Sydney is cracking up

They do that in NT as well. Yuk. I'm petrified of the things, though it is fun to spray them with vinegar.

Well, yes, but that's actually dangerous. Still, better that than the apparently "humane" solution of freezing them. Who'd want that in their freezer, even in a plastic bag?

Also, in parts of Queensland, bogans are in fact called "bevans", and people regard "bogan" as a dirty Southernism.

O RLY?

Wow:

http://images.smh.com.au/2009/09/23/747571/kate1-600x400.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/environment/sydney-turns-red-dust-storm-blankets-city-20090923-g0so.html

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,6968037,00.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=red+dust+sydney&ss=2&s=rec

That first one looks like a screenshot from an FPS.

Hahah wtf!

And apparently we had 2 more earthquakes in melb last night, though this time they were out east and I dont recall noticing anything like the last two.

END TIMES PEOPLE.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/c/c9/Doom-boxart.jpg/256px-Doom-boxart.jpg

God has wreaked His revenge upon the sinners of Sydney! :)

All your lattes are belong to us.

I blame jergins.

Well I hope he's going to come round and clean my shoes >:(

IT BEGINS

http://img136.imageshack.us/img136/4391/31477781.jpg

God, not jergins.

No xpost on iPhone

Hahah I thought you wanted Jerg to clean your shoes! =)

:D at people in CBD with dust masks

I'm really worried that we'll have another season of 48deg summer heatwaves and deadly bushfires. There's been some decent rain recently - if that stops, and we get 3 months of dry now, the grass/trees will go nuts, and the remaining areas not burnt last time round will... ugh. Marysville still hasnt got its shit together from last year yet.

they reckon qld is going to be droughty as fuk this year

Today, Sydney became a Legendary Pink Dots lyric.

Sure, red skies are fun but breathing in litres of dust and having a sore throat isn't.

my cab driver just now said he was out at 5am this morning and 'it was like it was raining blood' \m/

lollll

Does it really look like this?
http://blog.flickr.net/en/2009/09/22/red-dust-over-sydney/

So right now the whole of Sydney looks like Andres Serrano's "Piss Christ"?

Tanya Ferguson described the dust storm as the weirdest thing she has ever seen in her life.

"It was like being on Mars," she told the BBC, "I haven't been there, obviously, but I imagine that's what the sky would look like."

Did she have mousey hair?

lool @ piss sydney. now that's art

""It was like being on Mars," she told the BBC, "I haven't been there, obviously"

LOL.

I remember when Melb was breifly like this some years back when we had those bushfires out in the country and all the smoke blew back into the city. It wasnt red as these images but it was pretty thick and smoky-red and the sun looked like a little ball of blood. It was creepy.

we were descending to land in sydney and iwas watching my seatback screen and then all of a sudden we turned and off we went to brisbane. 14 hour flight ended up at 20+ hours? but today's a nice day.

Apparently that dust storm hit canberra before Syd and now its over Brisbane... why am I imagining the smoke monster.

it's clear here today but yesterday was terrible.

xpost: I remember the Ash Wednesday dust storms! That was the first thing I thought of when I saw those Sydney photos. I remember Mum making us stay inside, and I was kneeling on the couch peeking through the curtains at the weird orange sky. I couldn't even see the house across the street. Freaking scary. And I saw news footage today of weird old fokes at the BEACH in it. Bleuch!! Bad enough walking around in it, but going swimmming? Bloody daft.

VG: I wasnt living in Melb that long ago, but we even had some more recent fires (not the awful ones just last year - the wind was going the other way for those I think) but in um, 2003-2004 I think? It was just a freak wind thet brought it all into the city. Blech.

My parents live near canberra and said when there was those bushfires there, they had ash and burnt leaves and shit raining down constantly onto their yard.

Yeah, bushfire dust storms are no joke. It makes the air taste yuk, that chalky feeling in your mouth hangs around for days, even if you've been indoors.

