Birdseye

Where's the carton of stubbies placed in the creek to cool?

Its a Mormon bbq

We lived in Cappoquin (Co. Waterford) and Dundalk (Co. Louth) for 18 mths in 2006/2007. My wife drinks the black stuff, I don't, but it was nowhere near that much back then. I'd be surprised if it was 7 euro a pint.

Very close according to what I just read on the 'net, the late bars are close to 7, regular hours its 5.50 to 5.90. Down under in the trendy Perth city centre bars its probably around $12.

Your first experience of horizontal exercise?

No comments please about Phil being 'well hung'.

Since when did it only require one council worker to dig a hole; it takes at least three.

Just a little less......?

These posts are very interesting so could we please start another thread.Alan.

As they say in Norway, you're flogging a dead Norse. Thread hijacking seems to be the rule rather than the exception on so many Oz based forums.

[ATTACH]47161[/ATTACH]They have funny placenames in England, or maybe[ATTACH=full]47161[/ATTACH] it was Wales. The shop wasn't what I expected.

If it was Wales it would be something like "Dim Knocking Shoppio"

"My next door neighbour's Son" needs some Australian training in time management :-)

When I was a kid, the censors (must have been in the US) had banned " Wake up little Suzie" but not banned "Tutti Frutti, I wanna Rooty"Why was this?

I always thought it was "I want her booty".

Yep! One to actually drive the car and twenty or so posting about it on Farcebook

Hyundai Excels driven by late teen or twenty something females

That's another issue, not helped by motoring associations that are more interested in selling holidays and insurance than worrying about their driving members.

A significant issue Phil is the type of conversation. When phone legislation was first mooted it raised a number of issues including the use of two-way radio. Radio exchanges tend to be brief and mainly an exchange of information e.g. an ATC instruction. Phones tend to be used for longer exchanges and often involve some degree of thought.

Some transport companies even prohibit the use of hands free in their vehicles when in motion due to the increased distraction value.

The reality is that there are many actions, if determined to be affecting your attention to driving, that could lead to prosecution. Passing specific legislation on phones was intended to simplify things for both the public and the plods.

Got it, I'm not so slow after all

I cannot fathom the logic in increased penalties for assaults on the police. They have tazers, batons, pepper spray and guns. However, as joe public I can't carry anything without the risk of being charged for carrying an offensive weapon, even though it would be for defensive purposes.

I do though support additional protection from assault on ambos, firies and similar.

Ummm, so are you saying a deposit on bottles makes South Australia potentially a less corrupt state? Interesting.

I'll leave that for individuals to decide.

Nobody so far has mentioned about people buying political seats using extensive advertising paid out of company funds.

"Le Ah So"?

That's bloody French you Goose!

As opposed to Ar'sole, which is definitely English.

My objection to statements made in this thread are twofold. Firstly the statement that PPE is a "choice". It is, in fact, mandatory on all well managed sites. Secondly, the statement that it is "least effective in mitigating risk" is a red herring. PPE is not meant to mitigate risk but to save the person from injury if all other controls fail... and they do enough times to be a significant element in workplace accidents.

Just how many times do you have to be told that your interpretation is incorrect. You have a fundamental misunderstanding of risk management, perhaps you should get a job with CASA?

Another couple of attempts to update proved futile. Windows support couldn't hold up a grandad's truss. I think I'll see how long I can make Win 7 last last and hope that something better will have come along in the meantime.

"Anyone trained in WHS knows PPE is the last choice and least effective way to mitigate a risky activity."

 

This statement is simply untrue. The truth is that PPE is used as the last line of defence in case the other controls in place are insufficient to prevent injury. To any rational person PPE is essential. Imagine operating machinery producing greater than 85 dB of sound energy not wearing ear protection or a person not wearing a safety helmet when work is being conducted overhead. I would hate to see some of you blokes working in a high hazard environment. Don

Sorry, but it is you that is wrong. The statement made is absolutely true. PPE is there for the residual risk that may exist *after* suitable controls have been put in place. In your examples, appropriate controls are an engineering solution to mitigate both the noise and the dropped object issue. A fatality from a 50kg object falling from a few metres is not going be prevented by a plastic hat.

Sadly ignorance such as this pervades many industries.

For most home users, a PC has to do 2 things, browse the web, download email, and download from digital camera. The email part is mainly web based now, so that means all you need is a broswer and a way to download photos. For this, windows, mac, linux all do a perfectly good job.

A terrible generalisation; one that I'm sure Microsoft developers will love. Thank god I'm not a 'most home user', but more thankfully I am not an opinionated nerd.

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I have been playing with Linux Mint lately, very good alternative to windows and it is FREE!

Especially as there are strong indications that from Win 11 onwards the OS will be subscription based.