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May 5, 2016 3:35 AM
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Robytium
Couldn't put goggles on during swooping season?
buzzingporcupine
Thank.
1233210
126 degrees Jesus
soturi88
They forgot to add Nobby QLD to the list
ILoveCowsAndChickens
What is a ground harness, why does it have hinges, and why would a robber be using it to....well....rob?
ASmellofWineandCheapPerfume
Well, I didn't come here to fuck spiders.
BewareTheCrocigator
OP is a good cunt
TigerTheWolfChild
52 C?!?! It's 28 C in Canada rn and I thought I was in Hell! How are you alive?? How are you not liquid?!
AlexiC95
You get used to it, doesn't mean I won't bitch and moan about it
keyserv
Canada called. It wants you to stop shit posting and stealing all the pixels.
TheTipTopTopHat
In regards to #4: Wait until they find out about Russia.
chunkylova53
Nah yeah cheers Dazza you're good cunt
ISmellManFlesh
Yeah nah fuck that shit Shazza
ItsMidnightSomewhere
There is a town in Tasmania called Flowerpot. Tas has less nopes than the mainland. Same antivenom for all the snake species, so that's nice
Kewra
There's also Snug, Ouse, and Cygnet!
grarik
My grandmother grew up in Wooloomooloo, not a bad place
morkl
Canada is too far from the equator to make meaningful size comparisons on a mercator map. http://imgur.c">/Lsb9BY9">http://imgur.com/Lsb9BY9 /d8nkBzn
Terraplex
MellowButDramatic
I like that your best mate is "a complete bastard" but your worst enemy is "a bit of a bastard".
ABoringIndividual
Bit of a cunt is the odd unfriendly person, but my best mate is an absolute top cunt.
cogs
Yeah, #6 is really misleading. Car temp readouts are insanely inaccurate. We have the same issue in Phoenix; it'll be 110F, car reads 122.
WhyMustYouDoThisToMe
Meanwhile here in New Zealand we get classified with Australians because on some maps we aren't even there.
ABoringIndividual
Aww beached as brew...
460Handcannon
Lol at the state and country size comparison with everybody using the mercator map, which is completely inaccurate when comparing sizes.
iShouldBeWorking42
That being said, the point remains valid though, you really can pop over to another euro country for a bit and make it home in the same day.
MrTheBossMaster
#6 at the end "are you guys okay?" That killed me
TotallyNotYourTeacher
My favorite Aussie place names: Yorkey's Knob, Mount Buggery and Waaia (pronounced way-eye).
potatiskatt
It took me so long to realise that the swooping magpies in Australia are different from the the friendly lil magpies we have.
mattbl
#9 this is sort of my experience with bees and wasps during the summer in Minnesota.
larrygoldjohn
Is that ruggrats song named from Australian cities?
MykillMetal
#1 - Not just Australia. A lot of people I know say it. And we're American.
Frelock
I can't read anything; some idiot submitted it upside down.
JackWise1
I see what you did there... Slow clap
Notanotherdamnone
I'm reading it fine down here....
StephanieWasTheTrueVillainOfLazyTown
Me too. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Rolkerman
I can tell, a man a far from hitler as you should be able to read it fine
Porecomesis
#10 I've always wanted to know the etymology behind such names, and others like Geelong.
8bitkit
Lot of them are bastardised from indigenous languages
taepilp28
Well I live in Watanobbi and I gotta say, it definitely is full of knobs. So yeah, there's that.
turtleturner
Monaro = saggy old breast, supposedly. They named a highway that.
turtleturner
Lets just post some names that sound weird and see if people can guess which are real ; ngunnawal, bungendore waramanga, googong, warrigal,
turtleturner
Tuggeranong = very windy place
ABoringIndividual
Australian Aboriginal words. Each has a fairly significant meaning about the area, such as Mullumbimby being on a 'small round hill'.
Porecomesis
I knew that much but not Mullumbimby specifically. I wish there was some a glossary or what have you of all these names and their meanings.
ABoringIndividual
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Australian_place_names_of_Aboriginal_origin Check the history section of any places. 1/
CloisteredMoistOysters
I've got a 700-page Aboriginal glossary with 17 languages. It helps to know the human history as well as the geography to work out places.
ABoringIndividual
Some have meanings listed there, some are uncertain. 2/2
MrTheBossMaster
So my understanding is that Austria is the same as Australia it just has nazis? Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
LeLuecre
No Austria isn't the same, we are more like Germany.
FeaurieVladskovitz
WHAT THE FUCK I THOUGHT SWOOPING SEASON WAS MADE UP BUT ITS REAL
escaped1
imagine canadian geese but with pointy beaks, aerial skills of a fighter pilot, and working with a very protective family tribe.
