Good for things like finding school holidays in every State, daylight saving etc.
Plenty of other interesting info too.
Not a rival to GN, just lots of interesting things about Oz.
Possum3 said
01:58 PM Oct 13, 2018
Just did the quiz. Buggar got the highest mountain wrong. Handy site DD.
Cupie said
08:02 PM Oct 15, 2018
Yep, a good one for my 'favourites' almost said PAGE, but it is now a couple of pages long. I'll just have to learn how to move them into folders.
I tried the link that took me to a discussion on Au v USA toilets. It very accurately described my experience with USA toilets ... the high water levels in the bowl not only suffer from 'splash back' as described in the link but they also require a modification to the wiping technique to avoid getting a wet hand in the process.
I found that the lack of consistent plumbing regs/practices in the USA almost as bad as in China (eg. just try to find an 'S' trap under the sink even in so called 5 star Chinese Hotels). The 'Land of The Free' is anti regulation and China just has a history of extreme State control (regulation) and a very highly refined culture of getting around those regulations.
But then the UK is an experience too. Their shower choofers are the worst. At each new accomodation that we used SWMBO would ask me to turn on the shower for her. Buggar me what a job. With an on demand HWS switch on the wall or hanging from a cord from the roof; then to pull out a plunger on a tap set on the bath taps to direct the water to the usually rusted shower head; then try to work out how to regulate the temperature. Each function had a miriad of options that usually resulted in me getting a drenching from the cold water shower.
When we first started to travel O/S I thought that I could write a book on Bathrooms around the world. But I'm going well off topic .. sorry.
Thanks DD for the link
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 15th of October 2018 08:05:02 PM
LLD said
05:57 PM Oct 17, 2018
OOPS.
Only knew the WA flag. I'm a Vic resident and (embarrassingly) do not know our flag. I thing the state tree is the telegraph pole and the bird is the blowfly. Or is that SA?
Got the Murray River length wrong
Got all the capital cities correct. Unlike in the US, our state capital cities are the biggest. In the US they are often obscure little places and not the biggest city.
We stumbled across this website recently. http://alldownunder.com/australia/know.html
Good for things like finding school holidays in every State, daylight saving etc.
Plenty of other interesting info too.
Not a rival to GN, just lots of interesting things about Oz.
Yep, a good one for my 'favourites' almost said PAGE, but it is now a couple of pages long. I'll just have to learn how to move them into folders.
I tried the link that took me to a discussion on Au v USA toilets. It very accurately described my experience with USA toilets ... the high water levels in the bowl not only suffer from 'splash back' as described in the link but they also require a modification to the wiping technique to avoid getting a wet hand in the process.
I found that the lack of consistent plumbing regs/practices in the USA almost as bad as in China (eg. just try to find an 'S' trap under the sink even in so called 5 star Chinese Hotels). The 'Land of The Free' is anti regulation and China just has a history of extreme State control (regulation) and a very highly refined culture of getting around those regulations.
But then the UK is an experience too. Their shower choofers are the worst. At each new accomodation that we used SWMBO would ask me to turn on the shower for her. Buggar me what a job. With an on demand HWS switch on the wall or hanging from a cord from the roof; then to pull out a plunger on a tap set on the bath taps to direct the water to the usually rusted shower head; then try to work out how to regulate the temperature. Each function had a miriad of options that usually resulted in me getting a drenching from the cold water shower.
When we first started to travel O/S I thought that I could write a book on Bathrooms around the world. But I'm going well off topic .. sorry.
Thanks DD for the link
-- Edited by Cupie on Monday 15th of October 2018 08:05:02 PM
Only knew the WA flag. I'm a Vic resident and (embarrassingly) do not know our flag. I thing the state tree is the telegraph pole and the bird is the blowfly. Or is that SA?
Got the Murray River length wrong
Got all the capital cities correct. Unlike in the US, our state capital cities are the biggest. In the US they are often obscure little places and not the biggest city.