They're a protected speciesOriginally Posted by DemonGeminiX
They're a protected species
Only if you get caught...They're a protected species
DemonGeminiX (09-21-2021), lost in melb. (09-18-2021), Teh One Who Knocks (09-21-2021)
Weird Australian Laws
1. It is illegal to wear hot pink hot pants after midday on a Sunday
2. It's an offence to possess 50kgs of potatoes in Western Australia
3. Taxi cabs in Queensland are required to carry a bale of hay in the trunk
4. Bars are required to stable, water and feed the horses of their patrons
5. You must have a neck to knee swimsuit in order to swim at Brighton Beach (Melbourne)
6. The Summary Offences Act of 1966 deems it illegal to be heard by someone singing an obscene song. Does that include Taylor Swift? Oops...
7. It is illegal to roam the streets wearing black clothes, felt shoes and black shoe polish on your face as these items are the tools of a cat burglar
8. It is illegal to dress up as Robin and Batman
9. Only licensed electricians may change a light bulb
10. It is illegal to be drunk in a pub
11. It is illegal to read someone's tarot or give them a psychic reading as these are forms of witchcraft
12. Having an article of disguise without a lawful excuse is illegal
13. In the Gold Coast, it is illegal for women to wear a bikini whose material exceeds six square inches. Good bye brazilian bikini bottoms!
14. It is illegal to leave your car keys inside an unattended vehicle
15. If advertising a lost or stolen item, you must include the caption "no questions will be asked." So does that mean that theives can get away with stolen goods?
16. Life sentences cannot exceed 25 years. Are we really that laid back?
17. If a urinal is not readily available, it is legal to urinate on the rear left tyre of your vehicle
18. In Melbourne, it is against the law to vacuum between 10pm and 7am during weekdays, and 10pm and 9am during weekends. Yep. We like our sleep.
19. Children aren't allowed to purchase cigarettes, but there is no law specifically stating that they cannot smoke them
Fodster (09-20-2021), Teh One Who Knocks (09-21-2021)
Weird or Interesting Facts about Australia
• Australia has the world’s longest golf course measuring more than 850 miles long
• Australia is home to 21 of the world’s 25 most venomous snakes
• Perth is the only city in the world which can have aircraft land in its CBD
• The wine cask (Goon!) was invented in Australia (obviously)
• Australia is even bigger than you think it is. It's almost the same size as mainland USA
• The largest cattle station in the world is located in Australia and it's bigger than Israel
• Australia is ranked second on the Human Development Index which takes into account a long and healthy life, knowledge and a decent standard of living.
• 4 out of 5 Aussies live less than 50km from the coastline
• Each week there are an estimated 70 tourists that overstay their visas (who can blame them)?
• Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke set a world record for sculling 2.5 pints of beer in 11 seconds. Hawke later suggested that this was the reason for his great political success
• The first Police Force in Australia was made up of the most well-behaved convicts
• The world's largest sand island can be found in Australia - Fraser Island!
• It would take around 29 years to visit one new Aussie beach every day (there are 10,685 of them!)
• The Great Barrier Reef is the planet’s largest living structure
• It even has its own Post Office box!
• Aussies drink 1.7 billion litres of beer per year, that's about 680 bottles of beer for each adult.
• Australia's Capital city, Canberra, meant "woman's cleavage" in Aborigine and was named that because the city is cradled between two mountains.
• In Canberra it's legal to film hard core porn and selling the end-product has been made legal in the city. (Being a politician must get boring!)
• AFL (Australian Rules Football) was invented to keep Cricketers fit in the off season, there are claims that the game may have been influenced by Indigenous Australians
• The world's largest rock is not actually Uluru, but Mount Augustus in Western Australia
• Mount Augustus is actually twice the size of Uluru
• There are 60 wine regions in Australia
• Actually around 1.3 billion litres of wine are produced each year in Australia
• It is the 6th largest country in the world
• Australia ranks 56th in the world in terms of broadband speed - really?!? We're 7th for mobile speed though.
• There are 1 million Camels that roam wild Australia's Deserts - the largest number of purebred camels in the world
• Australia exports it's camels to the Middle East
• The wombat deposits square poos
• You can fly from Perth to Melbourne faster than you can fly from one end of Western Australia to the other (North – South)
• Melbourne was briefly called Batmania. You can still visit Batman Park in Melbourne
• An Australian man once tried to sell New Zealand on eBay, with a starting price of A$0.01
• It is a known fact that Wallabies like to break into Opium crops, get high and run around in circles to create a "crop circle"
• A gay bar in Melbourne won the legal right to ban women from the bars, because they made the men uncomfortable
• Moomba, Australia’s largest free festival held in Melbourne, means ‘up your bum’ in many Aboriginal languages
• The Australian Alps actually receive more snow each year than Switzerland
• Aboriginal culture is the oldest culture on Earth
• Western Australia is home to a number of Pink Lakes - such as Lake Hillier
• Australia has 19 World Heritage Listed sites
• The country holds the Guinness World Record for the most amount of Christmas lights on a house - over half a million!
• Australia’s richest woman Gina Rinehart earns $1 million every 2 hours
• 91% of the country is covered by native vegetation
• Australia enacted the world's first seat belt law in 1970
• 33% of Australians were born in another country
• Over 300 different languages and dialects are spoken in Australia including 45 Indigenous languages
• In fact 21% of Australians don't speak English at home!
• WA is home to what is believed to be the oldest evidence of life on Earth - the Stromatolites
• Vegemite was created by left over Yeast used to create Beer - so that's why it tastes so good!
Fodster (09-20-2021), KevinD (09-20-2021), lost in melb. (09-20-2021), Teh One Who Knocks (09-21-2021)
lost in melb. (09-21-2021), The Monk (09-22-2021)
lost in melb. (09-21-2021)
plus...if I miss, I'm dead
Practice your swing.plus...if I miss, I'm dead
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Easier said than done
James Glindemann, 68, of Sale, recovers after being swooped by a magpie
Fuck the protected species.. I'm killing it if it comes at me.Easier said than done
James Glindemann, 68, of Sale, recovers after being swooped by a magpie
I wonder if that is truly from the Russian embassy?
It's got the blue checkmark, means it's been verified by Twitter.
The Monk (09-22-2021)
'South African' Russian embassy... I wonder why they feel so brazen to respond on such a sensitive subject..?It's got the blue checkmark, means it's been verified by Twitter.
'cos they're Russian.... Vlad will look after them.
A woman carrying her baby was attacked by a maggie recently causing her to drop the baby which dies as a result.Not a photoshop. I am literally going to be attacked for the next two months on a daily basis by these f*ckers
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-...bane/100364084
lost in melb. (09-23-2021)
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