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Love a good apricot myself.
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1. I should confess I can eat mango if unripe - green mango and green papaya are key ingredients in some truly great Asian salads. It’s the ripe ones I can’t abide. I also like banana just a bit underripe before it becomes fully soft and sugary. I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
2. Agree with this. Prefer rockmelon to watermelon but a can (and do) live without.
3. Yes I’m aware but thank you. Not overly fond of a kiwi fruit for taste, but they look lovely sliced on a pavlova (which I also avoid as too sweet) so I can understand their incorporation in some dishes.
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I like them dried. Ripe they seem kind of fuzzy, but I can eat them. Like a passion fruit because it has some sourness and acidity going on. It seems that I have a preference for the more indigestible foods. No wonder I tend to periodic insomnia.
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Is kiwi fruit the only fruit that is green inside when ripe to eat?
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Oh yeah - honeydew melon is green
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And green grapes
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Need your moral support on this one.
I know a lady reasonably well as part of a sports club that we both belong to. She's an absolute babe ... nice, intelligent, and extremely good looking. She's always been friendly towards me. I've been biding my time re asking her out. Actually, I was hoping she'd ask me out.
I saw her profile is on RSVP today. She will be absolutely bombarded with approaches.
So, I'm gonna send her a msg tonight saying that I saw her profile on RSVP and asking her out on a date. I don't want to put her on the spot by asking her out when I next see her at the club. Fingers crossed.
And could you (all) please wish me luck?
If interested, I'll report back with the outcome.
I know a lady reasonably well as part of a sports club that we both belong to. She's an absolute babe ... nice, intelligent, and extremely good looking. She's always been friendly towards me. I've been biding my time re asking her out. Actually, I was hoping she'd ask me out.
I saw her profile is on RSVP today. She will be absolutely bombarded with approaches.
So, I'm gonna send her a msg tonight saying that I saw her profile on RSVP and asking her out on a date. I don't want to put her on the spot by asking her out when I next see her at the club. Fingers crossed.
And could you (all) please wish me luck?
If interested, I'll report back with the outcome.
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Generally I reckon you'd be better off asking her in person.
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Best of luck
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I take your point. However I've known her for quite a while; I think it would put her on the spot to ask in person, particularly if she wanted to say no.
If I was putting odds on the outcome I'd say 60/40 ...
Thanks for your support guys.
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Fair enough.
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Update ... message sent to babe at 7.15 pm.
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Reply ... friendzoned !!! Oh well, back to the drawing board!!
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Eh, still got a good friend by the sounds of it. That's a win still. It seems that even though she doesn't view you that way that you're a person she enjoys being with
I know from experience that even when i'm really honest, like "hey if you're interested great but if you're not it's not gonna change anything" some of the more shallow type people out there, can get freaked out and either act differently or quietly cut you out. Anyways my point being if you're disheartened for the moment, yeah that's normal. But it's not a total loss
Mango sticky rice......best dessert ever.
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I got to like your post twice perfect!
I think I have finally killed off the alt, so this is something you should savour
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On a totally random note, i had a dream about footy last night. I dreamed that i was training and i was trying to mark a football from someone kicking it to me, but it was a bit behind me, i'd overrun it a little, so in my dream i had to like jump and turn to reach for it. Then i woke up to me launching myself up and to the left from sleeping. I've had dreams where I've moved a little, but nothing that's almost thrown me out of bed because i was trying to catch a imaginary ball in my sleep
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No tattoo?
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Better to know where you stand than regret never knowing, and spending forever wondering what could have been.
Well done on having the courage to a chance.
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I don't believe in karma. Or rate religion either.
I heard epidemiologist Prof Sharon Lewin interviewed today. (Head of Doherty Institute.) She's awesome. Reminded me of the late Mary-Louise McLaws, the epidemiologist who died at the age of 70 from brain cancer. She was incredibly kind and brilliant. I was and remain so sad that she died at a relatively young age from such an insidious disease.
Yet people like Derryn Hinch, Jeff Kennett, ol' Triplechins et al will undoubtedly go on forever.
I heard epidemiologist Prof Sharon Lewin interviewed today. (Head of Doherty Institute.) She's awesome. Reminded me of the late Mary-Louise McLaws, the epidemiologist who died at the age of 70 from brain cancer. She was incredibly kind and brilliant. I was and remain so sad that she died at a relatively young age from such an insidious disease.
Yet people like Derryn Hinch, Jeff Kennett, ol' Triplechins et al will undoubtedly go on forever.
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Sharon Lewin is a gem. I met her a few times when I was in one of those AG graduate programs and I did a stint at the NHMRC. What a mind!
I don’t have time for religion or superstition much either. Though my sister is a nurse and reckons through observation (plus some supporting research) that maintaining belief in critical medical situations does come into play in chances of recovery. So if your thing is God will help me, or crystals and star formations, or even drinking a pint of your own urine per day (or another persons) can influence your chances of recovery.
Mind you, some people seem to achieve this through their own personal determination like Neale Daniher. Raging against the dying of the light really seems to have a role in longevity.
As for the crap types that Australia seems to revere (as opposed to some of the great minds and real achievers that we have) maintaining their prominence eternally, it sucks and seems such a bad thing for our country. The cultural cringe of 50 years ago at least made sense - a young nation that believed that it couldn’t be best in arts and sciences compared to those countries with history and long institutions. But it’s different now. We are singling people born in Australia out to worship as heros. It’s just they are mostly crap idols and we put up with it.
We are so much better than we think we are but don’t seem to know or care. Sometimes the wrong things are celebrated in Australia.
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Bloody hell Proper Gander lots of words and thoughts make Crimson go something, something.
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