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Yeah. I'm alarmed. May need to head South to Tasmania.

When I was young I visited Port Arthur in Tasmania, which ran an experiment along these lines starting in 1848 - http://portarthur.org.au/activities/separate-prison/

What they found was that solitary confinement sent many of their prisoners mad, or at least caused neuroses (or PTSD) and it was described as a failed experiment.

(see Ignatieff, A Just Measure of Pain,p. 11.)

She showed the man her Tasmania, Ladies & Gentlemen! has been added as a related post - related requested by bareboards2 on that post.

On the subject of the Pursuit Special, it's a modified Ford Falcon XB GT.

Looks good, goes fast, suspension from the stone age, can't corner worth a damn.

Eric Bana had one and drove it into a tree in Tasmania.
Love The Beast

Kofi, you've got something there with that closer: "Tasmania: Where rationality prevails over dogmatism."
Can't hurt to suggest it as new motto to the Tourism Industry Council Tasmania


Oh, and guns are only good for killing and only approved professionals should be aloud to look at them or use them- Professionals like police, security personnel, and those recognized as enlisted military. I'm too irresponsible to wipe my own ass much less make any decisions regarding my personal safety and happiness and the world is such a scary place I can't walk outside for fear of mass shootings.

Thank god the system will tell me what to do and how to do it and what i can do it with. Thank you, broken and terminal system, you make personable responsibility so easy!! It's like I didn't have to think critically AT ALL!!

Apparently Howard was not happy about this and felt that Oliver was disrespectful. Do your research Howard!

Also, I went on the march against the gun ban when it was introduced. The laws in my state of Victoria were largely in line with the reforms but there were several new ones that were and are inconsistent. For instance, you can not have a pump action shot-gun but you can have a pump action centre-fire rifle. Admitedly I was only 17 at the time and mostly went to take photos for my uni degree. However, the laws became nationwide and bought Tasmania, the place where the massacre that prompted the ban, in to line with what the rest of the nation deemed acceptable. While I don't think there is a 100% correlation between the ban and the lack of subsequent massacres the gun laws were sensible and could easily be adopted anywhere else in the world where rationality prevails over dogmatism.

It's all down to personal preference. If you want to be greeted by the Sasquatch down there that's your prerogative. Personally, I go for the clean shaved/waxed around the important area, and neatly trimmed for a "map of Tasmania" effect above. If she doesn't want to do that, I'm cool. Just don't let it become a rain forest, please.

Also, this doesn't just apply to women. Lads, it doesn't hurt to keep it groomed down there (well, it could if you try it drunk).

It was a confiscation policy. All guns that were banned HAD to be handed in. This was easily enforced by our mandatory gun registration laws in most states (except in Tasmania where the massacre that trigger this scheme occurred). People could hand in any gun they wanted even if it wasn't banned. I am not sure if there was compensation involved.

One stupid outcome was that many antique and rare guns were destroyed rather than rendered inopporeable or transferred to museums etc. My neighbour handed in a very valuable double barrell shotgun that was destroyed despite it being legal. He didn't want it anymore and like manny citizens took advantage of the amnesty to dispose of it.

You can still own pump action and semi-auto guns. You just need a special license for them. To get the license you need an especially good reason to need such weapons. There are strict regulations surrounding their storage and use. That said, my brother got a job as a pest controller for a class D license which enabled him to have grenade launchers if he wanted.

tl:dr - Australians have a very sensible approach to guns. You didn't see any whining about self protection in this vid did you?

I come from a rather coffee obsessed city, in fact the guy in this video has (or had) a cafe here, after moving from Tasmania:

http://videosift.com/video/Latte-Art-Swan-Lake

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Good ideas there. We're having a light Christmas here - though I'm thinking about a trip to Tasmania in the New Year. No, that's not a euphemism.

