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    Do you leave tips?

    We made changes to the award for delivery drivers recently. Companies had been treating them as contractors instead of casual staff which meant the companies didn't have to contribute anything to the worker's superannuation fund. That practice has now been outlawed...
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    Do you leave tips?

    Very old fashioned Dad joke here, also used when people ask for a hot tip at the races. :)
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    Do you leave tips?

    The Old Australian tip: "Work hard, and be kind to your mother." ;)
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    Why does society view autistic people as mentally incompetent?

    I never bother to tell anyone. Sometimes when people get to know me better they might ask me, and then I won't lie, but by then they've already formed their own opinion of me instead of believing a stereotype.
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    Why does society view autistic people as mentally incompetent?

    People won't know you're autistic if you don't tell them. Try not telling them and see if they still treat you the same way.
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    I got a frog :]

    Another odd fact - they'll look for features either natural or man made that amplify their voice. Of a night time they like to crawl in to the downpipes of your roof's guttering and do this, locals soon learn to block those off with mesh so they can sleep peacefully at night.
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    I got a frog :]

    They're not really very shy animals, they get quite used to humans in little country towns. My parents lived in an elevated house and every evening during the wet season there'd be a tree frog sitting on the hand rail at the top of the stairs. We'd put a hand in front of him and he'd climb on to...
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    I got a frog :]

    The temperatures you've given him are fine, but that's the coldest they can really go. If he likes sitting on your hand all the time that's a sign that he's cold, he's after your body warmth. This temperature chart is for Cairns over on Australia's east coast, it's much further south than Darwin...
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    Extreme social anxiety

    Living in a rural area maybe organisations like LandCare might interest you: https://landcareaustralia.org.au/get-involved/volunteer/
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    I got a frog :]

    They're native to the top end of Australia and very common, as well as being very noisy in the right conditions. Your temperature range is at the lower end of what they require. In the Australian tropics day time temperatures range from 29 to 36 degrees celsius all year round, there is no...
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    We only settled on a name recently - a baby Platypus is called a Puggle.

    We only settled on a name recently - a baby Platypus is called a Puggle.
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    pikmin bloom

    Yep. The more the world changes the more she stays the same. :)
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    pikmin bloom

    Unfortunately there's a lot of politicians and bureaucrats that think Sydney represents all of Australia and is the only place that matters. But our state is used to that and used to having to sort our own problems out. The algal bloom is finally diminishing now and if we get a decent winter...
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    pikmin bloom

    Although it's salt water algae it's very much the same thing. Odd weather conditions and unique geographical features meant that this time the algal bloom became huge and lasted far longer than normal. It became a mass extinction event that wiped out almost all ocean life in the region as well...
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    pikmin bloom

    It's to do with audio processing disorder. I'm a very good communicator, even a bit of a con man in a face to face situation, but I rely heavily on lip reading and body language in order to communicate. Over the phone I can only understand every second or third word and I have to keep asking...
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    pikmin bloom

    Never heard of it. When I first read the title I wondered if it was something like the fish killing algal bloom that has infested waters near my city for the past 12 months. Then when I saw it was a phone app I realised why I had never heard of it. Quite a few of us have issues with phones and...
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    Dad Jokes

    The neighbour stuck his head over the fence to see what the noise was, and Little Johnny was digging a hole in the garden. "What are you up there, Johnny?" Little Johnny looked up with tears running down his cheeks and said "My pet budgie died, I have to bury it.". The neighbour said "I'm sorry...
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    What Do You Love About Winter?

    So too now is NASA, and many other industries as well.
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    What Do You Love About Winter?

    It does, but not across the board as you might expect. Adelaide always poured a measure that they call a "pint" but it's actually less than an imperial pint at only 425 ml. That's still the case today, but that's only in Adelaide, the rest of the country calls that measure a Schooner. Other...
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    What Do You Love About Winter?

    There's only one country in the world (of consequence) that still uses the imperial system. So if anyone's posting measurements online from outside the US then you can always assume they're talking in Metric. These days many of our younger generations have no idea what a mile is, or a pint.
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