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I can't stand Russel Brand, he's an idiot. But I can stand Liz Hayes even less.

Tom Jones was fantastic back in the sixties and seventies, but unlike the Stones, he is just an old bloke now and I have no desire to see him in concert.

What do you think? Do you expect the tax fairy to come out waving her magic wand and declaring that since you are a pensioner and don't have to pay tax on your pension, that all of your other income is taxfree?

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Wow, who would have thought that our bodies are covered in bacteria? My concern is more with all the anti-bacterial sprays being used these days and what they will do to the bacterial colonies in our gut? Those bacterial colonies are essential to process the food we eat and for that reason, I...

Hey, cooky pastry tastes delicious, as does cake mix, and even bread dough! I grew up on that stuff and never fell ill from any of them! As for pasteurised eggs - what on earth are they? I know how milk is pasteurised, but eggs??????? As a child we used to purchase our milk directly from a...

When I moved into my current home, I purchased a leather fold out sofa for the front lounge to have the room double as a guest bedroom. When my youngest son left home about four years ago, I turned his bedroom into a designated guest befroom by moving my existing bed into that room and buying...

Nah, doesn't appeal one little bit! For a start, it will be an extremely cold day in hell before I would eat seafood! Yuck, yuck, yuck! I make my lasagne from scratch (however, using lasagne sheets) - I am pretty good at making bechamel sauce. Uneaten lasagne is cut up into portions and kept...

For the hundredth time, there is a difference between tapping a card and inserting a card in the EFTPOS gadget. Even if a card is a debit card, if it is through Master or Visacard, it will go through those systems and may attract a fee unless you insert it and select cash. I do not believe in...

And does it really matter what name it is called? I love all dairy products, but I also know how to appreciate non-dairy milk substitutes.

When was that? I have used EFTPOS since it first started and never paid a surcharge.

Yeah, lived in a remote part at a mining site way back in the early 70s. It was an 80 mile trip to town on a dirt road to do the shopping once a fortnight and anything we forgot, we did without until the next shopping day.

I definitely do not see $109.95 worth of value in that so-called designer bag - never heard of that designer. I wouldn't pay $20 for the Kmart bag either, as I can spend a couple of hours making one myself for half the cost.

This is an absolute necessity for the members of this forum! Hands up how many members are running a business in their retirement.

It's dishonest and it brings the person's moral compass into question. Would that person also cheat their friends and family to get a benefit?

Frankly, I don't like meat and I won't touch seafood, although I am not a vegetarian. When it comes to meat, I will eat tiny amounts of pork and beef. As a child, I could not eat meat at all, it would make me vomit. As to fish - yuck! Ghastly stuff! If it wasn't for my meat eating partner, I...

Good to know you recognise that you're a sucker!

My older kids (57, 52 and 50) still got their pocket money in cash. But this was not the case with my youngest (33). For him I had a salary deduction going straight into his account from the time he was 13 years old.

Say what you mean and mean what you say! That was very useful advice my German teacher gave me back when I was a school kid in Austria. Although she said that in German, it also applies to English and any other language you can think of.

Perhaps you need to word your posts more carefully! This is what you originally said: "I also live in a remote location where we had four days without power one of many outages. No power, no money, no shopping, no nothing. So much for a cashless society." You had no power for four days, hence...