Ignorance of Australia...or something

I understand that it is over, and I fully welcome that, but I would like to say one thing: I am not bugging him on purpose.

oi, Ro'boat- where've you been hiding?--- nice comback with the monster post.

Every time I read that article it cracks me up. Douglas Adams rules

I was asleep until 4:30 thisavo because I only got about 6 hours sleep all weekend thanks to work.

Yeah, nice article there. I've heard that 9/10 spiders thing before somewhere, heh.

Just out of curiosity, who here knows what Spotlighting is?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rohan [/i]
[B]Every time I read that article it cracks me up. Douglas Adams rules

I was asleep until 4:30 thisavo because I only got about 6 hours sleep all weekend thanks to work. [/B][/QUOTE]

Oh Joy of Joys.
I bet yr. friggin' thrilled.

Any idea when you get weekday hours? rather than shite-orc weekend ones?

I do, Rohan. Texans (I am not included in this group) do it to deer around these parts.

what is spotlighting?

You take a jeep out, with a sodding huge spotlight on the top, and drive around. Essentially (but there's more technique to it than this) you shine the spotlight on animals you hear/see - such as Roos and Rabbits. Their first reaction is to stare stunned into the blinding light. The guys on the back of the jeep or ute then shoot it dead, hawl it's carcass onto the back of the vehicle, cut it's feet off as souveneirs, and keep going.

We do that here with possums. I know that one's going to get an outcry... (possums are an endangered species in oz, a pest here)

Anyway, I know I'm the lone kiwi who wan't go away... deal with it...

Its ok, we dont hate you. Just keep your hands to yourself and we'll all get along nice.

Possums are an endangered species?? Really??

There's bucketloads of them. I've a few living in my roof. I think they're evil. Every time I go for a walk at night I see them silhouetted as they as walk across the power lines.

If it's endangered, I'd hate to see what a plague would look like.

Reckon we can adapt spotlighting to some kind of North-Shore-game sport? ie. hunt down and kill a Shore scumfuck of your choice?

you guys are sick, but there's nothing wrong with that.

WHAT ABOUT THE PLATYPI?!?!? FOR GODSAKE WHAT ABOUT THE PLATYPI?!?!?

I mean, jesus, the damn things are all poisonous & shit. My, what f&^%'ed-up fauna you have down there...

And doesn't the blood rush to your heads all the time?

Hey, don't rag on us, decalogue. At leats our toilets flush the right way.

And Wes, sure Like the daddy-was-a-high-paid-lawyer-and-didn't-love-me-so-I'm-going-to-start-a-gang types?

Or the prissy St Leos or Knox types?

Or the ditsy girls like Angela with their mobiles permanently ringing?

Which kind irritates you more?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by insomnomaniac [/i]
[B]so anyway...funny story about aussies...my friend's roommate was an exchange student from australia back in college (ha! back in college!! i've been waiting for YEARS to say that!!), and unfortunately i never met her when i was sober. it's not really that i'm that much of a lush, i just only happened to see her at parties, and usually only when i was already completely smashed. i'm mortified about this now, but whenever i'd see her i'd yell drunkenly, "CRIKEY ME ARM!!"

oh god. why. [/B][/QUOTE]
hahaha, we used to do the same thing to an Aussie here last year. That and we'd always make him say "Dingo." God knows why.
Tuffy has got to be my new favorite poster. I'm especially digging the profile.

Dingo ate mah baby.

dingos steal babies and devour them in secret.

If it's so secret, how do you know?

ARE YOU DINGO ?

wasn't there a made for tv movie with meryl streep and sam neill about the aussie couple that lost a baby to a dingo feeding frenzy in the bush? if it's on tv, it's gotta be true.

me dingo all day long

haha, I read that "me dingo all day dong"

Fucking, I engrish.

me likey dingo
me likey dingo long time
me horny dingo

it's kind of a wild dog

Wild dog, essentially. I've never seen one except in photos, they aren't particularly common on the east coast I guess, at least not near cities.

[img]http://home.mira.net/~areadman/Dingo33.jpg[/img]

See? Dogs.

As for Platypii (heh), you'd be hard-pressed to find one in the wild, if only because of the tiny number of places that actually support them, and the huge amount of 'wild' there is down here.

I've seen them in a Zoo, and visited a few places where they're supposed to hail from, but, especially given the time they spend submerged, they're a shade bit hard to spot. If memory serves their burrows are underwater anyway.

They're funky looking.

[img]http://home.mira.net/~areadman/plat2.gif[/img]

I mean, seriously... how can they [i]not[/i] kick ass?

While we're on that tack, let's have a look-see at some other common wildlife...

[img]http://home.mira.net/~areadman/croc-Gaz.jpg[/img]

Mmm. Crocodile. Love 'em. Creepy, though. Certainly better than your Aligators

And of course, the coolest of all things that come from Tasmania...

[img]http://home.mira.net/~areadman/tas5.gif[/img]

The Tasmanian Mother-Fucking Kick-Your-Ass Not-Quite-The-Bugs-Bunny-Version-But-Still-Cool Devil.

Hey, what percentage of the history/geography taught in American schools is World, and what percentage is domestic stuff?

Nice pictures!

