Jerry_Atrick

Isn't that what people do (or tempo become) after having a Big Mac?

Slices of roast beef and thicker than normal gravy

Sounds like a perfect day for a piping hot pie with tommy sauce.

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No worries. Best of luck in your endeavours, and of course, it would be great to have you hang around these forums. too!

In price sensitive markets, I have seen business absorb the costs where they can and keep it viable.. If the costs go up too much, shop closes up.

What proper capitalist (i.e. free market) country is there in the world right now? Has there ever been one? In this case, tarrifs are being used as a tax hit to give his wealthy mates tax deductions under the guise of protecting and bolstering American manufacturing. Chump is doing it because he knows it is a massive lever he can pull. If Australia tried it on, the world would be, "meh?" because Australia ain't so big. Look at how other countries have low-towed to him.. Only exceptions are Canada and Mexico. Everyone else talked tough, but when the rubber hit the road, they all capitulated. Starmer's grovelling was an absolue disgrace and it still go him nowhere. Not only that, but the UK was willing to reduce its food standards for Chump until there was a massive public backlash. Apparently, USA beef is now good enough to allow people to eat in Australia, when only two weeks ago, it wasn't. Paramount studios fired Colbert, an ardent critic of Chump, because of a multi-billion dollar defamation case launchged by Chump that almost every legal eagle in the US was frivilous and actually could expose Chump. But they capitulated and even paid him out, I think it was $16m, I guess for hush money or greasing the wheels. No one likes itm but they will work around it because the perceived loss of mainly business has them running ship scared.. and Chumpy knows it. Life continues.

In all seriousness, immigration into Australia requires you to go through a bunch of hoops and the system I think is designed to discourage it. I haven't watched this particular video, but have watched a couple of her previous ones. In terms of education based visas, I am not sure, but if I were going to emigrate to Australia, I would probably use a MARA registered immgration agent. This youtuber has done a lot of vids about movign to Aus: https://www.youtube.com/@thatjohnstonlife/videos

Them, there are fighting words.. You know they exist, and thay is all that matters 🙂 I have been unusually emojional this eve.

I moved to Brisbane with my then fiancee in about 1993.. In the winter, we would alternate going to the gold coast and the sunshine coast each weekend. The prices in the off season were about as good as the back of a Toowoomba caravan park.. Except for those lovely apartments on Hastings street (the caravan park was long gone). We actually used to stay at Peregian beach and I saod to my then fiancee, we should buy a house there. She refusused.. The same house I was looking at at the time, was up for sale for $4m.. Yeah, it was done up a bit.. but it is land an proximity to beach. Oh, how I wanted to stay at one of those beachfront apartments on Hastings street. Just to be able to walk to the beach would have been such fun. Fortuitously, I moved to the UK when the £ was worth $3. I took my current partner there and we booked 3 nights at a dog-awful rate on Aussie dollars, but bearable on £s. I almost had her moving to Aus then, when after a nice meal we arrived back at the foyer of the apartments, and she said, "what a lovely terra cotta moth is on the wall". It was huge, and she hates living moths with a vengeance. I said to her that I don't recall seeing it before as she went to feel the lovely piece of art.. The wing span must have been 20cm. Well, it flapped its bloody wings and defended itself by going for her hair. Once the screming had died down, while drawing heacy breaths, she commented she cannot move to QLD. F! Another opportiunity missed.

Well, since the Thai food in Australia is the best (I would say better than Thailand, but I actually haven't been to Thailand), Australia will be your second home. Seriously, I was dating a girl once (yeah - hard to believe) and we went to a restaurant in Malvern (suburb of Melbourne) called Beau Thai, and she dreamt about the food she ate... and it woke her up - it was that good (or she was really a bad cook.. which is part of it). What bachelor degree are your studying? We need more lawyers, accountants, and real estate agents.. not. Seriously, you're welcome as someone into ag and enviromental science.. until the Lib/Nats get back into government. I have strived to become a person of the landed gentry, but alas, my colonial past always catches up with me. Anyway, for foreign students, it is much the muchness you pay your fees. In the UK, it is cold, the Thai food is absolutely ship (replace the "p" with a "t"), and the country is going broke, anyway. Nationalistic politics is on the rise, so if you desire to be labelled a pariah, the UK is a place to be (it is quite funny to lob into a conversation that is bagging immigrants, that I am one; the conversation goes silent very quickly). That's only because you're from Tasmania and they don't have a football team! 😉 As I said, @Natn, you will not get into the country without supporting Hawthorn Football club.. If you become a member, you get priority access 😉

Because getting Back Patio from ac at is pretty awesome.

