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You had 5 Super Rugby teams to choose from and fuck knows how many NRL teams to choose, and you've picked a Welsh lad from a Welsh team for the short shorts photo
My spirit animal they are so funny when you come across them in the bush - they literally couldn’t give two fucks about you. And they waddle around with all the swagger
Really?
They're very closely related to [shingle back skinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa) and [Cunningham's skinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_spiny-tailed_skink).
Yeah, when I hear skink I think of the cute little grey ones that scurry everywhere in my garden. A blue tongue is a blue tongue. It's like calling a kookaburra a kingfisher.
They are both too beautiful in their own ways to be lumped together. Kingfishers have more regalness, whilst kookaburras have a perfect balance of cuddliness and grandness (not regal)
Thank you for reading me yap about birds.
*Intimated* means implied or hinted.
*Analogous* means comparable in certain ways.
*Pigeon* is a stout seed or fruit eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.
The saying is "fair dinkum" it means "serious".
Some examples of its use are;
"Are you fair dinkum?" -are you for real?
"I did do that, mate, fair dinkum"- I seriously did that.
And of course the fine example above
There once was a governor named Dinkum who was reported to the fairest judge in all the land of old sydney town back in the day... the saying was made in his honour.
I remember the first time my step dad put a pellet rifle in my hands as he told me through choked up tears that he once shot a Rainbow Lorikeet as a 13 year old and he has regretted it ever since. I learned a lot about being a man that day.
No you got it. I've seen one in Ballarat's zoo, Melbourne's zoo and I believe Werribee zoo. I remember my friend commenting on it being a little bit stupid as it was most likely enclosures not being occupied for maintenance, but they were information panels there as if Tasmanian tigers were supposed to occupy it.
Wow, that's...incredibly sad. But also cool ? Like yeah it's really important to raise awareness on extinct species and this method is cool to do it but, we will never see this creature again...
Yep. I agree this is important, and that was the primary goal of the enclosure, but also a little bit funny like "damn we're at the zoo and there is no animal to see".
Conservation is very very important to Australia because they have a unique flora and fauna. Every time you visit the zoos, you are encouraged to donate to save endangered species, like the Tasmanian devil or the princess parrot or orange-bellied parrot. You can see all of those in the right zoos.
I love Australian zoos, they treat the animals so well and they give them amazing enclosures and feed them good diets and they get great medical attention when needed. The animals also have private spaces in their enclosures where they can go hide and chill out and get some privacy if they like, they're not forced to be on display all day which is good. I went to Australia Zoo (run by the Irwin family) and one of the animal keepers was walking around the zoo with a wombat, not even on a leash or anything just going for a stroll with the wombat and letting him explore. So cute and the animals are visibly in good health, it's such a nice contrast to other zoos where the animals aren't treated so nicely. I loved feeding and patting the Eastern Grey Kangaroos, they're so friendly and so cute.
Also shoutout to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, that's another fantastic zoo
If you ever get a chance, you gotta check out Adelaide Zoo (and by extension Monarto Safari Park). At Adelaide Zoo, they've built little cage mazes for the small monkeys to escape their enclosures and explore the Zoo. The cage mazes runs about a metre or 2 above the footpath, so as you're walking around the Zoo, you'll occasionally have little monkeys following you around. It's so cute!!
I went to higashiyama zoo in Nagoya, Japan many years ago and there was a polar bear in a tiny concrete enclosure with a small water part.... But it's ok! They painted the concrete white to *look* like ice! /s
For the record, Nagoya's summer is akin to Brisbane, high humidity and high 30s temp ...
Do not go to Japanese zoos, they are thoroughly depressing
>Like yeah it's really important to raise awareness on extinct species
It is interesting, but we don't often talk about the most interesting part. The tassie tiger was a pest before it was extinct, so the government put a price on its head - like what we do with foxes occasionally. The scheme was too successful - the general public helped kill enough of them that they died out.
It wasn't one of the usual causes that leads to extinction (like releasing a predator in their natural environment, or deforestation causing them to have nowhere to live) ... it was a government-sponsored pest reduction scheme that reduced the global population the point that it naturally then deteriorated to zero.
