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For those curious: it's from an opera by Giuseppi Verdi

La Traviata

It's in Act 1: 'Libiamo ne' lieti calici' (Alfredo, Violetta, Chorus) (Libiamo ne' lieti calici)

The song is a brindisi, a lively song that encourages the drinking of wine or other alcoholic beverages. The duet is performed in the first act of the opera, during a late-night party at Violetta Valéry's house. It is sung by Violetta and Alfredo Germont, a young man who is in love with her. Alfredo is convinced by his friend Gastone and by Violetta to show off his voice. He begins this drinking song, later joined by Violetta and the rest of the company.
The piece is written in B-flat major, its time signature is 3/8, and the tempo is marked Allegretto, dotted quarter note.

The 3/8 time signature is why you hear (or see in your mind's eye?) a waltz going on.

Oh, and on looking up: Drakes Supermarket is in Australia !

*promote

Yeah, it's about double, for 2018 US data vs 2020 AU comparing driving fatalities deaths per population 0.005% for Australia vs 0.01% for the USA. I live in the southern US, I know people that just buy a 12 pack of beer and ride around visiting people...the amount of dumb here is exceptionally high, unfortunately.

Texas has similar population to Australia, and the entire country had 1,437 deaths that year (Vic had a population around 5 million). Your point does still stand, but the ratio is only double and not 10 times.

God Bless You -> America -> From Australia

May you all be okay.

Fine.
If you don't want my business, I'm sure Australia has a few to choose from.

Uh why does this have the Asia tag?
It's clearly Australia.

Also we don't have a mandatory masks rule here because unlike some countries run by orange muppets, we're actually doing an okay job at stopping the spread.

The more you know!

Hahahaha demonstrably false. You're either lying intentionally or completely delusional.

He has NEVER had an approval rating above 50%. He is the only POTUS since that sort of polling was done to NEVER have majority support for his actions. Do you understand how terrible that is?

He didn't even get the majority of the peoples vote ffs.

The FACT that a REPUBLICAN group is putting out these ads should give you some insight into his epic levels of ineptitude but as I said before, you're lying or delusional so facts and reality don't enter into it.

@newtboy You don't even need intelligent leadership as shown by Australia

Here in Toronto Canada, we had these same panic buying of TP just the same as in the USA, Australia and other countries, no stock anywhere last week. But today the supermarkets has them on sale (~$10 CDN for a bag of 30 rolls.... that's like $7 USD) but under 1 bag per customer limit. All the TV news said the stock will be replenished soon.

What I'm worry about though, are the cleanliness of fresh produce. I've seen lots of a**holes coughing of fruits & vegetables AFTER they had their pick....

This still does not wish away the problem of having to cover all wind and solar power sources with backups for windless nights.

North Africa is still the same time-zone. Consider connecting Australia.

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Right on! Just ask John Oliver. Them drop bears are a threat to all humanity.

Joking aside, Australia is in deep dodo because ScoMo and his party's policies and (non-)reaction to the yearly crises are very much to blame.

Fun Fact - While true for most of them, this was actually filmed on Kangaroo Island, a 1700 sq. mi. island off the coast of South Australia, where they are all disease free due to isolation.

It's actually caused some problems in treating the burned ones as if they're removed from the island, they can't be taken back afterwards.

But yes I wouldn't be trying to pick up the one living in my street

Seems Eucalyptus trees are made to create firestorms..

Fallen eucalyptus leaves create dense carpets of flammable material, and the trees' bark peels off in long streamers that drop to the ground, providing additional fuel that draws ground fires up into the leaves, creating massive, fast-spreading "crown fires" in the upper story of eucalyptus forests.

Additionally, the eucalyptus oil that gives the trees their characteristic spicy fragrance is a flammable oil: This oil, combined with leaf litter and peeling bark during periods of dry, windy weather, can turn a small ground fire into a terrifying, explosive firestorm in a matter of minutes. That's why eucalyptus trees — especially the blue gums (Eucalyptus globulus) that are common throughout New South Wales — are sometimes referred to wryly as "gasoline trees."
https://www.livescience.com/40583-australia-wildfires-eucalyptus-trees-bushfires.html

Eucalyptus do extremely well after fires. Fire and Eucalyptus make good partners it seems. https://wildfiretoday.com/2014/03/03/eucalyptus-and-fire/