Comments by "michael close" (@6226superhurricane) on "IWrocker" channel.

  1. fat pizza, swift and shift couriers and housos are tv shows that ran for multiple seasons with this same sort of wog comedy.
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  2. there's no such thing as a swear word in australia, they're just words.
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  3. there's a common misconception in australia similar to columbus, and that is that captain james cook was the first european to discover australia. he did not he was a cartographer that mapped the east coast of australia. the first known was dutch man willem janszoon in 1606.
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  4. the chick at the end owns it. video was at horsepower hero's at summernats .it won most powerful 6cyl steet car and most powerful street car overall.
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  5. that rock is where monkey came from. In the Worlds before Monkey, Primal chaos reigned, Heaven sought order. But the Phoenix can fly only when its feathers are grown. The four worlds formed again and yet again, As endless aeons wheeled and passed. Time and the pure essences of Heaven, The moisture of the Earth, And the powers of the Sun and the Moon All worked upon a certain rock – old as Creation, And it magically became fertile. That first egg was named Thought, Tathagata Buddha, the Father Buddha, Said, ‘With our thoughts we make the world.’ Elemental forces caused the egg to hatch, from it then came a stone Monkey. The nature of Monkey was irrepressible!”
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  6. they are common, they can grow over 6' long. being an apex predator large ones typically aren't shy even if they've had limited contact with humans, they wouldn't usually attack unless you mess with them, but they can mistake a person for a tree if startled and run up their body and they have long extremely sharp claws. they are venomous but aren't deadly the venom lowers blood pressure and promotes bleeding they have lots of very sharp teeth even an accidental touch from the teeth will slice your skin. contrary to popular belief their mouths are extremely clean unless they've just been feeding on a carcass. they're regular visitors to my backyard and they'll even stroll in the house looking for food if the doors left open. but despite all they're really nothing to worry about if you keep your distance and respect them and i'm always happy to see them.
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  7. shotover jet boat tour is the kiwi one you're probably thinking of. those v8 superboats are insane when you see a flawless run, theyre so fast you almost can't process what you're watching you blink and they're on the other side of the course. it's amazing that the navigators can remember where to go and signal the driver.
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  8. back when it was done by hand it used to be common for footy players to be garbos even professional players. the running and lifting was considered top notch training.
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  9. you need to watch "black as" it's hilarious one of my favourite shows. you'll find it on youtube and i reckon you'd like it.
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  10. huntsman spiders are awesome, they don't build webs so aren't messy they just gallop around majestically getting rid of insects and mice in your home and car. a true unsung hero.
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  11. if i had to guess about thecoins i'd say the 5,10,20 and 50 cent are older and were in order of size. the $1 and $2 used to be paper notes. so when they switched to coins i reckon they made the $1 and $2 smaller so they were cheaper to make and easier to carry. we definitely don't need any coins bigger than our 50 cent.
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  12. i've climbed black mountain when i was 11, i know why people have gone missing. the "caves" aren't really caves they are gaps between these massive rocks stacked loosely as you climb higher you see that some of these gaps go way down if you fell in you'd bounce off the individual rocks on your way down or fall into a space you couldn't climb out of. you're not allowed to climb it now.
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  13. the kookaburra laugh is used as sound effect in a lot of movies especially for jungle/forest scenes. for us it's weird hearing a kookaburra and then a monkey noise or some animal we don't have in aus. but for non australians it's there to add suspense.
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  14. we haven't had a hot summer since 2020, we are only just coming out of la nina it's typically in a 7 year cycle from hottest to hottest. this definitely won't be the worst summer because we aren't on the tail end of 4yrs of drought. it hasn't been hotter than normal so far.
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  15. dry ginger ale and ginger beer are two different things.
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  16. i've only had one bagle in my whole life. you can find them but they're not really a thing.
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  17. due to the composition of the venom i think the inland taipan might have the advantage. because the inland taipan venom contains a wider variety of toxins that work in different ways as well as neurotoxins that work that work the same way as a black mamba. i don't know if that would actually give the inland taipan a resistance to the mamba venom but it seems like an advantage. but either way they live on different continents and you can't take the opinion of someone that calls venomous snakes poisonous too seriously. neither is poisonous.
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  18. i feel bad that you have only had crappy mass produced supermarket lamingtons and thought they were heavenly. your mind will explode when you get a fresh cheese and bacon pie and a fresh cream lamington from a bakery and wash it down with a cold oak chocolate milk.
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  19. or anywhere else besides america
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  20. you missed the guy that stopped traffic to let the snake cross the road
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  21. holden captiva is known as the craptiva in australia they were plagued with even more reliability issues than usual for a gm product. the last thing holden needed was even more warranty claims and court cases. a lot of people blame the craptiva for holdens demise but in reality it was just another nail in the coffin.
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  22. gunshot changes every year, there's about half a dozen different entries some harder than others. the one with the toyota and camper was the easy track.
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  23. they are cleaned by the people that use them.
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  24. i'm surprised akubra wasn't on the list.
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  25. i've travelled in the outback in 4wd's and on my bike and to give you an idea how remote some of it is i've travelled 500 miles on dirt roads and not passed a single vehicle and not seen another person until i got to a servo. i've crossed the simpson desert solo on my drz400e 500km 1200 sand dunes, no fuel no food, no water, no shops, no houses and only seen one other person in two days. the rfds is absolutely necessary there.
