Feeling The Heat With An Olympic Warmup

The Olympics came to town this month, a year ahead of schedule, with a practice road race heading almost right past our door.

Hopefully the real thing will be a little more relaxed, with officious jobsworths determined to keep people from enjoying themselves too much. Experience has showed that the worse thing that can be given to some people is authority.

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    RIP to a Ripper Bloke, Bob Hawke

    Australia’s last man of the people to become prime minister is no longer. Robert James Lee “Bob” Hawke died earlier this week, just two days before his beloved Australian Labor Party is expected to re-take office in the May 18 federal election following six years of misrule by an incompetent Liberal–National Party coalition government. Hawke was 89. He was a popular prime minister whose time in office went from 1983 to 1991. He remains the longest-serving Labor prime minister in Australian history. Hawkey didn’t really have much to do with Japan during his time in office. Perhaps the closest project involving Japan was the disastrous Multifunction Polis proposal that sparked…

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    「やばいリンガル」Knock（軽く叩く）

    　米・英語はknockするというのは、軽くドアなどを叩くという意味だけど、オージー英語になるとknockは別の意味もある。続けて読んでその意味を知ろう。 　A knock is a slight bump or tap for most of the English-speaking world, but gains additional meaning in Strine, or Australian English. Read on to find out what that is.

  • Hooroo/バイバイ

    hooroo Australian English A quaint way of saying goodbye. Sometimes, “toodleoo,” is used instead. Used mainly by older people, especially women. 日本語 グッドバイやバイバイのちょっと古い言い方。「さようなら」というより、「じゃね、後でね、またね」のような感覚で使う。時には、toddleooも使う場合があるが、いつ使うか決まりがないので、どちらでも使える。Hoorooは、未だによく使われているが、主に年配の方、特に女性、が中心となって使っている。 Plain English Goodbye, bye-bye. Strine Dictionary