Arguably the most dad rescue in modern times...
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*blinks twice*
*shakes head*
Ponder about this for a minute.
Someone steals a roasted chicken.
Not an iPhone.
Or stereo system.
Or a plasma TV.
Or jewelry.
A roasted chicken, for crying out loud.
This is not about trying to resell the chicken for money. What's the market for stolen roasted chicken anyway? It's about someone being hungry.
A real hero would have PAID for the damned roasted chicken.
-cb
*shakes head*
Ponder about this for a minute.
Someone steals a roasted chicken.
Not an iPhone.
Or stereo system.
Or a plasma TV.
Or jewelry.
A roasted chicken, for crying out loud.
This is not about trying to resell the chicken for money. What's the market for stolen roasted chicken anyway? It's about someone being hungry.
A real hero would have PAID for the damned roasted chicken.
-cb
To be fair, a real hero would have paid for the iphone, too. It's not that kind of story.
Okay. Well, for starters it's Bowral. Bowral is in the news. And not just Bowral - Bowral Coles. So that's funny for starters. Oh look, nevermind.
ETA: I'll tell you what - come down to Oz, catch a train to Bowral, I'll put you up for a week. You can look around town and see how funny it is that a guy walks off with a roast chook (very unlikely to have been hungry. Very likely to have been one of a group of young stoners on school break who skateboard in the Coles carpark) and then gets chased down by a dad in thongs. The humour is that anyone would actually think to pinch a chook from Coles - you could probably ask for it and they'd give it to you, or one of the staff would buy it for you - or indeed to chase down the chook-thief. But this dad apparently got a rush of heroism to the head, and now he's being teased for it*. And taking the teasing in good humour (note the heroic pose.)
*He rescued a barbecued chicken.
You need to know Bowral.
ETA: I'll tell you what - come down to Oz, catch a train to Bowral, I'll put you up for a week. You can look around town and see how funny it is that a guy walks off with a roast chook (very unlikely to have been hungry. Very likely to have been one of a group of young stoners on school break who skateboard in the Coles carpark) and then gets chased down by a dad in thongs. The humour is that anyone would actually think to pinch a chook from Coles - you could probably ask for it and they'd give it to you, or one of the staff would buy it for you - or indeed to chase down the chook-thief. But this dad apparently got a rush of heroism to the head, and now he's being teased for it*. And taking the teasing in good humour (note the heroic pose.)
*He rescued a barbecued chicken.
You need to know Bowral.
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"Thongs" as sandals doesn't throw me, since that's what my grandparents called them, but oh-boy would the *other* kind of thong change that image...
(And, yeah, "hunger" is the first thing I thought of, too. Reminds me of a kid in the grocery store who saw "free" on a box of French bread, without noticing the fine print about it being "free with purchase" and grabbed one. The clerk chased them down and chewed them out, and I'm like - Dude, the kid was hungry. No kid chooses to steal French bread. He thought it was free!)
(And, yeah, "hunger" is the first thing I thought of, too. Reminds me of a kid in the grocery store who saw "free" on a box of French bread, without noticing the fine print about it being "free with purchase" and grabbed one. The clerk chased them down and chewed them out, and I'm like - Dude, the kid was hungry. No kid chooses to steal French bread. He thought it was free!)
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LOL! Canadian here and until the underwear style came about, thongs were flip-flops and even now for us of a certain age, it's hard to remember the new name. A friend was looking out his window one day and was horrified to see his neighbours teen daughter mowing the lawn wearing thongs, so he dashed over to tell her dad. A whole lot of horrified gasps and blinking ensued there as well, until it was explained that she wasn't wearing the proper foot gear…!
eww... (And why would it need to be "thongs" plural, in this case? I mean, is one not torture enough???)
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Okay, so I googled Bowral, and ... is Stepford actually a thing in Australia? Because you should probably kill it with fire if it's Stepford.
Oy! I live here! It's lovely! (goes to google Stepford)
ETA: It's not Stepford. It's just a nice little rural town and has birds and kangaroos and ducks and echidnas and little things like that and it's just Very Quiet. Although someone's pet owl went missing once - but it turned up again.
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Make sure you get the original, and not the remake with Bette Middler's vibrating pine cones and Faith Hill's hydraulic boobs.
We don't have boobs in Bowral. We have a local chapter of the CWA, and I doubt they encourage boobs. They have chests. Lady ones.
Lady chests? You mean they're pink and purple, or are these the tall, skinny kind for storing lingerie?
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