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🤔 By civixplorer

@PaprikaGirl_JP You must be so proud of living in this marvellous country😊. instagram.com/p/Dewqf8xjJcy/…

This was supposed to be about the orange spider wasp until I was assaulted by a horde of evil fallow deer! Sound up! I am always fascinated by this - the wasp stings a big spider - huntsman etc. It then drags it to a safe burrow and lay a single egg on it. The thing is, the spider is just paralysed, not dead so it keeps ‘fresh’. The larvae then hatches and eats the spider, saving the vital organs for last to maximise ‘freshness’. As an adult, the wasp turns its back on its evil carnivorous past, and just eats nectar.

Oh well, it could have been so different☹️. Somewhere, deep down, I am still driving my powder blue Sunbeam Alphine Mk II Cabrio along the French Riviera with Cary Grant.

I saw this at an art museum in Adelaide. Was not so much impressed with the artwork, but the sign was memorable. The more and more I think about it…

I just need to point out, if you want anything done around the house, farm or the town, here is the comparison between the Marines and an Eastern European Mama.🤷

If this happened today, I wonder how will it go? courtesy of Terrible maps

Funniest joke of the week😄

Saw this in a shop today. A ring that tells you when you ovulate🤔 Maybe it should turn a happy green around that time😁

instagram.com/reel/DdZUasUKG… Italy 🇮🇹- mostly🤔

Good morning😊

Some people think Australians do not have a culture. They absolutely do, and anyone with sense will pick it up in a few minutes! Australian culture is not a blood type. It is a working pattern: • English as the public language, with a distinct accent, humour, and idiom • common law, parliamentary government, and an informal suspicion of grandeur • food and café life that absorbed Italian, Greek, Chinese, Vietnamese and others until they stopped feeling foreign • sport as a civic ritual (AFL, league, cricket) even if footy is not your thing • a bush and regional competence that coastal cities still pretend they do not depend on • Aboriginal land knowledge and ancestry practice sitting alongside that settler pattern, not interchangeable with it • a social style: low-hierarchy on the surface, mateship, taking the piss, a fairly thin formal etiquette compared with much of Europe or East Asia.

Here is terriblemap on Threads - a worthwhile visit - dividing China’s population into units of Canadas😊

I am sure Albo will make Australia proud💪

Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere (Official Video) youtu.be/LQiOA7euaYA?si=Wyoh… via @YouTube

It is worthwhile knowing that Texas increased dramatically in size since Trump changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico!

Luddite - Originally one of a group of early 19th century English workmen destroying laborsaving machinery as a protest against lower wages. Named after one of the lads that did some early smashing called Ned Ludd. Currently one who is opposed to especially technological change,

For once, the UN is doing something sensible. It is changing the standard appearance of world maps. It is high time, as the current Mercator map is very misleading.