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gringo2011 said:
It's a bit loose with interpretations but still a good watch. Have you seen stuff about a place in the pacific called Nan Madol. Islanders built these artificial islands out of basalt. You can't work out how they did it. Not ancient but crazy engineering.
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I did not, but he covers it in the very first episode of Series 1.

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I have visited the site Ha'amonga 'a Maui when I worked in Tonga which I haven't seen covered in the series. It's a large stonehenge like structure which is built to align with the solstice.

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Tonga also has the Lapaha Langi which is like a large foundation of a Inca style pyramid.

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From memory Tahiti is also dotted with similar sites as well.

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Top 10 sacred sites to visit in The Islands of Tahiti - Tahiti Tourisme

Political, cultural and ceremonial centers, the marae were highly symbolic sites for Polynesians. Most of these open-air temples date from several
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CursingFijian said:
I did not, but he covers it in the very first episode of Series 1.

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I have visited the site Ha'amonga 'a Maui when I worked in Tonga which I haven't seen covered in the series. It's a large stonehenge like structure which is built to align with the solstice.

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Tonga also has the Lapaha Langi which is like a large foundation of a Inca style pyramid.

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From memory Tahiti is also dotted with similar sites as well.

www.tahititourisme.au

Top 10 sacred sites to visit in The Islands of Tahiti - Tahiti Tourisme

Political, cultural and ceremonial centers, the marae were highly symbolic sites for Polynesians. Most of these open-air temples date from several
www.tahititourisme.au www.tahititourisme.au
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Pacific Islanders did some impressive things with stone.

I watched bits of the series when the wife was watching it. There was a few hypothesises that a bit questionable but it was entertaining. I love archaeology and conspiracy so should be my thing. I saw that one on the Indonesia site that looks like it's potentially man made but there is still a lot of scepticism about it.
 

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jwikked said:
I don't really get this. If people don't feel safe today, it doesn't matter what it was like in the 70's.
Telling people who don't feel safe that it's never been safer doesn't make anyone feel better.
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If people don't feel well due to irrational fears, the solution is not more police.
 
SaintsSeptember said:
If people don't feel well due to irrational fears, the solution is not more police.
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Vigilante justice it is then.

In saying that and good mafioso fashion, I'll expect monetary investment so that everyone feels safe on the forum, you know, protection money... ...
 
StFly said:
Vigilante justice it is then.

In saying that and good mafioso fashion, I'll expect monetary investment so that everyone feels safe on the forum, you know, protection money... ...
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Joffaboy said:
Just read comments above about not feeling 'safe' in Melbourne.
Here's some news, for personal security, we have never been safer, in one of the safest cities in one of the safest countries on earth.
Have never felt unsafe in Melbourne, doesn't mean that I am not aware of my surroundings, but to feel 'unsafe' to me is ridiculous.
Australia was much more unsafe when I was growing up, and much more unsafe in the generations prior.
By all means take precautions ( like aforementioned dash cams), but FFS, there is no gun culture, gangs roaming the streets like in the 70's, we have a decent standard of living so no city's of homeless.

Basically to say you feel unsafe in Melbourne means you would feel unsafe anywhere in the world.

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It may well be the case that Melbourne is as safe as it gets, that imo is an indictment on the world.

I have no idea where you were in the 70’s but imo from my lived experience Melbourne was a place I never felt unsafe. I lived close to st Kilda and frequented all the local traps and at other another point trained in the western suburbs. Melbourne was imo by any measure a very safe city.

Now as I’ve grown older I keep my wits about me more than I perhaps did back then but I don’t feel as safe as I did. The experience's of my children and my nieces and nephews is not of a safer Melbourne in fact far from it. Some have been threatened in middle class bayside suburbs by machete and knife wielding thugs. Venues have been shut down by the same diaspora and st Kilda beach has seen murders, stabbing and mayhem, how is that safer ?.

Not down playing your experiences just offering a different perspective from someone who was for the most part in this country and in the inner bayside.

Also I can’t understand your comments on pre 1970s as I’m the youngest of 4 with two much older sisters who would dispute your narrative. They paint a picture of a world that was quite different even from the one I grew up in. Mind you they have found memory’s of cruising in the states just like in American graffiti so I guess Melbourne must have felt like another world.

