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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="JC" data-cid="560545" data-time="1456288458"><p>
    Gigi's friend (whoever she is) is all kinds of awesome:<br><br><a class="bbc_url" href="

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    </a></p></blockquote>Is this even English?

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="Wairau" data-cid="560822" data-time="1456419471">
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    <p>a bit addictive, my best for the world locations is 13075</p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://www.geoguessr.com/world/play'>https://www.geoguessr.com/world/play</a></p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Fuck is it what. Closest I got was about 1000km. first score <span>6753</span></p>

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    <p>I think I win:</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/ZRPuTXv.png" alt="ZRPuTXv.png"></p>

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    Just got my best score of 13678 with one within 3km, did another and got 5000 and everything was in the Americas, so picking Spain and a Greek Island didn't help....

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="antipodean" data-cid="561412" data-time="1456572968">
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    <p>I think I win:</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/ZRPuTXv.png" alt="ZRPuTXv.png"></p>
    </div>
    </blockquote>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Ooh. So close. 21707</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>[attachment=1986:Screen Shot 2016-02-28 at 11.13.01 AM.png]</p>

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    <p>A group of disgruntled nerds have started a petition about our internet. They make a good point, humourously:</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>

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    <a class="bbc_url" href="http://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/77382551/Bogan-baby-names-2016-revealed">http://i.stuff.co.nz/life-style/parenting/baby/77382551/Bogan-baby-names-2016-revealed</a><br><br><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>
    Is he a Brogan or a Jathon?<br><br>
    The Aussies have come up all class in this year's list of bogan baby names and can proudly count among their people some Truely Younique lifelong labels. <br><br>
    The annual list of "Best Bogan Baby Names" kicked off in 2014 when writer Sabrina Rogers-Anderson put up a list of names she said were meant "as a light-hearted joke". The backlash was strong, if not unexpected, and rather than bowing to public pressure, Rogers-Anderson has once again released her list. <br><br>
    "I believe we all have a bit of bogan in us that we should embrace and celebrate," she says. "In that spirit, I present to you the 2016 edition of my best bogan baby names list."<br><br>
    And boy is it special. Here's her top 10, in no particular order...<br><br>
    ARYAN: Awkward. Just so awkward. It's difficult to say whether it would be more or less awkward if the lucky child was fair-skinned and blue-eyed, or if it was ironically...not. You know, because of that whole holocaust thing. <br><br>
    BROGAN: Like bogan, but with an extra letter. In case you're wondering exactly what a bogan is, Google define says this: "an uncouth or unsophisticated person, regarded as being of low social status." Urban Dictionary takes it a step further and says bogans are "hideously repugnant and unintelligent", living in state houses with a penchant for Holden and Ford. <br><br>
    JATHON: Presumably the parents of this poor wee tyke have a written lisp or incredibly poor spelling skills. The ultimate slap in the face will be the development of a real lisp for the unlucky Jathon, thus compounding his misery. "Ah no, that's Jathon with a T-H."<br><br>
    J'ZAYDEN: One step up from Aiden, Brayden and Jaiden, this one takes the cake. Impressive use of the apostrophe. <br><br>
    BEAUTIFUL: Spelled correctly. Hopefully the kid does turn out well in the looks department or playground torment will be special delivery. Kids understand irony too, you know. <br><br>
    CHERYLDINE: Gold. The perfect fusion of Cheryl and Geraldine, presumably. <br><br>
    ENIVID: What? Wait. Yes! It's part three of the bogan backwards spelling trend. Part one was Neveah (Heaven) and part two was Traeh (Heart). Just let that settle in your mind. <br><br>
    KYLY: Assuming it's pronounced Kylie, this is a real lesson in how to avoid those pesky vowels. <br><br>
    TRUELY: You need the extra E for this one. Truly just doesn't quite have the same ring to it. <br><br>
    YOUNIQUE: The best of the best and the ultimate in bogan nameology. Nuff said. <br><br></p></blockquote>

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    <p><img src="http://i.imgur.com/bpcWXnK.png" alt="bpcWXnK.png"></p>

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    <p>This has been on my bucket list for a while, stoked to see someone did it <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/77554316/man-left-furious-after-jokers-attached-a-padlock-to-his-ear'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/77554316/man-left-furious-after-jokers-attached-a-padlock-to-his-ear</a></p>

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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='

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    </a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>He is John Wick!</p>

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    <p>just following up, I play once every 2-3 days. Getting pretty good. Got  22138 just now. Took a screen shot but can't save the image here.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Another time I cheated, using google, got 24904, of course, ha.</p>

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    <p>My best single score so far was a location on the NSW north coast hinterland - got within 125km. All looks the bloody same up that way ;)</p>

