In the UK, we would say, being shafted with the rough end of a pineapple.
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Your fingernails grow faster on your dominant hand.
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Here’s the supposed reason why for anyone wondering and don’t want to look it up. It’s because the dominant hand gets more trauma, so more resources are sent to it.
~looks at hands~ doesn’t seem to work for me noticeably
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You could have used another Aussie expression “don’t come the raw prawn” or as you would say, “I think you are trying to deceive me” 
Very true! I’m glad someone finally acknowledged this. 
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William Shakespeare was not the originator of the story, Romeo and Juliet, but based and expanded the play on previous poems and stories along the same lines.
Juliet is said to be thirteen, but Romeo’s age is never defined.
There was no balcony scene in Shakespeare’s original play.
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One single teaspoon of honey represents the life work of 12 bees.
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Producing 50 tons of coal used to be the life work of one Yorkshire miner, now they are all out of work and claiming benefits…Well done ‘Net Zero’
Watch out you bees, ‘Net Zero’ is coming your way…
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More trivia for you…
A power station I worked at burned that in one hour in one boiler and it was a very small station with only 100MW machines.
Nothing to do with “net zero” the UKs coal is not worth mining. The UKs total known coal reserves are about the same as Queensland alone exports in a week.
This always made me laugh
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But it fueled the industrial revolution, put that in your pipe and smoke it. 
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Wonderful news, now where’s my pipe…
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About 3800 Years Ago a Babylonian Student Sent a Letter to His Mom to Complain About His Clothes
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I think you will find that’s inaccurate Bruce. It is estimated that in Newcastle alone there are reserves of coal that would last around 3 hundred years. And the South Yorkshire coal seams are far from exhausted. In fact they stretch from Yorkshire all the way under the North sea to Germany where they still mine the same seam of coal.
Mrs Fox consumes her body weight in food each day and never seems to put on any weight…
She has stayed constant at 300lb’s for quite some time now…
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I can only go by Worldometer’s summary
The United Kingdom holds 77 million tons (MMst) of proven coal reserves as of 2016, ranking 61st in the world and accounting for about 0% of the world’s total coal reserves of 1,139,471 million tons (MMst).
The United Kingdom has proven reserves equivalent to 1.9 times its annual consumption. This means it has about 2 years of Coal left (at current consumption levels and excluding unproven reserves).
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Thanks for that Bruce. My information came by way of Michael Portillo when he visited Newcastle on one of his train journeys and was talking to an ex pit manager and geologist.
Nothing in writing though. Also, my father-in-law was a pit overman and knew lots of stuff about mining in South Yorkshire. Sadly passed away now, but he left lots of stuff behind from his days as a miner, maps, accident reports and things, which we donated to a local mining museum.
In 10 minutes, a category 3 hurricane releases more energy than all the world’s nuclear weapons combined.
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But there ain’t no Fall Out.
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There is…
It’s called “rain” 
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