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Thoughts for the day.

- The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. (Lao Tse)

- Better a diamond with a flaw, than a pebble without. (Confucious)

- Choose a job you love and will never have to work a day in your life. (Confucious)

- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. (Confucious)
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Report VeryLTU October 26, 2012 1:43 AM BST
not piss takiing spoonman just remembering an episode too long ago Sad... went to some cinema in melb. to watch pompeii.. off my face on something dubious, really enjoying it but the flick was over in five minutes and time to have to go out into the hustle and bustle again..... not easy catching a jerk off drivers tram somedays.
Report shiraz October 26, 2012 11:22 AM BST
Thanks Joel, as they used to say on those SBS ads "the world is an amazing place", just hoping to learn more about it first hand.

TINS, that "Tomorrowland" concert looks great (not sure about the music, maybe I am a bit OLD).  Good to see "humanity" being celebrated in Belgium, not much celebrating going on in mainland Europe this year.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON October 26, 2012 5:58 PM BST
Trip sounds terrible, Shiraz Silly. Was gonna offer to carry your bags, however, after checking the landscape

Shocked....

best I can offer would be carrying your hipflask, passport....and my own oxygen tank Cry

Enjoy
Report shiraz December 21, 2012 1:15 AM GMT
Back to familiarity after about 60 days of new sensations every day.

Met some truly great people on this trip, particularly a gentelman by the name of Sungai who was one of our sherpa guides.

Glad to see the world has not ended quite yet, surprised that no channel is showing "2012" on prime time tonight.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON December 22, 2012 3:35 AM GMT
Welcome back. Happy
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE December 22, 2012 10:02 AM GMT
Welcome back shiraz. I envy you,man. Just think. Nepal just scrapes into the top 100,000 tourist destinations of the world. Imagine how many places you have already been to!
Report shiraz February 8, 2013 1:30 PM GMT
JAWS.

Absolute classic movie and such a great script.

Chief Brody - "that's some bad hat Harry"

Brody's wife - "wanna get drunk and fool around?"

Mayor Vaughn - "this is not the time or the place to perform some half assed autopsy on a fish"

Brody - "it's only an island if you look at it from the water"

Quint - "here's to swimmin with bowlegged women"

Brody - "you're gonna need a bigger boat"
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE February 9, 2013 7:13 AM GMT
'Did you ever think that there could be more to life than being really really really really ridiculously good looking?'

Derek Zoolander.
Report shiraz March 11, 2013 9:05 PM GMT
Lara Bingle and Anthony Kiedis get together for some "road trippin" while RHCP are in Australia.

One reporter writes.....

"old rocker rediscovers the mojo of his halcyon days by providing beautiful youth with eternal Instagram evidence of having met someone whose name they once inscribed in the margin of high school textbooks written only in flowers and hearts"."

GOLD.
Report shiraz April 18, 2013 4:13 PM BST
- War is old men talking and young men fighting (unknown).
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON May 25, 2013 2:41 PM BST
It's not easy being green

Kermit
Report spyvspy27 May 25, 2013 2:44 PM BST
Luckily Kermit wasn't a different colour, imagine that line with another colour instead of green Laugh
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON May 25, 2013 2:52 PM BST
I was thinking that as I typed Laugh Phew Blush
Report shiraz May 25, 2013 3:02 PM BST
Welcome back TINS, you have been missed.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON May 25, 2013 3:14 PM BST
awwwwwwwwwwww geeeee Blush

Tx, Shiraz.

Howzthebattle, brutha? Anymore globetrotting?
Report shiraz May 25, 2013 3:37 PM BST
Not much to report, only trips I have had this year have been in Aus, so not too unique.  Going well on the punt since a dreadful Aus Open and looking forward to some good turnover on the French which starts tomorrow.
Just remember....what ever you're up to, have a good one.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON June 22, 2013 5:00 PM BST
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Tone, I never told this to another livin' soul but...

Tony Soprano: Yeah?

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: One time at the Bing, I was alone to meet Eddie Lind. I saw the Virgin Mary.

Tony Soprano: Why didn't you say somethin'? **** strippers, we coulda had a shrine. Sold holy water in gallon jugs. Coulda made millions.

and another gem........


