WTF Australia??

[blamebrampton]

Guess what natural disaster is currently rampaging across the top half of New South Wales? 

Go on, guess!

Did you guess flood? A gold star for you.

Now guess what the latest threat from the fires down in Victoria is? 

Contamination of Melbourne's very marginal water supplies.

Oh Australia, you are so hilarious!

An update post on the Victorian fires later tonight, and for anyone wondering when the plague of locusts is going to descend, that was last November.

Comments

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

But you already had crocodiles, snakes and spiders.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You forgot the box jellyfish, blue ringed octopus, stonefish and scorpions.

Why am I here??!

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

I saw a program on Australia once, where all that happened was people walking bare foot on the beach and then treading on something and dying.

I think it was sponsored by the shoe industry.

I was traumatised just watching it.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yeah, don't laugh. I used to swim in the ocean through much of the year when I lived in England. I can count on my fingers the number of times I've done it here.

Probably because one of the first times was a good long swim between some islands that had been joined by a sandbank which no one thought to mention was well under water when the swiftly turning tide came back in. The swim itself wasn't a problem, I still hold a long-distance record at one of my old schools over 25 years later. What put me off was the chorus of 'But what about the sharks?' from all the Australians when I made it back to the original island.

Could none of them have mentioned the shark situation hours before when I mentioned I was going for a walk and paddle?? Bastards.

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

Lucky country indeed!

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

At least Donald Horne was being ironic ...

[shiv5468.livejournal.com]

Snerfles. Oops sorry, I laughed.

Bastards indeed.

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

Will I get smacked on the head with a book if I ask who Donald Horne is?

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

You'll be smacked on the head by one of the iconic Australian books, The Lucky Country, by Donald Horne, former editor of The Bulletin.

What do they teach you in schools here??

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Obviously you only laugh in relief and appreciation for my plucky British swimming skills that were too swift for Antipodean sharks, yes? Right?

*Gives Look*

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

The Usual. You know Shakespeare, To Kill a Mocking bird.

Not much Australian literature in high school, but we were encouraged to read plenty of stories written by Australian authors in primary school, although I think that has a lot to do with the librarian we had.

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

It's non-fiction and very worth the read. Though I have to confess I have never read the whole thing from cover to cover.

I love To Kill A Mockingbird, and the film, too. They're both brilliant.

[annes-stuff.livejournal.com]

Well next time I am Sydney I will have to borrow the book.

I liked To Kill a Mockingbird to. (And no it's not because of Gregory Peck being in the film)

[emerald-dragon8.livejournal.com]

*headdesk* We fail, it's true. :(

[snottygrrl.livejournal.com]

aren't you guys due for the frogs? or are they toads. or maybe it's the rain of blood next...

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

Because I am here, and I am awesome and win.

[ex-pseudicid32.livejournal.com]

Is it wrong that I constantly mix up To Kill a Mockingbird and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

One of the reasons I left NSW was because the locusts kept eating my garden. *cries*

Honestly, if you didn't live here, you wouldn't really believe it, yeah?

*headdesk*

WTF Huey!

*makes flaily fists at sky*

[meredyth-13.livejournal.com]

Honestly, don't mention the toads.

http://www.canetoads.com.au/index.htm

We've already had to kiss Queensland and New South Wales goodbye.

>.>

[wenchilada.livejournal.com]

*Icon LOVE!*


...ahem...

[wenchilada.livejournal.com]

I got nuthin'...

[wenchilada.livejournal.com]

And... western NSW has had a locust plague for a while now... just sayin'...

[wenchilada.livejournal.com]

Oh. You said that already. I blame pregnancy...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes, that would be it, I come to Australia for Canadians ...

[blamebrampton.livejournal.com]

Yes. Yes it is.

Funny, though ...