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    November Competition: Christmas Memories

    I have a younger sister born on Christmas Eve - the best Christmas present in the street that year and still the best Christmas present over 50 years later. and like you she always had birthday presents wrapped in birthday paper and Xmas presents in Xmas wrap.
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    Joke Young Shakespeare 👦🏻

    Thanks for the history lesson. I have learnt a lot from some of the aside commentary on this site. Always interesting. Being a regular thru Sydney airport interesting to know this info.
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    General Discussion Thread 31.10.2024

    Hospital beds be dammed. This is about human dignity and the societal morals we have been brought up with. Why is it that view the putting to sleep of our family pets as "putting them out of their pain and suffering" when necessary BUT we cannot get our attitude and acceptance around...
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    screws
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    Drill
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    Shocking Label: How 'Cookies' Sparked Outrage at a Royal Event over Anzac Biscuits!

    PeeJay35 Its not a triviality if its part of an ongoing erosion of our national identity, including how we speak and the words we use. Ask anyone who was punished for using their native language during occupation by foreign forces or war.
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    Sportsmanship, Manners, and Respect

    A twist on the Chappell incident their Grandfather was Vic Richardson ( the gates at Adelaide Oval are named after him) - the Captain of the Australian Cricket team at the time of the Bodyline bowling test!
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    Lamington drives

    A regular fund raiser for our swimming club in the 70's in country Victoria
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    Sportsmanship, Manners, and Respect

    As a way to get rid of Bradman and Richardson and Co. Also I believe we can help the re-emergence of manners by actively encouraging and thanking the youngsters when they are used. i costs nothing t say thank you. I try and say a positive word to the parents as well when I see manners at work.
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    Shocking Label: How 'Cookies' Sparked Outrage at a Royal Event over Anzac Biscuits!

    We should be proud of how we speak and the actual words we use as part of past and evolution as a nation. Yes we need to evolve over time as society changes but we shouldn't just let the mass media fuel by money based off shore change our language and heritage without question. During the...
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    White jacaranda tree

    Check out photos of Grafton during their Jacaranda Festival!! also common in the Hills behind the Sunshine coast. beautiful colour and great shade, Good for climbing as a kid as well
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    Jaffas

    Back in the early 80's they almost got a group of about 10 thrown out of a cinema in Dunedin NZ. It was an old building with a wooden floor and Starlight glows (or Glowworms if you had just been to Waitomo caves) from the ceiling. We had 2 Canadians with us who had never had a jaffa and the...
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