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A lot different to old the days of Peaches & Cream on the bank of the Murray in Cobram.

Back in the days when you could bring your own drinks.
Still remember a group of blokes who used an old fridge as their esky full of beer. Was so heavy took 6 of them to carry it and they had to stop everyone 100 meters or so for a drink break.
And those who didn't wan to pay and tried to swim across from the NSW side of the Murray.
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^

This was a BYO alcohol, only restriction was no glass.
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stui magpie wrote:And another in the Daily mail of all places :shock:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... tival.html
Can't possibly imagine why. :roll: :lol:

When I hear about Strawberry Fields Festival, all I think about is this article a friend wrote (third subheading down). Probably the best explanation of why I don't do music festivals:

http://pilerats.com/written/light-easy/ ... -an-adult/
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watt price tully wrote:
stui magpie wrote:LOL. No, didn't catch any jail bait

Toc is an anomaly in that most of the small country towns are dying, but Toc is going forward. Slowly. Lots of building going on, people who've been visiting there for years, retiring and moving up from Melbourne.

I moved to Melbourne in 1985 and the population was 1100. Now it's 2100.
There was an item on ? yesterdays ABC news (local) TV about Toke and how its changed.
must be something in the water! id never heard of it before you mentioned it, now a friend has bought some land there, and another is playing golf there this weekend!
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I'm officially a chemistry experiment.

Saw the doc on Friday, she took me off the new BP pills I'd been taking for 2 months and gave me something else. She said she'd been going through options, looking at what they do and side effects, but it's a lottery. I get that.

But day 1 on the new tabs, I'm a happy unit.

It will take close to a month before I get all the other stuff out of my system fully, but already positive signs are I'm more alert and the swelling in my foot is going down.

Positive signs, now just hope it actually does something to the BP
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"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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So young people these days text in Pidgin? :shock:
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^ No, kids these days don't text in pigeon; they text in emuji.
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Thank christ my kids aren't kids anymore, they both use something resembling English.
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K wrote:^ No, kids these days don't text in pigeon; they text in emuji.
hehe imOji!
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And the kids are not sheepish about it either.
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r ok u ment it!
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"rokument"? Is this the kids' language?
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K wrote:"rokument"? Is this the kids' language?
Don't know but I I have seen it on a T shirt at Tesco Lotus with some cartoon character. I want one for my girlfriends neice but you have to have a smart phone to accumalate the points and the card I got is now redundant.
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