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@PaulPrigby
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@Dalbodog I have several neighbouring cats spend much of their day in my garden; it’s a place of respite, if not refuge, from their own homes/gardens with boisterous dogs. Word has got around that my garden is unoccupied for now, and has some nice sunny spots for naps.I’m happy to share…
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@Goodable And holding the premiership cup…
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@OTerrifying Kept in a barren wasteland, with no entertainment or companionship: hostility is to be expected.
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@historyinmemes Not all who suffered this were collaborators: some were falsely accused , and the victims of squabbles and vindictive complaints. Most of the real collaborators got off with impunity, many able to keep their profits.
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@fasc1nate Similar in Melbourne, Australia: houses were bought to build a mega car park for a shopping mall in Camberwell. One 83 year old woman refused, and won her Supreme Court case. She died about 30 years ago, well into her 90s, at which time the house was acquired and demolished.
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@simonschuster Reminiscent of Ray Bradbury’s “Fahrenheit 451”. At some point you had determined that this book was worthy of publication; now you choose to censor it. While I would never read anything by this writer, this kind of response is both inappropriate and disturbing...
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@solderandflux Some of us don’t/can’t/no longer have dogs, for a variety of reasons. Other people’s dogs are very important to us, including those we see/meet even fleetingly in public places, like pubs or parks. It gives us joy, and it’s treasured….
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@London_W4 Appalling. Reminiscent of the sheer misery when commuters had to entertain themselves with newspapers or paperbacks. How did they get the latest updates about what celebrities were having for lunch?
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@il0venostalgia I went to school in the era of ink wells: ceramic containers built into each desk. The ink well monitor replenished the wells every day, IIRC. These cartridges were revolutionary…
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@Kate_Taz In most Asian countries masks are worn routinely if you have a cold; it’s seen as both a courtesy and a protection against spreading it to others. It’s the norm and was long before the emergence of SARS/ Birdflu/COVID. To not wear one would be unthinkable…
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@TrillVille1337 @CNN What a sick world it is when the phrase ‘fair game’ can be used to describe a tragic death. Is that from the NRA Handbook?
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@FightHaven No need to see the preceding footage: it’s a plain and clear case of a thug in uniform abusing his authority to bash someone posing no threat and not resisting. He should be fired and prosecuted…
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@Happydog___ Every dog lover visiting Japan should see the statue of Hachi outside Shibuya Station in Tokyo. It’s near where he waited for his human to get off the train every day .
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@MailOnline At least people know what he stands for; he’s coming out of the closet:
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@angie_karan Awful people and such a hideous establishment to facilitate this kind of ritual abuse…
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@xxxxTheKing They stop sugarcane trucks in Thailand, and help themselves to a serve before letting them continue.
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@Dalbodog The Hachiko statue at Shibuya Station is still a big meeting point: “ I’ll meet you at Hachiko at 1300”.
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@AmyRemeikis $20 billion per annum in budgeted tax breaks for property investors, a big fat ZERO for renters, even in the face of unaffordable rent increases. This is not a Labor Govt in anything but name…
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@AlboMP @midnightoilband Not interested in your music reviews. What are you doing about the housing crisis as it affects renters, as per Four Corners? You are becoming an embarrassment to the labour movement, with your ludicrous tax cuts while so many are struggling to afford the bare essentials…
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@newscomauHQ Cretinous. A simple answer and she’d have been in her way in 20 seconds, with a verbal warning about the charger. But no, she wanted to go all theatrical and try to make herself into a victim... Clueless.
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@nypost Despite the titillating trailers it was mostly self-indulgent , entitled tedium, with occasional delusional observations. Oprah is laughing all the way to the bank....
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@MikeCarlton01 @Craig_Foster Just about single-handedly saved Hakeem Al-Araibi , Australian soccer player nabbed on a fraudulent Qatari interpol warrant, from a potentially nasty fate. I’ll always respect and be grateful to Craig for that.
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@OliLondonTV @JamesOkeefell Cheap and nasty harassment. It’s fine to make comments on his suitability or otherwise for advertising, but chasing him through a hotel lobby pursuing answers to questions outside his expertise is feral. The worst kind of ‘gotcha’ posing as journalism.
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@PatsKarvelas I’m far more troubled by the Australian Jewish Association getting briefings from parliamentary committees, as reported last week. I don’t want zealots from any religious affiliation getting preferential access to politicians.
