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[This may come across as tounge-in-cheek, but I'm quite serious] I voted yes, but I hope that there will always be people in the community who desire physical
by pserwylo 13y ago
[This may come across as tounge-in-cheek, but I'm quite serious]
I voted yes, but I hope that there will always be people in the community who desire physical polling stations. The reason is that as much as I am disillusioned about politics here in Australia, I am looking forward to the upcoming federal election for one reason:
Garage Sales (Yard Sales if you're from the U.S.)
A couple of elections ago my brother and I (who both love garage sales) realised that if you drive around each of the local polling stations, then there is a huge number of garage sales. As it happens, if you live near a polling station - mostly primary schools around our area - and you want to hold a garage sale when the greatest number of people are going to walk past your house, people tend to pick polling day.
Therefore, we've made a bit of an election pilgrimage to various garage sales. We've affectionately dubbed the term "Garage sailing".
- artichokeheart 13y agoFor me it's the sausage sizzles and I know I'm not alone : http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/ http://www.electionsausagesizzle.com.au/ Nothing says democracy like a snag on some white bread with tommy sauce.
- saraid216 13y agoWell, there's always this kind of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberation_Day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberation_Day
- xvedejas 13y agoI'm from the U.S., and to my knowledge "Garage Sale" is the common term. Maybe in places where garages are not very common it is called a "Yard Sale"?
- pserwylo 13y agoAh, that's good to know. Must be my inferior and incorrect pop culture references that told me "Yard sale". FWIW: Google Fight has "Garage sale" smashing "Yard sale" [0] while Urban Dictionary has almost twice as many definitions of "Yard sale" to "Garage sale" [0] http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22garage+sale%22&word2=%22yard+sale%22 http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=%22gar...