What is it like standing upside down? There! I finally asked it. I have wanted to ask that since 2nd grade! Didn't someone say there weren't any dumb questions - heheheheh And.... how can you have Christmas without snow?
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AND another question to your question? Why dont we all fall off? The earth is turning at a speed, not imaginable!!
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by eleen
21 Mar 2011
Hehe Marthie this is a good one. I know my weight is pulling me down. One terrible speed will be needed to pull my weight of the ground.
by bevgrift
23 Mar 2011
Lucky for the pull of gravity that we don't fall off.The earth makes one revolution every 24 hrs thus night and day.
18960I also left a reply to your question 2 days ago, but I think because of the fact the we are standing upside down(more here in Cape Town than in Johannesburg)my posting fell down to the south pole because it is not here anymore. Gremlins???
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18960I've heard you get penguins in South Africa, do you get them in Australia also? And is this an emu?
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by meganne
21 Mar 2011
I haven't seen any! LOL!!!
And yes that is an EMU, pronounced em as in seam, and U as in you, not "emoo". LOLOL!!!!
by marthie
21 Mar 2011
Yes we have penguins. Years ago I was so priviledge to safe a penguin from an oil spill in Tsitsikama and looked after it for a few weeks.
by hightechgrammy
21 Mar 2011
HOw neat to take care of one! Which kind? Did you tame it? I would want to keep it.
Thanks for the pronunciation, Meg! Do you see emus in the wild or are they domesticated? Their faces are soo Cute - he's a Cutie! I have this photo on my desktop, I think he is adorable. IF any of you want the large jpg let me know and I'll email it to you. Are Kiwis in New Zealand a wild bird or domestic? I am just thrilled to get this info from the real sources!
59631Happiness is: belonging to this crazy group of madcap embroiderers. I feel So at home. lol
39739we dont stand on our heads we hold up the northern hemisphere. christmas in the summer time is great beach parties outside barbies ,shared with fly's ants and kids every where. who needs snow.
not on your nelly.
351I love this question made me laugh so hard!!!
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by hightechgrammy
20 Mar 2011
It has been really fun!!! I'm glad you joined us - I've had these "southerners" almost to myself!
72397How many realize that the US and Aus actually LOOK the same but upside down reversed? I noticed that a couple of years back. If you flip Aus upside down and then turn it around it would look just like the US give or take a few extras land. LOL
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36693I was in Hawaii for Thanksgiving one year and they had Santa in a parade with surfboards decorations.
463427I am on my head most of the time anyway - it feels that way. Hehehe. Funny how you wonder about things when you are little. I used to believe that I had hollow legs and always used to measure the food wondering if I ate enough for it to reach my knees. And yes I would love a white Christmas one day but enjoy the sunshine, braai, swimming and fun in the sun. The latest that we had snow in Johannesburg was on 9 Sept 1981. It only happens like every 20 or so years but never that late.
11528Of course you can have Christams without snow!!! I am from Cuba, and live in Texas...I only had snow One Christmas in all my life!!!*******Cute question
60484We have snow at Christmas. It comes on the Christmas Cards all you northerners send us at that Time. Lyn<br /><br />PS this is what Santa does when he is finished his trip around the world.
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29801If you want a white Xmas in Aust you better go to the Antartic. I won't be surprised if one day we have a white Xmas.Last month we had a week of 40C days no rain at our place & the magnolia was in flower.the sasanqua camellia started flowering at the end of Feb too.
25212Of course we have snow at Christmas Time..... every time we open the refrigerator to get out an icy pole to cool our heated brows the fridge has snow in it. The more we open the fridge the more the hot air makes snow.
and.... it's easy standing upside-down.... we've got gecko feet DownUnder.
AlmaG.
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by hightechgrammy
19 Mar 2011
That's what I love about the Aussies! Every single Aussies I have ever met is Playful! But what is an "icy pole?" We call that kind of snow, "frost." When did you learn you were upside down? Or did you learn it that the Northern Hem was upside down? he he
by meganne
20 Mar 2011
I COULD tell you what an Icy Pole is but I might get myself banned!!! hahahahaha!!!
by almag
20 Mar 2011
Well...... in the past they've been called Slippery Sam ice confections, too.
I could tell you a very funny story about a Slippery Sam that jumped out of his plastic skin onto the kitchen floor beneath the kitchen table and a very pregnant me on my hands and knees trying to retrieve him before he melted sticky juice all over the floor and giggling myself into hopeless helplessness all the while......
but I won't.....
AlmaG.
by hightechgrammy
20 Mar 2011
I'm so glad you did!!!!! I can just picture that!!! he he he heheheh hhe hiccup I am learning soooooo much!
by beatie58
20 Mar 2011
Wow! Lynda you must be the era as I remember TT2's also...where in NZ are you from I was born in Takapuna Auckland.
17214When you drain the water out of your bathtub, what direction does it twirl? (Please tell me you DO have bathtubs he he). The tech part of me says it goes the opposite direction as it does in the Northern Hemisphere!
