Society & Culture Things that Shit me part X- The Tenth edition!

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Ed_Gein

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Sitting through an Eddie Murphy movie. My ears are ringing with all the shouting he does in a film.
 

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I can never get my head around why there are so many bushfires each year in the Sydney area - don't they do back burning in NSW
Trying to do hazard reduction in the outer suburbs of Sydney is like trying to do hazard reduction in the Dandenongs. It's the perils of living in a heavily-populated basin ringed by dense bushland.
 

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Trying to do hazard reduction in the outer suburbs of Sydney is like trying to do hazard reduction in the Dandenongs. It's the perils of living in a heavily-populated basin ringed by dense bushland.

There is a hell of a lot of controlled burning done in the Dandenongs now though. It'll never eliminate the threat but it will reduce it. Is there much done in/around Sydney?
 

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Tons. But like I said, imagine the Dandenongs were 30km closer to Melbourne, twice as heavily populated, and completely surrounded the city.

When it's 35 degrees with a 30 knot westerly blowing the fires straight towards the populated areas, it doesn't really matter how much hazard reduction you do.
 

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I'm not sure about the machinations of it all but we have a similar set up in the Perth area and while there is an occasional flare up and a major fire a couple of years back just don't seem to have the same issues thankfully. I truly feel for what these people are experiencing ATM
 

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Tons. But like I said, imagine the Dandenongs were 30km closer to Melbourne, twice as heavily populated, and completely surrounded the city.

When it's 35 degrees with a 30 knot westerly blowing the fires straight towards the populated areas, it doesn't really matter how much hazard reduction you do.

I understand the difference between the two, was just interested in what takes place there under normal circumstances..
 

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Perth has similarly bad fire conditions to Sydney, but nowhere near the same amount of vegetation. Sydney's literally surrounded by forests.

Any fire that's got the slightest bit of culture, leaves Perth and moves to Melbourne as soon as they leave school.
 

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Any fires near your place crow?
No they were up in the mountains.
I'm about 40 klicks west of there but i had ash in my yard.

I went out yesterday and from where i was i could see the smoke rising from the mountains , get blown over to the " sydney Basin " and sit there.
Was truly spooky
 
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