Mantas

Originally Posted By: Indo more sad news but how was this boy's courage? That's amazing. The ultimate sacrifice. If there is a god, this lad should get a gold pass.

Scar tissue. Anthony Kiedis, the lead singer of the red hot chile peppers. A gritty read about the life of a very talented, successful, hopeless drug addict.

Humiliation? Last time the pomms came over, they lost the series 5-Nil! Now that'a humiliation

Originally Posted By: pie-eater What does the Australian cricket coach actually do? Transport the team from the hotel to the ground. What do you call a world-class Australian cricketer? Retired. What do you call an Australian cricketer with a hundred next to his name? A bowler. Why can't Aussies get into their beer bottles any more? They don't have any decent openers. What do you call an Australian with a champagne bottle in his hands? A waiter. What would Paul Collingwood be if he were an Australian batsman? In form. Why could Ricky Ponting never be a funeral director?

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver what I don't get is that he is so huge, he can't walk, so SOMEONE must be feeding him........stop feeding him you ****!! Great! Now your trying to do someone out of a job.

Originally Posted By: kokodoko Congrats to all the poms. It only took yas 20+ years. muahahahah. but seriously, australia are crap. It's been 25 years since England won an Ashes series in Australia. We were played of the park. There are over two billion cricket fans around the world, just not many here on SJ's. It the second most popular sport after football.

You guys must crave all that stuff when living in Japan.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Nelson Mandela's autobiography Long walk to freedom. Not exactly a light read. Amazing story though. have you read the bit where he gets his foreskin sliced of with the edge of some kind of spear head?

This you Koko?

Originally Posted By: kokodoko Mantas, was that you behind me at Market Town bipping your horn? You barstard. Yeah, handicapped ?...my arse.

Shiny shiny tarazo tiled floors, Products blinged up to the max behind glass by a thousand halogen lights. Escalators to lift the fatties up to the food court to fill up on donuts. Air temp precisely 22.6 deg. Shop assistants with fake smiles too big for their mouths. Spending 20 mins. in the car waiting behind some lard arse who needs to park 10 meters from the escalator. Yeah I can see the appeal.

Like MB, Nine. The kids, wife and family are all healthy and happy. I've really enjoyed watching the kids thrive this year at school and with sport. My boy and I hung out together a lot this year surfing, snowboarding, footy and stuff. I snuck in a boys surf trip to Indonesia for 2 weeks which was awesome. Thanks to a busy prosperous year retirement plans are almost back on track. Looking forward to 2011, especially June when we do a month family trip to Indo.

4 beers...feeling good today, ha ha ha

They're called shops. Remember them?

And who could forget. 99 Luftballoons

Originally Posted By: snowhuntress We had a great Christmas Feast - Turkey - Roast Pork - Ham - Candied Yams - Garlic Beans - Spinach Stuffed Onions (YUMMY) - Pumpkin - Baked Potatoes - Cauliflower and Broccoli Au Gratin THEN for Dessert Pavlova - Pumpkin Pie - Pecan Pie - Trifle - Plum Pudding. Think I put on about 5 kgs Oh well I will just have to ski hard in Japan to lose it. Candied Yams? Please explaaaaain.

I'd rather stick pins in my eyes than go to the mall here at the moment. It's absolutely heaving with grumpy, rude, city tourists.

You just don't see enough mullets these days.

My life is usually a hundred mph. I'm enjoying slothing around and eating fine food for a week. Mind you, a lot of that slothing around is done on the beach, don't think I'd like to be snowed in a three hundred miles from the nearest chair lift.

We had a whole turkey on the BBQ and it was sensational. Still eating it today. I can't believe how much meat came off one bird.

Stiens! Beerhalls and stiens..yes, yes, Germany is a wonderful place.

I'm trying to think of something I liked about Germany...... I'll get back to you....

Originally Posted By: panhead_pete Hey Mantas any ideas how much it cost your brother for the 10kx system and who supplied it? It cost him 44k Aus. So it's roughly a 4-5 year pay back. There are 58 panels! Competition was fierce here whilst the feed in tariff was up at 60c so just about every operator was offing similar deals. So are other states still offering a high feed in tariff?

My 1.5 kW solar grid feed system is up and running now. I'm selling power back to the grid for 66c a kW/hour. The power I buy would average about 20c kW/hour. The 66c deal has dried up now (and a large chunk of the solar industry with it). I wish I had a gone for a larger system. My brother has a 10kW system. He will generate about $10 000 worth of power a year for the next 6 years. It been a while since I've seen an LED light but the last one that I saw didn't throw much light out, even though they are very bright to look at.

Originally Posted By: Tubby Beaver Of course, most other people also generalise and pigeon hole but I've always wondered where these "Super Whites" considered themselves from that they don't appear to give themselves a label.......do they just think that they are "American" with no ethnic prefix? Is that what makes them look down on all the other groups of "whites" as well as blacks, hispanics etc etc You raise a very good point TB. It's not a lot different here in Oz either. It always amuses me what people's definition of an 'Australian' is. I wouldn't say it's an outwardly malice racial