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Sunday, December 09, 2018

Australia News on Dec. 9th, 2018


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I just came back from a trip around the south island of New Zealand and really feel like you guys might appreciate this story.
I'm a German student spending a year abroad in NZ on a two week Trip around the south island on which I started talking to a Dane.
A few days forward where sitting in a buss where he is playing some phone game about collecting animals when he discovers a drop bear and starts talking to me about these mysterious animals. Having never heard of them I quickly get suspicious and try to explain that they are probably some kind of joke.
This is when he starts talking about how an Australian he met in a holiday camp told him about them and that an Australian would clearly know as further prove he starts reading out the description in the game which literally states that they are huge koala bears that attack unwary tourist.
Barely able to contain my laughter I try to explain it one more time but to no avail. Instead of accepting that he was played he doubles down and proposes a bet.
Now you should know that on this trip every room had one comfortable queensized bed and a few bunk beds. Normally it would have been his turn in the big bed but to prove me how sure he is he offers it to me should I bee right.
We look it up later and what can I say except your welcome that I had a very cosy sleep that night.
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To air my biases, I think the whole thing exists to exploit a western cultural foible that thinks just giving people money is somehow shameful or unimaginative. Worse than the endless parade of candles, soaps, cheap booze, chocolate, wallets and so forth that people get each other (we've all got that relative or co-worker that still thinks Ferrero Rochers are exotic). So we hit somewhere in the middle and buy Monopoly money you can only spend at one place, with probably not enough value to get something they'll actually want. Or it circuitously drops a hint like, 'buy something from this sporting goods franchise, tubby'.
It's a great way to assuage some guilt around effort and indecision, despite these things famously going unspent a lot of the time. They might have actually burned that candle at least. We all might as well ceremonially burn a few notes at the Christmas dinner table. That would actually be kind of cool.
(It just occurred to me that you can probably get gift cards for the local smelly candle chain too. That's got to be the worst present I can think of. Just slap who ever it's for straight in the face to show how much you care instead).
Anyway, my take is that we should learn a thing or two from other cultures like the Chinese and decide that cash is a perfectly great gift that you can spend on stuff n that. /twocentsroundeduptofive.
But I realise I might be missing out on some subtleties of the experience. Please folks, do share your thoughts on the subject.
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A lot of people seem to be abandoning the traditional gift frenzy and just going for a <$30 unlabelled gift suitable for anyone in the family. What are some good gift ideas in that price range suitable for children all the way up to grandparents? (And if you've already bought yours, what did you get?)
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