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I am watching and Australian TV series, McLeod's Daughters. It is a group of women running a horse, cattle and sheep ranch. modern day. It's a good series with good acting and I have a couple of questions. They have a rifle that they use at times. I is a very small caliber rifle, with what looks like a 5 round magazine. When they load the magazine the rounds look like a 32 caliber pistol round at the largest. Second question, on their small 4 wheel drive trucks they call them a Ute? Just curious, it's a great modern day Western by American standards with extremely beautiful women.

They had to shoot a feral hog that was causing problems, we have a big problem with feral hogs in Texas. Your ranch life in Australia is pretty much the same as ours.
 
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I happen to know Bridie fairly well, she would have to be one of the beautiful women you speak of?
And she is a genuinely beautiful person in real life too, more than just skin deep and acting.
I live in a very beautiful country of stark contrasts
I have friends who legally own firearms too.
I choose not to.
 
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I happen to know Bridie fairly well, she would have to be one of the beautiful women you speak of?
And she is a genuinely beautiful person in real life too, more than just skin deep and acting.
If you see Bridie tell her that she has fans in the U.S.A. along with the other actresses' in their series McLeod's Daughters. I have found that Australia has very entertaining TV shows and movies.
 
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I'd love to tour Australia but I doubt I ever get the opportunity. One can dream about it though...

I'm glad I did get to spend 5 days in Perth back in 1980 though. Beautiful town, women, and beaches. The gents were friendly too. Everything was very clean. I respect that. Too many trashy people in America with no respect for the land or themselves.
 
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I have been watching it also and on one occasion had to google the show script to understand what was being said. Even though I like the show, I probably will not watch it much longer due to the difficulty in understanding the spoken words.
 
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In Mr. Inbetween, there is lots of very quiet dialogue, lots of colloquialisms, and lots of short sentences so there is lack of context to help you know what they are saying. Coupling this with the Aussie accent and slang coupled with cultural references that I do not understand and it makes it very hard for me to follow the dialogue.
 
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Sounds like the whole concept they are using could make it hard for anyone to understand, follow it. I'll have to see if I can find it and see for myself. Doesn't sound like I would care for it. There is a lot of British TV/moves like that. Kind of like some ones mind just wondering on.
 
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I have also struggled with understanding the dialogue in some of the British movies by Guy Ritchie. Many of his action movies feature extensive staccato dialogue by characters with very strong cockney accents. I love movies with creative dialogue such as most of those from Quentin Tarantino and Guy Ritchie's movies are like that but I struggle with understanding what they are saying. Yes, I understand that the boxer character played by Brad Pitt in the Guy Ritchie movie Snatch was not meant to be understandable. I thought this was very funny. I objected to the lack of understanding of the dialogue by characters I was supposed to be able to understand :)
 
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Hi NAB, in Oz utes started as carbodies with a tray back on it, integrated to the bodywork. Drive it round the farm during the week, to church on Sunday was one of the original Ford slogans. An el Camino is the same idea. It's not applied so rigorously these days, and now applied to pick ups generally. Google WB Holden ute images for the epitome of the style.
You've noticed that Oz film and media take a lot of liberties with how they show firearms. Let's face it, no one is going to shoot feral pigs with a .22 or something firing .32 pistol rounds. Not if they want to survive the experience.
We have them at Obi Obi from time to time, I use an old full wood Lee Enfield,which for many years was a pretty standard on farm rifle.
I haven't watched the show, but we don't get broadcast TV here, so I lived for over 40 years without it. My lovely wife arranged for free to air satellite TV several years ago (federal govt subsidy to get it, they want people watching TV), I watch it occasionally but haven't turned it on yet.
I tend to log in here instead. Although if another TV show called Mystery Road turns up, have a watch. (I'm not 100% consistent).
 
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Perhaps feral pigs are preferable to glamorous movie actors :)
 
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Mmm, dunno. They filmed a low budget movie called Boar down the valley a bit, near Kandanga............
 
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Sorry all. I posted the wrong YouTube link. Right movie, but this one is the original movie trailer, rather than the one for the DVD release. It shows the local countryside a bit better, and has a bit more drama.
If you want to visit the old Kandanga pub shown in the movie, you are too late. It burned down not long after the movie was shot.
It had the biggest boars head I have ever seen mounted on the wall behind the bar. Pigs give the local Macademia growers a hard time, they estimate pigs get 15 to 20% of the crop.

 
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Here you can hunt wild pigs year around and they have used the Army and gun ships to kill out highly infested areas. A young pig is not bad eating. My dad use to trap them and smoke the meat with mesquite wood. They can tear up a field and root up a pasture. Many people do not realize pigs are carnivorous. If you can get the American series, Deadwood, they feed the people they kill to the hogs. The show is a dramatized series about the town of Deadwood, South Dakota in Indian territory in the 1800's. It's where Wild Bill Hickok was killed. Hickok and Calamity Jane are both buried there. They made a movie after the series ended to wind the series up. The town is near Sturgis, South Dakota.
 
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We finished the McLeod's Daughters series. It was amazing how much the United States and Australia's ranching life is. Quarter horses, breeds of cattle, rodeos and the way they dress. The language is a little deferent but I picked up on it fast. Saddles are little different. I think that the U.S. and Australia have much more in common than most of us know.
 
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I am watching and Australian TV series, McLeod's Daughters.


Hey NAB,. another Oz movie recommendation for you:. Goldstone.
Beautifilly filmed, in a harsh landscape. Made me plan a ride out to Cobbold Gorge. Not sure if it's on Netflix.
 
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Thanks, we have other media channels to find it on. The USA doesn't have anything on Australia's TV and movie productions.
 
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I just watched a trailer on Goldstone. It looks like a good movie. I can get it on several channels, including Nexflix.
 
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Watched Goldstone last night on Nexflix. Good movie. Much of Australia's terrain looks the same as America's. Y'all have Aborigines, we have American Indians. Did Australia have wars with the Aborigines like we did with our native American's
 
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Yes, but for many years they were a blind spot in Australian history. Pretty one-sided in the body count too. Armed resistance to the invasion went on to the 1920s in some remote parts.
 
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Hey NAB, another viewing recommendation for you. Fires, a 7 part series, currently on broadcast TV here. Episodes set against the background of the 2019/2020 bushfire season, starting in Queensland, where our fire season is in spring, moving south as the year progresses. Very good viewing, combining news footage with great special effects.
You will be able to watch it on our national broadcasters free streaming service: ABCiview
They are uploading the episodes after they broadcast them, currently up to episode 4.
I never want to be more closely involved in a firetruck burnover than watching episode 1.
 
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Looks like it's gonna be on CTV Drama channel in Canada.
No listing for a US channel.

Might end up on a streaming platform eventually.
 
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Never watched tiger king and really don't plan on it so you'll have to let us know what episode your car shows up in.
 
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Not misinformation it's common for companies to limit access to media like that to their own country. UK BBC does same thing. Annoying but understandable.

Hopefully that series makes it's way onto one of our streaming platforms eventually. Maybe Netflix or something like that will pick it up after it's finished the season.
 
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Been a while since I've been in here recommending Oz movies, but gonna give a strong recommendation for The Dry. Set in our wheat belt area, against a drought background, 324 days since the last rain. On Netflix currently here.
 
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