Whenever I see a newsproduct story or a popculture item which disturbs or fascinates me and I don't want to waste hours or days of my life thinking, talking, being outraged, or debating about it with others, I just say to myself, "What if it was Australian?" Then I simply can't take it seriously. Teenage boys aping the attire and mannerisms of criminals? If they were Australian, I would realize it's all pretend. Offensive antics of the latest popstar or film performer? If they were Australian I would realize they were entirely manufactured as a media product and have no connection at all with reality. Newsproduct monopoly of magazines and television with the grisly details of the "terrible ordeal" of some child somewhere on the opposite side of the continent? If it were a story from Australian I wouldn't care. Political drama? When I see an Australian cabinet minister apologizing or resigning I don't give a damn.
I don't imagine the audience in their underwear, I imagine them all as Australians.
This might actually work for me...
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:45:44 PM
This might actually work for me...
You just have to remember that they're upside down, so they have even worse post-nasal drip than we get.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 09:46:18 PM
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:45:44 PM
This might actually work for me...
You just have to remember that they're upside down, so they have even worse post-nasal drip than we get.
Oh, that might be problematic for me.
Twid,
physical symptoms of nerddom
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:49:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 09:46:18 PM
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:45:44 PM
This might actually work for me...
You just have to remember that they're upside down, so they have even worse post-nasal drip than we get.
Oh, that might be problematic for me.
Twid,
physical symptoms of nerddom
Why? You're not the bastard walking around upside down just to show off.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 09:49:57 PM
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:49:25 PM
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 09:46:18 PM
Quote from: An Twidsteoir on March 06, 2012, 09:45:44 PM
This might actually work for me...
You just have to remember that they're upside down, so they have even worse post-nasal drip than we get.
Oh, that might be problematic for me.
Twid,
physical symptoms of nerddom
Why? You're not the bastard walking around upside down just to show off.
Fair. Plus they drink tea and show off their knives.
Oh, and they don't know what cocaine is, if I remember Crocodile Dundee right.
Heh.
Anyway, this place is dead as a stone today, so I'm gonna git.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on March 06, 2012, 09:57:10 PM
Heh.
Anyway, this place is dead as a stone today, so I'm gonna git.
I tried. Anyway, I should be focusing on the folk stuff and that one Thin Lizzy song. I don't got much time left.
Honestly, I should rotate this stuff into warm up practice. That way next year I don't have to spaz out like a slacker before finals.
You should post this on an Australian politics message board somewhere, and see the apologetic, jingoistic, defensive and ignorant responses. Generally speaking, we take ourselves far too seriously for a place that keeps subjecting our cultural identity to a series of poorly implemented copies of other places in the world.
Like, our pollies keep talking about getting a seat on the UN security council, because we're convinced we "punch above our weight". How grovelling at the feets of the British, then the yanks, and now likely the Chinese, gives us that idea escapes me.
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
Olivia Newton John.
Quote from: AnnaMaeBollocks on March 07, 2012, 12:19:14 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
Olivia Newton John.
Ha! Amerika STILL love her! And the British love our stupid soaps.
For every Newton John here though, there's a hundred Jessica Simpson's over there.
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
blue ring octopus
every snake
box jellyfish
stone fish
red back spider
funnel web spider
platypuses...
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 07, 2012, 12:42:48 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
blue ring octopus
every snake
box jellyfish
stone fish
red back spider
funnel web spider
platypuses...
Ah. Thanks. Yes, the most poisonous snakes on the planet. But we have many pythons too, just to be pedantic - not poisonous. Thankful we don't have Komodo Dragons and Killer bees.
But yes, even so, we have poisoned this continent ourselves (well, we blame the British mostly) more in the past couple of hundred years than all those animals combined.
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 01:00:11 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 07, 2012, 12:42:48 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
blue ring octopus
every snake
box jellyfish
stone fish
red back spider
funnel web spider
platypuses...
Ah. Thanks. Yes, the most poisonous snakes on the planet. But we have many pythons too, just to be pedantic - not poisonous. Thankful we don't have Komodo Dragons and Killer bees.
