What if you lived in Australia?

[uli12345]

We would like to point out that....
We may feel inadequate for ministry, thinking that we don't know enough or are not skilled enough.


Australians have:


1. No good Beer




2. They live in a den !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfR9iY5y94s

Bavarian Cabin:



Australian den :




That is the Difference!

Prost!

Uli

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by uli12345

That is the Difference!

Huh

Here's the difference





Overall, we win

[blondifan]

What I wouldn't give for just a little of this right about now..



It's freakineezing here at the moment. 0.1°C

[winebeavis]

Never found the Bavarian Reef. But here's a few snap shots I took around the one in the crystal blue Australian waters about a year ago.



There's a really cool rainforest the Australia has that many places do not.



Where you can drink some fine Australian beer:



And some crap beer too.



But nowhere else do I know of where you can get a Kangaroo and Crocodile half and half dinner

[9876543210]

nckgmd,

Originally Posted by nckgmd

The coldest it gets in Adelaide South Australia is late July Early August... It gets roughly to 2 degrees C/ 35.5 degrees F at night and about 15 degrees C/ 59 Degrees F during day.. Victoria and especially Tasmania get colder... During Summer though in the last 10 years it's been getting much hotter.... Used to be news if we broke the old 100 degrees F mark. Now we get 2 weeks straight around 26c/78.8f at night and 46c/114.8f daytime.. In my states mid north where they mine Opal Coober Pedy it gets so hot they live below ground... Check out the series Dirty Jobs when they came to South Australia.. I knew a guy who used to mine at Coober Pedy and he told me the hotel there needed to extend their premises add a few more rooms. So they brought in a excavating machine and while they were digging out they found Opals and it paid for the extension.....

Thanks for the info. But I have to say that if you guys only get down to around 35 degrees F then you guys don't really know what cold is! Shoot, in a normal winter up here we'll get down to -35 degrees a few nights a year. Now thats cold! Your breath freezes straight to your beard if you have one.

[nckgmd]

Originally Posted by 9876543210

nckgmd,



Thanks for the info. But I have to say that if you guys only get down to around 35 degrees F then you guys don't really know what cold is! Shoot, in a normal winter up here we'll get down to -35 degrees a few nights a year. Now thats cold! Your breath freezes straight to your beard if you have one.

I know a German bloke who runs an orchard not far from me. He has lived in Australia since about 1950 came over in his teens. He forgot himself how cold it gets back in his home country. When he was about 70 he thought he would go home for one more white Christmas and see his relatives. He told me it was so cold he nearly had a heart attack... I think I would die at -35 but then again it's not much nicer at 116 for two weeks straight either....

[Motorboater]

It's good Estreeter is here to give some detailed explanation. The best I could've done, was to say that I could get by sleeping with 2 blankets sometimes last winter. This time, I've even had 4 blankets and a quilt one time! Brrrrrrr!

Alright. Some Euro snobs can boast their -35, and think I'm/we're soft. But you are used to it. We're talking about a country that'll never host a Winter Olympics. Brrrr!

[palo5]

Originally Posted by Motorboater

Alright. Some Euro snobs can boast their -35, and think I'm/we're soft. But you are used to it...

Almost no European experiences -35, believe me. Most of them aren't prepared for -10, or even for snow. That's why they invest so little in car tires & snow-clearing machines, and have such comical traffic incidents from time to time

Check it out, it's true. They are heated by the Gulf Stream. So call their bluff and post their average temperature stats from Wiki

Just because they feel cold, doesn't mean it is cold... relatively speaking

Cold is good, heat is bad. Commonsense protects you against cold, but only air-cionditioning protects you against heat

...or a basement in the permafrost

[effCup]

Originally Posted by palo5

Almost no European experiences -35, believe me.
[...]
...or a basement in the permafrost

Except if it's not perma & starts to thaw (#2).

The coldest I've experienced outdoors was -40... at which point it doesn't matter which scale you're talking (C/F). That was a wind-chill-inclusive temp in the Chicago area--i.e. perhaps only -20-25F or so. Fortunately my island, like Australia, doesn't get nearly that cold, but lots of our houses are cold for other reasons.

[palo5]

Originally Posted by effCup

Except if it's not perma & starts to thaw (#2).

Hehehe! People who live on permafrost generally know it. That's why the "fridges" are built underground and don't require electricity except for lighting. Environmental thinking, you see. The top 2-3 meters are problematic, but people there know that

I don't know anywhere in AUS where such conditions exist. Maybe in NZ Alps if there is a permanent snowline, but probably almost no one lives there, so the question doesn't arise

...lots of our houses are cold for other reasons.

Of course. You build for expected weather conditions, like everyone else. Not everyone can afford thousands of $$ for insulation etc, if they only need it a couple of days a year