Posted on 07/19/2019 4:24:35 AM PDT by naturalman1975
In terms of the military, we have the exact same problem with the Canadians.
Hail to the Chimp. The left was right about him. But for all the wrong reasons.
Bush was a trained combat pilot. Bit of a difference there.
CC
...the left in Australia, who seem to wish she was our Prime Minister, too.
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Are they treating Morrison as badly as their counterparts treat Trump?
Feed her to the crocs.
Love your tag line!
Not quite - they spent their worst vitriol on Tony Abbott who was PM back in 2013-2015 and compared to him, Scott Morrison gets treated a little better by the left - one problem with painting somebody as the worst possible Prime Minister is it’s then hard to say those who came after as worse.
Fair dinkum — Reliable; genuine; honest; true comes from British dialect. It is recorded from Lincolnshire, England in 1881, and is the equivalent of West Yorkshire fair doos fair dealing. The adjective is first recorded in Australia from the 1890s
Kiwis do use ‘Fair Dinkum’ as well.
You left out Sydney funnel web spiders and cone shells. When in graduate school I had some Australian roommates ( 2 - I admit a statistically insignificant sample) - convinced me that only if I completely ran out of other places to go Australia would be a destination.
Yeah. I thought about it too. But a nice slow subsonic ride with no aerobatics for 1200 miles would be an easy 2+ hour ride.
The “combat” Bush the Younger saw was over the skies of Texas; his father made sure of that, no Vietnam for his sons even though the old man was a leading supporter of intervention.
I’m Australian and what you say is true but you can still have a great time there. One could list dangers of many places in a similar fashion and never go anywhere. When I went to Israel and Jordan in 1996 I was a bit hesitant but was told if I was frightened of terrorism I would never go. Well I went and had a great and memorable time.
I read once where Australia has seven of the ten most poisonous snakes in the world, and that doesn’t even count the politicians.
LOL. I guess the Oz AF won’t be offering her a ride home.
Then I found that everything ...every snake is poisonous to some degree...a box jelly will kill you in two minutes…salties and great whites will eat you and even platypuses (platypi??) are venomous. Go figger.
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Awesome country with varied geography. However, it is quite possible to survive their wildlife, mostly by avoiding them...they really aren’t *everywhere* and don’t seek out victims. You can chase those little blue-ringed octopus and all they do is flash their color and swim away, fast, for example.
I’d love to see the West and the far Northwest, but I’m past the age for 30-hour plane trips. Been to Oz twice and never got West of Alice Springs.
If you get a chance, go. I never even saw a snake, either time, nor a platypus or even a big spider (for which I’m grateful). Wallaby, now, there’s a lot of those, all sizes.
While the venomous critters exist, the media overplays their
prevalence. Snorkeled and dove the Great Barrier Reef. In the Coral Sea, there are places around resort islands where you can just stand in waist deep water, dip your head and be surrounded by gorgeous fish and coral. Other islands offer miles of white sand beaches you can nearly have to yourself after a very short run in a fishing boat with an outboard.
Not lots of modern aircraft. No computer, no fly with those.
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