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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Agreed as gently caress. Bought it, read it, gave it to friends, saw the stage play at the Bridge Hotel Balmain with Steve Le Marcand as JB. Top. Notch.
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DumbparameciuM posted:QFT I was about to post this, insane footage. That firestorm was so intense it formed its own tornado https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phDcVxse91Y
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I'm usually a book over movie guy but that movie nails it so hard. They couldn't have done a better job.
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EoinCannon posted:Thanks for the doco and the book reco, will check that out Most of the way through Inferno now, I don't remember my first readthrough, but I noticed a huge bias in the writing now, turns out the author is a former Herald Sun journalist and currently writes for Quadrant so it's any surprise it is full of despise for "greenies" without actually citing actual proof they had anything to do with backburning legislature, and contradicts it with explaining how the fuel loads were more a result of the local council's bucking to the draw of the area from seachangers who enjoyed the overgrown, heavily wooded look until it became an unstoppable bureaucratic nightmare even the locals were trying to overturn by the end of it, most of the self confessed "greenies". It does, however, argue in favor of "indigenous inspired land management" while also trying to disparage it as 'inner city latte-sipping nonsense'. But does have a pretty good go at the starkly incompetent and overly-contrived bureaucracy leading to a failure of disaster mitigation and management that the Victorian government was mired in at the time. So it's pretty typical of ultra-conservative news types, they can often get to the crux of a story but have to take deviations to throw a bunch of gut punches at the ideologic opposition in the process, which is definitely making this for an annoying read. It's also awkwardly paced, jumps around a lot and can be kind of confusing as to what time of the event you should be considering at the time. Sometimes going from real time retelling of events, to a few pages of a few week after, then to before the real-time events in a different location without logical flow. Otherwise, there are some great passages in it. Dunno if I would recommend just yet tbh Maximum Sexy Pigeon fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jan 20, 2023 |
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Jan 20, 2023 11:42
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  loving Cane Toads.
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Oooo a Nippys! Much like Big M and Norco, it's choccy milk I only get on holidays
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I was at a blood donation centre and forgot about the free food Then I saw a nippys box and my inner 9 yr old got very happy
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Jan 20, 2023 13:25
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Is the Nippy's Coffee box having a chocolate-coloured label a long troll? Has anyone else reached for the chocolate brown and had a surprise on the first sip?
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Blow posted:
Thats one big chazzwaazzer.
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Blow posted:That would be the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. I remember being asked if I wanted to go up front many times as a kid and being a bit confused that neither pilot was actually doing anything to fly the plane. My brother was a pilot and I eventually learned that pilots are mostly there for takeoff, landing, and if something goes wrong.
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Blow posted:That would be the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. You're lucky this didn't happen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Airways_Flight_009
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:You're lucky this didn't happen "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
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Stumbled on this doco on the 1994 Blue Mountains fires and it is painfully early 90's. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zW9TPoF620 - cops wearing those sunglasses all the surfers wore at the time - Horrible title cards because everyone just got a new software package and just HAD to use the blue marble with gold lettering so everyone's introduction looks like the plaque on their grave - Weird music that doesn't know what tone it is trying to set that was all made on the one keyboard and is also mostly terrible - VHS quality image with not much effort in pace or cohesion (Not that it isn't mostly self explanatory, still ) with worse sound mixing. The footage, though, is fantastic. Never really seen how quickly some bushes can burn before they're mostly gone. And there are parts where you can see how quickly a fire can advance. The camera operators had some serious balls (It was just the two of them) It gets a bit naff at the end, a lot of old Australia there, parades and prayer. (Turns out the whole production was made entirely in the Blue Mountains) Watch it for the footage. The fires are nowhere near as insane as Black Saturday or Black Summer, but you get to see a lot more closer because of this. Speaking of: 4 Corners Black Saturday episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdGqTQkRVwE, already in the first 2 minutes the extremity completely overshadows the last doco. loving hell. Maximum Sexy Pigeon fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Jan 21, 2023 |
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I'm not sure if it was that fire and/or different fires in the Ku-ring-gai and Lane Love happening at the same time but that was the year it rained ash and half burned leaves on inner city Sydney.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I'm not sure if it was that fire and/or different fires in the Ku-ring-gai and Lane Love happening at the same time but that was the year it rained ash and half burned leaves on inner city Sydney. That happened about ten years ago, too. I remember burn leaves and twigs landing on our table at a pub in Newtown.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I'm not sure if it was that fire and/or different fires in the Ku-ring-gai and Lane Love happening at the same time but that was the year it rained ash and half burned leaves on inner city Sydney. That was very strange. I was in my neighbour's spa, drinking Coopers Sparkling Ale. Huge intact black charred eucalyptus leaves just fell out of the clear blue sky.
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Jan 21, 2023 13:00
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Do any of your stories ever not include you're beverage of choice?
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Dr. Garbanzo posted:Do any of your stories ever not include you're beverage of choice? Mate. I was just adding colour to the story. Wrong "your" btw.
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Sadly, it'll probably happen again soon...