Mikey Palmice: Your nephew, what's he... retarded? He likes to play with trucks or something?

Tony Soprano: Retarded? What if Jerry Lewis heard you talkin' like that?

Mikey Palmice: No, that's muscular dystrophy, Tone.

Tony Soprano: It's too bad they don't have a telethon for fukkface-itis, huh? They find a cure yet?

Silly
Report sofiakenny June 23, 2013 1:33 PM BST
Spoooon.."hiya Skippy you look sexy today.Fancy coming back to my tent?"
Skippy.."fork off Spoooon..you couldnt satisfy a wombat"
Report shiraz July 9, 2013 10:37 AM BST
Some of the posts on this forum lately have shown an extreme tribal mentality in some people.


- It is lamentable, that, to be a good patriot one has to be an enemy of the rest of mankind. (Voltaire)

- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious (Oscar Wilde)

- Nationalism is an infantile diseas, it is the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein)
Report therhino July 9, 2013 10:55 AM BST
A bad day on the course beats a good day at the office.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON July 13, 2013 10:18 AM BST
You can lead a Pom to water but you can't make him wash. Plain
Report shiraz August 7, 2013 2:27 AM BST
Australiana - Austen Tayshus

"Sittin at home last Sunday mornin, me mate Boomerang,
Said he was havin a few people around for a barbie,
Said he might Kookaburra or two.

I said, "sounds great, will Wallaby there?"
He said, "Yeah, Vegemite come too!"
So I said to the wife, "do ya wanna Goanna"?  She said, "I'll go if Dingoes"

We got to the party about two and walked straight out the kitchen to put some booze in the fridge. And you wouldn't believe it, there's Boomer's wife Warra sittin there tryin to Platypus!

Now, I don't like to speak Illawarra, but I was shocked, I mean how much can a Koala bear.

So I grabbed a beer, flashed me Wangarratta and went out and joined the party.

Well just then Warra comes out of the kitchen with a few drinks for everybody. Fairdinkum, you've never seen a Coolabah maid. I grabbed a beer and said, "Thanks Warra - tah".

A couple of Queensland at the party, one smellin' pretty strongly of aftershave. One of 'em sat down next to me and I turned to him and I said, "Ya know mate, Eureka Stockade!"

It was a really hot day; Oscar felt like a swim. He said to Ina, "Do you want a have a dip in the Riverina?" She said "I haven't got my Kosciusko".

Well Bo says, "Come in starkers, Wattle Lake Eyre!" Ina says "What, without so much as a Thredbo?" Ah, Perisher thought! Has Eucumbine in yet?

Well a few of the blokes decided to play some cricket. Boomer says "Why doesn't Wombat?" "Yeah, and let Tenterfield".

He said I should have a bowl but I was too out of it to play cricket so I suggested a game of cards. I said to Lyptus "Wanna game of Eucalyptus?" He said "There's no point mate, Darwins everytime."

Well Bill said he'd like a smoke. Nobody knew where the dope was stashed. I said "I think Merinos." But I was just spinning a bit of a yarn. Barry pulls a joint out of his pocket. Bill says "Great, Barrier Reefer, what is it mate?" "Noosa Heads of course. Me mate Adelaide 'em on me." And it was a great joint too, Blue Mountains away and his Three Sisters.

Well I thought I'd roll one meself, I said "Chuck us the Tally Hobart". He said "They're out on the Laun, Ceston, can you get em for us?" Burnie says "Its okay mate, she's apples, I'll get em for ya"

Just then Alice Springs into action, starts to pack Billabong. And you wouldn't believe it, the bongs broken. I said "Lord Howe!"

"Hay-man" somebody says "Will a Didgeridoo?" I said "Hummmmm mummmm mummmmm mummmmm maybe it'll have ta."

I look in the corner and there's Bass sittin there, not getting into it, not getting out of it, I said "What, is Bass Strait or somthin?" Boomer says "As a matter a fact mate, he's a cop" I said "Ya jokin mate, a cop, I'm getting outta here, lets Goanna." She said "No way, I'm hangin round till Gum leaves. Besides, I dont wanna leave Jacardanda party on his own. Have you seen him? I think he's trying to crack on Toowoomba, he's already tried to Mount Isa And he'll definitely try to lead you Australiana!"
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 9, 2013 1:54 PM BST
'Hell is other people'  I think Sartre.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Especially as I get older.




