RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 16, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 16, 2019 https://thenewdaily.com.au/news/national/2019/01/16/australia-heatwave-records/ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 16, 2019 Share Posted January 16, 2019 This is what happens when you leave raw meat and a biro in a car on a 46 degree day. https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/wtf/aussie-comes-back-to-cooked-steak-after-leaving-raw-meat-in-car/news-story/1c01e6ddc81ccbda061430d15dfb81a2 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Haven't done the steak thing, but all the biros in the B family vehicles are permanently banana shaped. The heat that builds up in parked vehicles can be useful though. Back when I was a company rep in the Goldfields I'd get back into my car following a site visit, with my accompanying cloud of flies. Over the next minute or two the flies would fall out of the air as they cooked in their own exoskeletons. Score one for the internal temperature regulation and substantial heat capacity of the large, warm-blooded mammal. On with the aircon and away I'd go in an insect free cocoon. 4 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium PhilJ W Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 17, 2019 Haven't done the steak thing, but all the biros in the B family vehicles are permanently banana shaped. The heat that builds up in parked vehicles can be useful though. Back when I was a company rep in the Goldfields I'd get back into my car following a site visit, with my accompanying cloud of flies. Over the next minute or two the flies would fall out of the air as they cooked in their own exoskeletons. Score one for the internal temperature regulation and substantial heat capacity of the large, warm-blooded mammal. On with the aircon and away I'd go in an insect free cocoon. You've still got to clear out the dead flies from the car though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold franciswilliamwebb Posted January 17, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 17, 2019 You've still got to clear out the dead flies from the car though. The funnel spider’ll get those. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeysarefun Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 (edited) During boring lessons at school we'd trap a fly each, pull a hair from the head of a random girl with long hair (we'd sit behind them for that purpose), tie one end around the flies neck and thus have a miniature fly on a leash - kind of like a little dog but with wings. Unless you tied the hair too tight and its head came off. Or the teacher spotted it and sent you off to Mr Haskew for the cane. Ahh, the 70's - a cruel time but fun. Edited January 17, 2019 by monkeysarefun Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
EddieB Posted January 17, 2019 Share Posted January 17, 2019 Eagles (I think)in a park not far from home. There are HT power lines through this park & the powers that be have erected a tall pole with a platform on top for them to nest on. The one on the right looks like it might be a youngster Eagles.jpg John Ospreys, I'd say - looking healthy and happier than up a pine tree in Scotland! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB-AU Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 When red is no longer sufficient to show just how hot it is, the number of places reaching 50 degrees now in double figures, go to purple and then black. Presumably to show the bits of Australia completely burnt to a crisp. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 You've still got to clear out the dead flies from the car though. Clearing out dead flies is infinitely preferable to inhaling live ones. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Clearing out dead flies is infinitely preferable to inhaling live ones. Extra protein! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PatB Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 Extra protein! not if they're rattling around in your bronchii they're not. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 not if they're rattling around in your bronchii they're not. If you are a true, dinky di Aussie, you learn to swallow them in the right direction! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 If you are a true, dinky di Aussie, you learn to swallow them in the right direction! After 46 years, I still try unsuccessfully to spit the b***tards out! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2019 (edited) After 46 years, I still try unsuccessfully to spit the b***tards out! Best option is to just throw up(chunder}, that gets rid of the bast-ards..........did it years ago on Mount Buller in the summer when the air was thick with them!!.......then have a beer Mike Edited January 18, 2019 by ikks 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 Best option is to just throw up(chunder}, that gets rid of the bast-ards..........did it years ago on Mount Buller in the summer when the air was thick with them!!.......then have a beer Mike So you use swallowing a fly as a need for a beer? I'll have a beer on its own, thanks! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2019 So you use swallowing a fly as a need for a beer? I'll have a beer on its own, thanks! Never needed an excuse for having a beer......in this instance just took away the taste Mike 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium kevinlms Posted January 18, 2019 Author RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 Never needed an excuse for having a beer......in this instance just took away the taste Mike I've never really been into drinking, although I do on occasion. As a self employed tradie, I know what is more important to me. Especially in Victoria now, its an instant loss of licence, for even the slightest bit over .05. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium St Enodoc Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 So you use swallowing a fly as a need for a beer? I'll have a beer on its own, thanks! NOW we know why the old woman swallowed the fly. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Barry O Posted January 18, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2019 Gents, send some of your excess heat our way please. Snowing here ar the mo and the brass monkeys are frantically looking for a welder... Baz Up in the North West Leeds Highlands Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SRman Posted January 18, 2019 Share Posted January 18, 2019 NOW we know why the old woman swallowed the fly. True, but they don't mention her swallowing any beer! 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted January 19, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 19, 2019 I've never really been into drinking, although I do on occasion. As a self employed tradie, I know what is more important to me. Especially in Victoria now, its an instant loss of licence, for even the slightest bit over .05. I don't actually think that's a bad thing, they are tightening up here in South Aussie too, a worrying factor though, is that drug driving is increasing exponentially. When I first came to Australia in 1971, the first thing you would put in the car in preparation for a long trip would be a carton of cans or stubbies, the second thing would be an esky full of ice to keep them cool for the journey........How times have changed, thank goodness!! Mike Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
