Straya!

[Scot Dutchy]

I thought you would have it being a good German weapon.

[JimC]

OK, so West Coast beat Collingwood...

But, shit, they are Collingwood, and we all hate 'em...

[Scot Dutchy]

OK, so West Coast beat Collingwood...

But, shit, they are Collingwood, and we all hate 'em...

Nothing seems to change in that respect. It was made very clear to me on my visit.

[Hermit]

I thought you would have it being a good German weapon.

You thought wrong. My chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise....
Oh. My two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency....
Ahem. My three weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Damn. My *four*...
no... Amongst my weapons.... Amongst my weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise....
I'll come in again.

[Scot Dutchy]

Tell me when you reach ten.

[JimC]

Shit! We really are the deadly land!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-05/b ... t/10341670

A British man has died after being bitten by a sea snake while working on a fishing trawler off the Northern Territory coast.

Northern Territory Police said the 23-year-old was bitten while pulling up a net about 12:00pm on Thursday, about 70 nautical miles south of Groote Eylandt.

A CareFlight helicopter crew and ships in the area rushed to help but were unable to save the man.

Craig Garraway from St John Ambulance said there was little emergency services could do to help the man.

"A trawler off Groote Eylandt had reported that one of their male crewmen had been bitten by a sea snake," Mr Garraway said.

"The Groote Island health clinic and police responded to the trawler, but unfortunately the male passed away at some point yesterday afternoon."

The man was declared dead after the trawler arrived at the town of Borroloola in the Gulf of Carpentaria.

The British High Commission has been informed of the man's death.

Police are investigating and a post-mortem examination will be carried out.

NT WorkSafe said in a statement it had been notified of the man's death and had begun an investigation into the incident.

[pErvinalia]

Sea snakes are particularly venomous. Many times more so than our deadly land snake collection.

[JimC]

Divers and swimmers rarely get attacked, but if it is distressed, and you handle it (as would be the case if it was being brought up in a prawn net), then the bite can indeed be deadly...

[Scot Dutchy]

Lovely.

A bit of middle Dutch there "Groote Eylandt", modern Dutch "Grote IJland" (Big Island).

[pErvinalia]

The Dutch actually discovered that part of Australia. A number of Dutch names over in those parts.

ETA: Which obviously makes it the best part of Australia.

[Scot Dutchy]

No wonder they left it alone though. They were not stupid.

[pErvinalia]

They clearly were, given our massive resource wealth.

[Scot Dutchy]

Was that visible then? I dont think so. No spices or precious stones. The British just used it as a dumping ground of humanity from Britain.

The Dutch were not interested in colonialisation just wealth.

[pErvinalia]

Australia had heaps of gold. The Dutch missed out.

[Scot Dutchy]

Australia had heaps of gold. The Dutch missed out.

They did not. The Dutch were not interested in land. The Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie was only interested in trade. The earned more than enough that way. Occupying countries was expensive and costs time. You needed armies and navies. They just had forts and harbours all over the world and traded even with Japan.