Thread: Trivia and other useless but interesting items

Originally Posted by JDNSW

No, the dishwasher will do a lot better job.

Provided the Parts aren't made from Ally & disappear on you because the Dishwasher Detergent can be murder to ally bits.

Originally Posted by Saitch

How does one, 'Stand on one's head', exactly?

Its all here,

Standing on one's head - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

Let us know how you go

Originally Posted by Saitch

How does one, 'Stand on one's head', exactly?

It's a bit like warning signs that state 'Watch Your Head'! How??? Mirrors?

Point taken Steve.

One uses one's hands each side of one's bonce so I guess it is on one's head with Manual assistance or standing on ones hands with bonce assistance & if one was standing on one's hands you could do bugger all or just fall over arse over bonce..

A sort of 3 point configuration but watch out for hand gropers whilst in that configuration. No, not the marine ones.

One doesn't hear folk saying "I can do that job standing on one's hands, does one, but one does hear folk say "I could do that job standing on one's head"

They may be idiots but we know what they are on about.


Difficult to do both but standing on one's hands would make it more difficult or impossible if one was changing a tap Washer for instance. I guess one could hold the removed tap between one's feet at a pinch. But first one would have to remove one's tap & fetch one's tools.


Strange language English, & now made even stranger by one.

Originally Posted by scarry

Its all here,

Standing on one's head - Idioms by The Free Dictionary

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ee also:

• standing on (one's) head
• with (one's) eyes closed
• with (one's) eyes shut
• with eyes closed
• with your eyes shut
• with your eyes shut/closed
• could (do something) with (one's) eyes shut
• do (something) standing on (one's) head
• do something standing on your head
• be able to (do something) in (one's) sleep

Actually I have seen handiwork on Electrical & Refrigeration installations that would fit the above list.

Size is all relative
ASIC chairman's $120,000 tax bill 'not unusually high', experts say

ASIC chairman'''s $120,000 tax bill '''not unusually high''', experts say
A 120,000 for tax advice is not apparently
""I was not surprised [by the cost]. I wouldn't have thought it's unusually high," Mr Croker said. "If they find a person overseas, often the US, part of the continued negotiations will be around tricky tax consequences for changing your residency.""It sounds like a big fee [to the average person] but in our world of tax accounting, moving someone across the world can raise a host of financial implications," he said."

Pretty sure you can find and expert to say what ever you want to hear Size is relative to how the expert you ask perhaps?

Originally Posted by NavyDiver

Size is all relative
ASIC chairman's $120,000 tax bill 'not unusually high', experts say

ASIC chairman'''s $120,000 tax bill '''not unusually high''', experts say
A 120,000 for tax advice is not apparently
""I was not surprised [by the cost]. I wouldn't have thought it's unusually high," Mr Croker said. "If they find a person overseas, often the US, part of the continued negotiations will be around tricky tax consequences for changing your residency.""It sounds like a big fee [to the average person] but in our world of tax accounting, moving someone across the world can raise a host of financial implications," he said."

Pretty sure you can find and expert to say what ever you want to hear Size is relative to how the expert you ask perhaps?

Our retirement plan advice cost $3000, so $120,000 is a huge bill, I reckon.

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Our retirement plan advice cost $3000, so $120,000 is a huge bill, I reckon.

It's even more than my yearly, alcohol bill!

Originally Posted by DiscoMick

Our retirement plan advice cost $3000, so $120,000 is a huge bill, I reckon.

Ours is around 12K,thats for everything, businesses, different entities,property's, trusts,all four in our immediate family,SMSF,etc.

So cant work out how it was 120K,although those large accounting firms charge a lot, we are talking well over $400/hr.

We use a small guy, who is very good, out of the 5 we have used over the last 40yrs,the best by far.

Many of the others we caught out making mistakes, that favoured the ATO