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With industry superannuation accounts there is industry default life insurance. You don't have to have it.Keeping it equals less compound interest.

I won't be using Expedia again. I am not quite sure how it happened, but I ended up being charged twice for one night's accommodation at the Elizabeth Hostel in Melbourne. I have given up trying to get a refund. In future I will book direct with the hotel/motel/hostel.

You have to remember that if a product is short supply, it won’t be that cheap even at Aldi. Currently onions are expensive.

Paypal impersonation I had an email from [email protected] An attached JPG file of text claiming to be from Paypal. It was asking me if I had spent $299 on Bitcoin. This scammer obviously has no PDF software. Obviously this person wants my Papal log in details. Maybe I should phone...

What if you are one of the 10% of the population? In 1999 I was hospitalized with a bad case of Menieres. I was connected to an intravenous machine for five days as my electrolyte levels were way too low. Another attack in 2003 , the doctor said my blood pressure was too low. I increased my...

Breakfast cereals other than porridge are a rip off. I have my doubts if milk is all that nutritious. Margarine is not food. Eating the wrong stuff leaves you unsatisfied. For salt I buy a 25kg of raw salt crystals from a farm supply shop. I also eat purslane a weed that grows wild at this time...

All text messages containing a link get deleted even if appearing to be from a government department. Unless I am expecting a call from the police or Centrelink, I will not answer phone calls from private numbers.

It is a developing country.

I would have to be dying of thirst to drink anything with artificial sweetener. I read these cause brain damage.

I read that low cholesterol levels are associated with an increased chance of Alzheimer's. Unless you had Familial Cholesterolaemia, why would you want to take statins?

Cold rainwater does it for me.

Before transferring a large amount of money to an account, transfer a small odd amount eg $13.49 then ring up the recipient and ask if the payment has come through.

On FB Skeptics in Australia there was one guy who was 100% certain about AGW; 100% certain about every vaccine past ,present and future; 100% certain that LDL is the only cause of CVD. In his words, "There is no other plausible explanation."

I have an idea. Since Malcolm Kendrick is a medical board certified doctor, why don't you make a complaint to the UK medical board as you think he has written such a dangerous article? It would be interesting to see how it pans out.

There is a FB group called Skeptics in Australia where I am sure you would find many a kindred spirit.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2005/11/18/the-great-cholesterol-myth/

I once asked my GP if high cholesterol is cause or effect of CVD and he said he did not know. A GP online once explained to me that doctors have to act within guidelines set out by the AMA or they can be investigated.

It is my understanding that once you are past 50, the lower your cholesterol levels , the greater your chance of dying.

From the late Joh BP. "They have cooked their own goose and will have to sit in it."

From the late Joh BP. "They have cooked their own goose and will have to sit in it." ..