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10 Nov 2013, 8:06 am

Oddball fixations with people have made me totally put dating by the wayside. I haven't logged into OKC or PoF for weeks :?



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10 Nov 2013, 10:40 am

b9 wrote:
another annoying thing i find with road signs is the fact that they never have anything printed on their rear sides.
if a road sign is facing oncoming traffic and telling them what to do, then how do i know what to expect of the oncoming traffic unless i know what the signs they are reading say.

it is a murky stream that the swimmers in life sometimes have to navigate.


I was driving out of Canberra, Australia many years ago in the middle of the night. I was on a divided road, a one way thoroughfare, when I came up to signs facing the other way. I s**t myself. I'm driving a semi-trailer 100 k/h the wrong way down the road. I touched the brakes to get some light behind me as I passed so I could read the signs in the mirrors. They read “Wrong Way – Go Back”. They could have at least put “Have a nice day” or something on the other side.



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10 Nov 2013, 10:44 am

Years ago in Victoria, Australia the Kennett government was elected. This government introduced some pretty harsh laws directed at certain sections of society, and there was a bit of an exodus from the state. The slogan on the state licence plates at the time was “Victoria – On The Move”. When the next government came to power the slogan changed to “Victoria – The Place To Be”. Sort of “It's OK, he's gone. You can all come back now.” I thought it was funny.



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10 Nov 2013, 2:13 pm

I feel like I want to go for gold today......


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10 Nov 2013, 3:22 pm

When you're just trying to hide your pain by having fun and cheering yourself and others up, but then it all goes wrong, it makes you realise it was all a big pretence, and you're not really happy after all. :(



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10 Nov 2013, 3:28 pm

They really oughta invent flying cars.


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11 Nov 2013, 4:15 am

So sick and tired of people thinking someone has an ASD just because they are a jerk. Asperger's=/=Jerk.


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11 Nov 2013, 4:50 am

This email is as transparent as hell :P. Nooo, Cherie is totally not thinking of applying for the position he probably got sacked from.



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11 Nov 2013, 5:48 am

Snow, snow, stay away. Don't come here ANY day.


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11 Nov 2013, 6:07 am

loosewheel wrote:
Years ago in Victoria, Australia the Kennett government was elected. This government introduced some pretty harsh laws directed at certain sections of society, and there was a bit of an exodus from the state. The slogan on the state licence plates at the time was “Victoria – On The Move”. When the next government came to power the slogan changed to “Victoria – The Place To Be”. Sort of “It's OK, he's gone. You can all come back now.” I thought it was funny.


i can not see any association between those 2 number plate slogans i am sorry.

however, with reference to both victorian number plate slogans, i can say that i have formulated many thoughts about them.
victorians are not considered to be the best drivers in NSW, and they are often short sighted when it comes to making executive decisions. i have not much admiration for drivers from victoria.

in regard to the earlier slogan "Victoria - On The Move", i quipped to my friend that everywhere on earth is "on the move" due to tectonic plate movement, so if that is all that victorians can claim to be good at, then what a boring bunch of people they must be. possibly an explanation as to why they are such bad drivers as well. no foresight.
hind sight is not nearly as valid as fore sight.

with respect to the second slogan "Victoria - The Place to be", i once was in a traffic jam that extended for an indeterminate length, and i started to become super impatient. it was like a feeling of mental claustrophobia and i started to look for faults in the stationary scenery that i could complain about to my girlfriend tammy who was sitting next to me.
i then noticed that the car in front of me had a victorian number plate, and i mused over the slogan "the place to be".
that is where he damned well should have been. why are there so many victorian drivers on our roads?
i then calculated that if he was in victoria like his number plate suggests is the place to be, then i would be 5 meters closer to the font of the traffic jam.
i wonder how many other victorian drivers were in that traffic jam.



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11 Nov 2013, 8:38 am

When making poses for SL in Qavimator I face an age old aspie dilemma; where to put the arms :P



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11 Nov 2013, 8:50 am

Australian Army, please donate a Leopard AS1 to me. Using them as targets for your latest and greatest makes me a saaaaaad panda (also, I'm more important than a single RSL club, dammit. Ok, I am egocentric).

Hell, I'll make plywood targets for you.



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11 Nov 2013, 11:35 am

Oh my goodness I love my new hair colour.



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11 Nov 2013, 1:36 pm

The culture of inspections must be toned down in British education.

People cannot survive, let alone teach, in a climate of constant fear and negativity.

A silent class is not always a happy class. And a child is more than his or her literacy and numeracy scores.

Michael Gove and your cronies, what have you done...



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11 Nov 2013, 2:06 pm

I love coffee. Can't live without it.


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11 Nov 2013, 5:04 pm

Surly mood getting ever more surly. Flat broke and my frustrations have been mounting without any real outlet in sight. Trying to blow off some steam by listening to some music now, but I'm not in a happy place.


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