Australia never ceases to amaze me

[schwarzkopf]

Gas is short for gasoline.

Yeah - excuses.

And that is lemon soda.

Soda (a cooking ingredient) doesn't come in lemon sorry.

[Fat Mac]

dave chapelle explains it very well

[Fat Mac]

Yeah - excuses.




Soda (a cooking ingredient) doesn't come in lemon sorry.

soda is short for Sodium bicarbonate

[Aquinan]

Even the bloody kangaroos kill you?
Man, what a harsh place to live in.

A full grow male Red Kangaroo is around 5.6-5.9ft tall, up to 7ft when raised on their hind legs, they weigh around 200pounds can deliver a kick force of around 180-200lb, augmented by a claw on its toe. Basically they can kick your ribcage in and/or eviscerate(disembowel) you. So yeah, if you piss one off it certainly can rip you a new one.

[schwarzkopf]

Eh, it's a fluid either way. Close enough.

Soda is a powder.

Can understand your confusion, after all you think gas is a liquid

[Fat Mac]

Soda is a powder.

Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder

[schwarzkopf]

Sodium bicarbonate is a white solid that is crystalline but often appears as a fine powder

Certainly not a liquid or a gas like Nixx thinks.

[Airwaves]

The most dangerous place on Earth, truly.

I imagine every moment in Australia to be filled with terror.

Not really. You grow up learning to look for danger. Look ahead to see for snakes, check behind and underthings before you stick your fingers in them, never approach wild animals etc. You just grow up around it so it becomes natural instinct.

Through watching a tourist get punched by a Kangaroo is kinda funny.

[schwarzkopf]

I can promise you I don't think sodium bicarbonate is a liquid or gas given that it decomposes before it hits a melting point.

I meant gas, which is why I quoted the part about gas.

Don't worry Nixx, just having a friendly go at you.

Things mean different things in different places - I mean, apparently the USA puts thongs on their arse and not their feet ... how weird is that

[Santti]

Don't worry Nixx, just having a friendly go at you.

Things mean different things in different places - I mean, apparently the USA puts thongs on their arse and not their feet ... how weird is that

That is weird.

However, does it rain cats and dogs in Australia or US like it does in UK?

[slavrix]

I love how the argument for "how safe Australia really is" is a table of deaths.


Now to upgrade that to Injuries/Attacks caused by....

Just cause they didn't die doesn't mean they should be ignored.

[IIamaKing]

I've always wanted to find proper stats on US snake bites, this is the best I can see:


http://ufwildlife.ifas.ufl.edu/venom...ake_faqs.shtml

13 times the population, about triple-ish the number of deaths. But with numbers so low, I don't know if you can really extrapolate. I imagine it's more based on the number of people living in rural areas close to snake habitats and far from quick medical assistance anyway.

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My point was that Australian horses are vicious monsters.

Horses, dangerous at both ends and crafty in the middle-Sherlock Holmes.

[Aquinan]

That is weird.

However, does it rain cats and dogs in Australia or US like it does in UK?

Yeah it can, or we would just say "It's pissing it down outside."

[Mormolyce]

There are several species of poisonous birds. The little shrikethrush is the one I had in mind, though the one you mentioned is usually the one that I think of. I was just pretty sure Australia had a venomous bird, even if I couldn't remember it off the top of my head. Australia has a lot of weird shit as a result of breaking off from the rest of the continents earlier than any other sizable land mass other than Madagascar, which also has a lot of weird shit. Consequently, both are fairly interesting in terms of their native fauna.

Yeah, like marsupials. Not many of those left.

No. Lemonade is lemon juice+water+sugar. It is not a soft drink.

Well it ain't a hard drink :P

[Ayla]

Fun fact: Words in English can have multiple meanings.

I mean - in the US they are really weird, they use the word gas to refer to a liquid

Lemonade is also a soft drink.

So like what's Mike's Hard Lemonade called? I get Petrol, Bittumen is still fairly new to me, thongs are fairly acceptable too.

But I have a real hard time accepting Lemonade.

[Radio]

That is weird.

However, does it rain cats and dogs in Australia or US like it does in UK?

Some parts are susceptible to summer cyclones which rip rooves off houses, that's a bigger flying object than a dog.

[Mormolyce]

The most dangerous place on Earth, truly.

I imagine every moment in Australia to be filled with terror.

My dad had a shed (garage?) out the back. It was pretty big and full of nooks and crannies that were magnets for redback spiders. My parents just said "oh yeah don't touch those".

Turns out redbacks aren't actually that dangerous though, people get bitten by them all the time and it's rarely more than painful. Deaths take up to 30 days but even untreated they generally aren't lethal.

Gas is short for gasoline.

And that is lemon soda. How do you expect kids to make lemonade and have lemonade stands?

The "gas" in "gasoline" does mean "gas" though. Gas-oline.

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So like what's Mike's Hard Lemonade called? I get Petrol, Bittumen is still fairly new to me, thongs are fairly acceptable too.

But I have a real hard time accepting Lemonade.

Is that brewed lemonade? Almost unheard of here, though I have seen some recently.

Generally speaking "lemonade" is any sweet lemon drink, either traditional lemon juice drinks ("squash") or commercial lemon flavoured "sodas". Vaguely lemon-flavoured in some cases. 7Up and Mountain Dew might even be considered "lemonade".

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That is weird.

However, does it rain cats and dogs in Australia or US like it does in UK?

"Cats and dogs" is common here. Apparently that one goes back to like 1650.

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Some parts are susceptible to summer cyclones which rip rooves off houses, that's a bigger flying object than a dog.

In Darwin and far north Queensland maybe?

Who cares about them :P

[Fat Mac]

The "gas" in "gasoline" does mean "gas" though. Gas-oline.

no its doesn't.

[Radio]

In Darwin and far north Queensland maybe?

Who cares about them :P

They still do some good damage in Brisbane, which I care about after getting stranded underneath the Riverside Expressway during a storm yesterday!

(Also, have family in Mackay...)

[Ayla]

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Is that brewed lemonade? Almost unheard of here, though I have seen some recently.

Generally speaking "lemonade" is any sweet lemon drink, either traditional lemon juice drinks ("squash") or commercial lemon flavoured "sodas". Vaguely lemon-flavoured in some cases. 7Up and Mountain Dew might even be considered "lemonade".

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My bad, Mike's actually is carbonated. Oddly enough, I'd never have considered mountain dew as lemon drink, Lemonade or otherwise. Fresca though -googles- it's grapefruit?!

Dear God my whole life is shattered. /sobs uncontrollably