We all have our own experiences but I loved Melbourne as a kid and never felt unsafe.
 
StFly said:
So Ima have a cry for a bit, feel free to ignore...

So my mucus thing means small potential to choke on own saliva (as not really saliva and more mucus+blood), overheat and pass out, fun times when you see blacks, purples and things start spinning as your eyes do freaky things. Anyway...
Since I previously made the stupid decision to lend my mower to a neighbour who promptly went and probably sold it for "medications" I've decided to skimp it and start tearing out the wisteria that took over my garden space, by garden space I mean;
It's on the front fence line & garden, spilling over.
It's on the fence dividing front and garden at the back.
It's on the back fence line to the driveway.
It's trying to go up to the spouting.
It's partially taken over the outside patio entirely, including the shed there.
There's probably 3-4 bee hives in there. There's definitely an old trampoline on top of that shed that has been consumed by it.
Anyway...
My decision was I was going to tear it TF out bit by bit, as 3 months inattention into that theft and into me skimping amongst other things means I need to friggen vent on something.
So my cry is I literally had to lay on my bathroom tile just before as I was doing just that, it's what 18C, cool wind, and I had to do that cause I was fine following vines, giving them a tug yeeting them into a green bin and then I wasn't.
There's the vision going, I focus on breathing and I'm just trembling, so off comes things as the urge to straight vomit arrives, splash my face, cold compress on neck, onto floor I go.
And people locally ask why I can't control that garden in its current space, frankly, because it'd be a crime for me to grab a blow torch, giggle and pull the trigger at the friggen thing to solve that monstrosity.
I've now cleared maybe 5m squared and several plants and found one of the cores that have so big a root system to dig out later so I can whiplash that bastard...
I then went out, saw my maybe kumquat tree (similar leaves, tall AF, not as many fruit though, was there prior to me existing as a human, birds love that shit I just see them when grounded and half eaten) that has a random metal handle around a trunk offshoot all "how TF am I going to get you off?"

Grinder.
Grinder the tree.
Need new blade that has BDE...
And I need a new ladder so I can yeet that broken panel off the pergola roof as that banging in wind is annoying AF.
And I need to sand the window ledge outside as starting to creak and peel. Need more aggressive paper...

This has been my ted talk whinge, stay hydrated people and FML, I'll drag this bitch kicking and screaming all the friggen way.



Road trip, we'll split the booty, pawn the audio equip for fuel and airbnb.
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Wisteria isn’t invasive around here in fact it’s hard to grow with large bunches of purple flowers in grape like bunches. If it’s white with small white flowers it’s jasmine and it’s hard to get rid of. I had to pull it off my back fence when the fence was being replaced.

The joke was I didn’t have any jasmine it grew through from my neighbours at the back who later complained about the jasmine. I pointed out it started off with them, I had some success just cutting it off at the roots, letting it die off them dealing with it. I’d pull the dead stuff off with a three tined hoe then grub out the roots later.

It’s back now just starting to take hold and I quite like it so I don’t care if it runs over the bare fence but it’s very aggressive.
 
Yawkey way said:
Wisteria isn’t invasive around here in fact it’s hard to grow with large bunches of purple flowers in grape like bunches. If it’s white with small white flowers it’s jasmine and it’s hard to get rid of. I had to pull it off my back fence when the fence was being replaced.

The joke was I didn’t have any jasmine it grew through from my neighbours at the back who later complained about the jasmine. I pointed out it started off with them, I had some success just cutting it off at the roots, letting it die off them dealing with it. I’d pull the dead stuff off with a three tined hoe then grub out the roots later.

It’s back now just starting to take hold and I quite like it so I don’t care if it runs over the bare fence but it’s very aggressive.
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It wasn't invasive, the garden was never mine it was the parents baby, as they eventually died it was just months of inaction as health failed and hospital visits that it just spread like a mofo everywhere on everything and blanket covered things. Like it's honestly impressive that such a small plant literally covered an entire small shed, door and all with the growth. Honestly impressive.

