Don't want, (or need) to start a new thread - still want to post it though

[jmac70]

Like Homer says, “you don’t win friends with salad”.


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So true, you win friends with perfectly cooked lamb chops.

 

[jmac70]

There is nothing provocative about it. It's a known fact that the same people complaining about everything are very happy to take their share of benefits. Today is Australia day, if you and any other people can't or won't respect it then that's your choice but don't begrudge those of us who are very grateful to be here and grown up here

Vague general statements can never be accepted as fact.
Some people want to maintain Australia Day on the 26th, others don’t.

Odds are that the date will be changed eventually.

Personally, I would like to see the National Day celebrated on January 1st. Public holiday to be observed on the 2nd.

 

[Pie eyed]

Odd that you couldn't just say Happy Australia Day without trying to be provocative.

Very weird indeed...

Australia means different things to different people and we have shit to work out no doubt.

I am extremely happy I live here.

We are damned if we follow the US.

 

[Hyakutake]

Happy Australia Day all of you.

I have spent my day visiting a mate in hospital after surgery, and I am pretty grateful to be living in a country where the ripoffs today were limited to the cost of the awful sandwiches in the cafeteria and the parking and he won't also be bankrupted for needing emergency medical care. We are lucky in many ways we may take for granted.

 

[sideswipe]

I'm not against you mate. I've liked a couple of your posts today.

Differing views keeps me amused.

You are the first person to recommend franked dividends from US shares. Innovative.


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[JB1975]

Happy Australia Day all of you.

I have spent my day visiting a mate in hospital after surgery, and I am pretty grateful to be living in a country where the ripoffs today were limited to the cost of the awful sandwiches in the cafeteria and the parking and he won't also be bankrupted for needing emergency medical care. We are lucky in many ways we may take for granted.

Universal health care almost feels archaic.

Always under threat.

It's the sort of thing which makes this place glorious.

 

[Fat Jesus]

You are the first person to recommend franked dividends from US shares. Innovative.


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Yes I just looked mate. Franked dividends in Australia. Thinking the same rules apply in Aus.
Sorry, bad advice.
Either way many of their share prices are down and an opportunity to buy.

 

[Lockyer24]

“Ongoing survival” Christ lefties can play a victim can’t they!

I get why we are in hyper woke mode with first nations people but jeez lines like that are just utter shit.

The every day folk at home just laugh at this utter rubbish the corporations like ANZ and now Collingwood are coming up with.

 

[Hyakutake]

Maybe I will just head back to the hospital and ask them to hook me up with a drip of what my mate is on. It's probably ketamine at least.

 

[JB1975]

Maybe I will just head back to the hospital and ask them to hook me up with a drip of what my mate is on. It's probably ketamine at least.

I don't think you're going to get this sort of investment advice anywhere else.

 

[JB1975]

The every day folk at home just laugh at this utter rubbish the corporations like ANZ and now Collingwood are coming up with.

I think it's good for common people to laugh. I support it wholeheartedly.

 

[Obese Arachnid]

Happy Australia Day all of you.

I have spent my day visiting a mate in hospital after surgery, and I am pretty grateful to be living in a country where the ripoffs today were limited to the cost of the awful sandwiches in the cafeteria and the parking and he won't also be bankrupted for needing emergency medical care. We are lucky in many ways we may take for granted.

Can only echo these sentiments, it's been a harrowing two days culminating in Mrs OA, needing surgery but all's good as of an hr ago.

 

[Fat Jesus]

Can only echo these sentiments, it's been a harrowing two days culminating in Mrs OA, needing surgery but all's good as of an hr ago.

best wishes mate.

 

[Pie eyed]

Can only echo these sentiments, it's been a harrowing two days culminating in Mrs OA, needing surgery but all's good as of an hr ago.

She would be a hardy woman married to you OA.
Glad to hear she is OK.