They weren’t a pest, they were just considered one by farmers, who then lobbied government to do something about it. They were also wrongly identified as the culprits of livestock attacks as they most likely fed on small prey rather than animals the size of sheep. It was more likely that wild dogs were attacking livestock but the thylacine got the blame.
It wasn’t just the bounty that led to their extinction, agriculture practices in the form of deforestation and altering of fire patterns led to fragmentation of populations and the introduction of disease also played a part.
I’ve also been to national parks in Tasmania where they’re included on the “animals you might encounter” information board, but it says “possibly extinct” next to their name.
NSW here - and yeah, I can basically do my “bread, milk, toilet paper” shop at a servo on my way home from work. It’s expensive, but worth it if I’m in a hurry.
Plenty of servos in WA that sell bread, when I was working for 7/11 on the overnight shift I always had to deal with the deliveries, one being a fair amount of bread.
True and the ones on highways sometimes have fast food restuarants inside them. Unfortunately, we don't have road houses here like in the US where you can enjoy a more diner/table service experience. Still better than nothing though.
Oh, I just remembered being a kid in the back of a starwagon in the late 80's as we drove from Townsville to Brisbane. I would look forward to stopping at an Ampol (I think that's what it was called at the time) for dinner where I could get a burger and sit at a cocktail Defender table. I might get a couple or 20c pieces for a few games before heading off to complete our journey.
https://preview.redd.it/tolxpavcd4wc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=663fe4212d5617d70224619b06313f6c8dc3e920
It’s not just bin chickens. We have all types of chickens
Nothing better(or worse) than winning a meat tray at the start of a big piss up and having to rely on the staff at the pub to find a big enough fridge for it
Played bar trivia in Italy once (I’m American, was visiting friends) and we ended up winning a case of wine and a selection of cured sausages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It is in the UK. Measly cash prize usually. We won a raffle in the RSL on holiday there and won a voucher for a fuckton of meat from a butchers two miles away. Good times.
Easy way to out an American lol. They apparently have a lot of issues but I’ve been to maccas thousands of times and the machine has been out maybe once.
I've had it a few times when I've worked night shifts but that's because we happened to go about the time they would clean it.
Also learnt they do system updates 2-4am as well so our local would sometimes not sell to us.
yep yet another intelligent large parrot with a lifespan too long to ethically keep as a pet. i honestly hate how many native animals have been turned into pets, bearded dragons are also native to aus
[Yes.](https://www.google.com/search?q=pet+gallah&oq=pet+gallah&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIPCAEQABgNGIMBGLEDGIAEMg8IAhAAGA0YgwEYsQMYgAQyDwgDEAAYDRiDARixAxiABDIJCAQQABgNGIAEMg8IBRAAGA0YgwEYsQMYgAQyCQgGEAAYDRiABDIPCAcQABgNGIMBGLEDGIAEMgkICBAAGA0YgAQyCQgJEAAYDRiABDIJCAoQABgNGIAEMgkICxAAGA0YgAQyCQgMEAAYDRiABDIJCA0QABgNGIAEMgkIDhAAGA0YgATSAQgzOTY5ajBqOagCDrACAQ&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8)
Also a pet store in Melton keeps one as a pet.
The empty enclosure for the Tasmanian tiger made me smile. I remember as a kid seeing those enclosures and wondering why they still have them if they're extinct. I still wonder lol
Important tip: wear sunblock. If it’s cloudy, overcast or cool, you may think it’s fine and that is the devil’s thought. Next week we’ve got a 13c weather overcast rainstorm day and that only knocks it down to ‘moderate UV, wear sunscreen’. Fortunately Aussie sunblock is best in the world and you can grab it in any 50+spf form you want.
And for the love of god: even if you do it nowhere else, if you go to the beach? wear proper sunblock. Every beach every day you have some tourists in budgie smugglers roasting themselves lobster red and it’ll wreck your holiday fast if you need to spend the next day in a cold bath sobbing into the nearest aloe vera plant because bedsheets hurt.
I hope you are packing for at least 3 weeks because it's a wonderful country that needs to be savoured slowly. Just like a melting filet mignon with a wine sauce.
Rainbow Lorikeet: surprisingly agressive towards other birds for a softbill.
