Recent content by zevon1956

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    'Oh s***': Family warns about the dangers behind a common party trick!

    This doesn't add up. Party balloon helium tanks are by law 21% oxygen to prevent hypoxia.
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    You could be eating these pesticide-laced foods every day – and they're linked to cancer in 1 in 8 men. Find out now to protect yourself!

    This is nonsense and shouldn't have been published. The EWG is an American activist group whose raison detre is to frighten consumers. Glyphosate is a herbicide, not a pesticide which breaks down rapidly by soil bacteria. I doubt if a strawberry farmer is going to spray it on his strawberry crop.
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    'Why Kmart?': Shoppers notice hidden X-rated details on retailer's Christmas collection!

    Doesn't anyone have anything better to do than this nonsense?
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    Shocking Label: How 'Cookies' Sparked Outrage at a Royal Event over Anzac Biscuits!

    Who cares? I am tired of this time wasting mock shock nonsense. Desist and publish things that are important.
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    Misheard lyrics

    Elton John, I Like Girls (!). Island Girl.
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    What if Lady Gaga ....

    Shouldn't that Be Radio Goo Goo Radio Ga Ga?
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    Joke Murphy's Other Laws

    Give a man an inch, he wants a foot. Give a man a foot, he wants a yard. Give a man a yard he wants a swimming pool installed in it. Alfred E. Neuman, sometime in the sixties.
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    Aussie state drives green: Wheels of change roll out with new registration system

    Drivers of EVs and hybrids should be paying much more so they contribute to the upkeep of our roads which they access for little or no cost.
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    American faces backlash for attacking Australians on healthcare: ‘Nothing is free’

    He's right. $8000 for 12 hours in emergency in the USA? Probably about the same here. Difference is the taxpayer picks up the tab in Oz. The other issue is that health care is perceived as "free" which encourages people to use or overuse as a sense of entitlement rather than need. Using...
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    'I forgot myself for a moment': Senator lets out shocking joke mid-session

    Hilarious. Clearly a very funny lady. We need more like that. How anyone can take offence at that is beyond me. There are some humorless people out there.
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    Insider reveals possibilities amid Princess Catherine's health condition. Is her Royal role at risk?

    I come from a non medical clinical background with an interest in general medicine. I suspect that the condition I think she has is being treated with a particularly unpleasant cytotoxic agent with a high risk of permanent side effects including hearing and kidney damage as well as damage to the...
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    A Country Practice actor passes away at 94—remembering Brian Wenzel’s legacy

    Also a fantastic tenor on the rare occasions he did sing on ACP.
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