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This is a normal post Just when I thought you signing all your posts with "cheers" couldn't get less appropriate I see this message.

(I helped save b3ta! gronkpan, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:46, Reply)
This is a normal post After
Edit: After the news tonight I agree with you mate.

the last couple of days in Victoria - what else is there to do but drink?

But I really feel for those poor bastards who've lost everything. I heard of one report of a farmer who was trying to move his stock to safer ground. He said:

"I had to leave when the cattle started bursting into flames"


So I think that "cheers" isn't necessarily inappropriate - it's raising a metaphorical glass for the people we've lost and the lucky survivors. And, most of all, in thanks for the firemen and women who've been working themselves to death for other people.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 0:52, Reply)
This is a normal post I know that you're new to this country so I won't patronise you
honestly though, this happens every 5 years or so. This is a particularly nasty heatwave but it's nothing new to anyone who has lived here for a while.

My family moved to Tassie after the family home burned down in '87. Almost everyone I know has lost something or someone in a bushfire at one point or another. It's a big part of the nation we live in.

I don't even know where I was going with this, I have two fans on me any my feet are in a tub of water.
 (I helped save b3ta! gronkpan, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:20, Reply)
This is a normal post Patronise Away - I Don't Mind
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Coming from England, I'm just astounded at the sheer size and scale of the fires - and the ferocity.

And the current heatwave floored me a bit. I just couldn't go outside - my eyeballs started to shrivel. Luckily, we bought two portable aircon units when this started. They work OK. The big one kept the main room at around 34 when the temperature outside was 46. The little one keeps my computer room at about 29. Hot, but not unbearable.

But you're right - it's something I'll eventually get used to. Both the heat and the bushfires. It's a small price to pay for living in Oz. There's loads of things I just love about this country.

Cheers
 (I helped save b3ta! Legless Mister Stabby - shanks for the memory, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 2:38, Reply)