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[Eevo]

Flying Jetstar or Tiger were you? You need a packed lunch to get to some of those gates...

yeah, qantas was booked out. first time flying jetstar. the clientele it attracts look a bit rough but overall good service.

[cuppabillytea]

yeah, qantas was booked out. first time flying jetstar. the clientele it attracts look a bit rough but overall good service.

Pots and kettles?

[Eevo]

are they black?

[cuppabillytea]

are they black?

Can't tell with the lights out.

[Ancient Mariner]

Not feeling the best with a slight head ache and muscle aches I expected some improvement after the brother extracted the scrub tick out of my scalp but not so.Being kept awake with muscle aches.Great improvement after the second one removed from my sideburn .Am now sharing the dogs tick tablet First electrical storm for the year have a quick look at AULRO before pulling the plug a bad mistake big blue flash and no modem. Next night still storming about 2 am I thought the dog had jumped up on the bed till I nearly rolled out of with a list to port.Bloody white ants had eaten the guts out of the 100x100 bed post and it disintergrated
NQ But wouldn't live any where else

AM

[cuppabillytea]

Port makes me list too. Not to mention the headaches.
You should drink whisky. Then the termites can do what ever they please.

[trog]

When did beer become the new wine ? Seems most venues around town with live original music are only selling "craft " beer at close to $10 a schooner. Remember when it was a can of lite or regular a single price and you got what you wanted ? Now there are ten taps and another ten bottles in the fridges and after a ten minute discussion on the merits of each , the tab is paid electronically , so more time wasted as the gizmo and credit card sync up. Or I could go to the local club for a one man covers act and the racket of pokies. Brisbane bars need a good kick in the butt. Almost cheaper to just save my fun bucks and fly down to Melbourne every second month , see some good acts and pay about 20% less per beer than here. So where to go tonite , or tomoro ?

[Tins]

I was just doing some thinking this morning (I know, dangerous!), after the dog woke me at 0400 and I could not get back to sleep.

You know, Hitler is responsible for nuclear weapons. (No invoking Godwin's law, please!)

Without Nazi antisemitism, the US would never have started the Manhattan Project. Not only was this dependent on refugees from Axis countries (.g. Enrico Fermi), but without Einstein's signature on the letter to the president, it would never have got funding. And without the antisemitism, he would not have been in the US.

Without the example of the US having developed nuclear weapons, and showing it could be done, the Soviets would not have done it, and France and Britain probably would not have either, as these , Britain in particular, were part of the Manhattan project and learnt a lot from it.

Germany was defeated without nuclear weapons, and Japan would have been too, although they probably shortened the war and saved lives, as the Japanese government would have needed a similar disaster to the atom bombs before surrendering - and with the allies closing in, Japan would have been subject to massive non-nuclear bombing , not restricted to two cities.

It could even be argued that if the money spent on the Manhattan Project had been spent on conventional munitions, the war may have ended earlier - for example, if the B-29 had become operational a year earlier.

Britain was closed out of the Manhattan Project. Rightly or wrongly, the Yanks ceased to trust them, so they went on by themselves.

[Tins]

melb airport sucks. the drinking place is 10min walk from the gate.

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Your problem, Eevo, is that Melbourne Airport is bigger than the Adelaide CBD. Not saying that that is a good thing, but you need to develop a sense of perspective. My sister worries that her daughter, who is moving from Mile End to Crafers, is going to be "missing out". Lol.

[Tins]

yeah, qantas was booked out. first time flying jetstar. the clientele it attracts look a bit rough but overall good service.

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I know they are rarer, but you should try Virgin.