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I hear a rumour that next year's Camp Quality esCarpade (being the 20th year) is going to follow the original route, which was something around Melbourne to South Australia... I hope you stop by to say g'day if we make it there!!
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_Damian S_ wrote:
I hear a rumour that next year's Camp Quality esCarpade (being the 20th year) is going to follow the original route, which was something around Melbourne to South Australia... I hope you stop by to say g'day if we make it there!!
I'd love to but I'm from the big smoke (Sydney) remember? :)
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rickyjos wrote:
We are from the slightly less boganish city of Warrnambool VIC, bogan city with a sea view!
I've been there (in a VC commodore no less), nice place if I remember correctly. It was the western limit of our last pre-children road trip.
We like it.
Josh Gray wrote:
It was the western limit of our last
Yes, just at the end of the Great Ocean Road, most people do the road, end up here, then turn back. I'm not a big city person, so it suits me fine, not too far away from Melbourne for the odd trip if we need. I can walk with my kids to school from home in 5 mins, another 5 mins walking and I'm in my office. That's the best thing about living here for me.
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I hear a rumour that next year's Camp Quality esCarpade (being the 20th year) is going to follow the original route, which was something around Melbourne to South Australia... I hope you stop by to say g'day if we make it there!!
I don't have ADHD, I have ADOS... Attention Deficit oooh SHINY!! If you like cars, check out the Booger Mobile blog | If you feel generous - make a donation to Camp Quality!!
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We like it.
Josh Gray wrote:
It was the western limit of our last
Yes, just at the end of the Great Ocean Road, most people do the road, end up here, then turn back. I'm not a big city person, so it suits me fine, not too far away from Melbourne for the odd trip if we need. I can walk with my kids to school from home in 5 mins, another 5 mins walking and I'm in my office. That's the best thing about living here for me.
rickyjos wrote:
Yes, just at the end of the Great Ocean Road, most people do the road, end up here, then turn back.
Yep, we went north east from there to Ballarat. Man, that was a place I never want to visit again. The cops did eventually catch the people that broke into our car and stole all the high heal shoes my girl friend had bought in Melbourne. I notice the company you work for is based there. There seem to be these odd little software companies all over the place in VIC. Do the limited employment opportunities there worry you? What would you do if they went belly up?
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_Damian S_ wrote:
I hear a rumour that next year's Camp Quality esCarpade (being the 20th year) is going to follow the original route, which was something around Melbourne to South Australia... I hope you stop by to say g'day if we make it there!!
I'd love to but I'm from the big smoke (Sydney) remember? :)
Josh Gray wrote:
I'd love to but I'm from the big smoke (Sydney) remember?
Yes, I know that... I thought I had replied to rickyjos...
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rickyjos wrote:
Yes, just at the end of the Great Ocean Road, most people do the road, end up here, then turn back.
Yep, we went north east from there to Ballarat. Man, that was a place I never want to visit again. The cops did eventually catch the people that broke into our car and stole all the high heal shoes my girl friend had bought in Melbourne. I notice the company you work for is based there. There seem to be these odd little software companies all over the place in VIC. Do the limited employment opportunities there worry you? What would you do if they went belly up?
Josh Gray wrote:
Ballarat
You either love it or hate it, there is no in between, I cant stand the place.
Josh Gray wrote:
Do the limited employment opportunities there worry you? What would you do if they went belly up?
Yes, thats the trade off for the convenience I spoke of above. The sites listed in my profile are actually owned/operated by me and I am currently the only employee, I actually have more work than I can handle most of the time. I did have an employee but he disappeared, another down side is the lack of talented people in regional areas. But at the moment I probably couldn't afford to pay an employee anyway. If I had have known how hard it is to run a business before I started, I don't think I would have taken the leap... I am also lucky enough to have the support of a former boss who I can contract for at the drop of a hat. But if all of that disappeared tomorrow I could always become a prostitute, that's what I tell my wife anyway... she thinks we would go bankrupt...
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Josh Gray wrote:
Ballarat
You either love it or hate it, there is no in between, I cant stand the place.
Josh Gray wrote:
Do the limited employment opportunities there worry you? What would you do if they went belly up?
Yes, thats the trade off for the convenience I spoke of above. The sites listed in my profile are actually owned/operated by me and I am currently the only employee, I actually have more work than I can handle most of the time. I did have an employee but he disappeared, another down side is the lack of talented people in regional areas. But at the moment I probably couldn't afford to pay an employee anyway. If I had have known how hard it is to run a business before I started, I don't think I would have taken the leap... I am also lucky enough to have the support of a former boss who I can contract for at the drop of a hat. But if all of that disappeared tomorrow I could always become a prostitute, that's what I tell my wife anyway... she thinks we would go bankrupt...
rickyjos wrote:
she thinks we would go bankrupt
After the first night, stagger home and tell her you made $85.50. When she asks who gave you the 50c, tell her "all of them!!"