"It is lamentable, that, to be a good patriot one has to be an enemy of the rest of mankind. (Voltaire)

- Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious (Oscar Wilde)

- Nationalism is an infantile diseas, it is the measles of mankind. (Albert Einstein)"


Three despicable quotes from three degenerates. Rot in hell cnnts. Except for Oscar. He did write some funny stuff.
Report Craig The Speculator August 9, 2013 2:56 PM BST
just read through this thread some funny and profound stuff

my contribution

something that was brought to my attention over the last week or so

A liminal space, the place of transition, waiting, and not knowing is…

…a unique spiritual position where human beings hate to be but where the biblical God is always leading them. It is when you have left the tried and true, but have not yet been able to replace it with anything else. It is when you are finally out of the way. It is when you are between your old comfort zone and any possible new answer. If you are not trained in how to hold anxiety, how to live with ambiguity, how to entrust and wait, you will run…anything to flee this terrible cloud of unknowing.
- Richard Rohr
Report Craig The Speculator August 9, 2013 3:07 PM BST
and was the line

"better to live on your feet than die on your knees"

first written in the song Power and the Passion or was it quoted in that from elsewhere

genius if it was i think
Report Craig The Speculator August 9, 2013 3:30 PM BST
of course i meant

"better to die on your feet than live on your knees"


sadly though the quote was first from Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata according to google
Report shiraz August 17, 2013 10:19 PM BST
"If a man dwells on the past, then he robs the present. But if a man ignores the past, he may rob the future. The seeds of our destiny are nurtured by the roots of our past."

Master Po, Kung Fu.

"I seek not to know the answers, but to understand the questions"

Caine, Kung Fu.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 18, 2013 9:15 AM BST
"If a man wants to read 192 posts of absolute drivel then this is the place."

Kamikazee Drinking Machine.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON September 21, 2013 2:33 PM BST
Let's get back to some serious issues, Grasshopper Cool

Silver bow-ties, emerald green jumpsuits...enjoy Happy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teBV0EoJJY8
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON October 14, 2013 11:48 AM BST
Do not regret growing older.

It is a privilege denied to many.


ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ohmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Plain
Report Craig The Speculator October 14, 2013 1:04 PM BST
one of your best Spooooooon
Report shiraz October 14, 2013 1:33 PM BST
Very very true TINS.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON October 24, 2013 1:36 PM BST
My Country

   
The love of field and coppice,
Of green and shaded lanes.
Of ordered woods and gardens
Is running in your veins,
Strong love of grey-blue distance
Brown streams and soft dim skies
I know but cannot share it,
My love is otherwise.

I love a sunburnt country,
A land of sweeping plains,
Of ragged mountain ranges,
Of droughts and flooding rains.
I love her far horizons,
I love her jewel-sea,
Her beauty and her terror -
The wide brown land for me!

A stark white ring-barked forest
All tragic to the moon,
The sapphire-misted mountains,
The hot gold hush of noon.
Green tangle of the brushes,
Where lithe lianas coil,
And orchids deck the tree-tops
And ferns the warm dark soil.

Core of my heart, my country!
Her pitiless blue sky,
When sick at heart, around us,
We see the cattle die -
But then the grey clouds gather,
And we can bless again
The drumming of an army,
The steady, soaking rain.

Core of my heart, my country!
Land of the Rainbow Gold,
For flood and fire and famine,
She pays us back threefold -
Over the thirsty paddocks,
Watch, after many days,
The filmy veil of greenness
That thickens as we gaze.

An opal-hearted country,
A wilful, lavish land -
All you who have not loved her,
You will not understand -
Though earth holds many splendours,
Wherever I may die,
I know to what brown country
My homing thoughts will fly.

Dorothea Mackellar
Report shiraz October 24, 2013 1:51 PM BST
TINS on a rampage (I have given up on those politics threads, it's just a load of biased rants interspersed with cut and pastes of biased rants).