But yes, even so, we have poisoned this continent ourselves (well, we blame the British mostly) more in the past couple of hundred years than all those animals combined.
Okay, not
every snake, but you guys still have more poisonous than non-poisonous snakes, unlike the rest of us civilized continents :P
Whoa.
QuoteThe octopus produces venom that contains tetrodotoxin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, hyaluronidase, tyramine, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of blue-ringed octopus venom was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin,[4] a neurotoxin which is also found in pufferfish that is 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide.[5] Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus.[6]
There is no blue-ringed octopus antivenom available.
But it's so CUTE!
(http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/images/graphics/blueringoctopus.jpg)
The oceans of Australia are far more terrifying than the land.
You have blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, kraits far more venomous than anything found on land, sharks, box jellyfish, sting-rays, cone-shells and, most fun of all, saltwater crocodiles.
What the hell is a "kraite"?
[googles]
:whimper:
Memo to self, avoid swimming in Australia.
That said, however, I do believe the good Doktor has something here. After all, those upside down bastards are just taunting us with their insane lingo and bizarre preferences, so clearly if they should live in an oppressive police state that heavily restricts peaceful protests, then it merely serves them right for their wicked, wicked ways.
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 01:00:11 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 07, 2012, 12:42:48 AM
Quote from: Deepthroat Chopra on March 07, 2012, 12:16:00 AM
Quote from: Queen Gogira Pennyworth, BSW on March 06, 2012, 11:33:36 PM
Anyone who can live on an island made of poison kinda has to think of themselves as supernaturally badass, I would think.
"made of poison"?
I thought my white ancestors brought the poison. Could you please clarify?
British nuclear testing? Over-use of DDT? Introduction of Cane Toads? What?
blue ring octopus
every snake
box jellyfish
stone fish
red back spider
funnel web spider
platypuses...
Ah. Thanks. Yes, the most poisonous snakes on the planet. But we have many pythons too, just to be pedantic - not poisonous. Thankful we don't have Komodo Dragons and Killer bees.
Though, as that list shows, we have killer seas. :rimshot:
Also, I do find it hard to take a lot of what happens here seriously, it's just too funny. Though, cricket is the main exception, it is a very serious game.
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on March 07, 2012, 12:48:17 PM
Whoa.
QuoteThe octopus produces venom that contains tetrodotoxin, 5-hydroxytryptamine, hyaluronidase, tyramine, histamine, tryptamine, octopamine, taurine, acetylcholine, and dopamine. The major neurotoxin component of blue-ringed octopus venom was originally known as maculotoxin but was later found to be identical to tetrodotoxin,[4] a neurotoxin which is also found in pufferfish that is 10,000 times more toxic than cyanide.[5] Tetrodotoxin blocks sodium channels, causing motor paralysis and respiratory arrest within minutes of exposure, leading to cardiac arrest due to a lack of oxygen. The toxin is produced by bacteria in the salivary glands of the octopus.[6]
There is no blue-ringed octopus antivenom available.
But it's so CUTE!
(http://www.americanaquariumproducts.com/images/graphics/blueringoctopus.jpg)
DAWWWWW!!!
Quote from: Cain on March 07, 2012, 12:53:25 PM
The oceans of Australia are far more terrifying than the land.
You have blue-ringed octopuses, stonefish, kraits far more venomous than anything found on land, sharks, box jellyfish, sting-rays, cone-shells and, most fun of all, saltwater crocodiles.
Don't forget drownings, which claim multiple Korean tourists annually, and every now and then a European or two. Hang on, am I being irresponsible to our tourist industry? Lucky I didn't mention the outback serial killers, the dodgy tourist operators that leave scuba-divers in the middle of the ocean accidentally to drown, and those other tourist operators whose secret outback swimming holes result in crocodiles tasting German flesh.
But don't worry! I surf every weekend in the summer, and nothing's eaten me yet. It's all part of your adventure holiday.
Where the bloddy hell are you? (or ya' as the slogan goes, but I can't type that).