Things you can't get at the nearest shopping mall (Westfield Woden, Canberra) any more
There are 223 businesses according to the web site.

None of them sell -

Small hardware items. Oodles of power tools but no drill bits or sanding disks.

Paint

Pre-electric shave lotion. Dozens of brands of after-shave, men's skin moisturiser, hair gel and gawd knows what other muck but no pre-electric shaver lotion.

Cleaning and lubrication spray for electric shavers.

Men's hair brush, either military or handle style. Plenty of pink, lilac plastic and odd looking "styling brushes" but no plain men's ones.

An ordinary stainless steel nail file.

Partly finished jackets or trousers altered by the shop's tailors to your size.


Hard to find - a shoe horn.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8:00, 32 replies)

Errm.
Canberra.
You're telling me you don't have a Bunnings? 'K'nell dude we've got most of that out here in the wild West.
& EDIT: most op-shops I go to have shoe-horns.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8:27, closed)

I have to drive 15 minutes to get to either Bunnings, but
another hardware store is across the street from the Westfield Woden and the Salvos are not much further away. Note the qualifier "any more". These things - pre-electric lotion, mens hair brushes, cleaning spray used to be there but have all disappeared from the Westfield Woden in the past two or three years. I think they should rename it the "Westfield Women" because the place is drifting away from any catering to men.
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 8:57, closed)

You don't need shaving lotion
Warm water will work fine.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:06, closed)

Not with an electric shaver

(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:27, closed)

Yeah it will.
Go awwwwwwwn. Give it a try.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 19:00, closed)

Warm water
just doesn't have the right buzz.
(the other guy not the one that gave you coochie warts, Mon 5 Mar 2012, 0:53, closed)

I used to live in Canberra.
This is not your worst problem.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:17, closed)

Yeah, I'd imagine the biggest problem is everything being upside down.
The longest I've been upside down for was about 15 minutes and my face went purple. How do you guys live like that, or have you evolved to cope with it like bats?
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 9:21, closed)

Best answer ever ;)
Gets a click.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:56, closed)

Oh look.
It's a funny pommy bastard!
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 12:39, closed)

I'm just gonna assume 'pommy' is upside down criminal speak for 'incredibly sexy'.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:12, closed)

Yes. It is.
It essentially means "someone who whinges incessantly in a british accent".
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:32, closed)

Thank you. I have always thought the Australian accent to be very manly. Particularly Australian women.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 19:52, closed)

Get your eyes
off my sheila mate.
"You just ignore that pommy bloke, Bruceine"
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 20:15, closed)

Which particular British accent?
There's quite a few of them.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 20:42, closed)

Mostly a nasal Sarf-Lundun.
But they can be interchanged.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 21:25, closed)

Is a Glaswegian accent pommy.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:12, closed)

Wasn't that wall Hadrian built
meant to keep you lot safely away from English soil?
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:16, closed)

You said British, which by definition includes Welsh, Scottish and Northern Irish.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:19, closed)

We don't mind the other lot so much.
More just the poms.
So in answer to your question - no that would be a Scottish accent.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:30, closed)

Alright, what about a Barnsley accent?

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:32, closed)

You're just trying to trick me up now, aren't you?
Pommy.
Nb. - I wasn't calling you a pom.Just answering your question.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:43, closed)

Isn't the Barnsley accent just a Yorkshire accent?

(Glucose-Maximus All over the world., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:45, closed)

A particularly coarse one with a lot of dialect.

( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 22:48, closed)

Aw man, you must hate it on here then, there's loads of poms. I can try typing in a Scottish accent if that helps.
Do Swedish accents upset you too? I'd heard that Australians hate Abba.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 23:54, closed)

i no rite?!

(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sun 4 Mar 2012, 4:21, closed)

The criminals were English, not Australian...
...they got sent to Australia for being naughty.
(emadex thinks the world will end on, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 5:08, closed)

Yes. The English sent all their best criminals to Australia for them to breed and form a new race of super criminals.
Although thanks to a mutation in the criminal gene most of them ended up being super racist.
( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 10:04, closed)

^ What this person said
& I'm going on hearsay.
(Misery McUglywife an attention seeking sociopathic fuckstain., Sat 3 Mar 2012, 10:10, closed)

So just buy the brush and nail files they have.
Surely it's the utility of items like that, not what they look like. Sounds a bit girly to me, 'I'm not using this brush , because I don't like the colour.' MTFU and use a pink brush.
( The Awful Puppy Bakery is still bored, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 13:28, closed)

Since when has Australia been 'First World'? Surely it's second world at best.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Sat 3 Mar 2012, 23:57, closed)

History Lesson!
Second World originally referred to communist states, as a result of the cold war. First World related to the Allied nations, and third were neutral. It just so happened that the neutral countries were also very poor, so it became an economic distinction.

Australia was always first world. Second World largely no longer exists, either in the economic or political sense.
(Captain Skippy pooed in a bag and left it on your doorstep, Sun 4 Mar 2012, 19:09, closed)