spacesailor Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Easy. It,s a Bakers Dozen !. Always 13. That odd number. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 I have the same problem with unsliced bread. The loaves are too short, or are they too long? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Have a snack at the end of the loaf, or give it to the chooks. Problem solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted May 30, 2022 Share Posted May 30, 2022 Why do restaurants give you five items in the nibble dish when there are just two of you? They want to watch you fight over the last piece. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 Bead to long, lay it ovrr onto its other side. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nomadpete Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 15 hours ago, Marty_d said: Have a snack at the end of the loaf, or give it to the chooks. Problem solved. Yeah, the last crust is always a bit tough - god intended it to go to the chooks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted May 31, 2022 Share Posted May 31, 2022 I recall the mural at the end of term year 12. "IF bread be the staff of life, the life of THIS staff is one big Loaf". Nev 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted June 8, 2022 Share Posted June 8, 2022 GRIPE: I'm all for acknowledging the territorial and spiritual connection the descendants of the aboriginal people have with this landmass, but I'm getting sick of kowtowing to it. For background noise while I'm working, I have my radio tuned to ABC Classic. Every time they play music composed in Australia, and every time they mention where a caller is from, they name the tribal country of that place. For those of us who don't live in that particular place, the name means nothing, and is often technically incorrect. I grew up on the southern shores of Botany Bay, which is Dharawal country. But Dharawal country extends from Botany Bay to the Shoalhaven. I grew up on the Gweagal clan land. So, What's my spiritual country? The Gweagal have the dubious honour of being the victims of the first recorded shooting of an original inhabitant by Europeans when one of Cook's men fired on a group of men who were trying to tell Cook to bugger off. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 It's PC overkill, people will soon get sick of it. I detest the way everything has to have a new, unpronounceable Aboriginal name. We speak English as a national language, not Pitjantjara. We've already had an instance where a woman Asian tourist dialled 000 because one of their group had fallen down the rocks at a waterfall, and was badly injured and trapped. But the woman couldn't tell the 000 operator where she was, because the waterfall had recently been re-named with a long Pitjantjara name, and she couldn't even begin to pronounce it. The emergency authorities had to then set to, and triangulate her phone position, to try and determine where she was, and this added about another 20 mins delay to the rescue action. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Maybe us anglo saxons might have to get a bit more tuned in to various foreign languages in a country that is very multi cultural and likely to become more so.. The engine reconditioning place I worked in as a youngster had a progressive view about employing people of east european and Italian ancestry when they were all generally classed as Wogs and Balts. I don't remember any friction there at all... I remained a life long friend of the two bosses there, one who pretended to be my father when a shonky Motorbike sales firm withheld money on a bike they sold for Me on consignment. Nev. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Tuned in to languages! . We ALL humans, should be learning " Esperanto ". This way we will be able to communicate with ANY ' tribe '. Keep your original tongue. AND communicate with that scientific designed language. spacesailor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post octave Posted June 9, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted June 9, 2022 32 minutes ago, onetrack said: It's PC overkill, people will soon get sick of it. I detest the way everything has to have a new, unpronounceable Aboriginal name. When I travel to New Zealand which I do frequently (my son lives there) I think it is quite charming when the plane lands on over the PA they say "Kia Ora, welcome to Wellington" Then I go to my sons house in Wainuiomatta. Often we will take the ferry over to Matiu /Sommes Island. It does not seem like a big deal to me. To me it is not about PC but about place names recognizing all of the history of the land pre and post white settlement. It also give a country a character of its own. I think the issue that bothers some people comes down to being resistant to change. It may seem like aboriginal words are too hard for us to pronounce but I think the issue is about taking on new words. My evidence for this is that I have heard people say that they want to get rid of terms like Gadigal Country but they would have a fit if they changed the name Mooloolaba to something nice and British. If the issue is about using Aboriginal names and not just about anxiety due to change then there would be a huge job changing existing names. I was going to cut and paste a list but the list is enormous. List of Australian place names of Aboriginal origin 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty_d Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 The locals probably got quite annoyed when the first white men here completely ignored the existing place names and renamed them after British characters of dubious morality. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Fair crack of the whip. Australia Post can't deliver to places with white man's names. God help us if we changed to first nation names. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 What's the postcode for then, if it's not to identify a place precisely?. We already HAVE many aboriginal names for places. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 If postcodes meant anything to Appalling Post, why do items get sent around three or four states before being delivered? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin That is a very long list. It is good that we already have so many. When the first white settlers were spreading out, they asked the locals for place names and used them. Then any traveller could ask a local where to find so and so with his flock of sheep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
facthunter Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 It's not my job to sort out Australia Post. The question was about aboriginal names. Nev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 10 minutes ago, facthunter said: It's not my job to sort out Australia Post OK Scomo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 4 hours ago, onetrack said: We speak English as a national language, not Pitjantjara. o.t., you forgot the jat. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Yeah, my apologies, I don't speak Pitjantjatjara too well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Just come home from doing some shopping in Dubbo. The Indians seem to be outnumbering the natives. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacesailor Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 Tuned in to languages! My little rant was the fact that Most ' tribes want their own language as the foremost Keep your original tongue. DW I ddim yn deall !. I Was going to say ! In the four English tongues " I don,t understand ". BUT Google couldn't even translate into Scottish . AND communicate with that scientific designed language. Means to Communicate. Down with the English Grammer language The English on FB are using a different language now !. I cannot communicate now. spacesailor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 3 hours ago, onetrack said: Yeah, my apologies, I don't speak Pitjantjatjara too well. Just mutter a lot of vowels and don't forget to roll the r's. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted June 9, 2022 Share Posted June 9, 2022 3 hours ago, onetrack said: Yeah, my apologies, I don't speak Pitjantjatjara too well. I remember years ago having a browse through a university course book on the Pitjantjatjara language. I spotted it on the shelf of the Calgary Library in Alberta, Canada of all places. Have no idea what it was doing there. I remember there wasn't many consonants in their lingo, very vowel heavy. A couple of white blokes I worked with were fluent in one of the Pitjantjatjara dialects. Not surprising as they were born and bred in Oodnadatta and were both married to aboriginal women. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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