Meeting the Prime Minister

[emo_snal]

   The "St Patrick's Day Fires" are pretty much out now (there's still burning peat-bog but that stuff can go on for weeks, months, or I've heard even years), having burned 14,600 hectares (36,000 acres), and 24 houses. Fortunately no human fatalities (apparently a number of livestock got caught up in it

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[pundigrion]

Note to self: If I want to mess with Aussies, I should take a fanny pack...and maybe black socks and bluetooth headset for good measure.

[emo_snal]

Haha and of course they had the securit earpieces. Didn't note their socks though

[fluttershy]

Congratulations on keeping a smile while meeting Turnbull! That must have been quite the challenge!

[emo_snal]

Ahaha the secret is that i don't follow Australian politics. My Australian friend wouldn't shake his hand though and left the room to avoid him.

[wpadmirer]

Fanny packs? That's hysterical!

[emo_snal]

Haha yeah I am wondering what they keep in there??

[adafrog]

Wow.

[emo_snal]

(:

[weebleswobble]

giggles at the fanny packs. I was told brits English has fanny as meaning a girls privates, where US English it means butt. which way do the aussies swing?

[emo_snal]

Haha this is true. So they call the accessory "bum bags" here.

[morbid_curious]

I've found that many Americans assume "bum bags" are the brown paper variety you put bottles of alcohol in, unless you give them more context :-)

[emo_snal]

Ahahaha sounds about right!