Takes a bit of getting used to this whole opposite-seasons-to-the-majority-of-the-media-producing-countries. I remember in the middle of summer seeing adverts for a Jamie Oliver Winter Warmers cookbooks a while back and thinking "FUCK that".

State Of Origin is SO big in Australia, hadn't even heard of it before moving here. Saying that though, a lot of people looked at me blankly when I mentioned the Six Nations anyway. I have no idea why people pronounce the word maroon as "marone".

So yeah, this is a thread for anything and everything in the southern hemisphere, rolling indefinitely.