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denList 5 things which are basic common knowledge in your culture, which people outside are unfamiliar with. This is not about obscurity, but something everyday to you, that others go "bzuh?" at.
1. Being called "an old bastard" is a complement. Being called "a bit of a bastard" is not.
2. Vegemite
3. Native trees don't shed their leaves, but the do shed their bark.
4. Most people in this country have little or no contact with wild animals (80% of the population is urban)
5. "Tin" (aka corrugated iron) is a common roofing material, especially outside major cities.
1. Being called "an old bastard" is a complement. Being called "a bit of a bastard" is not.
2. Vegemite
3. Native trees don't shed their leaves, but the do shed their bark.
4. Most people in this country have little or no contact with wild animals (80% of the population is urban)
5. "Tin" (aka corrugated iron) is a common roofing material, especially outside major cities.
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Date: 9 Jan 2009 13:37 (UTC)2. Pap (ground up maize, boiled in water to make stiff porridge-like stuff) goes with just about everything
3. "Sharp sharp" is not a description of a knoife. It's a way of saying goodbye.
4. Everyone knows that the real term for a BBQ is 'braai'. BBQ's are silly little gas things that Yanks have. Noone should leave a braai untainted by the smell of wood smoke, soot, grease and brandy and coke :)
5. Taxis to us are actually minibus-death-traps crammed full of people which have the peculiar ability to defy normal mechanics and travel at least 3 times as fast as the manufactured ever thought possible.
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Date: 9 Jan 2009 13:42 (UTC)