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Those of you with Xboxes - if you haven't seen it they're doing a 'first month' discount for Xbox Game Pass. $1. It's the Netflix of gaming, for those playing along at home. There's some good stuff on there, been using it a bit while I'm on break. I completed Hellblade Senua's Sacrifice, the Life is...

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Out of curiosity - I'm sure The GH has DEV/TEST environments?

Without wanting to cast aspersions at well-intentioned volunteers, this thread makes my alarm bells ring, hard.

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There's a fair bit of far-right support in QLD. Last election One Nation got about 9% of Senate first preferences there, which is more than double any other state. If there's anywhere far-right figures can get elected, its probably QLD. Last time around he was elected from the One Nation ticket thou...

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Made: Picking up piano again after ~1 year, and progressing through the 'lesson songs' really quickly, it isn't all gone like I thought it was! At my best I was intermediate-ish and could play songs like Scarborough Fair, The Entertainer, Over the Rainbow, etc. Ruined: Watching this guy and realisin...

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Not sure how I feel about this. On the one hand it's a little bit of assurance that our best player isn't going anywhere soon, and it makes a lot of sense.

On the other hand, I feel for Croker a little bit, and I've always had an irrational dislike for multiple captains in a team.

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Something I just discovered that's irrationally annoying: Newspoll appears to not have taken redistributions into account for their predictions. The "breakdown current prediction by" section of their site shows the ACT with two HoR seats - we now have three. I recall the consensus that the redistrib...

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I got bitten on the bridge of my nose by a mosquito while in the pool. Rude.

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gergreg wrote: ↑
December 12, 2018, 7:13 am
Who is on the board?

A bunch of dairy and food business execs. A couple of them have worked for/advised government before, but more in a contracting/public service sense - nowhere near close to having the PM on your board.

https://ccfa.com.au/management-our-people

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Why is it that the Raiders always have major sponsors that have links to politics and political interests? I know Canberra is the seat of government and all that, but the politicians are all here representing their own areas of the country - nary a Raiders supporter among them, if any. You've got Hu...

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Saw this yesterday:

Andy Serkis, the voice of Gollum from Lord of the Rings, dressed as Theresa May, doing the Gollum voice and talking about the 'precious' Brexit deal.

Whatever your thoughts on Brexit, this is definitely worth watching.

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85% black/white/grey - not just black. The colours that are either on the monochrome scale, or weird hybrids that are closer to grey than - for instance - blue. Largest chunk of that would've been white, I'd never buy a black car in a place where summer gets well into the 30s and above. If you looke...

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Read a car article today where the writer was bemoaning the loss of colour in cars, saying most cars these days are grey, grey, grey and more grey. What has been seen cannot be unseen. Having just driven home, I estimate 85% black/white/grey, 10% red and red variants, 4% blue and blue variants, and ...

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Of course it woudn't be normal if we saw an elected PM see out their full term. Haven't had that since KRudd's first stint. Further back, I think. John Howard would've been the last. Rudd was toppled by Gillard in 2010, then stayed on and re-contested his seat in the 2010 election. Not quite a full...

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Quote from the Canberra Times: Concern about “losing the base” was the best reason many of them could come up with for why Turnbull was ousted. They said Turnbull was turning off the (more conservative) Liberal Party membership. The problem with this reasoning is quite a big problem. In the United S...

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Yeah, that is a bit of a pain. Worth it though. If you keep your NAB transaction account you'll presumably be keeping a fair bit of money in there, for regular and emergency expenses - because transfers between banks takes a good day or so. That's money you don't get interest on. With a transaction ...

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If you're dead set on keeping your NAB transaction account, you could easily do the same thing with UBank - just set up a transaction account (which you won't use), and meet the monthly deposit requirements - hey presto! 2.87%p.a. If you're one of the endangered species these days that feels loyalty...

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I was with UBank for years while I was saving up to buy my place. Not anymore though, their home loans don't have 100% offset, which for me makes them not worth a second glance. If you don't want the transaction account with them, you can set up an automated deposits from an account elsewhere - from...

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Here's an interesting one - the ABC has a cynicism test: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-20/in-a-nation-of-cynics-we-are-flocking-to-the-fringe/10281522 https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/HETS9b5.png I probably expected to be on the more cynical side, what surprised me is how positive everybody else appa...

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Well, that was unexpected. A nice way for the Raiders to end the season at home.

Also, that 10 year old girl singing at halftime had some pipes. She got a cheer from the crowd as if the Raiders had scored a try, you don't see that from the halftime entertainment too often.

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I can't believe we won that. The whole second half I was waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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Yeah, I know it doesn't have an ER. I asked him if he wanted Emergency, but all I could get out of him was "new hospital". I give it a 50/50 shot that I've either helped him or sent him on a wild goose chase. Didn't look particularly sickly or injured himself, could have had somebody else in the car...

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Neither made, nor ruined, but feel like I need to apologise to the guy. Indian guy near Lake Ginninderra waved me down for directions when I'm in the car, stopped and wound down my window. Seemed like he had a tenuous grasp on English, but looking for the 'new hospital'. I told him where it was, but...

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Well that was an absolute crock. To quote the NRL: "The touchy shouldn't have raised his flag, that was an error, and then play should've stopped at that point," an NRL spokesman said. ... and then the 'forward' pass. :nooo I'd pretty much given up on our season before this game, but for it to end l...

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I guess its not a great look, BJ is a total meathead, but its hardly "one of the ugliest acts I’ve seen on a football field". Sensationalism at its finest right there, its not even close to the worst. When I saw it live I thought he was a hot-headed moron, and I still do. But really, all the shoving...

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Well that game was definitely something.

Blake Austin looking quite unhappy in the post-match Fox interview.

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Ugh... again, and again, and again, and again.

Specialists at losing the games nobody else can, we'll find a way.

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One of the strangest games I think I've ever seen.

We didn't deserve to win it, and we didn't.

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Well... just watched the finale of The Americans. An utterly fitting sendoff, I'm genuinely quite sad its over.

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I just found out/rediscovered that next weeks episode of The Americans is the series finale. :( Brilliant show, longtime critical-darling and one of the best there's been for quite some time. If you've never seen it, I highly recommend it. There's been a lot of shows that I've been watching for year...

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Woo hoo! A win, and a close win at that. 10mins to go I thought we couldn't have won that game in a fit, the people behind us had left.

Its not perfect, but I'm happy after a Raiders game for once... its enough.

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I only heard that Austin was off contract when I watched the weekend's game on nrl.com just then (was at the Commonwealth Games so missed it). Everybody here seems to be talking about signing a half due to the likely loss of Austin. Like it or not, IMO what we've seen at the start of the season so f...

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Arghh!!!

First time here in a while, and right after that first loss.

Change... change... the horror!

*faints*

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Well that's a shame.

That 20% possession statistic they called out on TV in the second half was crazy. It started so well...

Hopefully its not going to be another season for the masochists, more close losses we do not need.

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Edmund Barton was also a very big supporter of the White Australia policy fyi What point are you trying to make? People are a product of their times. The founding fathers in the US owned slaves. People used to be burned for being 'witches'. Barton was in power in 1901, if you're going to call out e...

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Surprise quiche!

Stopped at the petrol station to fill up, got hungry, it was a Coles Express with some pies. Decided on an "Egg and Bacon pie", thinking it would of course be a regular meat pie with bits of egg and bacon. Lo and behold, its a quiche.

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