Remember this one well - even got a run on the Footy Show - Channel Nine Melbourne Jim Jacques is prone to screeching and screaming so it was bound to happen !!

Air travel isn't much fun in those conditions either!

I once drove back to Melbourne from Adelaide right through a storm, and it was horrible with low visibility and some vans going 40 and others still going 100... but one of my colleagues flew, and actually passed right over me at some point, but he said it was the worst flight of his life.

Obviously the best option is to just wait out the storm!!!

I'd much rather Starbucks because when you ask for a latte, they make you a latte. They don't put a cup under a machine and it dispenses powdered milk and a tiny drip of instant coffee.

I miss the coffee in Melbourne. The best I've had here is from a popular cafe down the road from work called Olimpico. They're latte's are small, but damn good. If you're in the Mile End area of Montreal, check it out.

Thought that was pretty funny too. The guy was born in Melbourne but why pass up the opportunity to hurl such a great insult!

Rupert Murdoch is absolute garbage... but so is this video... and spewing total BS isn't how we're going to beat people like this.

Sunny morning in Melbourne the other day http://imgur.com/BqDvMJi we don't get many mornings quite that cold though.

Bonus pic found while uploading that one... http://imgur.com/HsoHybe

She's from Sydney, even if she was in Melbourne for this vid, so definitely an Aussie girl.

*downunder

This video was talking about Norway, and the Norwegian system, and although there are some similarities with Sweden it would be a bit like me suggesting that Canada is unsafe because of crime in the U.S.A.

One thing that does stand out when looking at both countries is that they are very small. Norway has approximately the population of Melbourne (or Los Angeles) and Sweden is approximately New York City (or Melbourne and Sydney combined)... and of course there is more crime in the larger cities like Oslo than in smaller towns.

Thanks for your comment since, despite not entirely agreeing with your original statement because I think the topic is a little more complicated than that, I have learned something (about both Norway and Sweden)

The guy with the camera sounds like a Kiwi, but the rest all sounded like locals (it's a Melbourne train, I didn't pick which station though, it's not one I frequent).

Australian, not British. That's a Melbourne train

Thanks I'll check out your posts when I get back to Melbourne (am stuck in Sydney for another few hours).

@bareboards2

You might be interested to hear that here in Melbourne restaurants are importing Italian workers, but in Italy itself pizzerias are hiring Egyptians!

They have the exact same concept at ACMI (Australia Centre for the moving Image) in Melbourne too... And my phone captured it much better than this guys one did

It's awesome

I support the idea, but I'm not into a number of his policies. The NBN will drive so much more growth than a fast train line from Sydney to Melbourne, IMO. In fact, the internet will render the need for such travel redundant over time.

For those of you in the dark (or a bit daft) this isn't a "real" commercial, it's a skit from a comedy TV show in Australia called - you guessed it - The Elegant Gentleman's Guide To Knife Fighting. Nothing to do with knife fighting, just a plain ol' whacky name for a comedy TV show.

The saddest thing is, that guy is not far off from the real eco-nazis all living in and around metro Melbourne. They are psychotic

You can see the lights of Melbourne from 200 kms away on a clear night... there is a bright patch in the sky reflecting them back down in all directions.