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@OTerrifying This is way beyond ‘oddly terrifying’ and well into the realm of the deeply disturbing/distressing….
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@Leo_Puglisi6 This kind of intimidation happened in Munich in the 1920s ,and look how that ended.
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@ImKhan70 We see this every year in Australia, on the first Tuesday in November, at the Melbourne Cup. Inevitably horses die, miserably and quite unnecessarily, but the party set and the shysters running the ludicrously misnamed ‘ Sport of Kings’ couldn’t care less…
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@JoshFrydenberg @westaustralian Did you read Niki Savva’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald ? She’s not known for being pro-Labor, but characterises your handling of the pandemic as one of the greatest blunders in Australia’s history. It’s been ineptitude of staggering proportions. Scandalous...
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@MFWitches They did the same when Hawke/ Keating put an end to the notorious tax breaks for extravagant boozy lunches/dinners. Melbourne ‘restaurant royalty’ were outraged that the taxpayer-funded gravy train came to a crashing end ( as did the businesses, in many cases). Oh, the humanity!
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@9NewsAUS What did we expect from the guy who thought it was fine to go on a pub crawl through his ancestral village in the UK when the whole of Australia was in lockdown? He struggles with the concept of double standards ( or simply doesn’t care)....
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@dannygkass @spectatorindex That’s not the reason; almost all American cities are cheaper than those…
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@BreakfastNews He sets a very poor example. Last year he organised the Adria Tour, in the middle of the pandemic, resulting in a number of players getting COVID; prior to that his feral supporters had booed Jane Hrdlicka at the AO as she made a speech encouraging people during the restrictions
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@ZombieLoved @gldivittorio I’d assumed it was a gun until your comment prompted me to look it up. I’d sooner have lived on in ignorance....
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@sallymcmanus I’m reminded of the campaigns by the s’market CEOs during the worst of the pandemic lockdowns, tugging at emotions as if they themselves had helped get us through those tough times. We know in reality it was the poorly paid shelf-stackers, checkout staff, delivery drivers, etc..
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@KosSamaras This is a sector even more out of control than supermarkets, insurance and airlines. Vice-Chancellors have sold the risible claim that the universities produce a net benefit of 30 billion pa, and given themselves salary packages double or triple that of UK counterparts. Ludicrous
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@MikeCarlton01 I only enter Harvey Norman to view the products; always buy elsewhere. I feel a bit sorry for the sales staff, most of whom are very helpful and pleasant, but Gerry’s not getting a cent from me…
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@angie_karan In addition to the appalling cruelty there’s the ludicrous and delusional fantasy that the participants are engaging in ritualised bravery of some macho type. The rest of us know in fact it’s the ultimate in cowardice: the hideous,gratuitous torture of a harmless, innocent beast
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@mjrowland68 @tvtonightau And as much as I like Catherine, and the other journalists covering, I just stopped watching. It’s not sport but rather a vulgar display of greed, cruelty, gambling addiction and drunkenness…
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@chantz_y Same in Thailand and Singapore; wearing a mask has long been culturally obligatory while having a cold, regardless of efficacy .
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@AmyRemeikis We should not be asking ‘the poor’ to be carrying the burden of the appalling self-serving profligacy of the last mob, not the selective austerity imposed by this new lot ( eg, subsidised childcare for incomes up to 350K, but ZERO for those living hand to mouth). It’s SHAMEFUL!
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@piersmorgan If you start attacking Kyrgios you’ll lose the last of your Australian viewers ( already down to about 500 at last survey, if I’m not mistaken)…
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@CNNPolitics It’s a ‘big ask’ to take a dog from a small ,secure environment, one he knows as his own territory , into a mega space full of people he doesn’t know. It’s not his fault that this has happened.
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@MikeCarlton01 Hugh Riminton got it right in respect of Morrison’s slick marketing slipperiness, in The Guardian: “ ..not so much chameleon as oiled seal...”
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@EpochInspired Treasure that note forever, it’s both a blessing and an inspiration….
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@Just2Tennis How about 2 Australians: Evonne Goolagong and Ash Barty, both proud black women of the indigenous First Nations people? Both ranked one.
