Stuff Aussies like

[jevs]

These were tourists - specifically mainland Chinese tourists. China has surpassed the US as the leading provider of "ugly tourists" who engage in bad behavior, although there's still plenty of bad behavior from American tourists. I did find more video like that with tourists from around the world, but that was the first that showed up and one with a really nasty bite mark.

As with many wild animals, crowding wild animals isn't necessarily that great an idea. In the United States we have one place that seems to attract the most people who do this, including those from around the world - Yellowstone. You want a place in the United States where basically anything will try to kill you if given the chance, that's Yellowstone. There are infamous pictures/video of people who crowded grizzly bears with cubs to take pictures, and managed to survive because mama bear didn't quite feel like ripping out someone's throat.

Meh..Aussies are awful in Bali..beautiful country but I can't bring myself to go back.

 

[becpee]

Thongs, especially if they have an Aussie flag on them.

Just add Southern Cross tattoo

 

[low-key]

ya know I like Australians and the country, and thats big from me, cause I dont give that compliment out often ( and my compliment is highly thought after )

 

[jevs]

ya know I like Australians and the country, and thats big from me, cause I dont give that compliment out often ( and my compliment is highly thought after )

That's very sweet, now go and make a new music thread. Please.

 

[low-key]

That's very sweet, now go and make a new music thread. Please.

Im afraid I will get yelled at for posting a rerun thread

 

[si-am]

That's so cool! I hardly ever come across people who know it. I spent a few years growing up there and have family there still. When my sister, brothers, and I were younger we used to love going to Magic Mountain. It didn't have the same feel the last time we went lol. Funny how things you remember as the best ever don't live up to expectations when you get to revisit them..

I actually spent a night in Merimbula about 4 years ago on a drive from a melbourne to Sydney. I think we were there in the wrong time of year though (August) because it seems like all the shops and restaurants were closed early and the only place we could find for dinner was at the RSL. Seemed like a pretty little town though. (And I actually enjoyed the RSL!)

 

[jevs]

1. Australia is as wide as the distance between London to Moscow.
2. The biggest property in Australia is bigger than Belgium.
3. More than 85% of Australians live within 50km of the coast.
4. In 1880, Melbourne was the richest city in the world.
5. Gina Rinehart, Australia’s richest woman, earns $1 million every half hour, or $598 every second.
6. In 1892, a group of 200 Australians unhappy with the government tried to start an offshoot colony in Paraguay to be called ‘New Australia’.
7. The first photos from the 1969 moon landing were beamed to the rest of the world from Honeysuckle Tracking Station, near Canberra.
8. Australia was the second country in the world to allow women to vote (New Zealand was first).
9. Each week, 70 tourists overstay their visas.
10. In 1856, stonemasons took action to ensure a standard of 8-hour working days, which then became recognised worldwide.
11. Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a world record for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Hawke later suggested that this was the reason for his great political success.
12. The world’s oldest fossil, which is about 3.4 billion years old, was found in Australia.
13. Australia is very sparsely populated: The UK has 248.25 persons per square kilometre, while Australia has only 2.66 persons per square kilometre.
14. Australia’s first police force was made up of the most well-behaved convicts.
15. Australia has the highest electricity prices in the world.
16. There were over one million feral camels in outback Australia, until the government launched the $19m Feral Camel Management Program, which aims to keep the pest problem under control.
17. Saudi Arabia imports camels from Australia (mostly for meat production).
18. Qantas once powered an interstate flight with cooking oil.
19. Per capita, Australians spend more money on gambling than any other nation.
20. In 1832, 300 female convicts mooned the governor of Tasmania. It was said that in a “rare moment of collusion with the Convict women, the ladies in the Governor’s party could not control their laughter.”

 

[jevs]

21. Australia is home to the longest fence in the world. It is 5,614 km long, and was originally built to keep dingoes away from fertile land.
22. Australia was one of the founding members of the United Nations.
23. Melbourne is considered the sporting capital of the world, as it has more top level sport available for its citizens than anywhere else.
24. Before the arrival of humans, Australia was home to megafauna: three metre tall kangaroos, seven metre long goannas, horse-sized ducks, and a marsupial lion the size of a leopard.
25. Kangaroos and emus cannot walk backward, one of the reasons that they’re on the Australian coat of arms.
26. Speaking of, Australia is one of the only countries where we eat the animals on our coat of arms.
27. If you visited one new beach in Australia every day, it would take over 27 years to see them all.
28. Melbourne has the world’s largest Greek population outside of Athens.
29. The Great Barrier Reef is the planet’s largest living structure.
30. And it has it’s own postbox!
31. The male platypus has strong enough venom to kill a small dog.
32. And when the platypus was first sent to England, it was believed the Australians had played a joke by sewing the bill of a duck onto a rat.
33. Before 1902, it was illegal to swim at the beach during the day.
34. A retired cavalry officer, Francis De Groot stole the show when the Sydney Harbour Bridge officially opened. Just as the Premier was about to cut the ribbon, De Groot charged forward on his horse and cut it himself, with his sword. The ribbon had to be retied, and De Groot was carted off to a mental hospital. He was later charged for the cost of one ribbon.
35. Australia has 3.3x more sheep than people.
36. Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, and was never seen again.
37. Australia’s national anthem was ‘God Save The King/Queen’ until 1984.
38. Wombat poop is cube shaped! This helps it mark its territory.
39. European settlers in Australia drank more alcohol per capita than any other society in history.
40. The Australian Alps receive more snowfall than Switzerland.

 

[jevs]

Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, and was never seen again.

And in true Aussie spirit, they named a pool after him in Melbourne

 

[King Schultz]

Prime Minister Harold Holt went for a swim at Cheviot Beach, and was never seen again.

And in true Aussie spirit, they named a pool after him in Melbourne

Is it the "Have You Seen Harold Lately Memorial Pool?"

 

[jevs]

Is it the "Have You Seen Harold Lately Memorial Pool?"

No. It's the Harold Holt Memorial Swimming Centre.

But yours would work equally as well in my opinion.

(Seriously, how can a country just 'lose' a PM)

 

[jevs]

 

[NFLDERS]

Dogs, cats, and other Aussies; not necessarily in that order. This thread has been awesome thanks, OP!

 

[jevs]

Apologies for the picture quality, they kept moving when I got too close. In the Valley, July, 2016.

 

[Goofy_Disney_Dad]

Apologies for the picture quality, they kept moving when I got too close. In the Valley, July, 2016.

I know you guys probably view them much different than others, but they look like a party waiting to happen to me, and I really don't know why. They look like so much fun, but I'm sure that's probably not based on reality.

 

[Kitty 34]

Great thread Jevs.....love all the facts and pics.

 

[King Schultz]

Apologies for the picture quality, they kept moving when I got too close. In the Valley, July, 2016.

I'll trade you a skunk and a black bear for two roos.

Deal?

 

[jevs]

I'll trade you a skunk and a black bear for two roos.

Deal?

I don't want a skunk anymore.

Send me a bear and a squirrel and the deal is done.

 

[King Schultz]

I don't want a skunk anymore.

Send me a bear and a squirrel and the deal is done.

Done and done!!

 

[jevs]

Done and done!!

That female kangaroo comes back to my property and my neighbours every year with her joeys

We're going to be devastated if anything happens to her - her name is Mama - my neighbour named her lol.