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18 Dec 2023, 4:37 pm

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Public fireworks are regulated to licenced events in most states in Australia.

I assume that thats what they meant.


In the old days kids used to lose fingers or a hand so personal use was banned.



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18 Dec 2023, 4:50 pm

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The top one looks like it was TP’d with glowing toilet paper.

I would love to TP houses with glowing toilet paper.


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18 Dec 2023, 4:51 pm

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When I was a kid I heard a Christmas song about Santa having his sleigh pulled by big kangaroos called "boomers" instead of reindeer in Australia, because reindeer can't tolerate the heat. In the song Santa helps a baby kangaroo whose mother was put in the zoo, I think, and it must have been a very bouncy sleigh ride.

I always felt that Santa should have his sleigh pulled by 6 white BMWs so we could sing "Six white beamers".


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18 Dec 2023, 5:11 pm

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I always felt that Santa should have his sleigh pulled by 6 white BMWs so we could sing "Six white beamers".


Technically should be 6 white Volvos, he's from the north pole after all....



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18 Dec 2023, 6:04 pm

cyberdad wrote:
naturalplastic wrote:
cyberdad wrote:
Public fireworks are regulated to licenced events in most states in Australia.

I assume that thats what they meant.



In the old days kids used to lose fingers or a hand so personal use was banned.


I dont know what you think that I am talking about.

I am talking about professional pyrotechics displays--explosions in the air...by pros...for the public...like for a whole city.

In the US we have them on the Forth. Sometimes on New Years (which is in winter).

So since Xmas is in the Summer it would make sense to do that for xmas in Australia. A night time thing ...in the outdoors in the summer. As they apparently do do in Argentina.



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18 Dec 2023, 6:22 pm

^^^ Special occaisons - Australia Day Jan 26th and New Years Jan 1

But our local council holds christmas carols followed by fireworks



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19 Dec 2023, 12:58 am

cyberdad wrote:

Technically should be 6 white Volvos, he's from the north pole after all....


Volvos are known as Swedish Valiants in Australia and driving one is liable to make you ribbing stock from all of your mates. In Aus a Volvo is usually found doing 70 in the right lane of the Monash Freeway with someone resembling Mr Magoo surrounded by huge trucks and tradie utes tooting their horns.

Fireworks for personal use were banned by the time I came along but my parents have some stories from when they were young with cracker night with people having their hands blown off and on one occasion a house burned down.

I've only ever lived in Australia but just for a change I would love to go somewhere to experience a white Christmas.



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19 Dec 2023, 6:25 pm

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Volvos are known as Swedish Valiants in Australia and driving one is liable to make you ribbing stock from all of your mates. In Aus a Volvo is usually found doing 70 in the right lane of the Monash Freeway with someone resembling Mr Magoo surrounded by huge trucks and tradie utes tooting their horns..


I've noticed Volvo drivers are more careful not to speed with their vehicles unlike those who drive German cars



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19 Dec 2023, 6:26 pm

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I've only ever lived in Australia but just for a change I would love to go somewhere to experience a white Christmas.


NZ is probably the closest place to experience a white christmas



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19 Dec 2023, 6:52 pm

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I've only ever lived in Australia but just for a change I would love to go somewhere to experience a white Christmas.


Never been to Australia, but here in this little spot of Canada we're in about the only area that doesn't usually get a white Christmas. There's snow on the ski mountains a 40 min drive out of the city, but it's kinda rare for there to actually be a white Christmas In the city. It's usually just some dirty slush and ice, maybe some cold rain. Quite rare to have a blanket of white snow over everything for Christmas - so rare that retail stores used to run promotions that if you bought your TV/furniture/car etc during their sale And then we have a white Christmas you could get your purchase for free. Of course these things were insured And unlikely to happen based on the parameters of the sale criteria And the weather forecast. The Vancouver area is the least snowy part of all of Canada, so if people want a proper white Christmas they typically have to drive at least an hour or two away from the ocean until they get up into the Coast Mountains Or out into the Fraser Valley. Beyond that pretty much the entire rest of the country is buried under snow.


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19 Dec 2023, 7:01 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Eurythmic wrote:
I've only ever lived in Australia but just for a change I would love to go somewhere to experience a white Christmas.


NZ is probably the closest place to experience a white christmas


NZ is closer to the pole than is most of Australia. But its still in the Southern Hemisphere. So Xmas is still in the summertime.

The latitudes of NZ are the southern hemisphere equivalent of the eastern seaboard of the US stretching from North Carolina to the middle of Maine. And White Christmases are either common or not unheard of in that stretch of the US, but you rarely get snow on the Forth of July in that stretch of the US even in New England.

So even in New Zealand a "White Christmas" has to be as much of a freak occurence as a "white" Independence day is where I live here on the eastern seaboard of the US.

The closest place to Australia to experience a White Xmas would probably be...Nepal! Or Tibet.



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19 Dec 2023, 8:18 pm

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So even in New Zealand a "White Christmas" has to be as much of a freak occurence as a "white" Independence day is where I live here on the eastern seaboard of the US. .


Some of the mountain areas in NZ have snow all year round. But if you live in Western Australia it might be cheaper to take a flight to Nepal < NZ



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20 Dec 2023, 9:03 pm

cyberdad wrote:
Eurythmic wrote:
Volvos are known as Swedish Valiants in Australia and driving one is liable to make you ribbing stock from all of your mates. In Aus a Volvo is usually found doing 70 in the right lane of the Monash Freeway with someone resembling Mr Magoo surrounded by huge trucks and tradie utes tooting their horns..


I've noticed Volvo drivers are more careful not to speed with their vehicles unlike those who drive German cars

Makes sense considering Volvo's marketing campaign has been centred around safety for generations.

Around here, the typical new Volvo suv buyer is a risk averse medical doctor who appreciates safety, reliability, and luxury without being pretentious. This is what a car salesman friend told me - which makes sense.. especially since a new Volvo SUV costs like $140k.


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20 Dec 2023, 9:46 pm

Anyone have a Saab story?



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20 Dec 2023, 10:13 pm

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Anyone have a Saab story?


Anyone drive SAABs anymore?



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20 Dec 2023, 10:15 pm

goldfish21 wrote:
Around here, the typical new Volvo suv buyer is a risk averse medical doctor who appreciates safety, reliability, and luxury without being pretentious. This is what a car salesman friend told me - which makes sense.. especially since a new Volvo SUV costs like $140k.


LOL! I dated a medical student in my 20s and her rich parents bought their little darling a Volvo for the exact reasons you mentioned :lol:

They also got her a mobile phone (brick phone from 1989) so that if her brand new Volvo broke down after a night shift in hospital she could ring for help.