On top of that you need to be smart to survive in a country where everything wants to kill you. https://www.thrillist.com/travel/na...ll-kill-you-animals-that-will-try-to-kill-you
You have no idea. I live almost in the middle of a city of 4.5 million people in a heavily urbanized area. I have a back yard that is about 4 meters by 5 meters and mostly paved. Working in the yard today I saw 3 different things that could kid me. One of them was the delightful red back spider - a relation of the black widow. If I drew a 1km radius around my house you would find poisonous snakes, giant bats that carry deadly diseases and birds that will fly straight into your head if you cross their territory.....and this is in the middle of a big city. My mum grew up in a small town. Her dad was a baker. Snakes like heat. She has a ton of stories about literally tripping over deadly snakes. Either we are brilliant or way too crazy to mess with.
Certainly a better choice than the Poles did, positioning themselves between Germany and Russia. AussieLand strikes me as too hot. Like one big desert place with a scattering of Snowy River like lands. IF I had to chose, I think I would chose KiwiLand Check out "Japanese Story" with Toni Collette for the view. There is always "Australia" with Nicole Kidman and "Quigley Down Under". Not that much looks like Snowy River. More like Alice Springs with a shoreline and high rises. Have you considered the benefits of a Great Central Australia Lake? Moi
A farmer has been forced to ride his motorbike holding his head upright by his hair after falling and breaking his neck on a property at West Gippsland. The 73-year-old was reportedly checking his farm for grasshoppers early December when he hit a small hollow and "went sailing over his handlebars," landing on his head and breaking his neck. A friend of the man told radio station 3AW said the farmer rode 500 metres to his house to get help after "realising he was still alive". The beef farmer, identified only as Jim, told 3AW he cracked his head, but wasn't knocked out by the fall. FURTHER READING: Farmer convicted for speeding to hospital after cutting his own finger off Friends mourn Queensland brothers found dead in molasses tank “I got to my feet, I knew there was something seriously wrong," he said. “My head wouldn’t stay up. The pain, it hurt so much, so I just held it up by my hair.” He was taken first to the Dandenong hospital, then transferred to the Austin, where doctors confirmed he had fractured his top two verterbrae, C1 and C2 - considered one of the most severe spinal cord injuries. Jim said he had a "halo" and four bolts in his skull but doctors expected him to make a full recovery. "I'm a lucky fella, that's for sure," he said. The Age http://www.theland.com.au/story/516...rides-for-help-holding-head-up-with-his-hair/
How many Aussies does it take to make chocolate chip cookies? Ten. One to make the batter, and nine to peel the M&Ms.
Oh good, comfort and help is all we could hope for the poor boy. It's a long fall when you build your own Ivory Tower.
t was April and the Aboriginals in a remote part of Northern Australia asked their new elder if the coming winter was going to be cold or mild. Since he was an elder in a modern community he had never been taught the old secrets. When he looked at the sky he couldn't tell what the winter was going to be like. Nevertheless, to be on the safe side, he told his tribe that the winter was indeed going to be cold and that the members of the tribe should collect firewood to be prepared. But being a practical leader, after several days he had an idea. He walked out to the telephone booth on the highway, called the Bureau of Meteorology and asked, 'Is the coming winter in this area going to be cold?' The meteorologist responded, 'It looks like this winter is going to be quite cold..' So the elder went back to his people and told them to collect even more wood in order to be prepared. A week later he called the Bureau of Meteorology again. 'Does it still look like it is going to be a very cold winter?' The meteorologist again replied, 'Yes, it's going to be a very cold winter.' The elder again went back to his community and ordered them to collect every scrap of firewood they could find. Two weeks later the elder called the Bureau again. 'Are you absolutely sure that the winter is going to be very cold?' he asked. 'Absolutely,' the man replied. 'It's looking more and more like it is going to be one of the coldest winters ever.''How can you be so sure?' the elder asked. The weatherman replied, 'Our satellites have reported that the Aboriginals in the north are collecting firewood like crazy, and that's always a sure sign.'
Many Brits - and old school mate of mine from London came over on the Fairsky in 1963 with his family. But if I remember this right there were quite a lot of European migrants as well, mainly Italian and Greek.
Both male and female Australian Open finals was pretty awesome, Roger Federer 20th Grand Slam... history in the making. Btw at 9pm last night it was still 35 degrees Celsius dropping to a max of 20 on Tuesday... can't wait.
Eeew.... why Vegemite.... are they trying to tell us something Scientists have found a way to convert human waste into a Vegemite-like food for astronauts http://www.news.com.au/technology/s...s/news-story/3110e822c58df77e0db5f71ddbe01200
Vegemite is very misunderstood by the rest of the world. Who'll do the taste test on this fake stuff? PS our power bills will be monumental after these last few days. AC going flat out.
Hmmm, makes you wonder why the country with arguable the most sunshine on the planet hasn't done more in creating energy through commercial solar panels/fields. We could create that much energy that you could freeze to death in your own home on a very hot day. But here we are, trying to become the 10th strongest weapon exporter in the world. We are a breed which is very hard to understand, even for an Aussie.... Reg.
