SDQDI

OME do you like teaching infants nursery rhymes? I always enjoyed them as a kid but seriously how messed up are they!? Humpty Dumpty, rock a bye baby, jack and Jill and the list goes on of short stories that have a nice rhyme but content that makes you wonder what the author was thinking when they wrote them.

[quote="Marty_d, post: 602931, We do immigration really well in this country because we're already a country where over 50% of people are either immigrants, or have a parent who's an immigrant. That's not an overly good way to measure goodness of immigration. Using that same logic places like immigration detention islands must do immigration really really well.

Not to be pedantic but I think you will find the UK is around 15-16 compared to Australia at around 25. Still not to be sneezed at though.

Yet you post that pic in a thread for "silly" pictures:wink:

My email came in at 1203 am so it has to be Sunday. Maybe you have been naughty capt?

Sorry but I couldn't resist the opportunity to take this SS quote totally out of context and place it here. I would make an awesome journalist:amazon:

I have no problem with anyone's posts, including yours, I just thought I would poke a bit of fun at big words by using a big word:wink:. I do find that when people use big words unnescesarilly they come across as being uppity. I wonder if that is just an Australian lower class response or is it a common phycological phenomenon? But either way I hold nothing against you Octave, it is just my childishness shining through (those who know me understand).

You have to be careful Octave otherwise you come across as sesquipedalian.

The beam through the top rung would definitely stop the ladder falling over hence the joke referring to the safety lock (or whatever they call it) which is a required thing on a fair bit of ladder work these days.

Well it was Abraham Lincoln who first said that you couldn't trust everything you read on the internet! So it has obviously been that way for years.

Well google will lead the best of us astray:blush: It seems there are too many ways to interpret statistics. Maybe we should stick to sources like Debt to the Penny (Daily History Search Application) Which can still be manipulated but is hard data. Yes I do understand how a pres shouldn't be held accountable for their first year of gov but that would mean we couldn't judge Barack accurately until octoberish and the way Donald is going who knows what that figure will be and no doubt everyone won't be in agreement as to whether it is more or less. But from the 20th to the 20th the us debt climbed around 9.3 trillion according to the government (YES yes I was thinking government and reliable stats in one sentence! Maybe I should go to sleep:doh:)

Not wanting to take sides but just enjoy a stir. US National Debt by Year – Polidiotic Gnu's double debt is closer to accurate than the sixty odd percent that Dutch came up with. Maybe Dutch you may have been looking at just one term?

Whether he was or was not a terrorist doesn't really matter now. If he did deliberately run people over in the manner that has been reported then he needs to be treated the same same as if he was a confirmed terrorist who did similar acts. Reasoning with ice addicts is impossible, I don't know that there is a perfect solution to that problem.

For me, we are a lot better off materialistically (is that a word?) than my previous generations BUT I think we are worse off as far as person to person respect/relations go. I think maybe we would be better off with a little less if it meant society as a whole respected each other more. It is a bit of a see saw really, it is hard to give an overall result better/worse as so many things affect it. Just look at social media/internet, an aweful lot of good comes from it but also some horrid effects are also felt. Are we better off with it? I'm not sure, we have a world of knowledge at our fingertips but also the biggest key to unsocial behaviour.

Cold climate + warm bonnet = comfy place to camp