Well, at least now we have that poem on here in it's entirety, when I put it up last year it was incomplete.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON October 24, 2013 2:13 PM BST
Shiraz Laugh

Yup, strange world that "political" thread. Crazy

Seems to me some possibly bright people become the tailors who prepared the emperors new clothes.....

amazing what they can create from a corn-flake with serial splashes of extrapolation . Laugh
Report Live_in_Hope October 25, 2013 5:43 AM BST
no one should have to grow old ....
.... but everyone should get the opportunity
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE October 26, 2013 10:48 AM BST
FCKK THAT! Everyone should be EUTHANASED, humanely of course, at 65. No one is any good after that.




Spoon??

"amazing what they can create from a corn-flake with serial splashes of extrapolation"

WTF???!!!!
Report shiraz October 26, 2013 11:20 AM BST
If you shave your head it might make you look tougher, but all it really does is cause your head to get cold more easily.


There's a guy I knew from playing poker, last Saturday he won a small tournament, stood up, then keeled over dead with a massive heart attack.  He would have been mid fifties, did'nt drink much (well nowhere near as much as I do), was'nt overweight, but still he is gone, just like that.  Can't say I knew him well enough to be a "friend" but his passing has made me think a lot about how fragile we really are (and yes that is a reference to Sting's song.  Going to play it right now).

We had a moments silence for him at the poker game last Tuesday.  R.I.P. Greg.
Report Live_in_Hope October 26, 2013 11:22 AM BST
that's sad mate
and he had the attack at the table?
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE October 26, 2013 11:26 AM BST
That's not good Shiraz. I hope you didn't pocket his winnings while everyone was distracted! Only joking. Must have shook you up to see that. Poor cnnt. Did he have wife or kids?
Report shiraz October 26, 2013 11:34 AM BST
Yes indeed LiH, he had just won, doing the thing guess he loved the most.

This photo does'nt do him justice, but that's what is there (not taken on the night).

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151635915455951&set=a.169995840950.130817.40621870950&type=1&theater
Report shiraz October 26, 2013 11:42 AM BST
Hi Kam.

I had some very mixed feelings.  I did'nt know him well enough to know about his family situation, but I doubt he had too many comitments because he did play quite a bit of poker.  All I know is whenever I met him he was a gentleman and that same view is shared by everyone that I know who knew him.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE October 26, 2013 11:44 AM BST
You never know when your time is up.
Report Live_in_Hope October 26, 2013 11:47 AM BST
here one minute gone the next
the scarry thing about dying is when you come back in another life it might be worse than the one you just left behind - I don't like that idea one bit Sad
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE October 26, 2013 11:50 AM BST
Couldn't get any worse for you could it?
Report Live_in_Hope October 26, 2013 11:51 AM BST
**** yes -
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE October 26, 2013 11:58 AM BST
Your current life is in Queensland next door to a bunch of housos. Next stop - the Third World.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON December 8, 2013 1:08 AM GMT
All that glitters is not gold

William Vlahos....oops Blush

William Shakespeare
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON December 24, 2013 12:58 AM GMT
On the "surprise" release of her latest album, without pre-publicity or hype.........

Beyonce.....sooooo earnestly.....( at a press conference Blush)

" I've never done anything......so brave in my life. Mischief

I really, really wanted to, to surprise people and for them to really just hear the art in it,

not be about the hype and the promotion."



What a wonderful world  Cry
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON May 4, 2014 3:13 AM BST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY

Awwwwwwwwwwwww Happy
Report doubleagent May 4, 2014 10:54 AM BST
I'd love to punch the SH1T out of this MOANING CNTT.
Report henryluca May 4, 2014 1:23 PM BST
Give me the wisdom to see the path ahead and the strength to back Dothraki despite what is said about its preparation and race fitness by G. Ryan.
Report shiraz May 9, 2014 8:31 AM BST
WOW. contemporary poetry on Youtube.

Wise sentiments from a young guy, I'll be showing this to my children.

Thanks TINS,very good.
Report Thebas May 12, 2014 7:04 AM BST
nice work shiraz .. interesting to hear both the origin andor history of that well known phrase in the final stanza

--------


“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”

― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2014 12:02 PM BST
Bit of a stretch to put these on here but it's a good excuse to blow the cobwebs out of a pleasant thread Cool

I'll refer back to the Winston Churchill quote....

