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You guys call them whipper snippers?!
That's so much more fun than weed hacker!
(But at my house we call it a weed whacker, so I guess that's kinda fun)
WHAT OTHER MAGICAL AUSTRALIAN WORDS DO YOU HAVE?!?
And awwww to walabies everywhere! Funny little tiny kangaroo things are so cute, I think I'd have a cuteness induced seizure if 50 started hopping around me. Your backyard was NOT what I expected; I had the steriotypical red-dirt outback shrubland backyard in my mind.
Does walaby masacre mean you guys shot them all...or used the rat poison on them...I won't judge if you did...I'm just curious as to how you handle "disposing" of so many of them...Sorry if that seems insensitive.
We do call them whipper snippers! The first time I ever heard "weed hacker" was in Over the Hedge, and I've always heard it like "weeeeeeeeeeeed heckeRrr" so I...was under the impression that that was a funny name for it...but apparently not? My mind was blown.
I can't think of any other magical words....because they won't seem weird to me right away.....haha XD
Yeah, my 'backyard' is more of the forest variety... My mum's family's area definitely has the look you're thinking of though
Ew no poisoning here, just shooting: it's quicker, more accurate, and there's no random poison lying about afterwards.
This morning I was woken up by a crow choir though -__- but, on a brighter side, the eagles like all the food lying about, and so do quolls and devils
We get wedge-tailed eagles and white-bellied sea eagles here, and little swamp harrier things too, and it's so amazing when they just casually glide past the window at eye level (house is on a hill) or when they fly low over you like "hey. I'm freaking majestic yo." The other day when I was out moping there was a wedge tail and a white bellied sea eagle flying around together and it was awesome.
(I can't copy picture addresses on my phone ;-;)
I'm so sorry -- that wasn't at all what I was implying, and I should have phrased my earlier comment more sensitively. I meant "you" collectively, as in "you in Australia." And I was trying to convey that you shouldn't have to sugar-coat what happened just to respect my (supposedly) delicate sensibilities.
You give a very thoughtful, compassionate explanation of why wallabies are a real problem even if we sentimental city dwellers just think "awww, cute widdle fuzzy blah-blah." We have similar problems with deer around here. I know you're personally very kind-hearted and would never take something like this lightly (regardless of your father's attitudes).
I admit I was kind of wondering along Trinka's lines:
Oh, I know you didn't! And you actually didn't! I was more worried about other people reading me as some sort of blah <_<
But as the country as a whole, I can't speak for everyone, and I don't know everything, but as far as I know there are basically two types of attitudes towards wallabies and possums as pests. And they're both fairly extreme.
Attitude 1: they should not be killed or interfered with because they are native animals and if you have a problem with them then you should sell up and move to the city (this is something I've actually been told) because farming has stolen their habitat and you deserve to have your crops eaten, we don't need you, no one buys food from farms they buy it from the shop! Country folk are stupid ha. Probably inbred. OMG. The other day there was a kangaroo thing in the street and so we just chased it and then I think it got caught in a hedge and like...died? I think it had asthma.
Attitude 2: yeah nah I don't see em as really livin I just shoot em a few toimes after th dog has a go at em it's hell funny seein their stupid legs tryn a go hahah yeh me n tha bois loike ta git ewt in th utes n do some burn ewts wif some beer n all an then either I'll just drag em to my neighbors property haha or I'll just dump em at the tip or on the side of the road, maybe cover em up wif some tarp yeah.
Hmmmm. Then other opinions are sort of spread out along that spectrum... But you don't hear them.
phew hello it's me again, wonky hostel wifi edition! seems like this weekend + monday and tuesday will be pretty packed with activities, like a proper vacation adventure before I go home. Aaand my tablet is at the bottom of the suitcase I struggled so much to close... anyway yeah this is me announcing i'll probably be absent a lot only to pop in at evenings to talk about my day like the narcissist I am hahaha ha
(i read and care about your posts btw. even if i don't reply to them. just so you know)
we're gonna be in a different hotel each night until monday, despite being in the same area all the time! why? because mom has booked a room at THIS COOL PLACE FOR TOMORROW:
aaaaaand since it's kind of expensive we stay at cheap places tonight and the night after that. we actually stay at this hotel for half the price because the sink in the bathroom is missing.
The sink? Is missing? Where did it go?? D:
That's a cool building though! It's like....an upside down golf... Tee...but in a cool way. How many rooms does it have??