Since however at least check my "estate needs this" is at 12 pages on 10pt text, I'm talking floating floor boards fixing roof and floor (since ducted heating, cooling and vacuum that hasn't worked in 20+ years) all the way to that garden and maybe putting new lawn in.

So if things outside need to demo, it'll demo as just easier to replace.
 

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As I made myself sad looking up the BOM to guess when it might get cooler (hint: maybe 3 hours), hope everyone is staying hydrated and well as we approach maybe 40C today and tomorrow.

FTR me compared to Avalon is a +10C difference my way at present, as in I'm still pushing 40 and they're pushing 30 according to BOM.

and I need to freeze some things overnight to have cooler fans going for tomorrow, hurry up cooler change FFS... don't make me grab a bucket and ice it for footsies.
 
The morning of new years eve I had to go to the big smoke (doctor, pharmacy, bottleshop etc 😬) so I left the swamp early with the hope of getting shit done and getting back early afternoon to be able to cruise into sunset beers and generally chilling out away from crowds. Got caught up and delayed, which meant I wasn't gonna make it back until early evening after dealing with buses and ferries and shit. A very frustrating day. At least I knew my rather inconsiderate housemate wasn't going to be there and I had the place to myself for the night.




Getting closer to home, probably an hour away, I get a text from the not-better half saying her vegan, superior, yoga instructor friend is gonna stay a few days in the spare bedroom with her 11 year old daughter (who's taking after her mother as a f#cking stuck-up PITA). After the day I was having it felt like the final kick in the balls of 2024. I read the text in sheer disbelief, considering my housemate wasn't even going to be there and this particular woman has only ever been extremely judgemental towards my lifestyle. You know, I like to enjoy the odd drink here and there, don't mind the occasional spliff, and have been known to indulge in some delicious fatty pork. Heresy, I know.

So to keep my sanity and my cool , over the next few days I just hid in my mancave (the small garden shed in the backyard 🥴) so that I wouldn't let her and her carrot-up-the-arse attitude get to me. Of course she couldn't keep her shit to herself and had to come to the shed to display her all conquering superiority. With hiding in the shed not working, I needed a way to take my mind off this very unpleasant intrusion so turned to song to ease the burden on my furrowed brow. Naughty words included. I have to say it really helped, turning woe-is-me frustration into just havin' a bit of a laugh.

View attachment Porky Pie.mp3
The words, if you wanna sing along at home...🥕💩🐷😵‍💫🤔💩

[Verse 1]

Pilates, chai, chickpeas, not high
A lecture never changing
Why don't you try, this porky pie
You'll find the fat is tasty

[Verse 2]
I like to hike, the countryside
I'm into meditation
I'll give you my lardons twice fried
You look a little pasty

[Chorus]
Drowning in your shallows (ho!)
No end to what you preach (no no!)
The ground you stand so hallowed (you weren't!)
Invited to my street

[Verse 3]
A vegan brunch, mung sprouts for lunch
You know they're packed with protein
I have a hunch, I'd rather munch
On bacon topped with Poutine

[Chorus 2]
Hang me in the gallows (ho!)
I am but what I eat (that's right!)
Pig is in the smoker (ooh yeah!)
Why the f#ck you on my street?

[Bridge]
You up on your horse so high (nay!)
Way too far up your ass (your ass!)
Could do without the judgement (hey!)
Maybe show some f#cking class (class bitch!)

[Chorus 3]
Lost me with your hello (ho!)
Shut up I'm tryin' to eat (oh no!)
Bullshit fake and shallow (whoa!)
Get the f#ck out of my street!
 
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Yawkey way said:
It may well be the case that Melbourne is as safe as it gets, that imo is an indictment on the world.

I have no idea where you were in the 70’s but imo from my lived experience Melbourne was a place I never felt unsafe. I lived close to st Kilda and frequented all the local traps and at other another point trained in the western suburbs. Melbourne was imo by any measure a very safe city.

Now as I’ve grown older I keep my wits about me more than I perhaps did back then but I don’t feel as safe as I did. The experience's of my children and my nieces and nephews is not of a safer Melbourne in fact far from it. Some have been threatened in middle class bayside suburbs by machete and knife wielding thugs. Venues have been shut down by the same diaspora and st Kilda beach has seen murders, stabbing and mayhem, how is that safer ?.

