There's a suburb called Fanny Bay in Darwin (city in the north of Australia), and very swish suburb too (full of rich c**ts)!! Steve Irwin's good at what he does, so good on him... but he's still an f***ing idiot IMO... (oohh.. two swear words, bad lad Max...)
Max Divergent
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Croc Hunter~ and Language barriers.
by Xandria inwhat do you think of this guy?.
australia is a beautiful place.
one person i know, is here from australia and we got into a conversation last night after she had gone shopping.
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ANZAC Day - what it means to me
by Prisca intoday (april 25) was anzac day, a public holiday for most, but it means more than that to many australians.
it is a day when we remember those australians who fought in wars, in distant lands, for their country.
it is not a day to glorify war.
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Max Divergent
Caught! I saw the second half of it on SBS. I didn't see them discuss the withdraw though, apparently they left their bolt action 303's behind and many of them rigged up a device that'd fire the rifle after a delay and that covered the retreat (being bolt action, that could only fire once per rifle, so they had to be quick.. )
I remember standing aside during school ANZAC services too, and only went to my first dawn service last year (shamefully I didn't go yesterday). That was in Broome and it's held in a park alongside the Bay where the Japanese bombed seaplanes full of people, so that added somthing to the event.
Take care, Max
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ANZAC Day - what it means to me
by Prisca intoday (april 25) was anzac day, a public holiday for most, but it means more than that to many australians.
it is a day when we remember those australians who fought in wars, in distant lands, for their country.
it is not a day to glorify war.
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Max Divergent
Thank you, Prisca
The fighting was so intense that it became a game to count the longest break between shooting, day or night, over the weeks of the whole campaign. While General Monash reckons it was 15 seconds, the diggers consensus seems to be 11 seconds. It was an intense and protracted battle.
Perhaps the greatest feat was the eventual withdrawl. They withdrew thousands of troops overnight without the Turks noticing, even though they had been so close they could smell each other's cooking. They just weren't there in the morning, even though the rate of fire didn't drop during the withdrawal.
The Turks lost 87,000 men.
Lest we forget.
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Did you look like a Jehovah Witness?
by JH inwere you ever told that you didn't look like a jehovah witness?
i never dressed like one of them unless i was at the hall.
i think that people looking at me would never have guessed that i was a witness.
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Max Divergent
Even now I'm somtimes asked if I'm a 'Christian', dunno why... I never conciously changed the way I dressed or anything, so maybe I still have THE LOOK.... I was wearing a holster and gun the other day, so that wouldn't look very JW...
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How much money would it take for you to go out in service?
by unbeliever insay you had to go out in field service for 2 hours in your neighborhood and talk to your neighbors about jehovah.
what would somebody have to pay you to do this or would you not do it for any amount of money?
if i am going to humilate myself it better be worth my while.
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Max Divergent
I'll do it for a million. Maybe half a mil. If you put $250,000 on the table in used $100 bills, I wouldn't knock you back... Even $100,000... :-)
That way I could do the deed, then go back to all the houses I called on and invite them back to a huge party in thanks for their unwitting support, and then leave town with reputation sort of intact ... well, kinda ... and be significantly enriched, and all for taking part in a two hour piss take...
Max Pragmatic
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Max Divergent
Doesn't anyone think it's possible that France can be greatful, (hell they have memorials all over the place--if they didn't care, they wouldn't have built them
It seems not...
February 23, 2002, http://old.smh.com.au/news/0202/23/world/world25.html
A runway over our fallen soldiers
A planned French airport will cover Australia's war dead in tarmac and concrete, Paul Daley reports.
It has been labelled "the airport of shame", and when the bulldozers move in they will be digging into what could easily be considered a sacred site of Australian military history.
Vermandovilliers owes its survival to the Australian military. In the late summer of 1918 it suffered 6000 casualties in four days as Australian troops forced the German army back across the Somme's quagmire.
That sacrifice could not be more revered by the town. A sign on Vermandovilliers' town hall reminds that the Australian Army's Lawrence Dominic McCarthy won the Victoria Cross there on August 23, 1918, when he "single-handedly captured 460 metres of German trench line".
There can be little doubt that the Somme and the battles for Ypres, in Belgium, were as formative as Anzac Cove, even though they may not have etched themselves so deeply into Australia's psyche.
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The fight for Vermandovilliers played a critical part in the battle of Villers-Bretonneux, in which more than 12,000 Australians were killed. Many of the dead are buried in Commonwealth War Cemeteries, but thousands remain interred in the muddy earth under potato crops.
This site and those surrounding are sacred for all nations involved in World War I, but they could soon disappear under tarmac and concrete.
The developers of France's proposed new four-runway international airport and associated road systems want to build on a swathe of the Somme's battlefields, up to five war cemeteries and countless unmarked graves.
The airport, which will service 20 million commuters a year by 2015, is being presented as a fait accompli. It will, according to French Prime Minister-cum-presidential hopeful Lionel Jospin, definitely be built on the Somme - a flat expanse 90 kilometres from Paris, a 90-minute drive from Brussels and (eventually) a short train ride from Britain.
France has not publicly released any plans, and has informally signalled that while the runways and support buildings could be moved a few kilometres here or there, the project will go ahead.
This is not only bad news for Vermandovilliers, it also creates huge uncertainty for residents of other villages such as Belloy, Lihons, Chaulnes and Rosieres-en-Sainte. There are dozens of marked Australian and New Zealand graves at cemeteries in these towns, and 66 Australians are buried in a Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery at Rosieres.
Dozens more are buried in marked graves at communal Commonwealth war cemeteries at Chaulnes and in marked graves under anonymous headstones at a plethora of small cemeteries around the proposed airport site.
