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AlSymerz

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  1. I work from home and do the stay at home dad thing while my wife works in an office 8ish hours a day and neither of us would have it any other way. It started out as a necessity given that my wife can't get a licence to drive, but these days she loves the idea of little to no house work, being out of the house and not having to put up with the school politics. She's also the one that gets to come home every/any night with the new shoes, new toy, or cakes because when I shop I buy what we need and when she goes for a walk at lunch time she buys what she calls the 'nice' things. Barring things like lockdowns and school holidays I can play music all day if I want to because even my clients know it's better to email me rather than ring.
  2. You should move to Melbourne and be like all those other parents complaining that they can't take their kids to the park because the government shut them down and the police are enforcing it! I do kind of agree, most of my family I wouldn't choose to interact with but thankfully I don't have to they are spread so far around the country that seeing them before covid barely happened, but now it never happens. Although I tend to be the opposite to a lot of married men in that I don't mind visiting the Outlaws on the other side of the country. Some of them are just fruit cakes but my wife's side has more people I'd be happy to drink with than mine and going there has the added bonus that I know it wont be for too long!
  3. I'm not against governments giving money to bands but I'd definitely like to see it fairly distributed. I don't have any evidence of the exact numbers but it's a fairly safe bet given who is on TV here and who is appearing at the gigs that money given to cultural groups is not fairly shared to metal bands. We've got a good number of indigenous metal bands coming through now days, some aren't great but that happens, however giving them some support, not just financial would be a good thing.
  4. Flotsam & Jetsam - Doomsday For The Deceiver
  5. Does Alien Weaponry actually get funding due to their culture? I find that interesting. I know there has been quite a number of aboriginal artists in Australia who got government funding to boost their career but most of them were popular music type genres. There has been a few metal acts that got helped along the way by government funds, either with publicity or actual money but they are few and far between. As far as the rest of this discussion goes, power metal, folk metal, exotic folk, who invented it, where it came from, who does it best. They are all reasons I tend to ignore genres and labels and just listen to what the hell I like the sound of.
  6. Exodus - Pleasures Of The Flesh
  7. Cousin Oswald's Romantic Kiss DUNG
  8. For me when Bones and Booth eventually got together the writers tried too hard for personal parts of each story and it upset the flow of the eps. When they weren't an item those stories flowed better, there was sexual tension, there was just general tension, but as soon as the relationship became official it went from natural to forced. They had some good supporting staff too with just about all the characters, but even Angela and Hodgins relationship stories felt forced, although being supporting cast members theirs wasn't in the same focus, so it was better.
  9. Standard Tim Tams aren't worth the praise some aussies give them, they are nothing short of a chocolate biscuit wrapped in chocolate with some chocolate flavoured cream. The only good way to eat a standard Tim Tam is as a part of a Tim Tam Slam and that's bite the end off and suck coffee through it like a straw. The real worth of Tim Tams are the 'special' or flavoured ones. Some like the Tiramisu are very average and not worth buying. Double Choc are not worth buying. But Mint, White Chocolate and Caramel Tim Tams are the only real reasons to keep the factory open.
  10. Through no fault of the cast I do think Midsummer got a little stale in the writing and production in the last series I saw which was S22. It's on our free to air TV here so no doubt I'll watch the latest series when it arrives but it's no longer a must watch show like it used to be. Candy Fluff is about right with Bones. They should never have let Bones and Booth get involved romantically, once they had to start writing romantic parts into the story other parts of the show just fell away. It does happen a lot with all sorts of shows when they let two main stars become romantic but for me that was the downfall of Bones. Kathy Reichs books are much more readable than the last season or two of the series.
  11. Keeping with my theme for the day. Dropkick Murphys - 11 Short Stories & Turn Up That Dial
  12. Severed Entrails With Nuggets. CLUB
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