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Hmmmmm ... Urban Dictionary: Spankmeister

 

 

Sorry, Phil, I always knew it as the Swiss Army Knife - where they have no real need to check the water depth before jumping in, and no real need for a floatable version!

 

Although, I guess if you go through the entire Victorinox model range - in the upper-priced models, they probably have depth-sounding facilities attached - along with floatability - plus a whistle and light, to draw attention to your predicament!

 

 

That attitude within China is really eye-opening. But then again, many Chinese have always been business people and traders, and they understand the basics.

 

We get idiots for politicians - and State Govt idiocy, best describes their failure to support the local boat builders.

 

EDIT (apologies for my brain-fart error in the boat-building contract - it was Mauritius it went to, not Madagascar. I must have watched one too many Disney movies.

 

Anyway - same area, just the smaller island a bit further out in the El Gran Tiburón Blanco locality.)

 

 

Only BMW's regularly run out of blinker fluid. Of course, that's if you're lucky enough to have a BMW with functioning indicators.

 

It's a well-known fact that thousands of BMW's have left the factory with non-functioning indicators.

 

You see them on the freeways every day - but of course, that doesn't bother the owners of BMW's. Working indicators are only for the low-value, common makes.

 

 

Your icing skills need to be top-notch when you've been given the job of writing, "Happy Birthday, Clint!".

 

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Sighted on a table outside a womens apparel shop in a town in FNQ .... excellent advice, I'd say.

 

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ev17ifly2 - No, it doesn't. The Aboriginal attendance rate at school is abysmal. They are more often truant than at school. Aboriginal families actually get paid extra to ensure their children attend school. I don't see any Anglo-Saxon kids getting paid to attend school.

 

The Aboriginal pass rates for any education is around 30%. Of course, that must be the fault of the education system - that's the same education system where even State School Anglo-Saxon kids can pass at around 80 or 90% of the total attendance.

 

Aboriginal parenting is abysmal. Any time you want to visit, I'll show you unparented Aboriginal kids of 6, 8 or 10 roaming the CBD of Perth at hours well past normal bedtime, and into the early hours. Of course, that must be white peoples fault.

 

The English fluency, literacy, and numeracy, of young Aboriginals is so bad, they can't even pass a basic test for a job. Ask anyone with a business around Alice Springs about that. Of course, that's all the white man's fault again - you shouldn't need to be able to speak understandable English and be able to count to get a job. The job system is obviously slanted against Aboriginals, it's a lousy white man's world out there.

 

I note that many immigrants from other lands arrived here 30, 50, 60 and 80 years ago, and couldn't speak English. They nearly all learnt understandable English, and got jobs, and became useful, upstanding citizens. I fail to see why Aboriginals can't do the same - apart from the fact it's all the white man's fault that they can't.

 

 

No-one stole because they were the ultimate socialists and shared everything

A blatant error, Kaz. Yes, the Abo's were socialists in their original native state, and they still are today. However, they also specialised in stealing from other adjoining tribes at the earliest opportunity. They stole their women, they stole their food supplies, and they stole their weapons and tools.

A very large percentage of Aboriginals are thieves by genetic disposition. They can't help themselves, they get a real adrenalin kick from stealing.

 

They are also viciously violent people, and opportunists. They will attack anyone they see weaker than themselves - be it women or drunks.

 

The violence they utilise in inter-tribal and family disputes is testament to that.

 

Security people in shopping centres are totally familiar with regular Aboriginal thieving - and a certain percentage of it, is organised gang thieving.

 

In many other cases, it's just plain opportunistic. When you see police stationed permanently near the shopping centre checkouts, as in Alice Springs, you get some idea of the enormity of the "Aboriginal theft problem".

 

You need to get out more and experience some real Aboriginal violence on your person such as being mugged for your handbag, or bashed for your car - as multiple numbers of my friends have been.

 

You probably also need to have your home gutted and trashed by Aboriginals, as they have done to members of my family.

 

Funnily enough, all those friends and family members previously had time for Aboriginals - now they have no time for them whatsoever.

 

These people have not advanced or evolved one tiny step from their stone-age attitudes in the last 200+ years - despite 100's of billions of our dollars going to support them, in every way possible.

 

They are simply in jail in higher numbers than the rest of the population, because if you are going to be the victim of a crime, it will more than likely be an Aboriginal person perpetrating it.

 

There is absolutely no justification in changing our legal and justice system to stop jailing criminals of a certain race, simply because they are over-represented in our jails. They are there, simply because they commit regular crimes, and they are repeat offenders.

 

The drive and will to improve your character and outlook and behaviour comes from within - and no amount of do-gooders saying we are being horrible to those poor Aboriginals will ever help them improve their atrocious, anti-social behaviour - unless the Aboriginal involved is prepared to change his/her ways and become a useful, contributing member of our society.

 

They have little work ethic, because of their nomadic ancestry. I have numerous close relatives working in the mining and oil and gas fields, and the employment deals to get more Abo workers onto the job, are nothing but constant, repeat failure. They have a poor grasp of the concepts of time, reliability, and honesty. In other words, they are largely a dead loss as employees.

 

Only when the Aboriginals step up and take personal responsibility for their atrocious levels of errant behaviour, will they make the first step towards evolving into useful members of our 21st century society in Australia.

 

 

Actually, she was a real person who resided in Queens, NY. She died in early 2004 after contracting Guillain-Barre syndrome from a 'flu shot.

 

As a long time resident who was a teacher and community leader, she was recognised by having the street named after her.

 

Of course, Americans pronounce "Fuchs" as "Foooks".

 

Flu Shot takes life of Arlene Fuchs Katz (Flu Vaccine Adverse Reactions) 1/24/2004 368836

 

 

He obviously wasn't on the road to success, then ....

 

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I wonder if she really does?? ...

 

 

 

I don't think it's approach that the "highly noise sensitive communities" would have their knickers in a knot about - I'd hazard a WAG that takeoff, is where the major noise problems originate from.

 

This has to rate as the most idiotic sign of the whole thread. Only in America. If they're so "noise sensitive", why don't they just sell up, and move away from the airport flight path?

 

How can a pilot "fly quietly"?? Do takeoffs at 40% power and crash into one of those "noise sensitive" communities?? I could understand a sign warning of flight curfew times and flight paths to reduce noise - but "fly quietly"? Gimme a break.

 

A quiet aircraft coming in my direction would have me breaking out in a cold sweat! - because I'd know he was in trouble!

 

Of course, if I was a Jap in WW2, it would be a deadly-quiet Beaufighter with Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve radials, that would make me break into a cold sweat! The Whispering Death!!

 

 

One wonders exactly where the safe position is, then?

 

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