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should be is normal not I normal, for some reason it would not let me edit my comment ven though I tried to less than 30 seconds after submitting it

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my commiserations Ben.
For what it is worth a certain amount of emotional numbness I pretty normal given the circumstances a bout of contextual depression, should it occur, is also a normal response indeed the numbness is an element of contextual depression

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Nick Frost, Ardal O’Hanlon (sp?), Dawn French, Dara O’Brian, Kylie Minogue (yeah I know but she is surprisingly good when she plays parody versions of herself for comedy shows), Sid James, Wil Wheaton, Jim Parsons (would be better if the character were not a Cooper clone), Sean Astin, Brian Blessed, Jo Brand just to nominate a handful of the ones I think could work well within the premise of Dwarf

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Yeah you aint kidding. I think Shades of Grey is a strong contender for worst trek ever. Made
Spock’s Brain look intelligent
Symbiosis look rational
Meridian look interesting
Threshold look logical
and
A Night in Sickbay look watchable

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LOL here they might think he meant bogans and actually kit him up for it

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I have no problems with him and personaly really enjoyed his travel thread

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Was way too expensive for me to travel 400 miles, through bush fires no less. Am thinking many felt the same way about that con. Am sure several Sydney siders would have went but wether any are members here is the other matter.

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definately worth bookmarking that for future reference :-)

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Thanks heaps Danny

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The closest airport is the Sir Charles Kingsford Smith airport Sydney. Surry Hills is on the western edge of the main Sydney CBD. If you never leave Sydney you will hardly know you’ve left the USA, except for the carbunkles on your bum from the flight. There are lots of good, but fairly dear, hotels, motels and trailer parks (we call them caravan parks) in Sydney.
Tourist visas are usually fairly easy for North Americans to get, so you would have to have done something pretty extreme to get knocked back.
If you stay within Sydney then Sydney Harbour (also called Port Jackson) has most of the touristy sites. probably the best are the Zoo, Luna Park (sort of a smaller scale Coney Island) and fort Denison are probably the most interesting. Denison, despite many common ideas, was actually mainly built to guard against American ships. For more relaxing type sights Manly and Bondi are two of the more famous beaches (lots of sunscreen, you may be used to hot but the Ozone layer is on average 20-30% weaker over Australia than the US.
There are some fairly good museums in Sydney also and the Art Gallery is probably still doing its annual display of last years best High school graduation art pieces (IMO the best of their regular shows, some of the stuff these kids come up with is mind blowing). Normally I would recommend Apple Tree Flats on the western edge of the city but am not sure how badly they were effected by the fires this year. If not effected then the Marsupials are so used to humans they will come right up and interact directly with you, dont make sudden moves though as Roos and Wallabies can kick the living crap out odf a human quite easily. If the fires hit the wildlife will obviously be to skittish for interaction.
If you do decide to do it then I hope some of that proves useful and was not to late for it to be helpful.
Here is a link with what the Sydney City Tourism committee recomends

http://www.sydney.com.au/sights.htm

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The End on video

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Entree – Ausie king prawn salad

Soup – Tomato base minestrone

Main – Lamb chops, mildly spiced with crushed garlic, rosemary and a tiny hint of chilli, Mashed potato with home made beef gravy, home grown broad beans, steamed carrot and peas (not mushy or minted, although being munted helps with both those options )

Desert – Banana split – fresh bowen bananas, home made extra creamy vanilla ice cream, with crushed walnuts, grated chocolate sprinkled over lightly, a light chocolate sauce, chocolate freze sauce spread lightly over the top. and a candied cherry to finish (cherry on top of chocolate freeze sauce so people who do not like them can remove without it affecting the flavour of the rest)

Beverages by choice

Then retire into living room with

Iced Chocolate (just above brain freeze temp) with home made sweetened whip cream and, again, home made extra creamy vanilla ice cream

That is what I cook up when trying to impress a date anyway, If she is vegetarian then entree is tossed garden salad and main loses the chops in favour of whatever good fresh vegies i can get at market.

if she is full Vegan then we are in serious fight within ten minutes so never gets far enough for me to invite for home cooked meal

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Still love the HHGTTG TV series even though i recently learned (yeah probably the last to know i admit that) it was the reason BBC2 dropped the Goodies

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the real problem with democracy is that no matter who you vote for you always end up with a silly bastard

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LOL

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better stop for now or i’ll get a demarcation dispute letter from tourism australia lol

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Napier Range WA

Believe it or not these mountains are the fossilised remains of a 250 million year + old coral reef system that is estimated to have been as large and as climactically significant as the modern Great Barrier Reef

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gonna call these ‘taunting pecospete’ O:-)

still lots to see, could post non stop for a year and still not give the idea.

