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Originally posted by Spiralout:

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And you guys have spiders as big as my head.
It keeps you on your toes, but it would keep me locked up in a white padded room with bug disinfectant and a shoe on the ready.

Well then you don't want to hear the story about "Shelob" who had made her lair in my folk's kitchen last time I was there. And those bug sprays just make 'em angry and jumpy.

Funny, most Americans say they like the accent in my experience. What I can't stand is when they try to affect it for my benefit. I want to start slapping the fool that says "Goood diy, mite!" or "That's not a knoif, that's a knoif."

Actually I DO want to hear abut Shelob. Because while I may be deadly afraid of spiders, I live in a part of the city with very little vegitation. I havent seen one in almost a year. Plus I like horror stories.

Okay and that is annoying. I'm not a fan that when everyone comes back from Oz they suddenly are adopting the words and using them in ...Seattle... I mean, if I meet an Aussie at a bar and he said "knoif" I may have no idea what he's talking about, but it's his word and whatever.
But if an American tried to affect a word like that and make it work here I might get snarky.

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Originally posted by static:
I have never been to Hawaii, ever.

Me either, and I will not until someone pays my way.

Ahem, we're supposed to be "confessing," not bragging.

Umm, not sure why you thought I was bragging.

I just have no desire to visit Hawaii after hearing about it from about a gazillion different people. Like a lot of places though, I would be willing to check it out if someone else was footing the bill. My travel budget is way too tight, and my list too long as it is.

I am darn good at packing. 7kg for the main pack, that is enough for a couple of months by the way, and 10kg for the day pack ( mostly video equipment) . Visisted xx countries, been there done that.....
However, not a big fan of tents, realy realy cheep hotels, long layovers, or street food.
I always carry 2 days worth of crackers ( light food right...) with me. I do not remember a destination where I starved...

I still don't have my own backpack!

Traveled for months with a friends and then the one I had I returned to REI after my 3 week trip.

nice

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Originally posted by Madhu:
I still don't have my own backpack!

Traveled for months with a friends and then the one I had I returned to REI after my 3 week trip.

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Originally posted by Prisa:
Actually I DO want to hear abut Shelob. Because while I may be deadly afraid of spiders, I live in a part of the city with very little vegitation. I havent seen one in almost a year. Plus I like horror stories.

If you don't mind a little picture... here is a devoted Mother!!

Happy Mother's Day Mrs Huntsman.

Holy fuck-me-tap-dancing-Christ that's disgusting!

Take it away, just take it away!

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Originally posted by Madhu:
I still don't have my own backpack!

Traveled for months with a friends and then the one I had I returned to REI after my 3 week trip.

oh i returned it because the strap broke.

So far I am most impressed with braslvr's travel-sans-backpack post. Borderline sacrilege in these here parts.

OK, back to confessions folks. As jv points out, we aren't supposed to be bragging! So I'll admit another...

I like talking to older (60+) American couples on a package tours when traveling. They are just so darn quaint and excited and wide-eyed and feel some sort of deep kinship with me, a fellow American out in the "wild world". Sometimes they say really fucked up things, but I forgive them on the spot. And sometimes they talk up their eledgeable daughters back home. And sometimes they give me email and snail mail addresses so that we can keep in touch. (I don't.) So cute.

Oh god...the photo of the spider...I had a seizure when I saw it. How could you??? Take it off!!!!! EWWWWWWWWWWWWW

I enjoy talking in English with other travelers more than I enjoy struggling through my broken Spanish with natives.

I automatically assume the worst of any local male talking to me; this does not extend to male travelers.

I spend way too much time on my laptop, like now, on a Saturday night in Antigua. But I have a blog to update!!

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I have lived out of a tent for weeks and I can pee without removing my pants
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The mind boggles..........
Actually I thought you were going to say "I can pee standing up!".


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Halfnine said : I have been to many a foreign McDonalds
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Well at least you're eating "foreign" foods. Tehe


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MLISS4816 said:
Upon spotting a Hooters in Vienna..........and
I just wanted to see some good Austrian boobies.............
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We don't have Hooters in OZ.


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Joey said:
These are some of the places I ate at that seemed a bit out of place...

Hooters in Singapore
Long John Silvers in Singapore
Popeyes Chicken in Hong Kong
A&W in Kualua Lumpur & Bangkok
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Well Joey if you came to OZ you won't eat at any of those places, cos they don't exist out here.



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laughingnomad said:
And anyway, if you put a ameat patty on a plate, some mashed potatoes and a salad with dressing and a roll on the side you basically have a hamburger. I've wanted to say that for a long time. McDonalds gets a bum rap.
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That's a hamburger? ER no it isn't A hamburger, that is a real hamburger is:- A toasted roll, hamburger, tomato sauce, fried onion rings, bacon rashers (middle bacon not that streaky stuff), fried egg, cooked tomato slices, beetroot - two slices of it, cheese, and lettuce, plus tomato sauce on the inside of the top half of the roll - Now THAT'S what we call a hamburger - Aussie style.


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Originally posted by Prisa:

I really dislike Oz. I mean, I really dislike it. I dislike the accent (ya, sorry, I know! I cant help it!) I dislike the frat-boy culture, the slang they use, the fact that everything there with teeth can KILL YOU. The spiders that are as large as houses, snakes that will liquify your lungs, Koala bears that look cute but want to eat your face off. And most of all?
I hate the word 'roo. As inn "See that 'roo over there?" Cant stand it. It literally makes my skin crawl.
And I'm not sure why. I never met an Aussie I disliked. Not really. I mean, I've met some I found distasteful, but never one I had a real reason to resent.
So it dosent totally make sense. And I know that. And it's completely unfair.

And I know that too.

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Well now, as the "resident" Aussie on here.. I have no idea what the "frat-boy culture" is..

