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    List just one thing you did today

    They're cheap here at the moment, Au$2.50/kilo.
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    Common Australian Birds

    All except for the King Parrot which only lives on the east coast, I never spent much time on the east coast, too built up and suburban. And of course I've seen many different species that don't feature in these videos. One day I watched a flock of Sulphur Crested Cockatoos sitting on a power...
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    A lot of people do it, 2000 Km or 1200 miles of river. It's more about the experience of being in remote bushland though, although not as green and lush looking as the tropics it has a beauty and charm all of it's own that creeps in to your bones and never leaves you. There's something about the...
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    relationship obsession

    I wasn't much different to you at that age. We didn't have dating sites back then but I responded to a couple of ads in newspapers and got pretty much the same result as you described. I gave up on those real quick though and instead turned to an Australian icon - The Pub. The trouble with...
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    That's the part that traps people - it looks docile. That's exactly the same trap that people fall in to when swimming at beaches - the part of the beach that has no waves is where the rip is.
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    Big rivers like the Murray also have very dangerous currents and people can get caught by those unexpectedly. The trick is to stay on the surface of the water where it's nice and calm. The top of the water can be almost still while currents deeper down are very strong and swift. The way people...
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    Learning to judge those is something many of us learn as small children, but not like most people would expect. We weren't taught the "dangers" of rips, we saw it from the other side because of our surfing culture, we deliberately looked for rips because they save you a lot of effort getting out...
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    Our entire coast all the way around has a lot of very dangerous critters in it but you grow up with local knowledge of how to avoid danger and for the most part there's very few problems. Adelaide gets sharks, stone fish, blue ringed octopus, several species of sea snake, and a few jellyfish...
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    Regional foods

    Our CSIRO jumped on that virus as soon as it appeared. They spent a decade studying it and slightly genetically modifying it before releasing it. Unfortunately they gave the Australian public 12 months notice of their intentions, they have officially stated that they'll never make such a stupid...
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    Asperger / Autism with a special interest of water, swim and get wet with clothes on?

    I always loved the water when I was much younger. Swimming, fishing, surfing, or just to relax in with a nice cold beer. Then I spent more than 20 years living in a remote region in the top of Australia where the waters are very dangerous. That sort of broke me of the habit. When I moved back...
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Here we have all the same protections for debit cards as we do for credit cards and if a dispute looks genuine the banks will credit that money straight back in to your account then investigate the situation properly afterwards.
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    Headphone / Noise cancelling for Toddler

    I've noticed that with all newer cars. Aussie cars at least used to have really good noise insulation underneath them but that seems to have gone out of fashion, probably due to cost and weight.
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    The money we use is not legal tender

    Most Aussies have a Debit Card, not a credit card. It works the same as a credit card in most cases, websites recognise my card as being Visa, but there's no line of credit attached to that account, it's just a savings account. We don't pay any fees or surcharges for using these cards either...
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    Headphone / Noise cancelling for Toddler

    Simple understanding will be more helpful to him than anything else, many of us don't get much of that.
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    No. Do you know what you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? [SPOILER]

    No. Do you know what you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Here Solar is king. We have more sunshine than just about anything else. My city of Adelaide gets about 270 days a year of unbroken sunshine, much of Australia does. What we don't have is enough water.
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    Gaseous Fuel

    It's extremely dangerous in closed in spaces such as inside a factory, but as you mentioned it loves water and is easily diluted, where as if you spray water on a petroleum spill you just make more mess. I think I can see a future with no old fashioned big power companies in Australia. Our...
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    Gaseous Fuel

    The gasses it gives off can be deadly but in many other ways it's less dangerous than petrol because it's less flamable. And it's already used in massive quantities by many different industries so it's not like we don't know how to keep it safely contained. Australia sees it as the future for...
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    Gaseous Fuel

    Making ammonia is even cheaper still, but even more importantly, existing engines are easily converted. This is the latest deal Fortescue has done, they've been refitting freight trains for Deutsche Bahn for a few years now. Fortescue and CMB.TECH sign agreement for ammonia-powered ore carrier
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