There is something about the outside of a horse that is good for the inside of a man.

This young fella is an amateur photographer and I like his passion for the thoroughbred....and his pics Happy

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Geo-Hillis-Photography/696293623719661

and this for a walk down horse-racing memory lane...great stuff!

https://twitter.com/rlevans51/media

both updated regularly Happy

ENJOY
Report henryluca August 23, 2014 2:25 AM BST
One of my fav's:

Fear not to negotiate, but never negotiate out of fear....JFK
Report shiraz January 28, 2015 12:21 PM GMT
Hi henry, I have not posted on the forum in a while but just recently 'reconnected'.  I am glad you like my Sagamartha pic on your thread.  Looking through my photos from that trip always stirs up great emotion and I can't wait to take my children there.
Report henryluca January 28, 2015 12:34 PM GMT
It is always a blessing  when we get to have our children as witness to our personal experiences.

A great moment to look forward to.....LoveLove
Report shiraz January 28, 2015 12:34 PM GMT
Also a call out to those who have posted on here, please keep contributing....

Especially that crazy, quirky guy, TINS.
Report shiraz May 8, 2015 3:43 PM BST
Here is an interesting mind game to have fun with friends and family (it is best if you organise someone to count the words and someone else to count the time).

Give the person 30 seconds to say twenty words in the English language not containing the letter 'A'.

They will probably have a hard time doing it, so let them have a few goes and add some drama by saying it is very easy if you think about it.

After a suitable amount of time, give them a hint....TWENTY words.

All they need do is say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 etc (because the first number expressed as a word containing 'A' is thousand.
Report Thebas May 8, 2015 8:54 PM BST
that is very good Shiraz .. havent ever heard that one bfore .. love it  Grin
Report Thebas May 8, 2015 8:57 PM BST
well ...

one hundred and one ... would be the first i guess
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON May 12, 2015 8:07 AM BST
"Only women bleed"

Alice Cooper
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE May 16, 2015 12:02 PM BST
You sure you still want TINS?
Report shiraz July 24, 2015 8:28 PM BST
Gaming machines can be worth playing if you know the odds..
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON July 25, 2015 12:01 AM BST
"If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant:

if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

--Anne Bradstreet
Report henryluca July 25, 2015 12:05 AM BST
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that individuality counts but team work dynamites
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 9:41 AM BST
Heard this astronaut interviewed on TripleJ last week.

He might even be a cooler dude than me.....I did say might Cool

It's real footage- from the International Space Station..

Full Screen - Volume at 11

Thank me later Silly
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 9:42 AM BST
Blush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9danxNo
Report therhino August 22, 2015 9:52 AM BST
Old news Spoon. The really cool kids have their finger on the pulse Silly
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 9:55 AM BST
Check yoself, homeboy Mischief

I'm playin to ancients on here.

"Fresh" is 2009 n dis hood Silly
Report therhino August 22, 2015 9:58 AM BST
Before I wreck myself, aight.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 9:59 AM BST
lameass muthafucckas is wearin plaid Cry
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 10:00 AM BST
You know it.
Report therhino August 22, 2015 10:01 AM BST
Laugh
Report therhino August 22, 2015 10:02 AM BST
And eating Eskimo Pies.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 10:05 AM BST
Damn straight!
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 22, 2015 10:42 AM BST
"A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams."


I am SO close to that!
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON August 22, 2015 10:45 AM BST
The older I get, the more I know.

The older I get, the more I know how much I don't know.

Thereisnospoon 2015
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 22, 2015 10:51 AM BST
True.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 31, 2015 4:47 PM BST
Nothing slows the step like disappointment.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE August 31, 2015 4:56 PM BST
No poster is annoying as shiraz. Conspicuous by his absence again.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE September 12, 2015 11:07 AM BST
"No matter how good she looks,some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her sh1t."
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE September 12, 2015 11:18 AM BST
"I'm not GAY. But $20 is $20."     

