Students

[mikmik]

mat wrote

Yar..ya hide the toilet paper for sure! Or your car, local shops, or even house can be wrapped up in it!

and this:

Their time will come....its workforce soon ! Out into the big bad world ;-)

A puzzled (along with the rest of us) minstrel states the 'begged' question :

Odd people, these Aussies - most of that post sort of makes sense (at least for "Makes Mental" Matauri), although the part about "students have finished exams and it's 'schoolie' time" confuses me - wouldn't schoolie time be when they go to school rather than when they're on summer break? The one I really don't get is the bit about hiding the toilet paper - when the kids are home from school up here, I buy more toilet paper - I dread to think of what they would do if we ran out...

So, I think i've solved the riddle of Mx3's ("Makes Mental" Matauri) logic!

Yar, the students haven't had time to 'workforce' yet, so they can't just go into a nearby store and purchase their own T.P.
That means don't give them any money, if they want something, buy it for them.

Yar, so to prevent 'schoolies' from just taking T.P. from their bathroom at home, hide it all.
Minstrel makes an interesting point. Solution: You know where you hid it, no problem. For the 'schoolies', give them one roll each for 'personal' use and it has to last the week!

It's easy, minstrel, Once you learn to get inside the head of this aussie thinking. Does make your psychiatric diagnosis more difficult though.

[minstrel]

It's easy, minstrel, Once you learn to get inside the head of this aussie thinking. Does make your psychiatric diagnosis more difficult though.

Yar...

I guess I'm just going to have to wait until the long-anticipated Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV-TR-Oz version is released later this year. It was supposed to be out a year ago but it was delayed because 'roos kept invading the camps and it was tiring on those poor psychologists chasing Aussies through the outback - every time one of the poor Aussie beggars heard Midnight Oil on the Jeep radio they'd panic and bolt - apparently they're afraid of men with shaved heads who dance funny...

[matauri]

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CRICKEY!!!! ;-)



MMM
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[wenwilder]

You started a new fad Cindy! :) Aren't they easily trained though?

[matauri]

You started a new fad Cindy! :) Aren't they easily trained though?

Well...if Paul hogan can do it...and Steve Irkwin (no typo!) can do it...there is hope for me yet. Watch out Hollywood, here I come ! ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

CRICKEY!!!! ;-)

Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????

Aren't they easily trained though?

"Pffftt - what do women know about training men?" - Homer Simpson

And what's with Wen's new tagline? They're not even trying to hide those take over the world plans any more...

[matauri]

Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????

Who knows!! LOL...most of us had never heard it till Irkwin decided to associate it with our vocabulary. It joins the archives with 'fosters beer', 'subarus', and roos jumping around the street. See how easy you guys are amused! ;-)



Cindy

[minstrel]

Isn't that supposed to be CRIKEY!!!! ????

Who knows!! LOL...most of us had never heard it till Irkwin decided to associate it with our vocabulary.

Yar... like most things in Oz (well, except "yar"), "crikey" originated in Britannia. Therefore, it was a natural thing for Stevie to utter the first time 'e got 'is arm bit orf by a croc, mate...

[paulhiles]

Yar... like most things in Oz (well, except "yar"), "crikey" originated in Britannia. Therefore, it was a natural thing for Stevie to utter the first time 'e got 'is arm bit orf by a croc, mate...

Well sorry to disillusion everyone, but even 'Yar' came originally from the good ol' United Kingdom.
It dates back to 1980's Britain with Margaret Thatcher at the helm, and Yuppies (Young Urban Professionals) used the phrase "Okay Yar" at every conceivable opportunity! Seems like another batch of undesirables decided to make their own way south! ;-)

Paul

[matauri]

LOL....this is going to be like the pic...I'm going to regret I said it! :-)

Seems like another batch of undesirables decided to make their own way south!

Here we go again..the Brits blowin their bugle ;-)
I actually think we're quite desirable ;-)

And to prove yas both wrong...LOL... 'yar' is something stupid I picked up off Arnie Baby! :-)



Cindy