 

[manicpie]

Well it seems that you've got Fat Jesus on your side. All the divinities turn on me in the end.































































I'll note that you've accused me of making assumptions, when I've made none, while you are making free with insults and assumptions about me.































































Whether Jesus acknowledges it or not, I occupy the moral f***ing high ground.















































































My manic friend likes to accuse me of it, because he thinks it's a winner, which makes it sad as well as untrue.































Everyone who knows me knows that I support the right-to-life of the elderly, but I'm sick of hearing that cognitive decline and organ failure are reasonable excuses for not making a greater contribution to tlove to continue to chat with you but I have a life to live. I'm off the national economy.















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Well it seems that you've got Fat Jesus on your side. All the divinities turn on me in the end.

I'll note that you've accused me of making assumptions, when I've made none, while you are making free with insults and assumptions about me.

Whether Jesus acknowledges it or not, I occupy the moral f***ing high ground.

Sorry, I've been busy packing for my 2 weeks in Cairns which I leave later today. One of the perks of working hard all my life. If only you could be half the person Fat Jesus is. Fat Jesus is a down to earth good bloke who just likes to chat on here and give his own thoughts to topics that interest him. I only wish you could take a leaf out his book.

 

[sideswipe]

Sorry, I've been busy packing for my 2 weeks in Cairns which I leave later today. One of the perks of working hard all my life. If only you could be half the person Fat Jesus is. Fat Jesus is a down to earth good bloke who just likes to chat on here and give his own thoughts to topics that interest him. I only wish you could take a leaf out his book.

Here we have the “self-funded retiree” in its natural environment. Off-peak journeys to sunny locales.

Would have preferred if you were off to Port Douglas or better yet, Qualia. Cairns is a bit of a hole. Especially at this time of year.


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[manicpie]

Here we have the “self-funded retiree” in its natural environment. Off-peak journeys to sunny locales.

Would have preferred if you were off to Port Douglas or better yet, Qualia. Cairns is a bit of a hole. Especially at this time of year.


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It's the fishing charters that attract me. I also have a few Barramundi expeditions in mind

 

[sideswipe]

It's the fishing charters that attract me. I also have a few Barramundi expeditions in mind

Do you introduce yourself as a self-funded retiree?


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[Kirby]

Vague general statements can never be accepted as fact.
Some people want to maintain Australia Day on the 26th, others don’t.

Odds are that the date will be changed eventually.

Personally, I would like to see the National Day celebrated on January 1st. Public holiday to be observed on the 2nd.

I agree and it’s when it should be anyway.

We can even have the holiday celebrating it a month later, say first Monday of Feb each year.

 

[Kirby]

Isn’t everyone who retires on superannuation self funded?

That’s most people these days.

Seems an impressive feat.

 

[Vicky Park]

I agree and it’s when it should be anyway.

We can even have the holiday celebrating it a month later, say first Monday of Feb each year.

1 January would work for me, as it commemorates the date of Federation, when all the squabbling colonies finally got together to form a nation…and to continue as squabbling states.

As you say, the holiday could be held on another date.

Saying that, I don’t particularly care for anything that celebrates nationalism. I lack the nationalist zeal.

 

[JB1975]

Sorry, I've been busy packing for my 2 weeks in Cairns which I leave later today. One of the perks of working hard all my life. If only you could be half the person Fat Jesus is. Fat Jesus is a down to earth good bloke who just likes to chat on here and give his own thoughts to topics that interest him. I only wish you could take a leaf out his book.

You've weaponised the concept of the self-funded retiree. I'm not sure what to make of that, but I think I like it.

Enjoy your trip.

 

[sideswipe]

Isn’t everyone who retires on superannuation self funded?

That’s most people these days.

Seems an impressive feat.

I guess it means you aren’t a bludger taking welfare from the government?


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[Kirby]

I guess it means you aren’t a bludger taking welfare from the government?


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Sounds heroic

 

[manicpie]

You've weaponised the concept of the self-funded retiree. I'm not sure what to make of that, but I think I like it.

Enjoy your trip.

All good mate. I hope I don't run into any crocs as last time one almost lunged at me, I could have ended up like a one legged pirate