Are Aussies REALLY like that?

[Lori_the_Hoosier]

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[XerXesXu]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10...threatened-marsupial-found-at-uluru/100574354

It is small, cute and furry – but the brush-tailed mulgara, a carnivorous marsupial related to the Tasmanian devil, is known for sucking the brains out of its prey...

There's a shape-shifter version called the Sheila, it's an invasive species that stalks Earl's Court on a Saturday night. It can only be killed by impaling it on the erection of a virgin.

 

[XerXesXu]

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10...threatened-marsupial-found-at-uluru/100574354

Duplicate.

 

[jsmiam]

I sadly had misremembered this scene as if it had been the Australian team, but rewatching the clip, it’s the British team: but as an author’s site, we can just call it a writing error. It should have been the Australians. It’s only 24 seconds, the topic in question at the 11 second mark.

It’s the very first video in the results. You can watch within the DuckDuckGo site also without actually going to you tube.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=beerfest%20scenes%20not%20that%20drunk&iar=videos&iax=videos&ia=videos

 

[oggbashan]

Australian animals:

If you can't barbecue it? It will kill you.

Perhaps your mates can barbecue it at your funeral...

 

[MajorRewrite]

I like Margot Robbie. I’m just sayin’.

 

[oggbashan]

I like Margot Robbie. I’m just sayin’.

I liked Nellie Melba, June Bronhill and Patsy Ann Noble (later Trisha Noble).

 

[ElectricBlue]

More ferocious Oz critters - spider alert

Whoa!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11...deadly-spider-set-to-save-300-lives/100617714

 

[SimonDoom]

Whoa!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11...deadly-spider-set-to-save-300-lives/100617714

"2 cm long fangs." Holy shit.

The two dangerously venomous spiders in the USA, the black widow and brown recluse, are both small and nonaggressive. The black widow's fangs are only 1 mm long.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I look forward to visiting someday. I've wanted to go there for a long time.

It amazes me, when I look at a map of the place, how empty and unpopulated Australia still is. The contiguous US and Australia are close in size, and we've got 330 million people and you've got 25 million. From what I've read almost everyone lives in a handful of cities, and they're all within a thin sliver of land near the sea. Do you folks like to get around and explore your country? Have you been to all the different regions of it? There are still regions of the USA I haven't explored much. I've spent almost no time in the South, for example. I've never been to Houston, or New Orleans, or Charleston. Or plenty of other places.

I would think it would be curious to live in a place like Perth, which sounds like an extremely livable city with a great climate but which is about as remote from any other urban center as any major city on Earth. It's like 2000 miles from Melbourne, isn't it?

I imagine one would have to spend a month or so to get a real flavor of the place because it's so big.

a month or so?

try karratha for a real aussie feel. or maybe it isn't like it used to be?

 

[SimonDoom]

a month or so?

try karratha for a real aussie feel. or maybe it isn't like it used to be?

I'd never heard of it before. Its population of 16,000+ is lower than it used to be. Not to knock it, but it doesn't sound like an ideal tourist destination. I expect when I go, I'll go a bit bigger.

 

[TxRad]

I'd never heard of it before. Its population of 16,000+ is lower than it used to be. Not to knock it, but it doesn't sound like an ideal tourist destination. I expect when I go, I'll go a bit bigger.

Trust GA. He doesn't do the tourist crap, he hits the heart of the matter. Not to mention, he does it for pennies on the dollar. Tramping lets you see the real deal.

 

[LilyWaters]

Whenever I hear about Aussie Rules I can’t help but think of Paul Hogan.

I listen to a podcast about terrible movies, "How did this get made?", and they did an episode about Crocodile Dundee 3.

Paul Hogan seems like he's ... the worst? Like, a really, really terrible person?

 

[LilyWaters]

Whoa!

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11...deadly-spider-set-to-save-300-lives/100617714

GAHHHH WHY DID I CLICK

I SAW THE TITLE OF THE POST

WHYYYYYYYYY DID I CLICK

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I'd never heard of it before. Its population of 16,000+ is lower than it used to be. Not to knock it, but it doesn't sound like an ideal tourist destination. I expect when I go, I'll go a bit bigger.

Trust GA. He doesn't do the tourist crap, he hits the heart of the matter. Not to mention, he does it for pennies on the dollar. Tramping lets you see the real deal.

I lived there when i was 15 - 17. excellent environment for those years. wild place.

