Mantas
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I'd think if any major crime agency in any country put in a year of covert investigation into their major sports they'd find rampant drug use and involvement of organised crime.
I agree.
It's time we had a good look at sport in this country. The whole concept of 'sport' has changed a lot since our grandparents day.
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"The secret of this delicious blend," enthuses the Indonesia Tourism Promotion Board, "lies in the bean selection, which is performed by a luwak, a species of civet cat endemic to Java. The luwak will eat only the choicest, most perfectly matured beans which it then excretes, partially digested, a few hours later. Plantation workers then retrieve the beans from the ground, ready for immediate roasting."
I seen those in Bali at a coffee plantation in the mountains but wasn't game to try the coffee. Anything made from boiled shit just doesn't seem right.
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If I pass do I automatically become Australian?
I'm a bit scared to do it just in case... I don't think I could ever come to terms with wearing those 'JR hats' that have corks dangling down from the rim. They just look silly.
Seriously, you have no taste Pie Man.
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So I guess he liked the first song?
Yep, he told me I should be on American idol then he hung up on the second song. It was Justin Biebers's Baby baby baby.. oohh.
The kids thought it was pretty funny.
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One just rang and I sang him a couple of tunes. Soon got rid of him.
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A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
Written in 1791
I've always wondered if the second amendment was really the basis of the current guns culture in the US.
If it is, then they are way off the mark.
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"Dont tell mum I work on the rigs. She thinks I'm a piano player in a whore house"
Very funny account of a guys life and times working on oil rigs around the world.
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Wild Swans, can't remember the author off hand, but its about 3 generations of women in the same family from before the war, through the chinese revolution
Read that years ago. Communism sounnds like loads of fun hey?
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Three ball point pens
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Did it last year. Never again.
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i want more offensive banter.
Poofter!!
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would you wanna be watching sattelite telly while your missus is curling one out next to you in a thatched hut??!!
I guess if you were desperately poor with no way out of it then the little money you have spare would go on things that add a little joy to life rather than the more sensible options.
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GN. My mother was left widowed with 4 young boys. The youngest just 2. I know all about living on the edge, believe me. I am comfortably finacial now and I can attribute that to my mothers attitude and the attitude of other influentual adults while I was growing up.
Unfortunately these people don't seem to have the right type of influences around them. I get that. But this is the only area where I would class them as poor. Otherwise they all get up in the morning and put the pants on the same way as everyone else in Australia.
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It might seem callous but I don't regard these people as poor by any definition. I've seen too many people in Asia and Africa living in dire poverty to feel compassion for this lot. People in India or Zambia would be overwhelmed with joy just to have two of the things I listed above. Social problems, drug and alcohol and a generational 'victim' mentality are what these people suffer from.
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This is a photo of Claymore. A housing project in western Sydney. It was featured in a recent documentary about Australia's 'poor'
This place will be demolished next year to make way for new housing. Lets just have a recap of what these 'poor' people have.
running water
sewerage
electricity
gas
solid housing 3 and 4 bedroom (brick and tile)
a fridge
flatscreen TV
family car
laptops and mobile phones.
The only thing poor about these people is the mental ability to co-exist in society.
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Best at what?
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Cant see what the big deal is with this. All the literiture Ive read includes 'cold events' as part of their climate change predictions. In fact some scientists have predicted than Europe could enter another ice age if any more fresh water enters the atlantic and stops the gulf steam.
BTW Why has has all the ice gone if we are entering a warming phase?
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37deg. here last week. It's really dry too. Don't like the way this summer is shaping up
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The stuff out of the tap is better, well, here anyway.
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I have had an overnighter in Canberra, and am back on snow today with some friends who are new to the snow.
Tomorrow the skis come out.
NNNnnnooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo !!! Don't do it MB.
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Not sure. As far as I'm aware there is nothing physically wrong with her.
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Total lack of vision!The issue that I think JA and others are trying to highlight is that it seems like none of the politicians are concerned with the future past the next election, which I suppose makes sense if you are a politician, you would want to do everything you can to get re-elected. There does not seem to be a coherent plan from any of the political parties at either a state or federal level as far as how to maintain a low unemployment rate when the resources sector slows down, which sooner or later it will. It is this critical lack of foresight that concerns me.
The current labour government would love to lay claim to the countries overall position. Low unemployment, low interest rates etc. but it's actually due to all the fat, capitalist, right wing mining magnates (yes, they are all literally fat).
One of life's amazing coincidences is that all these mining magnates just happen to be climate change skeptics. Hence their attempts to dominate the media with hand picked Journalists supporting their view.
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Total lack of vision!The issue that I think JA and others are trying to highlight is that it seems like none of the politicians are concerned with the future past the next election, which I suppose makes sense if you are a politician, you would want to do everything you can to get re-elected. There does not seem to be a coherent plan from any of the political parties at either a state or federal level as far as how to maintain a low unemployment rate when the resources sector slows down, which sooner or later it will. It is this critical lack of foresight that concerns me.
The current labour government would love to lay claim to the countries overall position. Low unemployment, low interest rates etc. but it's actually due to all the fat, capitalist, right wing mining magnates (yes, they are all literally fat).
One of life amazing coincidences is that all these mining magnates just happen to be climate change skeptics. Hence their attempts to dominate the media with hand picked Journalists supporting their view.
How would you like to live here?
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Imagine the cost of transporting every piece of building material to site. Although I'm sure he can afford it.
Who is he anyway?