^Go work in India for a while and see what good things you can find to say about them. Put Pakistan and Bangladesh on your itennary while in the region, you'll soon be singing their praises too.
^Go work in India for a while and see what good things you can find to say about them. Put Pakistan and Bangladesh on your itennary while in the region, you'll soon be singing their praises too.
Having spent three years in India, two in Bangladesh, and two in Sri Lanka, I have to agree^.
Cane toads hitch ride on the back of a python
Forget Lime scooters - the new rage in Australia is hitching a ride on the back of a snake.
An Aussie living in Kununurra, in the far north of Western Australia, snapped what's being described as the most Australian picture ever shot - about a dozen cane toads surfing on the back of a python.
"68mm just fell in the last hour at Kununurra," Andrew Mock wrote on Twitter.
"Flushed all the cane toads out of my brother's dam. Some of them took the easy way out - hitching a ride on the back of a 3.5m python."
https://www.newshub.co.nz/home/world...-a-python.html
It appears that Oz has been struck by a trans gender cyclone. Named as "Penny", but distinctly male.
Some amusing posts:
"Penny divorced Gulf after 1 day then went out with Cape for the night and is now married to Coral. I’ll just leave it there I think and leave the whole graphic up to your imagination."
"Kerry Allen-Traeger Does anyone else want to see the weather girl explain this one on the nightly weather report?!"
"That's going to blow all over the top end"
https://sputniknews.com/asia/2019010...rescast-jokes/
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
^ Used to get similar in Fiji. Candles too!
Can't get much more Aussie than using a boomerang to try to rob a servo!
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ang-fails.html
A man has failed miserably in his attempt to stick up a service station with the Aussie icon, by waving it at an attendant.
On Sunday afternoon, a Brisbane man entered the Shell service station at Tarragindi, south of Brisbane and threatened a staff member.
'He was asking people for money at the service station and had a boomerang in his hand', said a Queensland police spokesperson.
'It wasn't until he approached the attendant that the man raised his voice and started to become more threatening.'
'He left the service station and police were phoned,' he said.
Police recognised the 31 year old from Moorooka, the next suburb over, and located him a short time later.
He was arrested and given a notice of public nuisance.
'He was arrested but not charged,' police said. 'He didn't steal anything.'
The 31 year old did escaped a more serious punishment because no one was hurt during the incident.
^ I grew up in Tarragindi
Speaking of boomerangs...my father was the inaugural secretary of a committee in Darlington Point raising money to build a swimming pool in the town in the late 60's. They held a world boomerang throwing championship as a fund raising event. Guest of Honour was Gough Whitlam who went on to become Prime Minister several years later. I still recall the awe of watching one gent who threw a boomerang that seemingly to this ten year old to barely manage to stay inside the sports oval and only needing to take a handful of steps to catch it on return.
what do you call a bommerang that does not come back ?
a stick
Pub worker in Australia cooks steak in car after temperature reaches 46. (Not "only" in Oz, but still....)
The world's 15 hottest sites on Tuesday were all in Australia
Australia was home to all 15 of the world's hottest temperatures on Tuesday, a feat it may well repeat on Wednesday and beyond as a huge swath of the nation bakes in 45-degree-plus heat.
A slew of records have already fallen during the current heatwave and more are likely to be broken before a cool change breaks up the furnace later this week.
The world's hottest places in the 24 hours to 11am (AEDT) on January 16:
- Tarcoola (Australia) 49.1°C
- Port Augusta Aws (Australia) 49°C
- Woomera Aerodrome (Australia) 48°C
- Olympic Dam Aerodrome (Australia) 47.9°C
- Hay Airport Aws (Australia) 47.8°C
- Oodnadatta Airport (Australia) 47.7°C
- Marree Aero (Australia) 47.6°C
- Coober Pedy Aws (Australia) 47.5°C
- Warburton Airfield (Australia) 47.3°C
- Ivanhoe Aerodrome Aws (Australia) 46.9°C
- Wilcannia Aerodrome Aws (Australia) 46.6°C
- Leigh Creek Airport (Australia) 46.3°C
- Wulungurru (Australia) 46.2°C
- Moomba Airport (Australia) 46.1°C
- Yulara Aws (Australia) 46.1°C
https://www.smh.com.au/environment/w...16-p50rmr.html
Kangaroos don't fart
It was 48.9C last Tuesday in Port Augusta, South Australia, an old harbour city that now harvests solar power. Michelle Coles, the owner of the local cinema, took off her shoes at night to test the concrete before letting the dogs out. “People tend to stay at home,” she said. “They don’t walk around when it’s like this.”
It’s easy to see why: in the middle of the day it takes seconds to blister a dog’s paw or child’s foot. In Mildura, in northern Victoria, last week gardeners burned their hands when they picked up their tools, which had been left in the sun at 46C. Fish were dying in the rivers.
