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I would be interested to see what magenta cigarette packets did too. At least brown is relatively inconspicuous. Pulling out your magenta cigarette packet isn’t going to be something everyone wants to do.


I'm curious too. The only problem is it is going to attract too much attention when people look at the shop shelves.


In Australia darts are all packed in an unmarked cupboard behind the counter anyway. No advertising, no branding.



Yeah when ya wanna nip on down to the servo at sparrow's fart for a sanga and some durries it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not just because old mate behind the counter's a bloody galah and couldn't organise a root in a brothel. Even worse in the arvo when they're flat out like a lizard drinking, can't crack the shits at the cobber though job's not a piece of piss.


> it always takes 'em yonks an' it's not

In written form that's incredibly hard to parse, especially when you've just written a lexer for a very similar file format (space separated, sometimes quotes, sometimes quotes in quotes).


I suspect you may enjoy the music of the Chats


I prefer Frenzal Rhomb, but that's probably just my age.


That's a pretty funny quoted snippet in the first result:

> Dart is a synonym of cigarette.

So far so good...

> As nouns the difference between dart and cigarette is that dart is a pointed missile weapon, intended to be thrown by the hand; a short lance; a javelin; any sharp-pointed missile weapon, as an arrow while cigarette is tobacco, marijuana, or other substances, in a thin roll wrapped with paper, intended to be smoked.

That makes it sound like they're not so synonymous, somehow.


Haven't heard "darts" used to mean cigarettes before (I'm Australian too). Possibly it's something used in a specific region, rather than all of Australia.


It's every trademark holder's worst nightmare: a genericized term. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark


I long for the day when search engines can filter out the auto-generated content-farm crap.


May be a bit of a commonwealth thing, as it's also common in Canada.


Punching darts; breaking hearts my friend.




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