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@past2present_x @fasc1nate This became the subject matter of a novel and ( Jane Fonda) film: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They. C1968. Harrowing.
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@ruskin147 A scared doggo behind a sofa in London, with people all over the world wishing her well. It’s heart-warming and uplifting…
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@mishyloan @JaneCaro @Dom_Perrottet The clueless twits running Tasmania have fallen for this , lock, stock and barrel; they pandered to the tourism/gaming lobby to throw open the borders prematurely: the consequent increase in COVID has meant locals are not shopping/eating out...probably causing even greater loss.
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@SarkySage Our cookers are pathetic. Not up to an international standard. They should be getting greater inspiration from the professionals in the US.
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Presidential spiritual adviser Paula White is currently leading an impassioned prayer service in an effort to secure Trump's reelection.
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@sentantiq Shakespeare: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here...”
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@CNN Suspect seen fleeing down the street…
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@ICC Has India ever won a test series in England? I seem to recall them snatching defeat from the jaws of victory a few times. Perhaps this team will be different; certainly they played extremely well in Australia.
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@BenRothenberg These time-outs are a complete scandal: the worst kind of gamesmanship and totally contradictory to the spirit of the game. More’s the pity the woeful umpires won’t ( perhaps can’t) stop them. Sadly it won’t be the last in this event. Good riddance, Ostapenko...
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@TDogsLife Lol. Not as weird as me: if I see dogs waiting outside a shop or in a car in the supermarket car park , waiting for their humans, I always stop to say “ don’t worry, they’ll be back soon”. They acknowledge and seem grateful for the reassurance (...at least in my mind...).
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@PRGuy17 And today is the 49th anniversary of Arthur Calwell’s death. He was Labor Opposition Leader in 1966 when someone shot him during the contretemps over the Vietnam War ( although motivation was unclear) . We are not immune.
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@6NewsAU Absolutely pathetic. These parliamentary committees have been providing briefings to the Israel Lobby ( Australians who seem more interested in doing Israel’s bidding), but we can’t have our own ELECTED REPRESENTATIVE. Abysmal from the control freaks and thought police in the ALP
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@sassisam @wendy_harmer On the other hand, it’s a reflection of his ‘grit’ ( and the very best health care) that he’s come through this hospitalisation. So I see positives in the picture , although it’s far too intrusive and goes way beyond reasonable public interest...
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@TheTennisLetter She’s likeable. It’s rare these days, sadly. Too many moaners and whiners in the sport.
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@SoVeryBritish Have some more cake, diet another day!
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@AlboMP Spare a thought for those who’ve had to surrender their companion animals, no longer able to afford to look after them. Meanwhile you play Lady Bountiful with taxpayer funds, doling out tax cuts and subsidies to those that don’t need them. Disgraceful for a so-called Labor govt.
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@DrJayCorwin @OccupyDemocrats They didn’t lie about Djokovic; they made the correct decision to kick him out ( supported by the overwhelming majority of Australians).
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@SenPaterson Gross exaggeration designed to beef up the playing the victim card. It is happening in every country. We’ve seen variations on it since the war. It’s like a broken record ( but has no basis in fact) and I , for one, am thoroughly sick of it…
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@ItsBouquet The way this family has been treated is both shameful and scandalous. We should never forget that their mistreatment has been overseen by the same Minister who gave special approval, against departmental advice, for a visa for an au pair for LP mates, donors and cronies...
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@Animal_Watch Reflects the double standards in Europe: quick to express outrage over dog meat, shark fin, ivory/rhino horn in China but very reluctant to deal with horrors like this,foie gras, bull-fighting, fox-hunting, badger-culling. Not only Europe but other western countries.Equally awful
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@PatsKarvelas @markdreyfusQCMP You’ll have to excuse the cynicism because the ABC did not cover itself in glory during the election campaign, including the unrelenting coverage of Albo’s ‘gaffes’. It’s going to take some time to win back trust. Having Littleproud on every day on tv does not help the cause…
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@fasc1nate Zealotry comes in many forms, some more benign than others…but all hollow and meaningless.
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@lesstenny The first politician to make me feel he was speaking to me, and reflecting my views, beliefs and aspirations.
