Australian/UK slang for places that do very cheap fish and chips - hence chippies.

Australian ex-barista: a long black is one shot of expresso with a little hot water to top it up.

Fun factor: the Sisi/Romy Schneider movies were HUGE in china amongst my parents' demographic.

I was 19 and travelling by myself for the first time. I just paid it and chucked down some more coins that I didn't recognize and hoped for the best.

Not to mention, tho this might have just been that particular restaurant, I got charge gratuity eating by myself in L.A. on a layover once. Not sure if I was just so obviously a tourist and they went 'fuck it, just charge gratuity because she won't tip' or what. So so confusing.

its given us back the weekly bugle. a 3 month hiatus of the bugle DURING FIFA CUP was the worst kind of hell.

o m g. I LOVE that description of your coworker as a shark who ran on talking instead of water.

in Australia tipping is voluntary. no matter what kind of food service place it is. because our base rate of pay even for restaurant work is $16. tipping might happen when your waiter is especially great/you don't want to take the extra change.

Yep this pretty much has nothing to do with the plot of the book aside from the DUFF acronym.

I um, hit the insatiably-curious-about-sex stage back in the dial up internet ages. So I used to race through romance novels at my local library (along with anne rice novels and dragons of pern stuff) for all the raunchy bits. This was way way before romantic/erotica was a thing so purple was my colour when it comes…

yes, YES, why does one of the best nora Roberts books of all time (in my opinion) Carolina Moon is acted by two c-listers? how is the dumb one from rules of engagement adequate to play the lead in Carolina moon?

on the other hand you have women like my mother who honestly was a shitty, shitty mother but preaches on and on about the wonders of motherhood and how everyone should experience it.

...and she wonders why I don't want kids.

(yes she loves me, but due to a number of psychological/sociological/personality factors she's a…

how could you make a hot chocolate when you don't have milk?

another Australian here.

dude you need to realize that for a lot of people outside of the u.s. fried chicken is something that happens in kfc and hipster American themed restaurants. hence chicken fried steak IS really bloody confusing for us.

pretty sure that was taylor swift's wardrobe for the next 3 months or so.

I'm a civil engineer. I work with civil, building, traffic, electrical, etc engineers. With one exception, they're all dorky dads/granddads. even my contractors tend towards the dad-ly side of dorky.

the engineering life is very seldomly all beefcake all the time...

(I do want to bang the red headed exception tho)

try being Asian looking, female and having an Australian accent. my guy friends can pick so easily in the u.s. but I just get weird looks.

no one noticed the grittiness of it?

there is nothing wrong with eating the entire shrimp head and all - especially when its been deep fried and doused in tasty sauce. tho clearly its an Asian thing judging from this string of comments...

...well I do have a british friend who had a thing for salad cream who can go through a loaf of sliced white bread dipped in salad cream in one session.