• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Australian Humour/Humor

duggoey

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I think a few of these links have been posted before, but since there are a fair few Aussies who use Cafe Husky now I thought it would be helpful to enlighten our international friends in regards to our often dry, sarcastic and dark sense of humour/humor. Sometimes in conversation we are misinterpreted as coming across as being rude or obnoxious. With the odd exception I'm sure, in general most Australians are a pretty friendly bunch and for some of us (me) it is common to subtly (sometimes not so subtly) weave our dryness and sarcasm heavily into interaction general, with no hurt intended.

Note I do not work for tourism Australia, our new government has probably disbanded it/merged it with some irrelevant and already overloaded department anyway (example of a poor attempt at Australian humour)..


http://australia.gov.au/about-australia/australian-story/austn-humour


The first 10 minutes of Carl Barron's stand up explains it all, if you can understand the slang.
View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NP0KquF_lg
 
Holy crap, I would fit right in then. Pretty much describes my personality and I grew up in Midwest USA.

That's even more reason for me and the Wife to check out Down-under. Plan to visit there in a decade or so for my early retirement celebration trip.
 
turboslacker said:
Holy crap, I would fit right in then. Pretty much describes my personality and I grew up in Midwest USA.

That's even more reason for me and the Wife to check out Down-under. Plan to visit there in a decade or so for my early retirement celebration trip.
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Best time to visit is now, you guys are getting out of a recession and we might be heading for a bit of one. Plus our is dollar poorer than its been for a while too.
 
I spend 2 years of my life in Australia and its an amazing country.

Not that I want to live there (where I am now is better for me) but Australia is close to my heart for sure.

the nature is blowing you away (unheard of when you're from Europe)

Robert-Jan
 
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