Oh nothing really just wanted to share

This the latest release from tourism Australia…If you watch it passively, it seems a little childish and slightly cringeworthy. But if you view this as a short film and listen carefully to the dialogue almost the entire script has a secondary meaning. I think about 3-4 jokes in there only Australians would get…Any accents in these things will tell you who the campaign is aimed at…in this case obviously the US.
This is a much more realistic view of Australia I’ve seen in any campaign…showing things close up or from a different perspective. You may notice the NT received a good chunk of air time…and mention of my ‘Top End’…Larrakia land.
I’d be interested to know what you US mob think of this..?

 

I just found out this past Tuesday that I don’t have cancer, which is a good thing.

Went to the dentist for a checkup and teeth cleaning last month and the dental assistant noticed some white blemish looking thingee on the side of my tongue. She previously had worked in a periodontist clinic and said that the spot appears that it could be cancerous. She said not to worry and that when I came back (in 6 months) they’d have another look to see if it needed more attention. I said that nothing like that will happen and that I wanted to go see a tongue doctor to check it out asap, you know, just in case. So she made the appointment with the periodontist for later in the week. I thanked her for her professionalism and eagle eye in noticing such things.

So two days later I was in the chair at the periodontist’s office. She gave me a real good examination in there. She grabbed my tongue and pulled out on it as to check the tongue out real good. She twisted and tugged on it (the tongue) so hard it busted a blood vessel in my eyelid. Dang. That cleared up in about 5 or 6 days. She said that it could be pre-cancerous or it could be nothing more that a callous caused by the tongue rubbing on my teeth or by biting on it during a feeding frenzie. She didn’t say feeding frenzie, that was my words. Sometimes I do chomp on my tongue, especially during the post-choir practice munchies session. She called in her colleague for a second opinion and gave the same diagnosis. So they had me make an appointment with them in 30 days. If there was no change then the chances of it being cancerous was nil, but if it got bigger or changed shape they’d cut a piece out to be tested.

A good friend of mine is being treated for tongue cancer, and it is not a pretty thing for him. They had to cut out a piece of his outer thigh to reconstruct his tongue. He hasn’t even able to eat hard food for almost two years now, two years in January actually. Just smoothies and liquids. It’s been an incredibly tough journey for him to say the least, and that’s the first thing I thought about when the dental assistant first announced her discovery.

So I was very relieved to say the least when the periodontist said that it was just a blemish and not cancerous the other day. Now I can go back to smoking stogies when riding the lawnmower and BBQing. Yay!

 

Just spotted this...per head of population well behind New Zealand as is most often the case.... NZ 5m population, Australia 25m+, UK 68m+, Canada 39m... puts it into perspective.

 

Launceston artist Leoni Duff finally has her war painting hanging in the Pentagon - ABC News

Americans and Australians, fighting...and dying together.

(Launceston is in Tasmania - Where most of my recent ancestors come from.)

 

The above mentioned lecture at the WW2 museum.