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AlSymerz

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  1. I wondered if that one might have been a bit obscure, but points for getting it I could only think of single word titles. DRI - Who Am I?
  2. I've got all the Motorhead albums, mostly on CD but some on vinyl. I've also got 3 of the 5 Headcat CD's, the Hawkwind albums Lemmy appeared on and the Robert Calvert CD Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters which Lemmy appeared on. I don't own all the JP albums, but I do own all the Maiden albums and a number of box sets. I'm pretty sure Motorhead is the largest collection I have by one band
  3. Only Want You For Your Body - Buffalo
  4. I'll go with the easy one, Deep Purple - Child In Time
  5. The challenge is half the fun. Tau Cross - Sorrow Draws The Plough
  6. Frenzal Rhomb - Pigworm I bet that helps a lot
  7. Metallica needed to change their name to something with an 'S' in is so people could really hit them hard with the sell out insults just like they did with $layer and KI$$
  8. Terrifically Random Example Equations MARK
  9. Oops last word. Henry Rollins - Men Are Pigs
  10. Even without wage rises the majority of people (in Oz at least) have still managed to afford the price increases brought in by companies over the last ten years while average wage growth has been low to stagnant. Obviously there is a point where things get too expensive and people stop spending money on those things, but over the last 50 odd years in this country the price point of everything has not reached that point. If it does we'll be screwed, but I don't see that happening, at least not to the majority of the country. We've all dealt with these classes, but it's how you deal with them that makes a difference. If someone at shops is seen wearing a Cannibal Corpse t-shirt, holey jeans with the arse hanging out, combat boots with no laces, dreadlocks, a shaggy beard and a bottle of wine in a paper bag the majority of people will judge that person by their look. If the same person is seen in a dinner jacket, trousers, a bow tie, short, brushed hair, pointy ties shoes and a swagger they are more than likely judged differently. They haven't automatically leapt class just because they have changed clothes, they probably haven't even changed attitude, but the perception of others is many an varied. If we don't on judge minor things like class, appearance and perceived value the worth of those things diminish. If we don't spend our time focusing on those things in other people we can then spend more time focusing on ourselves and making our own lives better.
  11. Nuclear Assault - Handle With Care
  12. It's not misleading, by the sounds of it you're assuming my comment was aimed at the life struggle of the two groups which was not my intention. People not willing to learn, or never been given the opportunity to learn about money lead to more bankruptcy, debt and loan foreclosures than those on lower incomes. People who need to account for every dollar, watch everything they spend so as to assure they still have a dollar to spend next week, in general, make less money mistakes than those who don't have to account for every dollar spent. The obsession with class is bullshit. The social class my parents grew up in had little to no bearing on the social class I am. I am what I am because I made the efforts I did at a younger age, if I moved a class I wouldn't know because I don't care enough to judge myself, or others, by class. The same goes for my kids, they create their own social class, if they want to name it or fit into some category that names them middle, low, or even high, I'll help them where I can but ultimately it's up to them, not me. The same thing goes for any other person. If it helps people to aim for these classes, then that's their choice but honestly the less focus for me meant more drive. I'm sure I could offer up my earnings, my estate and my goods and chattels for someone to put me in a class but I'm just not interested in such classifications. I guess my whole view comes from the fact that I have never cared what others earned, what they owned, what they owed. If I wanted a pay rise, when I wasn't working for myself, I hit the boss with reasons why I deserved it, if I didn't get it I reassessed whether I needed to work hard/better, or find another job. I never looked at someone else I worked along side and wondered if they made more money, or had a wage increase I didn't. If that's class moving then again I say it's down to the person, not some definition.
  13. Mortal Sin - Mayhemic Destruction
  14. Does one have to move up the social class? If people want to move up then there is ways and means, sometimes there is hurdles and other times there is windfalls but if one is content in the class they are in why do they need to climb? Debt is an obvious issue but debt in this country is out of control because too few people understand money. They get loans they can't service because the bank said it was okay. They buy things on credit because they want things today not when they have the money. They get overdrafts and extra loans without thoughts on how they will pay them off when interest rates increase. They get credit cards to pay off credit cards. They think pay day loans are a good option. But mostly because they haven't learnt, or wanted to lean how to manage money. People do run into bad luck, people do suffer all sorts of things that set their life back, but more people in this country struggle with the money they have than struggle with the money they don't have. Corporate loopholes should definitely be closed, but it's not as simple as willing these loopholes closed, there are ramifications that ripple down all the way to the average worker. Increasing tax on the wealthy is also not that simple, making the extremely wealthy actually pay their share of tax would be a better option. But to just pluck a figure out of the air, call that wealthy and expect those people to pay more than half of every dollar they earn in tax isn't fair, just like a basic wage is not fair to all.
  15. Yes and the same fears were thrown about in the early 2000's when everything skyrocketed in price, yet here we are nearly 20 years on still discussing it. I'm not denying that some people will struggle, they will struggle with the entire cost of living increasing, but people also survive. In 2007 while delivering bread, at a time when things were improving generally across the country, the company I worked for increased their prices 7 times using reasons like fuel prices, drivers wages, cost of ingredients. Each time the ACCC accepted and approved of the rises and each time consumers accepted the price rises without screams of boycotting the company, or other such shit. The same company had been increasing their product prices gradually throughout every year of the 2000's but not often enough to attract the eyes of the ACCC. 15 years on and the same products are on the shelves for up to 30% more and people are still buying the shit in record numbers. Look at the shit fights in this country a few years ago with Coles and Woolies were supposedly selling milk too cheap. With their hearts in their hands the big supermarkets decided to increase the cost by 10c a litre with the promise of passing the 10c on to the farmer. Go forward 3 years everyone's forgotten about the farmers and milk has increased at minimum another 20 cents a litre with the extra being scooped up in the supermarket coffers, and no one has even raised an eye brow. The cost of living may well be increasing faster than people's wages but people have a way of adapting and the supermarkets, fuel companies, etc etc know that, in fact they rely on it. It sucks that these things happen but people will still travel the country, people will still rely on transport and people will still survive.
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