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Oh I know.... When you order a steak (or giant grilled mushroom) do you have chips and salad or do you for the veggies? ... or How should your steak be cooked...blue, rare, medium rare, medium, medium well, well or cremated?

Shouldn't I be asking why you aren't?

Would you rather fight 10 rabbit sized horses or 1 horse sized rabbit?

2. Build a chair fort.

Its been a while hasn't it?

It must be hard to come from one of the other Aussie states... I mean, we are the smallest on the mainland and all out elite footy players (regardless of code) have had to live out of hotel rooms for months away from their relos.... and you still can't beat us in the grand finals... Carn the might V!! Hmm only @Cbdave will get this... although the rest of you mob might now realise why Victorian's are the least liked of all the states.. its cos noone else is as good as us.

Did someone say poll?

It's not grand final day without....

NOT Available in my country but found a track I could hear on Spotify.. I get it.

Crying watching Mike Brady sing Up There Cazaly to an empty MCG.

But do they still pay ya?

We get the day before Grandfinal to go to the parade and we get the day off for the Melbourne Cup. Most peeps chuck a sickie the day before the cup, if tuesdee was a public holiday wouldn't you chuck a sickie on the mondee?

Yes...paid holiday twice a year for sports. Don't you get a paid holiday for the footy or a horse race?

We d o down here. Do you mob get public holidays for sport events?

@jillar is a Corrs Light girl... lol Well done though Linda... 2 days is really good. You can do this... do you know its over 48 hours since you smoked... what a legend... keep it up. Celebrate every milestone, doesn't matter if its months, days, weeks or hours. You should be proud.

The Ozone Layer, and its hole are still a big frickin issue if you live in OZ... guess where that frickin hole is, right over us... is it any wonder we have the highest skin cancer rates in the world, especially when the rule is no hat no play... its not like we aren't careful. The hole in the ozone layer was the big issue, then green house gasses, then global warming.... its all just designed to give teenage kids no hope for their future,... now its that little dutch girl in her boat.... I'm sure 400 years ago it was all about water pollution, because no sewage or something.... who knows.... give it a couple decades and there will be a new threat. Yes its clear, I have the grumpy nickers on today.

Oh hate those under the bus pushing c u next tuesdays. Are y p u gunn as give her an ecit interview?

I don't have time, but do ya reckon i want the full deets? Did she burn the bloody water?

So wot did she do that has your knickers in such a twist?

Hold ya breath through Quebec, ay. Me...I'm wondering if our favourite bar managing chef is gunna do the full Donald...sit h i s 2 new chefs down, then point at one and snarl, "you're fired".

Microwaves are essentially mini nuclear reactors, good riddance I say. So when does the dodgy chef get the chop?

Are the new cooks any good or are they not much chop?

Oh, no it's defo a personal attack against me. All inanimate objects hate me and are deliberately defian. Do you think it's a conspiracy?

Hey @Walker ... you are not alone, and you are most definately not abnormal for this reaction. Nicotine addiction cause the nicotine receptors in our brains it pushing any button they can to get fed, ergo a hit. Remember, when you were a smokers, if you hot stressed and had a smoke the stress eased? Yeah well here's a news flash to help you stray quit....it wasn't the nicotine easing your stress, it was the nicotine receptors amplifying it...bad thing happens, your brain stresses, the nicotine receptors go 'ooh we ain't had a hit for a while, lets just turn th ius up to 11', you have a smoke, nico receptors turn off, stress level drops....and you think, ahh the smoke made it better...yeah nah it just turned of the nicotine receptors which amplifying and exploiting you. For 30 years you have conditioned yourself that smoking eases the stress, the nicotine receptors in your brain are starting to realise you are serious about this quit business and are amping everything that has worked in the past to 111 to try and get a hit. So, during the first month particularly you need to keep you fluids up and you need to keep your blood sugar levels managed. Drink lots of juice, eat some fruit, suck on a hard lolly. This really helps with craves. I'm not trying to minimise your experience, I remember clearly think i was having a heart attack during my quit and it b eeing a panic attack. Its scary shit. Another helpful thing is to have a placebo, when you start to feel anxious, stick a hard lolly (candy, sweet) in ya mouth and suck on it. Still, nearly 3 years later, if i get stressed i will grab a chewie (gum, and no not nrt) and the act of chewing is calming and centering. I'm not doing this avoid going f our a smoke, don't even consider that, but because I reprogrammed my brain that chewing gum eased stress. Your nicotine receptors will exploit anything and everything to get a hit. But it gets easier every day. You just have to hang in and let your brain unlearn 30 years of programming. 10 days is sensational.