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that's hilarious, i'm sorta glad Cruz is out.

If Trump wins, make him close your borders, and keep him well away from international politics - he'd have the world destroyed in world war 3 within five minutes with his stupid rhetoric

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I find it interesting that even our conservative party are making public comments against Trump and the republican candidates. Foreign policy. its not good when even your staunchest allies are afraid your candidates might get up.

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I think the stats are showing that your middle class is shrinking, a privileged few get wealthier, some stay in the middle but many are being pushed into low income jobs and unemployment, and considering the debts incurred through health and education costs, the stress is incredible. This shrinking ...

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Yes, I've seen so many cases of a day too late that I'm all for a humane death. I've also witnessed a lot of humane deaths (farming childhood and family). Natural deaths can be the source of so much suffering and pain, for humans as well as animals. I think the English speaking west could also learn...

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it was such a beautiful story about refugee cat - does that story include the photo of poor refugee cat being picked on by the local cats?

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I still think that the US model is a little more democratic than ours, we elect the party which is why John Keys (Kiwi PM) was so on the money when he said the thing with inviting the Australian PM to an event is that is that you know someone will turn up, you just don't know who our prime minister ...

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the republicans want to appoint and if they were in power they would be screaming fowl if the democrats were saying - oh wait until AFTER the election

Obama is president, its his right, I reckon he should appoint and the republicans can just suck it up

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44 gallon drums, the ones that stored food products like pineapple juice, critter proof and safe.

old fridges are lethal if there are small children about - documented cases of children playing hide and seek and then asphyxiating - so no.

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I think you need a more affordable option, I don't see the logic in a user pays system (if the user can't pay then lets turn them away scenarios) and I don't see the logic in impoverishing people who suffer ill health. Watching the US I have seen a significant decline in your middle class, and that'...

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ooooh I like that look (followed the link above) - I'm still traumatised from cleaning the wooden venetian blinds at my old house - I loved how the wooden venetians gave me privacy, allowed me to filter light in and let a breeze in, but I don't miss cleaning those suckers. But I'm not loving the cur...

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Read this one, and have seen the trend of increasing suicide rates in middle class America - is the despair really that bad? has rising inequality obliterated the middle class to this extent?

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016 ... eton-study

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we had the buy back scheme here and thousands of guns were handed in, but honestly, unless you are done for breaking laws (domestic violence, assault, theft, murder etc) or you are declared incompetent (dementia, mental incapacity) the police aren't going to take your gun away from you. The police w...

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a friend of mine quit her job and moved from Queensland to Europe to take up a working pupil job in her 30s. she found it tough, she had her days when she felt she was being bullied, she worked really hard, and learned a lot. She'd broken in and trained several horses here from scratch before she we...

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best wishes for a full and speedy recovery

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Quelah, what a beautiful story and you did the right thing by him. I admire you for that.

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Funny how it's reported differently in different countries. Here it's a 'weird American survivalists doing crazy shit and will it be another Wacol' 1 - crazy farmer burns land he doesn't own and goes feral 2 - judge charges mad bloke as a 'terrorist' whereas here we would have just charged him under...

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Flight, I think the issue for Australians is the added weight. We don't have the heavy trucks that the Americans have and the heavier the float (trailer) the more you have to pay for a big assed fuel guzzling truck to haul it. Our towing vehicles are getting lighter and more expensive every year and...

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I've never been able to do the online dating thing. Freaks me out. Great horror story from the workplace investigation team. Got called in to investigate a guy for bullying in the office. So naturally they do a forensic on his computer. Turns out he's spending all his day at work on dating sites and...

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Trailers come with dressing rooms?

I've always done the basic trailer for horses, a ramp, dividers and head room.

Gear goes in the vehicle, I get changed in the float(trailer) with the ramp up if I want a bit of privacy and that's it.

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In my haste to head off interstate to go see my very sick mother, I forgot to remind the cattery that my kitty is allergic to seafood. She's been back from the cattery, its become very obvious that because I forgot to remind them of her allergy, i'm now paying the price. Seafood goes straight throug...

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thanks for all the well wishes, they help. yeah, she's so sick at the moment, just got back to Brisbane today, I think 2016 is going to be a lot of back and forth to mum and dads. My brothers are all quite upset, especially watching her suffer while waiting for results of tests and specialist discus...

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Lol at the elevator joke.

We call them 'lift's here.

Always be parsimonious with the syllables when naming stuff.

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4th? 5th bout in 17 years, this time in multiple places. One growth is 12cm x 6cm x 6 cm the others are around the 1 - 2cm mark. They are still testing to see what type of cancer it is. (Is it ovarian cancer or is it lymphoma). She's so sick at the moment, has been sick for a while but they've only ...

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I don't think it is an identity problem; many countries have political groups that are conservative, moderate, and left. Extremism in the US either right or left doesn't get elected president. Trump's proposed ban on incoming Muslims, even if they travel here for business, is simply pandering to th...

