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    Supermarkets and Covid-19

    Supermarkets in Australia have definitely benefited in this, but some of have actually done a great deal of service and quite a lot to help people. So I work at Woolworths in the leafy inner-east Melbourne and in Australia, about a month ago when all the panic buying started it was like...
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    BT Tower. Why is it still closed to the public?

    I guess upgrade expenses are inevitable and would have to be carried out, an expense that would only need to be done once and then maintained there after. The communications equipment, I don't think BT Tower is any different to Tokyo Tower, or the Eiffel Tower that also have commuications...
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    Happy Guy Fawkes Day!

    Happy Guy Fawkes Day!
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    BT Tower. Why is it still closed to the public?

    G'day everyone, I use BT Tower as a point of reference for when I go walkabout and now that it's relatively close to work it made me wonder about going to it and sussing it out. I get there to see a well established sign saying its closed to the public, in several languages. Wondering why on...
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    2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games

    Has anyone being following the Commonwealth Games at all? Whole time I've been here I haven't seen or heard anything about it? Back home, it's quite the opposite.
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    World War Three

    I'm not expecting it to rain missiles any time soon, or a nuclear winter either.
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    Uxbridge English Dictionary

    :lol: I don't get it. :s Sycophant: To sink an Elephant.
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    The UK attitude to firearms

    I have fired a gun, seen a gun and held a gun. While Australia does have very tough gun ownership laws, it only took one mass shooting (Port Arthur, Tasmania, 1996) here for the Government to act swiftly and implement a range of new ownership laws, buy back schemes, amnesties and rigorous...
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    Trivia: Names or shortened forms of names which don't give away your gender

    As far as pronunciation is concerned: Billy and Billie. Gene and Jean. Michele and Michelle. Joe and Jo. Peter and Peta. Bobby and Bobbi. Nick and Nic.
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    Abandoned Eurostar Train

    After the inauguration of the high-speed line and the Channel Tunnel, the Eurostar TMST number 3018 today has been abandoned since 2014 to make room for the new models. - Overview of the "NOL" driver's cab. - 13 cars with 2 wagon-bars. - More seats and machines left on the spot. Some...
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    LED lighting concerns

    Interesting discussion. I have found that here in Melbourne, when they replaced the old destination blinds in trams with LED desto's, they are much harder to read from a distance. the same goes for LED destos on trains and to an extent on buses, but mainly trams are the hardest to read. LED...
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    Season of Lent & religion

    I usually give up things like fast food, chocolate, alcohol that sort of thing. I think its nice to have a sort of detox period each year. :)
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    2018 New Years resolutions

    I started a new years resolution Jan 1st 2013 to not eat Maccas, Burger King, KFC etc and I'm still going. This year I plan to be more productive, eat better and get out more among other things.
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    Happy New Year!! All the best for 2018!

    Happy New Year!! All the best for 2018!
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    Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

    Bummer, should have posted at the strike of midnight last night. Would have got first post for 2018. :p
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    80 Days! Not that I'm counting or anything. LOL. When I return from QLD, things are going to...

    80 Days! Not that I'm counting or anything. LOL. When I return from QLD, things are going to start getting pretty serious... lol
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    How technology will change the railways

    Technology improving the railways in the future can also be looked at in terms of what the railways was like 10, 20, 30 and 50+ years ago. Oh how the times have changed since then. If you look at the advances that have already been made over the course of those time frames, the future might hold...
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    Carry On films

    omg I love the Carry on Films!!! I grew up as a kid watching them all, many times over! My favorite actor in them was Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams and Hattie Jacques. Always a good laugh watching them. They'd never get away with making them now days though.
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    How many countries have you visited outside of the UK?

    Oh definitely! If you look at the cost of living, it is much more expensive to live in the major cities like Sydney and Melbourne than it is in say Adelaide or Perth. But then it comes at a cost, by living in smaller cities and towns further away you have cheaper homes, but then health and...

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