Open Thread – Saturday, 13 August 2022

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  6. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 1:23 am

    Reverend Simon Sideways:

    So my SWEARING offends you!


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  9. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 2:23 am

    Unsubscribed. WION.

    Stick your news organization up your arse! Let’s lie about “climate change”

    They are a joke.


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  10. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 2:33 am

    The stupid bitch from WION is just another MSM media whore.


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  11. mh says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:33 am

    Wanker leaves on his own terms:

    CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin announces he’s quitting network: ‘I’ve decided that, after 20 years, I’m leaving’

    Toobin returned to CNN’s airwaves last year following Zoom masturbation scandal


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  12. mh says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:38 am

    Jay Divanji
    @jaydivanji
    Some of the comments on the BBC post about the attack on Salman Rushdie. Unbelievably evil.

    https://twitter.com/jaydivanji/status/1558139861982662656?s=20&t=XVwYZkoVeOFNNdvhgt1-Fw


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  13. JohnJJJ says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:56 am

    Salman Rushdie attacked. Stabbed multiple times in the neck ( as advised in the Koran). Hadi Matar arrested. mmm I wonder what that was about….


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  14. mh says:
    August 13, 2022 at 8:10 am

    Southern Californians cross the border for groceries and fuel.

    MEXICO
    When your neighbours show you up…
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riuV_UXFdKE


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  15. mh says:
    August 13, 2022 at 9:20 am

    #FOXBusiness
    House GOP members hold press conference on Trump FBI raid

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSd55HlJqXk


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  18. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 10:59 am

    That was tough to watch.

    *********

    Fleccas Talks:

    THIS WEEK IN CULTURE #109


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  19. Shy Ted says:
    August 13, 2022 at 11:12 am

    I’m not surprised John Howard has said what he’s said about POTUS45. Every PM and likely every one of their minions has purposefully concealed the crimes and payoffs of their predecessors and that means they are all implicated. Cash in bags from China, multi-millions for obscure organisations like the Global Education Fund, aid to the Clinton Foundation. So, John, if POTUS45 has it all, and it’s not possible he has it all just for the US, you’ve got some explaining to do. It looks increasingly like all he did in office was balance the books.


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  22. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 12:02 pm

    Peter Santenello:

    In this video, I talk to famous Hasidic Rabbi Manis Friedman about relationships and how one can keep theirs from failing.

    Hasidic Rabbi (Manis Friedman) Teaches Me About Relationships (BIG Episode) 🇺🇸


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  23. candy says:
    August 13, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    I wonder whether USA is approaching great civil unrest?

    I also wonder what’s happened to PM Albanese. He seems to have gone on holidays? Or possibly unwell. Or overseas again? odd.


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  24. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 2:03 pm

    Trannyism

    1/
    In the UK ….

    Tavistock gender clinic ‘to be sued by 1,000 families’

    The Tavistock gender clinic is facing mass legal action from youngsters who claim they were rushed into taking life-altering puberty blockers.

    Lawyers expect about 1,000 families to join a medical negligence lawsuit alleging vulnerable children have been misdiagnosed and placed on a damaging medical pathway.

    2/
    While other parts of the world are waking up …

    Australia ignores the tragedy of Tavistock

    The situation in Australian schools is the reverse where governments continue to allow schools to adopt gender fluidity policies. In Victoria, ‘Chairman Dan’ has legislated to make it illegal for doctors and health workers, as well as parents and priests, to counsel young people about the dangers of transitioning.


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  25. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 2:28 pm

    Compare the pair.

    One came into the country – illegally.
    The other came to the country – legally.

    One is granted permanent visas.
    The other is kicked out.

    It may be time to disband the High Court. All that is needed is to get a few lefty activists and the media on your side. Then the minister can use discretion to make a decision on woke-compassionate-political grounds.

    Welcome to Oz
    vs
    Pack up and leave Oz

    I think all those Sri Lankans who were deemed illegal and quietly got on to planes and returned to SL, should sue the government for discrimination. They accepted the verdict, respected the government’s decision and left the country.

    If only they had found themselves some activist friends and cost the taxpayers millions of dollars in expenses. They too, could now have permanent residency visas in Australia.

