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candyPunk Full Member USA 856 Posts	Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 16:18:09 It's a shame because we're smart. My parents are extremely well educated and, I hate to sound stuck up, but I'm pretty darn smart too. You see, there was an article in the paper today about a fire in Australia. Apparantly it caused massive damage in and around the capital. My mom read a few snippets of it to us, and then asked if my dad and I knew what city that was. She gave many hints about the letters in it, but neither of us could figure out that it was Canberra, and my dad says he has never even heard of it. As it turns out, Sidney, Melbourne and Brisbane are all in fact capitals of their respective provinces, but not the country, as we futilely guessed. Ah, Americans, how involved we are in the rest of the world. At least I know where Iraq is - something like 70% of Americans ages 18-24 don't. Sigh. { candyPunk } { Captain of Observation, 68k MLA } { 68k Macs liberated: 4} { My baby: Q660av }
Gothikon Full Member Australia 537 Posts	Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 17:18:05 Speaking of fires, what I thought was fog this morning was actually the smoke from the fires around Melbourne!! Of course that's nothing like the time the fancy restaraunt 2 floors below our house had agas cooker blow up i remember looking at the window and realising something was funny, a second glance confirmed that flames were licking up the side of our building Before long a fireman kicked in our door. I rember being really annoyed, my parent's got to stay outside and watch the fire. My sister and I were made to stay in the fire engine, apparently sitting in the fire engine where you can't see anything is something "cool" and "every kid wants to see inside a fire engine" Well I didn't I wanted to stay outside and watch. Anyway the house was fine the only real damage occured to the restaraunts kitchen. Going to school the next day was pretty funy though, everyone walked past our house (they were on the same block) and they could see our house had been in a fire, everyone expected me to have been burnt alive
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 21:02:52 it is funny... in 7th grade I learned where iraq is.... and ALL THOSE "ISTAN"s some people can be real idiots... but what's more of a shame, is when smart people act like idiots we have this table at lunch at school, and all the smart people in the school pretty much sit there... and of all things... we play with bottlecaps.... Official 68k videographer
maclover5 LC Doctor/Hot Rodder Australia 5830 Posts	Posted - 19 Jan 2003 : 23:35:41 candypunk: The fires are in Canberra, which is the capital of Australia. -------------------------- Give your dreams a chance.™ - Apple in the mid '90s Warrior maclover5 68k Macintosh Liberation Army Number of 68ks Liberated: 6
cory5412 68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms USA 4679 Posts	Posted - 20 Jan 2003 : 00:50:11 hehehe... well NOW you tell him he did say that though Official 68k videographer
Flash Full Member Australia 637 Posts	Posted - 20 Jan 2003 : 01:34:24 quote: candypunk: The fires are in Canberra, which is the capital of Australia. I think he had worked that out I live in Sydney, the other capital of Australia, and to give you an idea of what it's been like for the past few months: - it's f**king warm! Typically it's over 30 degrees celcius, on Friday it was 38 in the shade! Hot hot hot days are in the mid 40s and you can severly burn your bare feet just crossing the road. - at 18-24 degrees, the sea temperature is as warm as the air temperature at night. - there are bushfires everywhere! OK, not so much right here in the centre of the city, but suburbs that are only 30-45 minutes from the city are in constant danger of fire. It's not unusual to see smoke billowing on every horizon. - there is no sun as we know it. It's just an orange/red blob in the sky. Sunlight casts an eerie yellow light onto everything, and I have taken to wearing blue tinted sunglasses to 'correct' the colour that I see. - on a bad fire day there is smoke swirling on the streets and it can be choking. On a good day it can just be hard to breathe. It's not every day, but it feels like 'all the time' I think that this season's bushfires have affected every major population in Oz, and some of them have been the worst on record god I love a sunburnt country! Flash! 68k ParaMedic

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