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Re: bikes
is there a ergonomic or other reason to have the tiny handlebars as per that vid, or even better, proper drop down bars but put the brake in the middle with same net effect of bringing your hands together in the very middle? I just don't understand it
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:45 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
Maybe have a good scout around, there might be something closer to wing chun than MMA... (or maybe more internal focused than sparring) and if it is regular you should hopefully be able to find a training night that doesn't have a student at it! Such a good thing for centering yourself really - you ...
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:45 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
martial arts?
- Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:24 pm
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- Topic: the official console and PC nerdy thread!
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Re: the official console and PC nerdy thread!
i saw a decent cheap shop on vic street, recently opened - at the end of the viet restaurant section near to church
- Sun Feb 06, 2011 7:11 am
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- Topic: the news thread
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Re: the news thread
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/residents-face-lost-sleep-over-rail-project-20110205-1ahsy.html "HUNDREDS of residents in Melbourne's western suburbs face ''chronic'' sleep disturbance from noise pollution generated by the $4.3 billion Regional Rail Link, the state's environmental watchdog ha...
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:46 pm
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- Topic: The Travel Thread
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Re: The Travel Thread
China pics!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliot_lari ... 282484727/
hard time with a 4yo but wow - food and culture wise, incredible
feral toilets though
http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliot_lari ... 282484727/
hard time with a 4yo but wow - food and culture wise, incredible
feral toilets though
- Fri Feb 04, 2011 2:42 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
dear man
take your meds
sincerely, god
take your meds
sincerely, god
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:06 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
bu about to go on sichuan chilli banquet for my birthday lunch!! got 15 peeps to chip in for variety of spicy chinese goodness at sichuan house bring on the pain!! Happy Birthday!!!!! :D thanks - was a bomb diggity - cumin pork ribs, ma po tofu, cold sechuan chilli noodles, kung pao chicken, spicy ...
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 3:02 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
Before air con. we tried putting a large wet muslin cloth or thin sheet, over the rails of the cot, and a fan blowing on this. its a reasonble stopgap if you don't have room coolingFents wrote:60% humidity right now evap has been switched to fan only! damn you storms!
- Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:14 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
bu about to go on sichuan chilli banquet for my birthday lunch!!
got 15 peeps to chip in for variety of spicy chinese goodness at sichuan house
bring on the pain!!
got 15 peeps to chip in for variety of spicy chinese goodness at sichuan house
bring on the pain!!
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 2:45 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
10pt can be too small, depending on font - IMHO
less is more with applications and general writing IMO. shows ability to distill message and get point across.
less is more with applications and general writing IMO. shows ability to distill message and get point across.
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:47 am
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- Topic: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
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Re: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
i think there is a total recall remake coming soonish. its based on a philip k dick short story I think, the central idea and scope for ambiguity in ending were pretty solid. anyone watch I, robot? I saw a bit and it looked, well at least interesting on the topic of robots, one of the best kids movi...
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:33 am
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- Topic: Aussie Farmers: direct delivery service
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Re: Aussie Farmers: direct delivery service
there are 3 girls sitting behind me.... hmm you become more fascinating by the day...
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:32 am
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- Topic: the alma-X-files
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Re: the alma-X-files
Earth could be getting a second sun, at least temporarily in 2011. Dr. Brad Carter, Senior Lecturer of Physics at the University of Southern Queensland, outlined the scenario. Betelgeuse, one of the night sky's brightest stars, is losing mass, indicating it is collapsing. It could run out of fuel a...
- Fri Jan 28, 2011 9:29 am
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- Topic: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
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Re: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
well, kindergarten cop was a pretty effective subversion of the post-feminist discourse of relationship and childrearing dynamics. and twins provided an insightful critique of current worrying trends in genetic manipulation and dna strand privitisation. and total recall taught me about what happens ...
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 7:19 pm
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- Topic: Aussie Farmers: direct delivery service
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Re: Aussie Farmers: direct delivery service
me too almax, where do you work?
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:51 pm
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- Topic: the alma-X-files
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Re: the alma-X-files
kayne was inducting swift in traditional masonic humiliation ceremony yanno
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 2:43 pm
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- Topic: the alma-X-files
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Re: the alma-X-files
yanno, i think almax is unfairly maligned as the resident crackpot of mbc just try ozreggae for some masonic goodness: http://forums.ozreggae.com/index.php?showtopic=15906 MTV’s Video Music Awards have often incorporated dark and strange acts, containing some occult symbolism. This year’s version, h...
- Thu Jan 27, 2011 10:00 am
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- Topic: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
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Re: The Movie/Film/DVD thread...
liked the other guys too - some very funny moments and overall held together well watched despicable me up to about when he adopted them but wasn't sustaining my interest - didn't like the little yellow things really and couldn't suspend my disbelief enough at why he adopted them really. toy story 3...
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:10 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
not in a lewd way, more a power handshake sort of display way
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 3:08 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
did you show them your willy? that's normally a clincher
- Fri Jan 21, 2011 9:33 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
it's nice to be regular again, isn't it
Re: iPad
quest for glory ftmfw!
Re: iPad
sounds like not such a great thing for kids - terrible for posture unless they come with a stand, and don't help for touch typing. i sometimes think about the ohs requirements my work has for posture, do schools have to pay attention to this stuff? I've been seeing so many kids, mine included, devel...
Re: bikes
fixies are all the rage in beijing: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliot_larissa/5282484727/in/set-72157625528943415/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/eliot_larissa/5282537575/in/set-72157625528943415/ freaking hipsters everywhere with their modded (rust) coloured chains and bikes. even the old men and la...