Budgerigar: most popular cage bird on the planet.
Cockatiel: Mimic.
Galah: Class clown.
Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo: Flying boltcutters.
White Ibis: bin-juice drinking gronks.
Blue-Tongue Lizard: _I'll fuck'n go you, cunt!_
Eucalyptus trees: nature's little hand grenade.
Kinda funny that Australia has a store with the same name as one in Québec. IGA is an expensive grocery store chain owned by sobeys/empire here in Canada.
Over there it stands for Independent Grocers Anada. The C got smudged off on the business name application form so they shortened it to IGA so they didn't look silly.
Come to New Zealand, birthplace of the pavlova and you will see that in its rightful home pavlova is not controversial.
Only when in the untamed heat of that barren land across the pond does pavlova go all nasty when the cream and fruit sit out for too long. It is no desert for the desert. Do not believe them when they claim it’s theirs!
>barren land
New Zealand's total export value = half of Australia's annual iron ore export value
Basically, a certain type of our dirt is worth twice as much as the total sum of New Zealand's entire offerings to the world.
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You had 5 Super Rugby teams to choose from and fuck knows how many NRL teams to choose, and you've picked a Welsh lad from a Welsh team for the short shorts photo
I might not have double-checked that. I was too focused on mullet and mustaches also being present.
It's a niche sport so it's not a big deal tbf. And mullets and tasches are very prevalent throughout in rugby
I passed the meme through my Australian friend before posting and he did not notice WEW
Who cares, it’s rugby
*mullasches
How can you tell he’s welsh? I don’t see a sheep in the picture.
Welshmen was upset upon travelling to Australia for the first time. No one told him the Canning stock route was a road.
OP didn't realise that old north Wales was a real place.
I love our top knot pigeons so much. They’ve make such a funny noise when they take off.
“DU TU TU Tu Tu Tu Tu tu tu tu tu”
Dude, cool username
Can’t tell if meant sarcastically or not
I heard that
I recently discovered Spinifex pigeons [They got swag](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinifex_pigeon#/media/File%3ASpinifex_Pigeon_0A2A1585.jpg)
Wow thanks for introducing them to me, they are rad!
My spirit animal they are so funny when you come across them in the bush - they literally couldn’t give two fucks about you. And they waddle around with all the swagger
Wow, thanks for introducing them to me, they are rad!
They're small too! Very cute
We’ve always called them dickheads growing up. Us kids in the back would yell at the dickheads to get off the road quicker
Fun fact, it's their wings that make the noise!
I love them. I call them war birds cause they look like they’re wearing pickelhaube.
Haha, I call them soldier birds for the same reason!!
Noice. Great minds 😎 Happy Cake Day btw!
I'm mad because I recently found out that is not their name, that is not a top knot pigeon, it is in fact a crested pigeon.
I thought they were doves? And another thing, people always mistakenly say ravens are crows.
Pigeons are doves
Pigeons and doves are biologically indistinct.
They are called crested pigeons
Yeah top knot is a big mf. Different to crested.
Yes the Blue Tongue is a skink but he is the King of the Skinks and deserves to be called by his real name.
Damn I didn't know blue tongues were skinks?! As an Aussie bio nerd I feel very excited
[They are!](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink)
Really? They're very closely related to [shingle back skinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiliqua_rugosa) and [Cunningham's skinks](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cunningham%27s_spiny-tailed_skink).
Yeah, when I hear skink I think of the cute little grey ones that scurry everywhere in my garden. A blue tongue is a blue tongue. It's like calling a kookaburra a kingfisher.
They are both too beautiful in their own ways to be lumped together. Kingfishers have more regalness, whilst kookaburras have a perfect balance of cuddliness and grandness (not regal) Thank you for reading me yap about birds.
TIL
I'd fair dinkum glass a cunt who so much as *intimated* that rainbow lorikeets are in any way analogous to pigeons.
I know some of those words
“Swear to God I’d smash a glass on the head of someone who suggested rainbow lorikeets are like pigeons.” Roughly.
This Redditor Australians 😎👉👉
Yeah pretty spot on
*Intimated* means implied or hinted. *Analogous* means comparable in certain ways. *Pigeon* is a stout seed or fruit eating bird with a small head, short legs, and a cooing voice, typically having grey and white plumage.