I am dreading this summer if last was anything to go by. Drought, 48dC days and bushfires? ugh.

has any mong ever been through a locust plague, i would be a wreck.

ugh I was always scared of them. Wasn't there one in NSW just a year or two back? Can't imagine anything worse. Does anyone remember the mouse plague, way back in the 80's? Weird tv footage on nightly news of a seething sea of mice running across some old farmer's front yard in the middle of the night. NO THANKS

aww cute

the best bit is when you lift a piece of tin or corrugated iron that's laying on the ground, and they all come shooting out

even better is when you have a heavy stick to hit them with!!

i could never hit a mouse.

once i went fishing with my cousin and she caught a small fish and roared at me 'bash it on the head with a rock' and i shouted 'i can't' so she killed it and then she was scathing so i was too.

but if you bash the fish's head in with a rock, don't you smash half the fish too. I mean, not much left to eat? Or was it a big huge fish?

oh i wouldn't kill a fish. but so many mice, this was different!

you say that now. but just wait until the *~fish plague~*!

xp i sort of understand because i quite like mice but i was at an animal sanctuary where they were breeding mice to feed the snakes and there were a few mice too many and it made me feel a bit sick to look at them so i don't think i could stand to be in a plague of them either.

vg the fish was small and she was never going to eat it and she was just being an asshole about me being a 'townie', it had been going on for days, we were trapped at their farm.

omg fish plague, what a terrifying thought

this is why you should eat your kelp

the first huntsman of spring ran across my study floor the other night, i had to kill it because i can't stand to get close enough to them to rescue them and i can't have them on the lam in the house, i wish they'd just stay outside.

i just gis'd "huntsman". yikes!

the threat of these suddenly appearing on your wall on spring and summer evenings is far worse than the suggest ban spectre.

I caught a puffer fish once and it puffed up in indignance but my brother stabbed it with a fishing knife and it went pppttttllthhhhhh and deflated in a very undignified manner.

My brother is not someone who stabs things as a general rule, I should add.

you guys are freaking me out with all your plagues of locusts and fish and mice and (what in holy heaven are) huntsmen of spring, but i have my ticket so i'm coming anyway. please will you do me the favor of sweeping up the bashed on the head vermin before i arrive? i'm okay with the dust, though, so don't worry about that. thank you so much.

so yeah hi it's me, lxy. you probably don't know me. i am a jergins-associate and seldom-poster. please see estela for my credentials.

i'm going to be in your locale(s) next week. going to erol alkan, don't know what else is on the docket.

mmm, maybe my introduction bit should be on the other thread. oh well. if sydney is cracking up contingency rules must be in place, right? this is sort of like the fallout shelter?

huntsmen are very big spiders that come inside when it rains, they are harmless if you don't consider getting a giant fright a form of harm, which i do.

<3 i'm going to repost your post on the proper mongrel thread.

that puffer fish story is amazing

once i had to shoot a huntsman with a water pistol because it was too high up to reach with a broom or anything. then we caught it in a bucket. it was huge.

lol

+ shudder

huntsmen are lovely, they eat insects for you and their adorable furry legs tickle your hands when you catch them to put them outside

no catching for me. just screaming and pointing and running away to find Dad.

many xposts: estela, my cousins had a farm, and when I came to visit they would take me to see the dead cow in the paddock just to see me cry. someone should do an inquiry into all the 'city kid' hazing that went on with 'country' relatives. bashing in fishes heads, indeed.

Haha my farm cousins did shit like that too! "come and have a look at this!" they'd say, evilly luring me down to the gully where they put their hard rubbish, where they'd poke open an old garbage bag and A BILLION MAGGOTS swarmed out everywhere aaaaaaargh.

"come see our pet goat" and happily not tell me that the fence around it was electric. OWOWOWOWOWOWOW. OW.

Hahah yeah that one's an old classic =) never sit on an electric fence in wet swimming trunks, all I'm sayin.

i will never forget the horrible sound of their sniggers on horse erection day.

LOL

I'm going to be in Sydney all next week. what's going on?