not piss takiing spoonman just remembering an episode too long ago ... 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.
not piss takiing spoonman just remembering an episode too long ago ... 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 hus
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.
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" b
Trip sounds terrible, Shiraz . Was gonna offer to carry your bags, however, after checking the landscape
....
best I can offer would be carrying your hipflask, passport....and my own oxygen tank
Enjoy
Trip sounds terrible, Shiraz . Was gonna offer to carry your bags, however, after checking the landscape ....best I can offer would be carrying your hipflask, passport....and my own oxygen tank Enjoy
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.
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 tha
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!
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!
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"
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
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.
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 so
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.
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
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?
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'?
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)
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 Wild
"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!"
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 sa
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.
'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
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
just read through this thread some funny and profound stuffmy contributionsomething that was brought to my attention over the last week or soA liminal space, the place of transition, waiting, and not knowing is……a unique spiritual position where
"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
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 elsewheregenius if it was i think
"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
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
"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.
"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 qu
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
My Country The love of field and coppice,Of green and shaded lanes.Of ordered woods and gardensIs running in your veins,Strong love of grey-blue distanceBrown streams and soft dim skiesI know but cannot share it,My love is otherwise.I love a sunbu
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.
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 incomple
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 .
Shiraz Yup, strange world that "political" thread. 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 .
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???!!!!
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???!!!!
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.
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
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?
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?
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.169995840950.130817.40621870
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.
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 s
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
here one minute gone the nextthe 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
On the "surprise" release of her latest album, without pre-publicity or hype.........
Beyonce.....sooooo earnestly.....( at a press conference )
" I've never done anything......so brave in my life.
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
On the "surprise" release of her latest album, without pre-publicity or hype.........Beyonce.....sooooo earnestly.....( at a press conference )" I've never done anything......so brave in my life. I really, really wanted to, to surprise people and for
nice work shiraz .. interesting to hear both the origin andor history of that well known phrase in the final stanza
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“Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
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
and this for a walk down horse-racing memory lane...great stuff!
https://twitter.com/rlevans51/media
both updated regularly
ENJOY
Bit of a stretch to put these on here but it's a good excuse to blow the cobwebs out of a pleasant thread 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 youn
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.
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 th
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.
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
"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
"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
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
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
Heard this astronaut interviewed on TripleJ last week.
He might even be a cooler dude than me.....I did say might
It's real footage- from the International Space Station..
Full Screen - Volume at 11
Thank me later
Heard this astronaut interviewed on TripleJ last week. He might even be a cooler dude than me.....I did say might It's real footage- from the International Space Station..Full Screen - Volume at 11Thank me later
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.
Big roller woopi--1000 markets in one week---
I had to abandon my usual way of operating and completely start again using a new modus operandi.
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 mat
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
whoopi 09 Feb 17 04:07 Joined: 18 Sep 10 | Topic/replies: 7,115 | Blogger: whoopi's blog"'Enry is a piece of crapLet go Woopi---your just a very very small piece of fluff on enry's shoulderI would suggest therapy but would imagine 1000 markets in one
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.
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?
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 wheth