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  26. you'll need to dip the ginger snaps in a hot drink, they're very hard but go soft in a hot drink. the shredded wheats are excellent if you butter them and stick two together. they were a staple for me in my lunch box for smoko as a kid.
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  27. the eureka flag and the boxing kangaroo are the only s tier flags. And it's always irritated me too that the nsw state flag has a lion on it instead of a quoll ,goanna or some other australian animal. the tree on the norfolk flag is a norfolk island pine, which is unique to norfolk island, they've been planted in many australian coastal towns (and around the world) to be used as replacement ship masts.
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  28. the tree in the daintree was a strangler fig. it grows up another large tree like vines to get to the sunlight quickly. then over the years it kills the original tree and becomes a large tree itself.
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  29. the kangaroo leather was more abrasion resistant too because it was half the thickness but parted only slightly behind cow leather of twice the thickness.
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  30. that's a three toed skink not a legless lizard, not a snake. and yes lizards have earholes.
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  31. i was working in a steel plant in newcastle the night the pasha bulka ran aground. it rained that hard the drainage system was overwhelmed and the water blew the huge heavy steel floorplates off the drains and spurted out like a movie. the water was running through the steel plant like a 3 foot deep river. flooded the mill was total chaos. loved every minute of it.
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  32. the "air fryer" thing is just an electric frying pan, we still use one and you can still buy them. they're perfect for cooking pancakes, burgers, bacon and eggs etc etc.
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  33. the notion that usa won the world wars is very prevalent, most americans would be horrified to find out they only entered battle after victory was already assured. not to diminish the fact that us supplies and equipment were pivotal in assuring the allied victory.
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  34. the usa ranger and new bronco are basically based on the australian designed px ranger/everest released about 12yrs ago. although they're mostly all diesel here in aus and the us ones have the ecoboost.
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  35. front and rear plates required all states (motorcycles and trailers rear only) no registration tag required. the police cars have number plate recognition ability, so they know if the vehicle is registered,insured, reported stolen, who the registered owner is if their licence is valid, if the have warrants. if they're driving around and they get a red flag come up up off your number plate they'll pull you over.
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  36. when you have new south wales as where you live and you get in an argument with an american on facebook and they tell you "yeah well we kicked your ass in 1776" nope sorry i'm not from england "it says on your profile you live in whales" er no it doesn't it says i live in new south wales which is in australia. "if you live in new south whales wheres the old south whales then" er wales in the uk. "yeah so we kicked your ass in 1776" facepalm
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  37. we don't salt roads in australia for obvious reasons but rust on the coastline from the salt air is common. as for decaying towns i don't think it's really a thing if a mine shuts down businesses that supported that mine will leave but the town will likely remain. short term mines are usually built with temporary infrastructure.
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  38. ford, check out any ford gtho phase 3 videos
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  39. amazing how power to weight and braking improves when you remove 42 tonne of weight. i also wouldn't be concerned about centre of gravity as all the weight is down low. you need to watch them in the wet and see if you can find a video of the bandag bullet doing a burnout.
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  40. they can mimic the sound exactly so the sound you hear even sounds like it comes from a distance or certain direction sometimes you hear echoes in the mimicked sound as well. i've had a complete dawn chorus of many native birds with only a lyre bird around. and i've also seen grown women looking for a crying baby in the bush around a campsite.
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  41. i have rainwater tanks all my tapwater is rainwater, i have a spearpoint to give me bore water for the garden which is common in rural areas. town water is always safe to drink in Australia but it can have a chlorine taste which is super noticeable to me because i drink pure rainwater. but you can remove the chlorine taste by letting the water sit for a while so a lot of people do have filters or water jugs in the fridge.
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  42. red dust is red dust. bulldust is ultra fine talcum powder like dust that can fill big holes in the road hiding car breaking potholes. driving into thick bull dust is like driving into a puddle of water it makes the car behave in a similar way.
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  43. our pb5 pedestrian button is also used in some parts of usa as well. the sound engineer that came up with the sound for it refused to patent it as he wanted everyone to benefit from it. billy eilish is not the only one to sample it into a song either she's well down on a long list. she also heard it in sydney not melbourne.
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  44. he was quoting the aussie classic car movie "running on empty" when he said spotto a blown 57 chevy. even had the right accent for it.
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  45. the bird was an australian raven, extremely smart birds.
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  46. the greatest aussie sporting moment was breaking the longest winning streak in history ever (100yrs) and winning the americas cup. it came right down to the wire and the new york yacht club tried to use every trick in the rule book to stop it. there is a documentary movie about it on youtube called "aussie assault" and it's well worth watching even if you couldn't care less about sailing. you can have multinational crews now and quite often the american and new zealand skippers are aussies. because australians were up in the early hours of the morning watching the cup live on tv the prime minister (bob hawke) said "any boss who sacks anyone for not turning up to work today is a bum"
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  47. i know milo is very popular in malaysia but it's Australian.
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  48. yellow is usually passionfruit but in this case it's tropical. i love a vanilla slice with passionfruit icing
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  49. you need to react to the ford 70,000 mile durability run. the american falcons weren't suitable for aus. so they made the australian ones better and proved it.
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  50. 253ci v8 aka the thong slapper
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