Jurassic Park 3 when I was 9 for a friend’s birthday. I had nightmares about dinosaurs for weeks. I’m not really haunted by it any more but the scene where the skeleton in the parachute swings out of the tree is seared into my brain.

With blackjack and hookers?

Have I met these henchmen before?

It’s obviously the one in the country I live in. All the others that I have had zero experience with are from Satan.

As a hobby engineer/machinist I would say any “medium” sized mill but specifically Bridgeport mills are especially coveted by hobbyists.

If I found a reasonably priced Bridgeport even one that needed a bit of work, I would happily sell my Chinese machine and make some extra room in my workshop.

If you are going to repair something like this, always do a hydrostatic test to twice working pressure. It’s the only safe way to check for failure. But throwing it away was almost certainly the right choice here.

Considering how much beef we export I don’t understand why we would need to import any from anywhere.

My wife and I had a baby last week via elective caesarian in the Australian public system. It was a fantastic experience. The doctors and surgeons were amazing. The midwives were amazing and super helpful. We were there for three nights and nothing was ever a problem when we needed something. The only charge was the cost of a new birth control implant (the actual implantation was free).

They have also been doing follow up home visits to check how my wife and our baby are going since she was discharged, all still free.

I haven’t heard anyone call one of these a Slater since I was child. I thought I had imagined it.

Given that hammer arrangement it wouldn’t surprise me if it fires two small barrels at once.

What a coincidence, I’m a proud resident of one of Australia’s only four states.

Kangaroo has to be done right. A good kangaroo roast can be better than lamb or pork.

The good old milky milk.

My grandmother was always quick with a “bleedin’ 'eck”.

I didn’t want kids for the entirety of my twenties. I’ve been with my partner since we were 21 and she wasn’t keen on kids for that whole period either. We got married at 30 and it wasn’t long before we both felt like kids was something we wanted.

She is currently 35 weeks pregnant and we are both super excited about the impending birth of our daughter.

We have the occasional “Oh shit! What have we done.” But mostly we can’t wait to watch her grow and teach her about the world and do exciting things with her.

We know it’s going to be a huge change but we are very stable in our lives and the time is right for it. We are both really good at supporting each other by now so we know we can cope with change together.

I recognise that patch!

Knives, pointy knives, that burn with the fires of a thousand evils.

C# because I used to work for a company building asp.net web apps and now I know it too well that it’s just easier.

I also really like kotlin and that’s what most of my professional development is in now, but I find the kotlin coroutine library no match for dotnet’s Task API, so I’m not sure I could switch for my private projects.

Die Hard with a Vengeance. I’m leaning towards Samuel L Jackson but Bruce Willis would be a close second.

Clickspring on YouTube has built a replica, just ask him nicely