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Id love chicken salt but its like 40 aud to send that to the states. I got a buddy up in kingaroy who refurbishes model T fords. Problem is most of the parts can only be found in the states. He finds em. I ship em to him. Costs like 125aud a package using snail mail.
But if youre up for it id looove some.
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It's a bit of money dude...But I'll send ya some. Discord me some address details and I'll get it done early next week.
Really! I'll send you my details. In exchange if theres anything in the states you cant get in australia. Let me know. I'll make it happen and send it to you.
Yeah man, it's all good...Good deeds are repaid in kind...Somewhere down the line. (Sometimes.) I don't mind.
AR15 and 50,000 rounds. (lol)
Probably cheaper in the states but I dont know how customs would appreciate that. Maybe just receiver parts would go unnoticed. I'll call them "car parts. Maybe a recoil absorbing stock like the axiom?
Yeah...I'd not want my name on a parcel of any regulated gun parts...I'm too handsome for jail. Lol.
It's actually sometimes really difficult to get things out of the States and into here...It's weird what is regulated and shops over your way don't fuck around...They simply won't send it. I guess there are penalties?
I get some gun stuff in though, the un-regulated things.
With Shipping to Australia a lot of the time the dealers just dont want to mess with custom forms or the shipping costs which are pretty high. So thats often why they refuse. Granted its not something specifically prohibited. Other times dealers wont send individual parts unless it goes through their distributor in Australia. Mainly because its cost prohibitive to make profit sending individual pieces over to Australia. Instead they'll send a bunch of stuff bulk to their distributor say in sydney and have him distribute it to you at jacked up pieces to make his own cut of the pie. I ran into this with guitar pickups i sent over to friend in Brisbane. The company wouldn't ship direct to him only through their distributor bit had no problems with it if a friend shipped it over. In the states the part was like 85 usd in australia it was 275aud. A bit of a rip-off.
The cobbers down under getting fucked over huh? Lucky we're all so handsome...Otherwise we'd get an inferiority complex.
This guys a good bloke. Real good. the same guy i was telling you about with the Catherine zeta jones look alike doctor. I wasnt about to let this guitar pickup company bend him over. Most aussies got the charm, looks and accent to melt a woman's heart. Me my American accent went over pretty well there. Most aussies think americans all sound like Texans which they then go on to imitate but it sounds nothing like Texans and more like deep south hillbillies from Alabama. Me they thought at first was Canadian. Maybe cause i didnt act like a typical yank. But also because i have a west coast accent. If youre good youll tell right away its a southern Californian accent. As it is. I look like jack black and a hobbit had a love child and i have the personality to match. Any woman interested in me wasnt because of looks but due to talent and charisma
This made me laugh because it's also funny to hear Americans, or anyone, attempt an Aussie accent. It's like, do you hear yourself? You sound like a retard.
Still, we encourage it as it gives us a laugh.
Aussies were forgiving of my attempts to say howsitgoin, fair dinkum? And gday. I like to think its because i used them in proper context. To be honest as long as youre not an outright wanker most aussies will take kindly to ya. Aussies are good people. Besides I've watched that docuseries on sbs housos and fat pizza i know how to like fully speak proper choco. I blend right in.
I think you hit the nail on the head...Most Aussies are good people and despite the way the country is losing its Australianess due to the influx from other countries we're generally accepting of others.
Well my take on it is this. Respect goes both ways. If you immigrate to a new country because the way they do things is better (other wise why would you be moving there) then you need to respect their culture and assimilate a little. Meet them half way. It when you move to another country just to take advantage of it and not give respect back but demand it for yourself. Then youre what pisses off australians. I could've fit in with just about anyone over there and nobody would be bitching about this damned yank who moved onto their street. I respected aussie culture as much as my own. And i was practically invited into everyone's house in the neighborhood. It got to a point people i didnt know but had obviously heard about me would wave and smile and say hello as they drove down the street and as they saw me.
As a born and bred Aussie I couldn't say this better. Yes, I get pissed off with many who come here for a better life then perpetuate the same behaviours and actions that made them want to leave where they came from. I have been labelled as racist for feeling this way. I'm ok with that.
I don't expect people to discard their culture, but it must be embraced only within the law of the land and labelling me racist for speaking up in favour of my Australian way of life...Well, if a person doesn't like Australia, or wish to fit in, they are welcome to go back to their own country...Which they left because they wanted a better life in Australia.
I'm the son of an immigrant who came here legally and embraced the country as his own relinquishing his other citizenship and going all in for Australia. I don't expect that...But I expect some assimilation. Racist? Yeah whatever. :)
So i take it you dont visit Melbourne much. Its the hook turns. Its probably because of the hook turns.
Lol...Well yeah it's not my favourite place...But those hook turns can be found almost everywhere. I'm ok with them, just depends I guess. (see last comment.)
They still make no sense to me.
You mean the people or the turns? Lol.
Er...both?
We've got a few of those turns here in Adelaide now, they installed the tram line back in (was removed many years ago) and they keep through-traffic flowing whilst right-turners are off on the left out the way. When the through-traffic light goes red, those turners go right and the cross traffic light goes green. It's a bandaid-fix rather than performing costly road works.
Yeah i get it now. It does sorta make sense.
More sense than getting hit by a tram. Lol.
I remember the first time I drove in Melbourne. I was 19 and Faith was 17.5...It was our first holiday together and we'd driven Adelaide to Melbourne via the Great Ocean Road. I was petrified of driving in the big smoke and everyone had warned me about those priority-turn intersections. I can still recall the happiness I felt right after navigating one...I felt like Mario Andretti crossing the line first at the Indy 500. Well, maybe not that good...But good.
Yeah i had an experience like that when i was learning to drive. My first time merging onto one of los angeles 8 lane wide highways.
I learned in a small country town....Couldn't hit anything if I tried! Although, I knew how to drive as I'd paddock-bashed in the back paddock for a few years prior to getting on the road. Must have been hectic on that highway.
La freeways are hectic. Either everyone is doing 85 mph or youre in gridlocked traffic sitting on what amounts to be the worlds largest parking lot.