the all aussie dribble thread!

[tdi-rick]

I remember that video when it came out, it was far fetched to say the least.
[snip]

:msp_unsure: No way Neil, Chuck can do it !

 

[tdi-rick]

Having suffered the ravages of MAN flu for the past week, may I suggest we share these videos with our wives/girlfriends/partners/daughters on how savage man flu and man colds really are to our poor, overloaded systems, and the measures we really need to help overcome the trauma inflicted upon us

[video=youtube;6EElqrgk4N0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EElqrgk4N0[/video]

 

[tdi-rick]

and the second one.

[video=youtube;6keUdzwFCHU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6keUdzwFCHU&feature=related[/video]

 

[ausneil 1]

:msp_unsure: No way Neil, Chuck can do it !

Has anyone seen the new movie, expendables 2.
It has chuck,stalone, arnie, van dan and that other karate bloke.
they all fight and shoot but chuck is just a chopper jock. Those poor old legs must be at the stage they must point to the ground. I think at movies end it said he is 74years old, i guess he is allowed to have an easy movie roll for once.

 

[Bigfella]

Manflu: an epidemic that women will never understand. I reckon the government needs to effectively advertise this as they do drink driving. Its a well known fact that the manflu can lay a bloke for for days.

i like the paramedics and they bell. i wish they would do the same here. I have had the manflu, i know how it feels.

 

[MCW]

Has anyone seen the new movie, expendables 2.
It has chuck,stalone, arnie, van dan and that other karate bloke.
they all fight and shoot but chuck is just a chopper jock. Those poor old legs must be at the stage they must point to the ground. I think at movies end it said he is 74years old, i guess he is allowed to have an easy movie roll for once.

Good old Chuck. Legend in his day but a bit of a weirdo on a few television advertisements I've seen him in recently on the web. Said he would not be a part of the Expendables 2 if there was any swearing in it at all. He's a bit holier than thou.

 

[Rudolf73]

Chuck Norris once beat a wall at tennis...

 

[AUSSIE1]

I never could quite take to the Chuck! :censored:

 

[ausneil 1]

I never could quite take to the Chuck! :censored:

when he faught bruce lee many, many years ago, that was worth seeing.
I didn't mind some of his war movies.

 

[Bigfella]

when he faught bruce lee many, many years ago, that was worth seeing.
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Bruce Lee kicked old chucks posterior, literally. Utube has a good video of this.
I loved chuck as a young fella. Especially when he was "Walker Texas Ranger", but then came along Bruce Lee. If he could speak english the movies would have been so much better. hated the voice overs.

 

[Stihlman441]

Look out blokes if ya wont saws from over seas i suggest ya get on with it,it wont be long.

Lower GST-free threshold for imports would be a win for Australia | FEN

 

[ausneil 1]

Stihlman441,,,
Couldn't bring up that link, but it will make things interesting.




Another facebook pic, one comment said, possably a new worker Jeena got from over seas.

Oh dear.

 

[tdi-rick]

Here you go Neil

Lower GST-free threshold for imports would be a win for Australia

14 September, 2012 Posted by Lata Sundar 0 comments
Lower GST-free threshold for imports would be a win for Australia
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The Australian Made Campaign has hailed the call for changes to the GST-free threshold for goods bought online from overseas vendors as a win for common sense, good governance and fairness.

Australian Made Chief Executive Ian Harrison explained that a tax system which actively discriminated against Australian retailers and manufacturers was indefensible.

Responding to the proposed changes to the GST-free threshold for goods bought online from overseas retailers, he commented that the rapid rise in online retailing required the Government to deal with the inequity in the current tax system whereby imported goods of less than $1000 value were GST exempt.

Arguing that fairness in the application of the GST system was non-negotiable for good governance, he said the contention that it may cost more to collect the GST than the revenue generated has been dispelled by the report. Even if that proves not to be the case, the Government should simply raise the GST rate on these imports as they cannot remain GST-free.

The recommended changes come from a Government taskforce set up last year to look at the problem of low value imports into Australia being GST-exempt. The report released this week suggested "simplified GST assessment arrangements" for imports worth less than $1000

It's an industry paper/newsletter, so of course they will call for the lowering of the GST threshold.
It's called lobbying.