When I was a little kid, learning all about this big Earth, I was totally confused how we could all be standing on the top. Do you also have a full moon at the same time? Ours was full last night, I think. Was yours also full? Isn't it amazing that we all look up at the same moon? Why are Aussie's "downunder" and people in South Africa aren't? What about New Zealand? and why is there no corn in corned beef?
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by killiecrankie
19 Mar 2011
Our bathtub has been only used by 2 people in nearly 17 years ,a third tried but the water refuse to come out of the taps that day.Never noticed what way the water goes down the drain hole .Showers are the go.
by jasanne
20 Mar 2011
Think our moon was full yesterday too in New Zealand. The bath water, I will check next time and let you know ;) I was taught it was opposite in the hemispheres.
by meganne
20 Mar 2011
What I can't understand is why American loo's are half full of water?
It took me ages to learn to sit high enough that I didn't get a wet bum!!!!!
:-)))
And why are your light switches upside down? Up is off and down is on! I just never did get the hang of them. LOL!!!
HNR, M
by danababes
20 Mar 2011
lol Meganne I always think that when I'm watching a movie: she flicked the light switch UP and the light came ON? hrm broken switch lol.
Their dunnies are 1/2 full already? lol ok wet bum for me too then.
Yes we're in full moon stage, and um I think the water goes down the sink clockwise. I dont really pay attention lol.
by eleen
20 Mar 2011
Interesting. My kid just learnt in geography that a hurricane does turn in the opposite direction if it is in the southern hemisphere than it would if it was in the northen. The water might just flow out differently too. What is amazing to me is the steering wheels of the cars that is on the other side and driving in the right lane. I don't think I will be able to manage that. I can not think that I will be able to change gears with my right hand.
by hightechgrammy
20 Mar 2011
The water is in the toilet so it doesn't stink so bad when it plops in there - LOL - doesn't your Loo have water in it??
Our water in the tub spins counter-clockwise when it drains and so do the hurricanes. Don't you have cyclones that spin clockwise? Which way do your doorknobs turn? Is your cold water on the right and hot on the left? I'll bet is it hard for drivers changing from one side to the other! I guess the Earth isn't so large that the phases of the moon aren't any different at least! How in the world did anyone figure all of this out?!?!
by danababes
20 Mar 2011
lol @ the toilet! Yeah, our loos have water but I guess we're conservative so there's only enough water to cover the s-bend/trap (to keep the stinkies at bay). Our cyclones do indeed spin clockwise (I believe). Doorknobs in my house turn either way but some houses have posh ones that you push down on to open. Hrm the tap thing..taps in my house are hot on the left and cold on the right, but I always get burned at my mom & dad's house coz they're installed the other way round and oh my they're water is well over the 60C its supposed to be set at. I guess it makes for a great adventure travelling to the USA from down here lol, so many changes to cope with.
by meganne
21 Mar 2011
I couldn't manage driving a car in the States and even my American husband kept forgetting how to do a U turn, he got himself all confused and ended up in the left side lane instead of the right.
Trouble was he kept wandering into the left lane while we were driving too.
I kept going to get into the car on the driver's side, which of course is the passenger's side here in Aus.
And I often now find myself walking on the right side of shopping malls and escalators and footpaths, instead of our traditional left side.
It can get very confusing.
One thing I miss here in Aus is a good hotdog. America has the best hot dogs and those little Links sausages, Makes my mouth water.
I'll have to visit once more before I die, just so I can go back to New Orleans and have some Gumbo and Nacho's made from turtle meat. And I still haven't tried Pumpkin pie but I do LOVE key Lime pies.
OK, now I'm hungry. :-)))
Hgs, meg
59631Christmas with snow? What... no BBQ (with flies lol) outside on Christmas day? No boxing day at the beach getting a tan (or another BBQ at a friend's house)? lol nothing wrong with a traditional Aussie Christmas :) xXx
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by hightechgrammy
19 Mar 2011
What do you cook for a traditional Aussie BBQ on Christmas? Please don't tell me it's kangaroo! or wombat!
What does Santa wear if not a furry red suit and black snow boots? What is a traditional Aussie Christmas???
(We don't have flies here, even in the summertime.)
by meganne
20 Mar 2011
Well, for Christmas lunch, I still follow the family tradition of Roast Pork & hot apple sauce, Roast Turkey with macadamia (sp?) nut stuffing and Cranberry sauce and Pineapple and Cherry Glazed Ham, all served with crispy baked potatoes, butternut pumpkin & sweet potato and steamed fresh green beans and peas and gravy mad from the pan drippings if anyone wants it.
Follow that with home made plum pudding and hot custard and Frozen plum pudding with brandy sauce.
Then we all sleep the afternoon away until we get peckish and go and raid the leftovers for dinner.
I have also gone with having all the meats cold with salads and plenty of fresh king tiger prawns, but I still prefer the traditional Christmas.
