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

[DrVanNostrand]

Aren't you travelling the world for like a year after though?

Certainly am, leave 6 weeks from Sunday

But surely it won't top wasting an ungodly amount of time at uni stuffing around in BF and the greater interwebz?

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Googled 'Prime Minister of Australia' to find out who was PM when I was born. I was met with this:

1. Tony Abbott
   Australia, Prime minister

Shit is officially real.

 

[Caesar]

Never understood why people get overly worked up about who the Prime Minister is. Politicians chase public opinion so slavishly that whoever is in the top job will make roughly the same populist decisions.

They are far less consequential than they'd like everyone to believe.

 

[Impunity!]

Googled 'Prime Minister of Australia' to find out who was PM when I was born. I was met with this:



Shit is officially real.

Wait, you need Google to work out who was Prime Minister when you were born?

 

[Papa Juggs]

Hawke was PM so long I can remember when he went out.

Born in '83.

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Wait, you need Google to work out who was Prime Minister when you were born?

I was born in '91. I knew Keating took over from Hawke in the same year, but wasn't sure of the exact date. Thankfully Hawke was the man

 

[Impunity!]

I was born in '91. I knew Keating took over from Hawke in the same year, but wasn't sure of the exact date. Thankfully Hawke was the man

Fair call.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Cramming. Again.

Almost finished but damn references annoy me.

 

[TheFreshBanana]

Cramming. Again.

Almost finished but damn references annoy me.

Good to see I'm not the only one doing this.

And on Bigfooty.

 

[Big Cox 88]

Cramming. Again.

Almost finished but damn references annoy me.

Quick trick, use the references and citations your reference has used to find more info or dodge up references.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Quick trick, use the references and citations your reference has used to find more info or dodge up references.

Cheers for that. Yeah do that occasionally, don't need a massive amount for this unit though.

 

[Colin D'Cops]

Good to see I'm not the only one doing this.

And on Bigfooty.

Can't whack out 1,000+ words in a night without some rest.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Whoever made the decision to move Melbourne to inside a wind tunnel.

GAGF.

It moved??? I wish somebody told me before I booked flights.

 

[Ed_Gein]

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

 

[UmpiringFooty]

0 and -c temperatures in spring. Brrrrrrr too cold.

 

[Caesar]

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.

 

[neroblack]

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?

 

[Caesar]

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.

 

[Off The Couch]

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

 

[Caesar]

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

 

[neroblack]

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..

 

[rocker_oz33]

304 different bushfires around Sydders today + 90 klick winds
woeful day

Any fires near your place crow?

 

[Impunity!]

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.

 

[UmpiringFooty]

Douchebags that thread ban me all the time.
Especially when it's from ShinOfBoner who does it for a laugh.
Grow up idiot.

 

[NSWCROW]

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