damkia

I used to laugh at the possible concept of a toothbrush with a hinge, until they invented a toothbrush with a "flexible head".

Now, a toothbrush with Bluetooth??? We really don't have much more we can milk out of optimistic marketing, surely?

Put that with the new electric kettle that messages you when it's boiled......

Thank you for 93 pages of "Aviation Laughter" .

Is it time to put this to bed yet, and simply agree to disagree?

Perhaps theological debates should be conducted offline, or simply do not look at threads that have offended you in the past to see if they have offended you even more now.

Maybe this is one thread for the scrapheap.

Freo and Rottnest Is. in Perth. Margaret River wineries if you have a car and don't mind driving.

Sydney - usual stuff (Bridge/Circ Quay/ Opera House), DEFINITELY Manly ferry, for the views (take camera). Bondi beach (bucket list), Blue Mountains if you have a car.

A small footnote on the Federal position at the moment...

http://www.sbs.com.au/comedy/article/2015/02/04/julia-gillard-rushed-hospital-after-overdosing-schadenfreude

ATTACK OF THE KILLER "CANS"

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-31/toilet-hacking/4926956

Anyone tried to google spelling forum yet

Jeez! Tassie is just across the pond. Never knew that before:scratching head:

Too much time is taken up in schools with pointless courses rather than teaching the core subjects.

Examples? Not because I disagree but because I'd be interested to hear what you think.

Diploma of nail care? ("Nail Technician")

Cert IV cosmetics (DJ's/Myer counter sales for cosmetics...)

Yep we are wasting money hand over fist in the TAFE area

I also notice the "And" is used a lot to start a sentence. We were taught at school to never start a sentence with And.

East to west of Australia in less than 20 seconds....in an RAA reg aircraft

Last time I went Gold Coast to Perth then on to Laverton WA it took 17.5 hrs on an RPT flight.

Aviation based:

"Add lightness and simplicate"

Dazza: Couldn't agree more with you M8! What annoys me is when people don't proof read what they've posted before they press the button. Should that have read "Better than"?

Moral of the story:Let him without sin cast the first stone......

"People in grass houses shouldn't stow thrones"

.... Look at they're, there, their as a example.

The funny thing about that is that if you try to learn a language like Chinese, one symbol (sound) when spoken has different meanings too, yet most people nominate this aspect as the most difficult to come to terms with when learning the language...

Always backup TWICE and store in different locations if it is uber critical

Do the Germans, Italians have X word puzzles?

 

Phil

German ones are usually spread across three pages and fold out two pages deep along the bottom to accommodate their concatenation of words.

Italian ones??? How can you incorporate hand gestures in a crossword? Ever seen Italians "speak"? Italian without hand gestures is like words without vowels and consonants.

I think crosswords would be an impossibility for the Chinese/Japanese/Koreans

Just got a gripe from my friend 59, or Glenn as he is normally known, ( We have a TV advert here in the UK for the 118 118 telephone directory service, and the guys they use are identical twins, who look EXACTLY LIKE my mate Glenn and his twin Bro Pete. . . .SO. . . obviously, they are called one one eight, one one eight. . . ? makes sense doesn't it . . . ? ) perhaps not. . . but since Glenn is half of the team, we call him . . . yep,. . .59

Speaking of England, why is it that the English language when spoken in England is incomprehensible to any other country? All it is is a musical bag of vowels with nary a consonant spoken? (now there's another word we could dispose of - "nary")

Some word are definitely outdated or so seldom used as they should be removed from the language. A good example is:

floccinaucinihilipilification

floc·ci·nau·ci·ni·hil·i·pil·i·fi·ca·tion

[flok-suh-naw-suh-nahy-hil-uh-pil-uh-fi-key-shuhn] Show IPA

noun

Rare. the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language).

Origin:

1735–45; < Latin floccī + naucī + nihilī + pilī all meaning “of little or no value, trifling” + -fication

.......kind of like the word itself, eh?

The strange thing is whenever I think of that guy in Florida that was consumed by a sinkhole, a whole lot of DA seems possible. (Heathrow airport?)

I worked at GTV9 in the early 80's and there was one well known male personality there that would literally get bags of mail from adoring housewives all over Victoria. He used to put them in his car with his 16 yr old boyfriend and take them home..........

I still remember the famous "crow call"

Old school cool

A definite Darwin Award contender for product of the year.

If you are not killed in the actual accident caused by fiddling with your phone, then all the energy of the explosive charge will most likely be directed down, severely hampering your reproductive possibilities by blowing your "bits" off if you do survive.

Win-Win for the rest of us.

no doubt people will still buy it though!Interesting that the authors biggest worry is he cant charge the phone on steering wheel!!

good bit of aussie innovation there.

It is just a reinvention of this

http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/blogs/gadgets-on-the-go/hands-on-wheeldock-smartphone-car-mount-20130326-2grvx.html

Beggars belief...........