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David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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Dangles
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Yesterday I went to move my car in the two hour car park near my work. When I got there I saw there was only one spare space available and there was another car driving around looking for a space. So I rushed over to my car and as I was backing out I was looking to my left at the spare space when the right side of my car crunched into the parked car next to me and did a bit of damage to both cars. So I did the right thing and left my details under the windscreen wiper of the other car, which is going to cost me because it's not worth getting my insurance company to fix their car and I only have third party insurance anyway. So basically I'll be footing the bill for both. But it gets better, I went to the panel beaters this morning and was quoted $480 to get my car fixed. On the way home from the panel beaters I stop at a red light and guy in a van pulls right up behind me. He was sitting right on top of me, so I think bugger this and I move a couple of meters forward and then he goes BANG straight into the back of me and I'm thinking holy hell am I getting attacked here? I sit there for a moment and then get out of my car and the guy was all apologetic etc. Apparently he just wasn't paying attention. So we change details and then I'm back at the panel beaters again twenty minutes after I'd left. WTF? |
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Ugh I feel your pain! (pretty good effort on the time frame, will u get a discount??)
We got my eldest an updated car for her 21st. In fantastic condition. Some guy ran into the side of it in the car park at high point, his insurance paid, but I had to let her take my prescious EOS to the boyfriends for the weekend. That was about 3 months ago. Junior borrowed it a month ago and ran up someone's arse (was always going to happen, she has learnt to slow don a bit earlier now, shame it wasn't In her own car though). Luckily not to much damage, other car $1400 sisters car $350 just the bumper, no charge for labour we will change it over. Since she had given her name we could use my excess cost so it would have been $1600 excess so she just paid the bill. I said to the oldest at her bf 21st on Sunday, your bumper is paintedI'll pick it up Thursday night (driving home as I type) she says 'oh someone backed into it yesterday we think it was the guy across the road" no of course it didn't touch the already smashed bumper. Was a ute, so it has gouged the previously perfect bonnet! I got some excess paint from our spray painted mate, when we picked up the bumper.
That's three so hopefully that's it. _________________ You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either! |
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Dangles
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Bloody cars are more trouble than they're worth sometimes. |
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Jezza
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I'm amazed that this happens in 2015!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/two-indian-sisters-raped-punishment-6335954
Quote: | Two sisters have been sentenced to be raped as punishment after their brother ran off with a married woman.
An unelected all-male village council in India also ordered that 23-year-old Meenakshi Kumari and her 15-year-old sister are paraded naked with blackened faces.
The horrific order was revealed by Amnesty International which said the sisters and their family have fled their village in the Baghpat district, just outside of Delhi.
According to news site Zee Media, the sisters' brother Ravi fell in love with a girl from the Jat caste, a higher social caste than Ravi and his family, who are Dalit, once known as the 'untouchables', who are at the bottom of India's caste system.
The Jat woman's family married her off to someone else in February but she later escaped and eloped with Ravi in March.
As punishment, on July 31 a village council decided Ravi's sisters should be raped to avenge his actions.
Since the family fled their village their home has been ransacked.
Sumit Kumar, another brother of Meenakshi, told Amnesty that members of the Jat caste were powerful members of the village council, saying: "The Jat decision is final."
His family fears for their lives if they return. Meenakshi has filed a petition with India's Supreme Court asking for protection.
Meanwhile her father has also lodged a complaint with two national bodies saying he has been harassed by the family of the Jat woman and by police.
They are also worried about the safety of the Jat woman, who is believed to be pregnant with Ravi's child.
Amnesty International has launched a petition calling on India's authorities intervene immediately and protect the two sisters.
In an appeal, Amnesty said: "Unelected village councils such as this are widespread in parts of India.
"More often than not they are made up of older men from dominant castes, who prescribe rules for social behaviour and interaction in villages.
"Nothing could justify this abhorrent punishment. It's not fair. It's not right. And it's against the law." |
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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That is seriously farked. _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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David
to wish impossible things
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http://www.essentialvision.com.au/too-soft-or-too-tough-on-asylum-seekers-6
Quote: | 27% think the Government is too soft on asylum seekers, 22% think they are too tough and 34% think they are taking the right approach. |
Too soft? What on earth do they want us to do? Torpedo their ships? _________________ "Every time we witness an injustice and do not act, we train our character to be passive in its presence." – Julian Assange |
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Dangles
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stui magpie
Prepare for the worst, hope for the best.
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So apparently there is at least 3 all female AC DC tribute bands.
AD-D she
ThundHERstruck and
Hells Belles.
Not bade either _________________ Every dead body on Mt Everest was once a highly motivated person, so maybe just calm the **** down. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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There sure is. |
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Mugwump
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David wrote: | http://www.essentialvision.com.au/too-soft-or-too-tough-on-asylum-seekers-6
Quote: | 27% think the Government is too soft on asylum seekers, 22% think they are too tough and 34% think they are taking the right approach. |
Too soft? What on earth do they want us to do? Torpedo their ships? |
There'll be a few psychopaths who really do want that, I guess - but mostly, i suspect it'll be people making the point that anyone who has made it all the way to Australia has passed through many other countries en route and ipso facto is not really an asylum seeker, but rather an illegal immigrant to be returned. There are arguments against that view, I suppose, but it's a pretty rational position for an Australian citizen to take. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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Mugwump
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stui magpie wrote: | ^
That is seriously farked. |
Yes, you always wonder whether stories like that could possibly be true, or is there more to it ? Perhaps it is just the logic of a culture that regards individuals as elements of the family/community of which they are a part, rather than as creatures in their own right. Funny thing, culture. _________________ Two more flags before I die! |
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David wrote: | http://www.essentialvision.com.au/too-soft-or-too-tough-on-asylum-seekers-6
Quote: | 27% think the Government is too soft on asylum seekers, 22% think they are too tough and 34% think they are taking the right approach. |
Too soft? What on earth do they want us to do? Torpedo their ships? |
And the 17% can't count |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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Are they exactly the same? |
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David
to wish impossible things
Joined: 27 Jul 2003 Location: the edge of the deep green sea
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