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Grier
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Not sure Craig atm but I've heard snippets about it, massive and high quality.
No wonder China likes our Australia.
I did a lot of Surveying about Mount Newman and the Whaleback mine site many decades ago. Heat, red dust and beer.
I bet there's much more we can find and mine in our rich island continent.
No wonder China likes our Australia.
I did a lot of Surveying about Mount Newman and the Whaleback mine site many decades ago. Heat, red dust and beer.
I bet there's much more we can find and mine in our rich island continent.
Grier
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With still a gamy shoulder I did a little local shop and parked as close as I could to the shop. I'm not eligible for a disabled parking bay but it riled me see an able bodied guy ~45 in a big fancy SUV parked in a disabled bay. I pointed to the disabled sign and he just smiled and drove off.
To park in disabled bays one must have a medical condition and signed off by a Doctor. Even paying a small fee to display the ACROD label on one's dash, as my old Dad did.
But callous morally indifferent wonkers park their cars illegally in car bays.
It happens too often from certain demographics.
Peeved by such accepted moral conventions being ignored I wondered what I could do. I've seen this sort of thing many times.
Solution found being a great on line App to "Snap, Send and Resolve" to the police. Easy and Anonymous.
My old father was wheelchair bound in his latter years and had an Acrod display card, but often callous people sadly took the wide disabled bays making it much harder for me and my Dad. Hence my hard eye on these selfish people.
To park in disabled bays one must have a medical condition and signed off by a Doctor. Even paying a small fee to display the ACROD label on one's dash, as my old Dad did.
But callous morally indifferent wonkers park their cars illegally in car bays.
It happens too often from certain demographics.
Peeved by such accepted moral conventions being ignored I wondered what I could do. I've seen this sort of thing many times.
Solution found being a great on line App to "Snap, Send and Resolve" to the police. Easy and Anonymous.
My old father was wheelchair bound in his latter years and had an Acrod display card, but often callous people sadly took the wide disabled bays making it much harder for me and my Dad. Hence my hard eye on these selfish people.
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Lets hope they dont like us too much with our huge coast line, most of which is unprotected. If you get my drift.No wonder China likes our Australia.
Must've been quite an eyeopener for a young lily white Irishman used to a mild climate being thrust into working in some of the hottest and most arid conditions on the planet. What else do you do there but drink copious amounts of beer to hydrate. Did you get into many drunken brawls?
Good idea mate.
Grier
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I loved the outdoors and even the dry heat here in WA when I was a lad first here in Oz Richard. I think I got a bit more of the Spanish or Neadander genes than my male siblings, hairier, shorter, stockier and an olive skin. I hate the cold.
From whose side of the family Terry. Neadander? No offense meant calling you a lily white Irishman old mate.
So you were only a lad when your family arrived as Ten Pound Poms. Did you ever watch the TPP mini series. I downloaded it, you can too, or you may find it online.
Grier
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I think it was from my Mother's side Craig.
Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, interbred with early modern humans, leaving a legacy of genetic material in the genomes of people outside of Africa today. This interbreeding resulted in about 1-4% of the non-African genome being inherited from Neanderthals.
Neanderthals, our closest extinct relatives, interbred with early modern humans, leaving a legacy of genetic material in the genomes of people outside of Africa today. This interbreeding resulted in about 1-4% of the non-African genome being inherited from Neanderthals.
Grier
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I went shopping today and checked the cars in disabled car bays which all had acrord labels on their dash. Goodo I thought but then heard loud shouts and swearing from a bare foot and bare chested idiot guy harassing people, even doing a brown eye to a lady. The guy was totally out of control and so I tried to take a video clip of him but he was running up and down the car park in a rage. I didn't want to get too close, especially with a broken collarbone, so I let it go.
Some people are like wild vicious animals sad to say.
Some people are like wild vicious animals sad to say.
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
Hi there, the two of you , my Aussi friends,
I appreciate your kind words, Terry. This is just to let you know that I'm doing well but have been really busy lately. Among the things I've been engaged in is setting up a new bike box made in England as the label shows.
