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Fortunately, over 85% of us live in the cities, due to much of the rest of the country where most of the dangerous shit is being mostly uninhabitable anyway. T

Fortunately, over 85% of us live in the cities, due to much of the rest of the country where most of the dangerous shit is being mostly uninhabitable anyway. The further south you live the safer you are generally speaking. Where I live (far south) the most dangerous creature you're going to run into in the city is probably a redback spider, which is related to a black widow, and there hasn't been a confirmed death from one of those in over 40 years. Or a brown snake, but I don't think I've even seen one in the wild, although I know an area close by where they are reported to live. This capsule has been lost in one of the most remote, uninhabitated parts of the country. The dangers of living in Australia are vastly overblown ...

worthless-trash 4y ago
Tell me you live in the city, without telling me you live in the city ;)
lmpdev 4y ago
I go golf ball hunting in Brisbane Brown snakes are extremely common in cities but you have to enter "their" territory
- nineteen999 4y ago
  Yeah we have a large park with a lake not far away, my daughter and I went tree planting there together for girl guides once. Signs everywhere warning about them, but I've never seen one there. My experience with snakes in the bush has basically been that they are more scared of us than we are of them, and can generally sense us moving from quite a distance.
defrost 4y ago
> This capsule has been lost in one of the most remote, uninhabitated parts of the country. And we wonder why Western Australian Aboriginal poet and playwright Jack Davis, OBE, OA referred to kartiya as fringedwellers (clinging in fear to the edges of the continent). A quip second only to Kartiya are like Toyotas. When they break down we get another one.
- nineteen999 4y ago
  I had to look up the word "kartiya" because I hadn't heard it before, being from the East Coast. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kartiya https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kartiya Which led me down the rabbit hole of the second quote, which is an interesting topic all on its own.
  - defrost 4y ago
    It was a lure to encourage the curious to look it up alright :-) Fun questions that might have prompted include: Given the number of lanuages [1] why would a Noongar person [2] from the South West of Western Australia use a word from the Western Desert Group? To be honest it's something he said in both English (in his work) and Noongar in response to the play | movie The Fringe Dwellers [3] and common usage of the phrase. Trouble is, like most oral language words, there's no consistent spelling with an internet search hit for the word he did use, however it's similar enough to what I used .. with a harder intial 'G' sound and more of a running hard "ddd" sound in the middle. My apologies for dragging you down a rabbit hole, I hope you enjoyed the adventure. [1] https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_highres.jpg https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright) [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/
    - nineteen999 4y ago
      Please don't apologize, I will read when I have some free time. I'm not particularly learned about literature or plays, even less so regarding those of Australian origin, and less so again when the playright in question is of a native background. But I do like to absorb information about the history of the country I live in, so thank you for the links.

worthless-trash 4y ago

Tell me you live in the city, without telling me you live in the city ;)

lmpdev 4y ago

I go golf ball hunting in Brisbane Brown snakes are extremely common in cities but you have to enter "their" territory

nineteen999 4y ago
Yeah we have a large park with a lake not far away, my daughter and I went tree planting there together for girl guides once. Signs everywhere warning about them, but I've never seen one there. My experience with snakes in the bush has basically been that they are more scared of us than we are of them, and can generally sense us moving from quite a distance.

defrost 4y ago

> This capsule has been lost in one of the most remote, uninhabitated parts of the country. And we wonder why Western Australian Aboriginal poet and playwright Jack Davis, OBE, OA referred to kartiya as fringedwellers (clinging in fear to the edges of the continent). A quip second only to Kartiya are like Toyotas. When they break down we get another one.

nineteen999 4y ago
I had to look up the word "kartiya" because I hadn't heard it before, being from the East Coast. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kartiya https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/kartiya Which led me down the rabbit hole of the second quote, which is an interesting topic all on its own.
- defrost 4y ago
  It was a lure to encourage the curious to look it up alright :-) Fun questions that might have prompted include: Given the number of lanuages [1] why would a Noongar person [2] from the South West of Western Australia use a word from the Western Desert Group? To be honest it's something he said in both English (in his work) and Noongar in response to the play | movie The Fringe Dwellers [3] and common usage of the phrase. Trouble is, like most oral language words, there's no consistent spelling with an internet search hit for the word he did use, however it's similar enough to what I used .. with a harder intial 'G' sound and more of a running hard "ddd" sound in the middle. My apologies for dragging you down a rabbit hole, I hope you enjoyed the adventure. [1] https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_highres.jpg https://mgnsw.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/map_col_high... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright) [3] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091081/
  - nineteen999 4y ago
    Please don't apologize, I will read when I have some free time. I'm not particularly learned about literature or plays, even less so regarding those of Australian origin, and less so again when the playright in question is of a native background. But I do like to absorb information about the history of the country I live in, so thank you for the links.