Strine is how Aussies pronounce Australian, and gives its name to the country’s unique brand of English.
世界最高ＥＶがKangarooだ！
イタリアのデザイン事務所が手掛けたGFG Style社は、この度世界で最も格好いいＥＶお披露目した。 同社は、今進行中のジェネバ国際モーターショーにてKangarooという超いきている電気自動車 （ＥＶ）を展示している。 Kangaroo車が最速時速が250キロであり、1回分の充電で走行距離が約450キロとされています。 やっぱ、kangarooがどんな形でもかっこいいよね。
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Thwack! Roo Taking No Nonsense From Paraglider
An Aussie paraglider copped a shellacking from the national symbol recently, going global with a video showing a kangaroo attacking him as he landed near Canberra. The paraglider offered a warm welcome to the ‘roo only for the mean marsupial to pounce at the intruder and let loose with a couple of decent whacks. The kangaroo bounded off, leaving the paraglider unharmed except for a case of hurt pride and footage that has not gone viral.
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Kangaroos Played a Part in Germans Being Big in South America BEFORE World War II
Postwar South America became somewhat notorious as a haven for Germans fleeing the defeat of the Third Reich in World War II, but some Teutonic types had already made it big in Argentina before the Nazis…and kangaroos had something to do with it, albeit an extremely minor role. Kangaroos served as an advertising figure for Sarrasani, a world-famous German circus between the wars. Sarrasani was formed in the German city of Dresden in 1901 by Hans Stosch, a clown with the stage name Giovanni Sarrasani. The circus was best-known for its elephants, but also employed lots of “exotic” peoples such as Japanese, Javanese and Sioux Native Americans, as well as…
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Kangaroo Boxing Club KO’d (…A Few Years Ago Now, But…)
Kangaroo Boxing Club was a pub in the Columbia Heights district of Washington D.C. Apparently, it specialized in showing gridiron games and barbecues. The pub shut its doors several years ago, and is now an upmarket bistro. The pub operated from 2012-2016.
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豪干ばつで「ゾンビ・カンガルー」が表れた！
オーストラリアニューサウスウェールズ州全体が干ばつ状態と州政府が宣告した。 非常事態となっている。 干ばつそのもの記録的に悪い。 農業などが苦しんでいる。 家畜をはじめ、動物続々と飢えている。 そのうち、ニューサウスウェールズ州西部には立ったままのカンガルーの骸骨が見つけられた。 まるでゾンビ・カンガルーに見えている。 国政府が地球温暖化に消極的な姿勢を示しているので、農家に助成金を大量にばらまいてものの、環境対策が不十分と批判の声が多い。
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Japan-Australia Friendship Festival Fires Up Steaming Summer
Our grueling summer got a shot in the arm from a Japan-Australia friendship festival held in Tokyo’s Ueno Park, but we’re too busy to do a detailed update. Summer is typically busy, as it is every year, but instead of relying almost solely on outsourcers, we are doing more of the work as our business is clearly slowing down.
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(Costumed) Kangaroo Stars In The “Worst Sports Movie Ever Made”
Matilda has been described online as “the worst sports movie ever made.” Kindly, as it turns out.Matilda was a dreadful, alleged comedy about a boxing kangaroo that challenges for the world heavyweight champion title.The movie was made in 1978, when Muhammad Ali was probably at his most widely popular (and the reigning world champion), and starred Elliot Gould, who was then still not too far off the peak of a career that continues going strong today.Co-starring was another A-lister, Robert Mitchum, so it’s hard to argue that the cast and circumstances surrounding the movie didn’t pack a punch.Unfortunately, the kangaroo featured in the film was clearly a bloke in a…
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…ah, so* have a Winfield: The Tiny Tale Of Aussie Durries In Japan
A long, long time ago, in a Straya far, far away, Australia briefly exported cigarettes to Japan.It wasn’t that long ago, actually.But for several months in 1994, Winfield cigarettes, one of Australia’s most famous brands (it marketed itself as “Australia’s No. 1 brand” in Japan, but it was actually only the second-biggest seller Down Under, behind Peter Jackson), was an unlikely competitor of mostly British and American Big Tobacco companies to tap into what was still then a thriving Japanese smokers’ market largely unregulated at the time.Winfield was on a downturn at the time in its home country.Cigarette advertising had been banned from TV and print media decades earlier, but…
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人参依存症カンガルーが観光客を孟攻撃する
オーストラリアを訪ねている数十人が人参やジャンクフードなどに依存しているガンがルーに孟攻撃され、怪我を負っている。 シドニーから南方にあるマクワリー湖周辺に現象が起こっている。 餌を与えないように注意されてにも関わらず中国人観光客を中心に訪ねる人の多くがそこに群れを作ったカンガルーなどに食べ物をやっている。 その結果、カンガルーを中心とした有袋類が主に人参に依存することになった。 体が要求している人参などをもらわないと、カンガルーが暴力的に反応し、観光客を蹴ったり、噛んだり爪でキズ付けたりしている。 マクワリー湖観光関係者は、多ヶ国語の注意書き看板の設置などの対応策をとっているが、多くの場合厳守されていないのは現状。 https://youtu.be/TsfgNVFYPak
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Campbelltown Forest of Wild Birds A Slice of Oz in Sleepy Saitama
Koshigaya, located some 30 kilometers from downtown Tokyo, and Campbelltown, which is situated about 50 kilometers from Sydney’s central business district, were almost made for each other, even if only serving as satellite cities for their respective countries’ largest cities. Koshigaya and Campbelltown are sister cities and it’s hard to see a better example of the custom than the relationship between the Japanese bed town and its Aussie sibling. Koshigaya is also home to a picturesque corner of Australia, complete with wallabies, emus and some lovely wild birds, including rainbow lorikeets, superb parrots, Major Mitchell’s cockatoos, tawny frogmouths and kookaburras. The Campbelltown Forest of Wild Birds in Koshigaya could arguably…