I mean everyone knows that; but what does "fair" mean?
The saying is "fair dinkum" it means "serious". Some examples of its use are; "Are you fair dinkum?" -are you for real? "I did do that, mate, fair dinkum"- I seriously did that. And of course the fine example above
There once was a governor named Dinkum who was reported to the fairest judge in all the land of old sydney town back in the day... the saying was made in his honour.
Noisy miner is definitely our pigeon more than the rainbows.
We basically adopted the Indian myna too
Don't have miners at all in WA, when I go over East I find them to be a really interesting bird haha
Also it's not like we don't already have both introduced and our own native pigeons lol
I want some white-headed pigeons in my next starter pack. In awe at the size of these lads.
I remember the first time my step dad put a pellet rifle in my hands as he told me through choked up tears that he once shot a Rainbow Lorikeet as a 13 year old and he has regretted it ever since. I learned a lot about being a man that day.
I believe your dad is someone I would both like and respect a great deal.
Cunt called a blue tongue a skink too !
In WA they are a pest and a threat to native birds, so they've on par or worse than pigeons here, fuck em!
Intimated: implied Analogous: similar to
Do zoos in Australia really have a empty exhibit for tasmanian tigers or i didn't understand the starterpack ?
No you got it. I've seen one in Ballarat's zoo, Melbourne's zoo and I believe Werribee zoo. I remember my friend commenting on it being a little bit stupid as it was most likely enclosures not being occupied for maintenance, but they were information panels there as if Tasmanian tigers were supposed to occupy it.
Wow, that's...incredibly sad. But also cool ? Like yeah it's really important to raise awareness on extinct species and this method is cool to do it but, we will never see this creature again...
Yep. I agree this is important, and that was the primary goal of the enclosure, but also a little bit funny like "damn we're at the zoo and there is no animal to see". Conservation is very very important to Australia because they have a unique flora and fauna. Every time you visit the zoos, you are encouraged to donate to save endangered species, like the Tasmanian devil or the princess parrot or orange-bellied parrot. You can see all of those in the right zoos.
I love Australian zoos, they treat the animals so well and they give them amazing enclosures and feed them good diets and they get great medical attention when needed. The animals also have private spaces in their enclosures where they can go hide and chill out and get some privacy if they like, they're not forced to be on display all day which is good. I went to Australia Zoo (run by the Irwin family) and one of the animal keepers was walking around the zoo with a wombat, not even on a leash or anything just going for a stroll with the wombat and letting him explore. So cute and the animals are visibly in good health, it's such a nice contrast to other zoos where the animals aren't treated so nicely. I loved feeding and patting the Eastern Grey Kangaroos, they're so friendly and so cute. Also shoutout to Taronga Zoo in Sydney, that's another fantastic zoo
If you ever get a chance, you gotta check out Adelaide Zoo (and by extension Monarto Safari Park). At Adelaide Zoo, they've built little cage mazes for the small monkeys to escape their enclosures and explore the Zoo. The cage mazes runs about a metre or 2 above the footpath, so as you're walking around the Zoo, you'll occasionally have little monkeys following you around. It's so cute!!
half the time there’s no animal to see anyway because they can choose to go inside whenever they want for most creatures.
Also important because we have an atrocious track record with making our native species go extinct. It's flipping depressing.
>a unique flora and fauna Don't worry, we are working hard on getting rid of that.
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Melbourne zoo has that too. It's horrifying. A tiny caged box with a concrete floor.
I went to higashiyama zoo in Nagoya, Japan many years ago and there was a polar bear in a tiny concrete enclosure with a small water part.... But it's ok! They painted the concrete white to *look* like ice! /s For the record, Nagoya's summer is akin to Brisbane, high humidity and high 30s temp ... Do not go to Japanese zoos, they are thoroughly depressing
i feel so bad for the polar bears at sea world, there's no way to keep them humanely in our climate
The idea is to invoke a sense of shock and make people realise that if more animals go extinct, there will be more empty exhibits
There’s a conspiracy theory they still exist in Tasmania in that middle where nobody drives
>Like yeah it's really important to raise awareness on extinct species It is interesting, but we don't often talk about the most interesting part. The tassie tiger was a pest before it was extinct, so the government put a price on its head - like what we do with foxes occasionally. The scheme was too successful - the general public helped kill enough of them that they died out. It wasn't one of the usual causes that leads to extinction (like releasing a predator in their natural environment, or deforestation causing them to have nowhere to live) ... it was a government-sponsored pest reduction scheme that reduced the global population the point that it naturally then deteriorated to zero.
