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Here is an even better one...imagine doing this and then turning around and having to know where they all are or spinning around getting dizzy...these guys are talented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYUXaYCkv-A!

This is not to do with aviation but deserves airing in my opinion...this guy is so freaking talented: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8f8drk5Urw

Rugby...when the ball is thrown to you and you catch it, you either run into someone that is like a brick wall because your brain has been made into mash from doing that so often OR you finally get a spark in the brain of some kind of thought process that says to you..."Crap, I don't want it" and throw it to one of the others that you think are your team mates...or they have led you to believe they are, but their brain has also been made into mash because they are likely to just go and run into another brick wall type of person any way. Then after about 5 times of this, a non brick wall type of person comes up and tries to save his mashed brain team mates and kicks the ball as far as he can to try and save his team mates from further brain bashing of banging bodies into brick walls. I thought it was ironic this year that the NFL premiership went to Sydney and the NRL premiership went to Melbourne

Well, as usual every year at this time the good old Ford vs Holden debate sparkles up with what happens at the great Bathurst 1000 car race...this year being the 50th. So, who is going to win?

You have to ask sometimes why we do the sport that we do...we all know that flying can be dangerous but spare a thought for the dangers in other sports: [ATTACH]47366._xfImport[/ATTACH]

No, got to be earning money first to pay tax but the wife gets her entire tax back...will pay our food bill for a week...she is on a massive $18 per hour for a couple of days a week. Every night on the news here in Melb there is some company or another going broke and shutting their doors

That explains it...it was just a thought since I had to visit the accountant yesterday for tax time

A joke about the tax system in the Aviation Laughter forum here started me thinking so I thought I would put an idea up and wonder why this can't be done. Why can't we abolish income tax (leave company tax though) and raise the GST amount to a percentage that will compensate the loss of income tax? The Tax Dept would be better off with work loads The private individual wouldn't have to do a tax return The poor man would have more cash in his pocket to decide what to spend it on The items that a poor person would by i.e. No Brand Baked Beans wouldn't increase in price as much as Heinz Baked Beans would The rich person would pay more for the higher priced items that they normally would buy i.e. Heinze Baked Beans The worker would be stimulated more to work more instead of knowing that if they work more they just lose it in extra tax so greater enthusiasm to improve ones self The rich can't escape tax as they pay as they purchase i.e. they pay more tax on a BMW then they would on a Holden Overall the Australian individual would be choosing how much tax they pay by their spending habits and whether they want No Brand Baked Beans or high priced with more GST imported baked beans Wouldn't we be better off?

Well how about this...remember I am in the IT business...had a phone call from a guy (Indian accent) saying he was from Optus Technical Support. I am with Optus so all ok so far...2 boxes checked (Indian accent and Optus). He said that Optus had been informed from the telecommunications authority that a PC on my IP address had a virus. I asked what virus and he said the ramnit one. My ears pricked up because that is a pretty nasty virus. My mind was ticking over like it was on a dual core processor...2 different thought threads going at the same time...With all the protection that I have on my network how could that in any way be possible and Is this a scam? He said he was ringing me as Optus had the files to disinfect my PCs and he would help me do it. He then asked what anti virus I was using to which I advised him that was my business and until I can verify the authenticity of the phone call I will not tell him. He then said that he advised me that the phone call was being recorded which Optus normally does. I said easy words to say. I then asked him what was my Optus account number...he didn't know as those details were not passed to him and he was only there to help me. I then asked him what is my IP address...he didn't know as that would come out in the disinfection process. I then asked him for his name and phone number which he gave me as Dave and a 1300 number. I then advised him that I was hanging up and would ring Optus Technical Support back using the phone number I have for them. Before I called Optus Technical Support I checked all the devices on my network which has 2xPCs, 2xLaptops, 2xIpods, 1xIpad, 1xNetBook and 3xPhones and everything was clean. I called Optus Technical Support using my normal umber and they have no record of the call to me and they also don't call their users but wait for them to ring Optus if they are having any problems...they did say that there is a bad virus going around today DNS Changer but that was all. I had already checked for the DNS Changer Virus so I knew I was ok with that. So, just be careful out there and it may be just me but I am noticing so many scams around these days that it is getting very nasty out there. Oh, if you want to check for the DNS Changer Virus, go to dns-ok.gov.au and see if you get the OK message...it is a Gov run tool so it is safe.

I'm nearly as bad off as you Tomo...however if you look on the Members page of the site, in the right column you will see we have the highest and 2nd highest number of posts...so I can only say to you Tomo, it's hard being the greatest and have a look at the top of Australia, you have Gillard and how many friends and likes does she have