Magpie Season

goinsoon · Guru

RE: Magpie Season

jimbo · Guru

Dont worry peoples..After we win the Grand Final it will be over...We will be nice again

Esmeralda · Guru

Us Victorians have school bags and eat potato cakes - also peanut butter (not paste)!

And very many of us don't barrack for Collingwood.

Beth54 · Guru

Esmeralda wrote:
Us Victorians have school bags and eat potato cakes - also peanut butter (not paste)!
And very many of us don't barrack for Collingwood.

Unfortuately, peanut butter has taken over in Qld these days. I say unfortunate because I kind of like that we have our own language. wink

We've gone away from the magpie season thread haven't we.

Who cares!

-- Edited by Beth54 on Tuesday 6th of September 2011 05:52:54 PM

Beth54 · Guru

Just heard on the news that a Magpie drew blood on a 10 year old girl at Tweed heads, so they plan to kill it! They said it's not just swooping but striking many people.

Everyone knew it was there, and that it was striking, so why weren't they duly prepared!

Grrrrrr!

Cruising Granny · Guru

We can blame our language transition to American television. Daipers instead of baby nappies, napkins instead of serviettes,
peanut butter instead of paste, jelly instead of jam, and watch enough TV and you'll be bi-lingual.
As for the magpies, they have been swooping forever at nesting time. For generations people have been coming up with magpie helmets in preparation for this short period of the year. What's gone wrong with that plan?
Shoot the magpie! Shoot the magpie! The poor innocent magpie will be shot for protecting its nest. The animal liberationists will jump out of their skin with disgust.
Surely it's the people who have to adjust, NOT the magpie.

Delta18 · Guru

While talking dialects, go into any cake shop outside Victoria and ask for a Snot Block and see what you get confuse you sure won't get a vanilla slice! biggrin

beiffe · Guru

In QLD they call a suit case a PORT LOL. I prefer to drink my port though I did spend nearly 20 years looking to get back to port after each fishing trip.
Regards
Brian

Beth54 · Guru

Exactly CG, on both subjects. Our language has been invaded by American TV. When my nephew was younger, I had to get his Dad, my brother, to interpret for me! He mumbled and spoke so fast we couldn't understand him.

Latest news on the 'shoot the Magpie' is that people are protesting, even the one's who've been struck. So hopefully the poor Magpie will be saved.

Delta, another interstate language thing...a vanilla slice was always a custard slice in Qld, but again, they're signage now says vanilla slice. My d-i-l is from Vic and she calls them snot blocks.

Beth54 · Guru

Finally came to their senses and not going to kill the Magpie, but...they're going to re-locate it! As if they can re-locate it while it's nesting! disbelief

Esmeralda · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:
We can blame our language transition to American television. Daipers instead of baby nappies, napkins instead of serviettes,
peanut butter instead of paste, jelly instead of jam, and watch enough TV and you'll be bi-lingual.

CG it has been peanut butter all of my life (at least in Victoria), and is not part of the Americanisation by television. TV came in when I was about 5. But I take your point.

Happywanderer · The Master

I absolutely can not stand to hear or see the vanilla slices called that other name, it turns my stomach.
Back in NZ we called them custard squares. I still forget what to ask for.

Sheba · Guru

I've always known them as Vanilla Slices. [Qld.] Used to get them at the same Greek Cafe in Caboolture, as the Potato Scallops.

Why can't people just wear Hats in Magpie nesting season ? Can't believe NPWS okayed killing this one. They also should know that relocation is not the answer. They will only be moved to another birds' Territory, and one will end up being killed.

Must be Wildlife Haters running that department now, to make ludicrous decisions like the last two.

Cheers,

Sheba.

-- Edited by Sheba on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 06:18:56 PM

Beth54 · Guru

Another one that comes to mind is coffee roll. They're now they're called finger buns in Qld.

Although custard slices are now vanilla slices, custard tarts are still custard tarts. Go figure!

I wonder if the changes are because so many southeners have moved to Qld?

That's another point...I've met so many people in Qld who weren't born here, but come from elsewhere. In fact, at one place I worked, I was the only dinky dye Qlder!

Marj, as a NZer, do you say dance or darnce? My Kiwi friend says darnce, plarnts, charnce.

It reminds me of the old song 'you say tomato I say tamayto'

Beth54 · Guru

Sheba wrote:
I've always known them as Vanilla Slices. [Qld.] Used to get them at the same Greek Cafe in Caboolture, as the Potato Scallops.
Why can't people just wear Hats in Magpie nesting season ? Can't believe NPWS okayed killing this one. They also should know that relocation is not the answer. They will only be moved to another birds' Territory, and one will end up being killed.
Must be Wildlife Haters running that department now, to make ludicrous decisions like the last two.
Cheers,
Sheba.