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My little brother - more than once - managed to climb up the rails of his crib, pull himself up onto the window ledge, work the screen loose (which most adults couldn't get open without pliers), and fall outside the house to the ground. Whereupon he crawled under a bush and watched in silence as the entire neighborhood searched, screaming his name, in search of him. Kids do the damnedest things, and it's no reflection on the parents if they fail to imagine all the possible things a child can get into. Gross negligence is an entirely different matter, as is deliberately placing a child at risk, but we've gone much too far in trying to legislate a risk-free existence, even for children. Childhood is a time for risks, learning hard lessons, skinning knees and falling out of trees. Take that away and you create a generation of weaklings, unable to cope in the real world. Just like we have now... God help us, these useless creatures will be running things soon. :sigh:
Will Rogers never met me.
Roger Wright wrote:
God help us, these useless creatures will be running things soon.
We are sorry. :rolleyes:
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rickyjos wrote:
she thinks we would go bankrupt
After the first night, stagger home and tell her you made $85.50. When she asks who gave you the 50c, tell her "all of them!!"
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rickyjos wrote:
That would nearly be my record.
Bet you could barely sit down after that effort!! :laugh: :laugh:
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Yep, that and "watch this Dad"... very scary indeed!!
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Not sure how that message rated a 1, but meh, whatever floats your boat!!
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Josh Gray wrote:
Didn't Eric Clapton loose a child in a similar fashion?
He did, I'm unsire if this happened during his Heroin addiction days though.
Michael Martin Australia "I controlled my laughter and simple said "No,I am very busy,so I can't write any code for you". The moment they heard this all the smiling face turned into a sad looking face and one of them farted. So I had to leave the place as soon as possible." - Mr.Prakash One Fine Saturday. 24/04/2004
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Nice! :thumbsup: Though I was a bit let down. I thought you might be posting about a new Supergirl movie or something. :rolleyes:
or some family-related announcements maybe :cool:
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CPS needs to forcibly confiscate that child immediatly where he will grow up in an institution full of pedophiles and pissed off butch women. A kennel.
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Hmm, a freudian slip related to your own upbringing methinks...
Rhys "With no power comes no responsibility"
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CPS needs to forcibly confiscate that child immediatly where he will grow up in an institution full of pedophiles and pissed off butch women. A kennel.
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Just because it happened to you, you shouldn't wish it on others.
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When your kid grows up, he will be severely inhibited with a very depressive personality. A cave dweller.
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You opinion might be welcome*, if you'd actually acheived the first step of producing a child. * Actually, your opinion is never welcome
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I was so hyper-careful with our son that my wife often thought I was being a little paranoid, but better to be safe than any other alternative.
Yes and no... There are interesting reports coming out at the moment that are basically blaming parents who cotton-wool their kids for the number of young people dying/seriously injured, as they never learned how to safely take/evaluate risks. I tend to agree with this premise - people are so over-the-top protective of their kids here, that at the school where my boys go there are two bike racks... When I was at school, there were probably 40 bike racks in a similar sized school. Parental paranoia is (apparently) stopping kids from riding to school...
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_Damian S_ wrote:
When I was at school, there were probably 40 bike racks in a similar sized school. Parental paranoia is (apparently) stopping kids from riding to school...
Mate of mine wanted his kid (9 or 10) to ride his bike to school (he was going to ride with him), but there was no bike rack so he asked the school what to do with the bike and they told him they didn't want children riding bikes to school because of the dangers and having to look after the bike and equipment during the day. They also made him write a form for his kid to wear goggles when swimming with a reason why to which he wrote "Because I am his father and I want him to".
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French media are describing as a "miracle" the unscathed survival of an 18-month-old girl who fell from a sixth-floor apartment.[^]
The girl was left unattended by her parents when she somehow fell, then bounced off the awning of a cafe below. She had a further stroke of luck when a passing doctor saw her fall and caught her before she hit the ground, witnesses were quoted as saying. [. . .] The man who caught the girl was walking by with his wife and son when the boy spotted the girl falling.
Awesome bit of good fortune there. But her parents suck!
Regards, Nish
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While I disagree on many issues with you, I'd +5 for your real life sarcastic reply.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
I was so hyper-careful with our son that my wife often thought I was being a little paranoid, but better to be safe than any other alternative.
Yes and no... There are interesting reports coming out at the moment that are basically blaming parents who cotton-wool their kids for the number of young people dying/seriously injured, as they never learned how to safely take/evaluate risks. I tend to agree with this premise - people are so over-the-top protective of their kids here, that at the school where my boys go there are two bike racks... When I was at school, there were probably 40 bike racks in a similar sized school. Parental paranoia is (apparently) stopping kids from riding to school...
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_Damian S_ wrote:
Yes and no... There are interesting reports coming out at the moment that are basically blaming parents who cotton-wool their kids for the number of young people dying/seriously injured, as they never learned how to safely take/evaluate risks.
There's a bit of statistical chicanery going on there. Another way to look at it is that more teens seem to be dying because people who would have died as toddlers lived to die another day. If you cut down the number of deaths in any age group you increase the number of deaths older age groups. Perhaps we need controlled accidents for kids. A service that will put your kid in a situation that will cause a broken arm or leg, but teach a valuable lesson. Broken Legs'r'Us We smack your kids around so they don't imitate Jackass later in life. -Richard
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