacks.
Strange plastic women laying around distributing shrimp is no basis for a system of government.
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.
Throw another one on!
