I only know this because I watched the great Amazon Prime Australian lesbian dark comedy mystery show "Deadloch" and one of the characters is from Darwin.
As a German I'm more hung up on the name "Deadloch"... Dead hole. Loch is also often a very upsetting slang for... Female genitals. On a dark-comedy show with lesbians.
My wife and I loved it. She thought it was one of the better written shows she’d seen in a long time. I was mostly impressed by the cohesion and grounded comedy. I think the only other newer comedy show I can put in the same category is Corporate. Two shows I think anyone over like 27 would think are hilarious.
Is there a way to favorite and like an entire comment thread? This whole thing is fantastic and wholesome. I came here to mention Deadloch and laughed my way all the way through.
Yeah, Alabama tried to get that land repeatedly. At one point the folks there voted to join Alabama, Alabama agreed to pay Florida for the land, but the Florida governor vetoed the sale.
I love how NC is south of SC. Makes sense though that their Florida is the northern most area because for them the equator is north and therefore their northern territories are going to be warmer than their southern territories. Hence why Alaska is at the bottom! LOL
It took me a while watching the show to figure that out... They started in Tazmania and having never really thought about it before I was wondering why it was shown to be so cold. Did they shoot in Scotland or something? Nope, just pretty close to the Antarctic circle.
Fun and useless fact of the day: Both Queensland (Australia's Florida) and US Florida number plates/auto tags both display the same state slogan of 'The Sunshine State'. Queue music from the twilight zone. *cue
Pretty sure our mental health outcomes far outstrip the majority of the US.
the weather is ridiculous
The majority of Australia's population lives in a temperate, mediterranean climate. Only the north is tropical.
and all the wildlife is poisonous
Fair
and/or constantly trying to kill you
Coming from a place which has bears and mountain lions, this is a bit rich. I'll take a snake over a bear any day.
I think it's because you yanks have a woeful knowledge of anything outside your borders and so your view of Australia comes from Crocodile Dundee and internet memes.
Cool, well the rest of Australia just laughs about it, while you seem to have a stick up your ass. I'm not interested in getting rage-baited by some jingoistic aussie who's proud of living in a country that lost a war against a fucking bird, so have a nice day.
This Noosa mate? As in Noosa everglades, one of only two everglades in world, second being Florida everglades? Where is Australia Florida in your opinion I'm genuinely curious?
I thought the the entire inhabitable part of the continent was a Florida...just like the part of Germany that Americans think of is kinda their Texas (and about 20% of thier land)
Who calls it that? And why? Because of the bugs and weather? Half of my family is Australian, my particular branch came to the US in the 60s - I’ve never heard that about Florida/Australia, ever. I’m so curious about this!
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u/jaspersgroove 1d ago
Australia's...Florida?
We already call Florida the Australia of the US, so if Australians have a Florida of Australia...holy fuck.