Ten minutes of video about why all shopping centres look the same, along with a bit of lead-up information. Turns out suburbs and teenagers have something to do with it. And some guy named ‘Gruen.’ US in origin, but since similar developments occurred in Australia roughly around the same time the information seems to ring …

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Another of life’s big questions: where did the practice of using the phrase “sic ‘em” to command dogs to attack come from? No mention of where the succinct Australian variation “skitch” come from though. The phrase seems based in older language usage, but how do these sorts of things find themselves in popular usage: “Sick,” …

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