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    <p>This will excite Mariner no end - finding out his Dominatrix Credlin is exactly what he was after:</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/margie-abbott-was-unwanted-distraction-for-former-pms-chief-of-staff-peta-credlin-book-claims/news-story/b3d3fe2da5338a40ecaeac993d9d8f95'>http://www.news.com.au/finance/work/leaders/margie-abbott-was-unwanted-distraction-for-former-pms-chief-of-staff-peta-credlin-book-claims/news-story/b3d3fe2da5338a40ecaeac993d9d8f95</a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><br><p>...</p>
    <p>(Credlin) had made these outbursts a feature of her management style going back to when she worked for then minister Helen Coonan.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>A junior staffer, picked on for some perceived error, although she was blameless, was roared at by Credlin who called her “a fing useless bitch” and told her, according to Savva, “you don’t fing know anything”.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>The staffer was reduced to tears, but years later it was Ms Credlin who wept when she thought she had been slighted.</p>
    <div> </div>
    <p>At a meeting of Opposition advisers, just before Mr Abbott became Prime Minister, Ms Credlin had been told by Murray Cranston, a senior and respected Abbott worker, that one problem was her temperament, which had hurt morale, particularly among the younger targets of her yelling and swearing.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Ms Credlin erupted in fiery and weeping fury, and one witness told Savva the prime-minister-in-waiting was seen sitting on a Sydney kerbside trying to console his chief of staff.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Mr Abbott later advised Mr Cranston to apologise with a bunch of flowers, which he did with a $100 bunch.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Savva writes: “When he presented them to Credlin, she tossed them aside.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>“Cranston could laugh about it later, when he told workmates that Credlin thought better of throwing them out, and regifted them to Margie Abbott, along with a note in appreciation of her support during the year.”</p>
    <p>...</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Tony Abbott once asked for a briefing so his wife knew the entitlements she might draw on, such as use of ComCars, as the Prime Minister’s spouse.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Ms Credlin was against that and was furious when she discovered a staffer had completed the task set by the Prime Minister.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>“She angrily berated the adviser, telling him this was not the White House: he did not work for the Prime Minister’s wife; he worked for the Prime Minister,” writes Savva.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>She records Ms Credlin saying: ‘If you get any requests for briefings for Margie’s ladies’ lunches, it’s not going to happen.”</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>This anecdote argues against any notion Margie Abbott didn’t want a bigger role with her husband, although she had her own family and work to tend to. But she had little travel with him in Australia, and when she came to Parliament House she was asked to wait in a room across the corridor from her husband’s office.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>And at a dinner in a supporter’s house to celebrate the 2013 victory, the host was told at the last minute the Abbott women would not be attending, even though other senior Liberal men came with their wives.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Credlin’s position was she believed Margie Abbott would distract Mr Abbott from his work. But you get a sense from Savva’s book what she most feared was competition for the attention of the Prime Minister.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>...</p>
    <p> </p>
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    <p>The bitch is mental.</p>

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    <p>She would hate-fuck you to within an inch of your life</p>

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    <p>And she'll claim it was because she had to - to "out-man the men!"</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>In a related note: International Women's Day tomorrow apparently.</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>At work they've got Tanya Plibersek (ALP deputy) coming in for a chat. One of the posters they were setting up on stage this afternoon featured a woman's image with "I will strive to get equality for women and men in the workplace"</p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>The image of the guy said "I will help a female member of my team get a promotion". Wha?</p>

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    <a class="bbc_url" href="http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016/03/06/abbott-says-hell-need-to-check-with-credlin-before-confirming-or-denying-their-affair/">http://www.theshovel.com.au/2016/03/06/abbott-says-hell-need-to-check-with-credlin-before-confirming-or-denying-their-affair/</a><br><br><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote"><p>Former Prime Minister Tony Abbott says he will be happy to confirm or deny rumours of a relationship with his chief of staff Peta Credlin, but will need to run it by her first.<br><br>
    “If there was in fact an affair, then she’ll know about it,” Mr Abbott said today.<br><br>
    “She managed the day-to-day. I never got caught up in that level of detail”.<br><br>
    Mr Abbott said Ms Credlin would certainly know about anything that <strong>came across her desk.</strong><br><br></p></blockquote>
    [emoji38]

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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/77721507/sheep-milking-flock-expands-by-another-3000-ewes'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/77721507/sheep-milking-flock-expands-by-another-3000-ewes</a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Sounds like a great way to open another export market, I have to ask though in a country that has 50 or so million of the bloody things and a 140 year history of farming them why has it taken so long to figure out you can sell the milk?</p>

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    <blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="jegga" data-cid="563498" data-time="1457545641">
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    <p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/77721507/sheep-milking-flock-expands-by-another-3000-ewes'>http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/77721507/sheep-milking-flock-expands-by-another-3000-ewes</a></p>
    <p> </p>
    <p>Sounds like a great way to open another export market, I have to ask though in a country that has 50 or so million of the bloody things and a 140 year history of farming them why has it taken so long to figure out you can sell the milk?</p>
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    <p> </p>
    <p>Because 49.9 million of them were meat breeds and there was a ready and profitable market for meat.</p>
    <p>There is demand for sheep milk but it actually isn't that profitable.</p>
    <p>Even a good producing ewe only produces 4-5 litres a day so you need lots more of them, a much larger milking set up, they don't milk for as long as cows so you have to keep them popping out lambs which means you need double the number to have enough on the milk etc etc.</p>
    <p>Costs are very high. I visited a large sheep milking set up in Southland last year and it takes a team of six up to 6 hours a milking (twice a day) just to keep break even, and that was a very large shed as well. You also need almost year round grass to keep them going as otherwise feed cost in a dry summer or cold winter wipe out any money made.</p>
    <p>Also if this takes off even more wait until the ferals catch on and start showing pictures of cute little lambs torn off their mums almost straight away so the lucrative colostrum can be harvested. Ram lambs are completely worthless in these set ups and are treated as such. </p>
    <p>It was a pretty harsh eye opener (and I am fairly open minded with the needs around farming) and difficult to see a good balance despite good intentions of the farmers.</p>
    <p>My overall impression was that if I was ever to want to milk sheep it would be done on a small seasonal scale only with value added products for niche markets to try and make a living.</p>

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