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nah actually I tried to place an order but apparently, they did not have my size

Yeah, they look way too big for me too.

 

 

When they arrive you will be the first to receive photos

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

 

 

At the moment I am renovating a house, therefore I get adverts for building materials, lights etc some of which has been useful. I cant see that it is less successful than advertising gym membership to my 90-year-old dad.

I do remember when we bought 40 acres of bush on the southern tablelands ( 1990) We lived pretty rough on our block whilst we built a house, all a decent clothes were in storage and we drove a rusty old utility. We got a letter in the mail from a very fancy country club (they must have obtained our address from someone, perhaps the real estate agent.) The letter asked if we as leading members of the southern tablelands community would be interested in joining. They said we were exactly the kind of people they were looking for as members. They assumed because we bought a large property that we must have been wealthy We did consider rolling up looking very poor as we did at the time. Anyway, the point is targeted advertising is not new. I guess some people will be freaked out or annoyed by it but to me, it is the price of getting a service for free. I can watch television for free, the downside I have to be subjected to adverts for products I not only don't want but I may not even approve of. At least on FB I can click on don't show me this ad again. in fact, I can go to manage ads and decide which ads I receive. If only I could do that on free to air television

Yeah yeah.

 

What we want to know is, did you buy the breezy undies?

 

 

Well, you said it yourself Willedoo. Will you remember it on polling day?

 

 

Subject: Nesting Falcon

 

 

I know that my friends would recognize a Falcon because they are older

 

and mature. I'm not sure I can say that about their offspring. It is a

 

beautiful sight to see one nesting high up in a majestic Eucalyptus tree.

 

I've seen many remarkable, nature photographs over the years but this photo

 

of a nesting Falcon in an old tree is perhaps the most remarkable nature

 

shot that I've ever seen.

 

Please send this to your older friends, since the younger ones probably

 

have never seen a falcon and wouldn't recognize it.

 

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Interesting accident, or did he just park over a little sapling and walk away?

 

 

Attachment won,t open, OME. -- "Oops, we ran into a problem"

After reading what he wrote, I don't know that I want it to open.

 

 

Yes, odd though,. . that they are the only media outlet urging caution about bombing Syria. Still, as you say, they're just a bunch of hard right looney Trumpist rednecks as we know.

Coming over to the dark side, Phil?

 

 

Hi Downunder,

 

I didn't watch the video, but I noticed on the still it says "The truth about..." and then "Fox News".

 

The two are mutually incompatible.

 

 

I think the old boilers get advertised to everyone, along with penis extensions and lovely young Russian supermodels just looking for fat ugly middle-class men in western countries.

 

All, of course, imaginary and set up by Nigerian criminals.

 

I use Gmail for emails and it's got a great scam filter - hasn't failed once.

 

 

So we all know that advertisers on the net like to target their adverts to those they deem likely (by their search history I suppose) to be interested in what they have to offer. I just got a targeted advert for this product Green Low Waist Sexy Open Buttock Men's Underwear XL-$14.82 Online Shopping| GearBest.com

My question is this should I buy or not? Can you imagine octave in this product?

As you say - Google's algorithms have worked out, by your previous search history, that this is the sort of thing appropriate for you.

 

Which raises interesting questions about your search history...

 

 

More to the point, the "meeja" (does misspelling a word somehow diminish the thing you're referring to?) is at least comprised of professional journalists - or was, before the media owners decided to fire vast swathes of them - the majority of whom actually verify stories and have a code of conduct.

 

Social media, on the other hand, has no code of conduct, no verification, no standards, and is subject to interference from spin doctors like the recently outed Cambridge Analytica.

 

I don't know the truth about what's happening in Syria. It's unlikely to be found in conspiracy theories on Facebook though.

 

 

The root of all evil, it says in the good book. Maybe more truth in that than one gives it credit for. Nev

I think the quote is "the LOVE of money is... " because money is essentially amoral, you can use it for good or evil. ie Bill Gates VS Koch brothers.

 

Not that I think the bible gets it right very often, but it has a point there.

 

 

I like the idea that no one, in any organisation, gets paid more than x times the lowest paid worker in that organisation. (Say x=25).

 

Therefore, if the organisation employs a cleaner on $40,000 a year, the maximum the CEO can be paid is $1 million.

 

And the idea that anyone is worth a massive bonus - sometimes much more than their actual salary - is laughable. If they've done a superb job, what's wrong with a public commendation? A soldier who goes above and beyond in times of war at the risk of their own life gets a medal, they don't get multi-million dollar bonuses.

 

 

There's a pub in Hobart, confusingly named "The New Sydney", which has similar pictures in the gent's - along with paintings of strange snakes which only have one eye. I believe one of them has a cowgirl riding it like a horse. Not sure what they're trying to say there...

 

 

Pardon my ignorance... but "Prince Rupert's Drop" sounds more like a painful disease of the nether regions. Is that a specialised form of glass?

 

 

Hyundai servicing is at 15,000 unless you flog it. Modern materials and manufacturing means that cars are made better and cheaper and should last longer in normal conditions. You will still need a Rolls Royce if you insist on driving all over the farm delivering hay or picking up sheep. The Santa Fe might not be up to that abuse. Engineers making life better for you!!

15,000 is what the logbook says, but the mechanic (who's been in the business his whole life and has lots of experience with Hyundai's) is pretty firm on this point. Given I've been going to him for years, trust his work, and he's always been honest & reasonable with us, I have no reason to doubt him. In any case I'd rather pay the extra than take the risk.

 

Re the farm work... with the old Subaru I used to go off-road up the bush a bit to drag down a trailer load of wood, but I won't do it with this car.

 

 

The car probably tells the mechanic if condition 1 or 2 is imminent, when they hook it up via USB.

 

We bought a 2015 Hyundai Santa Fe last year, my mechanic tells me they need servicing at maximum 7,500km intervals, which was a bit of a shock to me. And that doesn't even turn the engine off at the lights.

 

 

Second from the right for me thanks... she doesn't seem as amused as the others...

 

 

The tragedy of my life was that I was too young to be a Bodgie. Bugger, I would have loved it as long as I had a good Widgie.

WTF?

 

I had several bodgies when I was young, but unfortunately they all died. Oh, and we spelled it "budgie". Never wanted to be one though.

 

 

Ok, here's a brilliant author for anyone into sci-fi/fantasy.

 

Peter V. Brett.

 

I've started the Demon Cycle series with book 1 (always a good place to start!) - "The Painted Man".

 

(Published in the US as "The Warded Man" in case you're looking on Amazon etc).

 

Possibly the best fantasy I've read since George R.R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" series (the books, not the TV show, although that's good too).

 

 

Wow.

 

My parents tried to get me taught classical guitar when I was a young sprog. Unfortunately the teacher had a thick German accent and I couldn't understand him half the time.

 

She's amazing.

 

 

I'll admit, I never finished it either. My little brain proved incapable.

 

 

Interesting theory. I'd prefer birth rates to decrease by increased education & wealth to developing countries, removing the need for families to punch out as many kids.

 

Sex toys aside, a vision of a future without women sounds like hell to me.

 

 

Or all of the above. I know one high-flyer, now President, who should end up in prison.

 

 

I was coming back from dropping my cabin frame off to be welded today when a council truck came the other way. Normally this wouldn't be a problem, but I was on the very narrow Kaoota road which is gravel, features steep drop on one side and steep hill on the other. So I had to reverse, with trailer, about 300m...