From the PMs I have been receiving, I am not the only solo foreigner in town!
So quit lurking or being coy on this board! This Monday the Outback bar will be open for a special Australian public holiday. It's a super friendly place to be (and I am not just saying that because I am Australian!) and it's the only place so far that strangers have spoken to me in Helsinki (and trust me I've been trying to hang out at as many places as possible!)
I've met some lovely Finns, Danes, New Zealand and Swiss people here, and well you know Australians, we talk to anyone!
If you want to meet up I'll be there Monday 25th April sitting right at the bar, but there will also be a lot of nice normal people too!!
Huom! This is not commercial endorsement. I am a paying member of the public at this bar. I do not get paid to say this! I just like meeting new people.
Oh and it's above the Sushi Bar at Eatz / across the road from Molly Malones, Helsinki.
Where's the dancing drinking smiley?
Make some new friends
Opens at 6pm.
So I'd day a little after then like 6.01.
Remember technically it's an Aussie holiday so I can't possibly work. Or pretend to. Out of respect. Back home, it's the only other day except for good Friday where the casino closes, well only for a half day. Gambling of course being part of the day's tradition.
Just a note, if anyone does come, come early. You'll probably get taught to play two up, and someone will explain Anzac day, diggers, mateship, and the defining of Australian identity to you. Come later, and you'll just be wondering why we are all crying with ours arms round strangers and singing very awful folk ballads, or worse, Cold Chisel songs.
So I'd day a little after then like 6.01.
Remember technically it's an Aussie holiday so I can't possibly work. Or pretend to. Out of respect. Back home, it's the only other day except for good Friday where the casino closes, well only for a half day. Gambling of course being part of the day's tradition.
Just a note, if anyone does come, come early. You'll probably get taught to play two up, and someone will explain Anzac day, diggers, mateship, and the defining of Australian identity to you. Come later, and you'll just be wondering why we are all crying with ours arms round strangers and singing very awful folk ballads, or worse, Cold Chisel songs.
Tough thing those diggers didn't have the foresight to realize that the 90th anniversary of what would become known as ANZAC Day would fall on a Monday. If you can get 20 million Australians to agree on changing it then sure we can move the event to a weekend. 
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Since when did we take life so seriously that we couldn't go to work with a little hangover or a wee bit tired?!
Say if you are there from 6 to 10 you can still be in bed by 11!
Come on, unless you're a surgeon or something important. It will be so nice just to say Hi to people and not have to start my sentences with an apologetic Anteeksi do you speak English.
PS I know someone who's making Anzac biscuits...
Say if you are there from 6 to 10 you can still be in bed by 11!
Come on, unless you're a surgeon or something important. It will be so nice just to say Hi to people and not have to start my sentences with an apologetic Anteeksi do you speak English.
PS I know someone who's making Anzac biscuits...
Well bring them to the bar!RSH wrote:I know someone who's making Anzac biscuits...
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I find that Vaalea siirappi works a treat with ANZAC biscuits. You should be able to buy that in most supermarkets. Honey is an OK substitute too.
So if you've got your eye on some other guy does that mean the family BBQ is off?
So if you've got your eye on some other guy does that mean the family BBQ is off?
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I'll go and I will try to bring a few mates but first someone please explain to me what Anzac is and what the *$~@ is a chisel song. I have a few Aussie mates back home, in fact i lived with 2 for about 18 months but never heard of either.
Although we may arrive a little later, maybe 6:06 or 6:07 at the latest
Although we may arrive a little later, maybe 6:06 or 6:07 at the latest
Anzac stands for Australian new zealand army corps.
In a nutshell, it's a day that commemorates those who died in the wars (all nowadays) but originally it was for those who died in Gallipoli. It's probably best you leave the rest to an official site as I couldn't start explaining without going into a diatribe about the English not being able to read maps, work out rip tides and using us as pawns and we love the Turks far more than the Brits as a result. Ahem.
"After four and a half months of training near Cairo, the Australians departed by ship for the Gallipoli peninsula, together with troops from New Zealand, Britain and France. The Australians landed at what became known as ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, and they established a tenuous foothold on the steep slopes above the beach. During the early days of the campaign, the allies tried to break through the Turkish lines and the Turks tried to drive the allied troops off the peninsular. All attempts ended in failure for both sides, and the ensuing stalemate continued for the remainder of 1915. The most successful operation of the campaign was in fact the evacuation of the troops on 19-20 December, under cover of a comprehensive deception operation."
Anyway it's significant because it was the defining of Australia identity (we realised we were different from the English) the birth of mateship and it's a rare thing that a country commemorates a defeat, but that's Australia for you.
Cold Chisel is Jimmy Barnes. You can practice your strangulated vocals here http://www.coldchisel.com.au/
In a nutshell, it's a day that commemorates those who died in the wars (all nowadays) but originally it was for those who died in Gallipoli. It's probably best you leave the rest to an official site as I couldn't start explaining without going into a diatribe about the English not being able to read maps, work out rip tides and using us as pawns and we love the Turks far more than the Brits as a result. Ahem.
"After four and a half months of training near Cairo, the Australians departed by ship for the Gallipoli peninsula, together with troops from New Zealand, Britain and France. The Australians landed at what became known as ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, and they established a tenuous foothold on the steep slopes above the beach. During the early days of the campaign, the allies tried to break through the Turkish lines and the Turks tried to drive the allied troops off the peninsular. All attempts ended in failure for both sides, and the ensuing stalemate continued for the remainder of 1915. The most successful operation of the campaign was in fact the evacuation of the troops on 19-20 December, under cover of a comprehensive deception operation."
Anyway it's significant because it was the defining of Australia identity (we realised we were different from the English) the birth of mateship and it's a rare thing that a country commemorates a defeat, but that's Australia for you.
Cold Chisel is Jimmy Barnes. You can practice your strangulated vocals here http://www.coldchisel.com.au/
After the history lesson
I almost forgot, thanks for the syrup tip Dan.
Family reunion was always off (how do you introduce an ex anyway?) but I have no other guy lined up, just looking, you know, to keep me from killing myself !
Family reunion was always off (how do you introduce an ex anyway?) but I have no other guy lined up, just looking, you know, to keep me from killing myself !
Ok, I get ANZAC now. You guys have a day to commerate the dead from a War fouught "for" the British, I always find it funny that depending on the sources anything up to 220,000 Irish men fought in World War 1 many used as cannon fodder and it is only recently that we have even started talking about it. We don't even really have an Independence day celebration let alone an Irish version of Anzac. There was even some trouble about wether our politicians should were a poppy on poppy day, which is the English way of remembering the dead from the 2 world wars. I guess though it was a way of letting the bitterness of a very nasty and bloody civil war slide into the past. Shame.
Anyway onto a happy note for the 25th of April I am changin my name to Bruce, everything i say will have an inflection on the end making everything sound like a question? and every one will be either a mate, a Sheila, a Drongo or any other put down I can remember from my school lunch times of watching neighbours. I think dag may be another.
Anyway onto a happy note for the 25th of April I am changin my name to Bruce, everything i say will have an inflection on the end making everything sound like a question? and every one will be either a mate, a Sheila, a Drongo or any other put down I can remember from my school lunch times of watching neighbours. I think dag may be another.
I think Bruce is already taken but you could try for Wayne (written with one 'a' but pronounced with seven). You'll be the guy at the bar with the Jason Donovan look-a-like mullet right? Looking forward to seeing you there! Don't forget to invite Kylie.
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