notsmokinjo

Well the Comm games showed that your netball team and your swim team are both on the rise... your swim team is actually really young and you pushed us heaps, especially in the relays which is a great sign because it shows depth... Lots of good signs for Canada in the pool.

Australia has pretty strict laws and regulations around smoking. We were the first in the world to ban tobacco advertising, then tobacco sponsorship from sporting events, we were the first to introduce graphic packaging, then uniform plane packaging (all brands are an olive green colour with huge graphic anti smoking ads), we also have a policy of prohibitive pricing. This means each 6 months the tax rate on smokes goes up, and mandatory prices also increase. Currently, the cheapest budget smokes on the market will cost you more than $1 per smoke and that's if they are on special. So that's the federal laws.... then there are state laws as well... Victoria, where I live is one of the toughest states.. you can't smoke: In pubs, clubs, outside dinning areas You can't smoke in any public building You can't smoke withing 10 meters of a school (including universities) You can't smoke at sporting venues like the MCG You can't smoke at within 10 meters of any junior sporting competition (so this is club level) You can't smoke within 5 meters of the doorway to any public building, including shopping centers, hospitals, office blocks, club rooms, restaurants. You can not smoke in prisons, not even in the yard. (we were the first state to do this and went through months and months of riots but now its just how it is, you go to prison your quitting, they'll give you NRT but that's it, no more smoking Can't smoke on beaches Can't smoke at kids playgrounds can't smoke at skate parks Illegal to smoke in a car with any passenger under 18, if you have more than 1 <18 in the car and are caught smoking you recieve one fine for each passenger >18 and its a big dine (couple of hundred I think) and 3 demerit points (you only have 12) so you have 4 kids in the car and get caught smoking you loose your license. I have no issue with this, didn't have issues with it when I was a pack a day smoker. Queensland introduced the no smoking in prison laws this year and have had less drama than we did. So now, the ACT (territory, so sort of a state, where Canberra is) have tabled for public debate 37 law changes. These include two relating to smoking. They want to introduce the no smoking in prison law like Vic & Qld but they also want to raise the legal smoking age to 21. (Currently in Australia the legal age to drink, drive, vote & smoke is 18 (in the NT you can drive at 16)) ... and everyone is up in arms. Bring it on I say. Up the age to 21... the reality is how many new smokers wait until they are 18 to start smoking, sure there will be some but not that many, the extra 3 years will probably weed out that group of kids out of ever becoming smokers. The thing is, if it looks like the ACT is going to do it, Victoria will probably jump in and do it first because as a state we have to be first. So do you think raising the legal age of smoking is going to benefit the level of smokers?

How cool is it that 6 of the boys are out of that cave in Thailand now.

-9 ... you hoovered with a water pistol???? (Hooevering is vacuuming yeah?)

-7 ... mornin' Jo-e(pendage) .. how you been.

-7 ... hover the grass?????????????? your havin a lend yeah?

Just think I'm so cold I had to put socks on and if it gets colder I can just pop on the heating... is that fair?

-5 ... bowl good.

Tight Arse / Tight Arse Tessy - see stingy (which we use)... cos when the kid pulls her tiniest itty chip crap I do say "Stop bein such a tight arse little shit"

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Have you tried to play in the cup? And don't blame the snow, Iceland made it.

wot, chuck a sheet in the freezer then chuck it over you as you lie down... thats not too much work is it?

Ranga .... (prn: Rang-ah) ... A red head... because their hair is the same colour as an Orangutan ... an we just shorten that to Ranga ... (other names for ranagas include, Blue, Bluey, ginge, gingers, ginga ninjas and blood nutters (but thats only for the blokes))

- 4 Normally I'm all about B + .... but in the cos it should always B negative!

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It doesn't but by the time it heats up your usually fast asleep... just enough to get to sleep does the trick. Have you tried freezing your knickers?

a nip was just a peck on the cheek/lips here not a propper snog, which (when I was akid) was gettin on, or pashing, or havin a get with. A nip was also a small drink or a shot, give us a nip. Packin it / Packin darkies - To be shit scared... to literally be so scared you shit ya pants... "Man last night I watch Freaks 1932 and I was so creeped out I was fair on packin it"

I have put my top sheet in the freezer all arvo and then pulled it out when I went to bed.. son't ya think it was heaven?

SWITCHEROO.....SWITCHEROO..... that's right boys and girls its time again for the Sundee Slang Fest.... lets see who says the wierdest thing this week... and we begin with an N Nipper ... a small child (That your nipper over there?) OR a junior life saviour (To be in the Nippers) ... I think it derived from ankle biter... cos to take a bite is to take a nip.... I never said we made sense but we know whats goin on... I'll proabably loose me straya card for given away all this translating. Its so much quicker to say "where's the nipper" than it does to say "where's the ankle biter"

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Well if you wet a teatowel so its damp but not drippin and then chuck it in the freezer for 10 mins or so and peg it to the front of the fan it will blow cold air on ya for at least 30mins... hows that for a hack?

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3:1 wouldn't you say? ..... ... France & Belgium both still in and they were faves from the start. Croatia next play England. So there is a 50/50 chance that country who has never won the cup could win it. Only 8 countries have ever won, of the 4 we have left thats England and France are in the club of 8. Hey if it was a France v England final where would Canadian loyalties fall? Just curious cos we don't really learn the whole Canadian history thing here in Aus. but there is the whole speaking french in Quebec thing (see ignorant). So I will be eating borek (just need to slightly tweak my turkish recipe) during the Croatia game...