Thanks for the detailed info, DP. Between your brutal solar radiation and the drop bears, i don't think i'll ever be induced to visit the antipodes.
Its long term exposure that dioes the damage Set:
Popping over for a visit for a month wont hurt your soft and silky skin.
I'm Irish by descent, DP--i've got that milky white skin that makes a fish belly look dark . . . i don't go out in the noon day sun here, if i can help it.
And then there's all them damned drop bears and wombat rapists . . . i shudder to think . . .
He's right, looking at those wombats in the wrong way can get you convicted.
And who says we can't go outside without sunscreen? Only those white fellas have to worry bout that. Thankfully those of us more genetically advanced (ie those of us with dark or black skin) don't have to be quite so careful
I'm thinking about consolidating my freckles into a tan...
Billy Connolly from a 'chat' about Australia being a dangerous place (I'm writing this from memory - can't find a transcript anywhere - insert your own scottish accent).
He was tanning on the balcony of his Townsville Hotel on the eve of his Australian tour:
"I was on the balcony because, being scottish, I'm pale blue, it takes me a week to get white and I don't want to scare the children. Then I hear this siren 'woooaaaar' and I think 'F*ckin japs have changed their mind'. But it wasn't the japs, it was a shark alarm. And the people were still swimming. If I was out there I'd be screaming out of the water like a polaris missile, throwing children behind me. But the Australians kept swimming. They seem to work on the theory that a shark can only eat one person at a time."
[Much later...]
"In australia the suntan lotions are in numbers, from 1 to 15. The doctor said I should use a number 64 - the woman behind the counter said 'That's a bandage!'"
speaking of billy...
i spewed up alphabet soup once. when I looked at the result the letters spelled carrots.
Setanta wrote:dlowan wrote:The wombat is innocent.
Bullshit . . .
Wombat rapist
Dlowan's right - the wombat IS innocent!
From today's Sydney Morning Herald - the ratbag who claimed that was jailed:
Man sentenced after claiming wombat raped him!
He was a Kiwi, of course. Not too bright.....
vikorr wrote:He's right, looking at those wombats in the wrong way can get you convicted.
And who says we can't go outside without sunscreen? Only those white fellas have to worry bout that. Thankfully those of us more genetically advanced (ie those of us with dark or black skin) don't have to be quite so careful
Not so sure it ain't all mucked up for you fellas, too.......you be careful is all I'm sayin'.....
Er......wasn't he just having a little joke?
Wombats, while built like furry Sherman tanks, don't have a willy worth waving,.
Police prosecutor Sergeant Chris Stringer told the court that on the afternoon of February 11 Cradock called the police communications centre, threatening to "smash the filth" if they arrived at his home that night.
When asked if he had an emergency, he replied "yes", Mr Stringer said.
On a second subsequent call to the communications centre, Cradock told police he was being raped by a wombat at his Motueka address, and sought their immediate help.
He called police again soon after, and gave his full name, saying he wanted to withdraw the complaint.
"I'll retract the rape complaint from the wombat, because he's pulled out," Cradock told the operator.
"Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know, I didn't hurt my bum at all," Cradock then told the operator.
dadpad wrote:Setanta,
Ozone depletion (as I understand things) is highest over the poles.
I wonder why ? Why not the Germans or the French or the Irish.
Poor bloody Poles ....
Now that's the kind of lowbrow humor i can really appreciate ! ! !
Setanta wrote:I'm Irish by descent, DP--i've got that milky white skin that makes a fish belly look dark . . . i don't go out in the noon day sun here, if i can help it.
That makes you no different from me and thousands more like us.
Setanta wrote:And then there's all them damned drop bears and wombat rapists . . . i shudder to think . . .
This from a man who lives where the really scary animals abound - like Paris, Britney, Lindsay........
lezzles wrote:Setanta wrote:And then there's all them damned drop bears and wombat rapists . . . i shudder to think . . .
This from a man who lives where the really scary animals abound - like Paris, Britney, Lindsay........
No doubt . . . i don't go anywhere near California, either . . .
ehBeth wrote:on this date
Quote:1900 - Queen Victoria gives royal assent to an Act creating the Commonwealth of Australia thus uniting separate colonies on the continent under one federal government.
or so Wiki tells me
So it goes.
Apparently killed her, cos she died the next year.
Yet another one of the children cutting the apron strings.
OK, Oztralians, 'splain this one to me.
I heard on the radio news last night that it had snowed in Sidney, and that it was the first snow since 1836. Then the news reader reported that the Weather Bureau (or whatever you call it there) claimed that it was not the first snow since 1836, because it wasn't snow--it was "soft hail."
Do you people believe things such as that? Can i interest any of you in a very lucrative bridge in New York that i'd be happy to offer you at a discount?
whats to explain? snow? Hail? surely even you know what these are.
Ok ok snow is frozen water falling out of the sky, whereas hail is frozen water falling ......
wait....
I'm confused..........
How much for the bridge?
