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Re: Australia
I know, right? If you can trick a Scottish reporter lady, you could easily trick ol' Wifehorn. She has no desire to visit Oz anyway, whereas I would love to spend months there.
But you can only trick her for a period of time, and then she starts thinking about stuff. I think y'all remember, long before I married ol' Wifehorn I had three long-term (at least three years each) relationships with other women, and all of them were extremely smart and had super-strong personalities. That's just who I'm attracted to, for whatever reason.
And you can trick women like that only briefly. Ol' Wifehorn would be so interested in learning about drop bears, she'd tell all her friends, and her friends are smart too also, and very quickly one of them would tell her that I was feeding her a load of crap. I am no spring chicken anymore; I have experience with these things.
Then things might get interesting around here.
But you can only trick her for a period of time, and then she starts thinking about stuff. I think y'all remember, long before I married ol' Wifehorn I had three long-term (at least three years each) relationships with other women, and all of them were extremely smart and had super-strong personalities. That's just who I'm attracted to, for whatever reason.
And you can trick women like that only briefly. Ol' Wifehorn would be so interested in learning about drop bears, she'd tell all her friends, and her friends are smart too also, and very quickly one of them would tell her that I was feeding her a load of crap. I am no spring chicken anymore; I have experience with these things.
Then things might get interesting around here.
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Re: Australia
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls Would scarcely get your feet wet
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Re: Australia
Foggy wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:04 am I know, right? If you can trick a Scottish reporter lady, you could easily trick ol' Wifehorn. She has no desire to visit Oz anyway, whereas I would love to spend months there.
But you can only trick her for a period of time, and then she starts thinking about stuff. I think y'all remember, long before I married ol' Wifehorn I had three long-term (at least three years each) relationships with other women, and all of them were extremely smart and had super-strong personalities. That's just who I'm attracted to, for whatever reason.
And you can trick women like that only briefly. Ol' Wifehorn would be so interested in learning about drop bears, she'd tell all her friends, and her friends are smart too also, and very quickly one of them would tell her that I was feeding her a load of crap. I am no spring chicken anymore; I have experience with these things.
Then things might get interesting around here.
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True story: 32 years ago, pre-Google and such instant fact checks, when I graduated from NYU, I then celebrated with a 6-week summer tour of Europe with two friends. Two of us were history majors. The third -- my buddy's on-again, off-again girlfriend -- was a psych major. So everywhere we went for weeks, Erik and I would make up and tell it to Amy with a straight face. Eventually, we had to reveal how badly we'd been pulling the wool over her eyes and I took off running immediately after the punchline hit. It didn't end up too badly, though -- they've been together since then, married for 25 years or so, with some great kids. And now she has Google to fall back on.
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
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Re: Australia
To add to Mrs Foggy's list of reasons not to come to Australia because everything attacks you...
Please add......
BUTTERFLIES !!!!!!!!!
yes...
BUTTERFLIES !!!!!!!!!
In our garden we have a species of territorial butterfies - they don't like anyone in their bit of Oz and will attack you should you enter their bit of the garden..
being butterflies they can't do much to you..
but if they could they would!!!!!
Please add......
BUTTERFLIES !!!!!!!!!
yes...
BUTTERFLIES !!!!!!!!!
In our garden we have a species of territorial butterfies - they don't like anyone in their bit of Oz and will attack you should you enter their bit of the garden..
being butterflies they can't do much to you..
but if they could they would!!!!!
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Re: Australia
They can wait cleverly until you're holding something dangerous and awkward, and then flit around and blind you.Dave from down under wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 7:01 pm In our garden we have a species of territorial butterfies - they don't like anyone in their bit of Oz and will attack you should you enter their bit of the garden..
being butterflies they can't do much to you..
but if they could they would!!!!!
But the sunshine aye shall light the sky,
As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
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As round and round we run;
And the truth shall ever come uppermost,
And justice shall be done.
- Charles Mackay, "Eternal Justice"
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Re: Australia
Or when you are talking, fly down your throat..
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Re: Australia
I'm adding "territorial butterflies" to my list of oxymorons.
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Re: Australia
In horseworld, "flitting" butterflies are known as Kamikaze Butterflies. My Maybelline, half AQ and half Thoroughbred, never saw a butterfly that she didn't try to run from.
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Re: Australia
it's wet down under
story on flooding conditions, in general, latest been June 2022
Hint: don't build in flood plains.
comment: i miss the recommendation to build on stilts and keep ground floor unused or risk loss.
story on flooding conditions, in general, latest been June 2022
Hint: don't build in flood plains.
comment: i miss the recommendation to build on stilts and keep ground floor unused or risk loss.
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Re: Australia
We've sorta stopped reporting on floods in Australia lately cause they have been happening with such regularity.
Many towns in New South Wales have been flooded 3 times in the last 4 months. They just get the mud swept out of their houses or shops, and get the insurance inspection scheduled and they get hit again.
They started talking about Lismore around the 19:20 mark. My nephew lives outside Lismore. The flood came up to just under his house floorboards. He was really lucky. He lost a hundred thousand dollars worth of solar panels and batteries and associated electronics that he had on loan from his suppliers (he is partners in a solar installer company), insurance covered that. His place served as the postal drop off for weeks because his place was the only place the Post Office could get to for a while.
You guize keep complaining about the price of fuel in North American places, well give a thought for us poor Aussies because iceberg lettuce costs upwards of TWELVE DOLLARS a head in Melbourne (that's in Aussie Pesos - so about $8.15 American) because the crops have been flooded several times - the supply chain is broken at the very first link. Thanks Biden.
