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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2013 7:51:38 GMT
Yeah, it's not the first time I've had the window jiggle out of place like that because I wasn't careful and it opened up fully when I was trying to get it open only at the top, but normally I can jiggle it back in. But yesterday was impossible. I almost did that once. It did give me a bit of a scare.
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Post by Mari on Apr 19, 2013 7:56:27 GMT
I thought sliding windows were an Asian thing. Guess not. I'd never seen them before I went to Japan in any case. But you CAN open the window you have only a little pit, surely? Ours can be set at different angles.
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 19, 2013 7:56:43 GMT
I have never really understood the point of them. Just seems a lot more things to go wrong.
Mine have a useful feature that you can open them about half an inch and lock them again. Means that even if you leave them like that no-one can get in still, but air can pass through the place.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2013 8:41:54 GMT
Mine have a useful feature that you can open them about half an inch and lock them again. Means that even if you leave them like that no-one can get in still, but air can pass through the place. That sound sgreat.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 19, 2013 9:07:34 GMT
Ours don't have any feature like that. You either open it fully, or open it at the top but only at one angle which is quite big so it's impossile to sleep next to that in colder weather. The windows in the living room are a bit different and have a little hook (they did not originally but people complained because they could not even be opened only on the top so had to be fully opened) so that they can be opened at three different levels of openess.
In Australia (which is Asia btw region wise) we tend to have two types of windows. Either the sliding kind which are cool cos you can just open them a hair width when necessary. And older houses had these windows you would wind open from the bottom so you could wind them as much as you wanted. And in Australia we tend to have flyscreen/security screen.
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Post by Mari on Apr 19, 2013 18:16:25 GMT
I know about it being the same region, but I meant culturally. When I watch house buying shows, Australian houses always look a bit of a mix of American and British to me.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 19, 2013 18:26:29 GMT
Yeah, we are very mixed. Australian's have a bit of an identiy crisis at times. And are in denial half the time about being in Asia and proud about it the next! And very Asian influenced but also European/American.
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Post by Mari on Apr 19, 2013 18:44:16 GMT
Confusing! So where does Maori fit in?
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 19, 2013 23:50:54 GMT
Yeah, we are very mixed. Australian's have a bit of an identiy crisis at times. And are in denial half the time about being in Asia and proud about it the next! And very Asian influenced but also European/American. Huh? Am I reading that right? Some Australians think of themselves as 'being in Asia'? I rather thought they had their very own continent. Which was separated from Asia by the "nesias", Micro, Mela, Poly and Indo....aka "Oceania".
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 20, 2013 7:53:26 GMT
Well technically we are Oceania/Australasia as a continent but most of the time we're in Asia. Indonesia is closer to us than any other country I believe, including New Zealand. All the Polynesians, Micronesians etc we would call "islanders" and there are plenty of them living in Oz too.
As for Maoris, they are New Zealanders, nothing to do with Australia. New Zealand would definietly fall into the Oceania camp as it's much farther away from the rest of Asia whereas Australia is practicaly on top of it.
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Post by madmadeline on Apr 20, 2013 12:05:37 GMT
oh wow that must be extremely frustrating!
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 20, 2013 16:55:12 GMT
New Zealand would definietly fall into the Oceania camp as it's much farther away from the rest of Asia whereas Australia is practicaly on top of it. DOWN, 'TRALYA! DOWN! GET OFF ASIA'S LEG! NOW...BAD CONTINENT!
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 20, 2013 17:28:31 GMT
I think a lot of people think New Zealand is closer to Australia than it actually is, as it usually sits on the edge of the same map.
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Post by whollygoats on Apr 20, 2013 17:37:10 GMT
I think a lot of people think New Zealand is closer to Australia than it actually is, as it usually sits on the edge of the same map. And...no matter how poorly anybody assesses the distance between the New Zealand and its continental neighbor, Australia is, after all, the nearest thing of any note at all to NZ. If anybody is going to be close to the Kraken, it's gonna be the Kiwis.
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Post by Mari on Apr 21, 2013 15:03:51 GMT
As for Maoris, they are New Zealanders, nothing to do with Australia. New Zealand would definietly fall into the Oceania camp as it's much farther away from the rest of Asia whereas Australia is practicaly on top of it. Whoops, sorry.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2013 17:34:31 GMT
I always assumed that Oz and NZ were pretty close but that being said, they do have rather different climates .. .NZ is nowhere near as hot
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Post by Alvamiga on Apr 21, 2013 17:41:10 GMT
Australia is not infested with Hobbits, either!
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 21, 2013 17:53:23 GMT
Apparently the average distance between NZ and Oz is about 2200 km! That is even more than I was expecting. The closest points are between Tasmania and some fjord island part of NZ which are about 1400km apart.
PNG on the other hand is only 200km away and Indonesia 500km.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2013 17:59:29 GMT
Good heavens. I had thought really that they were about fifty miles apart when I was younger. Then I realised it was a bit more but had no idea it was that much.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2013 17:59:50 GMT
PNG must be a fascinating place btw .. do many Australians go there?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 21, 2013 18:04:30 GMT
It's popular, for want of a better word, to do the Kokoda trail - a grueling jungle march that was a defining WW2 battle for Aussies. Other than that, not so sure how much tourism there is. Lots go to Bali and Indonesia of course.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2013 18:07:43 GMT
I've a friend from uni who moved to Indonesia for a year to teach English and liked it so much that he's still there nearly ten years on
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Post by Mari on Apr 21, 2013 18:51:43 GMT
I never felt like Indonesia was a place I'd like to go. I guess I've seen too many films about poverty and news coverage about war between Christians and Muslims. Though I suppose it's got a lot of beautiful sights.
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Post by Moose on Apr 21, 2013 19:17:32 GMT
One topical story here in the UK atm is about a middle aged British woman who is about to be shot for drugs trafficking. I'd not have any sympathy with her if she'd just got a long jail term - she should not haev done it - but I don't agree with execution in any form.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 21, 2013 20:34:17 GMT
I never felt like Indonesia was a place I'd like to go. It's probably just your colonialist guilt.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 21, 2013 20:38:03 GMT
I think it could be interesting, but I'd be careful about where to go.
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Post by Mari on Apr 21, 2013 21:12:15 GMT
I never felt like Indonesia was a place I'd like to go. It's probably just your colonialist guilt. Possibly Feel the same about a lot of other countries though, and I don't think we ever were THAT international... (though we'd like to think/pretend that we are)
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Post by Miisa on Apr 22, 2013 5:19:10 GMT
I had a dream about going to Bali, but then that was taken from me and no other parts of Indonesia have ever made me want to go there. But then I don't really travel much by choice, so that isn't necessarily a fault in Indonesia itself.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 22, 2013 8:01:58 GMT
Do you ever visit your sister in Oz? You could stop in Bali or anywhere else in SE Asia on the way in or out. Very recommendable as a good way to break the long plane trip and the jet lag.
When we are back in Oz, you are all welcome to come visit us. For that matter, you are all welcome to come visit us while we're here in NL.
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Post by Miisa on Apr 22, 2013 17:56:52 GMT
I'll never go to Bali now, I know that. Thought of visiting Oz, but am not very travelly, so may never leave this country again.
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