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Dick Trauma posted:You know those spike strips they lay down on ledges to keep birds away? I might feel differently if I lived there awhile, but one of my favourite things in Australia is the cockatoos. It's kind of surreal to just see them around. When I typed the 'the' part of 'them', autofill suggested 'brontosaurus', which is kind of badass, I think.
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Beachcomber posted:I might feel differently if I lived there awhile, but one of my favourite things in Australia is the cockatoos. It's kind of surreal to just see them around. I live in Australia and I've seen cockatoos in my area a few times, and I'm really really grateful that they've never hung out at my house,   There's a guy up in Mosman nicknamed Alfred Hitchcock because he deliberately attracts a giant flock of sulphur crested cockatoos into the neighbourhood and all his neighbours are incredibly pissed off at him for that.
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The best - by a very long margin, mind you - the best thing Sulphur-crested Cockatoos do is land on power lines, which are generally too thin for them to grip with their terrifying claws. So they'll land on it, and then slooooooowly tip over until they're upside down. Then they're faced with a conundrum - try to flap around like an idiot and get back around the right way? Or let go, and try to twist around while falling and fly off? They generally go for both at once and often fall to the ground in a screeching mess of feathers. Then they start pecking around for worms or seeds or whatever, pretending like they meant it the whole time.
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Android Apocalypse posted:Speaking of multiple takes to make it look effortless, this is still kind of bad-rear end to me: The best part of that is that it isn't faked; Weaver actually made the shot. She's totally pissed that the ball went out of the top of frame, because nobody would ever believe it. Regarding skater/cinematographers, there's Taylor and Neveldine. There's an infamous story of some director who called them asking about one of the shots in Crank that they wanted to reproduce. T&N say it requires specialist equipment and only they can use it, and negotiate a big fee for the job. Come the day of the shoot, one of them rolls up on a pair of skates carrying a handheld.
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Dick Trauma posted:You know those spike strips they lay down on ledges to keep birds away? That’s happening not more than 5 minutes drive from my house. The sulphurs used to hang by themselves but their population exploded and a semi tame talking bird appeared a few years ago. Now they spend their time scabbing bread from a bakery and attacking the bins of a cafe closer to my place. They’re pretty fond of a free feed cause their normal diet is pinecones and seeds but they’re hard work when you can raid a bin.
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Jul 6, 2019 12:39
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One thing the pictures don't show you is how loud they are.
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We get a lot of black cockatoos here, and the occasional sulphur-crested. They usually don't hang around long enough to gently caress poo poo up, though, so I enjoy seeing them. But yeah, holy hell are they loud !
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He was literally (a) Billy Elliot. Should check out his Rhianna Umbrella lip sync thing.
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I hope the next trend incorporates the previous years' bottle flip with this year's lid kick.
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Tonight, my karate instructor used "bottle cap kick" to describe a turning hook kick. The internet has gone too far.
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Aramoro posted:He was literally (a) Billy Elliot. Speaking of lip sync battles, my favorite was JGL doing Rhythm Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXpGdIWzgOE
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It's all fun and games until the snake explodes. 
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Beachcomber posted:It's all fun and games until the snake explodes. This kills the snake.
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Jul 12, 2019 08:57
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I guess its shoe fell off but I don't see it
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moist turtleneck posted:I guess its shoe fell off but I don't see it Snakes don't wear shoes; their super smooth skin doesn't provide enough friction to keep them on.
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Lady Disdain posted:Snakes don't wear shoes; their super smooth skin doesn't provide enough friction to keep them on. You're thinking of sharks my friend.
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Memento posted:You're thinking of sharks my friend. Snakes too. Super smooth. Like the finest silk. At least according to the Schad thread.
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Did someone say "chicken"? https://twitter.com/NatureisScary/status/1150225215076651009
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Dick Trauma posted:Did someone say "chicken"? https://twitter.com/ajizaan/status/1150239707004956672
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MizPiz posted:Unfortunately the only good American is dead He was also the one good Dutch person apparently  
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Dick Trauma posted:Did someone say "chicken"? Poor snek just let it have the chickens you monsters
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ekuNNN posted:He was also the one good Dutch person apparently https://twitter.com/leftkist/status/1150588946411225090
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When Border Force (yes, that's what they're really called) tried doing paper bag checks in Melbourne, so many people turned up to protest that they refused to leave their staging area. 
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For the non-Australians among us, what is Border Force? Is it a Nazi hate group or the Australian version of ICE? What are paper bag checks?
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Australian Border Force are law enforcement responsible for border control and running detention centers. We have our own version of your wire-cage concentration camps because we're just as loving racist as a country as the US. A paper bag check is not-even-slightly-ironically this:  If they're as dark or darker than a paper bag, they get harassed.
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Memento posted:Australian Border Force are law enforcement responsible for border control and running detention centers. We have our own version of your wire-cage concentration camps because we're just as loving racist as a country as the US. They were working with (IIRC) the transit staff checking tickets so they could ask for tourists and foreigners for their passports. Bear in mind there is no requirement here to keep your passport on you at all times as a visitor. Both groups got major blowback for it. Also Border Farce spent more on medals last year than the Australian Defence Force. Feel free to do a Google image search of a Border Force cohort sometime and tell me what you see.
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crowtribe posted:Feel free to do a Google image search of a Border Force cohort sometime and tell me what you see. I'm not trying to defend a fascist organisation or anything, but you're making some pretty harmful generalisations here; I once got stopped at customs by someone who was actually almost tanned. And his sniffer dog was black, so...
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Memento posted:Australian Border Force are law enforcement responsible for border control and running detention centers. We have our own version of your wire-cage concentration camps because we're just as loving racist as a country as the US. Isn't Australia so bad at this point that the last of your children in your concentration camps got sent to the US to save them?
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Aramoro posted:Isn't Australia so bad at this point that the last of your children in your concentration camps got sent to the US to save them? Yes, but not all of them; there are still a few children in our concentration camp. And remember, of course, that New Zealand practically begged us to let them resettle 150 of our illegally-detained prisoners, and the Australian government refused.
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