    And all others who have been denied residency or been kicked off, like the Green family, should demand a visa citing the Nadesalingam family precedent. If the cases the High Court deemed illegal can be granted visas, anyone should now be able to get one.


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  28. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 3:40 pm

    I also wonder what’s happened to PM Albanese. He seems to have gone on holidays?

    With Mrs Albo?


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  29. Woolfe says:
    August 13, 2022 at 4:54 pm

    Elbow has gone to an Aborigine Community (Broome) to help the locals


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  30. Barking Toad says:
    August 13, 2022 at 5:18 pm

    In a 5 star resort


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  31. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 5:30 pm

    🤦‍♂️

    GTV last Stand:

    The timing of this “festival” is no accident.

    Victoria will celebrate pride across the state with a new, TWO MONTH LONG festival


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  33. candy says:
    August 13, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    So PM Albanese is on holidays. I wonder if like Malcolm Turnbull he tires very easily or finding the new job makes him very tired, although he looks in reasonably good shape.


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  34. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 5:56 pm

    Tony Heller:

    “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness. As one participant put it, “poor methods get results”

    Lancet Editor Richard Horton

    The Backup Scam


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  36. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 6:47 pm

    Heard this song on the radio, a few days ago.

    Randy Travis

    Don’t Ever Sell Your Saddle

    Lyrics here.
    This is the Chorus:

    Don’t ever sell your saddle
    Never owe another man
    Watch where you spit on a windy day
    Don’t use words you don’t understand
    Find the Lord before you need Him
    And never lose your pride
    Don’t ever sell your saddle
    ‘Cause life’s a long, long ride


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  37. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 6:55 pm

    1/
    Dr TM

    Hopefully more young women reject Feminism:

    2/
    Like this T-shirt?

    Sold here.


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  39. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:12 pm

    GTV last Stand:

    The timing of this “festival” is no accident.

    It is the Sodom-Gomorrahing underway. How many will succumb to the indocrination and how many will resist?

    That is the test of inner strength and beliefs. Graham is standing strong on his Christian faith and also ensuring his children cannot be groomed.

    Fmr Teacher on Schools Grooming:
    I Can’t Go Along

    It took her a while to get it. She didn’t realise that BLM and CRT are part of the same cult.


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  40. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:32 pm

    ˘◡˘

    Break time

    1/

    Train Passengers Sing
    Over the Rainbow!


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  42. Shy Ted says:
    August 13, 2022 at 7:52 pm

    I like what he says at 2.30
    Would explain a lot of things.


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  43. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 13, 2022 at 8:01 pm

    1/

    Stu Burguiere

    Trump could have avoided the raid and any attention from law enforcement if he just left the documents at a computer repair shop

    2/
    Netherlands

    This Dutch farmer gives a heartfelt and emotional commentary on why he loves his profession and how farming is being undermined by government and technocrat agendas that are cutting the food supply.


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  47. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 10:18 pm

    A bloke walking his dog.

    ***********

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane at Laguna Beach 3


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  48. mh says:
    August 13, 2022 at 10:42 pm

    Michael Knowles
    @michaeljknowles
    ·
    “And these ‘stolen nuclear codes,’ are they…are they in the room with us right now?”
    1:30 AM · Aug 13, 2022


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  50. Steve trickler says:
    August 13, 2022 at 11:17 pm

    Immerse yourself.

    *******

    Peter Santenello:

    It’s not often you get invited to a party with Hasidic Jews as a non-Jew. In this video we go deep into a festive and meaningful celebration bringing light to a new Torah that was hand scrolled for 1 year.

    Inside Unbelievable Hasidic Jewish Torah Celebration 🇺🇸


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  53. Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2022 at 1:48 am

    China Fact Chasers:

    People from Shanghai finally got the chance to escape the horrible covid lockdowns and went to Hainan Island the so called Hawaii of China. Unfortunately just as they got to Hainan lockdowns started happening there too!

