Best wishes to Yahtzee

[gigastar]

Wish Yahtzee best wishes, wherever he is.

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

the country is filled with animals like this
http://www.todaysworld.com.au/images/giant-jellyfish1.jpg
<spoiler=helpful graph>http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/Australia2.jpg
I'm surprised that Yahtzee has be able to survive this long.

Helpful graph neglected to mention the whitetail spider. While not as dangerous as a funnelweb theyre extremely hard to kill and can and will cram themselves into any nook or cranny as long as its dry and dark. Thier poison doesnt just kill either, it more usually causes grotesque swelling in about the 2 square feet of skin around the bite. Also requires plastic surgery to fix.

Once one of theese got into a gift package destined for Afghanistan and the soldiers there got a bigger taste of home than what they had hoped for.

 

[Trivun]

Its Cairns thats being hit the worst! I'm so lucky being tucked away in New Zealand. Seriously Australia is being hit so hard with natural disasters and all Christchurch (nz) got is a 7.1 earthquake. Is that all you got mother nature?

Interestingly enough, my aunt (who was born here in the UK) emigrated to Auckland some years ago and now lives in Christchurch. She's a nurse at a mental clinic, and she was actually there in the middle of the earthquake. Fortunately she and her family were fine, but she had to help get all the patients out and to safety in case of aftershocks and such...

Anyway, regarding the OP, I give my sympathies and whatnot to all of Australia, and all of Queensland, not just Yahtzee, but of course I give them to Yahtzee as well. However, I'm just curious as to why people feel the need to post threads like this when at the end of the day, Yahtzee is a man. A late-twenties English man with a very fast voice and a sarcastic sense of humour. Nothing more. Fine, we all agree he's awesome, but does he really need fanboys and stalker-ish actions like this? Really? I like the guy, but he's a minor internet celebrity, not the Australian Prime Minister. Seriously, people...

I would like to point out even if he was the Australian Prime Minister, he would still just be some guy.

Agreed, you do make a fair point there .

 

[Wyes]

New South Wales' new tourism slogan should be 'Come to NSW, we have mild weather here'. Seriously, the worst we get is killer hail very occasionally.

It's a pretty impressive cyclone though... 500km across, with windspeeds up to 320km/hr (that's 310 miles and 200mph for you Americans). Hooray for category 5 storms, am I right?

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

So God's finally cracking down on all the crazy happenings down there, eh? Serves those giant spiders right. Poor people though.

 

[The Floating Nose]

I give my best wishes to Yathzee and the population of Queensland BE CAREFUL !

 

[Ashendarei]

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

the country is filled with animals like this
http://www.todaysworld.com.au/images/giant-jellyfish1.jpg
<spoiler=helpful graph>http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/ob/Australia2.jpg
I'm surprised that Yahtzee has be able to survive this long.

Man, that is six shades of Awesome right there

 

[CrystalShadow]

At the risk of saying what's been said 500 times already, Yahtzee will be fine.

He's in Brisbane. And while that was hit with flooding, this Cyclone is much further north. My Aunt informs me that my Grandmother (Who lives in Noosa on the sunshine coast - north of Brisbane) is perfectly fine.

Brisbane won't even notice this.

Cairns however...

Well, if this is the worst cyclone ever to hit Australia, let me just point out that I used to live in Darwin.

As such, I'm quite familiar with the history surrounding Cyclone Tracy.

Let me tell you, there was nothing left of Darwin after Cyclone tracy had passed through.
There's all of maybe 3 or 4 buildings that survived it in any shape or form.

If this is worse, I really fear for anything in the path of this cyclone.

 

[StBishop]

Its Cairns thats being hit the worst! I'm so lucky being tucked away in New Zealand. Seriously Australia is being hit so hard with natural disasters and all Christchurch (nz) got is a 7.1 earthquake. Is that all you got mother nature?

Actually Cairns got off lucky. It's Innisvale and Mission Beach that got the worst. They got the eye.

Regardless, no one lost their life so far. It actually hit last night it's been over for a few hours now.

More tragic is the death in Afganistan of 22-year-old Corporal Atkinson. He was engaged to be married.

 

[StBishop]

Just makin' sure, cyclones = hurricanes, right?

If so, I totally understand you Aussies' pain. We get that shit down here as well.

Actually a cyclone is the opposite of a hurricane. Due to the rotation being opposite as we're in the southern hemisphere.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Why just Yahtzee? All of Queensland deserves our wishes.

the country is filled with animals like this
http://www.todaysworld.com.au/images/giant-jellyfish1.jpg

HOLY JESUS THAT'S A HUGE FUCKING JELLYFISH.

 

[Sovereignty]

It's not pronounced exactly like Yahtzee. Yasi...say it with me, Yar-sea...YAR-SEA.

How/why is there a silent r in this word?

