OK last time it was 46C and so hot birds were falling out of the sky. Now it is so damn cold I saw a kangaroo put a hot water bottle in its pouch.
1C tonight what the &%^$#@!^&%$#
So I guess this is a bad time to say I was outside not half an hour ago without a jacket because I was hot?
Some Sydney girls are just b@#@hes :laugh:
I went for my run this morning and thought I wouldn't need my op, the things would just drop off
That wasn't a hot water bottle it was our scotch! The locals are getting out of hand. Where is the respect?
Cindy,
Hahaahah... Might have needed a rubber band to help there as well... :P
No scotch at my place... Was given two bottles of whiskey though in two days. Is that a hint? O.o
Well someone who will remain anonymous cracked a bottle of Octomore for me. I think that was a hint :embarrassed: :laugh: >:-)
Ebil.
I'm staying away from Johnny Black for now... Unless whiskey is medicinal and helps with URTIs
Some prefer a good glass of red with roo but I prefer a straight scotch. Now where did I put the other bottle?
Quote from: Aisla on August 04, 2014, 07:59:45 AM
That wasn't a hot water bottle it was our scotch! The locals are getting out of hand. Where is the respect?
No respect here. Family legend has it I was run out of Yass let's see if I can make state
Cindy I have a full bar load of winter warmers that I don't use any more that would cheer you up next time you come this way. For medicinal purposes only of course
Quote from: immortal gypsy on August 04, 2014, 08:20:45 AM
Quote from: Aisla on August 04, 2014, 07:59:45 AM
That wasn't a hot water bottle it was our scotch! The locals are getting out of hand. Where is the respect?
No respect here. Family legend has it I was run out of Yass let's see if I can make state
Cindy I have a full bar load of winter warmers that I don't use any more that would cheer you up next time you come this way. For medicinal purposes only of course
Honey I used to get through two bottles a night - not anymore. I like a sip now and again. Better ways to get warm!
Try Tequila It's brewed from the desert
Quote from: immortal gypsy on August 04, 2014, 08:20:45 AM
No respect here. Family legend has it I was run out of Yass let's see if I can make state
Cindy I have a full bar load of winter warmers that I don't use any more that would cheer you up next time you come this way. For medicinal purposes only of course
Booze doesn't actually make you warmer - you just think you are. A couple winters ago a friend of a friend was really drunk, her car got stuck and she though she knew where she was, so she started walking. Her frozen body was found the next morning in the middle of a farm field. I was pretty much a teatotaller before that; and I see no reason to change.
Now if you want to warm up try Chana Masala - you WILL sweat even if is 1 degree C (as long as there is enough curry)...
Erin
Quote from: stephaniec on August 04, 2014, 08:59:12 AM
Try Tequila It's brewed from the desert
Whiskey made from sand!
The outback has hopes!!
Quote from: Cindy on August 04, 2014, 09:19:18 AM
Whiskey made from sand!
The outback has hopes!!
Actually, from fermented Agave nectar. The Agave grow pretty freely in the desert in Mexico; but big Tequila makers seem to have their own cultivated plots of Agave. As long as the temperature and soil are right maybe it would grow in the outback???
Erin
Quote from: Cindy on August 04, 2014, 07:54:22 AM
OK last time it was 46C and so hot birds were falling out of the sky. Now it is so damn cold I saw a kangaroo put a hot water bottle in its pouch.
1C tonight what the &%^$#@!^&%$#
C-can we please swap? As a British person, constant 23C (yes I know that's low to lots of people) and endless sunshine is proving to be utterly intolerable to me. I prefer overcast days, rain, and cold at all times so I'd gladly take 1C.
Quote from: Cindy on August 04, 2014, 07:54:22 AM
OK last time it was 46C and so hot birds were falling out of the sky. Now it is so damn cold I saw a kangaroo put a hot water bottle in its pouch.
1C tonight what the &%^$#@!^&%$#
You should be up here where I am Cindy last night I had ice on my car and 4 weeks ago in the next town over they had snow now that's dam dold
http://www.bom.gov.au/
I just realized your complaining about your winter weather
http://www.myfoxchicago.com/story/23650864/winter-forcast-has-arrived-bill-bellis-blog
Just checked my outside thermometer while having a smoke it's -1 C and ice on my car again brrrrr
From the sublime to the ridiculous.
Unbelievable to think that just over a week ago I was in Banning California (near Palm Springs) in California in 115F with Breanne, (that's 46.1C) then in North Hollywood with Eva Marie delivering Food parcels to the Homeless in the midday Sun at 106F (41C) yet this morning I got up and had a cup of tea on my veranda and my avocado face mask almost froze solid on my face! (I live near the Ocean in Victoria) and the temperature was -1C (30F)/
Judith
Quote from: Lonicera on August 04, 2014, 09:52:37 AM
C-can we please swap? As a British person, constant 23C (yes I know that's low to lots of people) and endless sunshine is proving to be utterly intolerable to me. I prefer overcast days, rain, and cold at all times so I'd gladly take 1C.
