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Because I'm hot and bothered and not writing anything (right on the cusp of the mission; right on the cusp), I went through a bunch of date-relevant links.
Last week, Australian Lamb put out their yearly humourous advert touting eating lamb on Australia Day.
It's got a lot of the jostling and nudging that goes on between our countries, with no shortage of the quick slap upside our own egos, with references to cheating at sports (a couple of national cricketers got caught trying to throw a cricket match, which is practically a mortal sin in the sport), and our inability to hold onto a Prime Minister for a full term. Plus, you know, Jacinta Ardern (NZ's PM) is definitely way cooler than ScoMo. Nobody's arguing that.
Today, New Zealand answered.
I love the clapback. Well done, Kiwiland!
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And while we're on the antipodes, have a vid about the Aussie accent:
"Learning any accent is a difficult task, and sometimes actors aren't given enough time to learn an accent before a busy productiion period So while they might have been able to do the accent off set, maybe they weren't able to do the accent on set.
Maybe.
Or maybe they were really just bad."
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Backstory: Our PM, Scott Morrison (a.k.a. "scomo", because we nickname our PMs) announced this week that the government will be funding the creation/development/building of a recreation of Captain James Cook's ship the Endeavour and it will be circumnavigating Australia, just like James Cook did.
Problem 1: James Cook didn't circumnavigate Australia in a ship.
This guy called Matthew Flinders did. In hilarious situational coincidence, his remains were found in a cemetary near a London train station which is being excavated for a high-speed rail link.
And while Matthew Flinders first popularised the name 'Australia' for this country, he wasn't the first Australian to circumnavigate the country. (I doubt Flinders considered himself Australian at all, in fact.) Considering the Aboriginal peoples had been in this place for some 80,000 years (yes, eighty thousand years) before any European explorer made it down here, technically the first Australian known to circumnavigate the country was King Bungaree.
Last week, Australian Lamb put out their yearly humourous advert touting eating lamb on Australia Day.
It's got a lot of the jostling and nudging that goes on between our countries, with no shortage of the quick slap upside our own egos, with references to cheating at sports (a couple of national cricketers got caught trying to throw a cricket match, which is practically a mortal sin in the sport), and our inability to hold onto a Prime Minister for a full term. Plus, you know, Jacinta Ardern (NZ's PM) is definitely way cooler than ScoMo. Nobody's arguing that.
Today, New Zealand answered.
I love the clapback. Well done, Kiwiland!
--
And while we're on the antipodes, have a vid about the Aussie accent:
"Learning any accent is a difficult task, and sometimes actors aren't given enough time to learn an accent before a busy productiion period So while they might have been able to do the accent off set, maybe they weren't able to do the accent on set.
Maybe.
Or maybe they were really just bad."
--
Backstory: Our PM, Scott Morrison (a.k.a. "scomo", because we nickname our PMs) announced this week that the government will be funding the creation/development/building of a recreation of Captain James Cook's ship the Endeavour and it will be circumnavigating Australia, just like James Cook did.
Problem 1: James Cook didn't circumnavigate Australia in a ship.
This guy called Matthew Flinders did. In hilarious situational coincidence, his remains were found in a cemetary near a London train station which is being excavated for a high-speed rail link.
And while Matthew Flinders first popularised the name 'Australia' for this country, he wasn't the first Australian to circumnavigate the country. (I doubt Flinders considered himself Australian at all, in fact.) Considering the Aboriginal peoples had been in this place for some 80,000 years (yes, eighty thousand years) before any European explorer made it down here, technically the first Australian known to circumnavigate the country was King Bungaree.
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