A queston for all the Australians on the board
 

How's 2008 been for you so far? Should the rest of the world be getting excited about all the treats that the new year will bring?

the whole night i spent trying to get my friend with a girl he liked
did not matter at alll
im so drnk right now
but i got home safe
my pants are wet
was thrown into target spinklers whilst in a trolley
im so drrunk
told my gf i loved her
and she said the same back
god im wastted

Your 2008 is off to a great start, sounds like a night well lived, even if you have blurry memories of it all. Happy New Year.

disappointing,
belzebu failed again.


i want to see kangaroos in flames.

Its been too fucking hot.

it has been 43 deg c here so fucking intolerably hot.

the heat has been insane hasnt it aussies
the fires are fucking nuts
3 people were burned alive in trucks the other day
terrible

The heat in NSW hasn't been too bad yet. As opposed to other years anyway.

Typical Australian New Years eve.

I didn't drink. Two years in a row that I haven't drunk on NYE. It's great. I can't stand the drunk fools out.

i drank but swam alot and played tennis from about 3am - 5am, then swam some more and drunk some heavenly botrytis

This is such a pointless question, but I'll ask it just the same.
Is it weird having Christmas in the summer?

haha
nah not weird at all
for my family christmas often involves water fights, and getting water pistols for gifts so we can all play outside.

one year when much younger we all got these insane water pistols..but because we were so young we couldnt pump them, so my uncle just ran around squirting us

Summer Christmas owns. After christmas, you still have 5 weeks of summer holidays left.

But, do you still have winter break?

i dont know if our holiday system is different to yours
we have 9 weeks of school, then a 2 week holiday or something like that, all yr

then in november or december we start a 6 week holiday

i think..been a whilse since school

edt: i wrote off instead of of....prob made things sound weird

That sounds quite different. Grade school kids get July/August off, plus a week or so in December/January, and another in Spring.
College/university have more breaks.

it is only weird if you were born in another country that has winter xmas, but on the other side summer xmas rules as 90 percent of australians live on the coast

I had some drinks for New Years but avoided the crowds by keeping my party at home, this is me trying to look as confused as possible for some reason while holding champers:



and there is nothing wrong with a summery christmas/new year, as you can hang out at the beach and relax, here are some pictures I took today:

now you are just teasing all the people that have no good beaches, lots of pollution and terrible weather..... oh hang on, that is nearly everywhere but australia