The totally off-topic thread

[RAM]

Terrible way to die or witness!

Man dies after falling into woodchipper

and used too often by the 'criminal underworld' apparently. Decided as a much safer body disposal method.

 

[Denali]

Good grief, there has to be easier ways! PA at work was telling me that pigs are a good way to get rid of a body.

We were discussing our husbands at the time.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Pauline lost a senator this morning, is this happy news?

One Nation down a senator after Fraser Anning quits an hour after being sworn in

Apparently she didn't lose him but expelled him. Monty Python Politics.

 

[TheRealTMA]

and used too often by the 'criminal underworld' apparently. Decided as a much safer body disposal method.

Wilt by Tom Sharpe suggested another method - Wilt

 

[rainbowgirl]

Helped out a friend at short notice and just spent over 2 hours in peak hour traffic, most of it stuck in multiple traffic jams in Preston and Reservoir. Had to use lots of the streets on my "I will not drive there" list as there was no other way to get there and back. My friend appreciated my efforts and has helped me out with transport previously. Luckily I didn't have my 2 daughters with me as another friend looked after them.

 

[Pushka]

Given our constitution was written by a group of Brits this whole business in Federal politics is bs.

 

[Hvr]

This one's for Johnk:

Tax office staff's hot-desk fight goes to industrial umpire

A bid to stop the Tax Office moving staff off their workstations and onto hot desks will enter arbitration at the industrial umpire on Thursday.

...

The ATO has trialled "activity-based working" at Docklands and plans to adopt it more permanently, and to introduce it at the agency's new office in Gosford.

 

[cove]

The 1385 seats at the new Bankwest Club (part of the new Optus Perth Stadium) were sold out in two hours. Both my sons thought that it would take ages to get those seats sold.
Meanwhile these two sons are booking flights on two of my frequent flyer accounts because they can.

 

[TheRealTMA]

Given our constitution was written by a group of Brits this whole business in Federal politics is bs.

Well, not necessarily written by Brits, actually.

More important issue is the fellow who disenfranchised 19 Queensland voters by dumping the party that got him elected. If someone gets elected for a specific party and suddenly has a personal change of heart, (LOL they call it conscience or principle), they should be forced to resign and a new election held.

 

[Pushka]

Well, not necessarily written by Brits, actually.

More important issue is the fellow who disenfranchised 19 Queensland voters by dumping the party that got him elected. If someone gets elected for a specific party and suddenly has a personal change of heart, (LOL they call it conscience or principle), they should be forced to resign and a new election held.

‘The Constitution was approved in a series of referendums held over 1898–1900 by the people of the Australian colonies, and the approved draft was enacted as a section of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp),[1] an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.’

The constitution came into existence through an Act of Parliament in the UK! I think that’s worse!

 

[JohnK]

We were discussing our husbands at the time.

Oh dear!

 

[straitman]

Well your frontal lobes don't fully form till the age of 25, hence why we have P plate laws and insurance rules that reflect impulse control in under-formed brains.

To think the Air Force let me fly jets around as a 19yo and run a helicopter rescue crew around Queensland as a 22yo.
As a 25yo I was a flying instructor teaching others to do the same.

 

[Pushka]

To think the Air Force let me fly jets around as a 19yo and run a helicopter rescue crew around Queensland as a 22yo.
As a 25yo I was a flying instructor teaching others to do the same.

Yeah well. When it’s convenienf.

 

[whatmeworry]

To think the Air Force let me fly jets around as a 19yo and run a helicopter rescue crew around Queensland as a 22yo.
As a 25yo I was a flying instructor teaching others to do the same.

Conversely this is why the military prefers under formed brains, as these brains are easier to break and thus easier to go into dangerous situations.

 

[whatmeworry]

Given our constitution was written by a group of Brits this whole business in Federal politics is bs.

Well didn't former Brits write the USA constitution?

 

[TheRealTMA]

‘The Constitution was approved in a series of referendums held over 1898–1900 by the people of the Australian colonies, and the approved draft was enacted as a section of the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act 1900 (Imp),[1] an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.’

The constitution came into existence through an Act of Parliament in the UK! I think that’s worse!

Yes we all know that but it does not actually mean that the “people” who wrote the constitution were Brits, that is born in Great Britain. Andrew Inglis Clarke, for example, was born in Hobart.

And all Australians were British subjects until 26 January 1949 but you know that as well already.

 

[whatmeworry]

Meanwhile this could probably only happen in Australia.

 

[Denali]

Well didn't former Brits write the USA constitution?

Someone should tell Trump that migrants wrote the US constitution. If we're lucky, his head will explode.

 

[Pushka]

Yes we all know that but it does not actually mean that the “people” who wrote the constitution were Brits, that is born in Great Britain. Andrew Inglis Clarke, for example, was born in Hobart.

And all Australians were British subjects until 26 January 1949 but you know that as well already.

And which makes this dual citizenship by parents birth in UK and any colonies just stupid.

 

[Denali]

Very sad but thankfully, sounds like shes finally cut him out of her life.

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