Australia

gumboot said:
Volcanoes are awesome. What is really awesome is climbing to the top of Mt Ruapehu (an active Volcano in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand). You can actually feel the mountain vibrating under your feet, and if you stand still long enough you slowly start to sink into the scree. Standing on top of that much power makes you feel exceedingly small.
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Off topic!
This thread is about Australia, not some volcano on the red-headed-step-kid-country across the ditch.
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gumboot said:
Volcanoes are awesome. What is really awesome is climbing to the top of Mt Ruapehu (an active Volcano in the middle of the North Island of New Zealand). You can actually feel the mountain vibrating under your feet, and if you stand still long enough you slowly start to sink into the scree. Standing on top of that much power makes you feel exceedingly small.
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You guys have all the spectacular stuff. Wanna swap a volcano for some sand dunes?

I remember reading about Mount Tarawera when I was a kid, and I've wanted to go to New Zealand ever since. Now you've reminded me of that, as well as adding another spot to my itinerary. Cool. I can't think of a better word than awesome to describe what it must feel like to stand on a vibrating mountain.

The only thing that I've seen that comes close to that amount of power is the ocean.

As far as I'm aware, the only live geo-hotty stuff we have is a few hot springs West of the Great Divide. The Moree area in NSW has some, and the Northern Territory has a few places such as Mataranka and Darke's Caves where one can have a nice hot swim on a 35 degree day. Nothing as cool as geysers and stuff though.

I must organise a post on Mataranka.


Cheers gumboot. Thanks for sharing, matey.

Dave

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Akhenaten said:
A dinosaur probably ate it. We're having a lot of trouble with them lately.
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There are dinosaurs in Australia?

I *knew* it!

I should be heading to Australia instead of Egypt, Italy, Jordan and ... oh hang on. I *AM* going to Australia as well!

:D
 
Plum Pudding in the middle of Summer?

lionking said:
So, everyone having a roast, plum pudding etc for Christmas?
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Yuppers.


The Christmas pudding is central to the imagined ideal traditional English Christmas and to Australians' attempts to create an authentic festival.

Far from being an absurd relic of a distant culture, or a self-conscious attempt to ape British society, the continued presence of the plum pudding is necessary to an Australian Christmas. Despite all the suggestions for its change, replacement, or abandonment, the pudding retains its central place.

The Christmas pudding once acted as an immediate signifier of Christmas itself, an icon of the festival. Moreover, it had a wider significance as an agent of civilisation and the British Empire.
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Marduk said:
"orgasmic", but only if youre female and only if youre sitting down
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I was on the computer, and sitting down, when this one hit.

If you surf around the site a bit, you'll see they are reasonably common.

Oh, and for the record, I am male. And I was merely tittilated by it...
 
BTMO said:
I was on the computer, and sitting down, when this one hit.

If you surf around the site a bit, you'll see they are reasonably common.

Oh, and for the record, I am male. And I was merely tittilated by it...
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The advantage of a volcano like Ruapehu is it's continuous. You'd need to be a pretty special girl to get off on the ~15 seconds or so that the average quake lasts. However you can squat down on the crest of Ruapehu and ride that monster as long as you want.

I feel dirty.
 
I think we should call Australia by its old name
Botany Bay has a better ring to it
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Maybe just call it "A Colony"

Whilst we're finding names, how about some better state names too. Vic, Tas & Canberra are the only ones with anything half way decent.

Everything else could have been thought up by my family
We had a cat, it's name was "cat".
We got a second cat - it was called "little cat", and cat became "big cat".
When we got a third cat it was called "baby cat" and it kept that name to the day it died.

WA, SA, Qld, NT, NSW and New Zealand (I'm going to include the cousins) all need a lot of work and remind me of our cats. Credit where it's due, the septics have a much better flair for this sort of thing than us.
 
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Botany Bay

Farewell to Old England forever
Farewell to my old pals as well
Farewell to the well known Old Bailee
Where I once used to be such a swell.

Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ay,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty
Oh we are bound for Botany Bay.

There's the captain as is our commander,
There's bo'sun and all the ship's crew
There's first and the second class passengers,
Such is what we poor convicts goes through.

<refrain>

'Taint leaving Old England we cares about,
'Taint 'cos we mispells wot we knows
But becos all we light finger'd gentry
Hop's around with a log on our toes.

<refrain>


Oh had I the wings of a turtle-dove,
I'd soar on my pinions so high,
Slap bang to the arms of my Polly love,
And in her sweet presence I'd die.

<refrain>

Now all my young Dookies and Duchesses,
Take warning from what I've to say,
Mind all is your own as you touch-es-es,
Or you'll find us in Botany Bay.



Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ay,
Singing too-rall, li-oo-rall, li-ad-di-ty
Oh we are bound for Botany Bay.​
​


The tune is here
 
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