emu72

But Aussies don't need an education. Why waste time on that when there is sport to be played!!!

moneypenny20

Well that's one Australian put straight. How many more are there to convert?

moneypenny20

Sorry, only just seen this. Surely though, if it is a way of life, adverts would not be required telling people they need to plan for fires. It's because it has been a very dry few years, and the bushland has not been managed as well as it should that more fires have broken out in the last year or so? Therefore people have not had bushfires at the top of their agenda until now. Ergo, it's not a way of life for a lot of people.

stuckinblighty

Its wet where i live


and a bit cold

Hels Bells

If you get any karma for that well thought out, perfectly logical point, you better share it!!

Hels Bells

And that really IS a way of life....

NickyC

It's also not a way of life for most people, because most people don't live anywhere near any bushland and therefore are not the slightest bit threatened when one starts up!

stuckinblighty

yeah it sure is cos it makes you stay indoors for 6 months of the year.

To my mind that makes for an unhealthy lifestyle,you only need to see my fat belly to realise that

emu72

It doesn't matter if it has historically been a 'way of life'. If people are having to change the way they live to deal with the daily threat of bushfire then it is definitely a way of life now.

And on the subject of adverts, are the evils of smoking or drink driving something new? If not, your argument would mean that the adverts aren't needed.

cresta57

There are ads about speeding and drink driving they aren't new agendas either?

Hels Bells

What, for a couple of months a year?? Rubbish...and it may not be like that next year, in fact, probably wont. Or the year after...

and, as the point has been made, its a minority of the population who are effected. This is the major point which a few have been trying to make.

I am just finding this whole thing hilarious....

stuckinblighty

And as for that cillit bang advert ,god ... that man has changed my domestic house cleaning lifestyle totally.


Thank the lord for the advertising industry

moneypenny20

Granted. Just to be argumentative though, they run all year. Bush fire ads don't. Not even aware of having seen many of these ads anyway and like I said, bush fires (where I am) are not a part of my life. I need to go to bed. Will dream of locusts, pestilence, tsunamis, fires etc and hope to god I wake up in the morning.

Hels Bells

But the drink driving and speeding campaigns arent new and have been going as long as I can remember. Perhaps just new ads, but the same message for years...so yes, that is a way of life...unfortunately

emu72

I'm sure that is a great relief to all the people who do live in those areas and whose homes are at risk. And the thousands of firefighters risking their lives must be glad that they are wasting their time...