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Strangest Animal
It's a little bit eerie walking amongst them, like a giant's grave yard. It's not just termites that live in those mounds either, they share their home with bull ants. The bull ants provide protection from predators and the termites provide protection from the elements.- Outdated
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- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Strangest Animal
A field full of strange neolithic monuments? No, they're Magnetic Termite mounds. All of them are on a North/South alignment. Some of our early explorers weren't terribly bright though, the direction of these mounds is decided by the sun and not magnetism. During early morning and late...- Outdated
- Post #10
- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Strangest Animal
The Thorny Devil. These strange little lizards are quite harmless, they live in deserts and eat ants. Those spikes are soft and flexible and they're not just to prevent birds from eating them. Their skin has patterns of surfaces specifically to attract dew in early mornings and channels between...- Outdated
- Post #9
- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Strangest Animal
Back at you with albino kangaroos - both will make a nasty mess of your car.- Outdated
- Post #5
- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Strangest Animal
I live in a country filled with bizarre wildlife from fish that climb trees to turtles that breath through their bumholes while feeding on aquatic plants to mammals that still lay eggs. Some look stranger than others.- Outdated
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- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Favorite food?
Yes, beetroot has a much milder and nowhere near as sharp flavour and quite often a single slice covers a whole burger. -
Favorite food?
That's how burgers get done in a fish and chip shop. Beef patty, cheese, lettuce, tomato, bacon, fried onion, fried egg, a slice of beetroot, (pickled beet) and tomato sauce. The bun halves get thrown on the hotplate face down with the meat egg and bacon to soak up some of that flavour. In the... -
Favorite food?
So do we. Different flavour palettes though, very few Aussies put vinegar on chips and it's not a standard condiment you'll see in our fish and chip shops. Most of us can't stand pickles on hamburgers either. -
Favorite food?
They're almost the same thing except chips are a much thicker cut so they stay hot for longer and don't go soggy as they cool down. Proper chips are thicker than a man's fingers. We also call "potato crisps" chips. We use the same word for both and which is meant relies on context, or if... -
Post something Weird or Random
A girl removing a goanna from a restaurant - some youtubers comment "Aussies are built different" but the waitress is a French girl on a working holiday.- Outdated
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- Forum: Forum Games
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Favorite food?
I tend to avoid the bigger chains too, if I want a hamburger I'll go to a local fish and chip shop instead, much nicer and much bigger burgers for less money and everything's cooked fresh. And you get real chips instead of stupid french fries and drinks in bottles and cans instead of a horrible... -
Favorite food?
KFC, McDonalds and Burger King all do very well here too, except when Burger King first tried to register a business here that name was already taken so they used another name that they already owned - Hungry Jacks. American tourists are often surprised at the different menus though... -
Sound Sensitivities
I'm very sensitive to some particular high frequencies - they hurt. The pain isn't in my ears though, it's in the middle of my skull, feels like someone's pushing a steel spike through my brain. Small babies hit that note perfectly, old and worn out electric leaf blowers and vacuum cleaners do...- Outdated
- Post #4
- Forum: General Autism Discussion
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Most lizards have very soft skin too, in my generation most kids had a pet lizard, We didn't...
Most lizards have very soft skin too, in my generation most kids had a pet lizard, We didn't keep them in cages though, they were wild and we just hand fed them to make them friendly. When they get used to you they let you pick them up.- Outdated
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Favorite food?
I haven't seen them here since I was a kid, they were a common cocktail food at parties, the British influence. A type of spiced pork sausage known as a Saveloy but in miniature form. The local name for them was Little Boys. I always avoided them because they keep repeating on you and you're... -
Common Australian Birds
Riding that mower is a very dangerous job if there's plovers nesting near by, they recognise it for the threat that it is.- Outdated
- Post #44
- Forum: Pets & Animals
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Favorite food?
Outback Steakhouse had nothing remotely Australian in it other than a crazy naming theme. Apparently there's one opened in Sydney now, not sure how well it's doing. It's true in a broad sense but perhaps not accurate. It started off as simple British food but adjusted for climate, and also... -
Favorite food?
I was never a fan of sickly sweet things. Pavlova is considered to be one of our national deserts but I can't stand it, even as a kid I hated it. I eat icecream maybe once every 3 years. Many US franchise have failed in Australia simply because they don't bother to adjust their menu to suit... -
It’s over I’m d I f f e r e n T and so r u
That is something most in my generation were taught as small children but this seems to be lacking today, more so in some societies than others. Happiness is a choice. You can decide to be happy with what you've got - or - you can keep comparing yourself to people better off than yourself and...- Outdated
- Post #8
- Forum: General Autism Discussion
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Favorite food?
Most Aussies don't like hotdogs. The concept of sausage in a bun with condiments happens here too but the actual hotdog sausages are not liked by many people at all. By far the most popular here are plain beef sausages and we fry them instead of boil them, usually with onions. Sausages and...