This is less to do with natural beauty but it is something that feels very beautiful when you experience it.

Sea World, Ocean World phhht. How about a place where wild dolphins come to visit us.

Monkey Mia, Western Australia

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Im with cappsy re: Norton indeed i’ll go further as far as I am concerned Nortons anti virus suite IS a virus

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Reece, great pic mate, as well as history I also have a passion for science and one of my favourite disciplines is Geology. I somewhat envy the Scotts in that regard, your home contains rocks from every major geological eon. Some areas, i’m given to understand, have stratigraphy with perfect sequence covering hundreds of millions of years. I think the instagram does give a cool effect to this photo, thanks for posting it

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blisschick : – beautiful pics, coming from an area heavily dominated by evergreens this is just as amazing to me as some of the pics of my home are to others

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Pecospete:- actually Australian hospitality rules are fairly similar to those of the US south and mid-west, if you turned up at my doorstep I would feel obligated to shout you a drink and show you the local sights, not really a problem though I would be proud to. People from those areas, after a short transition period, do tend to settle in comfortably there are a lot of cultural similarities to many parts of Australia

Australia is near enough to the same size as the 48 states of the main body of the USA. While i would only be able to give ‘local expertise’ for a few hundred square kilometers I am willing to give broader advice to help peeps avoid the tourist traps and see the real Australia for themselves, that goes for anyone visiting here by the way not just Pecospete, I’d be shocked if other Australians on this site dont share that specific attitude. If males are lucky in their timing I might even be able to swing it so they can get an invite to a corroboree (the real type not the play acting for tourist busses type) I cant extend that to women though because with the real thing you must be invited by a member of your own gender if you are not from that homeland yourself, at least thats how it works for my clan the Pakanji

Anniescribe, dont be hard on yourself, Johnathon explained in the sort of detail one would use with a school kid still took me twenty minutes and several attempts to get it right so you couldnt do as bad as me, the hoster he got me to use was Imageshack

Phil i’d rather avoid the peep show lol, but if there is anything about your state or country, broadly, you love and want to show off it still qualifies

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If it reflects something you love about your home I’m not gonna be dis’n it

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Last one for now

Great Barrier Reef from a helicopter (just north of Great Keppel Island)

Note a couple of these are commercial pics, where that is the case I have left watermarks intact incase peeps want to see more

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Esperance Bay, Western Australia

One of the worlds few remaining pristine natural harbours

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Mother and calf swimming off the coast just south of Hobart, Tasmania

Southern Australian waters are spawning grounds to dozens of species of whales as well as whale sharks and great white sharks

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Eclipse over Ularu, my central Australian cousins consider this place sacred
I’m pretty sure most people can see why

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Yay the dummy finally got it :)

Bay of fires, Tasmania

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Mount Cordeaux in Queensland in the distance to the left you can see the city of brisbane and to the right the gold coast

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Ok am trying the approach cappsy suggested via mail, thankyou for fast response both John and Seb, this might take a while as my brain doesnt seem to be working at the moment lol, just didnt want to risk you waiting atround for any further help when it might take a bit.

thankyou again guys

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actually know what thats six times i tried and failed, cant figure it out at the moment for some reason, any advice would be appreciated and then i’ll post them. Admins please feel free to delete the dead post attempt.

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Bay of Fires Tasmania

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Agreed, Reeces playful misunderstanding does raise some very interesting ideas. One which fully goes with what im proposing. Not playing the stereotype for its own sake as such but playing it in the sence of getting a very skilled person, who has a history of doing so, to confront the stereotypes with humour

Sort of in the sence of the 1st season or two of ‘love thy neighbour’ (note i mean the original havent seen the recent remake) which openly stated many of the stereotypes that white biggots used to say against blacks thus laying them bare so the reasonable person could see just how idiotic the overwhelming majority of those stereotypes actually are.

