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Only a few more weeks!


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I have never even been on a plane before..



Give me some tips on some things I should bring for the plane trip or for Aussie in general!

Okay I am here! The view of Aussie from the plane was amazing!!! I landed in Syndey at about 0850. It wasn't as hot as I thought it would be, was rather huumid but all and all pretty good. I guess you guys will laugh at me when I saw that so far the thing that has delighted me the most is seeing the wild birds fly around freely that would be sold in America for thousands of dollars.

Watch out for the maggies - magpies in australia are more evil in anywhere else in the world, and like to take your head off in a single swoop if not careful. Also if you are riding a bike and they try swooping, there is a ridiculously large chance of their foot getting caught in your helmet causing you to be riding with a huge flapping magpie on top of your head, until you stop and it starts pecking your eyes out.

That reminds me of the time my dog tried to retrieve a magpie for my dad. It sorta didn't go well, because another one appeared and started bombarding her tail, causing her to go snap for that one, at which point the first one attacked her from behind, so she ended up getting pwned and running back to hide in the car. I'm sure if she could she would have been shouting about teaming for hours.

You're here? Hurrah! Now, the big question is, when are we all going to meet up?

Adelaide is the best place to shop as a 'geek' *cough*

And wollongong rocks, come down here, its quieter then Sydney, bigger then adelaide, not as rainy as melbourne, cooler then brisbane while still being nicely warm, not as sandy as perth (actually, Perth is a fairly decent city) and it isn't darwin or hobart.

And Drago and I live there, what better reason is there to come to Wollongong, heh.

When I finish my re-exam for the Math subject I failed, we'll come up to Sydney and bug you.

Roar. There's a couple of people in Perth I need to meet up with, seeing as I haven't met them before (shock! Someone in Perth I don't know?!). Anyone from Perth going to GenghisCon apart from the ones I know of?

Had such a great time in December I think I may be comming to Sydney again in March.

You got to see more than just Sydney..

*cough* How do you mean?

Pht, Sydney != Australia.

You've got to see more then just Sydney.

I dunno, once you've seen one city you've seen 'em all. Unless you're really into the whole touristy stuff.

Nah, I am definantly not going for the sights....The sights are wonderful and all but still something else ..... inspires me to go.

Oooer, drawn here
But yeah you seen one city you have seen them all, but every state has its own culture Have you ever been to the Barossa? or Harndorf? or been along the Devil's Elbow (That is NOT fun on a bus or semi)
Culture, history and a lot of fun every state is different and there is only 7 here and a territory

Adelaide (Oh the shame of numberplates) Home of the Crows, The Festival State.. what was the other one... forgotten its blue and black..

Yes i did miss out Port on purpose

Adelaide's version of culture is stuffing bodies into barrels.

Shhhh

I've always wondered how to bribe a God. Now I'll just do the stalker thing, find Fain and hold him down, pouring VB down his throat.. anyway.

Yrael: NSW Bred, Tasmanian born (And quiet. I dont have any extra heads or toes that werent removed at birth).

And, since I can, a quick guide to Australian states for you Yanks..
(This is copied whole from a site I dont remember.. I keep it in a text file for a laugh.)

We, the people of the broad brown land of Oz, wish to be recognised as a free nation of blokes, sheilas and the occasional coon. We come from many lands (although a few too many of us come from New Zealand) and, although we live in the best country in the world, we reserve the right to bitch and moan about it whenever we bloody like. We are one nation but we're divided into many States.

First, there's Victoria, named after a queen who didn't believe in lesbians. Victoria is the realm of Mossimo turtlenecks, cafe latte, grand final day and big horse races. Its capital is Melbourne, whose chief marketing pitch is that its 'liveable'. At least that's what they think. The rest of us think it is too bloody cold and wet.

Next, there's NSW, the realm of pastel shorts, macchiato with sugar, thin books read quickly and millions of dancing queens. Its capital Sydney has more homos than any other city in the world and is proud of it. Its mascots are Bondi lifesavers who pull their Speedos up their cracks to keep the left and right sides of their brains separate.

Down south we have Tasmania, a State based on the notion that the family who bonks together stays together. In Tassie, everyone gets an extra chromosome at conception. Maps of the State bring smiles to the sternest faces. It holds the world record for a single mass shooting, which the Yanks can't seem to beat no matter how often they try.

South Australia is the province of half-decent red wines, a festival of foreigners and bizarre axe murders. SA is the state of innovation - where else can you so effectively reuse country bank vaults and barrels as in Snowtown, just out of Adelaide (also named after a queen). They had the Grand Prix, but lost it when the boring views of Adelaide sent the Formula One drivers to sleep at the wheel.

Western Australia is too far from anywhere to be relevant in this document. Its main claim to fame is that it doesn't have daylight saving because if it did all the men would get erections on the bus on the way to work. WA was the last state to stop importing convicts and many of them still work there in the government and business.

The Northern Territory is the red heart of our land. Outback plains, sheep stations the size of Europe, kangaroos, jackaroos, emus, Uluru and dusty kids with big smiles. It also has the highest beer consumption of anywhere on the planet and its creek beds have the highest aluminium content of anywhere too (most of it with VB written on it). Although the Territory is the centre piece of our national culture, few of us live there and the rest prefer to fly over it on our way to Bali.

And there's Queensland - supposedly God's country. While any mention of God seems silly in a document defining a nation of half-arsed agnostics, it is worth noting that God probably made Queensland. Why he filled it with dickheads remains a mystery.

Oh yes, and there's Canberra. The nation's capital. The least said the better.

We, the citizens of Oz, are united by the Pacific Highway, whose treacherous twists and turns kill more of us each year than die by murder. We are united in our lust for international recognition, so desperate for praise we leap in joy when a ragtag gaggle of corrupt IOC officials tells us that Sydney is better than Beijing. We are united by a democracy so flawed that a political party (albeit a redneck gun-toting one) can get a million votes and still not win one seat in Federal Parliament while Brian Bloody Harradine can get 24,000 votes and control the whole country.

Not that we're whingeing, we leave that to our Pommy immigrants. We want to make 'no worries mate' our national phrase, 'she'll be right mate' our national attitude, and 'Waltzing Matilda' our national anthem (so what if its about a sheep-stealing crim who commits suicide).

We love sport so much our newsreaders can read the death toll from a sailing race and still tell us who's winning in the same breath. And we're the best in the world at all the sports that count like cricket, netball, rugby league, rugby union, AFL, roo-shooting, two-up and horse racing.

We also have the biggest rock, the tastiest pies, the blackest aborigines and the worst-dressed Olympians in the known universe. We don't know much about art but we know that we hate the poofs who make it.

We shoot, we vote, we are girt by sea and pissed by lunchtime. And even though we might seem racist, closed-minded, sports-obsessed little people, at least we're better than the Kiwis!

Thassit.

Oh, and one thing I left out: For Magpies, if you decide to ride a bike, ALWAYS have a large icecream bucket.

I live a few kilometres away from a large town, and I pull on my helmet, and then the icecream bucket. It lets me see and stops them pecking your ears. And the back of your neck if you pull it low enough.

Huh, my ol' best friend from Tasmania sent me that. And she didn't have any additional limbs either, incidentally.