Moving to Austrailia, is there anything i should know?

[Eatbrainz]

Always check under and all around the toilet, there are spiders there that hide under the seat to bite your ARSE.

 

[leonhart126]

Watch out for sting rays! (too soon?)

 

[HollywoodH17]

Beware the ferocious Yahtzee.

 

[Treblaine]

And Australia (I'd like to calrify this is not a blanket statement for ALL aussies, jsut a significant proportion out Australians) seems to be pretty keen on censorship, it's like the UK was in the 1970's.

We really aren't. Otherwise I wouldn't have Prototype, GTA4 or Dead Space, all uncensored.

I'd go on holiday there but I wouldn't buy any creative works there. I would consider it an insult to personal liberty and literary freedom.

Umm... what?

Even works like GTA4 should not even have to justify themselves to a censorship board

Yes: have limitations on sales to minors
Yes: limit/ban works depicting actual Serious crimes like snuff films or child abuse

But HELL NO should artists (including game developers) have to stand in front of a group of government censors just ask for PERMISSION to share their work with the willing public. That's what I mean by boycotting the purchase of creative works in Australia: even a yes from a censorship board is bad enough, it should not even exist to say if adults are allowed it.

The message needs to be sent that No Government can get away with brandishing their scissors at the work of artists. Buying "government approved" works is consent to their judgement which is ALL works released in Australia. Or at least that's the way I see it, I don't even live there, even worse I live in the UK but the peculiarities give some leeway.

Governments care about money if nothing else, yet will only consider the ill effect of their actions once it starts having tangible financial effects including taxation. I mean if you don't approve of a company's actions you don't buy their product. Import or buy stuff while on holiday.

 

[ShadowKatt]

Beware the Santa Clause in hotpants.

That's all I can contribute.

 

[Dags90]

Every single man wears a plaid shirt unbuttoned and showing off his well toned abs underneath. He always makes sure to wear a straw cowboy hat and black leather cowboy boots, drive a jeep and always makes sure his boomerang and binoculars are on his belt. His occupation is "kangaroo rancher" but he also spends some time milking koala bears and cooing them gently to sleep.

Or at least, that's what every American woman seems to think. It's a laid back country, pretty hot and the bugs are huge, but you probably won't experience too much culture shock.

To be fair, all the Aussie dudes that make it over to Hollywood pretty much fit that image to a scruffy chinned T. False advertising imo.

Et al.

 

[KaiRai]

If you live in America and it's nice and hot atm, it's going to be sub arctic over there right now.

 

[DeepComet5581]

Spoiler: well the spiders have health bars

Holy f***ing Jesus!

Arachnophobia is NOT a good thing to have while looking at that picture.

 

[Marsell]

I'm moving to Melbourne Australia to live there for 6 months because of my mom's work
Is there anything i should know about living in Australia?
(I currently live in the United States)

go see yahtzee

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

People=Laid back
Government=Draconian

Still not sure how that works.

Oh, that's easy. We elected the most annoying, anal retentive pricks to government to ensure real people never have to work along side them and then ignore them. It's a system that works for us... well most of the time.

 

[spinFX]

Our internet sucks. Overpriced and slow.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Our internet sucks. Overpriced and slow.

I blame the privatisation of our communications infrastructure.

 

[Naeo]

1. Don't touch the Platypus. Males have a claw on their back feet with an extremely poisonous neurotoxin. Which really, really sucks because they're so god damned cute and awesome.

2. A 12/14/however many hour flight (less if you're in Hawaii) doesn't sound nearly as bad as it actually is. Seriously, bring a bunch of shit to entertain yourself with, because you'll need it. Also, fly Quantas if you can. When I went to Australia, their trans-pacific flight was actually rather nice.

3. Go see the Opera House if you ever get the chance. It's a cool place.

4. This at least held for me, but you might be surprised by just how much like a stereotypical Australian/Steve Irwin everyone talks (minus "crikey"). Seriously, everyone always said "g'day mate" to my whole tour group. But maybe they were trying to please the Americans. I dunno.

All I can think of.

 

[Panda Mania]

Thar be tarantulas in them hills!! *whimper, whimper*

 

[Daedalus1942]

I'm moving to Melbourne Australia to live there for 6 months because of my mom's work
Is there anything i should know about living in Australia?
(I currently live in the United States)

We don't have an R18+ rating in games and our country's run by morons.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

It's hot, there's a lot of poisonous animals and the government hates people who play games.

That's all i can think of at the moment.

You mean one Attorney General who dislikes games and who is not going to be Attorney General for too much longer.

Yes. Perhaps once he finally steps down and leaves the country/continent of Australia will finally have the gaming peace they deserve.

You guys should probably know he's been gone since the start of April.

 

[HTID Raver]

whats the deal with the southern cross thing? i havent heard of that before...

 

[Sun Flash]

Sorry - I was just passing by when I saw someone mention 20 degrees celsius is a nice day in winter. Heh, That's heaven here in Scotland. Our average winter temp this/last year was 0.2C

On a related Meteorological note, Does it rain much in Australia? It never did when I was there for about a month a few years ago and I never hear my cousin complain about it. Or maybe weather moaning is just a British thing.

Still, I'd love to move to Australia, it seems a pretty awesome place. Apart from everything wanting to kill you of course.

 

[Shoqiyqa]

I just find it a bit harsh to compare gamers not being allowed 3 or 4 decent games to the biggest atrocity the world has ever seen.

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/preacher-likens-treatment-of-pope-to-the-holocaust-1934713.html

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... the rivers have deadly crocodiles(or alligators, not sure which one. Maybe both).

Crocodiles. Crocodiles get everywhere. Alligators are pretty much specific to Florida.

Spoiler: LOOK AT IT!!!

Wow. That's quite an impressive Olympic Skier colour scheme. It looks like a rather unhappy spider, though.

Unless we somehow came full circle back to the renassance, Opera isn't cool.
besides, sydneys a boring place.

Opera will never die #.#

And Sydney/NSW is much cooler than Melbourne/Victoria ... face it. More people, livelier, whilst remaining a strong center of non-european immigration which gives it a stronger appeal for Asian half breeds like me <.<

Last I heard, Sydney was on fire.

On a related Meteorological note, Does it rain much in Australia?

Seasonal weather averages:
Melbourne, Australia [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayIntlNORMS.asp?CityCode=94868&Units=metric]
Cardiff, UK [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayIntlNORMS.asp?CityCode=03715&Units=metric]
Tehran, Iran [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayIntlNORMS.asp?CityCode=40754&Units=metric]
St Petersburg, Russia [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayIntlNORMS.asp?CityCode=26063&Units=metric]
Beaver, Alaska, USA [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayNORMS.asp?AirportCode=PALR&SafeCityName=Beaver&StateCode=AK&Units=none&IATA=FAI]
Moab, Utah, USA [http://www.wunderground.com/NORMS/DisplayNORMS.asp?AirportCode=KCNY&SafeCityName=Moab&StateCode=UT&Units=none&IATA=GJT]

 

[Arcticflame]

Sunscreen daily if you are going to be in the sun for >30 minutes, and you are at all white. We have a hole in the ozone layer that makes it radically easy to burn. As a cricket player this probably means I will die of cancer one day.