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Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2007 13:03:26 GMT -4
Amazingly enough I still have yet to see the inside of it, but hooray! Beautiful building, very well deserved!
GO ALL BLACKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (no offense to any Wallaby fans)
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Post by Deleted on Jun 29, 2007 7:17:36 GMT -4
None taken, because the Wallabies will win (I wish there was a raspberry-blowing smiley - meant in the nicest possible way of course)
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Post by highhorse on Jul 9, 2007 0:58:37 GMT -4
De-lurking to post that Toni Collette has confirmed that she's pregnant with her first child. I'm not a huge fan so my reaction is a bit "meh".
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Post by Yossarian on Jul 9, 2007 1:10:33 GMT -4
De-lurking to post that Toni Collette has confirmed that she's pregnant with her first child. I'm not a huge fan so my reaction is a bit "meh". I hope this pregnancy means she gives up her dreams of being a music star. The woman can act up a storm but making music is not her forte!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2007 12:45:12 GMT -4
I agree, woman needs to call it quits with the singing. Or if she wants to sing, then maybe do musical theatre or something; don't try to pull a J. Lo, Toni, you're classier than that. Love her as an actress though. Some of my American buddies saw her in The Tsunami miniseries on HBO and were raving about, among other things, how convincingly she did the Aussie accent. I had to counter them and say that it's actually the American accent that she does convincingly. And "In Her Shoes" is one of my favorite movies. Yeah, it's embarrassing. But speaking of musicians of questionable talent: Daniel Johns thinks he needs to shut up[/color] Couldn't agree with him more.
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Post by fairfox on Jul 10, 2007 1:06:08 GMT -4
So...Antipodeans, my boyfriend wants to know why everything is so damned expensive (except, strangely, restaurant food) in Australia. He tried to buy sneakers today and they were $230 Australian dollars. Same sneakers here in Canada would have been about $85, and even though our dollar is a bit stronger, that is a huge difference. He says everything is 3x the price there. Is it because you have to import everything (other than wool and beer - heh!)?
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Post by Yossarian on Jul 10, 2007 1:08:51 GMT -4
So...Antipodeans, my boyfriend wants to know why everything is so damned expensive (except, strangely, restaurant food) in Australia. He tried to buy sneakers today and they were $230 Australian dollars. Same sneakers here in Canada would have been about $85, and even though our dollar is a bit stronger, that is a huge difference. He says everything is 3x the price there. Is it because you have to import everything (other than wool and beer - heh!)? I think Sydney is something like the 5th most expensive city in the world to live. And our real estate is 40% more expensive than the rest of the nation while we only earn 10% more than them.
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Post by fairfox on Jul 10, 2007 1:20:30 GMT -4
Poor Sydney. All sunny and beautiful and hot with the ocean right there. My heart *bleeds* for you! I still think it has something to do with imports. You guys are kinda physically isolated. And bf is from London, it's not like he's used to things being cheap.
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Post by Yossarian on Jul 10, 2007 1:24:28 GMT -4
We do have pretty high tariffs on imports. We also have relatively high award wages (for the moment, the govt. is trying to ruin that one ) so that probably keeps the price of consumer goods up. All I know is that when Mr Y and I went to Paris in 2001 when the exchange rate was awful (like 48 cents to one US dollar) we still found Paris cheap!
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Post by ang on Jul 24, 2007 6:52:31 GMT -4
Did any of you Aussie peeps catch the Belinda Emmet video diary? I just saw a snippet of it on the NZ nightly news and it made me cry... but it looked like an excellent, inspiring show. Im hoping it will turn up on youtube.
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