They used to allow this in Australia, but they canned it a few years ago because they became concerned that people were accumulating leave rather than taking it. They said it was for out mental well-being… so get ready for that

What else would a performer in her prime be doing other than accumulating massive piles of cash by touring? When she was in Australia earlier this year they said ‘she was making 50% on merch alone’ , which was something like $100m… so not including ticket sales

This is just normal left / right politics… every country has it. One side builds and people get bored and new media love to stir shit, then other side comes in and sells / destroys / winds back… people get up on arms and vote the other ones back in and the cycle continues

They have always followed the iPhone event haven’t they? Maybe this year they think they have enough advantage to lead

I have seen a few… I started work at a young age as an apprenticeship painter for the railways, and when I was 16 I witnessed my first fatality and had to get down onto the track and cover the remainder of her body with a sheet, I saw another lady OD in a waiting door and have her boyfriend put her on the train and jump back off again, but I witnessed the OD… plus a couple of relatives

Love can hurt too… I am going through a rough patch at the moment and I sometimes wish I never knew love because the pain of losing it is the worst pain in the world… I don’t think that helps you much, but it is another side

At this point there is zero logical reason that cigarettes aren’t banned. The only logical reasons are that the government likes the $40/pack tax more than Australians dying, or big tobacco donations… I am not advocating the ban of ciggies, it just makes zero sense to continue to go after vapes when turning a blind eye to the other ‘death maker’

I guess it is his Toowoomba rape trial

I have noticed it too… it is like propaganda. Why you should not wait and buy that house now, house prices have never been stronger… now this

When I was young my Dad bought me some mercury home from work… I loved how it moved when I shook the bottle and the weight of it.

When I had my own kids I didn’t want it around, so our local council had set up a event where you could dispose of household liquids like old paints and solvents, so I took it down. When I drove up, the guy asked me what I was disposing of so I said mercury. It was bizarre. I was told to stay in the car and a guy came out of a shed in a full hazmat suit with one of those pairs of metal tongs to retrieve it from me.

I remember Dad telling me that miners used to collect gold pan tailings in mercury and then of a night they would hollow out a potato and put the mercury in, and then put that in the camp fire… it would burn off the mercury and leave a little ingot of gold.

so split across the big 4, say $250m each and $5-10b in profit each… they can afford to stop

I think we are saying the same thing… the noisy ones will be around for either decision… they will be either protesting that it should stay the 26th (if it were to be changed), or protest that it is the 26th as invasion day… the fact that it goes away the day after makes it an easier decision for the government of the day… they just have to wait it out.

I don’t care which, I don’t celebrate other than enjoying the public holiday. If I could swap it for my birthday off, I would do that :0)

because changing the date is a lose / lose for whoever attempts it, so it will just be left ‘as is’ and disappears on Jan 27. Fact is, some people support changing it, and other people want it left the same. Either of those two groups are going to be the noisy minority to that discussion… IMO, it will never happen, they will just mobilise police for the protests and schedule them for time in leiu the day after.

some prob stopped ringing because they were dead

From the article, it suggests it won’t affect the overall amount the cuts will cost the government, they will just scrape a bit off the high income earners and pass it to low/middle income earners. I think it is a media beat up about the problems and opposition he will get to this… I think it is fair, anyone who is opposed to sharing with the low / medium income earners would seem like a bit if a dickhead.

I love that we have to cop a cavity search from an uppity chemist trying to buy a box of headache tablets, yet somehow these people have no probs buying 180kg of a GHB alternative

he has nothing to lose… may as well try the Trump playbook

By ‘refurbishing’ the existing sleepers, I hope they mean stripping it back to a set of wheels then re-building everything above, because there is nothing in the current sleeper carriages worth salvaging… the whole thing squeaks and groans and makes for the worst might sleep imaginable (unless you are dog tired). They are well past their used by date

How much lost money have I walked past in my life and not noticed… can also include gold.

Maybe there is no kool-aid and it is just better, hence why these apps exist. As you said, RCS is coming yet people still aren’t happy. It sounds like Google can’t make a decent messaging app and is mobilising it’s user base to force the issue instead of innovating