A wise man chooses a partner, who is not only attractive to him.......

........but to mosquitoes as well.

(Maybe if they both eat VEGEMITE, they'll both be unnattractive to skeeters)

i just found a shop tonight that sells Branston Pickle and Ambroser Rice Pudding!, how random is that !!!

note.. this is very english, and i have never seen anywhere in thailand sell it!

I don't know if that's true or an old housewives, Pete. Any reference links? (I was thinking that if true, perhaps the same could be said of Marmite. But then, given the general superiority of Vegemite over its British cousin, that may not necessarily be the case...)

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Where is cold rush?the OP for this thread?

He posted a large amount of youtube videos last December and disappeared. I do remember him having a bit of an 'unstable moment'

Someone in here must have his contact details. Can someone contact him To see if he's okay?

Perhaps he should be added to the 'Missing Posters' thread (in context #2)...

Someone in here must have his contact details. Can someone contact him To see if he's okay?

Taddy mentioned he had an 'unstable moment'... = suspended OR barred from Bedlam OR p1ssed-off.

I don't know if that's true or an old housewives, Pete. Any reference links? (I was thinking that if true, perhaps the same could be said of Marmite. But then, given the general superiority of Vegemite over its British cousin, that may not necessarily be the case...)

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Haaaa, Ping.

Being a normal Kiwi kid, vegemite or marmite were staples in my diet, as it is in Australia.

I buy both for a change, but dose up before a trip to LoS, or Australia.

Yes, OZ, where the Dengue mosquito and the Asian Tiger mosquito both carriers are found in Nth Queensland. Cairns and Port Douglas in particular.

Below is an interesting page regarding Vegemite and Marmite and mosquitoes.

http://www.google.com/search?q=vegemite+mo...amp;rlz=1I7GGLR

Make your own decision, I am a believer, Vegemite and Marmite do the job.

Nothing new here mate. Mozzies have always found it difficult to get the lids off the jars, hence the unpopularity.

Pink Floyd doesn't have to be deep and meaningful!

The clip from the film has got boobs in it so better not post that, you know where to find it though.

All together now.. Oooooooooh I need a dirty woman.

Now that is random!

Boobs? As in boobies?

Boobs as in knockers, norks, jubblies, chesticles, funbags, rack, charleys, dumplings, tits!

I hardly ever forward this stuff, but this one is brilliant.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's, 30's 40's,

50's, 60's and 70's !!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank

while they carried us and lived in houses made of asbestos.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese, tuna from a can, and didn't

get tested for diabetes or cervical cancer.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright

coloured lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets

and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets or shoes, not to mention,

the risks we took hitchhiking

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a Ute on a warm day was always a special

treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

Take away food was limited to fish and chips, no pizza shops,

McDonalds, KFC, Subway or Red Rooster.

Even though all the shops closed at 6.00pm and didn't open on the

weekends, somehow we didn't starve to death!

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO

ONE actually died from this.

We could collect old drink bottles and cash them in at the corner

store and buy fruit tingles and some fire-crackers to blow up frogs

with.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soft drinks

with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we

were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then

ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We built tree

houses and cubby houses and played in creek beds with matchbox cars.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no videogames

at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround

sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet

chat rooms.......... WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there

were no Lawsuits from these accidents

Only girls had pierced ears!

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not

live in us forever.

You could only buy Easter Eggs and Hot Crossed Buns at Easter

time.......no really!

We were given BB guns and sling shots for our 10th birthdays,

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the

door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!

Mum didn't have to go to work to help dad make ends meet!

Footy had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't

had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

Our teachers used to belt us with big sticks and leather staps and

bully's always ruled the playground at school.

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was

unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

Our parents got married before they had children and didn't invent

stupid names for their kids like “Kiora' and 'Blade”.

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem

solvers and inventors ever!

The past 70 years have been an explosion of innovation and new

ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we

learned

HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

And YOU are one of them!

CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to

grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our

lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know

how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors,

doesn't it?!

A person without a past is a person without a future.

Just as a nation without a past, is a nation with no future.

