Excellent.

I like OpenOffice more than I like MS Office.

Cheapskate

I picked up my first baby Hedgehog from the garden.

Cute

St Kilda were beaten,,,,,,,, woe is me.

Sniffffffffff

Sometimes I don't know what to think...

Thinking is overrated.

Depends on who's doing it.

I was thinking, if it takes two to Tango. How many does it take to Sprite ?

On This Day

1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.

....and still they keep trying to get into England .

I picked up my first baby Hedgehog from the garden.

Cute

I wasn't game to pick up what I found in my backyard:

Six foot goannas can bite!

Anybody seen "Ping" of late?

MIA?

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Regards.

This Ex American has the right idea.

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:58:42 +1000

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For as long as I can remember, Americans have been a buncha goofy mothers. Within 18 hours after getting off the plane in Sydney in 1996, I learned it was OK to make such notations aloud.

Americans, by and large, take themselves really seriously. Fewer than 5% have passports and fewer yet ever spend more than 2 weeks out of the continental USA in one whack. They normally can’t reconcile the childhood indoctrination of ‘Greatest Country on Earth,’ the daily Pledge of Allegiance in school and the singing of the national anthem before ballgames… with what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Aussies can call me a brastard, a c*nt, a yank, a seppo… all of those being compliments in one form or another. It’s all Strine to me… and it’s all part of the wide brown land I have lived in for approaching 10 years, as much as pissed yobbos, utes and kangaroos on the bullbar. Funnily enough, I like you yobs and sheilas well enough to be one of you- I became a citizen of Australia in 2003. Thanks for having me, ya bastards. We get on fine, thanks.

Now I read of American students in Queensland complaining about being called ’seps’ or ’sepos/seppos’ and are so flipped out by this that they are withdrawing from universities and heading home, shocked over ‘abuses.’

Bugger off, I say!

"Sep" or "seppo" is a derivation from English rhyming slang, i.e. yank ‘rhymes’ with septic tank. By rules of rhyming slang, this is shortened to "septic" or "seppo," etc. I figure that anyone who’s going to such lengths to create an inoffensive epithet is fairly harmless.

By contrast, in NY, Chicago or LA, if you’re not being encouraged to commit a compromising act with your maternal parent by noontime, you probably didn’t leave the sofa.

Really, ya buncha sooky seppo brastards, get OVER it… and what the bloke in the pub said about GW Shrub was probably right.

This Ex American has the right idea.

Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:58:42 +1000

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For as long as I can remember, Americans have been a buncha goofy mothers. Within 18 hours after getting off the plane in Sydney in 1996, I learned it was OK to make such notations aloud.

Americans, by and large, take themselves really seriously. Fewer than 5% have passports and fewer yet ever spend more than 2 weeks out of the continental USA in one whack. They normally can't reconcile the childhood indoctrination of 'Greatest Country on Earth,' the daily Pledge of Allegiance in school and the singing of the national anthem before ballgames… with what the rest of the world thinks of them.

Aussies can call me a brastard, a c*nt, a yank, a seppo… all of those being compliments in one form or another. It's all Strine to me… and it's all part of the wide brown land I have lived in for approaching 10 years, as much as pissed yobbos, utes and kangaroos on the bullbar. Funnily enough, I like you yobs and sheilas well enough to be one of you- I became a citizen of Australia in 2003. Thanks for having me, ya bastards. We get on fine, thanks.

Now I read of American students in Queensland complaining about being called 'seps' or 'sepos/seppos' and are so flipped out by this that they are withdrawing from universities and heading home, shocked over 'abuses.'

Bugger off, I say!

"Sep" or "seppo" is a derivation from English rhyming slang, i.e. yank 'rhymes' with septic tank. By rules of rhyming slang, this is shortened to "septic" or "seppo," etc. I figure that anyone who's going to such lengths to create an inoffensive epithet is fairly harmless.

By contrast, in NY, Chicago or LA, if you're not being encouraged to commit a compromising act with your maternal parent by noontime, you probably didn't leave the sofa.

Really, ya buncha sooky seppo brastards, get OVER it… and what the bloke in the pub said about GW Shrub was probably right.

I know just how he feels. I remember I was in Brisbane, in a bar, a couple days after the Space Shuttle Challenger crashed. One of the lovely locals (what do Australians call themselves? Yobbos?) recognized I was an American and felt it necessary to go on at length about how fuc_ked up Americans are in general and how fitting it was that there spaceship should crash.

I took it all with the good humor in which it was intended and in an effort to reciprocate his bomhomie I asked him if he could list the accomplishments of the Australian space program. For some reason the good natured fellow took offense at that. Cultural differences indeed. Anyhow he was offended enough to take a swing at me which missed widely but mine did not. He had some nice mates though, who bought me and my friends a round. Ah, social Darwinism at work.

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On This Day

1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.

....and still they keep trying to get into England .

One of life's mysteries.

On This Day

1066 - England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.

....and still they keep trying to get into England .

One of life's mysteries.

William 'The Bastard" invades Britain in 1066. Plenty of other bastards are trying to invade Britain now. Where's the mystery?

Regards.

Tsunami wracks havoc on Samoa.

I wonder about humans, in this case many of my country peoples.

(Mite be asking for trubl here.....LOL)

Hundreds went to beaches to wait for the wave to arrive............<deleted>.

Lots of islanders were there I saw in TV news.

Guess they were looking for family.

Seriously, it has been a bad week for water disasters.

My filipina partner is distressed, her families' homes in Manila, were inundated.

My sister lives in Suva, Fiji. Has anyone heard about effects over there?

My sister lives in Suva, Fiji. Has anyone heard about effects over there?

No worries in Fiji apparently:

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=130580

Cheers Lanna. I've sent the link to my other (worried) family members as well. Much appreciated.

Kayo.

Ya read in NZHerald yesters.

Many people headed to beaches waiting for tsunami to arrive.

It arrived, just a ripple.........LOL

School hols entertainment.

That would be Kiwis for you - while everyone else heads to higher ground, the Kiwis grab their surfboards...

I have a headache.

At precisely 12.02pm (WST) today Australia's population hit 22 million with the milestone addition likely to be a new immigrant passing through customs

My sister finally called in late last night, early morning for her.

She confirmed there were no effects in Suva, and that everything was fine.

She also assured me that living 8km away from the coast, up a hill, caused her no undue worries.

So, who's up for a game of Mah-jong?

Scarey stuff... you must be very relieved.

(love Mah-jong )

Nothing worse than a cracked crust...

Or a crusted crack!

Crusts of crack, for crunching on......... hmmmmmmmm

Every day, learn sumfin new.

I think my cute little jingjok packed off and left me.

He was so sweet darting about ever night.

I think not enough for him to eat.

Oh God..i hope he didnt die behind my fridge or something....