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Norwegians develop that taste at 13, or so I had an exchange student tell me.

Sure, pickle your organs 5 years before you're done growing, I thought to myself.

And I thought to myself that it must be the excess of raw whale meat that makes the Norwegians drink at the age of 13.

I think I'd drink if I had to eat raw whale meat.

Small bits, girl. Small bits.

Oh, kind of like liver and onions then?

There were some days when I was a kid and we had that for dinner, and I genuinely chose going hungry over having to eat it.

Sounds like what I'd do then. Only at my house, it was "onion loaf". (They made me eat it, and it took me 3 hours.)

So maybe in the rest of the world, the saying goes "eat the Elephant one bite at a time", but in the Nordic countries, it's "eat the whale one bite at a time."

This is news to me. I've never actually heard this saying before, but Google confirms it's legit.

The things you learn here.

In Australia, I imagine it's "Eat the giant arachnid with corrosive venom one bite bite at a time... if it doesn't eat you first."

I know this is an old stereotype of Australia, but the rest of the world loves you for it.

Yeah ... loves it from a safe, long distance.

In reality, though, most of them tend to avoid contact with humans, so you're really only likely to encounter them out in the wild. Except for redback or funnel-web spiders; you can find those critters even in the cities. Plus snakes in the grassy outskirts of some cities. And crocodiles in the far north ... seriously, stay out of the rivers there.

Encounters are still rare, though, so if you're just going about your daily business then she'll be right.

Isn't Australia the place on earth where anything that moves is poisonous? (Yes, us foreigners love this urban rumor, too.)

I'm glad I live in NZ. At least I can put my shoes on in the morning and go skipping through the grass without worrying about anything deadly.

My DSL woke up today! No more mobile connection! It's not especially fast but it's steady, that's what counts.

Lol, I was just about to post on this thread whinging about Australia's prospects in the World Cup.

But yeah, ADSL is always better than mobile Internet at home. I've only used a USB modem once, while I was in hospital, and I use the Internet on my phone more at home than I do outside.

It's perfectly ok to whine about Australia's prospects in any thread.

Okay, then.

Australia have just lost to the Netherlands 3?2. I'm not too disappointed, though, because it was a pretty good effort from the Socceroos.

I hear (from my hole under a rock, where I am trying to ignore all talk of football) that the Dutch are playing very well.