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  1. The nightmare and disaster with the Vic Labor party continues unabated.

     

    With the budget debt blowout, they are getting rid of health sector workers when the system is at breaking point, postponing recognition of paramedics when ambulance ramping is rampant and waiting times are costing lives, and at the same time paying record salaries and bonuses to consultants who get it wrong anyway.

     

    Now workers on the 'big build' tunnels have been given pay rises to more than $300,000 p.a., PLUS  underground allowance PLUS living away from home allowance twice the average flat rental.

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  2. My mate has a Samsung phone, but is a tech illiterate, so is always cursing it. Wants to go back to his old flip phone. My first phon was a Nokia flip phone. My wife was given an Apple iPhone 6 when my son upgraded. Later he upgraded again, and gave her his old phone, so I inherited the iPhone 6. I find it perfect for what I want. Use bluetooth so I can hear it ring even if I'm in another room, it integrates with my smart watch, and takes great photos and videos, nearly as good as my Lumix digital camera. I can even take a photo on my phone using my smart watch. Set up the camera, select Camera on the watch, and shake my wrist to operate the shutter. I see no need to upgrade to a phone costing in excess of $700.

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  3. Sorry Octave, when I lived in Sydney I didn't see any multi-lingual street signs like, say Townsville has. Again, call me racist if you like, but a lot of Asians refuse to learn English, let alone aboriginal. Just watch Highway Patrol on TV. Our suburbs are becoming about 75-80% Asian now. Our street has 42 houses, of which about 30 have Asian occupants. There are more Asian supermarkets than Australian.

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  4. 3 hours ago, onetrack said:

    full cost of all the name changes to Aboriginal names

    How are they going to translate the aboriginal names to Chinese/Japanese  for all those towns, particularly in Qld, which have dual language signs?

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  5. Industry insider Dan Ufer has urged drivers to "reduce your risk of being at fault" in any carpark fender bender with one helpful tip, saying drivers should always reverse into a parking spot. Why? Because reversing out with limited vision could increase the chance of a collision and in a two car prang, the reversing driver is always deemed responsible.

     

    "It’s best practice to reverse park into a car park because if you’re reversing, you’re 100 per cent always at fault," the Queenslander explained.

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  6. On 10/03/2020 at 9:17 PM, old man emu said:

    Who hasn't been booked for doing 50 in a school zone at 3:45 pm?

    There is a road at the end of our street which runs past a secondary school. The speed limit is 40 kph, 24/7. Supposedly because kids might be going the the basketball building or sports grounds at any time. The street also has speed humps, roundabouts or chicane.

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  7. Reilly went to trial for armed robbery. The jury foreman came out and announced, 'Not guilty.'


    'That's grand!' shouted Reilly. 'Does that mean I can keep the money?' 

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  8. An Irishman's first drink with his son:


    "While reading an article last night about fathers and the sons, memories came flooding back to the time I took me son out for his first pint.


    "Off we went to our local pub only two blocks from the cottage.


    "I got him a Guinness. He didn't like it, so I drank it.


    "Then I got him a Kilkenny's, he didn't like that either, so I drank it. Finally, I thought he might like some Harp Lager?


    "He didn't. I drank it.


    "I thought maybe he'd like whisky better than beer so we tried a Jameson's; nope!


    "In desperation, I had him try that rare Redbreast , Ireland 's finest whisky.


    "He wouldn't even smell it.


    "What could I do but drink it!


    "By the time I realized he just didn't like to drink, I was so shit-faced I could hardly push his stroller back home!"

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  9. A man goes to buy a Christmas tree.

     

    The salesman said, "Will you put it up yourself?"

     

    The man replied, "No, I'll put it up  in the loungeroom."

     

    --   Billy Brownless.

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