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@KirstiMiller30 In the mid '80's the WWF wrestling started on TV in NZ, so we pretty much switched to that in the school fields at lunch. Then there was ~30 a side rugby, that really just became tackle someone, then everyone piled in for a massive ruck.

I grew up in Wagga Wagga where the kids growing up used to play a game called "Red Rover Cross Over". It was mainly a boys game where all the boys would gather in a group at the end of the playground with one boy standing in the middle of the playground. He'd yell "Red Rover Cross Over” and all the other kids had to run to the other end of the playground without being caught. The kid in the middle had to catch and hold one of them while yelling "caught 123" The kid caught would then join the kid in the middle for the next call of "Red Rover Cross Over" during which both kids in the middle would catch another kid who would stay in the middle and so on. The last kid caught would win the game and he'd be the one to stay in the middle for next round. It was good fun (my three daughters used to play it most afternoons with me) while giving the kids exercise and training for future rugby teams or other sports. Can anyone else recall playing the same game?

@KirstiMiller30 As a Kiwi we called it both bullrush & British bulldog at schools I went to in the 80's to '90's. 5-6yr to 10yr olds all played together in primary school - this was pretty gentle & no full mongrel. Then 13 to 17yr olds in high school, which became rough as guts & more fun.

Remember when Gordon Brown gifted Obama an ornamental pen holder carved from the timbers of Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet, sister ship of the vessel the Resolute Desk was made from, and Obama gave Brown a DVD box set of American movies region-locked to U.S. DVD players?

@AndyBTravels @British_Airways Air France, Qatar & others have had it for a while

New @British_Airways onboard announcement out of Singapore to London last night advising not to take pictures or videos of crew and passengers…..

@AlexStepherylh @chubby_carrots @KaptinYap Were you home schooled?

@chubby_carrots @KaptinYap Australia is just what they call Austria in Russian, the language of Austria. What do they even teach you people in school?

They really don’t understand other countries exist

@ProfPeterDoyle @KatieEBarclay @BFI If i recall in the movie they incorrectly mention the Nek as a diversion for the British landings. It has been a while since I watched it. The French landed on the asiatic side of the strait on 25th April 1915, but yes then later redeployed to Cape Helles - error on my part.

@OneLeatherBoot @KatieEBarclay @BFI The Nek (and Lone Pine), both of them awful, were not diversions for Suvla Bay; they were part of the attack on Chunuk Bair. (The French spent most of the Campaign at Cape Helles)

Loud Australian at @BFI screening of Peter Weir’s Gallipoli this evening: Why are YOU here? Are you Australian? Me: I’m an historian who studies Gallipoli… I’m not Australian Her: have YOU been to Gallipoli? Me: Many times…you should see the Dawn Ceremony at Anzac… Her: oh….

@AmphiStuG Packing more than one set of guns with those arms

That’s the most British looking squaddie I’ve seen im ages holy hell

@KatieEBarclay @ProfPeterDoyle @BFI Which is weird, as even in the movie Gallipoli they mention the British landing & the charge at the Neck being a diversion for that. The French pretty much get forgotten about as they were over the other side of the strait.

@ProfPeterDoyle @BFI I once mentioned in passing to an Oz historian in Glasgow that in the area we were in the entire battalion died at Gallipoli- 1,000 men from only a few streets. And she was startled - she’d never realised non-Anzacs were there. And she had a history PhD!

@mghardiman @loadedline @PathOfMen_ Yep, swimming at dawn & dusk in the ocean is when sharks come in closer to shore. No thanks.

@loadedline @PathOfMen_ Lol 5am swim with mates before work... yeah nah I don't think so

8 things Australians do that I'm stealing forever: 1. Saying “no worries” about everything

@taipan168 The Port Morseby cemetery is well maintained. So many young lives lost in the defence of Australia & PNG.

I've been to these three Australian war cemeteries and they're all sombre and moving places, but none more so than Gallipoli, especially after you visit Anzac Cove and see the hill that the troops had to scale and the positions they tried to hold. theaustralian.com.au/travel/10-war-…

@MullinsTyl17346 @uncreativetom 35C isn't that hot mate. It is pretty typical of a large chunk of Australia for over half the year for much of it, and we spend a lot of time outside.

@OneLeatherBoot @uncreativetom The assumption was Europeans they travel to other continents. The point is walking outside in 95 degrees is still hot. Again I assumed intelligent Europeans or Australians in your case would already understand.

...?? is that hard for you??

@MullinsTyl17346 @uncreativetom Do you honestly think that Europeans don't travel to humid countries like in Asia, Africa, Northern Australia etc on their holidays? Also stinking hot countries.

@uncreativetom 95 is gonna different wherever you are. In Florida 95 is gonna be humid. Where phoenix and Vegas (#17/18 hottest cities in the world) are in deserts with high elevation which has dry heat.

@NSTRIKE1231 They use up the 100 purchased a year in 2 days. Then be back to bombs with guidance kits.

