Posts Tagged ‘Australia’
Hope your timing’s better in 2012, Thorpey
I blame Thorpey's Angels. I think that's the reason I'm not an Ian Thorpe fan. Do you remember that show? Thorpey was cast in the role of Charlie and three random females wanna be it girls of the time were the angels. They went around doing good [...]
Could someone who understands explain this to me
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has proposed a flood tax levy on all taxpayers to cover the cost of the floods. How do you feel about that? I will admit that I'm a bit ambivalent. While I can see that that the floods were a unexpected massive [...]
Happy Straylya Day
I'm attaching the following clip in honour of our national holiday Australia Day which cops a bit of bad press for being alternately Invasion Day and Bogan Big Day Out but is actually a brilliant public holiday right at the beginning of the school [...]
Australia has a new face of dickheadism–his name is Bob Brown
I have no time for the Green Party. I believe a vote for the Greens is a wasted vote. They are a party that stands on a platform of negativity, is unable to see beyond their own bigotted agenda to look at a bigger picture and their main weapon is [...]
Gosh, I’m proud
I had the most bizarre conversation with someone yesterday. I was all teary and proud to be a Brisbane person in the midst of a major crisis. Practically puffing up with pride about how wonderful it was that everyone was chipping in and helping out. [...]
Thoughts on Brisbane’s flood
When I wrote my first post of this year I spoke of the floods in north Queensland and how it seemed inappropriate to try to be witty and funny and bring you odd stuff from the internet. I still feel like that so this is going to be sombre post, but [...]
Toowoomba flooded
The suburb where my husband's business is, was evacuated yesterday due to rising flood waters. He'd sent his staff home early--their suburb's possible evacuation had been flagged earlier but he'd decided to keep the business open on his own. That [...]
10 Santa gifts
I've been delving into Santa's sack and found a few letters from some well-known Aussies. They want all the usual boring stuff like Ferraris and European holidays. However, I decided, in the festive spirit, to help them out by ordering something [...]
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