Lesley Carhart Aug 18, 2025
Australia apparent rules?
- Everyone is no more than one degree separated from knowing everyone else?
- You just keep getting handed wine?
- There are many bizarre things to hit in the road while walking, biking and driving. Yesterday we hit a boat motor.
- It’s 9c and people are barefoot?
Show threadI love this, so IAug 18, 2025

@hacks4pancakes 1. Yep pretty much. Every industry is small.

2. Yep pretty much. If you’ve got a wine glass in your hand or on your table, someone will always offer you a top-up or another. You’re allowed to say no thank you.

3. Yep. Wombats are especially dangerous to hit at speed.

4. Yep. Shorts and thongs (flip-flops) are 4-season wear.

Show threadStephen CollinsAug 18, 2025

@jpm @hacks4pancakes wombats are presently the bane of my existence, with 2 separate individuals having decided to dig under my fence and into my yard after 4 years of leaving us alone. They can *have* the entire remaining 99 acres ffs.

I am about to start an attempt to trap and relocate them.

And yes, they will *very* fuck your car. It's not the least reason people around here drive lifted 4x4 utes.

Show threadsortius 

@trib @jpm @hacks4pancakes I remember a ranger a Eildon telling me about how every camp season at least one person ruins their holiday speeding down the campsite at night and encountering a wombat.

Hitting a brick wall has more give

Aug 18, 2025 at 8:48amWeb
Show threadBiggles 20X6!Aug 18, 2025
@sortius @trib @jpm @hacks4pancakes they're notorious for tearing the drive train out the bottom of cars as they act like little mobile bollards
Show threadStephen CollinsAug 18, 2025
@Taco_lad @sortius @jpm @hacks4pancakes today's wombat/bollard as I arrived home.
Show threadsortius Aug 18, 2025
@trib @Taco_lad @jpm @hacks4pancakes hehehe, at least that one's keeping you on the track
Show threadStephen CollinsAug 18, 2025

@sortius @jpm @hacks4pancakes an interesting fact/comparison about where I live (a rural area with high wombat numbers): about 90% of our roadkill is wombats, which should mean the panelbeaters are swimming in insurance money, but the proliferation of lifted 4x4s probably shifts that.

By comparison, in Canberra, where I used to live, the same proportion of roadkill is eastern grey kangaroos. Whether you drive a ute or regular car, they will mess your vehicle up.

The only possible out when hitting a kangaroo being you have a bull bar (which many here in the Bega Valley do). But it's not guaranteed.

Show threadSteveSep 7, 2025
@trib @sortius @jpm @hacks4pancakes Roo's are the most common road kill around me, I see a dead roo every month or 2 when walking my dogs. Not even out in the middle of nowhere, the other side of the road has some shops and less than 100m from traffic lights.