Posts by stephen walker
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I suspect that...
why do you suspect that?
is this programme subject to a lower set of standards under the regulations? (versus other news and current affairs/interview programmes. etc.) -
nearly all Japanese people are cremated. But the cremation is done so that large bones are not tuned completely to ashes. The bones are collected in an urn and placed in a family grave. It takes up much less space but there is still somewhere for relatives to go to pay their respects to deceased ancestors.
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apparently, the only duty is to deliver the largest dividend possible to shareholder(s)
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is there any plausible explanation as to why anyone would willingly watch this creep on TV? do we have the technology yet to name and shame all those who have tuned in, say, in a special column in the Saturday papers?
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A group of Singapore businessmen was here last month, and appointed an agent to help them look for land in the Hibiscus Coast area to bury dead people from cities such as Singapore and Tokyo, which are running out of cemetery space.
re the Tokyo part of this article, i think Mr. Tan is just making shit up. possibly, the Singapoeans told him they would market their plots in Tokyo, but it seems extremely unlikely to me...for various reasons.
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Jones. Incandescent
Manly. Beach not adjective
Stacy. Brisbane weeps -
@Paul:
yeah, that article in the SMH on Tuesday was pretty funny, eh?
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before cassette tapes, their were two main ways to access more recorded music than you could afford to buy at the retail price.
1. borrowing records from friends/family, etc.
2. buying and selling records at secondhand shops, school playgrounds, etc.a lot of that went on. did it benefit the artists in the long term? any more or less than taping?
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not really on topic, but...
don't you just love the Luck Country, circa "1984"?Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day
The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks.
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Plants grow pretty much by themselves.
that was Masanobu Fukuoka's philosophy, in a nutshell.
growing a lot of good food should involve the bare minimum of buggering about with the natural process.