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arthwollipot said:
There's quite a few genuinely great Australian bands, artists, and albums, but unfortunately like everything else America has more people and more money and just churns out more product, both great and terrible.
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More terrible than great unfortunately....

I was watching a movie review on FB the other day, and the seppos in there were claiming that 'they dont make music like that anymore' and saying how good this US band was...

The movie was Battleship...
The band was that well known American band singing Thunderstruck....

Um........
WTF????
 
What happened to Akhenaten, does anyone know? He was one of my favourite posters back in the olden days - not olden days as in the days of the pharaohs of course (I think, at least, but no one knows who anyone is on the internet, so who knows?), just in the days of jref… A bit ot, maybe, but then he was the one who started this t.
 
Helen said:
What happened to Akhenaten, does anyone know? He was one of my favourite posters back in the olden days - not olden days as in the days of the pharaohs of course (I think, at least, but no one knows who anyone is on the internet, so who knows?), just in the days of jref… A bit ot, maybe, but then he was the one who started this t.
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He popped in in 2021 saying he'd post more, but didn't stay back long. I think he has a life now. :)
 
Back to the hottest 100. The Saints didn’t feature. If Bruce can honour the band with a brilliant version of “Just like fire would” that should be enough. Look at the chief singing ir.
 
lionking said:
Back to the hottest 100. The Saints didn’t feature. If Bruce can honour the band with a brilliant version of “Just like fire would” that should be enough. Look at the chief singing ir.
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I'm Stranded was #124 if that helps a bit.
 
Weather patterns on the east coast at least bear no relation to those of 30-40 years ago. I worked for the Bureau of Meteorology in the 1970s and early 1980s (I was not a scientist or observer) and have been a very keen student of local weather since then.

You could always be confident that weather in Melbourne was a very good predictor of the weather in Sydney the next day (it literally ran up the coast). No longer.

Sydney has been absolutely inundated this year, with a rainfall record today of 120mm. Melbourne has had below average rainfall and many parts of Victoria are in drought. Sydney is getting weather slipping southward from Queensland. It’s a massive change, and proof positive of global warming having local impacts.
 
arthwollipot said:
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Ah yes...

We know that dance.

:)

Personal favourites:

1. Walking through the side gate of a friend's house, felt a thump on my chest.
Looking down I expected to see a baby bird clinging to my shirt, but no, it was a huntsman.

2. In the Flinder's ranges, while looking at the view, had a momentary image of my brother standing on a rise in a patch of completely bare ground. "Mate, what are you standing on?" (Brother proceeds to do an amazing rendition of the high stepping 'ow ◊◊◊◊' dance.)

He was standing on an inch-ant nest.

Kudos to the real estate salemen who called those things: "inch ants". I've never seen one that small.
 
I told you about the time I was bitten by a bull ant? The bugger wasn't satisfied with biting me on the foot or my leg. No - it crawled all the way up and bit me in the neck.

I had a mild fever for a couple of days and then I was fine.
 
arthwollipot said:
I told you about the time I was bitten by a bull ant? The bugger wasn't satisfied with biting me on the foot or my leg. No - it crawled all the way up and bit me in the neck.

I had a mild fever for a couple of days and then I was fine.
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Wow. That's one bad tempered ant.

However it reminds me of a joke from QI...

Guy comes home from the pub and finds a snail on his doormat. Tching to himself, he chucks it over his shoulder and across the road.

Two days later, his doorbell rings...

"What!?!" says the snail on the doorbell.
 
arthwollipot said:
I told you about the time I was bitten by a bull ant? The bugger wasn't satisfied with biting me on the foot or my leg. No - it crawled all the way up and bit me in the neck.

I had a mild fever for a couple of days and then I was fine.
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Don't laugh, I had a mate sitting on a pile of bricks on a building site, wearing shorts...
And a bullant climbed up inside the leg of his shorts and bit him- well on the sack so to say...

He was not amused (but it was kinda funny for the rest of us lol)

Very energetic dancer that lad....
 
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