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Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Bix (Post 9578598)

I'm not annoyed.

No sense....no feeling:p

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Grayling (Post 9578606)

No sense....no feeling:p

Sorry, but I have to refute the feeling part of that statement. :D

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

I'm not annoyed either. I'm cool as a Hindu cow. Don't make him disappear I liked reminiscing about my visit to Grimsby and 'Meggies'.

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Originally Posted by moneypenny20 (Post 9578581)

Are you trying to say that guys with children don't indulge? :sneaky:

I'm saying yer less likely to have kids if your bodily fluids are spread over a gym sock.

A bloke has only got so many top swimmers. I think. :unsure:

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by kips (Post 9578561)

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Well said, we were on those who fell in that situation my OH was made redundant after 2 years of our move with the first round of GFC, even thought we didn't apply at first but we were so glad there was something there to help us out.:thumbsup: since then my OH got job & we are quiet happy to pay back 20 times more than what we got.:thumbsup:
This tax year we hardly got anything back as his wages are very high & we aren't entitle to much return.
Next year we won't get anything back, now that I have job, we are so glad to be able to pay into a system that support you when you are down on your luck.;)

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by chris and farideh (Post 9578664)

To be fair you are using it as intended - a safety net for those down on their luck. Where l currently live in Cairns there is a marina with plenty of live aboard families (also on the buoys in the river) who do cash in hand work to compliment their child benefits (which they've been claiming permanently for a decade or so) and have no intention of ever seeking tax paying work. Not everyone is so honest and upstanding.

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Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9578671)

It's not up to me to judge them, if centerlink catch them I'm sure they pay for it big time.

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by chris and farideh (Post 9578690)

It's not up to me to judge them, if centerlink catch them I'm sure they pay for it big time.

No, you're right, I shouldn't judge them either yet a little piece of me finds it irritating.

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I do wish you'd all stop hijacking my hijack and recommend some things to see and do on the NSW South Coast. :sneaky:

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Seasider (Post 9578813)

I do wish you'd all stop hijacking my hijack and recommend some things to see and do on the NSW South Coast. :sneaky:

There's the sea.

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I missed the fireworks. :( So who said what? :sneaky:

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Burbage (Post 9578836)

There's the sea.

So farnee, one.

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by GARRYP1302 (Post 9576895)

Thanks Bix, actually I agreed with one of your earlier post about the British benefit scroungers living in Australia, I hate claiming benefits from the country that I was born in and contributed into all my life, and the thought of emigrating to Australia and claiming their benefits abhors me, One of the reasons I am trying to find employment before I arrive in Australia, to be honest I was surprised to read that immigrants are allowed to claim benefits as soon as they arrive,I thought it was at least 2 years

Personally, I don't understand why people are so against claiming benefits in any country they might be entitled to, in them. I sometimes think it is misplaced pride.

I can understand why people would feel embarassed about claiming some allowances on arrival - but hey - if it's there take it and be discreet. It's a big circle as far as I am concerned.

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Originally Posted by Seasider (Post 9578504)

They can go when they get home, it's not that far from Swindon.

We've booked Quay too. Best restaurant in Sydney (and we've been, so we know how good it is) and this time there's no ship in so we might actually be able to see the Opera House. :rofl:

Now, what else to do...(Opera High Tea is on the list, can't book it yet though.) God it's awful having to do all these lovely things myself, just to entertain people. :(

Restaurants! I've got a table at the Press Club, Melbourne next weekend. Didn't think I'd get a table at such short notice. We're having their course of degustation...listed as the symposium degustation...

Online reviewers complain that there are too many people wishing to be seen in there. Well at the prices they list, I'd want to see who else was there...

Got a hotel around the corner too.

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Turban Explorer (Post 9578619)

I'm not annoyed either. I'm cool as a Hindu cow. Don't make him disappear I liked reminiscing about my visit to Grimsby and 'Meggies'.

Did you ever go to the Mariner's Rest?

Re: Why is everyone so serious ?

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Originally Posted by Seasider (Post 9578813)

I do wish you'd all stop hijacking my hijack and recommend some things to see and do on the NSW South Coast. :sneaky:

Didn't realise that you were talking about that south coast, with all the talk about Padstow, I thought you meant the south coast of England:lol:.