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Been Caught Buttering is also the name of the classic Pungent Stench album.

Having been to uni (twice for two separate degrees) and my wife just finishing hers, I can say we don't do frat houses. There are residential colleges but these are open to anyone with cash and most are geared to international students. The university I attended actually had no soul and no vibe at either Hobart or Launceston campuses. The student unions were not interested in promoting any kind of culture or life. Nearly none of the undergraduates I knew were really interested in what they were studying and most spent as little time on campus as required. They also weren't very politically driven even among the students doing political science. Students were literally there to get a bit of paper and that was it. Most of the students were about as intellectual as the dumbest bogan. I found it very, very, very disappointing. My wife had similar experiences except of course things had deteriorated between when I was there last in 2005 and when she started in 2015-ish. When I've been to uni to pick her up it is largely empty. Most students now go online or simply don't attend anything except compulsory tutorials. The university now struggles to attract and retain teaching staff cause it treats them like shit. The university has been embroiled in scandals by basically passing fee paying foreign students without them completing work (nearly all Aussie unis do this). One of my mates was head of school of IT - he lost 2/3rds of his teaching staff over last few years. He became head of ethics and ended up taking a voluntary redundancy and has nothing but contempt for them. The university's main concern now is property development and churning money from international students.

Overkill - Under The Influence Pestilence - Testimony of the Ancients -one of my favourite 1990s DM albums. Strapping Young Lad - City - more 1990s goodness.

Yes sadly it's starting to feel like summer. My allergies have gone from nearly none to out of control.

Well said. We are strange creatures.

Win-win situation. Lot's of people like watching violence - I mean how many people are going to see new Avatar right now? In any case real war is far more interesting than movies etc. There's not just the application of magnificent amounts of firepower but also the strategies, tactics, doctrine, technology, the personalities. I still remember getting a sense of exhilaration of watching a Serb jet attack a local Croatian ammo dump...though spending the rest of the day in a basement whilst ammunition cooked off was a bit meh. 😁

With regards to watching sports and following sports teams, I don't get it. I don't understand why watching other people play a game is so entertaining or exiciting. I really don't understand why people go for teams outside their own geographic area. I also don't understand why people are often fanatical for a team, let alone one that has nothing to do with where they live. I did used to like watching UFC when it was more wild brawling and less rules and there was plenty of blood. But I enjoyed the violence of it just like I enjoy the violence of watching war. I couldn't care less who won or lost as long as there was copious amounts of barely regulated violence.

Cavalera Conspiracy - Blunt Force Trauma

I am the same but it used to better. At one stage we even had a dedicated metal store! I order through the local shop or Utopia and Resist Records (both in Sydney) and sometimes Nervegas.

I miss record stores with good metal selections. There's one in Hobart but the ones up here aren't that interested in metal even though it sells.

Actually it was in about 5,000-10,000 years or so of arrival. Noting Aborigines took a long time to spread across continent some areas were cleared sooner than others. Also up to 10,000 years ago Aboriginal populations were much smaller. As such Tasmanian megafauna survived up to 41,000 years ago whereas certain mainland areas were already cleared by then. Archaeological record shows a decline in tool sophistication not long after megafauna became largely extinct.* *Only about half a dozen species survived to arrival of Europeans - saltwater crocodiles, emus, cassowaries and a couple of species of kangaroo.

Humans. Even the aboriginals wiped out Australian megafauna in a very quick time. Anglo-Europeans just made the whole process more mechanical. It made sense given the limited scientific knowledge available. Also foxes and rabbits were introduced to allow British settlers and especially the rich to engage in their usual hunting hobbies. And in some cases like gorse it was introduced because locals were nostalgic or wanted English style hedges and ornamental plants.

Last full length of their's I really liked. Black Sabbath - Paranoid High Command - Beyond The Wall Of Desolation Ironhawk - Ritual of the Warpath Motörhead - Another Perfect Day

Actually the Europeans brought in the Afghans in to operate the camels. The wild pigs are probably one of the most vicious critters in the outback. They have hunters who use large calibre weapons and dogs clad in armour. Father in law had the joy of hunting them from a helicopter using an ex-army SLR L1A1 battle rifle (semi auto rifles are illegal in Australia for most part but are allowed in rural remote areas for pest eradication). Here's a pic of one of the biggest wild pigs caught in Australia.

I'll bet most folks here don't know that some of the most common wild animals in Australia are imported - cats, foxes, rabbits, pigs camels, buffalo, horses, cane toads, deer. Indeed Australia has the biggest wild camel population on the planet.

Funny thing is for most Australians' the most deadly thing they encounter are humans including themselves - ie motor vehicles and lifestyle choices that lead to heart disease/cancer/diabetes/etc etc. Your average Aussie is a suburbanite and only ever encounters spiders. I've seen as many snakes in the wild in a two day visit to Plitvice national park in Croatia as I have in 38 years of living in Australia. And I do a little bit of walking through reserves and short bush walks. Being a noisy bugger helps - snakes don't like noise/vibrations so slither away when it gets noisy. Croatian snakes apparently didn't get the memo.

Random photo from Google.

Nail hit on head.

I totally agree with your assessment.

Another album I liked but shouldn't have cause it's not my usual jam. I'd say it was one of the better albums of the year. I would actually buy it if I saw it in a store. 😵 Oh and Father Befouled wasn't too shabby.

We spray as well....actually the wife gets a guy to come in to do it.

I didn't expect to like Hidden History but for some reason it really stuck with me. I still don't get why I like it. It does have a great sound but I usually zone out on proggy stuff. ---- At the same time I have no idea why I can't gel with a lot of modern DM. It all comes across as a bit tame. I do think production is one of the aspects. Modern DM seems to often stuck with this cavernous albeit warm and embracing sound - basically as pioneered by Incantation. It's like a nice blanket on the couch on a winters day snuggled up to the wife. It can be suffocating at times but I actually don't like when it gets to that point. There is the more visceral production that goes down the HM2 path which is the problem because they all end up sounding like Entombed/Dismember clone #5659127. And then the third production style - Nuclear Blast DM Production Template 101... The other thing is composition. For some reason modern DM bands just can't write catchy memorable tunes anymore. I want a Zombie Ritual or Eaten or Stranger Aeons or Tools of the Trade or Hung Drawn Quartered or Dead But Dreaming or Slaughter of Innocence or whatever. In fact that's what blows me out about the critics raving on about Undeath and Gatecreeper - these guys really struggle with writing memorable tunes. They're not even an exercise in ripping your head off like Napalm Death's From Enslavement to Obliteration. It's Mehcore or Mehmetal.

But they vuws you and just wanna be your fwiends! 🥰🥰 I actually like them. Amazing creatures - we have ones called badge huntsmen who have amazing "pictures" on their abdomens. Link to pics so I don't scare Relentless off: https://steemit.com/nature/@mostly.nature/the-badge-huntsman-spider-underside

That ones on my list of things to check out!

Metallica - Master Of Puppets Sinister - Dark Memorials Warbringer - Weapons of Tomorrow - actually a pretty good album Witchery - Nightside - OK but like most Witchery it suffers from lack of immediacy in the fast bits. I think this could be resolved by rawer production which would not just give the faster bits a bit more edge but make the occult bits more evil sounding. Just checking out Chaotian and I would say non-descript definitely applies. 😂 Sounds more interesting than Undeath though - at least they maintain the pace and don't zone out on autopilot in the mid paced sections.