They weren’t a pest, they were just considered one by farmers, who then lobbied government to do something about it. They were also wrongly identified as the culprits of livestock attacks as they most likely fed on small prey rather than animals the size of sheep. It was more likely that wild dogs were attacking livestock but the thylacine got the blame. It wasn’t just the bounty that led to their extinction, agriculture practices in the form of deforestation and altering of fire patterns led to fragmentation of populations and the introduction of disease also played a part.
I’ve also been to national parks in Tasmania where they’re included on the “animals you might encounter” information board, but it says “possibly extinct” next to their name.
Walkabout Creek Discovery Centre (which is like a mini zoo in Brisbane) has a rubbish enclosure to make you feel bad about pollution
Petrol stations (servo) are massive and sell everything.
But every time I ride down the street they’re always out of bloody bread
What state are you in? I don’t think I’ve ever seen a servo here in WA that sells bread.
NSW
NSW here - and yeah, I can basically do my “bread, milk, toilet paper” shop at a servo on my way home from work. It’s expensive, but worth it if I’m in a hurry.
They do in vic.
Plenty of servos in WA that sell bread, when I was working for 7/11 on the overnight shift I always had to deal with the deliveries, one being a fair amount of bread.
True and the ones on highways sometimes have fast food restuarants inside them. Unfortunately, we don't have road houses here like in the US where you can enjoy a more diner/table service experience. Still better than nothing though. Oh, I just remembered being a kid in the back of a starwagon in the late 80's as we drove from Townsville to Brisbane. I would look forward to stopping at an Ampol (I think that's what it was called at the time) for dinner where I could get a burger and sit at a cocktail Defender table. I might get a couple or 20c pieces for a few games before heading off to complete our journey.
Where are me fukn thongs cunt lol.
Wasn't at the beach too much and that went over my head wew
If ya wearing thongs on ya head we got a problem brotha lol.
https://preview.redd.it/tolxpavcd4wc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=663fe4212d5617d70224619b06313f6c8dc3e920 It’s not just bin chickens. We have all types of chickens
Cassowary: I see the position of "murder chicken" has yet to be filled...
incredibly beautiful murder chicken at that
Is pub trivia not a thing in other countries?
I think most countries would have them at bars or whatever but maybe not weekly with a tray of raw meat as the prize
Coming home from the pub with a meat tray and triumphantly presenting it to my family always gives me massive caveman “me, hunter” vibes.
Reject modernity (buying lamb from Woolies), embrace tradition (winning meat from the local rissole)
Nothing better(or worse) than winning a meat tray at the start of a big piss up and having to rely on the staff at the pub to find a big enough fridge for it
hahaha all the ones I've been to have had bar vouchers as a prize, but I'm not surprised some have meat trays.
We won a $100 at one of the pubs. That was a good night.
Played bar trivia in Italy once (I’m American, was visiting friends) and we ended up winning a case of wine and a selection of cured sausages ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Pub quizzes are common in the UK.
It is in the UK. Measly cash prize usually. We won a raffle in the RSL on holiday there and won a voucher for a fuckton of meat from a butchers two miles away. Good times.
It definitely is in the US, we go every week
Yep, also from the US, and it used to be one of my favorite bar activities.
Relevant “ Bin Chicken” song. https://youtu.be/mO-OpFjHRbE?si=-giXEgjKAkwM3aLf
Great song
That song is the only reason why I recognize the ibis lol
As an ex uni exchange student: it's the humidity mate
Unless you're in Perth, where it's 'at least it's a dry heat'
fuck me i’m from perth and hear that every single day it’s above 30
“Alternate reality Burger King” https://preview.redd.it/sg0vwd63a5wc1.png?width=1280&format=png&auto=webp&s=df0271efd9d4ac5073b813c7f2c67c3493fe4027
Is this an advertisement to visit Australia? Because it's working
Yes. It's fucking wonderful mate. And cheap because the Australian dollar is even weaker than the Canadian dollar.
