**NSFW** Australia Appreciation Thread

[Ithikial]

Happy Australia Day to any other Aussies on the forum... so thats @Combat Wombat ?

For everyone, here are some pics of the local Australian Fauna.

Just to point something out... no Aussie drinks Fosters. It's rats piss. We surely don't serve this swill to our national animal! Actually (economists hat on), Australians are drinking less beer now per capita than any time since records began. Yes our official statistical bureau records alcohol sales and consumption. Those that drink beer are more likely to drink imported beers than those made locally.

Quokka - Little marsupial only found on an island off my home town of Perth. Rottnest Island which means... @Dutch Grenadier ??? Yeah one of the dutch explorers mistook them for giant rats.

The Beach Babes (and cheerleaders for the second tier football code)

 

[2054172]

Have a happy day living in a drying out country.

 

[Hedgehog]

Enjoy, all you Aussies have great day down the Beach Good on ya Mates

 

[Combat Wombat]

Ahh mate ! nice one AND the cheer leaders for the Magnificent Manly Warringah Sea Eagles ! what a man !.. but it was a day for the green and gold ?? !

... And I think I tried to improve our position as beer drinkers over the long weekend, but with Cooper's Pale Ale... !

 

[Ithikial]

More Aussie appreciation for our overseas gents.

http://www.nova937.com.au/best-web/only-straya-mate

 

[Combat Wombat]

More Aussie appreciation for our overseas gents.

http://www.nova937.com.au/best-web/only-straya-mate

haha! Blue Mountains one is good .. I was driving a fire truck on the 17th October 2013 in Mt Victoria and watched our fire hoses melt .. and the snow shot is our Village main street in Blackheath .. Again spent the day in a fire truck but this time cutting up branches and trees brought down by the snow ! ..

 

[PhilM]

Happy Australia Day to any other Aussies on the forum... so thats @Combat Wombat ?

For everyone, here are some pics of the local Australian Fauna.

They don't look very manly to me ... or is that a "down under" thing?

 

[Ithikial]

They don't look very manly to me ... or is that a "down under" thing?

Manly is a suburb of Sydney.

 

[PhilM]

Manly is a suburb of Sydney.

I did - without knowing precisely where it is - sort of work that out ... was just my feeble attempt at humour

 

[Ithikial]

 

[Combat Wombat]

We have a Huntsman spider that lives in our place .. bit smaller that that guy above .. Kids (for some bizarre reason) have named him 'Steve' .. (???) ..

 

[Rico]

We have these boys come into the house quite often and prowl around ceiling corners -- called "rain spiders", they can get quite large (although our cat considers them a delicacy) ... but are pretty harmless... a species of huntsman spider native to Southern Africa.[2] It is the most common and widespread species in the Palystes genus. Its distribution ranges from KwaZulu-Natal province in the east, then westwards to the provinces of Mpumalanga, Limpopo, and North West in the north, and Eastern Cape and Western Cape in the south. It has a body length of 25–30 mm ... venom apparently about as painful as a bee sting.

Generally just trap 'em in a tupperware and chuck em back into the garden.

Although this is a baby one... wouldn't want to be doing this for fun...

 

[Ithikial]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/problems-only-australians-can-understand#.ooK7MvxvA

The pain of postage.

 

[Combat Wombat]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jennaguillaume/problems-only-australians-can-understand#.ooK7MvxvA

The pain of postage.

ha! yep .. didn't know a Copperhead was more venomous than a Cobra ... ?! we have them in our back yard ...

 

[mTk]

Well done, Ithikial. That was some seriously funny S***!

 

[Ithikial]

This one is for @Nelson1812 . Hit 50 degrees Centigrade up in the north west in Port Hedland today. Okay 49 degrees from the official weather bureau. (and 49% relative humidity). That's 122 degrees Fahrenheit for the Americans.

 

[fabishd]

Now you just have to stay cool. Stay in the shade and drink lots of water. I guess the other option is to just get a great tan

 

[Nelson1812]

Out of the pan and into a pool...puddle, lake, stream... thats too hot!
lunch time today still -3 good day to get out into the sun...

 

[Nathangun]

This one is for @Nelson1812 . Hit 50 degrees Centigrade up in the north west in Port Hedland today. Okay 49 degrees from the official weather bureau. (and 49% relative humidity). That's 122 degrees Fahrenheit for the Americans.

Holy crap! I'd burst into flames if I was subjected to that weather.

 

[Richtig]

Hmn -not sure if this is the place for this post, but my wife kindly gave me kangaroo steaks last night - not bad at all - you might even say Ripper!

(or at least us pale Poms might)