    China’s Zero Covid Nonsense Continues in Hainan 145 DISLIKE SHARE


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  54. Shy Ted says:
    August 14, 2022 at 9:37 am

    If you can try and catch the Trump vs FBI on Ch7. FMD. Interviewee is Professor Simon Jackman of the US Studies Centre, routinely taken to task by Gerard Henderson for being wrong all the time but continuing to pick up a 6 figure salary year in year out at a uni. If any of these people had any credibility before they don’t now.
    I think these are his socks
    And this is my brain a lot of the time


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  56. Old bloke says:
    August 14, 2022 at 10:48 am

    candy says:
    August 13, 2022 at 1:55 pm

    I wonder whether USA is approaching great civil unrest?

    I also wonder what’s happened to PM Albanese. He seems to have gone on holidays? Or possibly unwell. Or overseas again? odd.

    He’s gone somewhere to be told what he has to do by the people who actually run the country. I don’t know who they are, it certainly isn’t us.

    When Tony Abbott won the election in 2013, John Howard commented “Just wait till Tony finds out who really runs the country.”


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  57. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 14, 2022 at 2:06 pm

    Neil Oliver

    ‘…big pharma, corporations, the state they’re fostering a dependency culture on us…’


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  58. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 14, 2022 at 2:40 pm

    Sometimes, just sometimes, Bill Maher gets it.
    And lately, it has been happening quite often.

    Bill Maher urges debate on ‘dangerous’ Islam after Salman Rushdie stabbing

    “Salman Rushdie living in most Muslim countries without getting stabbed everyday is unthinkable,” Maher added. “So don’t come at me with, ‘Islamaphobic.’ ‘Phobic’ means fear, right? Sal had a good reason to be fearful, and when you say phobic, it’s just a way to shut off debate.”

    Critics who clamor to stifle discussion, over claims such as certain views being transphobic or Islamaphobic, should be ignored, Maher argued.

    “We should have a debate about this. Sorry — these things don’t go away,” he added. “Islam is still a much more fundamentalist religion than any of the other religions in the world, and that means they take what’s in the holy book seriously and that has been dangerous for a long time. It’s still dangerous.”


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  61. mh says:
    August 14, 2022 at 4:09 pm

    A minute silence for Paul Green before every NRL game.

    I’ve watched a few games this weekend, and each time I lean more to thinking what a selfish cock.


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  63. caveman says:
    August 14, 2022 at 6:14 pm

    A minute silence for Paul Green before every NRL game.

    I’ve watched a few games this weekend, and each time I lean more to thinking what a selfish cock.

    You must have been reading my mind , i thought similar , this guy is in on high rotation.

    More than just being a selfish cock , his kid has to be reminded the day after his birthday for the rest of his life that his old man necked himself.


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  64. Shy Ted says:
    August 14, 2022 at 6:26 pm

    There are a few videos from different angles and places of Anne Heche (she of the recent fiery car crash) being put into the ambulance in a body bag and then trying to climb out of it. Very odd.


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  65. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 14, 2022 at 6:39 pm

    Abandoned By My Parents Because Of My Face

    Jono Lancaster, a 30 year old man who has Treacher Collins Syndrome. Jono talks about being abandoned as a baby, the bullying he faced as a kid and what it’s like dating with a facial disfigurement.


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  66. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 14, 2022 at 6:48 pm

    Does Australia need a PM?

    1/
    Diane Demetre

    We’re facing an energy crisis, an inflation crisis, a looming mortgage-squeeze crisis, labour shortages, indigenous disadvantage being exacerbated by the axing of alcohol bans & cashless welfare cards, and the PM takes holiday in his first 100 days.
    Great job if you can get it!

    2/
    New Disney film


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  67. Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2022 at 7:07 pm

    Have a squiz at this ladies and gents. They claim all the experiments are real. A few WTF moments ensue!

    This music clip is unique.

    CYMATICS: Science Vs. Music – Nigel Stanford


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  68. kaysee kaysee says:
    August 14, 2022 at 7:28 pm

    ˘◡˘

    Break time

    1/
    Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami

    Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii plays at Carnegie Hall his own composition “Elegy for the Victims of the Tsunami of March 11, 2011 in Japan”.

    Nobuyuki Tsujii was born in Tokyo, Japan, on September 13, 1988, with a developmental disorder of the eyes, microphthalmia, which has left him completely blind.


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  70. mh says:
    August 14, 2022 at 7:43 pm

    Manly got thumped by cellar dwellers GC Titans 44-22 this arvo.

