It's the little things.

"JustWaitingForAMate" (justwaitingforamate)
03/11/2014 at 00:17 • Filed to: random

So as I pull into the car park to get my sure to be a winner lotto ticket from the news agents, I notice this random bloke eye balling me. I step out of the car, and as I'm walking by him he yells out with 'Hey mate' (standard Aussie greeting), 'that my friend, is a thing of beauty' he say nodding towards the Commodore. 'I had to give mine back, and I'm driving that *points to an Hyundai Excel* 'I am officially jealous, have a good one.' With a nod to me he wanders off to his car.

It's the little things that make your day, Leo best expresses my face after that encounter.

DISCUSSION (32)

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:25

Hey mate!
You just found your mate that you've been waiting for!

JustWaitingForAMate > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
03/11/2014 at 00:29

Maaaaaaaaate!

ddavidn > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:36

You forgot the ending to your story: "Then they all went out and threw shrimp on the barbie together while drinking a shitload of foster's, the end."

vdub_nut: scooter snob > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:37

But did he come from the land down undah?

Dusty Ventures > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:38

Hey, mate! Ditch that trash and get a Falcon! ;)

Kinja'd!!!

/teamblue

JustWaitingForAMate > ddavidn
03/11/2014 at 00:39

No one on this continent uses the word shrimp. We also export all our Fosters, it's a joke we're playing on the rest of the world.

JustWaitingForAMate > vdub_nut: scooter snob
03/11/2014 at 00:40

He didn't chunder, but it's early in the arvo yet.

JustWaitingForAMate > Dusty Ventures
03/11/2014 at 00:41

Heresy! Although if GM doesn't do something in 2017, I'm getting a Mustang for shits n giggles.

Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW. > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:41

Let's get some beer mate!

ddavidn > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:44

I would say you've succeeded... because people on this continent actually drink the stuff. I have no idea how or why.

Team6.1 > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:44

We drank a lot of toohey and VB. Didn't see a single fosters. In fact we were told to never ask for or mention it

JustWaitingForAMate > ddavidn
03/11/2014 at 00:46

I get scared when foreigners go 'Fosters! I love it!'...what is WRONG with you?

JustWaitingForAMate > Team6.1
03/11/2014 at 00:47

You'll find it around, but Tooheys is pretty much 'the' mainstream beer here.

ddavidn > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 00:54

I wouldn't ever pretend for a second to like Fosters. I'll drink cheap beer if I have to (like right now) but it won't be that. It's just too bad you guys don't have any other beers in the country.

JustWaitingForAMate > ddavidn
03/11/2014 at 01:01

Too expensive to export beer to the US. Plus your market is saturated with heaps of good micro/macro brewers. The stuff we'd send over from the larger breweries wouldn't even compete.

I was looking to get stuff from Rouge and Dogfish Head shipped back here, the DFH was coming in at $120 a case. Rouge beers at $10-$30 a bottle. it'd be more efficient to come for a month long holiday and just drink my way across the US then try get it sent here.

-Amateur > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:09

I remember visiting Australia back in 2007. I visited Perth and Hobart and it was awesome! I went to a few bars, had whatever was on tap and it's no joke; Your beers are definitely stronger. I didn't see a single Commodore, but I did catch a Skyline (which was a treat, me being from the U.S.). Truth be told, I have a year of school left here and I'm strongly considering getting a student visa to go to graduate school down under.

ddavidn > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:10

Sheesh. Do you not have microbreweries? If it's that expensive, I wouldn't waste my time on Rogue and DFH. I actually don't anyway...

JustWaitingForAMate > ddavidn
03/11/2014 at 01:11

Oh we do, some amazing ones. But I got a taste for DFH when I was last in the US and I can't shake it.

ddavidn > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:13

If you're ever here in the Pacific Northwest, I can show you some real good craft beer. I'd be happy just with everything in a 10 mile radius from my house...

Textured Soy Protein > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:29

Y'all gotta be funny and call all your shrimp prawns, instead of like here in the Good Ole US of A we call a little shrimp a shrimp and call a bigass shrimp a prawn. Except hardly anyone here actually knows the word prawn. So the bigass shrimp are just called jumbo shrimp most of the time, and only food nerds talk about prawns.

Kinja'd!!!

Now I'm hungry.

JustWaitingForAMate > Textured Soy Protein
03/11/2014 at 01:34

A prawn is a prawn. A 'jumbo shrimp' is a king prawn. 15th century English at work.

Where have all the lightweights gone? > ddavidn
03/11/2014 at 01:35

If you're ever in Chicago, I'll have to take you here:

Kinja'd!!!

3 Floyd's in Munster, IN (just across the IL/IN border, a stone's throw away from Chicago)

ddavidn > Where have all the lightweights gone?
03/11/2014 at 01:37

Deal! I'd love to come back to Chicago.

Textured Soy Protein > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:37

Sure it is, in the commonwealth. If you had a restaurant in most parts of the US and put "prawns" on the menu, a majority of customers would be asking what's a prawn all day every day.

The old "shrimp on the barbie" line comes from an Australia tourism ad in the 80s featuring Paul Hogan where he said "shrimp" because the ad aired here in the US.

desertdog5051 > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 01:41

What do yo call them?

JustWaitingForAMate > Textured Soy Protein
03/11/2014 at 01:42

Oh, I know where it comes from. I'd just like to know how the word 'shrimp' came along when 'prawn' had been used for so long.

JustWaitingForAMate > desertdog5051
03/11/2014 at 01:46

Prawn.

Kinja'd!!!

Large ones are king prawns.

Textured Soy Protein > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 02:03

Apparently shrimp has its origins in old Norse or German , while nobody really knows where prawn came from .

TheBloody, Oppositelock lives on in our shitposts. > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 06:22

Remember, these are the same people who drink Bud light ect... There are still large swaths of the US that consider that cat piss beer but the micro breweries are trying hard to change that. I lucky as I'm about a 10 minute stumble from a brewery called River Horse. They make some tasty beverages.

Back to the point, once had a kid (maybe 8/9?) say "hey mister, awesome truck!" When I was getting into my D2. Brightened my day right then and there.

Dingers Ghost, Champion Jockey > Aya, Almost Has A Cosmo With Toyota Engine Owned by a BMW.
03/11/2014 at 08:25

Fosters, Australian for beer.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 09:24

It is a great feeling to get a nice comment from a fellow gearhead.

I was sitting at the Mazda dealer (in my E90 M3) this past Friday, waiting for my wife to show up, and one of the service techs parked a older Miata they were done with next to my car. I had my window open, and was just reading on my phone, but he took the opportunity to say, "Nice car, Big Time." Ha! Always love the compliments from guys (or gals) in the know, but I've never been called Big Time before...

After my wife showed up and we dropped off her car, the service advisor held the door for us as we walked out and he also gave me a nice comment.

I didn't buy it for the attention; I got it because of the feels it give me everyday when I'm driving it, however, the comments, especially from people who know what they're looking at, are a nice bonus.

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > JustWaitingForAMate
03/11/2014 at 09:26

Kinja'd!!!