👀🇺🇸 New images have emerged from U.S. Air Force tests of the FAMM-L (AGM-188A “Rusty Dagger”) small cruise missile, launched from an F-16D over the Gulf of Mexico. 🔹 The test marks a major shift in tactical aviation capabilities, as the U.S. moves closer to integrating a lightweight (~230 kg), low-cost, mass-producible missile with a reported range exceeding 900 km. 🔹 Developed under the ERAM (Extended Range Attack Munition) program — which may include deliveries to Ukraine — the AGM-188A approaches the performance of heavier systems like the JASSM-ER. 🔹 However, it is significantly more compact and up to 10 times cheaper, with an estimated unit cost of around $250,000 in serial production. 🔹 The key value of the “Rusty Dagger” lies in correcting the economic imbalance of modern warfare, where expensive precision munitions are often used against relatively low-cost targets. 🔹 Its smaller size and lower cost enable mass deployment in large salvos of hundreds of missiles, preserving stocks of more expensive strategic weapons. 🔹 For tactical aviation, this effectively extends strike range, allowing aircraft to hit distant, well-defended targets while staying outside enemy air defense zones. 🔹 The concept of such low-cost cruise missiles enables saturation of air defense systems while maintaining precision and effectiveness — a factor that could significantly reshape modern warfare dynamics. See the latest updates with us: @NSTRIKE1231

@salingergregor @sippycup_25 And a free bus service runs to & from the stadium along main routes.

@sippycup_25 and it has trains!

Stadium for 60k spectators in Perth 😋

@BonoboWanderer @Peter_Fox59 Not quite. As a former Kiwi (now long time official Aussie) Kiwis are very much Fush n chups. Seven = seven Six = sux

@Peter_Fox59 Is it really that hard? If you know the tell-tale vowel, you just wait for it to appear. For NZ accent=fesh and cheps For Canadian= aboot the hoose.

Aus v NZ accent. Yanks, Canadians & Europeans cannot differtiate us. Brits have problems whereas Kiwis & Aussies pick our cousins readily. I'm told the difference is the Maori, English & greater Scot influence in NZ v Aboriginal, English, greater Irish & Cockkney in Australia.

@EnriqueM262 @OnDisasters B52's used to have one on the early versions

@OnDisasters Its fascinating to see that once the Soviets copied the B-29, they just never let go of her tail turret design.

Coke, Coke everywhere! For those not familiar with it, "Coke" was the NATO designation for the Antonov An-12. Transports had names starting with "C" (for "cargo") hence this one was the Coke. As if the sight of all these transports was not overwhelming enough, there´s a small detail that catches the eye: note that these cargo planes carry defensive weapons. (Specifically - 2× 23 mm (0.906 in) Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannons) This was fairly common in Soviet transports, but not used on the Western aircraft (to my surprise, one of the Soviet "reasonings" behind the KAL 007 shotdown was that they thought the KC-135s and others had defensive rear guns... this was how badly their intelligence systems worked)

@taipan168 In decades & high hundreds of flights around Australia/ NZ, Asia, FSU, Africa, Europe I've never once had this happen. Mistakes yes, I've done also it. Oops sorry & move. Moved for young families at times. There has been a wave of those posts (not you) just engagement farming.

I've taken many, many international flights and never had this happen to me. Mistakes, sure, but not people intentionally taking another seat and refusing to move. I have offered to swap seats with couples or families who are separated provided the new seat isn't worse.

@anishmoonka @AZGrizFan Read again. The beer was also "free" in the buffet price

@AZGrizFan 20+ pitchers is exactly the customer profile buffets are built for. Alcohol carries margins north of 50 percent. You lost them eight bucks on bulgogi and made them 40 back on beer. Letting him stay was def the correct business call.

A German triathlete paid 18 bucks for all-you-can-eat sushi and ate 100 plates in one sitting. He weighed 174 pounds with under 10 percent body fat. When he tried to tip on the way out, the owner refused the money and told him he was banned for eating too much. Any restaurant runs food costs at about 30 to 35 cents of every dollar you pay. Buffets included. On a $20 all-you-can-eat, the average customer eats around $7.40 of actual food. After rent, staff, and the rest of the bills, the house keeps about a dollar per person. Most customers are not that triathlete. On a typical 300-customer day, roughly 255 people eat an average amount, 60 eat less, and only about 15 eat enough to cost the restaurant money. Those 15 lose the place around $127 between them. The other 285 cover the damage and then some. Average it all out and the restaurant still walks away with about a dollar per customer. Five bowls of butter chicken still leaves the kitchen ahead. The triathlete got banned over his drink order: he ate for five people and only had one cup of tea all night. At a buffet, the food barely breaks even. The profit lives in soft drinks, desserts, and alcohol. A fountain Coke costs the restaurant about 15 cents to pour and sells for three or four dollars. The food pulls you in. The Coke pays the rent. The industry has been shrinking anyway. Old Country Buffet once had 600 locations and today has zero. Sweet Tomatoes shut all 97 of its stores in 2020 and never came back. Food costs are up 29 percent since 2020 and labor costs are up 31 percent. "All-you-can-eat within reason" is the polite industry phrase for please do not be the fifth bowl guy.

@anishmoonka Yes, but I am so hungry now for Butter chicken & other tasty Indian delights after seeing that post that I will likely order twice as much when I do my weekend takeaway visit.