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[dudeintheswamp]

For our guitar enthusiasts I present the Costanza.

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Maybe they could also do a pointy metal type guitar based on, um, a Kramer?

 

[Dr Spaceman]

For our guitar enthusiasts I present the Costanza.

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Maybe they could also do a pointy metal type guitar based on, um, a Kramer?

 

[dudeintheswamp]

He is a loathsome, offensive brute but I can't look away.

 

[Hubnester]

So, tonight in making a dinner, I had a mandolin, well have and anyway, decided to slice my thumb as it slipped. It being a thumb it bled is bleeding is just a thing.

Fun times...

My missus is banned from using a mandolin slicer for similar reasons haha
Hopefully not too bad!

 

[MUFKilda]

Wishing a belated happy new year to all Saints supporters, along with all in your great country. Sorry for being so late but you know what we Poms are like, so easily distracted by things that don't matter at all; procrastinators and so buttoned up. Anyway, let's hope 2026 means finals!

 

[dudeintheswamp]

Jeepers, just noticed Melbourne and Adelaide are tipped to hit 42 today

Stay cool boys and girls!

 

[MUFKilda]

Jeepers, just noticed Melbourne and Adelaide are tipped to hit 42 today

Stay cool boys and girls!

Man that's hot. I've never experienced it, nor do I want to. Stay safe everyone.

Here in wintry Manchester, our maximum temperature today was 2 degrees, though it stayed below freezing almost all day. That's much more to my liking than 42!

 

[True Believer]

Man that's hot. I've never experienced it, nor do I want to. Stay safe everyone.

Here in wintry Manchester, our maximum temperature today was 2 degrees, though it stayed below freezing almost all day. That's much more to my liking than 42!

The extra 40 degrees make all the difference!!

You'd love it!

I remember the maximum recorded in Melbourne was about 15 years ago and it got to 46 degrees around the end of January (may have been Australia Day - the 26th). We sat in the shade on my neighbours verandah drinking Grolsch beer all day.....

 

[MUFKilda]

The extra 40 degrees make all the difference!!

You'd love it!

I remember the maximum recorded in Melbourne was about 15 years ago and it got to 46 degrees around the end of January (may have been Australia Day - the 26th). We sat in the shade on my neighbours verandah drinking Grolsch beer all day.....

Grolsch beer would be of no use to me. I would need to sleep in the fridge. I don't know how you survive 42 degrees and more. That is dangerously hot.

 

[gringo2011]

Grolsch beer would be of no use to me. I would need to sleep in the fridge. I don't know how you survive 42 degrees and more. That is dangerously hot.

I remember a Texan saying that he'd never been as hot in Texas as he felt in London in the 20s. Your houses aren't made for hot weather and you are out of condition. Melbourne is a dry heat and not as brutal as the high humidity and high temp double up. You just need to head for water and jump in and out all day and life is pretty good.

 

[StFly]

My missus is banned from using a mandolin slicer for similar reasons haha
Hopefully not too bad!

Next time I am halving the carrot I know that much.

No stitches needed, but gauze was needed and lets say first instance needed water to dislodge after 12hr, so if it's still a bit shit after a week, plan to get a nurse to look at it.

 

[tomjoad]

Man that's hot. I've never experienced it, nor do I want to. Stay safe everyone.

Here in wintry Manchester, our maximum temperature today was 2 degrees, though it stayed below freezing almost all day. That's much more to my liking than 42!

Yeah, I agree...If it's dry, crisp, and frosty, it's just as enjoyable as a nice hot day in Oz.

 

[tomjoad]

I remember a Texan saying that he'd never been as hot in Texas as he felt in London in the 20s. Your houses aren't made for hot weather and you are out of condition. Melbourne is a dry heat and not as brutal as the high humidity and high temp double up. You just need to head for water and jump in and out all day and life is pretty good.

It's true.
Over 25 degrees in Ireland (it happens about every 3 years for a day) is feckin' sweltering and heavy. You're drowned in sweat because of the humidity. It feels proper tropical.

 

[Joffaboy]

Man that's hot. I've never experienced it, nor do I want to. Stay safe everyone.

Here in wintry Manchester, our maximum temperature today was 2 degrees, though it stayed below freezing almost all day. That's much more to my liking than 42!

All the bird baths were constantly refilled and had the hose in a branch fork on mist for the birds around our place. We live on a wetland so have mud larks, doves, lorrikets, cockatoo and myriad others about.
Found a crow out the front of the house struggling with the heat, got it a bowl of water to drink and wash in. Seemed to perk up a bit.
Cooler tonight and tomorrow but back to 43 degrees on Friday

 

[gringo2011]

All the bird baths were constantly refilled and had the hose in a branch fork on mist for the birds around our place. We live on a wetland so have mud larks, doves, lorrikets, cockatoo and myriad others about.
Found a crow out the front of the house struggling with the heat, got it a bowl of water to drink and wash in. Seemed to perk up a bit.
Cooler tonight and tomorrow but back to 43 degrees on Friday

There are shitloads of colourful parrots up in Gippsland over the last few years. I don't know what they are all called but one of the locals reckons it was because when Mallacoota caught fire they all migrated. I'm digging them, it makes it feel like Queensland.

 

[Sully111]

This still delivers

NSFW (language)

 

[StFly]

There are shitloads of colourful parrots up in Gippsland over the last few years. I don't know what they are all called but one of the locals reckons it was because when Mallacoota caught fire they all migrated. I'm digging them, it makes it feel like Queensland.

At my place I get;
Laughing Burra
A couple lorikeets
Cockatoo
Aussie Ibis
Random lost kangaroo (next wooded area after the wetlands)
Random lizards
Snakes have died down thankfully, but still a bit of a threat from browns generally.
Galahs
Pretty much anything from south that goes "too cold" or north that goes "too warm" as wetlands have platy, roo, emu, herrons, eagles so predator & waterbirds generally with owls and such, wereas I get the variety of ducks, swans, ibis and prey water birds that just like run off from major water systems.

Also filled my baths up, though a bird bath is literally an actual human bath for any ibis or duck or blah blah that waddles around, got a ramp they can slowly waddle up to to then have a dip in. I tell the swans tom GAGF as they're just too big for it, also, bastards.

 

[StFly]

Just since me and mine were under a little threat earlier today, those in VIC or in general dealing with bushfires, dry lightning and 40+ degree heat with winds, stay informed and stay safe.