Fuck me ...

[blamebrampton]

People often ask 'why do you stay in Australia when all of the fauna and some of the flora is lethal?'* This is the wrong question.

The right question is: 'What the hell are you thinking staying in a country that has new fire danger warnings like this??!!'


ETA: And just in case there is any suspicion of this being another example of my love for hyperbole, I give you the news page the image came from. Alas, I've not found a copy of the TV advert explaining the Catastrophic level on YouTube yet, but it is along the lines of 'RUN! RUN! RUN AND DO NOT LOOK BACK!' Which I have to say is wholly reasonable under the circumstances.


* This is not strictly true. The sheep, as Terry Pratchett accurately observed, are quite safe. Most wallabies, kangaroos and koalas are perfectly harmless. Many of the birds are actually pleasant! But steer well clear of the cute little octopuses.

Comments

[glass-violet.livejournal.com]

Hey, we get fires down here sometimes! Although, this summer (after a winter that saw something like 3x the average rainfall for the period) you're probably pretty safe coming down here. I imagine that all we'll be able to manage is a fitful smoulder...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am banking on your verdant state remaining green through the coming months. And we shall have pictures of it at the start of our news broadcasts and we will all look at it and sigh longingly.

[dharawal.livejournal.com]

*grin*

This is true, we can smoulder with the best, though that doesn't of course stop the idiots from trying to set alight all the grass verges.

I'm all for rain, and I love that it's so green and all, but really it's coming up middle october, can we please have SOME sun??

[glass-violet.livejournal.com]

We had some the other day! I got washing dry on the line for the first time in months, it was very exciting!