What if you lived in Australia? - Page 695

**trailmaster** · February 1st, 2018, 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by blondifan

What have the Quokka's cousins got against cyclists?

https://www.bicycling.com/culture/ka...-cyclist-video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4QkGoOZ_AE

That looked like an accident. The roo just did not see the cyclist. It happened so fast. Roos can hop at speeds of 70 kph(44 mph). The roo was coming out of the bush and the cyclist was just in it's way!

Estreeter · February 1st, 2018, 01:32 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

That looked like an accident. The roo just did not see the cyclist. It happened so fast. Roos can hop at speeds of 70 kph(44 mph). The roo was coming out of the bush and the cyclist was just in it's way!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsBL51yj7ys

There's other from there but won't link em, roo's didn't make it.

**trailmaster** · February 1st, 2018, 01:47 PM

Here is an un-related question for you E. When you are just walking down a typical street in your hometown ( a street with concrete sidewalks) do you avoid stepping on bugs such as ants, grasshoppers or other insectoids, or do you just step on them? In Chicago in the summer there are always some insects crossing one's path and I try not to step on them, but so many especially the very small type of ant are sometimes unavoidable! It is unfortunatey an insect's destiny to be either killed by another animal(a predatory insect, or animal) or a human, and other insects like common house flies have extremely short life spans(just 30 days for a housefly).

**effCup** · February 1st, 2018, 01:50 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

When you are just walking down a typical street in your hometown ( a street with concrete sidewalks)

Bitumen footpaths.

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

an insect's destiny

to colonise the world. Except for the flies that E inadvertently swallows.

**palo5** · February 1st, 2018, 01:58 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Here is an un-related question for you E. When you are just walking down a typical street in your hometown ( a street with concrete sidewalks) do you avoid stepping on bugs such as ants, grasshoppers or other insectoids, or do you just step on them?

He can't avoid stepping on things. He's only 1.50 meters tall, but has feet like a kangaroo and takes size 48 shoes

Estreeter · February 1st, 2018, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

Here is an un-related question for you E. When you are just walking down a typical street in your hometown ( a street with concrete sidewalks) do you avoid stepping on bugs such as ants, grasshoppers or other insectoids, or do you just step on them?

Depends on if I'm intoxicated or not

Ants

who the hell avoids stepping on ants

The rest, well I don't go out of my way to step on them but if they get in the way I guess it's bad luck cricket

And we call our sidewalks footpaths

made from either concrete, bitumen or plain o'l gravel

**trailmaster** · February 1st, 2018, 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Estreeter

Depends on if I'm intoxicated or not

Ants

who the hell avoids stepping on ants

The rest, well I don't go out of my way to step on them but if they get in the way I guess it's bad luck cricket

And we call our sidewalks footpaths

made from either concrete, bitumen or plain o'l gravel

And in America what you call Bitumen we call Asphalt. It is the same thing. It is made from petroleum. And as far as avoiding ants. There are probably more ants in Chicago than there are people and other animals in the entire world, but ants are important for the proper maintenance of the soil, so try to avoid them if possible!

**palo5** · February 1st, 2018, 02:28 PM

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Originally Posted by trailmaster

And in America what you call Bitumen we call Asphalt

You just pollute the environment. We don't. Our highways are natural

Estreeter · February 1st, 2018, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by palo5

You just pollute the environment. We don't. Our highways are natural

I like that

Bugger all chance, unlike here

of speed (revenue raising) cameras

**palo5** · February 1st, 2018, 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Estreeter

I like that

Bugger all chance, unlike here

of speed (revenue raising) cameras

That's a federal highway to my hometown, believe it or not. Now you know why we like it when it freezes. It does make sense

Someone said AUS will build a new railroad from north to south. Is it true?

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February 1st, 2018, 01:47 PM	#6943
trailmaster Veteran Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Posts: 59,873 Thanks: 1,328,791 Thanked 707,005 Times in 60,047 Posts	Here is an un-related question for you E. When you are just walking down a typical street in your hometown ( a street with concrete sidewalks) do you avoid stepping on bugs such as ants, grasshoppers or other insectoids, or do you just step on them? In Chicago in the summer there are always some insects crossing one's path and I try not to step on them, but so many especially the very small type of ant are sometimes unavoidable! It is unfortunatey an insect's destiny to be either killed by another animal(a predatory insect, or animal) or a human, and other insects like common house flies have extremely short life spans(just 30 days for a housefly).