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Japanese animation reached a peak with "Fang of the sun, battle armour Dougram". Akira was the start of the long, inexorable slide into pokedragonmonballz.

I can discount legion all I want. Spandex special kids, same as the marvel ones. Superheroes are boring. Take that booyah and stuff it where the sun don't shine.

As for the vegemite. Pry it from my cold dead hands.

c.f. My sig.

Ref: my age and my attitude. IDGAF what you younger punks think.

 chromedog wrote:
Akira was the start of the long, inexorable slide into pokedragonmonballz.

Ref: my age and my attitude. IDGAF what you younger punks think.

Dragonball came out originally in 1984, Akira in 1988.

Alzheimers setting in there, Grandpa?

Having never seen a single dragonzball (and considering myself all the better for that) I'll have to take your word for it.

Not alzheimers. Wilful ignorance. One is a conscious decision, the other is a bonus at easter (you can hide your own eggs).

At this point, it sounds like ProtestingTooMuch, and too many bucks to give.

I'm all out of bucks to give.
Have been for some time.

It makes life soooo much simpler.

 chromedog wrote:
Having never seen a single dragonzball (and considering myself all the better for that) I'll have to take your word for it.

Not alzheimers. Wilful ignorance. One is a conscious decision, the other is a bonus at easter (you can hide your own eggs).

This is the internet, remember? The weeaboos will hunt you down and troll you for not knowing every single anime's original Japanese release date. They will also use the English names, but with that thick tryhard Japanese accent.

 Just Tony wrote:


This is the internet, remember? The weeaboos will hunt you down and troll you for not knowing every single anime's original Japanese release date. They will also use the English names, but with that thick tryhard Japanese accent.

Hey, every devilfish, ever Riptide, every blue skinned grot fondler among them that lacks nice breasts must burn! errr, wait, are we talking about otaku or Tau Players?

 BaronIveagh wrote:

 Just Tony wrote:


This is the internet, remember? The weeaboos will hunt you down and troll you for not knowing every single anime's original Japanese release date. They will also use the English names, but with that thick tryhard Japanese accent.

Hey, every devilfish, ever Riptide, every blue skinned grot fondler among them that lacks nice breasts must burn! errr, wait, are we talking about otaku or Tau Players?

Wait... there is a difference?

..yeah, that's what we need now. Thanks Australia !

Are they non-euclidian, squamous and gibbous, these creatures? Are they indescribable horrors that will drive men mad?

Was an interesting day in South Australia. Hottest day of our heatwave and we've apparently set new record temperatures for atleast 36 locations across the state today with temperatures up to 49.5C. Not just in rural regions that usually bake either, plenty of suburbs were cooking in the high 40s.

Adelaide has taken back the title from Melbourne for hottest recorded temperature in a capital city that they held since 2009s black saturday.

Also seen a cloud of BO drift off with a rainbow. Last seen headed for Victoria.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
Are they non-euclidian, squamous and gibbous, these creatures? Are they indescribable horrors that will drive men mad?

Leave it to Australia to find Cthulhu or Dagon.

 reds8n wrote:




..yeah, that's what we need now. Thanks Australia !

I knew Australia is the real world counterpart of Monster Hunter World.

..... hahaha nice try Australia, but we're not taking you back !

Someone's gotta replace all those Euro doctors and tradies that will be leaving when the brexit sh&tfight eventually reaches an end.

Gawd help you lot when you need your toilets unplugged.

(I'd have used "showers" or "bathtubs" but the brit dislike of bathing is rather well known. )

Don't your toilets work backwards though? Like I heard you have to handstand above the bowl and flush it with your foot.

 NinthMusketeer wrote:
Don't your toilets work backwards though? Like I heard you have to handstand above the bowl and flush it with your foot.

Nah, we just crap in a bucket and the kangaroos take it away.

Getting back to the topic...

Crocodiles in Australian streets after major floods

Sister-in-law's place isn't far from there (a number of blocks) and her street was about 3' deep in floodwaters.

Crocodiles are a thing along most of the northern rivers, though - all the way up to the pointy end (Cape York).

 chromedog wrote:
Sister-in-law's place isn't far from there (a number of blocks) and her street was about 3' deep in floodwaters.

Crocodiles are a thing along most of the northern rivers, though - all the way up to the pointy end (Cape York).

Well Salties will, as their name suggests, swim through the ocean to get to new places. Heck, we're probably lucky they haven't spread to the rest of the world yet given how far those guys can swim.

There was a 3m saltie seen climbing a tree to get out of the waters.

Once again, they had to warn people NOT to go randomly wading through floodwaters, too (apart from the crocs and snakes - inland browns can swim quite well), the water was also full of sewage from people's overflowed septic systems (Yes, T'ville has proper sewers, but older properties still have tanks that it settles in first before dispersal).

Some people heeded those warnings but others took no proper notice of them and were just going through the motions.

I'm not surprised there's crocs in the streets; after all, this is the country with the shark-infested golf course.

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
I'm not surprised there's crocs in the streets; after all, this is the country with the shark-infested golf course.

When we went to see my sister-in-law in Perth we stayed at a golfing hotel where there were Roos generally
Wandering around and chilling on the course.

At least with the sharks their mobility options are somewhat limited........

Until the arrival of the half shark-alligator, half man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abky6hbKPpg

My reaction to the common house spider, let alone one that drags off mice...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJ3j5jp5IoY

...a holiday to Australia or New Zealand is simply not going to happn. The spiders that live in that part of the world crawl into a shop and purchase Gillette products at the counter.

NZ is safe in that regard, we only have a couple of bity species of spider and they are not particularly viscous or common (or large). For freaky "oh my god what the hell is that?" we have Weta. They are pretty terrifying when you stumble across one unexpectedly.

Yeah we were surprised to find out that all the poisonous stuff is stuck in Aus and very little in NZ! Safe enough that some folks go barefoot

After seeing quite a few folks doing that, I tried it and it was pretty awesome but not something I'd ever want to try in Australia!

 Baragash wrote:

 AndrewGPaul wrote:
I'm not surprised there's crocs in the streets; after all, this is the country with the shark-infested golf course.

When we went to see my sister-in-law in Perth we stayed at a golfing hotel where there were Roos generally
Wandering around and chilling on the course.

Yeah, most of the golf courses around Brisbane have at least one mob of roos hanging around.

I just found out they were actually called "mobs" last week! You guys have all the cool stuff over there, really making me want to go back

...except for the spiders, lol.