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  1. No major coffee chain has really worked here. The only national chains are The Coffee Club and Gloria Jeans which combined have less than 5% market share, the other 95% is made up from tens of thousands of independent coffee shops. Starbucks arrived around 2000 without considering the Australian coffee culture which has been honed by many years of high quality Italian and Greek coffee shops. They closed almost all their 87 outlets 8 years later after losing $105 million. They have a small presence here again now but are almost solely based in tourist areas like airports and the centre of capital cities where overseas tourists are pretty much their entire customer base.
  2. I wouldn't live anywhere else!
  3. 19th Century Australians took a great liking to the Bunya pine (native to SE Queensland) and planted them in many parks, homestead gardens and public places like hospital grounds and church yards. 21st century Australians have to watch our heads when passing beneath them!
  4. The three top- selling vehicles last year were all dual-cab utes. Sunday morning outside the local Woolies...
  5. Currently there are around 136,000 trained volunteer firefighters nationally (down from over 165,000 in 2010) , with an additional 51,000 volunteer support and administrative staff , and around 400,000 volunteer in the various state emergency services (though many would volunteer in both). In comparison the Australian Defence Force has around 85,000 personnel.
  6. Which often need rescuing themselves.. (I posted the link as text rather than a screen display because I don't want to cause @polybear to have an attack of the vapours when he gets to here, I would never do that.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQNG2C_-CLc&ab_channel=StoryfulViral
  7. Apparently "Roots" is a Canadian clothing company. We once had a Canadian backpacker lass turn up at work to do temp work as a secretary. She was wearing a sloppy joe with ROOTS in big letters across the front. After much schoolboy sniggering we let her in on what the word means down here.
  8. Seeing recent overseas disasters, theres something to be said for the Australian philosophy of state co-ordinated locally trained volunteer organisations being the backbone of the states emergency services, and who perform the primary role of initial emergency response. Due to vast distances and small populations, local communities from necessity had to foster a high level of self-sufficiency when it came to fighting bushfires or carrying out emergency flood mitigation or rescues since official help could be days away and inadequate in scope.. This volunteer structure has grown into state-run but locally staffed organisations - the various states rural fire services and the state emergency services. These organisations are often manned by the same volunteers who are front-line responders. Subsequent help such as evacuations, dropping of emergency supplies and equipment, cleaning up etc is carried out by the army and RAAF.
  9. How about salad.... Huntsman spiders get everywhere. And redback spiders can be found hiding in brocolli, The reaction [to eating one] would be similar to a bite from the deadly spider, but more severe because there would be more venom in a whole spider than in a single bite. Ms Weir says symptom onset would be slower when ingesting the spider than from a bite but the effect would remain the same. ‘You have an 8hr risk of venom activity including tachycardia and hypertension arising from pain and muscle tension.’ The venom breaks down nerve cells in the body which is why the victim experiences such extreme pain. The stock was taken off the shelf after a number of complaints from consumers who found the deadly spiders in their vegetables.
  10. 11% of Australians have asthma, according to Asthma Australia, I dont recall seeing air-conditioning mentioned as an issue. On the other hand, certain thunderstorms can be a big risk, in 2016 a Thunderstorm in Melbourne combined with a high pollen count triggered thousands of asthma cases presenting to emergency departments and resulted in 10 deaths. There is a forecast service in Victoria (where it seems to be highest risk due to all the grasslands perhaps...) https://www.health.vic.gov.au/environmental-health/epidemic-thunderstorm-asthma-risk-forecast
  11. What is the argument against banning them? Though I guess it'd be pointless when they can be snuck in from all the other countries within a stones throw of there. You get the occasional odd one going off here due to them being legal to buy for one day a year in the NT - personal shoppers only. But to go up and get them really shows commitment to the cause! Other than that, absolutely no one misses them here, especially not emergency department staff and pets!
  12. Hey.....Ive never done the shed thing to you....... (even though I have 2)
  13. I guess its a case of "You say Hunday and we say Hi-yoon-die.."
  14. I've never heard of Sinclair , but we had Casio calculators ( or at least saw them on the news!) from the early 70's. I wasn't allowed loose on calculators until I got to high school , but I still have my Casio FX-39 that lasted me through high school and tech, from 1978. I can't find any AA batteries, or else I would have turned it on and done the 80085 thing!
  15. I have 9 reverse-cycle aircon outlets......!
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