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***Official*** West Indies tour of Australia, Jan–Feb 2024

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Gnske said:
To address the cricket though, JFM in early is a high IQ move and progressive. Same with Bartlett, not sure where he's been all Shield season, should be playing over Sandhu unless he was injured conveniently right up until the BBL.

I don't care if Sandhu's taking them at 25 a pop, just about anyone with a bowling licence is at the moment.
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Bartlett has been wrapped in cotton wool for years and only had his first bowl of the season the week before the BBL
 
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social said:
Brisbane always feels warmer due to its inland location whereas at least the GC usually has coastal breezes to keep things in check but hasn’t been that way recently

Last few days have seen bright blue skies but place is like a sauna away from the beach

We have a nursery in the hinterland and had to move as many young plants as possible into shade/greenhouses with refrigerated misting system running as they were wilting by 9am
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Yeah GC's been terrible recently. Worst heat I've felt during summer in a while.
 
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social said:
Very weird

Get fried by the sun while being melted by the humidity

It’s like the worst time of the year in Dubai
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Humidity is the pits. It makes all the difference when it's hot. We had a 43 degree day in Crete last year, but when you got in the shade it actually made a difference and you could cool down.

There's nowhere outside which offers relief when it's humid. The humidity is in the top 20 reasons of why Brisbane is the arsehole of Australia.
 
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Burgey said:
Humidity is the pits. It makes all the difference when it's hot. We had a 43 degree day in Crete last year, but when you got in the shade it actually made a difference and you could cool down.

There's nowhere outside which offers relief when it's humid. The humidity is in the top 20 reasons of why Brisbane is the arsehole of Australia.
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Give us 5 of the other ones
 
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Spark said:
Not to be dramatic but 35C at 90% RH isn't horrendous, it's borderline uninhabitable
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It's a bit of a 'xaggeration, that sort of humidity at 35 occurs almost never.

Right now in Brisbane it's 35 with a 25.8 dew point for 58% humidity and an apparent temperature of 40.6. That's superbly awful.

In general you could consider dew points over 20 high and over 25 very high and deeply unpleasant. Over 30 is rare anywhere and can be seriously life threatening to anyone working outdoors, especially as it will often occur with extreme air temperatures.
 
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Nintendo said:
Mcgurks a fine call as a maxwell backup. What other young bat can replicate Maxwell's odi batting numbers? Davies maybe?
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Seems quite "conforming to immovable template"–esque when you put it like that.

Anyway, I doubt it will work. But getting Fraser-McGurk in early before he falls to pieces isn't a horrible strategy.
 
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Starfighter said:
It's a bit of a 'xaggeration, that sort of humidity at 35 occurs almost never.

Right now in Brisbane it's 35 with a 25.8 dew point for 58% humidity and an apparent temperature of 40.6. That's superbly awful.

In general you could consider dew points over 20 high and over 25 very high and deeply unpleasant. Over 30 is rare anywhere and can be seriously life threatening to anyone working outdoors, especially as it will often occur with extreme air temperatures.
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Didn't say it was common tbf. But the wet bulb temp has to be into the thirties which no joke would be lethal heatwave territory if it lasted any decent length of time. IIRC the mid-00s heatwave in Europe had wet bulb temps which were 28-29 at most and that killed tens of thousands of people, granted people there all live in ovens.
 
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Oh, sure. My apologies.

Firstly, it's inhabited by Qlders who are very backward. I know people may think I'm saying that in jest, but I'm actually not. There's the odd good one, but really, they're mostly that Alabama Man action figure from South Park come to life in an antipodean setting. They're so parochial it's embarrassing. I remember Wally Lewis reading the news one time when I was up there, and Wimbledon was on. So he's like "Qld's Sam Stosur has won through to blah blah blah", then she lost the next round and he's "Australia's Samantha Stosur has been bundled out..."

The whole location of Brisbane is ****ing awful. And this also goes to the stupidity of Qlders. The State has thousands of kms of pristine beaches, but they built their capital city slightly inland on a sh!t-coloured disgrace of a river which is prone to flooding. They realized the error of their ways, albeit about 150 years late (they're slow) and built a fake beach on the southern bank of the river to try (and fail) to make it appealing.

The restaurants, hotels, pubs and bars are truly woeful. It's 1967 everywhere you look up there in hospo.

Nothing happens there outside of rugby league. Nothing wrong with rugby league, of course, but it's genuinely otherwise a sporting and artistic wasteland.

Lastly, all Brisbane serves as is the gateway to everything else in Qld. That should be its tourism catch phrase - "Brisbane - Boring as Bat **** But You Can Hire a Car and Go Elsewhere." There's just nothing attractive there at all. Nobody wants to stay there - I'll wager it has the highest ratio of day tripping Australian business travelers, because the only good thing there is the Qantas lounge in departures.
 
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Tbf, you can get from Brisbane to Broadbeach or Mooloolaba in the same time as you can get from Sydney to Penrith
 
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Burgey said:
Yeah, like I said -

Brisbane: The Gateway to Everywhere Else!
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Yeah, and nobody flies to Sydney to get to Penrith.

Which reminds me of the absurdity of the Campbelltown Council spending millions to maintain the Campbelltown Tourism Centre.
 
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