Had to Google that. No.
Saying things the way the locals want to pronounce is the polite thing to do, just like using preferred pronouns.
I just lost a filling. Of course it is 6 pm Saturday on a long weekend. 
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Jack Di Veiny
So the election in Australia was quite positive. This was finally the election where climate became a central issue, as the Greens picked up seats and the “teal independents” took down Liberals in formerly safe Liberal seats. I don’t have the data yet but I would assume that centrist female candidates pushing for climate change was the secret sauce to expose Liberal weakness in these areas (meaning climate change and that there are hardly any women in the Liberal Party) and caused a mass defection of female voters.
Then also, there was a vote of confidence in Australia’s tough COVID policies. Melbourne, in Victoria, was the most locked-down city in Australia and Western Australia had the toughest policies with regard to closing their border. Both states had Labor governments and both have delivered unexpectedly strong results for Labor:
A look at the electoral map shows it clearly — a sea of red seats that experts say reflects a rejection of the Morrison Government which chastised Victorians during the pandemic.
Morrison, then-Health Minister Greg Hunt and outgoing Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, repeatedly urged Labor Premier Daniel Andrews to follow in NSW’s footsteps and “open up”, despite Victoria suffering a deadly second wave that cost 800 lives.
The ABC’s Patricia Karvelas wrote last year about the stark contrast in the treatment of NSW and Victoria.
“There’s little question that the language dished to both states was spectacularly different,” she wrote.
Jason Thompson, a professor at the University of Melbourne, wrote last night that “Victoria and WA — two diametrically opposed states on any other day — are going to deliver this because their leaders unapologetically focused on protecting citizens’ health and welfare for the last two years, not just the economy”.
Liberal Senator Jane Hume told Nine’s election panel that her party had a strategy to play on what was perceived to be discontent among Victorians at long longdowns.
“We thought there would be a bigger Dan Andrews [Labor Premier] effect in Victoria and there hasn’t (been),” she said.
“We have had such negative feedback about those harsh lockdowns in Victoria, and we thought that may play out in those outer suburban areas. Clearly, they haven’t.”
Turns out loud minorities don’t win you elections in countries with compulsory voting.
COVID also lets me segue into Craig Kelly losing the United Australia Party’s only seat. Kelly was the main source of COVID derp (antivax/ivermectin/etc) in Parliament. The UAP basically exists as a device for billionaire Clive Palmer to try to funnel protest votes back towards the Liberal Party while pretending to be an independent party:
He told the Australian ’s John Stenholt that his United Australia Party (UAP) would exceed its $88 million advertising blitz — which is widely believed to have cost Labor the last federal election — with a $100 million war chest.
One hundred million dollars was “only a couple of months’ work for me,” Palmer boasted.
This $100 million spend included shit like this:
These yellow billboards (with several different messages) were EVERYWHERE.
We should pause to note how insane an amount of money $100 million is. Hillary Clinton spent a billion dollars on her campaign, that is the budget for one of the leading parties in a country with 13 times the population. This was spent and the results were that the UAP increased their vote share by 1.4%, up to 4.7% but lost their only seat. It would feel like a victory against this fat asshole except that, as he notes, $100 million is pocket change to him.
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I’m not overly perturbed about distinctions between grilling/broiling/etc. It’s that barbecue derives from barbacoa, which is generally some variation of large cuts of meat cooked slowly at low temperatures from indirect heat and, usually, smoke. US BBQ is very similar to that, and both can be thought of as sort of a dry braise, where the goal in both methods is to use low and slow cooking to break down tougher cuts of meat.
When people use barbecue, BBQ, barbie, etc. to describe any sort of hot and fast type of cooking it is completely divorced from the word’s origin.
lol. lmao.
https://twitter.com/dohobob/status/1528024012084887553
Highlight from the comments: “grievance coffee”
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Well I agree with that, but the problem is that your word for “cooking on a hotplate outdoors” also contradicts the etymology of the word. Grilling is called grilling because it involves a grill, i.e. bars or a lattice which expose the food to flame.
I legit don’t know what you mean by “hotplate.” In American, a hotplate is a little electric heater that is only ever used to make dorm room grilled cheese sandwiches.
We don’t really have a word for that because it’s not something we do. Outdoor cooking is generally limited to grills, smokers, and maybe big pots of boiling water if you’re in New England.
afaik, usa calls flat surfaces as grills as well, although it may be borrowed from things like hibachi grill, mongolian grill, etc.
And turkey fryers. And the occasional hipster with a wok setup. But yeah outdoor flattops are pretty rare.
I am pretty sure he means a flattop, like for burgers or cheesesteaks etc. at a greasy spoon.
e.g, grilled cheese sandwich
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As an opening gesture towards reconciliation, I can get on board with federal legislation requiring all diners and similar to start calling their cooking surfaces griddles, or maybe planchas. Any place named ‘Bar and Grill’ will need to be renamed if they don’t have an actual grill. Grilled cheese sandwiches shall now be referred to as queso en plancha.
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Here is a miniature BBQ.
On the right, a grill. On the left, a hotplate. You can see this one is removable so you can convert your mini BBQ to all-grill if you want to. You’ve also sometimes got a griddle plate, like this, in fact the reverse of the plate above may well be a griddle:
I think technically “griddle plate” can mean the flat side too, but in common parlance it’s talking about one with grooves on it, just like that’s what a “griddle pan” is. “Hotplate” is most definitely specifically a flat surface.
You don’t cook things like sausages or burgers on grills because it scorches them before it cooks them through. Not to mention stuff like fried chopped onions or eggs which are obviously impossible to cook on grills.
I don’t think I’ve seen one of those here, but I’d actually use it. When I grill burgers, I do smashed burgers and I put a flat plate over the grill to pull it off.
My old grill had a burner on the side, where you could use a frying pan if you wanted to do that other stuff (eggs, chopped veggies).
Plenty of people here are able to cook good burgers and sausages on grills. As mentioned above, I don’t do burgers, but I do sausages on grills just fine. Much of the cook time is indirect heat. I’m a grilling novice, though. I’m sure one of the experts here could tell you how to pull it off perfectly.
I would call the flat “hot plate” a griddle.
I am familiar with the thing chrisV is calling a griddle but I don’t have a word for that.