04 May 2022, 5:02 am
thank you
that makes me curious, why is it that those items are not available down under? is it the laws?I don't think there are any legal restrictions on what we can get here. I think we are just a lower-priority market. I often have to buy stuff from US and UK on Amazon etc. Sometimes "new" things (such as mobile phones) get released here some months behind US, Asia and Europe. We are always behind (including Covid-19).
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04 May 2022, 5:13 am
thank you
that makes me curious, why is it that those items are not available down under? is it the laws?I don't think there are any legal restrictions on what we can get here. I think we are just a lower-priority market. I often have to buy stuff from US and UK on Amazon etc. Sometimes "new" things (such as mobile phones) get released here some months behind US, Asia and Europe. We are always behind (including Covid-19).
well if it is any comfort to you, us 'muuuricans often have to wait years to get the latest japanese tech. cars that had noise cancellation technology didn't get here for years. and all the neat foods you read about generally are only available in the big cities where all the $$$ people live, though i recently found some pizza-flavored ice cream at my local walmart [it was not bad, really] as well as some macaroni-and-cheese flavored ice cream, both made by van beuren of NYC. that was the most interesting stuff since i found some beer [stout] flavored ice cream in seattle a decade earlier.
04 May 2022, 5:59 am
thank you
that makes me curious, why is it that those items are not available down under? is it the laws?I don't think there are any legal restrictions on what we can get here. I think we are just a lower-priority market. I often have to buy stuff from US and UK on Amazon etc. Sometimes "new" things (such as mobile phones) get released here some months behind US, Asia and Europe. We are always behind (including Covid-19).
well if it is any comfort to you, us 'muuuricans often have to wait years to get the latest japanese tech. cars that had noise cancellation technology didn't get here for years. and all the neat foods you read about generally are only available in the big cities where all the $$$ people live, though i recently found some pizza-flavored ice cream at my local walmart [it was not bad, really] as well as some macaroni-and-cheese flavored ice cream, both made by van beuren of NYC. that was the most interesting stuff since i found some beer [stout] flavored ice cream in seattle a decade earlier.
I guess we are at the bottom of the hierarchy... US must still be one of the first ones to get the latest. Also, countries like US, Japan, UK and Germany actively/innovatively produce the latest. So naturally they are the first to get the latest. Australia produces nothing new. No weird-flavored ice cream. No tech. I don't even find fictions written by Australian writers. They are either written by a US or UK author.
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04 May 2022, 6:26 am
^^^don't forget about [from 1949 'til his premature passing in 1960] Melbourne resident Neville Chute ("on the beach" et al). he was known as an "Australian writer" by his countrymen back then. y'all also had/have several great rock bands 
04 May 2022, 7:02 am
^If we have to resort to a British writer from such an old time as an "Australian writer", then that must be an indication of lack of writers in Australia.
But don't worry. I love the relaxing lifestyle of the backward land. 
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