Slang? Well yes we are rather good at it are we not? We got sheilas and ankle biters and we often meet stubby short of a six-packers. Hmm oh yes the roos, well we do call em kangas as well as roos, but we like ta abbreviate see.. brekky, arvo, bikky, roo, ambo, servo, ump, ref, garbo, can't think of anymore off hand.

And yes our spiders - nasty little blighters aren't they? Between the funnel webs, the red-backs and the white-tails not to mention the tarantulas and huntsmans -yueesh can't say I like them too much myself.

Snakes? Well yes the world's ten most venomous snakes are in Australia, in fact about forty or more of the world's most deadliesst creatures are native to OZ.

But the koalas? Nah.. they're lovely little furry things wouldn't hurt a fly.. but

The "Drop Bears" -they're the ones you gotta watch. And the bunyips and the Rainbow Serpent. And of course us Aussies do enjoy taking the mickey - specially on the millions of overseas touristas. It's a well known and well-practised art.


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Originally posted by Static:
Prisa speaks for me on the subject of Australia.
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GEeze, not you too? Stone the crows.

Oh my God I don't belive it I just do not believe it-- Neither of you have EVER been to Australia and yet you HATE Australia? And Australians?


Static, and Prisa, if you ever come to Australia, I will personally escort you around my country and show you a good time and believe me, not all Australians are like you describe. Just like the exetremely very rude Americans I had the great misfortune to meet - I know that they do not represent America or Americans. Not even the American bloke who nicked my wine - my good French wine I hasten to add - means that all you lot are like him.

And Prisa about those flies - we have several fly factories set up around the country where we breed them and the same with the little Aussie Mossie - we breeding farms for them too - and we make sure they're in full swing when the tourist season hots up.

Ah thankyou Spiralout -the voice of reason.

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Spiralout said:
Funny, most Americans say they like the accent in my experience. What I can't stand is when they try to affect it for my benefit. I want to start slapping the fool that says "Goood diy, mite!" or "That's not a knoif, that's a knoif."
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Oh my God, I know just what you mean Spiral, it really sets my teeth on edge when they do that. Worse than scraping your nails down the blackboard. Gezze, I cringe when they do that.

As a matter of fact, many people ask me, "Are you English?"

Course getting back to the spiders, do tremember the tarantulas Spiral? You'd see them high on the wall usually above the curtains and when you finally got one you know you have to keep an eye out, because their mate will come looking for it in the next few days - they mate for life you see.

And what about that woman up in Sydney who was walking along the street in the city one summer lunchtime? A funnel web dropped down from a branch and bit her on the breast - she died of coursse, quite painful I believe.

And if you're ever in an outside dunny gotta watch out for the redbacks- they just lurve country dunnies, give you a very nast bite on the er rear end posterior, you won't be able to sit down for a week or so, but you'll come good in the end.

Oh and don't forget the crocs. there was that case about the American tourists up in Kakadu, Yellow Water Billabong, it was their own fault, the g uide did tell them not to lean over the side of the boat, but they didn't listen......

Geeze, I was so upset by what I read that I've gone completely off-track and had to defend my own country. Wel another bit of slang for you "May yout chooks turn to emus and kick your dunny door down". A very Australian saying.

But I meant what I said STatic and Prisa, if you ever come out here, I'll be your personal tour guide and you will like my country.
Cheers, mate.

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I go running everywhere I go, except when I was in the Amazon and there were no trails. Yes, this includes big and small cities, where I wear short shorts and sports bras, sweating. I definitely stand out.

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Originally posted by Spiralout:
Holy fuck-me-tap-dancing-Christ that's disgusting!

Take it away, just take it away!

But she's so Pretty!!

Should we take it to a vote?

I will give 7 days and count the votes (starting from the day I posted the pic of Mrs Huntsman - so there are already two votes to have her off). If there are more votes for OFF than ON then I promise I will take it out.

I vote: ON!!!!!!

Now all you nature lovers out there get on the wagon to save the picture of Mrs Huntsman with her batch of offspring - BTW this picture was taken by my Mother - in her lounge room.

Stoo's gonna be pissed if you pirate his thread, and he's got a big-long memory.

Start another thread in chit chat. Start a poll. Just take that hideous image away!

OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF OFF

Does that count for seven? That pic is SCARY.

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Originally posted by Spiralout:
Stoo's gonna be pissed if you pirate his thread, and he's got a big-long memory.

Start another thread in chit chat. Start a poll. Just take that hideous image away!

I'm feeling really badly now - not only have I unwittingly hi-jacked someone elses thread but also I have subjected a beautiful creature hate mail!!

Stoo - apologies for hi-jacking your thread.
All I wanted to do was show Prisa a picture of a spider.

Peoples - please continue your confessions to Father Stoo - just vote quietly.

Annie - your vote is noted - 1 only!!

Stone-the-bleedin-crows-Mim- that is without a dbout the most
bee-you-tee-full spider I've ever seen. Don't you dare take her down, she's lovely. She's fan-bloody-tastic is what she is, and so cute.
Wish I knew how to put pictures up here, think of the beautiful little blue-ringed octopus, only four inches big and so lethal.

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I have NEVER been on a trip where I haven't eaten at a McDonalds. Usually just once, but ALWAYS. Once, In Venice, my travelling partner and I ended up in a fist fight with locals on a moving train over this embarrassing situation. (My friend speaks Italian and heard the locals mocking me.)

What's worse, I never eat McDonald's crap when I am at home.

I just ordered a Dominoes pizza!!!

I HATE Dominoes pizza!!!



P.S./EDIT: ... and it was every bit as awful, identically, as the last one I had in the U.S., probably 8 years ago. But at least I'm not hungry now. I guess. *burp*