That might be interesting to read and i'm sure some people here have never even heard about it. It's pretty much beyond belief. A real case of what the fuck were we thinking.[/QUOTE]

I agree about wtf

But it's not unique. Check out Sotalapsi / Sotalapset - google the pictures

When I was studying at tech, for my city and guilds. Tech is a term used here for college, Not University. I lived in a run down house. The place was a mess. The roof leaked, There was sacks of waste in the back yard. rats everywhere but the house. Because me and my aussie friend killed the buggers. He always said let's drink some piss! Never really got my head round that. I know he wanted to have a beer; and he never skimped on the beer. He bought good beer. He said get stuck in! I left when the ceiling fell down. He was a welder like me, I can't remember the town he came from.

Back in the late '50s my parents were going to emigrate to Australia - my brother and I had to call the social workers because they weren't going to take us

My father was in the Royal Air Force working on ground radars. He was posted to Woomera in Australia about a year after I was born, and we were there for about a year or so.

My parents told me that apparantly they found me one day in the garden playing with a redback, stroking it. I'm betting my mother nigh on had a heart attack! :D

Reminds me of that story a couple of years ago when it was very dry, the camels would come down off the Nullarbor Plain and lick the early morning dew off the rail lines.
The males are very territorial and would stand their ground when the Indian Pacific came along, and this was a problem because the Indian Pacific was not about to stop or even slow down for a bunch of camels.

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It does make very good axle grease palo.
Vegemite definitely got the better of my German house guests from a couple of years ago.
"You do VAT?!? You eat it? This is very strange."
Naturally it is a source of great pride to us Australians though.
In fact I'm having some now.:thumbsup:

The poor old Australians, in addition to the spiders and snakes, also have the box jelly fish, possibly the most venomous creature on earth, quite transparent, and only about half the size of your little fingernail when fully grown!:eek:

Great white sharks and Tiger sharks ( though the US of course has these too), and a rather venomous type of scorpion. At least in the last respect the middle east and round the Mediteranean comes off worst, as that is where the most venomous scorpion is found - Leirus Quinquestriatas - the death stalker!:eek:

Palo5, yeah, please do send me one of those AAA batteries, we need one here!! :D. The mozzies here are really nasty, and they can 'bite' through just about anything too!

Maybe yours are worse than ours, rustler :eek:

I thought Siberia was bad, but it's nothing compared to NW Russia and Lapland in the 'critical month'. "Diabolical" doesn't begin to describe it :eek:

That's why cold temperatures are good, you see - they keep the monsters away :thumbsup::D

Absloutely! All the houses here are made of wood, and thus all sorts of little creatures live in them, so a good period of intense cold is needed to kill them off.

Mind you, when it is cold we have the elks and lynx to be careful of!! They tend to come quite in close to 'civilization' during the winters, and a 400 - 450kg elk is definately something to wary of!

BTW. How thick is the armour plating on that AAA battery, just wondering if it will be thick enough to stop a mozzie?:D

The cold stops the larvas becoming 'adult', so I'm told. But it doesn't kill them, unfortunately. They survive everything. Even -60C doesn't kill them :eek:

Lynx could be a danger for your pet dog if it's alone, but you should be OK :thumbsup:

Elk are not predators and are no threat. The "city elks" are curious juveniles who don't know better :D'

Ignore them :thumbsup: