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Australian English
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Has anyone noticed with sites etc you are asked to choose your language, they have American English and English but nowhere does it say Australian English or simply Australian ? The are some subtle differences between UK English, American English and Australian English and we do have Australian E...
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Unfriendly Towns
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Tomorrow night 6.30pm Melbourne time CH7 TT about the unfriendly GN towns.....both sides of the story!!!!!
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We're Having a Heatwave!
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To everyone who has been through the heatwave as it comes across the country, our thoughts have gone out to you, but now it is SE Qld's turn today, and I am glad that we chose to leave the other side of the Great Divide to come across to the coast. Brisbane apparently expecting a rather high temp., Biggende...
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Santa is coming, maybe
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The American Civil Liberties Union's Christmas poke at the NSA's spying activities on US citizens' phone and internet traffic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pcWlyUu8U4 Maybe a local version should be made for next Christmas, substituting ASIO for the NSA? Joe
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Big day
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Hi guys , what a day, up early and ready and went and saw my father Alan, at the funeral place, I didn't do that with my mother, but I did today. My dad looked really good and they did him justice, better than the last time I saw him. The funeral was really wonderful , for funerals. Also had the last post play...
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Burnt out Motor Home
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http://www.3aw.com.au/blogs/3aw-breakfast-blog/rumour-file-new-year-firebombing/20140102-306m7.html-- Edited by barina on Thursday 2nd of January 2014 06:31:12 PM
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January 04 - Today in history
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Gday... 1688 - English sea explorer William Dampier first lands on Australian soil. 1810 - Governor Lachlan Macquarie takes strong action to restore order following the deposition of Governor Bligh in the Rum Rebellion. 1967 - Donald Campbell, the man who broke the land and water spee...
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WOMEN DRIVERS
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This morning on the motorway, I looked over to my right and there was a Woman in a brand new VW Golf !! Doing 75Mph With her face up next to her rear view mirror Putting on her eyeliner! I looked away For a couple seconds And when I looked back she was Halfway over in my lane, Still working on that m...
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Sick of nutters
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What a day at work, Walked through the door to a code black (assultive incident) took 5 of us to hold him down while he got some sleep juice. End result 1 nurse to ED with a fractured arm me bruised ribs. Get my patient allocation, safety special (one on one) on a pt brought in from a caravan park running arou...
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Wombat!!!!!!!!!
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Wombat - at first I thought we had lost you - but you have just posted - whewww!!!! that's a relief!!! -- Edited by jules47 on Thursday 2nd of January 2014 07:49:09 PM -- Edited by jules47 on Thursday 2nd of January 2014 07:49:40 PM
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January 03 - Today in history
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Gday... 1870 - Western Australia adopts its first state flag. Cheers - John
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Old School Photographs
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I don't know where they got them from but they actually have > photographs of almost every School in the World (including primary schools) > > Unless you went to School when cameras weren't invented, you > will find a photo of yourself or at least your classmates. > > Click on the li...
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Christmas won't be quite the same
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Well, folks, my absence from the forum can be explained this way. Christmas won't be quite the same this year. My poor old 92 year old Dad had a fall and broke his hip. He lasted an incredibly short 36 hours. He passed away last Thursday morning as we were packing the car for Christmas with the family. Fune...
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January 02 - Today in History
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Gday...1822 - A penal settlement is established at Macquarie Harbour on the remote west coast of Van Diemen's Land.1955 - South Australia's Vice-Regal Summer Residence, Marble Hill, is destroyed by bushfires. Cheers - John
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THE disappering choice of products on major supermarket shelves.
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My issue is that over the last few years many brands are gone from the shelves of the 2 major stores. what happens to these suppliers. The way of the dairy industry is what happens. Worse. It is summer. I wanted to buy lemons. rush into store to find only lemons from California.?? It gets worse. I then le...
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January 01 - Today in History
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Gday... 1856 - Queen Victoria approves a petition to rename the island of Van Diemen's Land 'Tasmania' in honour of Dutch explorer Abel Tasman. 1864 - The Queensland Police Force is inaugurated. 1866 - The first Queensland route of famous coach company, Cobb & Co, is established. ...
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brand new grand daughter
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Hello Everyone, I am soooo excited to tell you we have a brand new grand daughter. Mum and Bub doing well. Two weeks overdue and it has been a loooooong two weeks. Went to the ABC shop today and bought her an Abby Cadabby doll. can't wait to give it to her in two weeks when we travel to her home. even thou...
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Lightning strike neart caravan puts occupants in hospital
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TWO men have been rushed to hospital after a lightning bolt struck the ground outside a caravan they were in on the Sunshine Coast. A Department of Community Safety spokeswoman said the two men were inside a caravan at the Cotton Tree Holiday Park when the lightning struck about 8.20pm. One of the men,...
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Less...
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WELCOME TO 2014!Our Phones ~ WirelessCooking ~ FirelessCars ~ KeylessTires ~ TubelessDress ~ SleevelessYouth ~ JoblessLeaders ~ ShamelessRelationships ~ MeaninglessAttitude ~ CarelessWives ~ FearlessBabies ~ FatherlessFeelings ~ HeartlessEducation ~ ValuelessChildren ~ MannerlessE...
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Another flight video
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couldn't sleep the other night so did a flight from Wollongong to Bankstown in my Cessna Grand Caravan 208b, still trying to figur out how to do all this so quality isn't the best...
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