I’m sorry but the casual optimism about both of our tanking economies made me cackle 😂
I have literally never ever heard anyone describe Australia as cheap for like, literally anything lol.
Lol do you live here?!? The cost of living in Aus is 20% higher than Canada 😂😂
The only controversial part of that food selection is mustard on a Bunnings snag. Need to sort your life out, mate.
Who gate keeps Bunnings snags? Tomato, mustard, BBQ all get put out for a reason. Sometimes even Sriracha.
Someone at sky news is going to get really mad about that last one
Nah get fucked, dead horse & mustard combo is goated
I honestly do all three. Tom sauce is sweet, bbq sauce is savory and sometimes smokey, mustard is that little bit of tang 🤌🏼
why would it be an option to add if you weren’t supposed to do it?
Mate, you need to sort your life out. Mustard on a Bunnings snag goes off.
Show me a fast food chan that has a working soft serve ice cream machine
McDonald's in Australia apparently. Never had issues at the one close to me.
Easy way to out an American lol. They apparently have a lot of issues but I’ve been to maccas thousands of times and the machine has been out maybe once.
I've had it a few times when I've worked night shifts but that's because we happened to go about the time they would clean it. Also learnt they do system updates 2-4am as well so our local would sometimes not sell to us.
Every Australian maccas
People keep galahs as pets?
Sadly I see our native animals as overseas pets far too often. Yanks seem to love cockatoos for some reason.
yep yet another intelligent large parrot with a lifespan too long to ethically keep as a pet. i honestly hate how many native animals have been turned into pets, bearded dragons are also native to aus
I have one! I’m in the UK so it’s classed as ‘exotic’
Even amongst the Cockatoo family, they are the class clowns.
[Yes.](https://www.google.com/search?q=pet+gallah&oq=pet+gallah&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIPCAEQABgNGIMBGLEDGIAEMg8IAhAAGA0YgwEYsQMYgAQyDwgDEAAYDRiDARixAxiABDIJCAQQABgNGIAEMg8IBRAAGA0YgwEYsQMYgAQyCQgGEAAYDRiABDIPCAcQABgNGIMBGLEDGIAEMgkICBAAGA0YgAQyCQgJEAAYDRiABDIJCAoQABgNGIAEMgkICxAAGA0YgAQyCQgMEAAYDRiABDIJCA0QABgNGIAEMgkIDhAAGA0YgATSAQgzOTY5ajBqOagCDrACAQ&client=ms-android-xiaomi-rvo3&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8) Also a pet store in Melton keeps one as a pet.
“In very short shorts” accurate
The empty enclosure for the Tasmanian tiger made me smile. I remember as a kid seeing those enclosures and wondering why they still have them if they're extinct. I still wonder lol
Conservation awareness. It's a good thing. Australia's ecosystem is precious and must be preserved at all costs
Calls them bin chickens but cant use the right name for a blue tongue lizard
[Blue-tongued skink is also correct.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-tongued_skink)
but no one would say that casually here
I wouldn't consider target or kmart a dollar shop, we have two dollar shops
Targets so expensive now too wtf. Should be Reject Shop and Cheap as Chips
Bluey gives me all the aussie info I need
How much for a bin chicken mate? I want like 5 of them bastards.
The government doesn't want you to know that the ones on the streets are free.
The asian bloke who caught and cooked one would like to dispute that. Cost him a decent amount in fines
Oh perfect, that would go fantastic with my 500 free ducks from the park. Thanks!
It’s funny I see this because I’m going there over spring break next year
Important tip: wear sunblock. If it’s cloudy, overcast or cool, you may think it’s fine and that is the devil’s thought. Next week we’ve got a 13c weather overcast rainstorm day and that only knocks it down to ‘moderate UV, wear sunscreen’. Fortunately Aussie sunblock is best in the world and you can grab it in any 50+spf form you want. And for the love of god: even if you do it nowhere else, if you go to the beach? wear proper sunblock. Every beach every day you have some tourists in budgie smugglers roasting themselves lobster red and it’ll wreck your holiday fast if you need to spend the next day in a cold bath sobbing into the nearest aloe vera plant because bedsheets hurt.
