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naught101@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 10 days ago

Floods in Australia

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Floods in Australia

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naught101@lemmy.world to Australia@aussie.zoneEnglish · 10 days ago
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Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-23/nsw-floods-live-updates-weather-warnings/105326094#live-blog-post-183316

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  • 𞋴𝛂𝛋𝛆@lemmy.world
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    beetles in the budgie smugglers trying to have a chop at me

    wtf does this even mean?

    • The_Decryptor@aussie.zone
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      Bugs crawling into his underpants and having a nibble.

      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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        Just when I thought this post couldn’t get sexier

        • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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          Have you heard what we are not here to do with spiders?

    • mriswith@lemmy.world
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      Beetle = beetle.

      budgie smuggler = tight underwear/speedo

      chop, chomp = bite


      Animals tend to seek high-ground during floods, to avoid drowning. Doesn’t matter if it’s a human or a tree, so beetles and spiders climb him and hide. Although he’s happy that it’s beetles and not snakes.

      • shalafi@lemmy.world
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        budgie smuggler

        OMG, I got new slang!

        • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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          One of our recent fuckwit prime ministers was prone to wearing them for photo ops.

          • John Bruzzolini@aussie.zone
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            More than just one of our recent fuckwit prime ministers

    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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      It’s funny because any Aussie would read that and know exactly what he means.

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      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beetle

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/budgie_smugglers

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/chop#Verb

      https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/me

  • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world
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    My brothers and some local kids went body boarding down the creek when it was flooding one time and they all ended up with a heap of spiders hitching rides with them.

    • shalafi@lemmy.world
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      Kayaked a hell creek one time, most arduous thing I’ve ever done, took 28-hours.

      Did not know there were banana spiders under every piece of tree I dodged. Was so covered I gave up on using the sponge to toss 'em, went in with my fingers, fast as I could go. Anyway, I’m a little over my fear of spiders. A little.

      • SamuraiBeandog@lemmy.world
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        I would have immediately drowned myself.

        • neukenindekeuken
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          That’s what the spiders want.

  • jagungal@lemmy.world
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    This is an immensely stupid idea. The SES will relocate your animals if you ask.

    • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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      Only if they have capacity, and I doubt they have capacity for horses very often.

      I guess how stupid it is depends on the particular location - if you’re on a flood plain, then yeah, but if there’s high ground nearby, maybe not.

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    I didn’t think about all the spiders that’d be in flood waters…

    • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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      Lots of them can walk on water (e.g. Fishing Spiders)), and some big ones can live underwater for over 24 hours

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    I’d been saving to buy my kids new laptops for their upcoming birthdays and picked some up at a great sale price last weekend. Last update they were in Lismore on Tuesday afternoon…

    • naught101@lemmy.worldOP
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      … What?

      • TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone
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        The 2 laptops I ordered were on their way being delivered. It’s now Sunday and the last update on the tracking info was from last Tuesday in Lismore, right before all this flooding.

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          Lismore isn’t flooding…

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