AlSymerz

I don't think it's as black and white as that. If you're actually hiding the drinking, doing it whenever your partner's back is turned, taking the chances every time you're alone and then masking it so as not to get caught, the problem could just as easily be yours. Simply masking the smell because other people don't like it is not much different to not farting at the family dinner table and doesn't automatically represent either side has an issue. Although if you hold farts in too long you'll eventually have a problem.

Suicidal Tendencies - Join The Army

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You can choose your opinions but you can't choose your IQ?

Is it random quote time? Okay I'll go next. Opinions are like arseholes, everyone has one but some really stink

Onslaught - Power From Hell

MasterChef sucks for making cheap things expensive. Lamb shanks in this country used to be the one cut of lamb that very few people bought so they were cheap. In the last 10 years or so since MasterChef started using them they increased in price by something like 5x that before MasterChef. Once it was on tv it suddenly became fashionable to eat something most people just ignored. I didn't eat a whole elephant so it wasn't a big meal Elephant tastes kind of like venison, strong and bold. The bit I had, which was from behind the ear, was not tough to eat but it was kind of muscley (if that's a word), again a bit like venison. If presented with the chance again I wouldn't say no, but I'd also be happy to try something else. I'm always careful not to name the animals like that. My wife refuses to eat kanagroo because I used to call it Skippy and pretty much everyone in Australia knows the 70's (maybe 80's) TV show of the same name about a kid and his pet kangaroo. She's also not found of lamb because she had a toy lamb when she was a kid and naming dinner Lambie was an early mistake I made. Strangely enough she's not too worried about cows we rear in the house paddock which we name Freezer Meat. She's also not worried if we eat Porky Pig.

I used to with my mother many years ago. It was the same as smoking, it was just easier to not to come home smelling of such and she wouldn't say anything. But these days my missus would only give me stink eye if I came home reeking of booze and I'd been driving. The ones that used to really shit me were the women who bitched and moaned when the drivers came into the office to drop off paperwork smelling like smoke, or god forbid smelling like they hadn't showered for 5 days after being on the road away from home for 5 days. These women complained over and over like it was our choice to actually visit them, but because there was nothing they could really do about it they'd retaliate with perfume that you could smell a mile away, or the stinkiest room de-ponger that they could find in the shops.

Yeah croc is very plain, it doesn't smell like fish and when cooked right it does taste okay, but it will never be the sort of meat everyone goes for. Then again neither are these "noodle snacks" I'm eating at the moment. They are essentially just cooked 2 minute noodles dried out with flavouring on them. Sometimes I wish my wife wouldn't just buy things because they are on special at Aldi.

I remember being young and bullet proof too, although my time was a bit different because when I first got my license I couldn't afford a fast car. I could speed (just), I could get taily, (only in the wet) and I could drive like a dickhead but it just wasn't that much fun in a matchbox car. As much as I might have been a bit annoyed with my parents who refused to give me money to buy the car I wanted it probably did save my life because I was the sort of person who would have driven like a dickhead boy racer. (although I don't think boy racer was a term back then) Now days I think my parents insistence that I got a job, paid for my own car, paid for it's upkeep and insure it was a good thing. I was paying something like $3K a year to insure a car that was only worth $6K because I was in the high risk age bracket. But I treated that little shitbox car like gold because as much as my dad taught me how to do mechanics on my cars he didn't ever pay for anything on it, I had to earn my own cash for it. I quickly learned that it was easier and cheaper to not break things. Once I got in the truck and was forced to do a defensive driving course the dickhead boy racer was really pushed out of me. I wouldn't dare suggest I became the pinnacle of driving excellence and never broke rules, because that just isn't true, but I certainly didn't end up dead or fearful of other drivers like so many seem to be. Since that first defence driving course I've done 5 more over the years, mostly through employers, and even after 5 I still find them fun and wish more people would bite the bullet and realise such courses are not to be ashamed of, they aren't pin pointing participants as bad drivers, they are pin pointing them as drivers who want to improve and everyone can improve somewhere.

Nasty Savage - S/T

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Hobbs Angel Of Death - S/T

One town does not a country make. It's easy to cherry pick things and suggest that the whole country is that way because the newspaper article said it is. There are plenty of towns in every state making efforts towards sustainability. There are towns moving towards carbon reduction. There are towns looking towards zero emissions. The way you paint the picture you are making out that all Australian's are responsible for killing this world, even the Murdoch press isn't that dramatic with their bullshit.

Overkill - Horrorscope

The media has been calling it a success? All I've heard them talk about is the failures, the countries that failed to do anything and the words some countries changed to make things sound better. The media has been more doom and gloom about this meeting of the minds since before it started than the internet has. I haven't heard any outlet, with any sort of credibility, actually claim the thing was a success. There has been moments of positivity but not success.

I just can't be bothered spending all that money on a tour of another country. If I'm going to live out of a swag I'm doing it in my own backyard. I've driven across this country too many times to count. I've driven around the country once for my own recreation. There is so much I still haven't seen which I'd prefer to see before I see anything else. Not sure when it will be yet but my next trip is going to be covering central New South Wales and Southern Queensland. We'll spend a week or two out in the red dirt just touring around and stopping where we want to. There is a tour I want to do which is "5 Days In A Plane" which is a sightseeing tour where they do five different flight tours over 4 days in a Cesna. They only take 6 people at a time and it's really just a chance to get to see things from an angle we don't usually get to see it from. But I'd much rather something like that rather than going over seas.

Thankfully we're moving out of the cold weather, but it has turned to shit lately with rain and wind. I hate the wind when I'm stuck inside. If I'm alone in the house while it's windy I have the stereo turned up loud, no matter what I'm doing, it's one of the few times these days where the stereo gets past about 1/2 volume. If I'm out in the shed, or doing stuff out on the farm the wind is annoying but it doesn't annoy me as much as when it bangs and crashes into the house.

Kreator - Endless Pain

Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction

Ok remove faith and call it hope. Being negative and saying we have no choice or no future sucks. I'd much prefer to look at the future as anything possible. I don't take the side of the doomsayers and I don't take the side of the donothings so I'm certainly not going to sit back and just assume we're all fucked.

I still reckon comparing one country to another is an unfair comparison. It's not a simple dollar for dollar comparison, but at the end of the day what is comparable is that insurance companies are only in business to make money, they don't expect to pay out to people. No idea about other countries but in this country the major of all insurance companies (all sectors) are underwritten by about 5 or 6 different major companies. With all the floods, fires, earthquake and wind storms we've had in the last decade insurance companies are not only paying out big they constantly figuring out new ways to not pay of claims.

Megadeth - KIMBABIG

I have more faith than that. There are open minded people in this world and they will prolong life even for those that don't think it's possible.

I meant to leave governments off that sentence because it's common knowledge how much they don't pay. But the term "medical insurance" kind of hints that it's insurance to cover your for medical treatments, yet in reality private health insurance in this country is a fucking joke. All insurance companies have clauses that get them out of things, car insurance doesn't pay up if your are unlicensed or drunk, house insurance doesn't pay if you burn your own house down. But medical insurance takes the cake, They'll happily take more per week that some banks do for house loans, then they'll pay 10% for this, 17% for that, 5% for something else, they pay up to $100 a year for one treatment, $200 for another, and nothing for something else. Then they have the hide (because the government lets them) to index price increases every year and they do so with terms like "the government has allowed us to increase by another 5% but we are all about our customers so we'll be nice and only increase by 4.9%.