old man emu

It's raining! It's raining! But it will stop within a couple of hours. Better a little than none at all.

If you travel overseas and take along the habit of looking at a person approaching you and saying "g-day", then you eliminate the risk of being asked if you are English.

During our conversations earlier this year we questioned what the annual sales figures of EVs would be if we looked for those figures in December. I'm curious to see what those figures are (for Australia).

My Mum, who is 100 years old, is cared for in an aged persons' residence by people from the Phillipines. They are lovely, caring people. However, although they are fluent in the King's English, sometimes they do not understand the Australian terms for things in a domestic situation. When you think of the age difference between them and Mum, there can be three generations' difference between them. Mum uses terms that she learned as a child, in the 1930s, when there really was a unique Australian vocabulary. A lot of these terms have fallen out of common usage, so her carers have never encountered them. However, Mum has managed to teach them "hoo-roo" as a parting call.

I wanted to make the distiction between his being king of the United Kingdom, and being king of Australia. The United Kingdom and Australia are two separate things. If Australians ever decided to become a republic, it would be the King of the Commonwealth of Australia who would be replaced with another sort of Head of State. To say that Australia's Head of State is the king of England, inferring that Australia is the subject of a foreign king, is incorrect. King Charles III wears two crowns, and the rights given by those two crowns are independent of each other. In our modern world, does it really matter where the Head of State's place of abode is located?

When will people stop saying that? King Charles III is the King of the United Kingdom and at teh same time he is, separately, king of Australia. This is the wording of the Proclamation of King Charles III: Whereas because of the death of our blessed and glorious Queen Elizabeth the Second, the Crown has solely and rightfully come to Prince Charles Philip Arthur George: We, therefore, General the Honourable David Hurley AC DSC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, and members of the Federal Executive Council, do now proclaim Prince Charles Philip Arthur George to be King Charles the Third, By the Grace of God King of Australia. So we are the subjects of King Charles III of the Commonwealth of Australia.

Language evolves. It's evolution depends on the source and viability of the mutations that cause the evolution. Take a look at the words I used in my post above. A lot of them have mutated.

When was the last time an Australian or British movie was promoted in picture shows? (I refuse to use "cinema".) I haven't been to the fleas and itches for years. If I pass by a picture theatre, all I seem to see are posters for American flicks whose stories revolve around a dystopian America.

But it is not the Law according to trump, so it's OK. (He said with a soupcon of irony.)

Dear Newcomer, Members of this forum have personalities that others recognise after having been on the forum for several years. In my case, I often post items about the etymology of words that pop up in posts. Those items could be classed as trivia, but exposure to them increases the general knowledge of members, thereby diminishing cluelessness. Also, since the proliferation of AI generated stuff being posted on forums like ours, we have become pretty adept at spotting it. I am happy to say that your posts show all the indicators of posts generated by a human. That's why you have been welcomed. Just sit back for a while and observe the personalities of other members before making comments about a member's post that could be taken as not nice.

Whoops! I forgot to say that the meanig of "guy" as the effigy of Guy Fawkes, dates from 1806 and in 1836 had the meaning "grotesquely or poorly dressed person", which could descibe an effigy made of old clothes.

He's just declared the airspace of Venezuela closed. Since when did the USA control the World's airspace?

I thought it was witty.

I caught myself using the word "guy" recently, and chatised myself for using an Americanism. However, I soon recalled the Gunpowder Plot in which Guy Fawkes was a key figure in the Gunpowder Plot to blow up British king and Parliament (Nov. 5, 1605). His capture and eventual execution is celebrated every year on the 5th of November. Effigies were paraded through the streets by children on the anniversary of the conspiracy. I don't know if the fireworks are still used in Britain, but I recall that kids used to go about asking "a penny for the Guy?". The American use of the word meaning "fellow" appears from 1847.

The European theatre in WWII was won by the incredible manufacturing and agricultural production possible in the USA due to the USA being out of range of effective attack by the European Axis powers. That's not to deny the contribution of the British. The Axis powers (really only Germany) suffered the direct opposite and so lost. I reckon it was a bit different in the war against Japan since the problem there was to dig out the Japanese from their defensive positions. You could say that the Yanks in their land operatoins were working in spaces where there was not room to swing a cat. I think that one of the greatest manufactured item leading to the Allied victory in the Pacific was the very humble Marston matting which enable the Allies to establish air superiority very rapidly, and to be able to repair any bomb damage to runways very quickly. Have you ever given thought to who started the war in the Asia/Pacific? Most people who don't know the histrory of the first 40 years of the 20th Century will blame Japan, but American corporate interests were very much involved in preventing Japanese economic development. The Asian/Pacific war was a trade war, not an ideological one like the Europena war.