Comments by "Helmuth Schultes" (@helmuthschultes9243) on "These Australian Posts Made Me Die of Laughter 🤣" video.

  1. I currently have at least two large huntsman spiders around the house. One I spotted last weekend on Christmas eve, the other about two weeks ago. Yes two different spiders. Not sure where they are right now, but they manage to keep any unwanted bugs sneaking in under control. Best thing if all those poison sprays bother you. They remain very neat, as do not spin webs, in fact eat the messy web leaving spiders along with flies, moths, cockroaches etc that sneak into the house. You can certainly constantly poison with spray or self releasing systems, if you like yourself loading up with biologically hazardous substances. At least these cleanup, leave no mess and do not harm you in any way.
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  2. While even in Melbourne we had some hot days in Nov and early Dec, even 40 °C, 104°F, but our Christmas now is more like mid Winter. Days from just before Christmas have been down as low as just over 10°C, 50°F to a bit over 20°C, mid 60°F, and heavy rain and stormy conditions. Normal Christmas celebrations and activities are normally very outdoors oriented, barbeques, picnic, sports, swimming, camping, heading to coast and beaches, deoarting on main annual holidays. So many people have had to change plans or had holiday start spoiled. Flooding and storm damage in city and country areas. Of course in tropics, Queensland and up north, it is monsoon season, with high temperatures and humidity, severe rain and even cyclones (like your huricans, typhoon in north hemisphere, but opposite rotation). In fact far north Queensland has been hit by a cyclone well before Christmas, with flooding, severe damage, a number of deaths. Other Queensland parts have had flooding. Sydney also gets humid many times this part of the year, though I think they too have had a cooler than normal Christmas. Normally we would have fine sunny weather with warm conditions, or even hot weather, though hot is normally more towards mid Jan to Feb, even March. Melbourne though is really hot when hot desert winds from north blow in, but are normally very dry, a far more comfortable condition than sticky humid tropics. You would be well familiar with New Mexico hot being dry, not the sticky humid tendancy in those south- eastern US states.
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  3. While you are right some of those prices are unreal. BUT many serving places, including restaurants and takeaway shops do charge surcharges on public holidays and during main annual holiday periods. Firstly holiday and weekend wages require higher pay rate, and many businesses to maintain profitability must add surcharge to cover the higher wages costs. The during annual holidays, to get enough staff many must pay significant higher wages. While actual turnover may be reduced by normal patrons being away on holiday. Not to say that depending on location there may be significant extra patronage by huge holiday maker crowds. That however may also demand extra staff to pay higher wages due to increased workloads. This restaurant may have such massive surcharge, just to control overdemand of services due to holiday and festive season events. Of course again depending on location, it may be their one annual profitable time, at least their max profit time, other parts of the year being barely operating. They would not survive as a business unless remaining competitive. If holiday makers are crowding, any price may be acceptable as long as customers are there to pay the going prices. Nobody likes such ripoff prices, but if it is all you can get, you pay or do without. Free enterprise market, both in wages demands, getting staff and business profitability. Too costly and your business dies, too cheap and you lose profitability or the one part of the year to earn your living is missed.
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  4. I recently removed all coins stuffed in my small jeans pocket, all 5c, 10c 20c 50c $1 and $2 coins, counted up over $48. Yes that little pocket was bulging, and on my jeans that pocket is large enough to stick several fingers in, not a pocket I once had on new jeans that one finger was a tight fit to insert, useless decorative pocket at best. Those jean were BAD as even the main front and rear pockets were near useless, hard to fit keys, wallet or comb, had trouble getting a hand into any pocket in fact.
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