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I came on here because of his proposal, obviously he is oblivious to US founding principles of religious tolerance and freedom? And, isn't there a smack of racism here as well? The man is a gift to the Democratic Party. He's also a gift to the media. Question - where does the kingmaker (Rupert Murdo...

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Home is my current house, home is my parents house, both are home. I could move house tomorrow and I'd like to get a job outside of Brisbane in the next year or two, but home is where my stuff is and home is where my family is.

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I went white cause its cheaper and easier to clean - stainless is sooooo 2000

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Following the news report about today's mass shooting. How can any sane person justify assault weapons being freely available in the community? They are not suitable for sporting, they are solely designed to kill lots of people quickly, and that is what they were used for today. There have been 352 ...

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and this time its the mentally ill and the disabled who are the targets the entire debate shift from gun control to mental illness control is totally mind boggling. Mental health is a relatively new medical field and we still don't understand it. Furthermore, I saw some stats where only 1% of the ma...

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they are harmless, they are just big and hairy is all

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yes, I've been known to hit the brakes very hard in the middle of a highway and leap out of the car in terror because of a huntsman running across the inside of my windscreen. Boyfriend leapt out of the car just as quickly as I did and then got upset that i'd stopped without pulling over I Did check...

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given the choice between a conspiracy theory and plain old stupidity or incompetence, always put your money on the latter. There's no conspiracy with Trump. He woke up one morning and decided that he wanted the publicity and he wanted to run for president. He's doing that. Making a complete farce of...

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yes gun crimes can occur in countries with strict gun laws. The identified problem here is illegal guns, stolen guns. Usually guns stolen from farms and old guns. They caught a bloke in Sydney the other week walking around with a world war 2 model machine gun. However, instead of taking it for grant...

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I don't like killing spiders either, I prefer to catch them (Tupperware is my preferred method) and then take the Tupperware container, throw it outside and then retrieve it the next day when I'm confident that the spider is far far far away.

Thankfully I don't see snakes in my backyard.

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I never saw a Funnelweb during the 10 years I lived in Sydney. Lots of huntsmen (large hairy non toxic beasties), some redbacks.

Spider milkman is not high on my list of career options

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This week is domestic violence awareness week, and we've had some very high profile cases of men murdering their partners this year, police have changed their focus and moved away from 'oh gawd, not another DV' to being very proactive about responding to domestic violence reports.... however things ...

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I think essential oils are great for making the house smell nice and that's it. However, if you want to read some books on it - A healthy horse the natural way by Catherine bird has a lot of the essential oil lore but I can't see oregano in the index I really need to get rid of the book, Catherine w...

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in our family we don't do presents for kids over 12 years of age, we don't do presents for people who don't turn up, and we'd all rather spend money on food and alcohol and have a good family dinner than worry about presents there's too much consumerism I never do stocking fillers, why give people u...

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I don't think anyone wants to move to Saudi Arabia. Suffice to say, the sooner the world moves away from its dependence on oil, the better our long term political stability prospects.

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but Trump. What a trainwreck. He wins, i'd hate to think what your economy and internal law and order situation looks like. Train wreck will probably be the correct description.

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I picked all my favourite politicians to follow and then gave up on twitter. Its too much effort to follow

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I picked all my favourite politicians to follow and then gave up on twitter. Its too much effort to follow

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kids get too much these days.

In our family we're going with the less is more - perhaps instead of presents the cash can go to sponsoring a goat for a poor family in Africa and she can get the card that goes with it

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The US has problems as well. Follow the Guardian articles on America's poorest towns, life expectancy, crime and poverty are on a par with third world countries. Look at the US statistics for gun deaths and the cynic in me wonders why Americans are getting on a tizz about Paris when the same number ...

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WhereismyWhite - here is a link to the rules for obtaining a gun licence in Queensland (Australia, I know americans are bad at geography) ;-) from there you can follow the reasons, storage requirements, permits to acquire a licence etc - its all publically available - the responsibility is placed on...

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So horrible and so so sad. The western world is reaping what its been sowing since we butted in to that region so long ago. How long before this happens in NYC or LA? And how can we help refugees when we cant tell who is one and who is an ISIS member? I don't normally feel like there is no hope, bu...

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S2M - manage the behaviours not the person. I've had 6 years dealing with escalated customer complaints and negotiating policy and information releases in political environments - lots of toxic customers that I have to negotiate with. Now I'ce taken a role managing 2x dysfunctional teams through a c...

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stray dog story that you may find disturbing, but since when has that stopped me? Any of you watch that show Heartbeat? the English show? an older show? You know the character Greengrass from Heartbeat? bit of a crook, bit dodgy, always got a deal going on? I've got an uncle just like Greengrass, al...

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Facebook Sh*ts me to tears. I did love a story told by a radio announcer I like. Boring is people talking about their internet wars. I don't care if you're a transgender anarchist who has travelled the world and developed a cure for global warming, as soon as you mention a facebook war, you're borin...

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lucky you, our Liberal party are still trying to get their heads around the idea that the earth is not flat and that women have a place in the public sphere. That said, we are seeing more indigenous Australians in prominent roles in parliament. I look forward to our first indigenous Prime Minister. ...

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