Joel.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON January 5, 2016 10:54 AM GMT
Come on baby, light my fire Wink

Jose Feliciano

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Rze6TGMF9k

RESPECT Cool
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON January 15, 2016 11:42 AM GMT
If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

BRUCE LEE
Report HondoLomboHanoverLobell January 15, 2016 12:37 PM GMT
fxck off you idiot
Report henryluca January 16, 2016 7:21 AM GMT
I never lose--I either win or learn...Wink
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE January 23, 2016 12:04 PM GMT
Hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do.

Oscar Wilde.



I couldn't agree more.
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON February 9, 2017 3:43 AM GMT
Embarrassing yourself whilst talking to yourself is a rare skill.
Report henryluca February 9, 2017 4:06 AM GMT
If people arent laughing at your goals ..your goals are too small
Report whoopi February 9, 2017 4:07 AM GMT
"'Enry is a piece of crap who besmirches the good names of young jockeys, without a shred of evidence, save for his own delusions"

Socrates
Report henryluca February 9, 2017 10:33 AM GMT
They only call if you are in trouble when they deal with me.

They now suspend my account so I have to call them back.


They only care if your turnover charge exceeds the commission they are taking off you (they don't count premium charge).

It doesn't matter if you were involved in 10 markets or 1000.....the report lists the people that are costing them money.


I had to abandon my usual way of operating and completely start again using a new modus operandi.




Turnover charge is aimed at customer activity which generates large volumes of back bets without providing Betfair with the corresponding revenue to cover the charges accrued. Therefore without the charge, Betfair would be left with a turnover fee payable to racing bodies but no revenue with which to pay it.

Where does the Turnover Charge apply?

The Turnover Charge applies in the following markets:

WA    All codes
ACT    Harness and Greyhound Racing
NSW    Thoroughbred and Harness Racing

Who will pay the turnover charge?

This charge will only apply to customers who during a week meet all three of the below criteria:

have matched back bets on 1000 or more markets which Betfair is subject to a turnover fee from a racing body (‘turnover charge markets’);
have matched back bets with an aggregate value of $2000 or greater on turnover charge markets; and
the total commission generated by the customer on turnover charge markets is less than 1.5% of the aggregate value of matched back bets placed by the customer on those markets.

LaughLaugh

Big roller woopi--1000 markets in one week---
LaughLaugh

I had to abandon my usual way of operating and completely start again using a new modus operandi.


LaughLaugh
Report henryluca February 9, 2017 10:36 AM GMT
whoopi 09 Feb 17 04:07 Joined: 18 Sep 10 | Topic/replies: 7,115 | Blogger: whoopi's blog
"'Enry is a piece of crap


Let go Woopi---your just a very very small piece of fluff on enry's shoulder

I would suggest therapy but would imagine 1000 markets in one week keeps you very busy

LaughLaugh
Report whoopi February 9, 2017 11:14 AM GMT
It's a shame you can't read.

Try again.

Betfair, not me, pay the turnover charge.

Yet another reason why you continue to fail.

Now pay attention and try again.
Report whoopi February 9, 2017 11:17 AM GMT
Then again, it was a conversation between a couple of winners.

So you are excused for not knowing what was going on.

Monica Monica
Report whoopi February 9, 2017 11:48 AM GMT
You even highlighted the line "It doesn't matter if you are involved in 10 markets or 1000" and you still didn't understand.

Let me help you clear it up in your own mind.

Betfair pay turnover charge on win markets to the race clubs, regardless of whether they choose to pass it on to their customers.

These days they choose to recoup it via higher commission rates and NOT charge the customer a specific Turnover charge.

But they still have to pay it and so they produce a report identifying large turnover customers that cost them money.

Luckily this is something you'll never have to worry about.


Do you get it now?

It's very hard work to explain even the most basic Betfair issues to you.

Now go and research Premium Charge and write an essay on why it is that you don't pay it?

And no more waking up in the middle of the night to post about how nasty people are. It's bad for your health.


Kevin, is that you Kevin?
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON January 26, 2018 1:48 AM GMT
I much prefer a fresh air sandwich to a bowl of tripe.
Report The_KAMIKAZEE_DRINKING_MACHINE January 26, 2018 5:50 AM GMT
Hi SPOON!
Report THERE....IS....NO....SPOOOOON January 26, 2018 8:26 AM GMT
Hello, Fruitloop.

How’s the tripe?

(stuffing) my bag in Hoi An .... g to go.

ATB
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