You folk are too used to being cold wet and miserable. Stiff upper lip and all! :P
23c is barely warmed up!
It is currently 5C here and 3:10am. I thought alcohol doesn't actually warm you up just makes you think it does?
Quote from: luna nyan on August 04, 2014, 02:07:24 PM
You folk are too used to being cold wet and miserable. Stiff upper lip and all! :P
23c is barely warmed up!
But I
like being miserable and gloomy in the rain, I don't feel right if I'm not. It's like losing a part of who I am to this weird 'happiness' other people describe. The heat is just making me the wrong kind of miserable too because I have to sit in front of a fan all day. :(
I know how you feel Lonicera, I've had the window open and a fan more than a foot across on for the last couple of months and it's still too hot to wear a shirt in here :(
I miss Aberdeenshire where the sky is grey and it rains at least twice a week...
Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?
I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD
Quote from: Eris on August 04, 2014, 02:22:12 PM
Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?
I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD
No. We just culturally like to binge drink and get drunk, particularly a sub section of the under 30s. Anything is good so long as it contains lots of alcohol.
I usually receive wine as a gift, for some strange reason I've been given whiskey recently.
You're all soft.
It was -11c at home overnight.
Lucky I don't live there anymore.
Used to freak people out by leaving the milk out in the kitchen.
In the morning it was frozen solid while the milk in the fridge was fine.
Shame as it hardly snowed there.
Spending a Month in Manila doesn't help.
Darn hot all the time.
J
Quote from: Jenny07 on August 04, 2014, 04:03:29 PM
You're all soft.
It was -11c at home overnight.
Lucky I don't live there anymore.
Used to freak people out by leaving the milk out in the kitchen.
In the morning it was frozen solid while the milk in the fridge was fine.
Shame as it hardly snowed there.
J
Here here it ain't cold unless there is snow on the ground
Quote from: Eris on August 04, 2014, 02:22:12 PM
Out of curiosity are Australians obsessed with Whisky?
I've been teetotal for 163 days (not that I'm keeping track) and I've had about a third of a bottle of Glen Garioch 12 on my desk the whole time taunting me XD
It seemed to be an unwritten rule that I couldn't understand every occasion in Australia is improved by more alcohol it is just latley the Whisky's are popular (Scotch, Irish, Rye). Don't ask me about it thou, I haven't had a drink for almost three years
i'm like 3kms from melbourne airport and sunday & monday morning i had frost on my grass, that was a first for me
Quote from: luna nyan on August 04, 2014, 03:52:34 PM
No. We just culturally like to binge drink and get drunk, particularly a sub section of the under 30s. Anything is good so long as it contains lots of alcohol.
I usually receive wine as a gift, for some strange reason I've been given whiskey recently.
wouldn't say thats 100% true.
There are some who like to go out and get as blind as bat->-bleeped-<-, but most people aren't like that.
You do hear a lot more about those who do because it sells papers.
As for whiskey, no idea where that came from, I don't know a single whiskey drinker myself
Was freezing last night here in Sydney.
I don't get the whiskey thing either. Then again, I'm clueless on trends.
I still say it was not that cold last night, but when you spent your summers in Rockhampton and winters in Canberra as a child. You probably get a bit desenatized to the weather
Last night wasn't too bad here in Melbourne, wasn't warm, but was a lot warmer than the 2 mornings before it.
Having said that, both days were a lot better than today, it's so overcast today, Sunday & Monday I was in dresses, the sun on the legs was great
I am under 30 and I do not drink, so it isn't all of us. :laugh:
It is currently 3:39am and 4 degrees celcius.
Quote from: Charley Bea(EmeraldP) on August 05, 2014, 02:39:25 PM
It is currently 3:39am and 4 degrees celcius.
That sounds wonderful :laugh:
We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-330C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!
Quote from: Ms Grace on August 05, 2014, 03:57:33 PM
We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-330C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!
Darwin cup (horse racing) is on this week.
When they are talking about the fashions on the field and you see the crowd shots, you do a bit of a double take while the rest of the country is feeling a cold spell. The tropical North let's pull out the party dresses.
45ºC with 85% humidity in the summer and possibility of cyclones is the price you do pay for the pleasant winter tho
Cindy / Grace / Nicole / Any other Aussies here:
I think we're all having a hard job summoning too many tears over the fact you girls are living in frickin' AUSTRALIA. Us US girls would gladly swap your weather/crocodile/jellyfish woes for our creepy religious political bull->-bleeped-<- any day of the week.
Where do we sign up?
Ahh a willing victim I see.
I have a special room of anyone interested. Just ask Jessica. >:-)
How would they cope with -40?
Complaining about 0C, soft, very soft.
Winter here is a fashion season at best.
J
Quote from: Ms Grace on August 05, 2014, 03:57:33 PM
We should all migrate to Darwin for the winter... 32-330C every day, sunny blue skies, no rain. Perfect. Mind you, they also have crocodiles. And it's not recommended you swim at the beaches because of the killer jellyfish...but other than that it's great!