- Wed Jan 19, 2011 5:21 pm
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- Topic: Headphone repairs/parts
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Re: Headphone repairs/parts
i may have an unsued minijack to microjack sennheiser cable for sale if anyone is interested.
Re: iPad
ipad 2 might satisfy some of your wants too
Re: iPad
i think i saw someone with a card reader / ipad port adaptor - this might solve one of your issues
- Thu Jan 13, 2011 11:06 pm
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- Topic: The Wedding Thread
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Re: The Wedding Thread
let the meat cake?
Re: Flood aid
Not to minimize their suffering, but there are many, many people in the world who could use a fundraiser who have no option of buying insurance and no government to support them, and who are in serious life or death situations all the time. If we're talking about effectiveness for money, then donat...
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 5:01 pm
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- Topic: The MB dubious ethics and P.C. police thread.
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Re: The MB Ethics and morals thread.
I think it should (does for me) make you think about efficiency in replies. I have to work on that for general emails and iphone kind of forces you to do it. Often emails are too long
- Wed Jan 12, 2011 1:53 pm
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- Topic: The MB dubious ethics and P.C. police thread.
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Re: The MB Ethics and morals thread.
absolute wrongtown to use again and if you do it i'd boycott you
HATE!
Would also unsubscribe. there was a rash of these in reggae circles, fucking dropdead stoners
HATE!
Would also unsubscribe. there was a rash of these in reggae circles, fucking dropdead stoners
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:37 am
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- Topic: The Book thread...
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Re: The Book thread...
I'm not sure what your point or rebuttal is? An clear relationship between having local manufacture and having Australian content ?
I'm interested to understand the reasons people want to maintain the current case, beyond the purely instinctual. I'm a bit confused about the arguments
I'm interested to understand the reasons people want to maintain the current case, beyond the purely instinctual. I'm a bit confused about the arguments
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:16 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
Sounds very familiar... Helps with mental conditioning I saydeviant wrote:my mate snuck the gas in while his missus was popping out... they have the masks in the dunny! as if you wouldn't
- Fri Jan 07, 2011 9:02 am
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- Topic: The Wedding Thread
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Re: The Wedding Thread
Bridal dance? If you are going to do a waltz or something it takes time to practice, get confidence and resolve power plays on the dance floor
Used to teach wedding couples
Used to teach wedding couples
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 6:17 pm
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- Topic: The Book thread...
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Re: The Book thread...
increased cost for consumables that 'improve' our quality of life also has an impact on everyone. if its really +30% this could have a significant impact in some areas too, like uni book costs for students. the issue is less that we build a rigged system that 'protects' certain areas to a point (eve...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:57 pm
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- Topic: The Book thread...
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Re: The Book thread...
Here we go: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2008/s2625745.htm The Federal Government's economic advisory body the Productivity Commission has come up with a plan to cut the cost of books. A key plank of the plan would see the scrapping of copyright provisions which prevent the import of a title if ...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:45 pm
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- Topic: The Book thread...
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Re: The Book thread...
perhaps the logic is that we all pay more for books / forced local printing etc to enable local publication (i.e. printing press) - which satisfies a labour argument. this in turn provides an avenue for local content publication? is this is the case, it seems another pretty clear cut case of proppin...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 12:14 pm
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- Topic: The Book thread...
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Re: The Book thread...
no as it the reasoning seemed specious given the little I understood about the topic. I didn't understand how limitations on what can be imported and when makes it more more likely for local books to be bought. if the product is attractive it should sell regardless (again its like the car thing - am...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:29 am
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
Even bigger Biggups to my wife for an amazing birth, its life changing stuff watching that. No drugs (not even gas), natural birth and i tell you what you will never experince anything in your life that can prepare you for it. Shit you did better than me, I was huffing on that stuff ;) Congrats! ev...
- Wed Jan 05, 2011 9:23 am
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- Topic: TEN YEARS OF NOTHING - not one fucking thing!
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- Tue Jan 04, 2011 10:14 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
yeah your guy is certainly affordable I don't know for sure but it seems a fairly clear cut case of not being responsible on her part. if it was me id speak to the gym, but thats my kind of personality - they should have insurance. but then you don't want to cost her a job - on the other hand if she...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:51 pm
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- Topic: the youtube thread.
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Re: the youtube thread.
andy_hoffman wrote:haha david firth giving shit to the pop music industry
!!!
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:31 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
thought about hitting up YMCA for osteo costs? they should have insurance and really shouldn't let people push you to that point - sounds like inexperience I know a great PT who works (parks and her studios included) in north fitz/carlton sort of area FYI http://www.starrpt.com.au/ Starr is a proper...
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:04 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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- Tue Jan 04, 2011 9:00 pm
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- Topic: The Big Up Thread
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Re: The Big Up Thread
good pain, bad pain
- Tue Jan 04, 2011 2:25 pm
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- Topic: Gripe thread
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Re: Gripe thread
whens the mule back open?
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 9:21 pm
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- Topic: dickhead lol
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Re: dickhead lol
Hipstamatic!andy_hoffman wrote:New age fun with a vintage feel!
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/s ... 19dbs.html
- Mon Jan 03, 2011 12:21 am
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- Topic: Red Letter Media - Revenge of the Sith review
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Re: Red Letter Media - Revenge of the Sith review
phantom menace review still the best imho - although this one has an excellent deconstruction of editing and framing in the third part
these reviews are great because they explain to you exactly why the movies left you feeling so unsatisfied and disengaged
these reviews are great because they explain to you exactly why the movies left you feeling so unsatisfied and disengaged
- Fri Dec 31, 2010 7:30 pm
- Forum: Help Us Change
- Topic: the redesign mb.c thread
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Re: the redesign mb.c thread
wow im like 9 months late on this one - what happened to these ideas?