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2026-09-04 01:40:09 UTC

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There's a local baker here who gives away all the one day old baked goodies ... often quite a lot.
One day I was walking past the loaded shelves and a scruffy smelly bloke stepped aside and said "After you" ...
I replied "Thanks love but I'm OK" ... then I realised what I'd said and apologised saying sorry for calling him love ...
As I walked away I heard him say to somebody else something about a long time since somebody called him love ... he sounded pleased.
He will never know how much I appreciated his willingness to step aside so I had first pick of the goods when it was so obvious he needed it and I didn't.

2026-07-08 01:29:52 UTC

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Only permanent cure is out ... and if it comes out so does the partial ... so ...

2026-07-08 01:23:29 UTC

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Good news ... now it's safe to tell you my latest problem is from a failed root canal thingy done two years ago :)

2026-06-20 02:05:30 UTC

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I'm procrastinating ...
Here instead of another research into the family history for a friend ...
Got to the stage of truth mixed up with family stories ... and multiple 'premature' babies :)
How the hell that can still shock people and cause shame is beyond me ...
But I just provide the info, what they do with it is their business :)

2026-05-22 00:42:51 UTC

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No idea ... never had private health insurance ... and saved tens of thousands of dollars ... and would be willing to still pay the Medicare Levy if asked ...
Friend got the letter after unsuccessfully trying to make an appointment for a referral to Urologist she has been to before ...
Looks like she will have to go to Melbourne ... probably on a long waiting list ...

2026-05-22 00:31:55 UTC

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Even a shortage in places that are well populated ... like regional cities ...
Many are sending out apologetic letters stating that "due to the shortage doctor will only be taking patients with private health insurance" ...

2026-03-12 00:15:13 UTC

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I can't even understand how anybody could spend that much on food ... or anything, even everything in just one month ...
Perhaps they fed some of their voters ...
Nah ... they would never want to get to know their own voters ... these are people who don't even know their own shoe size ... so ...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/10/trump-florsheim-shoes

2026-03-11 23:21:19 UTC

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Well it had to be somebody as Trump has never had an original thought in his life ... and when one's life is filled with money grubbing, habits form ... that's The American Way ...
https://au.news.yahoo.com/opinion-why-trump-iran-war-150100419.html

2026-03-06 07:34:04 UTC

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This one ...?
"An unarmed Iranian ship was invited, along with the U.S., to be part of an Indian Naval exercise, and its sailors paraded on land before the president.
The U.S. at the last minute pulled out of the exercise and instead attacked the Iranian ship with a torpedo.
Breaking with all norms of civilization and warfare, we then refused to rescue the drowning survivors. The Sri Lanka Navy was left to pull the dead bodies from the water.
I am hard pressed to think of any other nation throughout history that would do something so cowardly and despicable. We are genuinely in a league of our own, and American media — mostly shrugging off the bombing of a girls school and acting as if carpet bombing Tehran is a normal military tactic — is deeply complicit.
—Ryan Grim"

2026-02-27 02:02:34 UTC

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Remember these?
Loved the boxes stack ... each child could have their own colour ... could go on a picnic without complaints of "he touched my food" and "that's my cup" ... ahh the good ole days :)
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2026-02-26 22:11:30 UTC

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Small shopping is what I hate so I made a bag on the old one.
New one is butt ugly but only one with the 'soft' wheels, unless I went up $hundreds for one with pneumatic tyres and not interested in pumping them up all the times.
This is the one I bought and my bag should attach to the back rest.
All the design needs is the front wheels turned around so a bag could hang down properly. ... but they are designed by people who have never used one ...
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2026-02-26 21:43:52 UTC

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No flowers in my hair ... or elsewhere :)
But still have one kaftan ... the one made from ecru with the embroidered bodice ...
Last time I wore it was with last pregnancy in 1976 ... granddaughter tried it on as a teen and couldn't believe I once was skinny enough to fit into it ...
bet she couldn't fit into it now :)
Edited ... Memories ... some keep wedding dresses ... not me, that was hired :) Rarely worn dresses since :)
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2026-02-25 21:29:57 UTC

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Should be called vibrators!
I had an old one I bought from an op shop a decade age ... in case ... and took it downtown last week ...
The pain the pain!
Hard plastic wheels over the asphalt paths and roads created vibrations up my arms and into my arthritic neck ...
The one I bought has Eva Wheels apparently that don't vibrate ...we will see if I use the 30 day return offer ...

