Which is the worst Australian state?

[Alex]

Where is that place where there are a bunch of holes in the ground and people have to be careful of not falling into one? I don't remember what they try to extract from there.

Guessing it's Coober Pedy. Though not positive. You'd be doing well to fall into a hole.

People actually live in the holes, their houses are built underground.

They mine opals there.

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

Alex as a child did you ever read this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_(Australian_author)

 

[RobbieD_PL]

NZ is a better state than Tasmania

FYP.

 

[Bobby]

One of our biggest local celebrities is from Tasmania, Marcos Ambrose. Nice guy.

 

[Alex]

Alex as a child did you ever read this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Jennings_(Australian_author)

I certainly did. Loved him. Most Australian kids did.

All his good books started with un-.

Unreal, Uncanny, Unbelievable, Unbearable, I'm sure there are others.

 

[Alex]

One of our biggest local celebrities is from Tasmania, Marcos Ambrose. Nice guy.

The Nascar driver? He was a really good touring car driver before switching over. Not as good as Jamie Whincup, Craig Lowndes or James Courtney, but one of our best.

 

[Bobby]

Yeah, that one. He's really taken to the area and has a lot of fans.

 

[Mus]

Where is that place where there are a bunch of holes in the ground and people have to be careful of not falling into one? I don't remember what they try to extract from there.

The superpit?

 

[Back Door Skip]

Not enough people in Australia to bother. And there is no gold in the Australian desert...

Our mining towns are random out posts, like Fresno, they just have populations of 10-30000 instead. Broken Hill, Mt Isa, Coober Pedy, Karratha, Kalgoorlie etc.

Ironically I read somewhere about there being some mining town where most of the population lives almost exclusively underground. I don't know where, but I know it was in Australia.

 

[Mandieta6]

Cracked.com!

 

[Bobby]

I think Sepek means Wittenoom (SP?) in WA. It was an asbestos mining town and now the ground is unstable. About five people still live there, the rest left.

There's a town like that in Oklahoma called Picher.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

Ironically I read somewhere about there being some mining town where most of the population lives almost exclusively underground. I don't know where, but I know it was in Australia.

Coober Pedy. Didn't Alex already mention it in this thread?
They mine opals at Coober Pedy.

 

[regularcat]

Coober Pedy. Didn't Alex already mention it in this thread?
They mine opals at Coober Pedy.

isn't that the place smack in the middle of nowhere in the outback where people live in homes underground, i seen something on tv about it somewhere some time ago.

 

[RobbieD_PL]

isn't that the place smack in the middle of nowhere in the outback where people live in homes underground, i seen something on tv about it somewhere some time ago.

Yes, RC, Coober Pedy is the place where people live underground. They've carved their homes right into the rock underground in order to avoid the arid desert heat.

 

[Alex]

Coober Pedy also translates to White Men's Hole or White Men In A Hole, depending who you ask

 

[Sepak]

It's what Alex says, I just remembered where I saw it, in dirty jobs in the discovery channel, I said the thing about falling because of this sign

I also saw the name means "boys' waterhole"

 

[regularcat]

Yes, RC, Coober Pedy is the place where people live underground. They've carved their homes right into the rock underground in order to avoid the arid desert heat.

if they had indoor plumbing and electricity i'd move right in.

 

[Sir Didier Drogba]

I certainly did. Loved him. Most Australian kids did.

All his good books started with un-.

Unreal, Uncanny, Unbelievable, Unbearable, I'm sure there are others.

I used to have them on audio book

 

[Alex]

It's what Alex says, I just remembered where I saw it, in dirty jobs in the discovery channel, I said the thing about falling because of this sign


I also saw the name means "boys' waterhole"

That's wrong. Everything I've ever read says that it means "white man's hole" in a dialect of the Aboriginal languages. The Aboriginal term would more corrrectly be spelt "kupa-piti".

 

[Mus]

It's cooler underground and thats why