Hugs n roses, Meganne
by hightechgrammy
20 Mar 2011
Everything sounds delicious! Especially the cherry glazed ham - yummy. I've never heard of peckish before, but I think we've felt that way :-). Thanks for the traditional information, I love learning about other families! I'd love the ham glaze recipe...
by danababes
20 Mar 2011
For my family, lunch is usually the traditional British roast (as that's where we're from), but dinner is a BBQ outside with steaks, snags (sausages) & prawns with salads and all the crunchy fatty snacks one has at a get-together lol (potato chips, crackers & cheese etc). Dessert is jelly (jello?) & icecream or Christmas pudding & custard.
I wish I could remember the site where I saw Santa and his 6 white boomers (kangaroos) as an embroidery design - wearing a singlet shirt, boxer shorts, thongs (flip-flops) and is very sunburned lol. Tho Santa at the shops when you take your children for photos does wear the red suit (and is usually sweating lol).
I've never eaten wombat but out here in the wheat-belt where I live the kangaroos are a menace to the farmers and are culled. Till I moved here I'd never eaten it, but it really is nice..very low fat and choc-full of iron .. yummy :)
I envy you for not having flies! xXx
oh, and peckish = hungry (you're not starving but you just feel like topping up your tummy).
by pasokon
20 Mar 2011
I have lived in North hemisphere for many years but I'm from the South. Everything in life seems to be the same to me, but the mother Nature. Yes, water twirls to the opposite side here in the South part, and no, heaven is different, just the opposite of the North, as the seasons are too. I hate bath tubs. When I lived in the North, I hated to clean that thing, as I lived in a rent house, it just came together, no choice, but was never used by my family. I love shower, running water, clean and refreshingly as I want to turn after a deserved shower. BTW I love your nickname and your humor. I laughed a lot.
by pasokon
20 Mar 2011
Oops, my comments were meant to be for the other topic about the baths tubes and twirl water..
by hightechgrammy
20 Mar 2011
I've had a LOT of fun with this strand too! It is really fun having friends all over the world and examining the differences and the similarities! But, I'm still not sure about the toilets in Oz. If you don't have water in them..... what do you have???
by meganne
20 Mar 2011
we have water in them, just not half way up the bowl. If it ever gets that way, then we know it is time to go get the plumber's plunger to "un-block" it. LOLOL!!!!
4309I think you're mistaken, this is the way the world looks to us, always has. :-)))
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122864I would hate to tell you that many from the southern Hemisphere who would never have seen snow. We are so lucky as we can get OUTSIDE with friends over Christmas. So much more fun than freezing. Lyn Should give you only a half of a flower. L
29801Which way is up...depend on your point of view! hehehe...Hugs Sally
24342I dont usually have snow at Christmas and I live in the Northern hemisphere, its not all covered in the white stuff the other side of the equator
115778Christmas without snow!!! We don't have a choice. We don't have snow at all here. As for standing upside down... doesn't everyone walk that way?????? Oh dear is that why my hair is always a mess. You are the hightechgrammy please help!!!!!! graM. Sorry, Marg
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24826We think you are upside down, ha,ha. Here in South Africa, we have sunny braaidays (barbeque) even in Winter, and never see snow. I must say only on the tips of the mountains that are high. Our Christmasses are actually all we know (sunny), and I always wanted to be somewhere for one white Christmas.
Hugs and God bless
Marietta
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by hightechgrammy
19 Mar 2011
You are ALL invited to my house for a guaranteed WHITE Christmas next year! Bring your sewing machines and I'll furnish all the Hot Chocolate and will provide some real moose looking in the windows.
by hightechgrammy
19 Mar 2011
We don't actually eat moose here, but we do eat buffalo, or Bison. It's low in cholesterol and delicious. But, at Christmastime our grill is covered and we don't use it much because it is just too darn cold to cook outside. The food would freeze while we try to cook it - lol
15907Do we really know which way is up ,hehehehe
You dont miss what you done know, so hot christmas days is all I know, although I was born in England, but came to Australia when I was 2 ,so have no memory of that, I do love the occasional rainy christmas day, and would love to have just 1 christmas with snow.
Monika
23581Sunny South Africa is great too! We have outdoor swimming during the Christmas Holidays.
My son always wanted a backwards clock, because here, our sundial does go round in the opposite direction. He fiddled his own clock to work with the hands turning anti clockwise. I embroided a face and altered the numbers .
Wonderful! We not only stand on our heads but we go backwards in time too.
Keep Warm!
From Bev
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by mops
19 Mar 2011
I have a clock that goes anti-clockwise. You have to view it in a mirror as the numbers are mirror-image; they call it a hairdresser's clock.
7875I live in Australia in Victoria and I dont see snow at any time in the year and I happen to think that my Santa looks pretty good with less clothes on Hehehehe
9459We're not standing upside down .. you are!!!! Sometimes I really wish we did have snow at Christmas because it is just soooo hot!!
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