THE SHOT — Those “fuck you” receipts plaguing Sacramento’s Burger King customers are one thing. But reader Phillip sends in this (2002?) receipt from a purchase of a Bacardi Breezer — five percent alcohol and one hundred percent fruity — “in the outback” in Australia. Poofters beware.
andrew
Poofter? Seriously? What a pathetic insult. I think if someone called me that I’d wet myself laughing.
uu
Disgusting. Not talking about the breezer.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Those drinks are a bit faggy…….. :p
greenmanTN
What were they thinking?! It’s not like it was an “appletini” or anything! đ
I maintain that anyone ordering a drink with the suffix “tini” other than a “martini” should be pelted with olives, preferably rotten ones, but maybe that’s just me.
Adam
That’s hilarious!
Bryan
Notice the date on the receipt: 14 October 2002
That was a while ago. I wonder if they do that still.
(standard date format in Australia dd-mm-yyyy)
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
Ahh yet another classic fumble by the eagle eyed Queerty staff!
The recipt says “REG 14 10 02” Clearly the Queerty staff needs to go to recipt deciphering school because it translates into
“Register 14 October 2nd at 6pm”.
Based on your translation it would be the tenth day of the fourteenth month in 2002……….
Geeze you guys are always waaaaay too busy to respond to requests from posters and yet you still muck up threads on a daily basis. Clearly ya aren’t spending your time proofreading, what are you doing???? :p………….
Jeff K.
That word is too silly to be a proper slur.
Syl
@Jeff K.: I know! Silly British/Aussies and their adorable slang!
ron
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS – ha ha you are a fucking idiot.
Commonwealth countries, such as Australia, display dates DD-MM-YY.
They NEVER put the month before the date.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@ron: Damm you just made me burst a brand new resolution. The one where I promised not to call a fellow poster a complete and utter asshole who can not disagree with a poster without throwing a personal slam to someone they never met…………
It states: REG 14 10 02 as in “REGISTER” 14
Which allows to account for discrepencies from any particular register……..
So you are not only a “fucking idiot” you are a stupid fucking idiot! :p
Mitch
Clueless! Why would it be written 14-10-02 if the 14 referred to the register it would then be REG 14 10-02 ergo it means 14 October 2002.
Things are different outside of the US.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@Mitch:
Every recipt I have ever recieved has the register number clearly identified……. My head still hurts from Friday night, this isn’t helping things!:p
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@Mitch:
Every recipt I have ever recieved has the register number clearly identified……. you may be right, but My head still hurts from Friday night, this isn’t helping things!:p
Kev C
Do you really think some dirtwater hotel in the remote outback has 14 cash registers? Probably not 14 in the entire town.
jackieohboy
@PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS: Oh shut up, you have no idea how Australian receipts work and you know it.
Parkdweller
@PLAYSWELLWITHOTHERS: To my Aussie eyes it’s plain to see that the receipt was printed at 6pm, 14 October 2002.
If you make the effort to look up Meekatharra you’ll see that it’s a tiny dot in the middle of Western Australia and has a population of about 800 – it’s extremely unlikely that the pub has more than one register.
“Poofter” is the Australian equivalent to “fag” in the US, not a nice term to have hurled at you. As one who has been “poofter-bashed” I know about these things.
chris
wtf does poofter mean?
B
No. 17 · Parkdweller wrote, “‘Poofter; is the Australian equivalent to ‘fag’ in the US, not a nice term to have hurled at you.”
It’s used in the U.K. as well, where “fag” is slang for a cigarette. Once heard of a tobacco-addicted Brit visiting the U.S. and exclaiming, “where are me bloody fags” when he couldn’t find something to smoke (he hadn’t been in the U.S. long enough to convert to American English).
jason
Poofter is a very common insult in Australia. It’s similar to faggot. Australians are generally backward people with a limited education. In fact, Australia has one of the lowest rates of university education in the Western world.
Think redneck hicks from Alabama and you get a pretty good idea of what most Australians are like.
Graeme Watson
Jason says ‘Australians are generally backward people with a limited education.’
Gee, thanks Jason, on behalf of the 11 million people who live here – thanks for the gross generalisation.
A quick bit of research reveals that 58% of Australians aged 25-65 have a vocational or tertiary qualification. While it seems that only 52.6% of Americans have some college education. Oh dear.
Jusic
Yeah i work in a butcher shop and our old receipts were a similar style to that, the date on that receipt is the 2nd of october 2002. But the main issue of this article should be that the price of “poofter drinks” have gone up so much in eight years, its a bloody outrage. #shakes fits at Kevin Rudd and his bloody alcho-pop tax#
A by the way Jason you must be quite a self righteous wanker if you think “Australians are generally backward people”
Jusic
@Graeme Watson: I think you mean 22 million people not 11 million
Graeme Watson
@Jusic: I only represent the boys đ
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
@jackieohboy: Gee pardon the fuck out of me……I am not familiar with how recipts are worded half a globe away……..
Along with register tapes another word that would cause such a rumble in Queerty land is the British slang for cigarettes……………fags
Jeff K.
Australians are a backwards people because they live a backwards life. Over there, winter is June to September, and the toilets spin the other way!
Ari
@jason: Nearly every article on Australia carries your entirely unqualified accusations of us being backward, either state your grudge or piss off and stop telling us what we think, you’re worse than our politicians.
Australia is a nation mostly of honest, hard working people, people whom, when pressed, are increadibly unlikely to constitutionally ban same-sex marriage as in America largely because of the belief in rural and working class areas that its an American contriversey and treat it with the ambivalence they believe it deserves (due to compulsory voting and a much smallerborn-again-Christian population who can influence the result) and the consensus is that the ban is largely to do with “swing seats” in western Sydney (like Florida is to the Cuban embargo).
BTW The receipt probably is more larrickanism more than maliciousness, “poofter” can be a term of endearment in some areas, though its more severe than “poof”, but significantly better than “faggot”. I don’t know this case as I’ve never been to WA, and admittedly never gone beyond Adelaide, but regional Victoria where I grew up is a fairly tolerant place.
Riley
@ron:
Thats not true at all. Canada is a commonwealth nation, and the standard here is month/day/year