2026-02-25 04:14:13 UTC

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I'd never had it pop up before ... and won't be using it ...
Only buy online what I can't buy locally ... like a walker ... yep I'm officially old ...
And seems now walkers are called rollators :)

2026-02-25 04:05:53 UTC

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Speaking of shopping ... I've had two minor shocks today ... should have known but still worrying ...
Went to buy an item online and didn't even get to the name and address part in Checkout ... as soon as I put in my email address started getting text messages from something called Shop/Shopify ...with security code to use ...
Instantly backed out and blocked ...
Went to another store ... same thing.
Rang the store and seems that is now standard practice in that once we buy one item, the phone and emails are permanently connected ...
I refused to go through Shop/Shopify and managed to place order ...
Now we wait and see what this bloody Shop/Shopify does in the future ... and if my item arrives ...

2026-02-16 06:48:39 UTC

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Mine was a royalist through and through ... which turned me off from a very young age ...
Never had 'heroes' of any kind since :)

2026-02-15 22:15:23 UTC

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I didn't vote for Whitlam as I wasn't in his electorate ... I can't remember who I voted for but I do remember that Murdoch supported Labor.
I think Whitlam won because of the sights we were seeing daily of the US atrocities on the Vietnamese people ... and the usual infighting within the COALition, and that the Liberals believed everything should be left to the states ... as mentally lazy then as now ...
Whitlam was arrogant and bad tempered but he got things done. He was a Leader compared to the lower case leaders we were used to ... and have now.
And it was after the dismissal Labor turned from slightly left to right.
On a scale of 10, the COALition's power went to their head and they went from a 6 to an 8 and Labor went from a 3 to a 6 ... and still drifting right.
Labor has lost it's nerve and not having any progressives building for the future, are relying on the same money grubbing advisors the Liberals have ... the BCA and the MCA ... what I call the Plutoligarchs ... and career politicians are all are about keeping seats on fat wallets ...
Anyway that's my view :)
But ... there are three truths about everything in the world ... your view, my view and what really happened :)
PS. On that same scale I'm a three ... simply because I believe we need Commerce (aka Capitalism) to pay for all the things Society (aka Socialism) needs ...

2026-02-15 06:27:57 UTC

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Yep ... I well remember how invested we were with the Anti-Vietnam War protests because we had brothers conscripted ... or imprisoned ...

2026-02-12 23:05:34 UTC

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Not going to happen while internal inquiries are allowed ...

2025-12-30 23:03:08 UTC

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Bin them :)

2025-12-29 03:35:26 UTC

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Odd how even in these days of 'leave well enough alone,' phallic symbols still have the umm, ahh, err ... circumcised appearance ...

2025-12-28 23:24:57 UTC

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I had to Google the Penis Tower ... for a moment there I thought it had fallen down and that was it in the middle of your photo :)
Anyway ... the search brought up this pic ... seems appropriate considering many if not most of the world's media are dickheads ...
Apparently it shoots fireworks ... no comment on that.
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2025-12-04 22:17:55 UTC

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From my view the question that really truly needs to be answered, is WHY the MSM seems to be running a protection racket for him ...

2025-11-27 22:53:50 UTC

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Don't know if same over there but in Australia many of the disabled are so because of accidents ...
While the road toll is counted and deplored ... the number of people either temporarily or permanently disabled from vehicle accidents doesn't even make the news ... and with vehicles made to crumple there's often horrific injuries ...
And another thing ... most end up on unemployment benefits because it is assumed they will recover ... most won't.

