serene, why is it you can have a rose for your main profile pic, but as soon as I put up my pizza photo, within seconds it got switched to the one of me (with the stripy dress)...It was so quick, I don't capice.
This semester, we're doing Children's Literature (0-18yrs)...it takes me back to when I would go off and buy books for my son, and even to when I was in my early school years. I miss being able to reading to someone, it was such a treat, to go off into fantasy land...
Just wondering if anyone else still enjoys reading kids' books, either to children, or to yourself.
Also, do you any favourites? Me, I love Alice in Wonderland, and the usuals, including Wind in the Willows, and the Aussie books, Ginger Megs, Blink Bill...
p.s. I never used incredimail for emailing. How I got to know of it was a pal on CS added some really fun emoticons which came from that link. But it just wasn't worth the trouble. It took ages to get rid of the entire software as it kept embedding itself in the pc's registry files.
Yep, sure is 'ok'...Our main difference of opinion is that I see it as extremely distasteful to post such a title for an international thread topic, and makes the poster a very poor ambassador for Australia. Of-course that's just my opinion... The rest I have commented on.
I d/l it several years ago. Got rid of it as I didn't want all the rubbish associated with it - can't recall specifics, just that I didn't like having it overall. Don't miss it.
Yep, you are, though I do know what you are saying....Simply fyi as an historical point, South Australia where I reside, is the only State to be settled solely by non-convict immigrants. Also, many of us, as in the U.S., are first and second generation Europeans who subsequently became Aussie citizens.
Sorry to hear that, Obscuritan...Two years is a long time to feel you have not got very far. Change takes time of-course, as well as it being a life-long journey... But in that time frame of 2 yrs, you should well and truly have learned to implement a number of strategies to change the way you think, the words you use in the self-chatter, setting clear goals/desires, be on your way to manifesting them and so on.....I say this because it is what I do with many of my 'clients'. While I don't wear the label of life coach, I am a psychologist and use life coaching principles when required.
Two diversely different texts I highly recommend are: - Thick Face Black Heart, by Chin Ning Chu - Quantum Success, by Sandra Anne Taylor
That's fine. I didn't realise you were doing night shift....you must have started the thread and fled out the door.
Of-course, expressing opinions is what we do here, and respectfully, no matter how animated it might appear, as words on a screen and the dear little emoticons for emphasis....
It's just that your OP came across rather as an unsubstantiated, albeit forceful statement...I guess we have different definitions of what constitutes an opinion.... It came across purely as emotionally based, that of fear - fear of Australia being over-run. Nothing else. Because of that, I was simply interested in finding out more from you, as to the basis of this fear, that's all. It's my way of trying to gain a better understanding....I can't say I have gained any clearer understanding, other than now I know you have a fear of big things that Americans have.
Thank you so much, Ur_Knight for being so thoughtful.
However, I have successfully posted youtube videos scores of times now, so it must be a glitch b/w the keyboard and that particular link that just didn't go well together. I thought of trying it using my netbook, but was concerned about it not working a third time, and all the loud cyber booing and hissing that might follow.
The video is of Andrea Bocelli and Dulce Pontes singing. Simply stunning - I danced to the music for ages, no way could I just sit there.
I notice you haven't returned to your thread. When you do, I would be interested in knowing what prompted you to make such a remark. Obviously something did and I would be interested in knowing.
I have been to the U.S. twice, once in '96 for a 3-week holiday, hopping over from Italy where I was at the time. I loved New York, stayed both in the Upper West and Lexington Ave. I also went to Texas for 10 days, and can't speak highly enough for the hospitality shown to me... In '99 I was invited on a professional visit to a clinic Stevenson, Maryland where I stayed for the entire 2 weeks with the director of the clinic and his wife, on their huge estate. I had the run of the place on occasions when all were out. I could go on and on.
As an Australian, if you are truly concerned with being over run with a particular nationality, be concerned about all of our huge parcels of agricultural land, 100's and 100's hectares right across this vast country of ours, being bought up by unknown Chinese billionaires... Really alarming is that our Federal government recently increased the threshold to $244m, where the sale price less than that, sees the purchaser's identity protected from public information....So what is happening is company after company is buying these farms at auction, over the 'phone and we have no idea other than they are from China. They are employing cheap Chinese labour, and it's expected that they will export all the produce to China to feed their squillions as they cannot produce enough for themselves. And if any of what is grown does remain here, well, we all know what the Chinese food administration controls are like. Not even the Chinese in China want to drink their milk or eat the produce from there anymore, as they do not trust the way it is grown, pesticides, hormones...!! They are starting communes where they grow their own vegetables fresh themselves and milk their own cows. No wonder the huge magnates have moved to our shores, slowly and insidiously. Personally, I am disgusted with the Aussie billionaires, all mining magnates, who could care less at what is happening. And they are the ones kicking up a stink about a mining tax!!!!!!!
So, please, I urge you - if you are going to strongly object to something, then write to your Federal Minister for Agriculture about the above, and stop sweating the small stuff.
Always a pleasure, trueheart, and thanks for the light banter It's Saturday morning here in Aussie Land and with much to do, I shall take my leave...Enjoy the rest of your Friday night.
That's been found to be true in experimental conditions as is the basis of speed dating. Of-course, that is separate from getting to know the person over time...but the first few minutes will tell a person, both at the conscious and less conscious level, whether they are attracted to the other or not.
Experiments with young babies have shown also, that we also have an innate sense of what is attractive to us. A baby will respond positively or otherwise, to particular types of facial cues, for example.
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RE: Re: serenes randoms
serene, why is it you can have a rose for your main profile pic, but as soon as I put up my pizza photo, within seconds it got switched to the one of me (with the stripy dress)...It was so quick, I don't capice.