I was also preoccupied with my daughter organising her second world tour going to Brisbane via Doha on 21 June where she'll be taking a two-week English course before her partner joins her in taking a camper van and going to Cairns from where they'll fly back to Sydney to catch a flight to Hawaii to do some island hopping. They'll then travel in different directions with him flying back home and her going to Vancouver to stay there for a fortnight taking another English course.
I also made up with my twin brother after five years of separation, helped my MiL find a plot in a graveyard at my place for her late husband and herself, bought and set up three mobile phones for myself and family, celebrated three birthdays of family members, was worried about my Sari dachshund who almost passed away, took part in two table tennis tournament that included some travel... and so on. and so forth.
I'm going to post more as soon as time permits.
, my Aussi friends,I appreciate your kind words, Terry. This is just to let you know that I'm doing well but have been really busy lately. Among the things I've been engaged in is setting up a new bike box made in England as the label shows.
I was also preoccupied with my daughter organising her second world tour going to Brisbane via Doha on 21 June where she'll be taking a two-week English course before her partner joins her in taking a camper van and going to Cairns from where they'll fly back to Sydney to catch a flight to Hawaii to do some island hopping. They'll then travel in different directions with him flying back home and her going to Vancouver to stay there for a fortnight taking another English course.
I also made up with my twin brother after five years of separation, helped my MiL find a plot in a graveyard at my place for her late husband and herself, bought and set up three mobile phones for myself and family, celebrated three birthdays of family members, was worried about my Sari dachshund who almost passed away, took part in two table tennis tournament that included some travel... and so on. and so forth.
I'm going to post more as soon as time permits.
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Yes we are your Aussie friends Thomas, so appreciate a jump online to let us know you are ok and that your absence is not a health issue.
Why a five yr estrangement from your brother mate? That is sad as twins are supposed to be joined at the hip, metaphorically that is.
I played in a couple of those in my youth. Was fairly good too, enjoyed the game.
Grier
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Great to see you back on Thomas. Busy times indeed.Hi there, the two of you
I appreciate your kind words, Terry. This is just to let you know that I'm doing well but have been really busy lately. Among the things I've been engaged in is setting up a new bike box made in England as the label shows.
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I was also preoccupied with my daughter organising her second world tour going to Brisbane via Doha on 21 June where she'll be taking a two-week English course before her partner joins her in taking a camper van and going to Cairns from where they'll fly back to Sydney to catch a flight to Hawaii to do some island hopping. They'll then travel in different directions with him flying back home and her going to Vancouver to stay there for a fortnight taking another English course.
I also made up with my twin brother after five years of separation, helped my MiL find a plot in a graveyard at my place for her late husband and herself, bought and set up three mobile phones for myself and family, celebrated three birthdays of family members, was worried about my Sari dachshund who almost passed away, took part in two table tennis tournament that included some travel... and so on. and so forth.
I'm going to post more as soon as time permits.
It's great you've made up with your twin brother.
I played a lot of table tennis
too, even having had a table for my young daughters and then wife.
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
That's a long story and I don't know how to cut it short while still keeping it comprehensible. At our first reunion after five years, we spent three hours trying to get to the root of it all. In a nutshell, it has to do with undue rivalry between us, with fearing not to be fully accepted by the other one, with envy and frustration on his part, with a different tertiary socialisation. All that led to us just being different in some respects. It's my brother who finds it hard to come to terms with that. It strikes me that in the media the focus always is on this joint-at-the-hip aspect but not on the other side of the coin.
You mean complete opposites, akin to a Jekyll and Hyde syndrome..
looker-on
aka Thomas the Kraut
No, not complete opposites but being partly opposite. Given that the central problem of being an identical twin is developing their own individual identity based on a set of common bonds, my brother finds it hard to accept that there is a part of our identity that is bound to be different and which we enjoy all on our own. He wants us to share as much as possible and tends to regard everything that makes us different as bad and regrettable. His as well as the focus of the media and the general public is predominantly on the common bonds rather than on individual characteristics. I, for one, am not afraid that our similarities would threaten our individual identity.
