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Ironing a flipping white shirt for the kid...cos she has an extra uniform day this week (normally pe uniform 2 days and winter/summer uniform 3 days) cos it's end of term mass..frickin hate ironing.

Bird clean ya fruckin room!, Bird just do ya frickin homework!... Bird, put some fruckin socks on/have ya fruckin puffer/get up/go to bed/just do wot ya fruckin told/where's the sick glue those socks are doing me head in....oh, my bad, common sayings for everyone, not just in our house... A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. (yeah-NAH mate, ya doin it wrong)

Good evening fellow NOPErs....so happy Multiculturalism Day Canada...but let's go a bit more obscure, our lovely friends in the yank tank give us today "National Hand Shake Day"....that's right boys and girls a day to celebrate the art and traditions of the humble handshake...so as it is a non verbal for of communication we are reasonable sure it existed before most written history...did you know for instance that the ancient Mesopotamian king's would shake the hand of a gold statue upon taking the thrown and annually there after to bring them prosperity and wisdom? What we do know is that its popularity soared as a greeting in the middle ages as a form of greeting so that you could suss out if the person you were meeting had a concealed weapon...because the chances a chick having a weapon were slim (unless you were talking Viking chicks) it did not become a tradition for women to shake. So did you know different countries have different handshaking edicates?...the Aussies, yanks, kiwis, Canadians and Russians expect a firm handshake with eye contact however most Asian cultures expect a soft or limp handshake and unless your in the Philippines no eye contact. So my challenge for today, should you choose to accept it, is to shake hands with one person you normally would offer a handshake too. So for me it's a nope to floppy fish handshakes...and a NOPE putting anything in my mouth and smoking it.

Corned beef left in the slow cooker as I walked out the door.

Hey @Ankush those are some great ideas...but the NOPE threads serve a purpose for non movers too...there are many who read these and it can be the final straw they need to decide to quit...when I first quit I think I read the nope threads every day for a month then for a few weeks I'd like everyone's NOPEs but I just couldn't make the post myself because E=ever...and it took reading someone explain how the E for them meant ever again, or just for today, for me to get past that psychological hurdle. The Nope threads are one of my faves. And while I know I am defo in the odd category there must be others out there like me.

Keepin on with the dedications thins one goes out to @Sslip (an all our other mountain climbing fools).....

Good morning NOPErs....I see our resident Seafarer hit the terps yesterday for Global Seafarers' Day or did he??? We keep telling you peeps us Aussies live in the future.......but do you believe us nope, it's real heard remembering to trim a year when we talk dates....soooo 26th of June is Helen Keller Day a day for celebrating the achievements of this great woman but also a day for recognising and celebrating our own triumphs over adversities...so we may not all have surmounted being deaf and blind from birth but by Noping for the rest of our lives there is something to celebrate, so our adversity (nicotine addiction) was self induced...doesn't mean that quitting and keeping our quit is not an achievement we should not be rejoicing. NOPE.... Today, tomorrow, forever.

So Google B1tch just told me that today is World Selfie day which one observes by Sharing a selfie... So let's get this ball rolling.....

Good morning fellow NOPErs and welcome to the Winter solstice...oops most of you mob are Northies...so strike that, reverse it, and for the majority of you above the equator welcome to the Summer solstice...and your longest day of the year! And the start of summer/winter clothing down here when winter started 21 days ago because we are a tad lazy and just go by the months, none of that science mumbo jumbo that considers axis tilts, and positions in relation to that giant miasma of plasma we orbit around, Nope, down here tis simple, 1june - 31 August ... Winter....cos she'll be right. So regardless if it's the longest day if the year or the shortest day of the year there really is only one kind of day and that's a NOPE Day. Except today is also World Selfy Day...so head on down to the social threads to celebrate this with us...did you know Aussies invented the word Selfie...yep, cos we are pretty awesome at this language gig. Nope, cos nothing controls me but me

Congratulations @Tammy for being one year smoke free! We have all been so lucky to have you join us with the support and inspiration you offer. Your amazing gift with words that aren't even in your first language have littered the boards for all those to follow to be inspired by. I am so happy to be the first to raise a glass and say well done and congratulations. Now it's time to party....

Wondering if anyone else wonders if @Cbdave wets the bed on the mornings he starts the NOPE at 4am?

