What if you lived in Australia?

[trailmaster]

Hiram Big fantasies will have to be put on hold until most of this re-upping stuff is finished. I have already finished Hiram's new plan to make the desert outback into fertile cropland. Goodbye for now, signed Kevin

[effCup]

Originally Posted by blondifan

It's an assumption, on my part. I have only met a few Maori and the one i've known longest prefered to be known as something else, which was puzzling at the time (in the nineties) and he claimed rightfully, i wouldn't understand, so i dropped it. As far as i know we're still friends. We played in a couple of bands together.

Better ask an Aussie

There are several different iwi in the SI. Quite a handy map, although with the obvious drawback that it neglects to note the overlapping/contested claims--similar to Europe, Asia, Africa... everywhere!

[Sir Honkers]

You'd be cheered up no end by the fact that today is the Winter Solstice. Not only are the days getting longer, but it's only seventy two days to the first day of Spring.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by andw

We eat our breakfast ....

of corn flakes and beer

[palo5]

Originally Posted by loosegoose

You'd be cheered up no end by the fact that today is the Winter Solstice. Not only are the days getting longer, but it's only seventy two days to the first day of Spring.

It's the opposite here -- summer solstice, the longest day and biggest festival of the year, although we actually celebrate it on the weekend. A beautiful, warm midsummer day here, +13C

It rained too, but the rain was warm

Unfortunately, on the celebration day many people get hammered and do silly things like fall off balconies, crash their autos, sink their boats and kill themselves accidentally. There's currently a web-poll for guessing how many people will drown themselves. The average is below 20, but if there are more than 20 this year and you guess right, you could win €1,000

Originally Posted by andw

We eat our breakfast ....

Originally Posted by Estreeter

of corn flakes and beer

That means he puts cornflakes in his beer. Oh well, every country is different, no?

[bloke57]

Originally Posted by palo5

It's the opposite here -- summer solstice, the longest day and biggest festival of the year.

Indeed - and once again V.E.F. Mods and Supermods gather to decide whom to single out for "special" treatment.

[effCup]

Originally Posted by bloke57

once again V.E.F. Mods and Supermods gather to decide whom to single out for "special" treatment.

Stop playing pin the tail on the donkey, blokey.

... so which one is...

Nah, we're treated equally insane, here. We all get special (remedial) treatment from the mod squad.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by bloke57

Indeed - and once again V.E.F. Mods and Supermods gather to decide whom to single out for "special" treatment.

hmmm... looks like winter darkness, not northern midnight sun. Must be the southern colleagues. It's never as dark as that here in summer, unless there's a thunderstorm or something

Do Australians get winter darkness?

[effCup]

Originally Posted by palo5

Do Australians get winter darkness?

Latitudinally dependent, so: yes & no.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by palo5

Do Australians get winter darkness?

Yeah, at night Strange ain't it

It hate it, It's almost dark by 5:30, sun down is about 5:15 In southern Victoria

Do Russians .... never mind, I was gonna ask something dumb about Putin and anal