Worth printing out and showing to ya grandkids.

I guess they may be better reached with emails.

Great to actually see their faces whilst reading it.

Last thought, who raised all these PC and over cautious parents of today.

Hahaha.... Look in a mirror.

Sorry it is so long, but bet ya enjoyed reading.

Makes excellent reading Pete, thanks.

You just covered my complete childhood, Pete.

I rarely read anything that goes beyond a few lines (a firm believer in executive summaries - old habits die hard). That's why I'll rarely be a contributor to the more serious of the threads - usually someone decides to build a mansion when a tent would have done the job...

ohhhhhhhhhhhh Boyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I think I had died in Bedlam and woke up a while ago and found myself in "out of the box""

He posted a large amount of youtube videos last December and disappeared. I do remember him having a bit of an 'unstable moment'

OH NO Thaddy;NOOOOOOOOOO

I am owned now I think I am the next one to disappear ;I've been practicing both

I could never keep up with management changes.

IF you'd call the person who talks alot: Talkative.

what would you call the person who post alot?

Boater ?

You just covered my complete childhood, Pete.

Me too, OC, story of my life.

Akshully feel sorry for kids these days.

No fun in life doing stuff, all dun for ya.

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(OC, howz it going with ya recent surgery, all good now? Not seen anything posted, hope all is well.)

You just covered my complete childhood, Pete.

Me too, OC, story of my life.

Akshully feel sorry for kids these days.

No fun in life doing stuff, all dun for ya.

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(OC, howz it going with ya recent surgery, all good now? Not seen anything posted, hope all is well.)

My new hip is going well thanks Pete, but the knee is still a problem. I'll need a full replacement sooner rather than later. Had a steroid injection in it on Monday, makes it a lot more comfortable.

You just covered my complete childhood, Pete.

Me too, OC, story of my life.

Akshully feel sorry for kids these days.

No fun in life doing stuff, all dun for ya.

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(OC, howz it going with ya recent surgery, all good now? Not seen anything posted, hope all is well.)

My new hip is going well thanks Pete, but the knee is still a problem. I'll need a full replacement sooner rather than later. Had a steroid injection in it on Monday, makes it a lot more comfortable.

Wish ya luck OC.

I hurt a knee, when 10 yrs old, 30 years later, after some painful times, me NEW doc, gave me a an injection, I think was cortizone. Woteva, it gave me hel_l for a cupla weeks, but boy, what a diff. All those years, and one simple injection, well he pumped stuff in a number of spots, now it 100%.

Cuzzie, at 73 had both knees replaced, she is 79 now, going great. Hope for you.

That's an interesting story about your knee, Pete. It reminds me of one my grandmother told me many years ago. She suffered from rheumatism/arthritis or similar and said that many years previously, a relative (I forget who it was) who suffered painful rheumatism went to a certain specialist in Collins Street (Melbourne) with the result being a similar scenario to your knee experience. (This must have been in the early 60s, so many of the pharmaceutical solutions of today would not have been available back then.) The trouble is, the relative had since died and no-one knew the name of this specialist (or whether he was still around). My grandmother tried a number of different people, but never got the results that the relative had achieved.

Hi Ping.

Seems too many medical pros look for easy outs, pills possible ops etc.

The doc who sorted me out is a London trained Tamil, from Sri Lanka.

I first went to him when my then doctor, told me I had scabies, instead of giving me sumfin for a chemical rash on my hands and fingers.

Silly woman, and that is being kind.

He immediately gave me something, dermovate, if I recall ccrrectly.

It cleared up over a weekend.

I took home 10 tubes of crab ointment, compliments of woman doc.

Came in handy for skeeter bites and stuff.

Sad day when he retired, all the kids had confidence in him.

She said all the family needed to be thouroughly coated with it.........<deleted>.

Neva wanted a femme doc again.

Unfortunately, so many are femmes now, my oncologist included.

I get on great with her, she says she wishes more patients were like me.

My repartee with her, leaves us both laughing.

Too many patients so sorry for themselves it seems, to me it just a phase of my life.

They oughta get a life, enjoy what is left.

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