Profile for sillybanana - Dear America,

sillybanana aka Kali is a 29.76 year old girl, has been a member since June 30, 2007, has scored 5570 submissions, giving an average score of 2.37.

URL: http://www.kidsartbykali.com.au/
AIM: darlinheart19

Jul 23 '08 by sillybanana

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Dear America,

in 3 days I will be on your soil.. I only have a few little requests.
Please please please can you keep the natural disasters to a minimum while I am there.I have seen enough movies on earthquakes and twisters to know those things are scary.

Also if i forget to tip your people please don't hate me.. I can't help it.. I'm Australian , I promise I will try to remember.

Yours sincerely
Kali xox

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Tess Fondie on Jul 23 '08 at 8:58am

you don't tip in australia?

tracerbullet on Jul 23 '08 at 8:58am

where are you going? hopefully not near any of the brewing hurricanes.

spanky85 on Jul 23 '08 at 8:59am

Tips?! Pssh! If you start tipping, I'll put a bullet in your apple juice!

SoulfumeInc on Jul 23 '08 at 9:00am

20%

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:00am

heheh No its not really a custom standard to tip here.. some people ask for tips but they usually get a smartarse comment like "look after your mother"

Im going to hawaii, chicago, boston, new york, LA ...eeep! hurricanes!

tracerbullet on Jul 23 '08 at 9:04am

well, boston and new york shouldn't be a problem

Tess Fondie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:08am

the hurricanes are in TX, you got nothing to worry about

tracerbullet on Jul 23 '08 at 9:13am

unless LA falls off into the ocean, but that's totally unlikely :-p

edean on Jul 23 '08 at 9:14am

you wouldn't have to worry about hurricanes anywhere other than the east coast...
if they're on the west coast they're called tropical storms

*ends smart-ass comment*

take lots of pictures, you should have a blast
are you going to the threadless store in chi-town?

sleepyfeet on Jul 23 '08 at 9:16am

ooh when are you going to be in NY? a bunch of the bloggers are having a meetup this weekend.

good luck and have fun!!

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:18am

OH! ive been watching documentaries on the Earthquakes in california!! do not want!

I'm just going to pretend that my letter to america will have some effect and nothing bad will happen :D heh

Yup i will be going to the threadless store , its going to be the only chance I will have ever in my life time , and yeah, i will be photo crazy :)

radiostaticstar on Jul 23 '08 at 9:18am

sounds like a fun trip!
happy trails and safe motoring to you...

sonmi on Jul 23 '08 at 9:19am

are there no natural disasters in australia?

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:19am

Tess, we don't have a culture of tipping.. Our wages are higher (maybe?) and tipping is not expected. Here you tip when you actually like your service.

downtownregis on Jul 23 '08 at 9:21am

haha I've lived in CA for 10 years (total), both northern and southern, and the only earthquake I've ever experienced was when I was in 4th grade, and it just felt like someone was kicking the back of my chair in class lol.
you will be fine i promise.

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:21am

Ill still be in hawaii this weekend i dont get to new york for another week and a half .. i think

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:21am

Good service is expected.

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:23am

Somni, we do but not as disasterous and frequent as you guys do, and they are mostly in the low populated areas.

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:24am

No sonmi, we are on the one plate so there is nothing like earthquakes or tremors..

We don't tend to get tornados or tsunamis or twisters. We sometimes get hurricanes but very very rarely.

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:25am

We get hurricanes all the time. They're called cyclones here.

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:25am

we have had one earthquake .. newcastle in the 80s thats the only one i have heard of that did any damage I think.

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:25am

The worst hurricane I can think of was in 94 in Darwin about Christmas time. But I was only 6 when that happened..

Most hurricanes don't even hit our shores..

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:26am

I thought it was physically not possible to have an earthquake considering we're on the one continental plate??

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:26am

Cyclones don't rip up houses , they make the surf bigger.

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:27am

Don't you remember paying $14 for bananas?

downtownregis on Jul 23 '08 at 9:27am

America isn't like full of natural disasters all the time, btw... haha...

Wiffler on Jul 23 '08 at 9:28am

would that be for regular bananas or silly bananas?

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:28am

Hahaha I totally do Squatterjohn, but I didn't think that one did as much damage as the 94 one??

Maybe it's just cos it was Christmas ;-;

Wiffler on Jul 23 '08 at 9:29am

Yeah! We only have hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes and wild fires...

sonmi on Jul 23 '08 at 9:30am

interesting! i always wonder about stuff like that, because i can't imagine not having natural disasters. stupid tectonic plates. not that i'm necessarily affected by those. just... tornadoes.

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:31am

Are you thinking of 1974, Jebbie?

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:31am

maybe

i fail at everything..

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:32am

Cos that was a huge cyclone, Cyclone Tracy, you're right, just a bit off on the date. It was hugely disastrous and prob the only one to ever hit a major city (and pretty much destroy it). We're usually lucky cyclones don't hit urban areas and suff.

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:33am

74! no wonder why i dont fucking remember it. i'm sure you do though old man

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:33am

We get fires :(

Tess Fondie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:35am

oh jebbie, here our waiters are paid like 2.50 because tips are part of their pay- thats cool about australia though

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:35am

You got the second number of the date right and the Christmas part. You were close.

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:36am

I'm so smart that I should be American.

Poor American waiters, Tess :(

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:36am

Thanks sj, appreciate the support :D

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:37am

Yeah 74 was well before I was born too , and where i live we get storms , but never tragic, and the cyclones stay out to sea, and no fires...so i am spoilt..and scared of bad luck in America.

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:39am

You're welcome, Jebbie.

Jebbie on Jul 23 '08 at 9:40am

We get fires near here. It was bad summer of dec 01/jan 02 if I recall.. We just came back from England and it was all hazy and the sky was gross and the sun was like burnt orange o.o

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:46am

Those fires were awful. They also happened at Christmas. They were maybe going to cancel New Year's and my dad thought it was all a plan by Osama bin Laden. It totally burnt the Royal National Park.

WarDrobeInSpareOom on Jul 23 '08 at 9:52am

Jebbie, I'm in the middle of a continental plate, and we still get the (very rare) occassional earthquake because of this.

My geology teacher also told us that it's been building so long without release that it'll likely kill us all. He liked the drama.

trindli on Jul 23 '08 at 9:55am

kali, you can keep watching this site if you are afraid of earthquakes.. it will probably not predict one since we can't do that, but you will see if there was one somewhere and then the risk around this area is increased (its only for california..)

and jebbie, it's possible that there are earthquakes in the center of plates, but less unlikely.. but you do have earthquakes in Australia.. proof:

http://www.quakes.uq.edu.au/seis_maps/l..

sorry, I stop now :)

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 9:56am

Thiswas Australias worst Natural disaster.. in 1989 13 people died

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:57am

Those earthquakes are all very, very small though. I doubt a Californian would even notice.

ladykat on Jul 23 '08 at 9:57am

Yeah, the American tipping system is total bull. Waiters should be paid at least minimum wage and tipping shouldn't be expected.

Either that, or it should just be incorporated into the food prices, like they do in Europe. It's insane that you have to add about 25 - 30% to your meal price for tax & tip.

squatterjohn on Jul 23 '08 at 9:57am

Kali means worst Earthquake, I'm sure.

sillybanana on Jul 23 '08 at 10:00am

sorry sj "one of the worst" according to wiki

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