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Not Maggie Smith is it? (Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter)

Factories can be dangerous places. A bloke went home one day and told his wife he'd been fired. When asked for the reason, he said "I stuck my dick in the pickle slicer." Aghast at this terrible news, his wife blurted out "What happened to the pickle slicer??" "Oh," he said, "She got fired too."

Someone should cover the top line and replace it with "Barnaby Joyce".

Two of spades. And yes <30 seconds (don't know if it's right!)

Is that related to the "Crazy woman 1/2 mile" sign?

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4, if he has any brains

The insurance is a worry, but I can't imagine any dealer employees sharing pics of my hairy legs, revealing attire or not.

To think this idiot was acting PM at times. What an embarrassment.

It's the age old buy-vs-rent debate. Yes, if you don't plan to live in one spot for years on end then you may be better renting (or living on a boat, or out of a campervan, or a tiny home, or whatever takes your fancy). But if you do stay put for years, then you can either pay rent to a landlord or repayments off a mortgage, and in only one of those cases do you end up with an asset to show for it, not to mention being able to alter it however you want and not having the worry of being evicted one day. What I don't like in the housing market is speculative investors who do just buy for the capital gains, in some cases even leaving properties vacant for years. That doesn't do anything for the housing shortage. Airbnb etc is another problem (and yes I'm guilty of staying in them, and will again) because if your house is in a holiday area you get far more money from short stay accommodation, even with cleaning/maintenance, than you do from long term renters.

It's gone crazy though. Place down the road from me sold about 9 months ago for 1.4m. New owners just sold it for 1.9m Close to $500k (minus those expenses) in less than a year for flipping a house. Nothing at all done to it.

Yes and no. The big increase is land cost. Therefore it doesn't matter if your starter home costs $200,000 or $400,000 to build, if your block costs $1m then the difference is pocket change. Even in the early 90's you could buy blocks of land in Sandy Bay (one of Hobarts priciest suburbs) for $10k. Good luck getting a block there for less than $800k now.

Probably good historical reasons for that. When you think of the Romans, Celts, Saxons, Normans, Norsemen, Welsh, and everyone else who's had a crack at the little island, it's no wonder it's a hodge podge of language. Yes there's been some intermixing with the others too over the centuries, but for example French hasn't really changed that much in the last 400 years, whereas if you went to converse with Shakespeare it's likely you'd have trouble understanding each other.

Well that probably answers your question Peter - self managed super. It's still unaffordable for young people though because you don't have those assets until the later stages of your career, if you're lucky. Some in the LNP still think it's a good idea for people to be able to access super early to pay for houses. However it's not, for two reasons. Most importantly, super is a compounding interest product, so if you pull out a substantial amount relatively early in your working life, the amount you're losing for retirement is massive. From a personal perspective that's bad, but also from a societal / economic perspective because that person will most likely be partially/fully supported by the age pension instead of self funded. Secondly, if there's already a housing shortage then all you're doing by giving buyers access to more cash is increasing competition amongst buyers and pushing the prices up. The only way to take the heat out of it is increase supply. Maybe we need some sort of long term government program, like the Snow Mountains Hydro scheme (original, not 2.0) where the government sets up career pathways for tradies, organises stockpiles of building materials, works with states to release land and builds entire estates to be released equitably at fixed costs (maybe co-owned).

Italian and French are very similar. Lot of shared words. (Mind you, French and English are similar in some respects - most English words ending in "ion" are the same in French.)

Maybe it's a bit thinner - but once it's fixed on the roof it only has to deal with rain and hail, neither of which is going to hurt it, and more to the point it's as long as you want, straight, already painted, and not full of nail and rust holes! 😆 Last time I priced it - admittedly a couple of years back - it was around $20/m I think.

I've never heard of anyone saying "In order to keep the building's heritage intact, let's buy some 100 year old rusty iron for the roof". In fact, if the inhabitants had a choice 100 years ago, I reckon they'd go the new Colorbond too.

Einstein looks a bit feminine. I think they've combined two images there.

$50 a sheet for that rubbish? Does he think old iron has heritage value or something?

I think it's because the system isn't set up for it. Our emergency departments (although fairly overwhelmed) are great when you present with obvious physical injuries. But mental health, though equally as important, is far harder to triage and more expensive to treat. I don't know what the answers are but it's something that far more research needs to be done in.

Bloody hell, Spacey, what are you thinking? They're almost too much work when they come out one at a time, who wants multiples!

Ian, so sorry for your family's loss here. What you've said to the reporters certainly gives a more balanced and nuanced view of her than was first reported.

I like big butts an´ I can not lie. You otha brothas can´t deny. That when a girl walks in wit´ a itty bitty waist an´ A round thing in yo´ face. You get SPRUNG. Want to pull up tough, cuz you notice that butt was STUFFED. Deep in the jeans she has wearin´. I am hooked an´ I cannot stop starin´. Oh baby, I want to get wit´ ya, An´ take yo´ picta. My homeboys tried to warn me. But that butt you got makes me so horny. Ooh, rumpled smooth skin. You say you want to Get in ma Benz? Well, use me, use me, Cuz you aint that average groupy. I seen her dancin´, To Hell wit´ romancin´. She has sweat. Wet. Got it goin´ like a Turbo ´Vette. I am tired o´ magazines Sayin´ flat butts are the thing. Take the average black man & ask him that. She have got to pack much back. So fella´s (YEAH), fella´s (YEAH), Does your girlfrien´ got the butt? (HELL, YEAH) So tell em to shake it (SHAKE IT), Shake it (SHAKE IT) Shake that healthy butt. Baby got back. (L.A. back with a Oakland booty.) Baby got back. (L.A. back with a Oakland booty.) (L.A. back with a Oakland booty.)

Well, to give you some context, the first line is: "I like big butts and I cannot lie"

Nope, I do too!