ABoringIndividual
Magpies are only half the issue as well. Plovers are just as fucking bad during swooping season. Fuckers.
amles
My family and I lived in Australia when I was about 5. Nobody had warned us about this. Mums walk to the store one day was pretty traumatic
KiwiInStraya
Fuck yeah - I was walking the dog last swooping season - we got swooped and she barked for the first time ever. Both astounded
Lulabel73
Yes but if the birds in your area don't swoop they never will, it is a taught thing not an instinct thing.
ISmellManFlesh
A magpie managed to claw the ice cream container off my head as I was biking and in that moment I knew I had to move to New Zealand.
randomdragonhunter
Oh yes. Made the trip to the milk bar back in the day much more exciting.
kryptoniteblunts
Oh no it's very real. Like drop bears real.
skaface13
Yeah, mate! There was a magpie that lived in my primary school. We couldn't play cricket because its nest was right next to the nets
FeaurieVladskovitz
Dear god all these replies... Is it like some fucked up alfred hitchcock movie down there??
turtleturner
About ten years back some kid died in my city from maggies - got him in the fontanelle. We had to wear helmets at recess, for like a week.
MuseMatar
Do windows not have screens in Australia?
lamingtonjoy
Oh my god yes. So many flies
ISmellManFlesh
I've always had screens on all the windows growing up. Freaked me the fuck out when I moved to NZ and I opened a window with no screen.
berightbackreallifeiscalling
I'm near Sydney, and we have screens on our new windows. The older ones don't slide up to open, but out. So, screens aren't really possible.
MuseMatar
In my old house our windows opened outwards and the screens were just on the inside.
berightbackreallifeiscalling
Fair enough. How did you open and close them? By crank/lever?
MuseMatar
Exactly.
ignimbrite
When it's 45°C in summer you will bear the flies and mozzies to enjoy an unimpeded breeze through your window
PoisonInJest
Does a screen really effect your breeze that much?
ignimbrite
It has *some* effect. Enough that when it's that hot you would want to minimize it.
PoisonInJest
I think this is the equivilant of taking your AC out of a car to raise horse power.
ignimbrite
Pretty much. Placebo effect though :v
Spune
Do you not have air conditioning? It gets equally hot here in Ft. Stinking Desert, USA but we run the AC 24/7 and we don't even have bugs.
turtleturner
Some places have aircon, but a lot of aussie houses aren't built for the climate so they dont really keep up.
CloisteredMoistOysters
If you're renting and the property doesn't have one, you're fucked unless you've got a landlord ready to fork out for it.
Spune
That sucks, where I live it's illegal to rent out a place without adequate heating and air, too many people die from the heat otherwise.
CloisteredMoistOysters
Sounds like Stinking Desert, USA has the right idea. My family got a portable AC during a heatwave when we were renting but it caught fire.
ignimbrite
Depends if you're lucky enough to have enough money to have AC. Electricity is fairly expensive here. Not to mention the install cost...
Spune
Huh, I mean, it's not exactly cheap here either but we consider it a necessity rather than a luxury.
ignimbrite
Yeah I mean, If you can afford it here you get it, most houses have it. Not always ducted though.
Furiou5
Is it frowned upon to carry a tennis racket during swooping season?
hhhmmmmm
I use a cricket bat.
DevilishPoop
Usually I just grab a branch and swing it around my head.
Lulabel73
I used to swing my school bag around my head walking home from school.
naughtyandnice1
You use a badminton racket to hit the birdie
JessiKitty29
I used to carry a baseball bat... Never once played baseball...
YePedders
when i was i kid i had to wear a bike helmet to school in fear of the dreaded magpie
Frelock
If I recall correctly, they're a protected species, so you can't fight back.
JustJennnnnn
What about carrying an umbrella as a shield?
ignimbrite
Technically you can't harm any native australian animal without good reason. Being swooped is not enough of a good reason.
PoisonInJest
Self defense isn't a reason?
GorgeFloyd
Mate if the pigs come after you, just hit them with your tennis racket too.
PoisonInJest
POIFECT!!
ignimbrite
Magpies aren't very big. If you had to fight off a kangaroo or a crocodile, sure, but magpies don't really require lethal force to deal with
PoisonInJest
Neither is a pin.. lodge it into my eye and I'm blind or dead. I'd take the charge. If they caught me.
HughLaurie
Then what do they say to someone who lost an eyeball to one of them? "Sore-a might, ye shoulda wore ya glasses wayn ya 'roun them buggas!" ?