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In Perspective, Planet: The planet is not ours.

Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
So you think we own the place. Ha!




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These guys sucked up the pyrethrum like icing on a cake, then came back for another swig the next day.
Cute? I don't think so. I wouldn't make a good Buddhist.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom dinning said:
So you think we own the place. Ha!




_D301174 by tom.dinning, on Flickr​



These guys sucked up the pyrethrum like icing on a cake, then came back for another swig the next day.
Cute? I don't think so. I wouldn't make a good Buddhist.
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Dipped in chocolate, they make good candies. Mashed up with an egg, sat and pepper and a tad of onion, they build up into a tasty locus burger! Fry them but remember to remove the wings or you might cough!

Asher
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Jarmo Juntunen said:
But we do own the place. We got the brain. We can work with tools. We are the pinnacle of the universe. Aren't we?
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Jarmo,

Yes, that's what it seems. We've the power to blow up bridges and detonate bunker busting bombs 30 meters under the concrete, but we still can't stop a tsunami or a Katrina!

Ultimately, we're just visitors with some mechanical toys and aptitudes of reflection and invention.

We're only a very recent passing storm, a phase, a 50,000 year old dot in the time frame of a 3 billion year old piece of rock.

Some descendants of locusts might survive. By that time, we may be living on terra-formed Mars and locusts would not be allowed!

Asher
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Jerome Marot said:
I am not sure about locusts, but if you have problems with cockroaches, I know a sure way to get rid of them. No pyrethrum is involved.
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You could make a heap of money in Darwin, Jerome, if you are serious about dealing with cockroaches. They are so prolific and breed with such fecundity we have decided to allow them to vote.
 
Asher Kelman

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Tom dinning said:
You could make a heap of money in Darwin, Jerome, if you are serious about dealing with cockroaches. They are so prolific and breed with such fecundity we have decided to allow them to vote.
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Tom,

Your brittle reverse politically correct Aussie humor is so witty, unexpected and fun to us here! It's a version of Aussies being self-depreciating and pretending to be giving up and going with the flow! :)

Asher
 
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Andy brown

Well-known member
Tom, Asher, we don't just let them vote. We bloody well vote for them.

BTW, I'm pissed off, I used to do Aussie self deprecating humour around here but it went over peoples' heads.
Then I did 'Aussie taking the piss out of European culture' which went over like a Hindenburg and I got beaten up.

I'm still recovering.

p.s, Aussies do politically incorrect humour and self deprecation as a matter of course. It's not something we work on.
 
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Mark Hampton

New member
Andy brown said:
Tom, Asher, we don't just let them vote. We bloody well vote for them.

BTW, I'm pissed off, I used to do Aussie self deprecating humour around here but it went over peoples' heads.
Then I did 'Aussie taking the piss out of European culture' which went over like a Hindenburg and I got beaten up.

I'm still recovering.

p.s, Aussies do politically incorrect humour and self deprecation as a matter of course. It's not something we work on.
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Andy,

you just wernt funny mate.

cheers
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
I'm not being funny. I'm deadly serious. Why doesn't anyone take me serious. You think I'd joke about this sort of stuff?
It's tough being an Aussie. We live on the bottom half of the world, there's only a few million of us, the rest of the place is covered in flies, hopping marsupials and German tourists and the place is so flat the water doesn't know which way to flow. Everything is poisonous including tonight's dinner, women outnumber men, koalas pisson you from trees, sharks eat you when you swim in the ocean and politics is like a bum fight in a country pub.
Trouble is we like it like that.
Funny? Not likely. Depressing is what it is. How would you be if you woke up in the morning knowing the rest of the day was occupied with meeting people like me.
 
Tom dinning

Tom dinning

Registrant*
Andy brown said:
Tom, Asher, we don't just let them vote. We bloody well vote for them.

BTW, I'm pissed off, I used to do Aussie self deprecating humour around here but it went over peoples' heads.
Then I did 'Aussie taking the piss out of European culture' which went over like a Hindenburg and I got beaten up.

I'm still recovering.

p.s, Aussies do politically incorrect humour and self deprecation as a matter of course. It's not something we work on.
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Not good to assume anyone between Bangladesh and Brussels has a sense of humour, Andy. They're too busy fighting with each other.
 
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jake klein

Member
Tom dinning said:
I'm not being funny. I'm deadly serious. Why doesn't anyone take me serious. You think I'd joke about this sort of stuff?
It's tough being an Aussie. We live on the bottom half of the world, there's only a few million of us, the rest of the place is covered in flies, hopping marsupials and German tourists and the place is so flat the water doesn't know which way to flow. Everything is poisonous including tonight's dinner, women outnumber men, koalas pisson you from trees, sharks eat you when you swim in the ocean and politics is like a bum fight in a country pub.
Trouble is we like it like that.
Funny? Not likely. Depressing is what it is. How would you be if you woke up in the morning knowing the rest of the day was occupied with meeting people like me.
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Seems like an alright place to me.
 
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