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Re: What's on your mind? Hunting was a bust on Sunday but it was still fun. I've never seen so many pelicans EVER! Hundreds of them flying in mile long lines heading south east. The ducks we saw were way to high up to shoot. It's funny that they seemingly know how far to fly to avoid being shot. They also know that they can rest peacefully in the plentiful foul sanctuaries all around the hunting grounds. It was about 80 degrees too, way to warm. I need to wait a couple of weeks for the weather cool down. Practice was good too. Our session vocalist's last show will be our next gig. Here's to hoping that our main singer will be able to get work in my state after he's finished with his masters program.

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Re: What's really going on in the world ? politics man, in Australia we've got a female leader who isn't really the leader, an opposition leader whose political policy is three words and a minority party that has basically made the entire country it's bitch. oh and the worlds biggest (and to my knowledge only) carbon tax, plus a mining tax, next we'll probably have like a tax on breathing or some shit

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Re: What's on your mind? hell yeah, metal should become a new currency and Iceni the Australian dollar is like a yo-yo it just keeps going up and down all the time, currently I think its around 1 Australian dollar = 95 US cents, but that will probably change, not that it matters since most of my tees come from the UK and the Australian dollar is awful compared to the pound

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hell yeah, metal should become a new currency and Iceni the Australian dollar is like a yo-yo it just keeps going up and down all the time, currently I think its around 1 Australian dollar = 95 US cents, but that will probably change, not that it matters since most of my tees come from the UK and the Australian dollar is awful compared to the pound
Everything sucks compared to the pound. I've never figured out why their currency is worth more than the rest of the worlds but it is. I just hope my country pull its head from its ass soon. I hate having shitty currency.
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Everything sucks compared to the pound. I've never figured out why their currency is worth more than the rest of the worlds but it is. I just hope my country pull its head from its ass soon. I hate having shitty currency.
If you want a strong currency, it helps to not acquire debt, for one. Having the head up the a** is a pretty good approximation of the situation in that huge social spending and bailouts cause us to run up a mighty deficit. That in turn means that the boys over at the Fed have to crank the presses again in order to save the economy. That naturally inflates the dollar...hence our weak currency. The Eurozone has specific mechanisms to make sure that the euro doesn't inflate. It remains to be seen whether Greece will be held to those regulations. Even then, I presume that the UK is even more strict.
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