Of course no one likes to be taken as a sucker, etc. However, Chump doesn't care. Whether done diplomatically or not, the bottom line is that the side that has the most power in an materially asymmetric relationship will always get the better outcome In dimplomacy, often the outcomes are the same - if you have the levers of power well over your counterparty, you are going to win. It has been like this always. The difference is Chump isn't diplomatic about it at all. He has no issue telling the world he is going to use the same levers.. he publicly rather than privately threatens. The bullying tactics are part of him, like they are in many. Tarrifs ensure the US taxpayer pays more tax.. The importers pay the tarrifs, not the exporters. Either they take a hit or they pass it on. Either way, it is the US that pays the tax. It is there for one reason and one reason only.. Making the wealthy wealthier. Those big tax breaks to the wealthy are not going to pay for themselves in a developed economy. Getting back to Chump and his antics, and why he remains popular relative to the deomocrats. And I think it is in the culture of the people. Americans like the hollywood BS.. Everything is brute force with them. Die Hard, etc. I remember when 9/11 happened there were people wondering whee the real Die Hard shoot-em-up law enforcers were. You only have to look at the reaction in the aftermath where people were seriously calling for pilots to wear guns.. Look at their law enforcement (sadly, some of it has spilled into Australia) compared to the unarmed bobby. The other thing is that America epitomises selfishness. It's al me me me me me me me me me. They could not care about what anyone outside America thinks. I seriously think that most people who live in America think the rest of the world is a third world backwater, anyway - at least those that haven't ventured anywhere else. And there's a lot of them. So Chump shafting the world is seem as power, being tough and brutish.. which is what they want. We call him dumb, but he plays his audience very well. And only they get to votet him in. And yeah, you can argue that he was voted out, but he was voted in after the democrats fixed the economy and their foreign relations after the first bout of Chump. And this time he was ahead in the popular vote and took both houses! The yanks do not care. Like everyone else, it is "what is in it for me?" A lot of them were convinced the crap he is doing is better for them when iut is worse at every level.. I still love the US, but I no longer preference by spending on US products over Chinese (yes, I know US brands are largely manufactured in China, but at least some of the profit went back). I am more inclined to buy non-US brands in may things. And although I won't use Temu nor Ali-Baba, I no longer spend as near as much as I used to on Amazon. I use Mistral LLM AI over Chat GPT. I have made my decision with my wallet.

You don't do crytic crosswords, per chance?

I am going to get the popcorn while the responses come in 😉 Welcome to the forum Natn... What country from SE Asia are you from? What do you do for a living? What do you want to study your masters in? What country these days isn't corrupt? Why not jump on the band wagon and get those favours for a few $ (US, of course) 😉 Seriously, Australia has a large SE Asian immigrant population - well certianly on the Eastern seaboard. As long as you're intentions are pure and your are willing to put positively into society, as far as I am concerned, you're welcome.. but I live in the UK. Australia has some of the best SE Asian food outside of SE Asia.. If you come in to study, I hope you have lotsa money.. As a foreign student, you will be full fee paying and it ain't cheap. Australia is expensive to live in - there is a rental crisis, so for the price of a 5 bedroom apartment on Lexington Avenue in NY, rubbing shoulders with the rich and famous, you can share a 2 bedroom flat in Sydney, 2.5 bedroom flat in Melbourne, and a mosquito cage in Brisbane. Just remember, it is a legal requirement to support the Hawthorn football club for all temporary and permanent migrants from SE Asia into Australia, and you will be fine. You won't get your visa without it.

(I must pay more attention).' Getting away from it all.

Garlic Press Conference 😉

That was the first that popped into my mind.. wasn't the rule that when a letter is selected, all occurences of the letters are exposed? Guess not...

Agree, except the demand of the goods of the muscled are likely to drop or their margins are,which affects their profitability, even if they spend money finding other markets

Thought it was too easy

Jeez, I'd be happy if one of my team took my job.. they get to have the fun.

All star time?

Indeed a rip off.. a little over 15% to withdraw your money. These are private operators who pay network fees, cash carrying charges and the like.. thought they would have all gone bust by now.. Can't you get your money fee free from any bank's ATM regardless of who you bank with?

Who wants life to pass them by?

Isn't that a plus - to extend the gene pool... 2 heads and all of that?