I'd never pronounce it YAR-SEA if we were going for phonetics. Not to mention it sounds like a pirate hooker.

There just is and that is how it's pronuced.

After researching it on my own... It's not YAR-SEA

It Ja:Si

BAMF.

 

[StBishop]

It's not pronounced exactly like Yahtzee. Yasi...say it with me, Yar-sea...YAR-SEA.

How/why is there a silent r in this word?

I'd never pronounce it YAR-SEA if we were going for phonetics. Not to mention it sounds like a pirate hooker.

If you want pronounce it Yah-See.

It's essentially the same.

 

[Trolldor]

I'd alwasy pronounced Yahtzee as... Ya-het-Zee... Not Yassi, which has an 'ssssssss' sound, not a zzzzz sound.

 

[BonsaiK]

Not sure if he is in Queensland, but cyclone Yasi has just hit (oddly enough, the word is pronounced similarly to Yahtzee), and is apparently the most dangerous cyclone to hit Australia ever.

Yahtzee is in Brisbane, which is in Queensland but not near the affected area. Queensland's pretty goddamn big, he might have a bit of extra breeze through his moustache but that'd be about the extent of it as far as he's concerned, I'm sure he'll barely look up from his Minecraft cave. I'd be more worried about people living in the affected towns.

 

[Merkavar]

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

just hates queenslander probably cause of their lack of upper house

and the cyclone from what i heard was going to be a cat 5 cyclone with 280 Km winds but when it made landfall it was only a cat 2 storm

 

[StBishop]

New South Wales' new tourism slogan should be 'Come to NSW, we have mild weather here'. Seriously, the worst we get is killer hail very occasionally.

It's a pretty impressive cyclone though... 500km across, with windspeeds up to 320km/hr (that's 310 miles and 200mph for you Americans). Hooray for category 5 storms, am I right?

??? Closer to 900 km diamiter.

For the Americans with their tiny states Brisbane is about three days drive from Cairns. 1,681 km - about 22 hours all up. (And cairns is only halfway up the queensland coast, anywhere north of cairns is only dirt tracks and etc so it takes close to two weeks to drive the queensland coast from brisbane to the top, i went with family friends as a kid.)

Not sure how long ago that was but I use to live North of Cairns.

It's simply not true. You can drive to at least Cooktown on sealed roads.

 

[Krythe]

Can we not just say best wishes to everyone in Queensland?

Technically yes, but a Yahtzee name-drop is a garanteed escapist demagouge trick to get undeserved thread veiws.

 

[StBishop]

At the risk of saying what's been said 500 times already, Yahtzee will be fine.

He's in Brisbane. And while that was hit with flooding, this Cyclone is much further north. My Aunt informs me that my Grandmother (Who lives in Noosa on the sunshine coast - north of Brisbane) is perfectly fine.

Brisbane won't even notice this.

Cairns however...

Well, if this is the worst cyclone ever to hit Australia, let me just point out that I used to live in Darwin.

As such, I'm quite familiar with the history surrounding Cyclone Tracy.

Let me tell you, there was nothing left of Darwin after Cyclone tracy had passed through.
There's all of maybe 3 or 4 buildings that survived it in any shape or form.

If this is worse, I really fear for anything in the path of this cyclone.

Yeah, but the building code for all of Australia changed after Tracey.

Have you seen the varitable Pilboxes that everyone in Walagi, Wagaman, Leanyer etc (ie. some of Darwin's older suburbs) live in?

Queensland isn't as good, they've got a lot of Queenslander style houses (Funny that...) which aren't as good but would still hold up against tracy.

I think you'll find Cairns faired pretty well. Innisvale and Cardwell not so much.

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

just hates queenslander probably cause of their lack of upper house

and the cyclone from what i heard was going to be a cat 5 cyclone with 280 Km winds but when it made landfall it was only a cat 2 storm

It had winds in excess of 300km/h when it hit the coast.

It was still Cat 5 when it passed my Dad's, but he lives on a sea side cliff, and also got the eye so...

 

[VanQ]

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

Actually some parts of Eastern Australia had been suffering repeats locust swarms all last year, so they came first...

Please don't fall on me Mars...

 

[misslarnie]

I think God hates Australia.
Flooding and a cyclone.
Next it will be the plauge of locust.
Then Mars will crashland on them.

just hates queenslander probably cause of their lack of upper house

and the cyclone from what i heard was going to be a cat 5 cyclone with 280 Km winds but when it made landfall it was only a cat 2 storm

It was a category 5 cyclone when it made landfall at mission beach and innisfail, maybe you should read the news and understand what is being said, it is a category 2 cyclone NOW as its been travelling inland for approx 19 hours. As it travels inland it loses power. It is expected to be a category 1 cyclone by thhe time it hits mnt isa at 8pm tonight and then die after that.