Marty_d

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-20/donald-trump-kevin-rudd-aukus-nigel-farage-interview/103608274 The irony of Trump, someone who's never read a book and can barely speak English, calling Kevin Rudd, who has an IQ at near genius level and is fluent in Mandarin, "not the brightest bulb", is fairly stark.

We're all shades of brown. Even the whitest ginger out there ain't really white.

What are you ordering them to do?

I heard about a bloke who wished that his todger was so long that it touched the floor. So his legs fell off.

https://tasmaniantimes.com/2024/03/tasmanias-newest-sporting-club-launched/

You must have been at the Lymington fire? Those 2 passed right over us heading down. Noisy buggers with those massive 2-bladed rotors.

The iceberg would beg to differ.

The only question will be whether he gets 120% of the vote or only 110%.

Das Boot was over 4 hours. I know because a mate and I sat through it one evening, wondering when it was going to end.

That depends.

Seems a bit complicated. He ever consider jeans and a jacket?

I don't pay much attention to state politics to be honest. The premier with 3 names - Ron JEREMY ROCK Hudson CLIFF Richards - just seems determined to push through with the white elephant that is the AFL stadium. The opposition seem fairly ineffectual. I'm just going to vote Green in the hopes that they can get balance of power in a minority government, which is about the best we can hope for.

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Not Maggie Smith is it? (Professor McGonagall from Harry Potter)

Factories can be dangerous places. A bloke went home one day and told his wife he'd been fired. When asked for the reason, he said "I stuck my dick in the pickle slicer." Aghast at this terrible news, his wife blurted out "What happened to the pickle slicer??" "Oh," he said, "She got fired too."

Someone should cover the top line and replace it with "Barnaby Joyce".

Two of spades. And yes <30 seconds (don't know if it's right!)

Is that related to the "Crazy woman 1/2 mile" sign?

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4, if he has any brains

The insurance is a worry, but I can't imagine any dealer employees sharing pics of my hairy legs, revealing attire or not.

To think this idiot was acting PM at times. What an embarrassment.

It's the age old buy-vs-rent debate. Yes, if you don't plan to live in one spot for years on end then you may be better renting (or living on a boat, or out of a campervan, or a tiny home, or whatever takes your fancy). But if you do stay put for years, then you can either pay rent to a landlord or repayments off a mortgage, and in only one of those cases do you end up with an asset to show for it, not to mention being able to alter it however you want and not having the worry of being evicted one day. What I don't like in the housing market is speculative investors who do just buy for the capital gains, in some cases even leaving properties vacant for years. That doesn't do anything for the housing shortage. Airbnb etc is another problem (and yes I'm guilty of staying in them, and will again) because if your house is in a holiday area you get far more money from short stay accommodation, even with cleaning/maintenance, than you do from long term renters.

It's gone crazy though. Place down the road from me sold about 9 months ago for 1.4m. New owners just sold it for 1.9m Close to $500k (minus those expenses) in less than a year for flipping a house. Nothing at all done to it.

Yes and no. The big increase is land cost. Therefore it doesn't matter if your starter home costs $200,000 or $400,000 to build, if your block costs $1m then the difference is pocket change. Even in the early 90's you could buy blocks of land in Sandy Bay (one of Hobarts priciest suburbs) for $10k. Good luck getting a block there for less than $800k now.