No folding of the dunny paper...but I have been known to put the notes in my purse in denomination order, and serial number order, with all the little windows facing the same way.... I may have even ironed a note before because it was crinkly... Not my most stellar idea considering our notes are plastic and irons melt plastic...oops at least it was only a fiver so I only melted the queen's face...and maybe cans in the pantry have been alphabetized...but we don't have much in cans.. i don't see myself being able to use your mum's dunny...and hey I might glue the kids socks to her legs but my rule is as long as it doesn't smell and she can shut the door if she wants to have a bedroom where the wardrobe is the floor...that's her problem not mine.

So for those of you who frequent some of the seedier social threads will know I have a touch of the OCDs...to the point I glue my daughter's school socks to her legs so they stay up and are perfectly level...now before you get all freaked and start calling child services.....I use a ligit product called sock glue, you get it from Irish dance stuppliers so how could it be wrong...and meh, so the kid has a permenant bald stripe ringing each leg, if you look closely you will notice they are perfectly symmetrical and even on both legs...ok so now you have the personality background...hold your horses my friends as the wierdness gets, well wierder......after confessing to my issues about sickest being perfectly level and even and wot not and being known to conduct image quality control based on this I must now confess....I can not wear matching socks because it's bag luck, yep you heard it here first, the sick nazi ( as the kid has dubbed me) can not wear matching socks because if I do bad things will happen...I have taken this to the extreme of sewing beads etc on one sick of a pair so that they do not match (technically) but I can still be in sport uniform.....and to take things to the extreme I have been known, on occassion, to wear odd thongs...because clearly that brings good luck.

I get a cyber Pirate. I put in a HB pencil and a cardboard box

Or maybe ecstasy

Good morning fellow NOPErs and welcome to another day of freedom. So for those of Irish Catholic descent don't forget to be hangin' a bunch of yellow flags on ya door for Corpus Christi Day and Poppin off to mass for the sacrament.....but religion aside, today is World Refugee Day...considering a fair wack if my mob were boat people refugees (came to Aus fleeing the Great Hunger in Ireland) this holds meaning...refugees and a refugee crisis us not a new thing within the history of the world but here are some startling facts, in 2019 the world refugee population exceeded 70million...so for some perspective people that is twice as many people as live in the whole of Canada, or that is all the people who live in the UK and Ireland combined and it is almost 3 times as many people as live in the whole if Australia...more than half of these refugees are kids, Pakistan has more refugees living there than any other country....sobering thoughts to have with ya weetbix. Oh well shortest day if the year tomorrow (longest for you northern mob). Will I ever put something in my mouth and burn it again....NOPE!! not one puff ever ....

Stand and deliver.

So our favourite poetry quoting Indian Princess joins the Lido Deck tomorrow...there have been some behind the scenes preparations going on and just wondering if there are any special requests..... @jillar does need to worry we will have plenty of not spicy food... The bar area is looking on point... And I'm a happy little camper cos I had a squiz in the kitchen and I saw pistachio kulfi, mango lassi and Gulab jamun...dunno wot you mob are having but I'm set. @Doreensfree even has a special outfit all ready... So I his us your last chance to get in orders for our special indian night...

^that would be NOPE 364 in non-leap year .....party time tomorrow.

Good Arvo fellow NOPErs ... It was too cold to take the gloves off and post this morning (just for giggles, my too cold is 8c, so just for the Americans who use F...46.4)....so normally today I'd be giving a shout out to Juneteenth for our friends from the land of the free, seeing as this heralds when it became more true BUT there is a pretty big birthday that is happening today.... Happy 70th Birthday to NASCAR "stock car only" racing....who on this day in 1949 held their first ever race at the Charlotte Speedway...not Charlotte Motor Speedway, which is a completely different track....so to be technical NASCAR was founded in Feb 1948 and before the 19th June 1949 they held numerous races, mainly in dirt tracks, with the first being in Daytona, BUT these were open to all cars, the 19 June 1949 saw the first stock car only event... So while any NASCAR race will never hold a candle to Bathurst (those drivers don't need to dodge roos for starters) 70 continuous years of racing deserves a woohoo.. Watching cars go round and round tracks super fast...that's a hell yeah.. Smoking a ciggie....that's NOPE...every day

Congrats @Rixcz and many blessings for a long and happy life together.

Thai massage, with happy ending.

Sorry about the smoking in the clip ... This one is for...well where do I start .....