2025-11-06 22:35:15 UTC

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That Bird Dropping Beetle!
Seems to me those dragonflies are using tools ...
Haven't seen any Katydids since a childhood of living in the bush ...
Or the brightly coloured Christmas beetles ... guess the city lights are bad for them ...
All I have here at the moment are those damned bitey tiny black ants ... Vicious little buggers ...

2025-08-08 01:15:25 UTC

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Groan ...
Are you related to Djar by any chance ...

2025-07-08 23:10:12 UTC

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The absolute best insults are those by Shakespeare ...
One I've used on politicians is "Thou art an hourly promise breaker" and how they have more earwax than brain ...
For people who annoy me but say they want to stay in touch I say ... "Let's meet as little as we can" ... that one usually takes a while and one can see them smile, take a few steps then stop,understand, look back, then move on :)
One of the best is this one as it can be broken down and each part become a wonderful insult on its own ...
"That trunk of humours, that bolting-hutch of beastliness, that swollen parcel of dropsies, that huge bombard of sack, that stuffed cloak-bag of guts, that roasted Manningtree ox with pudding in his belly, that reverend vice, that grey Iniquity, that father ruffian, that vanity in years"
One of the best country Australia one's, as few know its meaning, is to call an annoying man a pizzle ... and that's one Shakespeare used too :)

2025-07-07 23:47:09 UTC

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I was married to a 'foreigner' ... a shock to many in the 1960s :) and the language mistakes provided the only laughter in that marriage :)
But I learned a few new insults :)

2025-07-07 01:12:45 UTC

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My daughter was exposed to that in the mid 1970s in an open Prep, 1 and 2 classroom with an American teacher of the process ...
It was called Phonetics as in spelling as it sounds ... and even though it was abandoned after a couple of years, she had to be taught right how to read from the beginning, and still can't spell properly ...
And spoke with an American accent for some time ...
Parents had to spend many hours on 'homework' ...

2025-06-21 00:34:23 UTC

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Ooh I might need one of them soon ... arthritic thumbs ...
PS ... I Googled :)
About 5 minutes in ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLhOVjHoXkk

2025-06-21 00:18:22 UTC

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Yes but it can get away if not closely controlled ... and is now classed as an invasive weed in Australia ...it has spread from one side of the country to the other ...
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2025-05-27 23:50:43 UTC

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Better late than never I suppose but Israel knows they won't be held accountable so ...

2025-03-30 23:18:10 UTC

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"What are the alternatives?
For users who are uncomfortable with the privacy settings now available with Alexa, a private voice assistant may prove a better choice."
Here's a thought ... how about people stop being so bloody lazy and think and do for themselves ... like humans have done for thousands of years ...
Do we need to clone Edward de Bono to teach people how to think ... ?
Never mind the zombies from future diseases... seems to me many are already here ...

2025-03-10 23:26:29 UTC

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Wonder if the conspiracy theories have started yet ...

2025-03-03 23:39:34 UTC

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Thanks ... but after a decade or so I'm past bothering ...
I'll just wait for the "bloody BOM didn't give us any warning" rant :)

2025-03-03 00:38:22 UTC

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And my cousin in Brisbane ... who doesn't believe Climate Change warnings, and doesn't watch the news and never been affected by floods ... was of the belief on Friday they could just ignore my question of whether they were prepared ...
The 'won't happen to me' attitude ...

2025-01-08 22:03:12 UTC

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Ive never had a problem with Ebay but always check their feedback ... and a sign on a public billboard in the supermarket works too ...
Found a couple of good services there ...
As for Marketplace, it's so bad local police stations in Victoria have 'set up' safe places to meet outside their offices for a 'cash on delivery' exchange ...

2024-08-11 23:13:47 UTC

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If they bill for appointments not attended you can bet your bottom dollar that will be attended to quick smart ...

2024-06-16 23:15:58 UTC

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Ahh ... so that's why we get on so well ... :)
I like insects, and words ... puns even :)

2024-06-15 00:23:33 UTC

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It is now!
And sharing earworms is not caring ...
Go take a 500 mile hike!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbNlMtqrYS0