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Norwegians are honorary Australians apparently, we love a good shithouse.

My favorite Australian idiom is "built like a brick shithouse" (of a guy being very muscular).

I did not know that was an Aussie thing (heard in England often enough)

As per usual, that’s British slang which was carried over to Australia. Almost all slang phrases Americans associate with Australia are British in origin and still in wide use, as you’d expect given the history of both countries.

It's also commonly used in the US. I've never heard it of it being associated with the commonwealth at all - based on the vulgarity I always assumed it was a native production.

As an Australian, I can confirm that basically everything about Australian culture (good and bad) is just British, sometimes with a little twist.

My favourite is “Going off like a frog in a sock”

But there are many to choose from. “Face like a dropped pie” is another gem.

While I can understand this for muscular guys, I never got why it can also be used to mean a very curvaceous/attractive woman.

>I never got why it can also be used to mean a very curvaceous/attractive woman.

Q: How do you build with bricks?

A: You stack them.

Nope, sorry, Norwegians actually tax mining / energy corporations (so the government has money to spend on... designer dunnies!), instead of just giving away their non-renewable natural resources to billionaires for free. That's un-Australian!

Their resource company is effectively the government and reducing their climate impact is basically impossible without killing their economy. I think we'd rather not be in that position.

Because it's somehow easier to kill the private companies instead of public ones? Show us.

> In 2019, fossil fuels contributed 48 percent of Norway’s export revenues of around $53 billion. And that number is much, much larger today, thanks to ballooning demand for natural gas in the wake of the Ukraine war.

How do you propose they kill the public company exactly? At least in Australia, govt. revenue is barely reliant on fossil fuels.

Norway is more reliant on oil/gas money than almost every country on Earth. e.g. to its small population it produces significantly more oil per capita than Saudi Arabia. So yeah for instance it is/was way easier for Britain to kill its privatized oil industry.

Neither Norway nor Saudi Arabia will ever voluntarily kill its oil industry. That will only happen when other countries stop buying.

However, Saudi Arabia needs higher prices than Norway to balance the budget, so Saudi Arabia will likely cut first.

That's such an appalling misrepresentation of what happens here in Australia that even Konrad Benjamin himself would correct you. State, Territory and Federal governments all take revenue for non-renewable resource extraction.

Politicians*

You're aware of the revolving door between politics and resources right? You can't take a bribe in advance, but you sure as hell can take a kickback later.

Yep! From the headline, I assumed that Norway had made its own version of https://toiletmap.gov.au/

Same energy as ‘CU in the NT’.

Nominally. Public restrooms along major highways are dire in terms of cleanliness.

Trump's gargantuan adult diapers serve as his portable shithouse.

> Norwegians are honorary Australians apparently LOL, why?

I understand shortened attention spans but maybe consider reading the entire sentence of a single sentence comment before replying.

I'm from Australia and always assumed the word "shithouse" was mostly used here, and at first glance assumed this post was an amusing joke by an Aussie (though - being somewhat cutesy with a Trump-ism?) rather than a Norwegian government website.

Though I might be wrong - I doubt this word comes up in tech blogs and academic conferences very often?

We claim too many things as our own when, in fact, they're not.

As the sentence says, because Australians and Norwegians both have an affinity for shithouses.

Wtf is affinity to shithouses?

A cultural love of the dunny.

eg: https://www.absolutely-australia.com.au/culture-and-history/...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenny_(2006_film)

I Hope Your Chooks Turn Into Emus (and kick your dunny down) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpg22KSrswc

Just as Australians share a love of the BBQ with parts of the USofA.

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