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Awesome. We're going to try and have a Melbourne Sift Up in October - would be great if you could come over.

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south-west sydney.. my brother defected trator : recently to burpengarry (spelling), QLD

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What part of Australia? I'm in Brisbane & Canberra.

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Sorry about the trouble with your charter membership - thanks again for upgrading.


It wasn't a real problem :, just wanted to make sure the money didn't get lost in the void... AUSSIE, AUSIE, AUSSIE...

south-west sydney.. my brother defected trator recently to burpengarry (spelling), QLD

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What part of Australia? I'm in Brisbane & Canberra.

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Sorry about the trouble with your charter membership - thanks again for upgrading.


It wasn't a real problem :, just wanted to make sure the money didn't get lost in the void... AUSSIE, AUSIE, AUSSIE...

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What part of Australia? I'm in Brisbane & Canberra.

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Sorry about the trouble with your charter membership - thanks again for upgrading.


It wasn't a real problem :, just wanted to make sure the money didn't get lost in the void... AUSSIE, AUSIE, AUSSIE...

>> ^kymbos:

Sizzler hasn't gone out of business in Oz. There's one left in Toowong, Brisbane, and possibly one left in Belconnen, Canberra. They're like throwbacks to another era.
>> ^acidSpine:
Sizzler still exists in America? Went out of business in Australia ages ago but then again, so did Dr Pepper those bastards.



there are 2 I know of in NSW as well..

Sizzler hasn't gone out of business in Oz. There's one left in Toowong, Brisbane, and possibly one left in Belconnen, Canberra. They're like throwbacks to another era.

>> ^acidSpine:

Sizzler still exists in America? Went out of business in Australia ages ago but then again, so did Dr Pepper those bastards.

Personally, I'm ready to just do the sensible thing and let Chicchorea back after a week ban or so. Then we can put all of this behind us once everyone is back.

And we'll all go back to being civil and the world will be aligned with Venus, and Jupiter aligned with Mars, and I promise not to go to dag's dinner parties and call someone a horse fucker. Mainly because he lives in Brisbane and not somewhere cool like Whitsunday or Syndey, so I wouldn't go to his house anyways. But if I did, I still wouldn't call @NetRunner a pig fucker.

siftbot can't do 2 things at once, which is very instructive, having just come off of some exotic vacation in a foreign land, in a foreign tongue, without a box spring or a Brisbane turkeybaster (and that's a lot of turkeybaster).

Tags for this video have been changed from 'flooding, flood, brisbane' to 'flooding, flood, brisbane, queensland' - edited by spoco2

And now the Brisbane CBD is flooding! Scary stuff you guys up north, scary stuff!

I grew up in Brisbane. My mother still tells the story of when she sent my brother down to the shops during the '74 floods to get some food. He came back and said 'the shops aren't there anymore, mum'. They were completely submerged beyond the roof.

After those floods, they built the Wivenho Dam to prevent a flood of that kind ever happening again. A mate of mine in Chelmer lives next to the Brisbane River, which was supposed to be prevented from flooding by the dam, and he said this morning the river is 3 feet from breaking the banks.

Meanwhile, Toowoomba sits on an escarpment - basically, on top of a mountain - and it still flooded. We've seen nothing like it before.

Strange, I'll have to look at the local properties -- it sounds like you guys flood the same way our areas flood here, specifically. Last major flood in Salt Lake City was in 82'-83' after monsoon rains and a heavy winter melt (this is 15-35 minute drive, but on one of two major highways going downtown.

That "flood" (City Creek flood) was something to behold as the community was driven into overdrive and created a man-made river going down Salt Lake Valley's state street (if you run google earth state street goes right into the middle of downtown, with LOTS of businesses. The flood river was pretty long from memory, like 6-10 miles. They built man-made river and then built bridges every block to get across (that is community power!). I remember standing on a bridge, amazed that humans could triumph over nature that well, sometimes.

The flood was bigger than what it says as there was flooding down all major canyon rivers and creeks (everything I-15, which goes into L.A., & east needed to be worried -- again google earth will show you the roads, rivers and creeks --, same with the Jordan River and next to the Great Salt Lake (which had been flooding over and over again for years -- they made a giant drain at one end of the lake and created an evaporation pond to dump excess into. No more floods for the lakes anymore and many flood rivers and creeks areas are cut-off and gone now (put underground).

Good luck to you guys. Hopefully, it lets up.

edit-Damn I was looking and some of the setups are the same except you get tropical (we almost never get tropical monsoons unless a hurricane hits off of California and moves in; otherwise, we get little garbage thunderstorms that cause "local" problems). No cyclones/hurricanes to ever worry about as the mountains would rip a tropical depression to shreds. Snowpack is our "cyclone".

>> ^dag:

The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.
Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

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The last massive flood in the Brisbane area was in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1974_Brisbane_flood">1974. This is the monsoon season- but most years it just means thunderstorms.

Still raining heavily this morning. Animals are pairing up.

>> ^kceaton1:

>> ^dag:
promote because it's still raining hard

Is that area prone to flooding every so often. I just thought it was interesting that the clay was so red, as that is what I've noticed in Red Rock (central-southern Utah here and some of the outlying "badlands")areas and gullies in canyons.
Is this more of a monsoon type event or tropical? We get monsoons (some big hail or "lots" of hail, sometimes a few inches worth and torrential rain), but not tropical ones that engorge everything with water just squalls of tiny thunderstorms (like the tornado that hit downtown Salt Lake years ago...)

At first I thought you mean Robert Forster from Brisbane band the Go-Betweens:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Forster_%28musician%29

http://videosift.com/video/The-Go-Betweens-Spring-Rain

But no.

BREAKING NEWS From Reuters
-Sheila Hogan reporting, Brisbane Aus, Dec. 8 2010

In a shocking move today, China launched full scale war on Australia in what pundits are now calling World War WTF!?!. Chinese Ruler, Sum Yung Gui, has told reporters that leaked documents on Australia's security were the catalyst for this impulsive assault. He was like, all, "OMG, I hate Australia, I hate them so much. I must attack them." Luckily for the residents of Australia, the attack only occurred in one very silly American mind, likely high on schwag and national pride.

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Boo. Completely disagree with this opinion.

For one - living here in Brisbane Australia, I find the trains to Los Angeles to be very infrequent.

For another - why should we show up at an airport and "normalize" this kind authoratarian overreach by demurely consenting to it.

Resist if you can - if you can't, then at least support the resisters. (FTR, traveling with my kids to the US this December - I'll only be doing the latter. :-( )

>> ^Darkhand:

If you don't like it take the train. It's that easy.
Look I'm not saying I'm for full body scanners, for shoe checks, and all that other BS. But don't show up to the airport and expect to be able to "Opt Out" of all the of the security checks.
If you don't a body scan, get frisked, if you don't want to get frisked or a body scan? Take the train.
IF you don't think you deserve to do ANY of that, then protest and try to change the world works. But don't be an asshole and show up at the airport and expect this not to happen.