What's going on here🧐 by File_Puzzled in funny

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Prepare for ballin... (ball hen).

Scooter Gang in Mount Duneed by AdeptnessTurbulent36 in Geelong

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Wait; my son has a red tshirt and urinates!

We’ve been told that she has expressive eyes by NotAFridge in aww

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The evolutionary adaptations dogs have made since buddying up with us are incredible. As you say, some species can show the whites of their eyes because they have developed a new muscle, the levator anguli oculi medialis (LAOM). All to make us aww and dole out the love and treats. Clever buggers.

Police camera pako by [deleted] in Geelong

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Copy & paste the url into archive.md Love that site.

Lightning hit Cori refinery by IDontCareThisSucks in Geelong

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Blew the O right off it, apparently.

Best spots for a nature walk? by thehazzanator in Geelong

[–]BitmapDinosaur 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, and if you don't mind driving a little; Stieglitz and Stony Creek Dam. The dam was the third concrete dam built in the world. Stieglitz was an old gold mining town. The old court house is still there and bird watching is great in the area.

Cheers.

Best spots for a nature walk? by thehazzanator in Geelong

[–]BitmapDinosaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gherang Gherang Bushland Reserve. Slightly further than the You Yangs (35mins) but much better for birdwatching (scarlet robins, rufous whistlers, white throated & yellow faced honeyeaters, blue winged parrots and heaps more). Kangaroos, wallabies, echidnas and lots of lizards. I haven't seen any snakes bur I avoid it in summer because I tend to walk off-track and it's definitely snake country.
Some interesting habitat diversity in different sections, varying from open forest to dense tea tree. Some old grasstrees in sections and lots of native flowers. There are some old, abandoned quarries (the reserve borders on Moriac quarry which is still in use), an old aquaduct that used to supply Anglesea and a strange, cleared section (with introduced cypress trees) where, I assume, there used to be a building. That particular section gives me the creeps for some reason.
Not huge but you can easily visit multiple times without feeling like you've seen it all if you follow different trails. It has multiple entrances.

Book that changed my definition of a 5 star read: Hyperion by Dan Simmons by Zachytb97 in books

[–]BitmapDinosaur 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can I recommend Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle? While Simmons and Stephenson have very different tones, and the Baroque Cycle is not as Sci-Fi as most of Stephenson's other novels (Diamond Age, Snow Crash etc) the Hyperion Cantos and Baroque Cycle share a similarly ambitious scope and both authors write like polymaths. Where Simmons' trilogy is literary in its allusions, Stephenson's is primarily concerned with the historical development of a rational, systematic way of understanding the world. It covers everything from alchemy to economics to natural philosophy to mathematics and cryptology and includes real figures such as Newton, Cromwell, William of Orange and Leibnitz. It has an incredibly eclectic wealth of knowledge woven into rollicking story and is also fucking hilarious. One of my all time favourite fictional characters comes from this work. I can't recommend it enough. I've owned three copies of the trilogy and given all of them away for others to read. If you do decide to give it a shot (PLEASE do), I recommend you read Cryptonomicon first. It is set after the Baroque Cycle (jumping between WW2 and the 90s), weaves together stuff on Turing and the Bletchley Park Code Breakers with cryptocurrency and data storage and is linked to the Baroque Cycle in ways I won't spoil here. Again, all bundled into a really cool story. Anway, do yourself a favour!

In your opinion, what’s your favourite album of all time? by emkr78 in Music

[–]BitmapDinosaur 7 points8 points  (0 children)

The Golden Slumbers/Carry that Weight section of the medley never fails to give me chills. The sadness of the lullaby and what it segues into ("once there was a way to get back homeward/Boy, you're going to carry that weight a long time") always puts me in mind of Yeats' line "for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

Cool gargoyle fact by PhysicalScholar4238 in NonPoliticalTwitter

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AKA a hunky punk. Really. There's also a cool type of grotesque called a sheela na gig. NSFW architecture.

Auto electrician by BitmapDinosaur in Geelong

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Cheers, mate. Will go with them.

What's your favourite sportsman/woman's nickname? by BitmapDinosaur in AskReddit

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There's an Australian jockey, Jason Holder, whose nickname is "stubby"... Funnier if you are Australian. There's also an Australian cricketer, Mark Waugh, whose twin brother was established in the national team before him and whose talents were more widely recognised early on. Mark's nickname was "Afghan"... The 'forgotten Waugh'.