What if you lived in Australia?

[buttsie]

Originally Posted by blondifan

You'll never believe this, but i may have had one screaming/screeching at me from a tree outside near my upstairs timber deck, shortly after making that post. (the young ones can climb trees)...
Either that or a possum.
Do possums 'scream'? [must find out] Edit: Google says they do and the sound's familiar!

Honestly I can only recall seeing one (devil) here, a healthy juvenile, not that long ago.
He stopped, then continued on unabated, thundering through the understory growth.
A friend who camped here by the river reported seeing one (him?) also.

They do have benefits for landowners, in that they clean up carrion, possums, etc. I've never knowingly lost sheep to them, back when i had sheep, although I suspect I may have lost a few lambs to Wedge Tailed Eagles (also protected).

We've got bigger things to worry about. I like 'em though.

As bad as this screeching?


Angry Anderson - Bound For Glory - Live 1991 AFL Grand Final
2.45min
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iu4XNjVzT_0

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by blondifan

No, but there are high winds and a thunderstorm happening as i type.

I have seen photos of unusual dust and fire storms from mainland Australia.
I was surprised to find in my previous wiki link to devils that it is believed that Tasmanian Devils are possibly descended from Quolls.

Here's some.....

Canberra dust storm


Fire Tornado


As for Tornado's
We do get them, nothing like those F5 things like you can get in the US, Our bigger ones tend too happen where there's no population like in the deserts, so go unnoticed ... But here's one that I remember was on the news one particularly weird day, happened about 2 years ago just North of me near the Victoria, New South Wales border, They just don't happen often at all in populated places.



One for palo5, I actually have a little bit of respect for your girlfriend now, JG Don't ask me how, but I do But only a little

[deepsepia]

Originally Posted by blondifan

I was surprised to find in my previous wiki link to devils that it is believed that Tasmanian Devils are possibly descended from Quolls.

I think all the marsupial predators are related, the quolls, the devils, and the now extinct Thylacine or Tassie Tiger.

The last known Tiger died in the Hobart zoo, in 1936. Many folks claim to have heard them at night after that . . . Including recently, though the earlier reports are more likely than than the more recent.

[winebeavis]

Is the rotatation clockwise thing really true. I tried to figure it out with plumbing a couple of weeks ago and found out that plumbing typically didn't rotate at all.

[Estreeter]

Originally Posted by richardoe

Because Australia is south of the equator its storms such as Cyclones and Tornadoes will rotate clockwise.

If that's a problem for ya, stare at one using a mirror

BTW, this is the correct map of the world

[uli12345]

Monarchy???....stupid in the brain......

When I lived in Australia?

1. We have no Queen!
2. We have a Republic!



3. With good beer!


Best regards
ULI1234

[deepsepia]

Aussie customs that are odd for Americans:

Giving an oncoming driver "the finger" . . . especially common on rural roads, for a long time I was thinking "these guys are flipping me off", but they're not.

Its a really small gesture, just your forefinger raised off the steering wheel.

You get something similar in the US, in rural areas, but it'll be a full wave . . . in a heavily armed country, no one would want a forefinger mistaken for an index.

[effCup]

Originally Posted by winebeavis

Is the rotatation clockwise thing really true. I tried to figure it out with plumbing a couple of weeks ago and found out that plumbing typically didn't rotate at all.

It's true in the atmosphere, it's false in plumbing--far too small a mass of water, & too-readily affected by sink/bath shape, etc. Perhaps a lesson there in terms of biodynamics ideas--i.e. supposed "pull" of the moon upon water within each individual plant?

Anti-cyclones go anti-clockwise in the S. Hemisphere, & cyclones clockwise. How on earth you northerners can ever remember/understand your weather is beyond me.

[palo5]

Abbott is traveling to stop immigrants, we hear

What's the problem? Isn't Australia big enough for more people?

[blondifan]

Originally Posted by palo5

Abbott is traveling to stop immigrants, we hear
What's the problem? Isn't Australia big enough for more people?

His first idea was to buy the boats used to transport illegal immigrants http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...t-boat-buyback ensuring overseas employment for boat builders.
He/they seem to be backing down on that.

Meanwhile "Refugee boat bound for australia sinks, killing 21 people"

He seems to be very interested in criminalising boycots at present, which i guess means Jennifer Aniston and her covered 'bits' have an assured career downunder , but the environment and peoples health may not.