Almost every day last week a new heat record was broken in Australia. They spread out, unrelenting, across the country, with records broken for all kinds of reasons – as if the statistics were finding an infinite series of ways to say that it was hot.
The community of Noona – population 14 – reached the highest minimum ever recorded overnight in Australia – 35.9C was the coldest it got, at 7am on Friday. It was 45C by noon.
A record fell on Tuesday in Meekatharra in Western Australia – the highest minimum there ever recorded (33C). Another fell on Wednesday, 2,000 miles away, in Albury, New South Wales – their hottest day (45.6C).
It was 45C or higher for four consecutive days in Broken Hill – another record – and more than 40C for the same time period in Canberra, the nation’s capital. Nine records fell across NSW on Wednesday alone. Back in Port Augusta, Tuesday was the highest temperature since records began in 1962.
In the Niagara Cafe in Gundagai, whose claim to fame is that the former Australian prime minister John Curtin once popped in during the second world war, Tina Loukissas turned off the deep fryer, then the grill.
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“It feels like you’ve walked into a sauna,” she said. “When it’s getting up to 43C or 44C, because you have all these machines going, the air conditioning isn’t coping very well.
“We’ve got tables outside that nobody has sat at for the last couple of days … You’d be crazy to sit outside on a day like today.”
In Mildura, Tolga Ozkuzucu, owner of Top Notch Gardens, had the misfortune to be working outdoors.
“It’s been like hell,” he said. “You have to try to leave your tools in the shade. If you don’t, it burns your fingers. There’s not much you can do.
“I try to start as early as I can. I’m not going to risk my body and health. People here are very understanding of that because they know how hot it is … nobody wants to be outside when it’s 46C.”
In South Australia, they declared a “code red” across Adelaide, the state capital. Homelessness services were working overtime and the Red Cross started calling round a list of 750 people who were deemed especially vulnerable.
At the Australian Open in Melbourne, only the sea breeze kept the temperature below 40C. At Adelaide’s Tour Down Under, a bike race, it was 41C.
On Monday last week the hottest spot in New South Wales was Menindee, a river town that feeds the country’s largest water system, the Murray-Darling basin. It was 45C. It climbed to 47C on Wednesday, and by Thursday the fish were gasping.
Australia’s native Murray cod can live for decades under normal conditions, growing all the while. The oldest are a metre long, with heavy white bellies that have to be held with both hands. Last week, hundreds died, choked of oxygen due to an algal bloom that fed and grew in the heat, and collapsed when temperatures dipped.
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'Bloody disgrace': '100-year-old' fish die in Darling River – videoBlue-green algae flourishes in hot, slow-moving water. Then, when temperatures inevitably drop, the algae dies and becomes a food source for bacteria, who multiply and starve the river of oxygen. The fish rise to the surface.
The mass fish death has reignited a debate over water management in the region, where cotton farmers upstream have been accused of taking more water than they should.
The heat is not the root cause, the locals stress. But the five punishing days settling over the river have not made it better. Last Thursday the cod were up near the surface and struggling. On Friday, it was 45C again. In Menindee, the locals believe the fish kill will happen again, with temperatures in the 40s expected to continue into this week. The water will be running hot.
But away from the Darling, Michelle Coles from Port Augusta says she is used to the heat.
“I didn’t think it was that hot yesterday, if you want an honest answer,” she said last Wednesday, the day after the temperature hit 48.9C.
“Yesterday at the cinema, it was very quiet. People tend to stay home. We’re quite used to it. Once it’s over 40, it’s hot.
“We’re conditioned to it. Honestly, I’d much rather be in 48C heat in Port Augusta than in the city. You’ve got so much concrete and it’s closed in, but here it’s quite open.
“You just don’t stand out in the sun though. That would be stupid.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/australi...mashes-records
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
The foot of a male Southern Cassowary. Just in case you didn't believe it can kill a man with one swipe. Australia, it's not just the snakes, spiders, sharks, octopus, and jellyfish that can kill you, some of the birds are quite lethal too.
For the rest of the world, this is what a Southern Cassowary looks like:
"It is perhaps the largest member of the cassowary family and is tied as the second heaviest bird on earth, at a maximum size estimated at 85 kg (187 lb) and 190 cm (75 in) tall. Normally, this species ranges from 127 to 170 cm (50–67 in) in length.[2] The height is normally 1.5 to 1.8 m (4.9–5.9 ft); females average 58.5 kg (129 lb), while males average 29 to 34 kg (64–75 lb"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_cassowary
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And they can be vicious fvckers, too :
Been stalked by one of those. Scary.
Damm hot there. Plus 2 cyclones forming, one named, one awaiting.
Click for interactive map ... https://www.ventusky.com/?p=-25.9;13...temperature-2m
It's pretty extreme right now.
'Horrific mass grave' of horses stretching for 100m found in dried-up waterhole
https://au.yahoo.com/news/tragic-mas...082418145.html
^ Sad.
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