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This post is full of completely, totally and utterly random stuff that I keep meaning to babble about but always forget to once I get the Update Journal page up. So yeah. Randomness, hurrah!
Firstly, product names. So many things have different names, and I don't know why~ .-. The first thing that got me was an ad for the Vauxhall Zafira on telly. This was when I was still desperatelly jetlagged and kept staring at it thinking "...this isn't right." Suddenly it snapped in my mind. "It's a Holden, not a bloody... whatever they said." Whereupon Sallie and family blinked at me in a strange, "you poor, jetlagged Aussie" way and told me it's a Vauxhall. Vauxhall Astra. Vauxhall Commodore. IT'S A BLOODY HOLDEN, strange Pommies XP
By the same token, Sorbent is... something else. I forget. But the iccle Sorbent labrador puppy? Voiced not by a cute little kiddie (or rather, someone trying to sound like a cute little kiddie), but by a strange middle-aged man who sounds like he's putting on a posh accent. It's WEIRD.
Obviously Hungry Jacks is Burger King, but I already knew that South Australia was buggered in that respect. I know there are others but I can't think of them right now.
Next completely random thing: The ads for New Zealand. Pommyland has the same 100% Pure New Zealand ads that we've got, except for one vital difference. Where in the ads in Australia, they show people mountaineering and looking at snow and little forest streams, in the ads here they're prancing around on the beach in bikinis and boardies. I am deadly serious. Forgive me, but Kiwiland wouldn't be my first choice as a beachy holiday destination. In fact, it lists somewhere down the bottom with Greenland and Russia. Again, it's WEIRD.
'nother random thing: Motorways. Aussies think of freeways in the country as being pretty much empty. If there is traffic, for example on the freeway in the Hills once you've passed the Stirling turnoff, it's light and still travelling nice and fast. Even the freeway in peak hour generally travels at 100kph, or at least 90.
On the way from Brighton to Wales, we passed a traffic jam that was on the other side of the road. This is a three lane road (mighta been four, but I'm pretty sure it was three), we were going at about 120kph, and it took a good half hour to get to the end of said traffic jam. So that's a good 60km of stationary traffic, in what is as close to the middle of nowhere as this country gets. And there were a sum total of two turnoffs on said 60km stretch. I forget what had caused the traffic jam, the stream of traffic was what stuck in my mind Xx It wasn't even peak hour! This was, like, 2 in the afternoon! Certainly puts Glen Osmond Road to shame xX I could NEVER own a car in this country.
And thus concludes 'narti's random crap that she keeps forgetting to mention. Going to bed now, yay!
Firstly, product names. So many things have different names, and I don't know why~ .-. The first thing that got me was an ad for the Vauxhall Zafira on telly. This was when I was still desperatelly jetlagged and kept staring at it thinking "...this isn't right." Suddenly it snapped in my mind. "It's a Holden, not a bloody... whatever they said." Whereupon Sallie and family blinked at me in a strange, "you poor, jetlagged Aussie" way and told me it's a Vauxhall. Vauxhall Astra. Vauxhall Commodore. IT'S A BLOODY HOLDEN, strange Pommies XP
By the same token, Sorbent is... something else. I forget. But the iccle Sorbent labrador puppy? Voiced not by a cute little kiddie (or rather, someone trying to sound like a cute little kiddie), but by a strange middle-aged man who sounds like he's putting on a posh accent. It's WEIRD.
Obviously Hungry Jacks is Burger King, but I already knew that South Australia was buggered in that respect. I know there are others but I can't think of them right now.
Next completely random thing: The ads for New Zealand. Pommyland has the same 100% Pure New Zealand ads that we've got, except for one vital difference. Where in the ads in Australia, they show people mountaineering and looking at snow and little forest streams, in the ads here they're prancing around on the beach in bikinis and boardies. I am deadly serious. Forgive me, but Kiwiland wouldn't be my first choice as a beachy holiday destination. In fact, it lists somewhere down the bottom with Greenland and Russia. Again, it's WEIRD.
'nother random thing: Motorways. Aussies think of freeways in the country as being pretty much empty. If there is traffic, for example on the freeway in the Hills once you've passed the Stirling turnoff, it's light and still travelling nice and fast. Even the freeway in peak hour generally travels at 100kph, or at least 90.
On the way from Brighton to Wales, we passed a traffic jam that was on the other side of the road. This is a three lane road (mighta been four, but I'm pretty sure it was three), we were going at about 120kph, and it took a good half hour to get to the end of said traffic jam. So that's a good 60km of stationary traffic, in what is as close to the middle of nowhere as this country gets. And there were a sum total of two turnoffs on said 60km stretch. I forget what had caused the traffic jam, the stream of traffic was what stuck in my mind Xx It wasn't even peak hour! This was, like, 2 in the afternoon! Certainly puts Glen Osmond Road to shame xX I could NEVER own a car in this country.
And thus concludes 'narti's random crap that she keeps forgetting to mention. Going to bed now, yay!
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 02:56 am (UTC)I noticed the car thing when my parents were arranging their hire car for England. We kept trying to work out what they really were. Very strange. Why can't they just give them their real names?
Weird names
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 09:36 am (UTC)Auntie B
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 10:24 am (UTC)The Andrex puppy?
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 10:59 am (UTC)What's wrong with calling it a Holden~? ><
Re: Weird names
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:03 am (UTC)And he's got a sucky voice.
PS HOLDEN.
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:06 am (UTC)- Dad
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:43 am (UTC)My trip home from the airport? I was freaking~~~~ out.
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 11:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 12:41 pm (UTC)But I concur on the voice. It was better when the puppies just ran around and didn't talk.
PS VAUXHALL
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Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 12:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Thu, Sep. 29th, 2005 01:06 pm (UTC)PS HOL~DEN~