It wasn’t all roses in the trades, especially during the early to mid 90s when many electrician employers either put employees on reduced hours or forced them to use holiday time up. They were not game to get rid of employees though and in many cases this is an excellent show of foresight.

Skilled labour is hard to get and sticking…[Read more]

Personally we can look at our ever increasingly ‘lazy lifestyles’, Tradies are quite often at a job at the ‘crack of dawn’ working…[Read more]

Flags/banners/colours are all throwbacks to the past in which the falling of a flag/banner or unit colours would signal chaos for the force that lost their peice of cloth.

Morale was so important during…[Read more]

Population difference probably helps, Australia is amazingly underpopulated compared to the other major democracies.

[/quote] My point: There is no correlation between compulsory/non compulsory voting and the preservation of personal…[Read more]

Sounds like selective blindness here (much like Phil Gould who demanded the ref be changed after Origin 2 even though the ref made many glaring mistakes in the first half to the blues advantage and about as many in favour of qld in…[Read more]

Those that don’t know (head in sand perhaps), Phil gould would slag off an opposing team for supposedly using a dirty tactic in a move to take the referee’s objectiveness from the game and monitor the opposition more while the side he…[Read more]

ALP freely link to it in its electronic newsletter.

The company hosting it :-

– is run by a former ALP staffer and former ALP member

– company donates to ALP

Freedom of expression became so much harder in this world of litigation. Unbound freedom or true freedom ironically leads to more leanient jail terms for…[Read more]

If you suck with a credit card just imagine how much you would suck with up to 100 times the credit limit?

Ice Pirates
Army of Darkness
Shrekk
Ice Age

Action:

Die Hard
5th Element
Conan
Blade Runner
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Drama/Epic:

LoTR

Historic:

The Last Emporer

Probably not a bad spot if you like Golf being in between 3 major courses (at least) and a couple of driving ranges.

A big range of prices (%-wise) Anything from 250,000 to about 750,000 for places in 17-mile rocks.

Religion is in fact itself a form of hypnosis. I came across many examples when I found an interesting book on…[Read more]

Now BP may own the patent for the engine but they…[Read more]

First of all does this quote really mean anything to you Brenda? As how I look at it, smokers are forever digging themselves holes they have to desparately try to get out of later.

There are still many ways to try that may work for each individual. If you really want to give up the smokes…[Read more]

Depends on how you look at it. You have two sets of partners, one decides to have children the other doesn’t bother. You cannot call the former a partnership but a family after the birth of the child(ren). Two have become 3+, 3+ is larger than 2 so how can they…[Read more]

As for the ‘tahs, they need to learn how to beat the Reds before they can make the semis [medieval]

Fortunately they are not trying to poach Lockyer, who was clearly voted…[Read more]

A short-termed view would be to not reward families, it only results in a dwindling population. With a dwindling population what do you think…[Read more]

The issue of cheaper just getting welfare than working when kids are involved just doesn’t help the system nor does it really help the kids who have a really…[Read more]

try this site for quick reference:

DIY Shade Sails

Pergola :- wooden (generally)structure with open roof

Patio :- Attached structure to house generally with a ‘closed’ roof.

There is a difference to both. A cheap pergola could perhaps be a large Arbour (open roof generally for growing vines on). You grow some quick growing vines like Jasmine or Orange Trumpet to create a shady…[Read more]

You can still use gardens, paving, sheds or a…[Read more]

An example would be my father who is a respected fencing contractor. A workmate needed a back fence on her IP replaced since it was falling down and the neighbor out the back has a pool. The…[Read more]

My older brother (sparky) was earning 60k+ a couple of years back before *THE EVIL ONE* left him with Epilepsy and now unable to be an electrician, he is now a saleman on 30k that cannot smell or taste anything.[grrr]

Of course the time he did the wiring in…[Read more]

Solar hot water pays for itself in under 10 years.

You wanna pay three time more per kwh? You think thats viable?

Solar Hot Water pays for itself well under ten years. Most governments in Australia offer…[Read more]

http://www.extraonline.com.au/story/details.asp?StoryID=9798

I hope that helps some people.

And due to the 26,000-year tilt that slightly advantages the southern hemisphere at the moment, they get…[Read more]

Its all very well to say, we can build this or that, but you need energy (at this stage…[Read more]

Redwing,

This has the feel of a slick production in action for several weeks/months. They timed it to try to weaken the recent coalition gains. It may have been brought ahead since Bush’s unplanned assault on Latham as well.…[Read more]

The female comparison was very interesting, could this result be a representation of the fact that a decent % of women with degrees may still leave the work force for the family (and the ‘glass ceiling’). In that one the skilled vocational…[Read more]

To re-feed the rope back up the hole/cavity, stick some rigid wire say 8 gauge, down from the top, hook the rope to a small loop on the end of the wire and pull up through the hole/cavity.

Would it not be easier to attach the ‘wire’ at the point you…[Read more]

It looked more like a inverted two and a half somersault from the pike position to me with a full twist [lmao] How can the people look at any politician no matter how proud and honourable and think they will truly stick to their guns these days?

Apart from not voting for the last ten years, not being…[Read more]

In the past Labor governments whether they…[Read more]

Okay now with that out of the way lets look at the faeces, it could very well be the saviour of our comsumer climate with the oil companies controlling alternate energy technologies I remembered an article from over a decade ago that was about turning faeces into fuel pretty much in a 24-hour period. This wasn’t the old Mad Max…[Read more]

Mullies rock!!

kay henry

Sounds like you work in Ipswich….[weird]

Most loans are within the first 5 years of the loan though I don’t think many actually have 5 years as their standard. Mine was 3 years.

I saw a fair amount of chewing gum wrappers for the next few weeks but he beat it and never went back.

Quite often things like coffee and grog will make it…[Read more]

Miracle puts the case very well when he said :

“by going to Uni, in the end,you will be earning a lot more money, than not going to UNI. Making your investment portfolio increase with ease.”.

Anyone who suggest otherwise is a fool.

Many…[Read more]

Say to your mother (for example) that you need a year between high school and a possible uni course to see if you can in fact make it without a degree… many flitter this time…[Read more]

Going well until that bit. I suppose each to their own….