    Go woke, get beat.


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  71. mh says:
    August 14, 2022 at 7:45 pm

    44-24, correction.

    No pride. Only Pride jerseys.


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  74. shatterzzz says:
    August 14, 2022 at 8:27 pm

    No pride. Only Pride jerseys.

    Surprised they didn’t wear their “FREE MANNI” jerseys .. LOL!


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  75. Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2022 at 9:20 pm

    Old but new footage.

    No baits, no traps.

    **********

    Joseph Carter the Mink Man:

    80 Rats Caught with Mink and Dogs!!!


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  76. JohnJJJ says:
    August 14, 2022 at 9:54 pm

    Over an hour of Scott Ritter.
    Scott Ritter returns! We discuss the latest with Russia and the importance of nuclear disarmament. YouseTube’s AlKhwārizmī makes it hard to find. Seems Ritter and Col MacGregor have been demoted in the search results.


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  77. Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2022 at 10:19 pm

    A bloke walking his dog.

    **********

    wolf bark growl:

    Cash 2.0 and I visit the neighborhood that the rock legend and his girlfriend called home in the Hollywood Hills. Jim and Pam’s home and “The Store Where The Creatures Meet” can be seen here. Enjoy!

    Cash 2.0 Great Dane visits Love Street (Jim Morrison/The Doors)


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  78. Steve trickler says:
    August 14, 2022 at 10:50 pm

    He’s being brutally honest when it comes to illegal immigration. Some may disagree.

    **********

    Reverend Simon Sideways:

    The question they won’t ask! WHY??


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  79. mh says:
    August 14, 2022 at 11:25 pm

    Seems Ritter and Col MacGregor have been demoted in the search results.

    Here’s some recent Colonel DM:

    #russia #Biden #putin
    Col Douglas Macgregor – Will Biden Stumble into a New World War?

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIQEu_tZ1g


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  82. mh says:
    August 15, 2022 at 8:32 am

    The cold continues in the sub tropics:

    Brisbane temp this morning

    6.0 °C
    06:06am


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  84. candy says:
    August 15, 2022 at 12:46 pm

    A minute silence for Paul Green before every NRL game.

    I’ve watched a few games this weekend, and each time I lean more to thinking what a selfish cock.
    ————————————–

    I wonder if there was a big addiction or gambling issue. So hard to see how he could desert his children unless he was out of his mind due to guilt of some sort.


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  85. shatterzzz says:
    August 15, 2022 at 1:59 pm

    A minute silence for Paul Green before every NRL game.

    usual hypocricy from the NRL .. he topped himself .. nothing honourable about that!
    Feel sorry for his 9 years old son .. every birthday from now on he getz to remember Dad …..!


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  86. Steve trickler says:
    August 15, 2022 at 2:56 pm

    Marvelous.

    ***********

    Nigel John Stanford

    Crystal Skies – Nigel Stanford – 4k TimeLapse


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  87. Black Ball says:
    August 15, 2022 at 3:13 pm

    You will be pleased to know that the Hun has given us 100 tips to ‘combat those rising prices’. Divided into categories of housing, groceries, transport, phone/internet, energy, health, credit cards, finance and insurance, entertainment and finally household/family. Not sure these will help anyone but I will endeavour to list these tips in due course.


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  88. Black Ball says:
    August 15, 2022 at 3:36 pm

    Under housing:

    1) Variable interest rates are rising but there is still a wide variety of rates on offer. Compare your current rate with other lenders to see if you’re paying too much. Mortgage brokers and comparison websites can both help.
    2) Look beyond The big four banks, as smaller lenders and online mortgage providers often offer the cheapest rates.
    3) Contact your existing bank to ask if they can deliver you a chipper interest rate or refinance to a different mortgage product that costs less.
    4) Make extra repayments where possible – every extra dollar paid off the debt works in your favour.
    5) Use an offset account, where every dollar of savings works against the loan principal and can what years of the life of a mortgage and thousands of dollars of interest.
    6) Pay fortnightly instead of monthly: multiply the monthly rate by 12, then divid it into 26 fortnightly repayments – effectively creating an extra month of repayments each year to pay down a mortgage faster.
    7) Check what fees you pay on your mortgage, and ask your lender to waive monthly loan fees.
    8) If a landlord tries to jack up your next rent renewal don’t feel embarrassed about moving back home with mum and dad or house sharing with friends.
    9) Suggesting a longer-term lease – perhaps 18 months or more – may prompt landlords to keep your rent relatively low. Landlords love certainty, long-term tenants, and avoiding re letting fees.
    10) Examine the variety of first home buyer incentives available. House prices are tipped to fall, so renters may soon become owners.