The movement of marked graves, the desecration of such important battlefields and the inevitability that thousands of unmarked graves will be built over, has prompted prominent French war historian Jean des Cars to label the project "the airport of shame".
"Will the [French] Government have the indecency to profane the rest and eternal peace of thousands of men to whom we owe our existence?" he asks.
The Herald has obtained a copy of the preliminary airport plans. They show that besides the airport proper, much of the land for kilometres around the massive construction has been rezoned to industrial.
This raises the prospect of the demolition of further towns and the relocation of many more war cemeteries to make way for airport infrastructure such as hotels and shopping centres.
The French Government has conceded that a small British cemetery at Rosieres (where there are six unidentified Commonwealth soldiers buried among 60 British) will have to be relocated.
It agrees that a French cemetery with more than 2000 graves and a German cemetery with 22,000 graves will also have to go.
British historian Paul Reed, who lives on a farm close to Vermandovilliers, conducts tours of the Western Front battlefields of Belgium and France. He believes the airport will "damage this place beyond recognition".
"It's the part of the battlefields that has the most Australian visitors, and the battlefields that will be built over are among the most historically important for Australia," he says.
"There is no doubt the airport site is littered with bodies, perhaps thousands of them, of all nationalities, from all over the Commonwealth, including potentially large numbers of Australians."
Mr Reed says that while British service groups and the British Government have vocally opposed the development and planned freeway extension across battlefields near Ypres, he has been surprised at Australia's inaction on the issue.
"There's a growing awareness in Australia about what's happening, although I don't know how much awareness compared to Britain," he says.
The French Government has assured Australia that no Australian cemeteries will be affected but the Federal Government is deeply concerned about the proposals.
A spokeswoman for the Assistant Defence Minister, Dana Vale, said the minister had asked the Office of Australian War Graves to "monitor the proposals closely to ensure she is aware of any impact on Australian war dead by future or associated developments".
The spokeswoman said there were "no Australians buried at the two locations [cemeteries] that may be affected".
But she also pointed out: "The battlefields themselves are the resting place of many who fell and have no known grave.
"If the remains of any Australian soldiers are uncovered from an unmarked grave or battlefield, we will ensure they are treated with all the sensitivity and reverence due to one of our fallen heroes."
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Max Divergent
Read your history my man..... Canada, in regards to population to military ratios made bigger sacrifices than you guys
You're missing the point, probably deliberatley. Unlike the US, Canada is not being severly critisied by France for liberating Iraq because they didn't liberate Iraq.
Three countries liberated Iraq with troops on the ground, but both Canada and France were missing - they were harping from the sidelines and positivley obstructing the effort in the UN.
So what has Canada's notable contribution to WWI/II (and other conflicts) got to do with liberating Iraq? Sweet FA, except to condemn the current generation.
You're just having a nationalistic spray IMO.
Max
(In any case, the dubious honour of the highest per-capita casualty rates (at least for WWI, maybe for WWII as well) goes to a country that, unlike Canada, is still fighting with men and guns and ships and planes to liberate and rebuild Iraq - so your point is well and truly lost)
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Back from the Memorial
by ScoobySnax inwell like i say, just got back from the memorial, have been going most years, but this year i went by chance (knew it was roughly at 7pm at the nearest kh) to my old congregation that i grew up in.
i didn't find the "evil" people spoke of here on this forum, or those too stupid to see.
all i did see was people i hadn't seen in years, and let me tell you, what lovely people they were.
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Hi Scooby - I'm glad you had that expereince. I went to a wedding not so long a go and had a similar experience. I'm fairly sure that if I went back to one of my old congo's it'd be the same. JW's are generally very nice, decent people (though misled into sometimes indecent actions).
Some (many?) here are outspoken, opionionated folk (not critisising, just observing) who would no doubt have stirred up the nest on the way out and wouldn't hesitate to do so at any opportunity. You and I probably didn't and would be accepted on face value back there again.
Also, many American's tend to take things like this incredibly seriously compared to the British who tend to be more convivial on the whole (and get less done in life coz they're busy chitter chattering about nothing over cups of tea or pints of best bitter).
Max
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Ever have an affair????????????????
by jurs ini've been married 14 long years to a real s.o.b.
and i think i might just take that plunge.
i was having a drink at a bar last week with a gal i work with.
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Max Divergent
Wow! Thank you to people who've been so open in this thread.
I can't speak from expereience, but from what I sense from your post I'd think that if you want to go with this person and you're in a position to accept any consequences that may come from it cheefully and at no deep personal cost, then that's your choice. If don't or you're not, then you'd be a fool ... probably. You might do better to fix the current problems one way or another before opening yourself up to more.
Personally, I've never wanted to enough and have never been ready or willing to accept the consequences (even though we've been apart for many months for work) and feel a sense of responsibility to my wonderful wife to not cause her to suffer the consequences too... but that's my happy circumstance, not yours
The lady who cut my hair today is half a well known swinging couple, works for some - totally screws up other peoples lives... I doubt there's a single answer... But don't forget that he might have the clap...
Mmmm... . if your husband really dosn't care, maybe telling him the stories of your exploits might liven up your home life too? Even if you make it up to start with... You might end up with a permenent smile... or divorced... or both...
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The Ultimate APOSTATE SURVEY!!! Check it out!! please respond!! ^_^
by NaruNaruChan inok, we all get them in the mail, but here's one geared towards us that i just wrote up.
feel free to add to it, as i'd love for it to go around a bit ^_^ .
copy and paste this into your response box because i just wrote it and i figure whattheheck, this could be good!!!
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Max Divergent
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