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WCDT strips 4296-4300 (29th June to 3rd July 2020)
Tova:
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--- Quote from: hedgie on 29 Jun 2020, 20:24 ---Oblig Pratchett: ... a request for information about the harmless creatures merely produced a note saying "Some of the sheep"."
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I've always found that punchline a bit weird considering just how many non-deadly native animals there are in Australia. So many of them need protecting from introduced species like foxes and cats.
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bilbies
robertskitch:
Also numbats
robertskitch:
--- Quote from: Is it cold in here? on 29 Jun 2020, 22:18 ---Welcome, new person!
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Hello!
BenRG:
The real problem for Claire if she's serious about getting a job in Australia is the basically iron wall for immigrant labour of any kind. IIRC, you need to demonstrate that you can achieve a certain minimum income in the country starting immediately before they'll let you in. Oh, and to be brutally honest, her gender situation would not do her any favours with their governing culture either.
However, I do wonder if we're being given a hint here. A certain optical technology development firm has an Australian flightless bird as its mascot. Not all libraries are what we traditionally think of as 'libraries'. Sometimes they are more like technical archives but may still need skilled custodians. What I'm saying is that Claire may get a job with Invisible Emu to keep their technical archives and library in a better state than 'I think we left the box of awarded patents over there somewhere'.
Australia is a remarkably aggressive place in terms of its biosphere and even its geology to the point where TV Tropes. org has nominated it as the closest place on Earth one gets to a Death World. That said, the majority of problems in Australia seem to boil down to humans seeming to have no obvious common sense instinct when dealing with the habitats of large and dangerous territorial animals and a bizarre assumption that cute looking = safe. That's potentially lethal on any continent!
ZoeB:
--- Quote from: DaiJB on 29 Jun 2020, 20:57 ---"...they're not allowed in libraries."
True - not that I'd try and stop 'em. :wink:
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Oh, they're allowed in. But they're too afraid to enter. It's Evolution, the ones that survive know better.
Have you ever met an angry, or even slightly miffed, Australian Librarian?
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