Many towns in New South Wales have been flooded 3 times in the last 4 months. They just get the mud swept out of their houses or shops, and get the insurance inspection scheduled and they get hit again.
They started talking about Lismore around the 19:20 mark. My nephew lives outside Lismore. The flood came up to just under his house floorboards. He was really lucky. He lost a hundred thousand dollars worth of solar panels and batteries and associated electronics that he had on loan from his suppliers (he is partners in a solar installer company), insurance covered that. His place served as the postal drop off for weeks because his place was the only place the Post Office could get to for a while.
You guize keep complaining about the price of fuel in North American places, well give a thought for us poor Aussies because iceberg lettuce costs upwards of TWELVE DOLLARS a head in Melbourne (that's in Aussie Pesos - so about $8.15 American) because the crops have been flooded several times - the supply chain is broken at the very first link. Thanks Biden.
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Re: Australia
Inevitably news media never report "<insert far away country> is having pleasant weather, typical for the time of year".
But the news from Oz seems to oscillate between "worst drought evah!!!" and "worst floods evah!!!" interspersed with "worst plague of mice evah!!!"
I assume climate change is playing a part in all this. Plus population growth and short memories, hence "that flood plain looks a nice place to build on."
But the news from Oz seems to oscillate between "worst drought evah!!!" and "worst floods evah!!!" interspersed with "worst plague of mice evah!!!"
I assume climate change is playing a part in all this. Plus population growth and short memories, hence "that flood plain looks a nice place to build on."
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Re: Australia
You forgotted fires. Oz had wicked fires that killed a lot of animals and destroyed a ton of trees just a few years ago.Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:45 am But the news from Oz seems to oscillate between "worst drought evah!!!" and "worst floods evah!!!" interspersed with "worst plague of mice evah!!!"
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Yeahbut, fires happen in Spain an France too.Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:56 amYou forgotted fires. Oz had wicked fires that killed a lot of animals and destroyed a ton of trees just a few years ago.Sam the Centipede wrote: ↑Sat Jul 16, 2022 6:45 am But the news from Oz seems to oscillate between "worst drought evah!!!" and "worst floods evah!!!" interspersed with "worst plague of mice evah!!!"
Can't wait for the Tour de France to go pedalling past some fire ravaged landscape.
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Re: Australia
Being a native Californian, I know what happens when you have a huge fire that destroys all the trees, and afterwards you get big floods.
It's no fun.
It's no fun.
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Re: Australia
My Country
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
Dorothea Mackellar
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft, dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.
I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of drought and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror –
The wide brown land for me!
A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.
Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us
We see the cattle die –
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.
Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold –
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.
Dorothea Mackellar
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Re: Australia
Very cool, but what's the "Rainbow Gold" and why is it capitalized and how much would they pay to borrow "Fogbow Gold" for whatever it is, hmm?
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Fancy Brenda 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (they/them) @SpillerOfTea wrote: I present, for your viewing pleasure, footage of Liz Truss getting out of a car, and Australian media being like, “Who the fuck is that?”
Perfect.
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Re: Australia
tsk tsk tsk - and she just recently handed you Australians the bestest evahh trade deal with open access to the UK markets
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“I say! damn ungrateful colonials, what!”
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Re: Australia
I wish we had no reason to know Liz Truss.
If you can't lie to yourself, who can you lie to?
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-29/ ... /101485134
History made as High Court has majority-female bench after Jayne Jagot appointment
For the first time in Australian history, the highest court in the land will be dominated by female justices from the middle of October.
Key points:
Justice Jayne Jagot will replace retiring Justice Patrick Keane
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus made the announcement this morning
Justice Jagot has served on the Federal Court since 2008
History made as High Court has majority-female bench after Jayne Jagot appointment
For the first time in Australian history, the highest court in the land will be dominated by female justices from the middle of October.
Key points:
Justice Jayne Jagot will replace retiring Justice Patrick Keane
Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus made the announcement this morning
Justice Jagot has served on the Federal Court since 2008
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Australia
video recently posted to Youtube
Discovery
In November 2006 Sydney-based recreational scuba divers from a private group, No Frills Divers, located the remains of Ban and Ashibe's missing M24 midget submarine off Sydney's Northern Beaches. The wreck was found approximately 5 kilometres (2.7 nmi; 3.1 mi) offshore from Bungan Head near Newport in over fifty metres (one hundred and sixty feet) of water. Details of the discovery were broadcast on the Nine Network's 60 Minutes television program on 26 November 2006, and the announcement confirmed by the Minister for Planning, in conjunction with relevant Commonwealth government agencies on 1 December 2006.
M24 Japanese Midget Submarine wreck site
Historic site in New South Wales, Australia
M24 Japanese Midget Submarine wreck site is a heritage-listed former midget submarine and now archaeological site located in unincorporated waters off Sydney's Northern Beaches in New South Wales, Australia. The Ko-hyoteki-class midget submarine (also known as a Type A midget submarine) was designed by the Japanese Imperial Navy and built from 1941 to 1942 by Kure Naval Yard or Ourazaki Naval Yard. The site was added to the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 7 December 2007.
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-15/ ... /101651156
Thirsty south-west carpet python makes surprising stretch for water in WA garden
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Has a lovely photo of him stretching for his drink
Thirsty south-west carpet python makes surprising stretch for water in WA garden
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Has a lovely photo of him stretching for his drink