manna Posted January 20, 2019 Share Posted January 20, 2019 G'Day Folks Another picture on the state of the Darling River, showing the effects of water theft (Yes, some of it will have been paid for) manna Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold ikks Posted January 21, 2019 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 21, 2019 Snake swallowing another snake spotted on farmer's property in South Australia ABC South East SA By Glen Moret Updated 8 Jan 2019, 1:49pm Who'd.be a Joe Blake, if the Kookaburras and the farmers don't get you..........your best mate wll PHOTO: Is that an extra long snake? No, just a snake eating another snake. (Supplied: Shaun Taylor) RELATED STORY: 'Really big' brown snake shocks Canberra shoppers RELATED STORY: Cane toads hitch ride on Monty the Python's back RELATED STORY: Found a snake in your yard? Unless you want to get bitten, put down the shovel A South Australian farmer has stumbled across a brown snake eating another brown snake. Shaun Taylor, from Bordertown in the state's south-east, was testing moisture levels in hay bales when he almost stepped on the snakes. "Initially I didn't know what was actually happening because all I could see was one head and two tails," he said. "On a bit of a closer inspection I realised that one of the adult snakes was actually eating the other, fairly large, adult snake that was not that different in size." Mr Taylor said snakes usually slither out of his way before he has a chance to see them. "The biggest scare was that it was actually still sitting there only about two or three metres away from me," he said. "The snake was definitely aware of my presence, so I kept a safe distance and just let it do its thing." PHOTO: Brown snakes are known to eat other snakes, but it's not common for the action to be caught on camera. (Supplied: Shaun Taylor) Mr Taylor said when he first came across the eastern brown snakes, one was curled around the other and the second snake was not moving. He said when he returned to the scene after about half an hour both of the creatures were gone. Brown snakes often eat each other James Nankivell, who is studying snakes at the University of Adelaide, said it was not uncommon for snakes to cannibalise one another. "The most unusual thing about this is the fact that the snakes are pretty much the same size," he said. "More frequently you would see a larger snake eating a smaller snake that it comes across. "Snakes in general are quite opportunistic. "Brown snakes are large, they're generalists, they'll try and eat anything smaller than them. "Brown snakes have been recorded eating other snakes reasonably frequently, both the same species or other, smaller species, and have been recorded being eaten by other species." Mr Nankivell said the snake may have found the animal too large to process and could have regurgitated it at a later stage Mike 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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jukebox Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 Snake swallowing another snake spotted on farmer's property in South Australia ABC South East SABy Glen Moret Updated 8 Jan 2019, 1:49pm Who'd.be a Joe Blake, if the Kookaburras and the farmers don't get you..........your best mate wll PHOTO: Is that an extra long snake? No, just a snake eating another snake. (Supplied: Shaun Taylor) RELATED STORY: 'Really big' brown snake shocks Canberra shoppers RELATED STORY: Cane toads hitch ride on Monty the Python's back RELATED STORY: Found a snake in your yard? Unless you want to get bitten, put down the shovel A South Australian farmer has stumbled across a brown snake eating another brown snake. Shaun Taylor, from Bordertown in the state's south-east, was testing moisture levels in hay bales when he almost stepped on the snakes. "Initially I didn't know what was actually happening because all I could see was one head and two tails," he said. "On a bit of a closer inspection I realised that one of the adult snakes was actually eating the other, fairly large, adult snake that was not that different in size." Mr Taylor said snakes usually slither out of his way before he has a chance to see them. "The biggest scare was that it was actually still sitting there only about two or three metres away from me," he said. "The snake was definitely aware of my presence, so I kept a safe distance and just let it do its thing." PHOTO: Brown snakes are known to eat other snakes, but it's not common for the action to be caught on camera. (Supplied: Shaun Taylor) Mr Taylor said when he first came across the eastern brown snakes, one was curled around the other and the second snake was not moving. He said when he returned to the scene after about half an hour both of the creatures were gone.Brown snakes often eat each otherJames Nankivell, who is studying snakes at the University of Adelaide, said it was not uncommon for snakes to cannibalise one another. "The most unusual thing about this is the fact that the snakes are pretty much the same size," he said. "More frequently you would see a larger snake eating a smaller snake that it comes across. "Snakes in general are quite opportunistic. "Brown snakes are large, they're generalists, they'll try and eat anything smaller than them. "Brown snakes have been recorded eating other snakes reasonably frequently, both the same species or other, smaller species, and have been recorded being eaten by other species." Mr Nankivell said the snake may have found the animal too large to process and could have regurgitated it at a later stage Mike Well I'd say that would be the best time to stumble across a brown snake. It can't bite *you* if it's still got 1/2m of snake hanging out it's mouth. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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