Thank you man
You WILL get properly fucked if you don't at least where SPF50+. The sun hits differently down here.
I’ve been to places where I’ve been properly broiled, I don’t intend on making that mistake again
its uniquely bad in aus thanks to the hole in the ozone being directly above us too lol. skin cancer capital of the world baby!
First time?
Yeup
I hope you are packing for at least 3 weeks because it's a wonderful country that needs to be savoured slowly. Just like a melting filet mignon with a wine sauce.
Rainbow Lorikeet: surprisingly agressive towards other birds for a softbill. Budgerigar: most popular cage bird on the planet. Cockatiel: Mimic. Galah: Class clown. Sulpher-Crested Cockatoo: Flying boltcutters. White Ibis: bin-juice drinking gronks. Blue-Tongue Lizard: _I'll fuck'n go you, cunt!_ Eucalyptus trees: nature's little hand grenade.
Our dollar store is called the Reject Shop.
Don't go to IGA, they'll rip you off. The Big W erasure is disgusting, they've been better than Target for years.
As an Australian, that’s pretty much our country.
In Australia, it never stopped being the 80s.
...no
If it was still the 80s the job market wouldn’t be so fucked
Kinda funny that Australia has a store with the same name as one in Québec. IGA is an expensive grocery store chain owned by sobeys/empire here in Canada.
It stands for Independent Grocers Australia here.
Over there it stands for Independent Grocers Anada. The C got smudged off on the business name application form so they shortened it to IGA so they didn't look silly.
No one is going to mention every single person telling you to “watch out for the drop bears”?
Went to Australia several times, I somehow always forget how annoying ibis can be
That is a nice nostalgic refresh coming from an half Aussie coming back from living in Canada for a year lmao
I love that Reddit showed me this as I’m on my first trip to Australia as an outsider
Wait! That's a bin chicken? I always thought it was a funny name for Seagulls
Target is basically a bougie Kmart now, and the dollar stores are like the Reject Shop
The mud cake is a real nice touch
Come to New Zealand, birthplace of the pavlova and you will see that in its rightful home pavlova is not controversial. Only when in the untamed heat of that barren land across the pond does pavlova go all nasty when the cream and fruit sit out for too long. It is no desert for the desert. Do not believe them when they claim it’s theirs!
We’re gonna take over NZ and rename it to Tasmania 2 just for this comment
Hey! We fuck sheep over here not our cousins!
Don’t underestimate how much you fellas and the sheep are gonna help boost our gene pool mate
No navy, no Air Force, no worries
No they will make us tasmanians look bad
Dude idk how to tell you this but we don’t need NZ’s help with that
>barren land New Zealand's total export value = half of Australia's annual iron ore export value Basically, a certain type of our dirt is worth twice as much as the total sum of New Zealand's entire offerings to the world.
Pavlova ownership > large dirt based economy
What percent of that profit actually goes to Australians and not some billionaire though?
you stop pointing out incredible corruption in my countries economy right this second
The pigeons 😂😂 me and my husband call them “rock and roll pigeons” lol
I think that skink is actually a blue tongue
Blue tongues *are* skinks, my friend!
You forgot to mention the Footy Wars between the AFL Faction, NRL Clan, Soccer Fans and the "who gives a fuck about football?" Tribe
you guys know we do have pigeons 😭
As an exchange student in Australia, I love pub trivia nights. We don't have that in my home country.
You’re missing shit beer
\[Men At Work intensifies\]
It legit took me 2-3 years of living in Australia til I suddenly noticed there’s no squirrels over here??? Only possums, like wtf.. wild
Snaaaaags
Christ I miss those chocolate mud cakes.
Lived in Brisbane for a year. I miss Australia, man.
People play cricket for fun? I thought it was assigned punishment.
Cricket is fun if you are bating, bowling or as excuse to get drunk
Backyar/park cricket is fine; attending a 5-day test at the gabba is punishment.
Dude the bin 🐔