From their website, the lyrics: Map Of Tasmania ft. Amanda Palmer & Peaches


They don’t play the song on the radio
They don’t show the tits on the video
They don’t know that we are the media
They don’t know that we start the mania
Your Eyes don’t want to see what I’m making you
Your ass is off its seat and I’m shaking you
Walking down the street I’m the lady – ah -
Showing off my map of Tasmania

Soft and sweet and shaped like a triangle
Some girls want no shape and they shave it all
That’s so whack, it hurts with the stubble
Walking ’round and look like an eight-year-old
Soft and sweet and shaped like a triangle
Some girls want no shape and they shave it all
That’s so whack, it hurts with the stubble
Walking ’round and look like an eight-year-old

I say grow that shit like a jungle
Give ‘em something strong to hold onto
Let it fly in the open wind
If it get too bushy, you can trim

They don’t play the song on the radio
They don’t show the tits on the video
They don’t know that we are the media
They don’t know that we start the mania
You Eyes don’t want to see what I’m making you
Your ass is off its seat and I’m shaking you
Walking down the street I’m the lady – ah -
Showing off my map of Tasmania

My map is symbolic
It get drunk a lot
Hey, does that make it an alcoholic?
Call it M.O.T. for short
Let’s take this bottomless case straight to the court
Freedom down there, i swear, do you see me smirkin’?
Do you see me wearing a merkin ?
Get in the formation let start
Triangle jerkin’
Triangle jerkin’

Location is the Totem Pole in Tasmania, *downunder

Leave the Map of Tasmania out of it. And leave your arms down.

>> ^blankfist:

You have to shave to wear a dress like that and I don't mean your legs.

THE Crocodile Man, Steve Irwin, is dead. He was killed in a freak accident in Cairns, police sources said. It appeared that he was killed by a sting-ray barb that went through his chest, Queensland Police Inspector Russell Rhodes said.
He was swimming off the Low Isles at Port Douglas where he had been filming an underwater documentary when it occurred.

Ambulance officers confirmed they attended a reef fatality this morning at Batt Reef off Port Douglas.

Mr Irwin, 44, was killed just after 11am, Eastern Australian time.

His American wife Terri learned for the tragedy from police in Tasmania, where she had been trekking in Cradle Mountain National Park.

His friend and manager John Stainton said Mr Irwin was filming some segment for daughter Bindi's show on the reef between sessions filiming the main documentary.

It is understood Mr Irwin was killed instantly.

A source said Mr Irwin was already dead when his body was brought onto the Isle.

A source said Mr Irwin's body was being airlifted to Cairns Hospital in North Queensland for formal identification.

An Emergency Services Response Management spokeswoman said they received a call about the tragedy at 11.11 am, Australian Eastern Standard Time.

The response unit left in a helicopter for the Batt Reef at 11.18am and arrived shortly after.

Mr Irwin was pronounced dead at the scene immediately, the spokeswoman said.

Steve Irwin's activities went far beyond his universally-known roles as an international TV star and owner of Australia Zoo, north of Brisbane.

They includes assisting Australian Quarantine Inspection service with advertising campaigns warning travellers not to bring foreign matter into the country, and he was becoming a vocal critic of the slaughter of Australian wildlife.

The federal government recently dropped plans to allow crocodile safaris for wealty tourists in the Northern Territority after Irwin intervened, taking Environment Minister Ian Campbell on a tour of croc infested Cape York.

At the time, Irwin told Australian TV program A Current Affair that: ``Killing one of our beautiful animals in the name of trophy hunting will have a very negative impact on tourism, which scares the living daylights out of me.''

The Prime Minister John Howard considered Irwin a friend, inviting him to a barbecue at The Lodge for US President George W. Bush in 2003.

Irwin was a devoted father to his two children Bindi, 8, and Bob, 3.

"Bindi is the reason I was put on this earth. All I want to do is be with her and all she wants to do is be with me. We have such a great time together and it's not just a father and daughter relationship, it's also like I'm a big brother and she's my little sister,'' he told New Idea magazine in 2005.

However the previous year Irwin had created a furore when he took 'Baby Bob' into Australia Zoo's crocodile enclosure while feeding a four-metre salt water crocodile.

Irwin burst onto the media scene with his documentary The Crocodile Hunter in 1992, and his over-the-top persona soon made him a star. In 2002 he burst on to the big screen on Crocodile Hunter: The Collision Course, soon achieving A-list fame.

His celebrity friends include Russell Crowe.

Despite his worldwide popularity, closer to home Irwin got bad press after he was controversially paid $175,000 for a quarantine ad.

Irwin was named Queenslander of the Year in 2003.

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,20349534-952,00.html