Australian Road Sign

@OogieBoogie Not Koala territory...plenty of snakes. I think they are concerned with vehicle damage, not animal welfare.

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@OogieBoogie Snakes get treated as speed bumps..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

Not always...

@Thinkerbell I hope he didnt have to wait to long to have the replacement delivered..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

I hope he hid the baseball bat...

@Thinkerbell The new wife probably wouldnt know he had one...😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

But he had to do something about the baseball bat while he was awaiting delivery.

Especially if the old wife caught wind of his order.

@Thinkerbell I think you may be missing the point. He broke the old wife.. So returned her for a replacement😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

That kind of breakage was not covered by the replacement warranty.

@Thinkerbell He must have paid for the premium cover...When things happen out in the country you need that kind of protection,. Replacement wives dony grow on trees..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

I heard they grow on coolibah trees.
Difficult to harvest, however.

@Thinkerbell Here Coolibah used to be a wine cask brand.. So I suppose they might gather there..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

Wine flavored with eucalyptus oil...? 🤢

@Thinkerbell We invented the wine cask.. (You're Welcome)😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

"The process for packaging "cask wine" (boxed wine) was invented by Thomas Angove, a winemaker from Renmark, South Australia, and patented by his company on April 20, 1964. Polyethylene bladders of one gallon (4.5 litres) were placed in corrugated boxes for retail sale. The original design required that the consumer cut the corner off the bladder, pour out the serving of wine, and then reseal it with a special peg. This design was based on a product already on the market, a bag in a box used by mechanics to hold and transport battery acid." — Wikipedia

Battery acid, eh?
Only in Oz. 🙄

@Thinkerbell Yes. That made them also suitable for American wine...😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

Actually, Australian wines are not bad, for the money.

As long as they are sold in glass bottles, that is. 🙄

Never saw an American wine sold in a cardboard box. 🙄 🙄 🙄

@Thinkerbell Not surprised. It would show that your gallon is smaller than ours. I cant imagine that sitting well with Americans..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

You imperialists are all alike. 🙄

@Thinkerbell Yes. We use metric..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

The imperial gallon is not metric. It is 160 oz (4.546 liters) vs 128 oz for the American gallon.

@Thinkerbell Absolutely correct. And you said it yourself. Our wine casks (boxes) contain 4.5 Litres. It doesnt say gallon. Because we use metric. I simply apply the archaic terms sometimes for the benefit of Americans. An inch is still and inch. A pound is still a pound. A mile is still 1.6 Kilometres..😷

@whowasthatmaskedman

The Wikipedia article said the boxes were 1 gallon (i.e., an imperial gallon)

Did the crooked wine merchants short-change the Aussie winebibbers?

@Thinkerbell Wine cask volumes are usually in 2, 4 & 5 litres these days.

@KiwiBird

The US has also gone metric in wine and liquor measure. It used to be that a standard bottle of wine or spirits was 1/5 of a (U.S.) gallon, or very close to 757 ml. Now that they have gone metric, the standard is 750 ml, or sometimes a full liter. Larger and smaller metric sizes are also available.

https://winefolly.com/tips/wine-bottle-sizes/