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Bit of a heatwave going on at the moment. Western Sydney is on course for 43C but so far it feels pretty mild (only 27C at 10AM)
Here is one story from a town out near where I grew up:
Welcome to Bourke: Land of melting roads, exploding thermometers and scorching summer sun.
Today the mercury is expected to exceed 46 degrees Celsius in the New South Wales outpost.
To some that will sound like Hell on Earth, but the 2,000-odd people that call Bourke home would not have it any other way.
As trains had to slow down by 10kp/h. In Bourke, there was a different problem.
"The bitumen roads melt. It doesn't run or anything, but if you're wearing thongs it gets really tacky and it sticks to the bottom of them," said Kathy Lowe, who runs the town's only swimming pool.
"I remember 12 years ago we had a thermometer under shade at the pool canteen and it got so hot it exploded. It got [to] more than 120 degrees Fahrenheit (about 49C).
"We all heard this noise and thought 'What was that?' The glass would have been old and fragile, but it gives you an idea of how hot it was."
Even the Mayor, Barry Hollman, who has lived in Bourke for 69 years, is on holidays trying to escape the heat.
"The crows fly backwards at this time of the year to try and keep the dust out of their eyes," he joked.
In Wilcannia, about 300km south-west of Bourke, a high of 47C is forecast today.
Sweltering temperatures are nothing new in this part of the world. Bourke recorded a NSW record high of 49.7C on January 4, 1903, which was equalled in Menindee in 1939.
Swimming pool 'was like soup'
Mrs Lowe, a mother of six, runs a tight ship as manager of the Bourke War Memorial Swimming Pool.
Everyone in the family is a trained lifeguard and has to pull their weight, although there are perks.
"If it's hot, the lifeguard on duty can just drop their belt and jump in," she said.
"That normally keeps you going for another couple of hours."
You could be forgiven for thinking a place in the water at the town's only public swimming pool would be hot property when the mercury starts to rise.
"But even the water temperature is 31C on hot days," Mrs Lowe said.
"We've got a shade shelter over half the pool now, but before that went up it was like soup in there."
Pubs offer an escape
Tracey Hegarty, the publican at the Port of Bourke Hotel, takes pride in helping locals "keep their fluids up".
But she said there was more to the town than hot weather.
"We love Bourke. Anyone who lives out here in Bourke is dedicated," she said.
"We're all out here for a reason and there's some great people out here. They just tick different."
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Usually the Australia Day Lamb ads are fairly laid back, funny, and good at taking the piss. Last year, they had the "Operation Boomerang" to bring back Aussies from overseas. Of course, when they poked fun at vegans, that caused some pissy outrage from that set
This year they've gone a bit more... well kind of political. I like it actually. Its got the same laid-back approach as the others, but is a bit more introspective with the nation that was and where its going.
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@NTA of course i've already read on offended article. They hate the Aus Day ad anyway, as it equats buysing stuff with loving your country.
But they hate this one because it has too many stereotypes. And the food served to the indigenous folk should have been laced with smallpox, you know, so as not to whitewash history. People really are fucking tedious bores aren't they?
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Oh yeah. Saw some redneck FB all "IT DOESN'T EVEN MENTION STRAYA DAY MAYYYYYYTE! FUCKEN LAMB IS ALL HALAL MAYYYYYYTE! FUCKEN MUSLIM PLOT MAYYYYYYYYYYYYTE!"
It's not from the Australia Day Council you silly shunts. Lamb can advertise to whom they please.
Or the endless "I as born here, I'm not a boat person" whining. Humourless morons hopelessly missing the point.
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the best idea i have ever read
I would have to delicately balance my time between this and wanking about on the Fern.
Actually, that sounds stressful
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@NTA said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Bit of a heatwave going on at the moment. Western Sydney is on course for 43C but so far it feels pretty mild (only 27C at 10AM)
Gah! Fuck! Wind shifted around and a heat bomb got dropped about midday...