Yes, I thought that was strange too Gayle. As for the vanilla/custard slices, I wonder then if it's where in Qld, you grew up. I grew up in Logan before it was Logan, but when it was just the bush!

Happywanderer · The Master

Yes Beth. I do say charnce, plarnts, darnce. But have been known to say dance etc if I think carefully before speaking.

Beth54 · Guru

Happywanderer wrote:
Yes Beth. I do say charnce, plarnts, darnce. But have been known to say dance etc if I think carefully before speaking.

I don't think you need to change it..it's who you are Marj. wink

Sheba · Guru

Glasshouse Mountains is where I grew up Beth. Only go there occasionally now to visit one of my sisters who still lives there. I hate to see what's happened to the whole Sunshine Coast area.

The whole place has been completely ruined as far as I'm concerned. Would you believe people commute to Brisbane to work every day from Nambour now?

And don't get me started on what they've done to Kings' Beach at Caloundra. [ And I don't want to hear about "Progress." It's not always the best thing.]

I'd better shut up now or I won't be able to.

Cheers,

Sheba.

Beth54 · Guru

Sheba wrote:
Glasshouse Mountains is where I grew up Beth.   Only go there occasionally now to visit one of my sisters who still lives there. I hate to see what's happened to the whole Sunshine Coast area.
The whole place has been completely ruined as far as I'm concerned.   Would you believe people commute to Brisbane to work every day from Nambour now?
And don't get me started on what they've done to Kings' Beach at Caloundra. [ And I don't want to hear about "Progress."   It's not always the best thing.]
I'd better shut up now or I won't be able to.
Cheers,
Sheba.

I know just how you feel Sheba. I don't like the way they turn good farming land into housing estates. Glasshouse Mountains, Redland Bay, Sunnybank many years ago. So far Rochedale is safe, but I reckon it won't be long till it's desecrated by housing too.

When it's good rich soil, they shouldn't be allowed to turn it into housing.

Cruising Granny · Guru

Ok, now from South Oz -
"Fritz", otherwise known as Devon, Luncheon or Polony. They vary a little on construction and ingredients, but they are similar.
Metwurst is not salami.
Vanilla slice can be custard square - the shape doesn't matter.
C0cktail frankfurts - "little boys". (should that be sensored?).
Honey stick, kitchener bun - same cake, different shape and filling. Honey stick has honey and whipped cream. Kitchener bun is supposed to be like a donut without the hole, filled with strawberry jam and whipped cream, both are rolled in sugar.
Bee sting I believe is the same in most states.
What an interesting collection of colonies we live and travel among.

Beth54 · Guru

Cruising Granny wrote:
Ok, now from South Oz -
"Fritz", otherwise known as Devon, Luncheon or Polony. They vary a little on construction and ingredients, but they are similar.
Metwurst is not salami.
Vanilla slice can be custard square - the shape doesn't matter.
C0cktail frankfurts - "little boys". (should that be sensored?).
Honey stick, kitchener bun - same cake, different shape and filling. Honey stick has honey and whipped cream. Kitchener bun is supposed to be like a donut without the hole, filled with strawberry jam and whipped cream, both are rolled in sugar.
Bee sting I believe is the same in most states.
What an interesting collection of colonies we live and travel among.

Yes, how interesting CG. The only one of those cakes/buns I've heard of is a bee sting. I knew about the meats, but as I don't eat any of them anymore, I'd never be looking for them interstate anyway.

As for the 'little boys' we call them Cheerios. I know, it's weird, and I have no idea why they're called Cheerios in Qld only. (As far as I'm aware)

Isn't it funny how this discussion came about by me calling a school bag a port!

-- Edited by Beth54 on Wednesday 7th of September 2011 08:45:22 PM

Happywanderer · The Master

I call them Cheerios too Beth so it must be a NZ term as well.

Sheba · Guru

Beth54 wrote:
When it's good rich soil, they shouldn't be allowed to turn it into housing.
You're dead right there Beth. I remember the sweetest Strawberries used to come from the Redland Bay area when I was a kid. Don't think there are any farms at all there now are there ?
Won't be long before we're importing 100% of our food. We're almost at that point now.
Cheers,
Sheba.

Beth54 · Guru

Sheba wrote:
Beth54 wrote:
When it's good rich soil, they shouldn't be allowed to turn it into housing.
You're dead right there Beth. I remember the sweetest Strawberries used to come from the Redland Bay area when I was a kid. Don't think there are any farms at all there now are there ?
Won't be long before we're importing 100% of our food. We're almost at that point now.
Cheers,
Sheba.

I haven't been down there for awhile Sheba, but I don't thnk there's any farms left.

Marj, I'll have to check with my Kiwi friend as to what she calls them.