 

[SimonDoom]

I lived there when i was 15 - 17. excellent environment for those years. wild place.

I, alas, am well beyond those years. I'm looking for good lodging, good restaurants, and opportunities to see wilderness and interesting fauna. Iron mining ranks low on my list of things I want to do.

 

[geronimo_appleby]

I, alas, am well beyond those years. I'm looking for good lodging, good restaurants, and opportunities to see wilderness and interesting fauna. Iron mining ranks low on my list of things I want to do.

the mining is inland. i remember turtles and hammer-head sharks when out with a fishing net once. and then there’s red dog.

 

[PennameWombat]

I, alas, am well beyond those years. I'm looking for good lodging, good restaurants, and opportunities to see wilderness and interesting fauna. Iron mining ranks low on my list of things I want to do.

Ah, no. You said you want to experience true Australia. Well, watch this movie then plan your trip:

Wake in Fright. That’ll prep you for Karratha and plenty of other similar places . And, don’t let anyone tell you differently, that movie’s a documentary . Just like Mad Max.

Or, come to the Inner West of Sydney. All that’s here are cafes, restaurants and way, way, way overpriced housing. As to interesting fauna, there’s 751 New Canterbury Road in Hurlstone Park…

And, odd segue, but in 1996 I attended the official ceremony in Woodstock, New York, when it and Nimbin, here in NSW, became sister villages. Nimbin would be a true experience.

 

[oggbashan]

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And, odd segue, but in 1996 I attended the official ceremony in Woodstock, New York, when it and Nimbin, here in NSW, became sister villages. Nimbin would be a true experience.

I visited my mother's relations who owned a farm near Nimbin in 1960. The then scandal was that their eldest daughter had just bleached her hair from mouse to brassy blonde. She was the first woman in Nimbin and around to change their natural hair colour and it was a shock.

By the time Nimbin changed, they had sold their property and moved to be with other relations on the Gold Coast.

 

[ElectricBlue]

And, odd segue, but in 1996 I attended the official ceremony in Woodstock, New York, when it and Nimbin, here in NSW, became sister villages. Nimbin would be a true experience.

Nimbin, now, is sad and bizarre. Ancient hippies, junkies, strange cafes, too many tourists, drop-bys with too much money.

It might have been close to paradise twenty years ago (the whole region is beautiful - it used to be dairy country with a network of villages and milk factories, but that's all long gone). My favourite beach is up in that part of northern NSW, but what was a little sea-side fishing village with maybe 1500 residents at the height of summer, is now a small town with suburbs, ffs, and a population of seven or eight thousand.

 

[ElectricBlue]

I'd never heard of it before. Its population of 16,000+ is lower than it used to be. Not to knock it, but it doesn't sound like an ideal tourist destination. I expect when I go, I'll go a bit bigger.

Pretend you're German, and go swimming in rivers in northern Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the big crocs are.

The warning signs are multilingual (English, German, Japanese, Chinese). I don't know if the signs do any good, because crocs can't read, and it would appear that tourists can't, either.

 

[SimonDoom]

Pretend you're German, and go swimming in rivers in northern Queensland and the Northern Territory, where the big crocs are.

The warning signs are multilingual (English, German, Japanese, Chinese). I don't know if the signs do any good, because crocs can't read, and it would appear that tourists can't, either.

I have no fear of wildlife. I've encountered snakes and bears in my travels. But swimming with crocs? I'll leave that to the Germans.

 

[Bramblethorn]

I have no fear of wildlife. I've encountered snakes and bears in my travels. But swimming with crocs? I'll leave that to the Germans.

Not so much "swimming" as "briefly splashing", really.

 

[SimonDoom]

Not so much "swimming" as "briefly splashing", really.

I guess the all-important question is, from the croc's point of view, does it make a difference?

 

[ElectricBlue]

I guess the all-important question is, from the croc's point of view, does it make a difference?

None whatsoever. They've been known to jump into the boat and roll someone out of it.

Today, though, we went from a koala climbing the gum tree in the front yard with a little joey on her back (awww, cute) to a fucking juvenile brown snake in the damn shed (NOT where you want a snake). Luckily, I had immediately to hand a very well made box which I plonked on top of it. It was only ten inches or so long, but then the snake catcher said they're the worst because their bodies are like elastic bands and their neck is only half an inch from the biting bits. So he used a long metal pole and a full sized bag.

Great. Brown snakes in the shed. Fuck that!