Not down playing your experiences just offering a different perspective from someone who was for the most part in this country and in the inner bayside.

Also I can’t understand your comments on pre 1970s as I’m the youngest of 4 with two much older sisters who would dispute your narrative. They paint a picture of a world that was quite different even from the one I grew up in. Mind you they have found memory’s of cruising in the states just like in American graffiti so I guess Melbourne must have felt like another world.

We all have our own experiences but I loved Melbourne as a kid and never felt unsafe.
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Statistics say that Victoria has less than 100 murders each year.
Check out TJ.

Still , this is disturbing, kids idolising and playing at gangsta rap, and pretty much getting away with it.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/...rote-rap-lyrics-about-it-20240712-p5jt2e.html
www.9news.com.au

'Remorseless' 15-year-old who fatally stabbed teen could walk free in four years

The boy wrote rap lyrics in the days after the attack, found on his phone along with photos of a police van...
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It just invites vigilante justice.

Crime went up a bit in Victoria 2024, but its still relative and its by no means a dangerous city.
Here's what can happen if you get lost in Rio.
 
dudeintheswamp said:
The morning of new years eve I had to go to the big smoke (doctor, pharmacy, bottleshop etc 😬) so I left the swamp early with the hope of getting shit done and getting back early afternoon to be able to cruise into sunset beers and generally chilling out away from crowds. Got caught up and delayed, which meant I wasn't gonna make it back until early evening after dealing with buses and ferries and shit. A very frustrating day. At least I knew my rather inconsiderate housemate wasn't going to be there and I had the place to myself for the night.




Getting closer to home, probably an hour away, I get a text from the not-better half saying her vegan, superior, yoga instructor friend is gonna stay a few days in the spare bedroom with her 11 year old daughter (who's taking after her mother as a f#cking stuck-up PITA). After the day I was having it felt like the final kick in the balls of 2024. I read the text in sheer disbelief, considering my housemate wasn't even going to be there and this particular woman has only ever been extremely judgemental towards my lifestyle. You know, I like to enjoy the odd drink here and there, don't mind the occasional spliff, and have been known to indulge in some delicious fatty pork. Heresy, I know.

So to keep my sanity and my cool , over the next few days I just hid in my mancave (the small garden shed in the backyard 🥴) so that I wouldn't let her and her carrot-up-the-arse attitude get to me. Of course she couldn't keep her shit to herself and had to come to the shed to display her all conquering superiority. With hiding in the shed not working, I needed a way to take my mind off this very unpleasant intrusion so turned to song to ease the burden on my furrowed brow. Naughty words included. I have to say it really helped, turning woe-is-me frustration into just havin' a bit of a laugh.

View attachment 2198950
The words, if you wanna sing along at home...🥕💩🐷😵‍💫🤔💩

[Verse 1]

Pilates, chai, chickpeas, not high
A lecture never changing
Why don't you try, this porky pie
You'll find the fat is tasty

[Verse 2]
I like to hike, the countryside
I'm into meditation
I'll give you my lardons twice fried
You look a little pasty

[Chorus]
Drowning in your shallows (ho!)
No end to what you preach (no no!)
The ground you stand so hallowed (you weren't!)
Invited to my street

[Verse 3]
A vegan brunch, mung sprouts for lunch
You know they're packed with protein
I have a hunch, I'd rather munch
On bacon topped with Poutine

[Chorus 2]
Hang me in the gallows (ho!)
I am but what I eat (that's right!)
Pig is in the smoker (ooh yeah!)
Why the f#ck you on my street?

[Bridge]
You up on your horse so high (nay!)
Way too far up your ass (your ass!)
Could do without the judgement (hey!)
Maybe show some f#cking class (class bitch!)

[Chorus 3]
Lost me with your hello (ho!)
Shut up I'm tryin' to eat (oh no!)
Bullshit fake and shallow (whoa!)
Get the f#ck out of my street!
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Threaten eviction and "we own everything in this location so feel free to STFU before I take the bed and make you sleep on the floor." for any sort of entitlement from a "guest" that isn't on any docs or agreements.

As I'm sure your mancave could barricade entry with a mattress and provide soundproofing for further acoustic tunings.
 

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