The bloomin' humidity can be a bit of a killer, though! Even in winter!
Truth be told, there's normally not too much to worry about in the average Australian winter.....particularly when we've had several weeks of spring weather already! 8)
Quote from: Brenda E on August 05, 2014, 04:24:07 PM
Cindy / Grace / Nicole / Any other Aussies here:
I think we're all having a hard job summoning too many tears over the fact you girls are living in frickin' AUSTRALIA. Us US girls would gladly swap your weather/crocodile/jellyfish woes for our creepy religious political bull->-bleeped-<- any day of the week.
Where do we sign up?
That's still after effects from the civil war yah? Southern States being close minded?
I'm sure Cindy still has the irons ready and red hot. >:)
http://www.accuweather.com/en/aq/amundsen-scott-south-pole-station/2258520/weather-forecast/2258520
Grace can have Darwin, I'll take the rain(I prefer stormy weather). Brenda E I am an aussie girl, live right here or near Perth.
I love storms and the rain, I used to walk my dog up a quarry during thunderstorms. Once lightning hit the next field over and I legged it back to town :laugh:
Quote from: Charley Bea(EmeraldP) on August 06, 2014, 05:03:51 AM
Grace can have Darwin, I'll take the rain(I prefer stormy weather). Brenda E I am an aussie girl, live right here or near Perth.
Nice to see someone else down here in Australia likes the storms. I love it when it starts to hail I know it causes damage but the little kid in me still gets a thrill out of a good sudden thunderstorm with a little bit of hail
I just like the sound of the rain on the roof, the smell of it. I guess I am an england girl at heart(where my mum is from).
Did you happen across The Doctor fighting some Gel Monsters or Ogrons or perhaps some Cybermen? ;)
I wish but somehow I think Rani or The Master might accept my brand of mayhem and chaos better then today's versions.
No I just love the sound the feel, the smell just how it changes everything. Summer afternoon storms where the best
Quote from: Brenda E on August 05, 2014, 04:24:07 PM
Cindy / Grace / Nicole / Any other Aussies here:
I think we're all having a hard job summoning too many tears over the fact you girls are living in frickin' AUSTRALIA. Us US girls would gladly swap your weather/crocodile/jellyfish woes for our creepy religious political bull->-bleeped-<- any day of the week.
Where do we sign up?
Heard of Tony Abbott?
This is a person, our Prime Minister that once said "God makes my choices".
This is the same person who said 2 years ago when the sitting PM's father died that the father died in shame of his daughter.
This is the same person who has a gay sister yet claims to be scared of gays.
This is the same person who during the last election said under him, there'll be no cuts to healthcare, no cuts to welfare & no new taxes.
Their first budget he now wants a $7 charge for doctor visits
Those under 30, if they lose their job, they'll go 6 months without getting a cent
The rich are taxed higher, we'll pay more for fuel and he blames everything he can on labor which past more bills & laws in the first 60 days in office than this prick has in 8 months.
Under Abbott, unless you're 30 to 50, white, male, straight and earn over $500k a year, you're in trouble
I was in Darwin for 24 hours in late March after spending a month in Thailand, Singapore & Bali and have to say not a fan.
Yes 32˚ every day would be great, but I hated it.
I've never felt so scared to be out on the streets during daylight in my life, and I spent 3 days in the red light part of Singapore and partied in Bangkok.
Nicole;
Darwin is a place for Blokes not Sheilas after dark - Too many US sailors wandering about plus the Aborigines all boozed up. Even as a guy (pre transition) this is not a place to be wandering around except in the City Centre. So yes I agree with you. Also you haver to watch yourself even in the suburbs as when the wet is on you sometimes get the creeks flooding and the cocs get into the suburbs. Oh and don't swim in the sea - unless you want to get eaten!
Judith
Quote from: Nicole on August 06, 2014, 11:34:44 PM
Heard of Tony Abbott?
This is a person, our Prime Minister that once said "God makes my choices".
This is the same person who said 2 years ago when the sitting PM's father died that the father died in shame of his daughter.
This is the same person who has a gay sister yet claims to be scared of gays.
This is the same person who during the last election said under him, there'll be no cuts to healthcare, no cuts to welfare & no new taxes.
Their first budget he now wants a $7 charge for doctor visits
Those under 30, if they lose their job, they'll go 6 months without getting a cent
The rich are taxed higher, we'll pay more for fuel and he blames everything he can on labor which past more bills & laws in the first 60 days in office than this prick has in 8 months.
Under Abbott, unless you're 30 to 50, white, male, straight and earn over $500k a year, you're in trouble
I come on here, in part, to get away from the hideous individual that is Tony Abbott! Aaaarrgh! :eusa_wall: Don't start me on the others!!
Yes let's not get started on Adolf...sorry Tony Abbott.
Apparently it was raining all day today and I slept through it. :(