I was working in Mildura NSW in Dec '03. was hot as blazes there. the asphalt melted and stuck to the tires when it hit 47C. We only halted work one day whilst outdoors in that heat, it hit 44C at noon and one of the Brits passed out from exhaustion. .
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they just cannot handle their pints from the night before. pissed all the liquid out of their system and were too hungover to work. softies.
Hottest day Iāve experienced that I could actually measure was 47.2 in Northern Kruger in 2013. I do feel like Iāve experienced hotter during my time in the early 2000ās when we were out in the bush for days, again in Northern Kruger, without anything to tell us what the temperature actually was so probably experienced close to that, maybe even that and itās pretty brutal I have to say.
I think itās safe to say @Kopstar has also gotten close to experiencing it as well.
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yeah, itās really not a pleasant experience. I remember my wife at the time literally cooked an egg on the sidewalk.
Yeah, although the hottest I remember experiencing was 45Ā° in the Namib.
We cooked eggs on the bonnet of a jeep.
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Funnily enough this was what my school would use to determine whether we could stop wearing our ridiculous woolen blue coats. When a pupil passed out at lunch parade, that was the signal.
We regularly have 40+ and pretty often 45+ too. Havenāt poached an egg on the sidewalk or car bonnet, yet.
Have you boiled potatoes in the river?
Just so you all know I reckon my garden gets regularly to over 60Ā°C during the summer. I can cook eggs on the leaves of the few plants that survive it.
In the winter itās freezing.
Spring and Autumn are fine, you will be happy to know, and I manage do rgular BBQs if itās not raining or blowing a mistral of over 90km/hr. 
Perhaps. But we shouldnāt forget it was Blighty that sent that cunt Abbott to us in the first place. And arguably, because there is no evidence that he renounced his citizenship until after he was Prime Minister, he should never have been elected in the first place.
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Simon Nellist: Sydney shark victim named locally as British man - BBC News
Wednesdayās incident is a horrible tragedy, and in days to come there will be questions about how the shark slipped through the protections set up.
I think the general public are really confused about what shark nets are and how they work. They are nothing more than a deterrent. They arenāt a giant net making an impenetrable barrier. They are simply nets that run for a length perpendicular to the prevailing currents as a means to reduce the chances of sharks coming toward the beach, as sharks usually travel along the currents. On top of that, I believe NSW have beacons in the water that detect the presence of sharks. But none of these are even close to fool proof.
On Noosa beaches, they also use nets at Main Beach and its in general a very safe beach, but there are still plenty of shark sightings in the area. I know I was in the water when a shark was spotted by some surfers. Weirdly they didnāt appear to be bothered enough to get out of the water, though when I finally took them seriously I was out of there pretty fast, on the account of the fact I only body surf and with my fins on, I looked the most like a juicy seal.
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The measures in place thankfully do work - but there will always be a few shark bites/attacks every year. We are in their domain in the water. Iām glad the thirst for culling has stopped now.
The stats are quite interesting. in 2021, worldwide, there were 73 recorded shark bits, of which 9 were fatal. The most bites were in the USA (47, 1 fatal), whilst most fatalities were down under (3, from 12 bits). I assume the ones down under are all great whites, whilst in the US thereās a mix of species.
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/yearly-worldwide-summary/
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nothing to do with the seriousness of the matterā¦but how good is the nickname āshark biteā
its just one of those great aussie thingamajigoos
(for those that dont know, its a cheapskate at the pub , āwouldnt shout if a shark bit himā)
from my backpacking days, a sharkbite was pitcher of 50/50 lager and cider with a squirt of grenadine for the red color.
English kids loved it. I thought it was shit.
sounds horrendous
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When I first arrived in UK in 2006, a lot of the aussies and kiwis in London at the time were obsessed with snakies.
I always thought they looked like water taken from The Thames, and probably tasted similar
So a Brit gets eaten by a shark just as Australia are about to lift travel restrictions for those from the UK.
Iām not a great believer in coincidences.
something fishy going onā¦
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