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TIL: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dart+cigarette+australia&t=lm&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=dart+cigarette+australia&t=lm&ia=w...

• hug 7y ago
  Yeah when ya wanna nip on down to the servo at sparrow's fart for a sanga and some durries it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not just because old mate behind the counter's a bloody galah and couldn't organise a root in a brothel. Even worse in the arvo when they're flat out like a lizard drinking, can't crack the shits at the cobber though job's not a piece of piss.
  • olivermarks 7y ago
    I suspect you may enjoy the music of the Chats
    • hug 7y ago
      I prefer Frenzal Rhomb, but that's probably just my age.
  • flukus 7y ago
    > it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not In written form that's incredibly hard to parse, especially when you've just written a lexer for a very similar file format (space separated, sometimes quotes, sometimes quotes in quotes).
• thaumasiotes 7y ago
  That's a pretty funny quoted snippet in the first result: > Dart is a synonym of cigarette. So far so good... > As nouns the difference between dart and cigarette is that dart is a pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow while cigarette is tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked. That makes it sound like they're not so synonymous, somehow.
  • throwaway3563 7y ago
    I long for the day when search engines can filter out the auto-generated content-farm crap.
  • justinclift 7y ago
    Haven't heard "darts" used to mean cigarettes before (I'm Australian too). Possibly it's something used in a specific region, rather than all of Australia.
    • rzzzt 7y ago
      It's every trademark holder's worst nightmare: a genericized term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark
• batiudrami 7y ago
  Punching darts; breaking hearts my friend.
• nucleardog 7y ago
  May be a bit of a commonwealth thing, as it's also common in Canada.