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thanks blisschick, I am seriously tempted, unfortunately the thumper (from bambi) rule forbids me taking up that opportunity as much as i’d love to, the other one i thought of, using some webspace for a ‘hall of shame’ and posting their details would involve sinking to their lvl, russn fussn parents teaching me values lol

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deliberately stepped back from this then came back to look at objections with fresh eyes, yes i can see peeps point. I guess i might of paniced at the idea that people thought i was suggesting her weight as the source of the humour, which wasn’t my intent at all.

In the end this wouldn’t happen anyway neither would the next suggestion which actually is about the obvious stereotype, which is why I am nominating an entertainer who has made a career out of overplaying stereotype expectations and has broken down some small walls in the process.

Universe 4 – Christopher Kochanski – played by Julian Cleary

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Rudolph the red nosed reindeer
had a very shiny nose
and if you ever saw it
you’d know where santas whiskey goes

All of the other reindeer
used to laugh and call him names
that is until that one year
Blitzen went too far n got brained

Then one groggy new years eve
santa came to say
rudolph you know all the ho’s on sight
wont you guide my play tonight

Then all the toy elves loved him
and they shouted out with glee
“rudolph the red nosed reindeer,
you host the arctics best orgies”

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I’m going to suggest it is hard to go lower than anything involving the hatemongers from westboro baptist, pathetic excuse for a, church

How a group which, within hours, announces it is going to have protests celebrating gods judgement (in the form of more than a dozen pre-pubescent children being killed) can be classified as anything but scum is beyond me

sorry had to vent, specifically had to vent in a place where the average subscriber has a functioning brain and a human heart, sorry again

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George this has nothing to do with her being on the large side, it has to do with her being (IMO) one of the most talented comic actresses of her generation and her already established ability to play an obsessive gf and have it be funny and scarey at the same time.

To allow myself a blokey moment

If she ever had an interest in me I would not be knocking her back, to me rejecting a woman with her intellect and sence of humour (just because she is carrying an extra kilo or two) would be an act of utter foolishness

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LOL

for some reason this reminds me of a face book post made by George Takei a few months ago, im paraphrasing but the gist was :-

Enough!

I’m tired of all the undercutting and slanging off between Star Wars and Star Trek fans, get over it already

It is time to bury the hatchett, make up and just get along, that way we can all join together in peace and harmony. We have that sorted we can then all better enjoy mercilessly making fun of Twilight fans

LOL

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that was pretty interesting so far Pecospete, I’ve only spent about 60-80 hrs in the US in my life, and business travel unfortunately. Got to see an airport, a road, a conference room, a hotel room and then back to the airport on the next day, business travel sucks. Always intended to go back for a proper visit but i’m unlikely to get the chance now, enjoyed visiting by proxy through you.

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Sorry Ian i fail to comprehend the meaning of the clip

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to be honest I use the the tic ka pronunciation too but now I can see probably for the wrong reason, im thinking as in the old fashioned expression for heart or determination, he is determined to ride. Must admit I hadnt related to his search for curry as he generally prefers Vindaloo

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should of course be french and saunders,

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i thought this was more wrinkles eps too, love that show, agreed about mr P, his dream sequence had me laughing so hard it hurt, also love gordon Skakild? charachter Arnold, his little sea voyage had me in stitches also

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nostalgia, i last played this when i awas 15 sweet

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Santa claus is on the dole was probably my fav spitting images sketch

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Developing this thought, *IF* PBS may well hold the show and hence the announcement until the end of the current election is over so as to lessen the risk of the announcement being buried under breaking news stories

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One little tidbit I noticed while reading through recent updates on Robert Llewelyns site was an entry from the start of this year which mentions PBS will be broadcasting the series in terms which suggest he regarded that as a certainty.

So one possibility we may have overlooked here, to some extent, is that the deal may very well already be done and might have included clauses about announcement rights. i.e. Grant Naylor productions may have simply agreed to wait till PBS have officially announced it. I’m not saying thats definately what happened but merely suggesting it as a possibility

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Mini mouse sues Mickey for divorce on grounds of abandonment?

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Johnathan was right about my meaning.

Now I havent seen any of the twits beyond the few i’ve seen posted here. I have about as much interest in Twitter as a man with no arms would be in a new pair of gloves.

Mind you i’m a trekky who was posting to usenet during the entirety of modern treks run. You want fan over reactions, The show editor only had to miss something as small as Brent Spiner accidentally slipping in a verbal contraction for people to be calling for plagues and famines to be wished on Rick Berman.

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