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Sadly, it'll probably happen again soon... Not this summer mate. It's rained like buggery all last year (Speaking in my authority as deputy captain of the local bush fire brigade back in the 90s, I had a white helmet with red stripe and everything)
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Chrpno posted:Not this summer mate. It's rained like buggery all last year Once it dries out though all that new green poo poo we got growing is going to find out that Australia is really hostile to things that aren't white. Currently drinking a VB longneck for breakfast, it's 05:20 though not 8am. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shorts?Ns15eHLDv1I
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Australia seemed like paradise when I was a kid watching Discovery Channel. Now it fills me with an almost Lovecraftian horror. My wife and I are seriously looking into moving from Canada to New Zealand, but I can’t in a million years imagine Aussieland as anything but The Hills have Eyes, Mate.
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madmatt112 posted:Australia seemed like paradise when I was a kid watching Discovery Channel. Well that 3 metre Saltwater Croc that was chilling on North Stradbroke seems to have hosed off. Safe as gently caress now.
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Chrpno posted:Not this summer mate. It's rained like buggery all last year The fuel load has built up significantly and if we get a dry summer later this year then grass fires are a major concern. They don't have the intensity of the forest fires but move extremely quickly.
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Chrpno posted:Not this summer mate. It's rained like buggery all last year No, not this summer. Hopefully there's a decent window to backburn safely before we go back to 45 degree summers. I mean, Black Summer was the last one, then we've had nothing but flooding since. There will hopefully be a year of neither fires nor floods where it isn't pissing down too much or far too dangerous to do mitigation works. My understanding with B-Sum is that they barely had a ten-day window for it that year.
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Just wondering, do you guys still have the draconian anti-rabies laws you used to have? Just wondering, not plotting anything. You know, for now.
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Funky See Funky Do posted:I'm not sure if it was that fire and/or different fires in the Ku-ring-gai and Lane Love happening at the same time but that was the year it rained ash and half burned leaves on inner city Sydney. Pictures of the ash on my vegetable garden came up on my FB memories the other day. It's the only time I've ever thought we might have to evacuate but Sydney was ringed by bushfire so I don't know where we would have gone.
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madmatt112 posted:Australia seemed like paradise when I was a kid watching Discovery Channel. I'm pretty sure Canada has natural disasters and hostile wildlife, too.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Just wondering, do you guys still have the draconian anti-rabies laws you used to have? Just wondering, not plotting anything. You know, for now. Yes, Australia is one of the few places in the world that's rabies free, and the aim is to keep it that way. You can import a pet into Australia but it's a 3+ month process if the pet is originally from Australia, and more like 6 months if the pet has never been to Australia. You can only import pets to Australia from certain countries, and there's a mandatory 10-day quarantine period on arrival. We did it with our dog a few years ago and it's a pretty stressful experience to be honest. It's expensive too, I think it cost us something like $10k AUD across the whole process. For reference, getting him from Sydney to Madrid cost about $3k - roughly the same as two adult one-way tickets. If you're migrating here permanently then yeah it's worth it, but for just a holiday it's absolutely not.
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Hey they know there’s a rabies vaccine, right? Just asking.
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webmeister posted:Yes, Australia is one of the few places in the world that's rabies free, and the aim is to keep it that way. You can import a pet into Australia but it's a 3+ month process if the pet is originally from Australia, and more like 6 months if the pet has never been to Australia. You can only import pets to Australia from certain countries, and there's a mandatory 10-day quarantine period on arrival. I was shocked to learn the other day that the quarantine period is so short. I remember it being much longer many years ago and feel like it should probably be longer given how many animals are coming into Australia from overseas these days.
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Hey they know there’s a rabies vaccine, right? Just asking. Lol, look just cos you're stuck in a rabies infested hell hole doesn't mean everybody has too be!
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dr_rat posted:Lol, look just cos you're stuck in a rabies infested hell hole doesn't mean everybody has too be! Dude nobody in my state who wasn't a professional bat-harasser has gotten rabies in like the last 90 years. I get what you mean though rabies is dead sexy
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Dude nobody in my state who wasn't a professional bat-harasser has gotten rabies in like the last 90 years. I get what you mean though rabies is dead sexy Hey everyone knows consumption is the sexy diseases wanted be all!
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dr_rat posted:Hey everyone knows consumption is the sexy diseases wanted be all! *vomits blood*
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It's very cool and very normal to have all your native animals frothing at the mouth and even more aggressive, you just get a vaccine every time one of them attacks you. Why would Australians not want that ? - An obviously diseased American.
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Lolie posted:I'm pretty sure Canada has natural disasters and hostile wildlife, too. Buddy, I was talking about the whiteys
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Nigmaetcetera posted:*vomits blood* *Titters in bashful Victorian*
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spaceblancmange posted:It's very cool and very normal to have all your native animals frothing at the mouth and even more aggressive, you just get a vaccine every time one of them attacks you. Why would Australians not want that ? - An obviously diseased American. Oh god they've made their way in! I'm so sorry! god help us all! j/k
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Nigmaetcetera posted:Just wondering, do you guys still have the draconian anti-rabies laws you used to have? Just wondering, not plotting anything. You know, for now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2BDtdkyxFk
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