For most of us it wouldn't matter a damn as the savings far outweigh the 10% GST, and most of us can claim the GST back anyway in our quarterly returns.

Most in the Tax Dept./Govt have said it won't happen as the costs of implementation outweigh the revenue earned.

 

[ausneil 1]

Thanks Rick. i can digest that a little whilst i do some work today.

 

[tdi-rick]

Another facebook pic, one comment said, possably a new worker Jeena got from over seas.

Oh dear.

Was that in a pit here ?

That'd be a sphincter clenching ride. :msp_ohmy:

A mates brother works at a pit down the valley driving a dozer (hell, everyone works in a put down the valley these days...) and a bund collapsed as a truck was dumping over the edge.
Luckily he was quick and jumped out of the dozer, grabbed a rope from one of the lockers and tied off the truck before it could go right over, and I think it was a fair old drop.

 

[ausneil 1]

Was that in a pit here ?

That'd be a sphincter clenching ride. :msp_ohmy:

A mates brother works at a pit down the valley driving a dozer (hell, everyone works in a put down the valley these days...) and a bund collapsed as a truck was dumping over the edge.
Luckily he was quick and jumped out of the dozer, grabbed a rope from one of the lockers and tied off the truck before it could go right over, and I think it was a fair old drop.

I have no idea where or when the pic was taken, i have a couple of mates who are working in hunter valley and they put them up on face book.

I am trying to slowly get a job down there as well, i don't know the right people to approach.
I also have a raceing mate who drives those D11's, i would like to retire from timber and go and be his trainee.

 

[tdi-rick]

Everyone's gone to work in the mines, half the self employed tradies around here have gone, as most of their staff had too.

I don't blame them, better money than working for yourself with none of the responsibilities/hassles.

Having said that most of them don't cope well with the hours/shifts and the constant coal dust must impact on your health long term.
A few of the wives reckon their hubbies have had personality transplants since doing the shifts too, and more of the girls are getting jobs driving too.

I tried about seven years ago but was knocked back with the distance I would've been travelling at the time, (we were about 25km out in the hills east of here at the time) it's considered under OH&S or whatever they call it these days.
I personally knew one bloke that fell asleep in his car and went under the front end of a truck on the way home one morning. It was just up the road form here, he was only 12km from home.

 

[lumberjackau]

Up these pats there are blokes getting laid off from the mines, boy are they crying, most of them miners have big flash houses, a few landcruisers and boat or two in the garage, without the big paying mine jobs they are stuffed. The mine and gas mobs have certainly had an impact on the local economy, not all for the good.

Me, I am happy driving a skidder and cutting a few trees, working for a good outfit, not mine wages but I am happy.

Cheers
Will

 

[tdi-rick]

Up these pats there are blokes getting laid off from the mines, boy are they crying, most of them miners have big flash houses, a few landcruisers and boat or two in the garage, without the big paying mine jobs they are stuffed. The mine and gas mobs have certainly had an impact on the local economy, not all for the good.

Me, I am happy driving a skidder and cutting a few trees, working for a good outfit, not mine wages but I am happy.

Cheers
Will

It's about to happen here too Will.

The spot coal price has dropped massively, and I think 2000 have already lost their jobs between Qld and NSW. (mostly contractors so far, funnily enough a lot of the blokes I know are casuals working for labour hire companies, so guess who goes next)

It had to happen.

 

[tdi-rick]

An oldie, but worth repeating.




A beer brewing convention was held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was
attended by all the world's major breweries. After the presentations,
the brewery reps met at the local hotel for refreshments.

The Budweiser rep from America ordered a Budweiser, the Heineken rep
from Holland ordered a Heineken, the Newcastle Breweries rep from England
ordered a Newcastle Brown, the Lowenbrau rep from Germany ordered a Lowenbrau,
and so on until finally it was the turn of the rep from Australia. He ordered an OJ.

The other reps asked him why he was drinking orange juice, and he
replied, "If you blokes aren't drinking beer, then neither am I".