Hey, I'm here to ask a question. Can tell me what an Ice Cream Sandwich is called in Australia? I need to explain it to Ruby and since both Brits and Aussies say *mobile* for pocketphone and *boot* for trunk I thought you might also have the same word for this.

Its a bar shaped ice-cream confection with a slab of ice cream *sandwiched* between chewy chocolate cookies.

Does the Australian mafia call their members *wiseguys* or something else?

we have a mafia?

oh , i think youre mistaken for a few Lebanese gangs, is all. nothing to worry about.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rohan [/i]
[B]Hey, don't rag on us, decalogue. At leats our toilets flush the right way.

And Wes, sure Like the daddy-was-a-high-paid-lawyer-and-didn't-love-me-so-I'm-going-to-start-a-gang types?

Or the prissy St Leos or Knox types?

Or the ditsy girls like Angela with their mobiles permanently ringing?

Which kind irritates you more? [/B][/QUOTE]

hmm, i think the Knox etc. boys-- only because we know, we fucking know all they are going to do is grow into their fathers... and at 18- they are in their prime. so, lets cut them down, Pat Bateman style. id feel bad running down a kid- but not a Knox boy.

Well, to sort of talk about the kiwi question a few posts back, we don't call the fruit kiwis. We call them kiwifruit, in that they are a friut that is brown, fuzzy, rotund and sort of squisy... we add the fruit so that we don't confuse ourselves. Actually, the metaphor could be used for the maori (hope there aren't any reading this I'm just joking.... I'm quite an offensive person at times)

Now, in australia, I'm asuuming that the plural of platypus is platypusses, simply because in linguistic terms the australian dialect is much more informal that vritish, new zealand or even american english... That's just a commentry... should really stop going to those linquistics lectures...

What is that dingo [i]eating[/i]?!

AHHHHHH!!!!

someones baby of course.

Fat Bastard eats babies.

certainly does. hes also dead sexy.

Ok, serious Australia question. Does anybody live on the Western half of your continent? What's the deal with it? Is it one big desert? Cause that's basically what I've perceived over the years.

I thought it was the middle that was all desert. The coasts are flooded.

There's a small town with a submarine base and a small island full of weird birds. Perth, the town's called.

You yanks launched your Subs out of it, Fremantle to be precise, during WW2.

weird birds as in sheilas? or do you make reference to methodical government experiements on wildlife?

Rents, lol, yes, we have a bunch of em there. We all live around the outside of the country. Other than that it's pretty empty inside, except for all the ABoriginals in their under ground training camps. They really equal a hugely under-estimated number, and have been in their red-earth hideaways, drilling with JOhn Howard Punching bags and learning to shoot anything with white skin. Gulp my Post-Colonial Australian friends, gulp very very hard.

Well the black people in the States are training for revolution, too. Except, their training = shooting each other all day in the ghetto, so by the time they're done training, there won't be too many of the fellows left. I don't know whether to cry or laugh.

cue :: cynical laughter ::

and ive heard great things Kevin, now... less lip.. and more launch!

so, but , has anyone got 'Pertaining to Australia' Qs?

he is sexy? first ive heard.

you do know that he is married/involved with Deborah Lee Furness?--
that OLD chick. [url]http://us.imdb.com/Name?Furness,+Deborra-Lee[/url] - there. 43.

yeah, hes a reaaaaaaaal hunk.

of course you arent... and of course he will.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Wesley Sonck [/i]
[B]and ive heard great things Kevin, now... less lip.. and more launch!

so, but , has anyone got 'Pertaining to Australia' Qs? [/B][/QUOTE]

What do call an an *ice cream sandwich*. I asked a while back but it got lost. Please help.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Rip_Purr [/i]
[B]Rents, lol, yes, we have a bunch of em there. We all live around the outside of the country. Other than that it's pretty empty inside, except for all the ABoriginals in their under ground training camps. They really equal a hugely under-estimated number, and have been in their red-earth hideaways, drilling with JOhn Howard Punching bags and learning to shoot anything with white skin. Gulp my Post-Colonial Australian friends, gulp very very hard. [/B][/QUOTE]
Thanks Rip. So you guys have, like, a donut of colonization around the outside of the island and leave the middle to them durn aborigines? I don't think I ever knew that you had cities anywhere but on your East coast. What are some West, North, or South coast cities? Or maybe I should just find a damn map.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by mirkah [/i]
[B]What do call an an *ice cream sandwich*. I asked a while back but it got lost. Please help. [/B][/QUOTE]

i dont think we eat those.

and Rents. here you go.
[IMG]http://scouts.elysiumgates.com/map-pop-australia.gif[/IMG]

but IMO, theres nothing worth going to if its not in sydney or melbourne.

Schweet. Thanks a lot, Wes. It's a beauty. Whoa, there's places in the middle! And lakes! It's like a real place where you can live!!

a place you can live?

thats highly debatable. like i said. nothing worth seeing outside Syd and Melb.

the lakes in the centre are all salt lakes.
people like to race hi-speed-rocket-cars there.

melbourne isn't even on that map is it? Hey, anyone been to coober pedy, that underground town. the name means 'white fella down a hole'

you have to say "Northern Territory" like "Northern Territree"