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<p>Genetics is a cruel bitch aye......</p>
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<p>  <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.google.com.hk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatfaking2.firstpost.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F07%2Fblack-kettle.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fakingnews.firstpost.com%2F2015%2F07%2Ftired-of-being-stereotyped-based-on-surface-color-kettle-sues-pot-for-calling-it-black%2F&docid=Et-cYIhhd2dwuM&tbnid=wTzcmRcejFeH7M%3A&w=256&h=197&bih=668&biw=1288&ved=0ahUKEwjBw9HaqtbMAhXMmJQKHQhaBzAQMwgcKAEwAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8'>https://www.google.com.hk/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2Fstatfaking2.firstpost.in%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2015%2F07%2Fblack-kettle.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fakingnews.firstpost.com%2F2015%2F07%2Ftired-of-being-stereotyped-based-on-surface-color-kettle-sues-pot-for-calling-it-black%2F&docid=Et-cYIhhd2dwuM&tbnid=wTzcmRcejFeH7M%3A&w=256&h=197&bih=668&biw=1288&ved=0ahUKEwjBw9HaqtbMAhXMmJQKHQhaBzAQMwgcKAEwAQ&iact=mrc&uact=8</a></p>

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="ACT Crusader" data-cid="578634" data-time="1462880789">
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<p>Bondi had heaps of kiwis during the 90s. Places like Randwick and Waverley also had decent Maori communities.<br><br>
It seemed though that many of the kiwis have moved from Bondi over the years to the north shore or out to the burbs.</p>
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<p>Priced out. Only gap year students from the wealthy poms can afford anything in Bondi now.</p>
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<p>If there's one thing I don't understand about Sydney, it's those that choose to live in the McMansion suburbs like Kellyville.  I have friends that live there, who we have stayed with a few times.</p>
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<p>I get that of course not all people can afford to be more central, but if I had to live out there, I'd rather live somewhere else all together.</p>

<p>Definitely someone who transcends generations, My oldest son who is occasionally quite nasty and sadistic to people LOVES animals so this is right up his alley, younger son who is a more gentle soul isn't so into it though but I'm working on him. Great that the BBC has a national treasure rather than creepy sex offenders who have made the news recently.</p>
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<p>One I recommend to kids ( well, to anyone ) is a doco he did on army ants, fascinating in itself but with his voice it's elevated to something else again. Your heart genuinely goes out to all the little creatures that perish in the ants marauding path.</p>

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I can't do the facepalm emoji on my phone. Go ahead and imagine it's there in place of these words.

<p>Stop it now girls before someone loses their lipstick.</p>

I think it is being offered free until June. I have to make the call at work whether to bring all out W7 and W8 PCs forward. Its a no-brainer for W8. Unfortunately just with my test PCs I have a failure rate of about 50% doing the auto upgrade and that takes hours uf successful and then double that if unsuccessful with a generic error and it has to revert. On the plus side I haven't seen it brick a pc...yet

<p>".. she's much easier to live with these days".</p>
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<p>You're not, well, you know? Are you?</p>

<p>Yeah MS and MND (ALS) and all that nerve-level shit would require a full body shell, and doesn't address the eventual cause of death: failure of organs in MND patients and loss of mobility or mental impairment in MS.</p>
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<p>Ideally, pre-natal screening and treatment would head a lot of that off.</p>
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<p>Ive seen a photo - looks like he's already got a solar farm there</p>
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<p>Solar panel for a feedlot.</p>

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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/beaches/79063404/driftwood-hut-on-nelsons-tahunanui-beach-a-labour-of-love-for-freedom-campers'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/themes/beaches/79063404/driftwood-hut-on-nelsons-tahunanui-beach-a-labour-of-love-for-freedom-campers</a></p>
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<p>A positive story....although some comments bring back the painful reality of the internet</p>
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<p>This bit made me chuckle:</p>
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<p>"The hut is fully equipped with a working sundial in front and shell artwork inside."</p>

<p>I figured there was just a massive "tour conclusion" bonus, Johnson has had some health issues and there's a lot of money at stake if they cancel the dates. But that's just a guess</p>
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<p>Hope they laid down the law about Axyl's catchphrase punctuality. A mate went to the GnR gig in Vegas last week and Axyl didn't appear till after midnight</p>

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<p>Is there a chance the lockwood flag is used in a widespread manner by people informally, a bit like a viral movement?</p>
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<p>Sporting audiences, private homes etc and it gains traction that way?</p>
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<p>Perhaps an athlete at the olympics or some such</p>
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<p>Just wondering because it seems weird if that's the end of a flag debate that was so close</p>
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<p>I cant find the article, but there were some athletes that said they were considering having the Alternative design with them to carry at Rio</p>

Gollum, it helps to have two things:-<br><br>1. An understanding of how council funding works AND is interpreted.<br>2. A cynical view.<br><br>There is an aspect of council funding that is use it or lose it. I don't know that this is enshrined in the statutes or whatever but I have been told it exists in reality by several councillors and local politicians. Effectively the councils have a budget for each particular aspect of their working remit. If the budget does not get used it is not automatically rolled over to the next year but is actually often used as an excuse to cut the budget for the following year instead. Apparently this quite often results in almost the exact thing you described.<br><br>Locally to me, we see so many complete and utter white elephants such as bike lanes that are less than 300m long, starting from nowhere and going nowhere, electrically displaying road signs that do nothing but spout utter tosh such as "consider car sharing", "start your journey in plenty of time" and these signs are often not even put in a potentially useful place such as a main arterial route which could then be used for useful traffic information. Unsurprisingly (unsurprising that is if you have point 2 above), many of these initiatives are set up towards the end of the council's accounting year.<br><br>So yes it is quite possible that there is a significant amount of utilisation of funds for one thing that then get used for something totally different and substantially less important. The one I mentioned earlier about using the CCTV to catch someone putting their bins out on the wrong day - they had to train a CCTV camera exclusively on this person's home for several weeks to garner sufficient evidence of his crime, thereby using a supposed terrorist/crime resource away from doing its supposed proper duty.<br><br>A complete mis-use of power IMO - and they're doing it on my bloody money too.

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Chiropractors and osteopaths are on that path towards the fringe. Some basis in fact but depending on how out there they are can tend towards homeopathic levels.

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<p>as if Jegga needed any other reasons to join FB...you like this chicks page and whenever she posts a modest pic of herself, it pops up on your feed...no idea who she is, one of my 'friends' likes her haha! </p>
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<p>you could just pm me them and save me the hassle of wading through the other bullshit.</p>

<p>Maybe we are getting it all wrong..maybe he ran out of Ink and room on his banner.</p>
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<p>What he meant to say is.</p>
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<p>ONLY FOUR SHOT THIS TIME</p>
<p>NOT ENOUGH DONE</p>
<p>TO PROTECT OUR MEN IN BLUE.</p>
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<p>TOOT IF YOU LOVE<br>
OUR MEN IN BLUE</p>

Like, sexually? Always thought you'd be a catcher

<p>Can't have a Spike Milligan thread with out this gem</p>
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<p>Entirely  worth 4 minutes of your time</p>
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<p>Wow, Martin Crowe and Ranginui Walker both pass away and I don't even know - crazy how reliant we are are on the internet these days.</p>
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<p>I must have quoted him 100s of times as an undergraduate.</p>

Big surprise. Any remaining customer goodwill would have been toasted by the voucher saga...