Quote: "The chicken one."
Well of course. It looks really delicious! Man I'm actually really interested to try that, but...
Quote: "Available in Australia"
...is it?? I was just in Maccas today (large McChicken meal with coke, please) and I didn't see that!
Quote: "It really is unfortunate that I live about a 30 miles' drive from the nearest one."
It's about 55km for us to go to Maccas.
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Went 10-pin bowling today. I love bowling. And I won. On the way there it poured raining so heavily that I couldn't see where the road was and had to do 70 with the windscreen wipers on full speed. At least the Land Rover's wipers are nearly new.
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You know how sometimes I like to ask questions to those living in other countries? Well I'm doing it again
Here's a few ideas that occurred to me today:
What's America's minimum wage ("award rate") like? In Australia it depends on the industry, but tends to be about $8-10/h at the youngest age and around $18-20/h once you get to 20 or so. Just curious
What's the rule for tipping in America? Saw something on Facebook that made me wonder about this. I don't know if I've ever been in a restaurant where I would be expected to tip, but AFAIK in Australia tipping is entirely optional (like it should be).
What do you call cable ties in your country? I know they're generally called zip ties in America, and I was watching a Linus Tech Tips video where Luke (who's Canadian) called them zap ties. They're called cable ties in Australia.
Something that annoys me slightly is that Australia is often lumped in with Asia or called Oceania (which presumably includes all the stuff around Australia like New Zealand). It's a bit weird. Back in the 50's, Australia had just been to war, but like America hadn't really been damaged by the war itself (obviously we lost people, but we didn't lose any infrastructure like Britain did); this meant we had a massive post-war economic boom and Australia became the most wealthy country per capita in the entire world. The odd thing is that unlike America, which is generally wealthy and has a high population to support it, Australia is still very wealthy but has a very low population (only about 23 million - the population of Florida alone is 19 million and the entire US is 318 million!).
My point is that Australia is very much a first-world country with a very, very high standard of living, and we buy all the most expensive electronics gear BUT due to our low population we rarely appear country selection lists on websites. We normally have to select Oceania or (more commonly) UK. Sometimes in terms of English there's USA or International; lol, there's "America" and then there's "everything else"
Just go to nvidia.com and you have North America, South America, Europe and Asia. Wow. We don't even exist, apparently
Ugh, my brother just explained to me in great detail how he intentionally popped a big burn blister and mopped up the pus. Thanks. That was disgusting.
