Chuckle in Your Day! (AKA the joke thread)

[Arkaig]

 

[Tazzieman]

Are you saying I am ridiculous?

Oh , as if I would , dear chap

 

[Tazzieman]

I'm confused as hell and if this is how our non-native English speakers feel all the time, my apologies!

Just wait till @Bushguide starts mentioning poddy dodgers

 

[Jean Mercier]

Just wait till @Bushguide starts mentioning poddy dodgers

Wait, is that the place you start when you do a trekking in the Flinders Range? There is a camping there? And indeed a restaurant and hotel ... if that's the place, I was there in 2011, and saw there my first living Kangaroo (I saw some flat ones on the road previously). And I did my trekking (on my own) in the park.

Tent is Belgian and is mine, Belgian flag (not German) on it, old tent, bought in 1981, and I still use it when I am alone (my wife doesn't like that much camping anymore). Tent was used in Iceland, South-America, Europe, North-Africa ... and Australia, but quite worn ...

Very nice National Park by the way! I loved my Australian trip, although it hadn't been on my bucket-list. Now I would put it on the list. If you ask me why I went to Australia: an Australian friend was slowly dying from brain cancer, and I wanted to see him back because he had an impact on my life
We met each other in 1981 in Iceland, then some years later in Brasil, and then in Switzerland, and finally in Australia. We had Nepal on our bucket list "together", but he never did it. I did a trekking in Nepal after he died.

 

[Tazzieman]

Now that kangaroos are not everyday food in Australia , they are in plague proportions in many places.
We have a white one that moses about on the other side of the fence that I erected to stop them destroying our garden.
However , I am yet to spot this variant.

 

[DaveB]

Now that kangaroos are not everyday food in Australia , they are in plague proportions in many places.
We have a white one that moses about on the other side of the fence that I erected to stop them destroying our garden.
However , I am yet to spot this variant.

We have mainly these little swamp wallabies over our back fence at our main house.
Eastern grays at our holiday house

 

[Tazzieman]

Bastards! Is what my wife would say. No predators in Tassy other than man (only farmers can cull) and thus muchos roadkill and general mayhem.
Not cute and cuddly - bitey , kicky and flea ridden like most Australian marsupials. Sorry tourists!

 

[Tazzieman]

Lepidoptery is one of my many interests.

 

[Krabby]

Bastards! Is what my wife would say. No predators in Tassy other than man (only farmers can cull) and thus muchos roadkill and general mayhem.
Not cute and cuddly - bitey , kicky and flea ridden like most Australian marsupials. Sorry tourists!

I said this a while back in another thread but Australia is mind blowing. The thought of looking out the window and seeing kangaroos hopping all over the place, it’s just hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you guys feel the same about something here?

 

[DaveB]

I said this a while back in another thread but Australia is mind blowing. The thought of looking out the window and seeing kangaroos hopping all over the place, it’s just hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you guys feel the same about something here?

I have travelled extensively around the world except never to America
Unfortunately we mostly see the negative side in the news, TV & movies
I have zero interest in the big cities but the plains, forests and rural area's look fantastic.

 

[globalgregors]

I said this a while back in another thread but Australia is mind blowing. The thought of looking out the window and seeing kangaroos hopping all over the place, it’s just hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you guys feel the same about something here?

Lots of things about the US are mind blowing @Krabby but honestly we’re down the list somewhat before we get to wildlife…

 

[Krabby]

I have travelled extensively around the world except never to America
Unfortunately we mostly see the negative side in the news, TV & movies
I have zero interest in the big cities but the plains, forests and rural area's look fantastic.

Cities suck in general so I agree completely. We’re lucky in the States in that any climate/environment you could want is here somewhere. Even in just the lower 48 you’ve got sub tropics in the south and purple mountains majesty in the west.

 

[Shopkeep]

I said this a while back in another thread but Australia is mind blowing. The thought of looking out the window and seeing kangaroos hopping all over the place, it’s just hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you guys feel the same about something here?

Squirrels are fun for us when we travel to the US, I think the tourist novelty and local loathing may be similar to kangaroos. However they don't do the same kind of damage when you hit one in your car at 60MPH.....

 

[Jean Mercier]

I have travelled extensively around the world ...
I have zero interest in the big cities but the plains, forests and rural area's look fantastic.

Me too, and often job related.
I was twice in New-York for my job. Most people say this is an exciting city. I only saw a big city, with a lot of cars, noise, pollution, police, etc. Like Brussels, Melbourne, Budapest. Not exciting for me.
Give me the mountains, the forests, the plains, the small villages, ...

 

[Tazzieman]

Give me the mountains, the forests, the plains, the small villages, ...

...the hobbits , the elves and the goblins...and the Precioussss!

 

[emax]

Now that kangaroos are not everyday food in Australia , they are in plague proportions in many places.
We have a white one that moses about on the other side of the fence that I erected to stop them destroying our garden.
However , I am yet to spot this variant.

A roo plague is still better than a hippo plage, I guess.

 

[Tazzieman]

A roo plague is still better than a hippo plage, I guess.

You're probably right!

 

[Mitchell300]

I said this a while back in another thread but Australia is mind blowing. The thought of looking out the window and seeing kangaroos hopping all over the place, it’s just hard for me to imagine. Perhaps you guys feel the same about something here?

We’ve been fortunate enough to have traveled to several parts of the US. Watching the chipmunks was always a favourite. In Colorado going from Grand Lake to Estes Park the pikas were amazing, we didn’t know about them before we went. The Fall river road was also a good find, nice forest drive in 4 runner.

 

[DenisM]

You're probably right!View attachment 7799587

Reminds me of a boss I once worked for... not for long

 

[LifeAquatic]

Looks like IA’s sales and marketing team have been given the green light for some left-field pricing and sales outlets…