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  89. Steve trickler says:
    August 15, 2022 at 6:29 pm

    Bugger! Our freezer has just given up the ghost. 34 years old.


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  90. Steve trickler says:
    August 15, 2022 at 7:05 pm

    He’ll probably live to a 100+.

    ***********

    Peter Santenello:

    Join me as we go back in time and into the life stories of the oldest-known living cowboy on the planet. John Hoiland was born in 1927 and has been a cowboy since day one living on the same land for 95 years. He remembers WWII, the Natives, and has never owned a cell phone. Get some popcorn and sit back to the oldest living stories of cowboy culture in the Western USA.

    World’s Oldest Cowboy 🇺🇸


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  91. mh says:
    August 15, 2022 at 7:23 pm

    Seeing as Black Ball has not given another update on cost of living tips, here are mine:

    If you are a coffee drinker, have one at home with breakfast before leaving for work. Take a cup of coffee with you in a sealed coffee cup that keeps it warm for 5-8 hours. Don’t buy one out.

    Don’t play the pokies. The average annual losses for poker machine players in Australia is 21k the last I heard.


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  94. Black Ball says:
    August 15, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    You may get a laugh from these mh under household/family:

    1) Talk to your neighbours about which bill providers they use and strategies they employ to save money-thing may resonate.
    2) If you’ve been working at home, don’t forget to claim tax deductions for the hours worked-the ATO temporary shortcut method pay it back $0.80 per hour, and there are also more lucrative home office claims available.
    3) Consider a side hustle to make some extra cash-there’s a growing range of online platforms for freelancers.
    4) Unleash the value in your spare rooms, storage space or assets such as cars, caravans and boats, using sharing economy platforms where people pay you to borrow stuff.
    5) Sell things around the home that you no longer use. Most people have thousands of dollars of value in unwanted items.
    6) Cut out one family takeaway meal each week and potentially save $1000 per year.
    7) Plant fruit, vegetables and herbs in your backyard or balcony to save on living costs.
    8) Making your own lunch and bringing it to work can easily save you more than $50 per week.
    9) Buy quality second hand goods rather than new, and consider renting items on sharing economy platforms rather than splurging money on something you will rarely use.
    10) Make gifts for family and friends, who will generally appreciate the thought more than the cost.

    It’s like they will think costs of living will never recede. May not the way things are going.


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  95. mh says:
    August 15, 2022 at 8:54 pm

    Black Ball says:
    August 15, 2022 at 8:15 pm

    Those tips are rubbish from the Hun.


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  96. Black Ball says:
    August 15, 2022 at 9:12 pm

    Indeed mh. There is a rehashing of an RACV document that tells you how to save on fuel. Like ‘avoid unnecessary drag from open windows’ and ‘avoid aggressive acceleration, braking and speed as this chews up fuel’. It is a joke.


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  98. JohnJJJ says:
    August 15, 2022 at 9:37 pm

    Street fight in Brisbane
    That’s not a fight
    THIS is a fight
    Ozzy Man Reviews: Epic Pub Brawl [FEAT. Mozza]
    Even if you have seen it before, well worth a revisit before going to bed.


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  99. chrisl says:
    August 15, 2022 at 9:52 pm

    Buy a thermos and make four cups of coffee for bugger all
    4 coffees @$4.50 = $18.00 (per day) x 5days = $90 per week
    $4500 per year
    Then think about making your own beer


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  100. mh says:
    August 15, 2022 at 9:56 pm

    JohnJJJ, I don’t sign in to Google, but I think my GIF could be this fight

    AUSSIE MMA FIGHTER HANDLES MULTIPLE STREET PUNKS PERFECTLY

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B9XQ3qH1EA


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