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@MFWitches Deakin is pretty unlikely now because the postals are splitting about 53% for Sukkar; Lyons is splitting for Labor; Brisbane: Labor has edged ahead of Greens via postals, but it remains very close. Labor looks likely for 77, ie Speaker plus 76, ie a majority in its own right…
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@SenatorWong The Greens to blame.? We know it could never be your Israeli mates.
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@KhalidAmiri01 Melbourne has been blessed to receive people from all over the world, making it one of the most culturally diverse cities on earth. You are now part rich cultural mix, and you are welcomed...
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@mblake79507410 What’s more several of the commentators described him as ‘South African- born’. When he fails: Australian; when he saves a match: a foreign ‘ring-in’. Do they ever describe Stokes as NZ-born?
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@BRMS_X @Morbidful They were emus ( a similar sized but less colourful bird); and yes, the army tried to reduce their numbers with machine guns, but lost the war. It was about 100 years ago
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@MadScientistFF “ I met a gin-soaked, bar-room queen in Memphis “ is right ‘up there’ as an opening line, and particularly so in 1969 when it was released ( Rolling Stones , Honky Tonk Women)…
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@ScomoFails Not even the most gruesome of the Howard ministries ( Reith, Abbott, Costello, Ruddock, Vanstone et al) comes close to the loathsome shysters of the last government…
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@NPR I’m not sure that “arch-conservative” is accurate, certainly not in the American sense of the term…
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@NiallHarbison There is a surreal element to this: people all over the world waiting for updates, checking flight tracker apps etc, hoping for information about 3 Thai street dogs on their journey. But it’s surreal in the very best kind of way…
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@6NewsAU @wamnnews Labor is united in one thing only: a determination to self-destruct as it cartwheels backwards to accommodate lobbyists from a foreign government.
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@patriottakes Nobody under 65 in the room, yet the still think they are relevant…
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@michaelscat2 In Australia we’d call him Blue, or Bluey…because that’s the nickname for people with ginger hair ( plus the beautiful blue eyes)….
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@MFWitches Dylan Mulvaney has become a target of the outrage for getting sponsorships , including Nike. The circulating claim is that she is now THE face of Nike; the truth is it’s a modest campaign, and she’s ONE of many; meanwhile Caitlin Jenner gets a free pass, presumably as a FRNJ
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@fesshole Rule of thumb: never sit close to the front in any event likely to involve audience participation ( and flee to the loo if they come remotely close).
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@ShitFuckery1 You’d have to think a few of them might have some pressing need to spend more time with their families, and resign, prior to things getting truly ugly over the next year or so…
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@EcuNurse @ItsBouquet Well, they have to find a way to fund the $11,000 pa tax cuts for incomes over $200,000. But yes, agreed, it’s scandalously short-sighted to be cutting these health measures.
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@TudorChick1501 One suspects they’re loved by similar demographic groups to followers of the Kardashians and Real Housewives shows. It seems the more they whine, whinge and moan, as they do interminably, the more it resonates with certain audiences. The Operah interview was the biggest joke ever
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@RSPCA_official “Hell is empty and all the devils are here”, Shakespeare, The Tempest
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@MikeCarlton01 Thanks Josh, Smirko, Angus. You were the gift that keeps on giving…
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@OliLondonTV How many drag queens have been charged/convicted of sex crimes against children v the number of religious figures, including pastors, priests, church officials, religious school teachers? Perhaps his outrage is misdirected.
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@MitchellGlenn The whining this time is worse than I ever recall it: the hysteria over Carey/Bairstow, the scandalous scenes in the Long Room, the incessant booing ( far worse than Bay 13 ever was), failure to acknowledge achievements ( eg Marnus), the ‘we were robbed’ mentality. Dreadful.
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@HumansOfJudaism If I’m not mistaken, he then handed out blank visa forms up until the very minute of his departure .
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@chrisshipitv @ITV @tombradby He becomes more and more creepy by the day…
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@TheShovel Will you be serving lettuce salads at the opening party? Has that been costed or will you be seeking additional funding?
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@MFWitches @qatarairways But she’s not saying that’s the reason, merely ‘context’. So far they’ve offered 8 different reasons, some contradictory. The bottom line: they’ve done it to protect QANTAS ( the most complained-about company in Australia, and one notorious for ripping off workers & consumers )..
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@IntrovertProbss Pouring with rain and the very first thought: “ what a beautiful day!”
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@OccupyDemocrats Inevitable, as this cartoon predicted…
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