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    What makes someone a media expert?

    I'm sitting here listening to some wanker expound to some TV newsreader, whose intelligence rivals that of my dog, on the great topics of terrorism etc. In case "whose" lacks specificity, let it apply to either or both.<br /><br />Needless to say, although it's not stated in the interview, the...
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    What statement(s) could you have phrased better?

    Me.<br /><br />My old man was a doctor. Back in the '50's, when GP's did incredible things like house calls every day and general surgery like tonsillectomies and appendicectomies and delivering babies, at a very young age I caused some merriment at a gathering by announcing:<br /><br />"My...
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    In defence of the poor

    There have been some very harsh and, in my view, very unfair opinions expressed on this board lately about poor people, notably those who didn't evacuate New Orleans (ignoring the fact that many of them couldn‘t evacuate anyway).<br /><br />The constant theme is that the poor deserve everything...
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    For people who think Katrina caught everyone unawares

    Flooding of NO in a hurricane or by breaching of levee banks is a basic disaster scenario that has been utilised in various high level training courses and seminars for years.<br /><br />But the paper from this conference deals with exactly the issues which some of the attendees are now trying...
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    Who's gunna buy a V8 soon?

    Maybe me.<br /><br />With any luck, fuel prices will drive the price of the cars down way below what they're worth.<br /><br />With any luck, like the late '70's to early 80's, the fuel price panic-stricken zombies who can't get their wheels converted to LPG will ditch their grand big banger...
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    jtexas: Congratulations to you for .....

    ..... being the balanced voice of understanding and compassion in a lot of recent threads. They're among the best human qualities that too often are in short supply.<br /><br />If you ever get to this continent I'll buy you a beer.<br /><br />I might even show you what we can do with two...
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    You jerks who think you know Australia! Here is the real Australia!

    Now, let's see if we can keep guns, politics and religion out of this. <br /><br />Anybody who introduces race is a dope, 'cos no race has a monopoly on bludging.<br /><br />This has been around before, but maybe not in its original Australian version. Don't worry about the names and parties you...
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