Ozexpatriate Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) 5 minutes ago, DavidB-AU said: Deadly eastern brown snake interrupts Dominic Thiem match at Brisbane International Made the news here too. Saw it on CNN earlier. Makes a change from birds, insects and wind-blown garbage. Edited December 30, 2023 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted December 30, 2023 Share Posted December 30, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Ozexpatriate said: Makes a change from birds, insects and wind-blown garbage. YOU mightn't like the Sydney To Hobart, but no need to be rude about it! Edited December 31, 2023 by monkeysarefun 1 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted December 31, 2023 Share Posted December 31, 2023 8 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: YOU mightn't like the Sydney To Hobart, but no need to be rude about it! It can't be as bad as the Fastnet for ensuing flotsam, can it? 🤔 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 1 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 1 Drunk skipper crashed his boat on a sandbar, with over 100 people on board! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-01/new-years-eve-celebrations-broadwater-boat-drink-driving-skipper/103277110 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 1 Share Posted January 1 25 minutes ago, kevinlms said: Drunk skipper crashed his boat on a sandbar, with over 100 people on board! https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-01/new-years-eve-celebrations-broadwater-boat-drink-driving-skipper/103277110 That'll be a New Year for the passengers to remember! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 2 Share Posted January 2 (edited) 17 hours ago, kevinlms said: Drunk skipper crashed his boat on a sandbar, with over 100 people on board! There was a linked article to a fatal boating accident on Boxing Day even closer to home that Mum mentioned in her New Year's email. Lots of very hot temperatures (high 30s°C) with high humidity with accompanying violent thunderstorms in southeast Queensland lately. Edited January 2 by Ozexpatriate 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 2 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 2 (edited) Lucky! Driving a vehicle and trailer across a flooded bridge. No doubt She won't be doing that again. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-02/nsw-tweed-floods-threat-northern-rivers/103278110 Edited to say that it was a woman, men are usually guilty of stupidity! Edited January 2 by kevinlms More info 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 4 Share Posted January 4 (edited) There used to be a reggae/ska song by a local band a few years ago that went "I'm a Sydney-sider, I ain't scared of the Funnel web spider" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-04/lethal-sydney-funnel-web-spider-hercules-sets-record-for-largest/103286268 Edited January 4 by monkeysarefun 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 4 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 4 7 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: There used to be a reggae/ska song by a local band a few years ago that went "I'm a Sydney-sider, I ain't scared of the Funnel web spider" https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-04/lethal-sydney-funnel-web-spider-hercules-sets-record-for-largest/103286268 There is a saying that someone is “The funnel-web in the underpants of society”. Make of that what you will. It’s not very nice. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 (edited) During the lunchbreak at the cricket I managed to catch a bit of the live stream of the 2024 Summernats Burnout Masters preliminaries. Edited January 5 by monkeysarefun 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Sidecar Racer Posted January 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5 More snakey stuff . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-67879501 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 Just now, Sidecar Racer said: More snakey stuff . https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-australia-67879501 Apparently Chimpy didn't know the species existed... Obviously needs to be added to his multi-volume "I-Spy Aussie Snakes"... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billbedford Posted January 5 Share Posted January 5 It's not how bad the critters are, it's just the sheer numbers... 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium J. S. Bach Posted January 5 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 5 1 hour ago, billbedford said: It's not how bad the critters are, it's just the sheer numbers... I would not like to do that kind of survey at my place, I have about 3½ accessible acres. 😉 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 12 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-12/woman-bitten-on-the-hand-by-snake-while-sleeping/103312380?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 'orrible. I'm glad we only have Adders, even though Aussie tourists gravitate towards them... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 12 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 I fail to see the attraction of Queensland, where most of the worst can be found - keeps you out of rivers, beaches and now your own home! 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 (edited) 4 hours ago, kevinlms said: I fail to see the attraction of Queensland, where most of the worst can be found - keeps you out of rivers, beaches and now your own home! Although, to be fair - Brown snakes are the least Queenslandish thing out there since they occur everywhere else too. A typical Queensland snake story is usually about a 5 metre tree python coming up out of someones toilet before eating their cat. In their defence, a bluddy huge Brown Snake once dropped from the skies and missed me by about 6 feet as I sat in a chair under my deck, and I dont live anywhere near Queensland. He made his escape through the pictured garden bed then across the lawn, possibly to his getaway helicopter where he was probably planning to re-ascend into the sky before dropping unexpectedly on some other poor unsuspecting bu99er. Edited January 12 by monkeysarefun 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Gwiwer Posted January 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 4 hours ago, kevinlms said: I fail to see the attraction of Queensland, where most of the worst can be found - keeps you out of rivers, beaches and now your own home! I found plenty of attraction in Queensland. The biggest problem I had was being already married 🤣 1 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 9 minutes ago, Gwiwer said: I found plenty of attraction in Queensland. The biggest problem I had was being already married 🤣 Well if nothing else, their pay-for-parking system is a big step up from some vandalised tap-to-pay box covered in graffiti. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 12 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 41 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: Although, to be fair - Brown snakes are the least Queenslandish thing out there since they occur everywhere else too. A typical Queensland snake story is usually about a 5 metre tree python coming up out of someones toilet before eating their cat. In their defence, a bluddy huge Brown Snake once dropped from the skies and missed me by about 6 feet as I sat in a chair under my deck, and I dont live anywhere near Queensland. He made his escape through the pictured garden bed then across the lawn, possibly to his getaway helicopter where he was probably planning to re-ascend into the sky before dropping unexpectedly on some other poor unsuspecting bu99er. What steps do you take around snakes? Bloody great long ones! 1 5 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ozexpatriate Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 9 hours ago, kevinlms said: I fail to see the attraction of Queensland Most Queenslanders would consider Glenmorgan to the the wrong side of the proverbial black stump. Quote In the 2016 census, Glenmorgan had a population of 148 people. On the western fringe of the Darling Downs and agricultural, it's not quite the Outback but might as well be. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 On the plus side, Queensland does have fun family activities.. https://watergum.org/greatcanetoadbust/ 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hroth Posted January 12 Share Posted January 12 24 minutes ago, monkeysarefun said: On the plus side, Queensland does have fun family activities.. https://watergum.org/greatcanetoadbust/ I initially read that as burst, rather than bust. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 12 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 12 9 hours ago, monkeysarefun said: Although, to be fair - Brown snakes are the least Queenslandish thing out there since they occur everywhere else too. A typical Queensland snake story is usually about a 5 metre tree python coming up out of someones toilet before eating their cat. In their defence, a bluddy huge Brown Snake once dropped from the skies and missed me by about 6 feet as I sat in a chair under my deck, and I dont live anywhere near Queensland. He made his escape through the pictured garden bed then across the lawn, possibly to his getaway helicopter where he was probably planning to re-ascend into the sky before dropping unexpectedly on some other poor unsuspecting bu99er. Drop snakes, eh? Crikey, the drop bears are bad enough... 2 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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