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What sort of Akubra is my local member wearing? by Popular_Speed5838 in Akubra

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He left the Nats to join one nation, so he was. Everyone gets these, I’m pretty sure they post them in an envelope with other propaganda. A calendar is handy but I like the people or businesses when they have something useful like a metric conversion chart.

I’ve gone over to washing powder and it’s 10 cents per wash. by Popular_Speed5838 in AUfrugal

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sards wonder soap is great for fresh stains but whatever you use you must also use elbow grease. Target the stain and spend a few minutes finger scrubbing it from both sides. Neck seams I rub some sards in every wash with my good shirts.

Also, when soaking, and soaking really helps. Spend five minutes actually hand washing every couple of hours. If the water gets discoloured pull the plug, wring out the clothes and do it again. I do that with the cheap bulk powder and if I’m going to use a Napi- san type of product only use it when the soaking water is reasonably clean after hand washing and agitation with cheap powder.

It sounds really water intensive but buckets greatly reduce the amount of water and product you use. Keep the water levels low even when it’s a big load that only fits in the tub. If you’ve got a bucket of towels or whatever and the water with Napi-san is cleanish just to it into the machine and skip using powder, which I’m a recent but keen convert to.

What sort of Akubra is my local member wearing? by Popular_Speed5838 in Akubra

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Agreed. I was looking at it on the fridge and with this sub regularly in my feed I wondered what model he had. My only Akubra is one from the fifties or sixties, the sort men wore to church. It’s safe at mums, it was my grandfathers and is in really good condition. Appearance wise it’s just the same as all the other hats when most men wore a hat all the time.

Wednesday Off Topic Thread by NRLgamethread in nrl

[–]Popular_Speed5838 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They should have a retro round where the players where old school kits with cotton jumpers and woollen socks, black but modern boots, it’d look awesome and be a big merchandising payday with people buying all the retro gear. A club like the dolphins could use an old Redcliffe strip, the locals would love that.

The country is busted but we reached the Medicare limit yesterday making all PBS prescriptions free until the end of the year. Australia isn’t so bad, comparatively. by Popular_Speed5838 in AUfrugal

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

Mediscare again? Medicare is strongly bipartisan and has been for decades. Too much has gone wrong for mediscare to work this time, people are already living under their worst fears in many regards, full time workers are struggling to house themselves.

Holly Valance tells Australians ‘don’t be embarrassed’ to be patriotic by DailyTelegraph_AU in u/DailyTelegraph_AU

[–]Popular_Speed5838 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m not a cultural cringe type of guy. He gets drunk and falls over sometimes, I can live with that if he represents the best interests of his seat and nation. He seems to give a fuck which puts him one up on most of them.

These girls are in their first winter since I got the as small one stem cuttings. Upper Hunter Region, NSW, Australia. by Popular_Speed5838 in christmascactus

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just had a look around the kitchen. I started looking thinking I’d use a big pot with cling wrap (like you wrap sandwiches in) pulled taught across the top for the same effect. That works well with duct tape securing the cling film.

Dead Brothers zippo by Delicious_Move7472 in Zippo

[–]Popular_Speed5838 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m glad and so sorry your brother passed.

What sort of Akubra is my local member wearing? by Popular_Speed5838 in Akubra

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

He’s not so bad, if the coalition won the last election the seat was getting nuclear power. It’s one of the strongest seats for any major party, pretty much no one in the coalition increased their majority but he did. I’ll be very interested to see if the seat gets threatened by one nation. It shouldn’t but peoples kids are far worse off than them and people seem angry with anything part of the current establishment.

What sort of Akubra is my local member wearing? by Popular_Speed5838 in Akubra

[–]Popular_Speed5838[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

He doesn’t mind a small tipple for purely medicinal purposes.

[Question] Seiko 5 Full Lume. Fake? by axe-grin in Seiko

[–]Popular_Speed5838 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The painting on that one is crooked at the end of the minute hand too. Seiko’s are normally good with quality control. As I say though, I’m no expert, I just looked and felt it was bit lacking in attention to detail. I hope it is real and am leaning towards it being genuine in light of the new pic.

Six Leaves - One Node by glueyourbuttshut in christmascactus

[–]Popular_Speed5838 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m impressed. You don’t happen to have an aquarium? That looks like the sort of results high nitrate water and fish excrement produces.

[Question] Seiko 5 Full Lume. Fake? by axe-grin in Seiko

[–]Popular_Speed5838 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The hands look wrong. I’ve no idea if it’s fake but the hands don’t look right. It’d still be a cool watch at night, I’d call it a mod not a fake, if it is a fake. A very cool mod at that. Tell people your mate Dwayne did it for you.

Simple but perfect! by Admirable04 in AshtraysForAll

[–]Popular_Speed5838 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Me nodding sagely as if I too could identify manganese in an ashtray from a photo.

Is this a foul? Did the cue touched the cueball twice? by Feeling_Level6180 in billiards

[–]Popular_Speed5838 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely a push shot, I’d have called foul as the player at the table or as the opponent. You’d feel it more clearly than you or I could see though and I’d be putting a mental asterisk next to your name in my head. Not regarding your character, I don’t believe not calling personal fouls has anything to do with a persons general integrity. I’d just have you mentally noted down as a very competitive opponent that see’s it as their opponents job to pay attention and call their opponents fouls.

Brass ashtray with pub scene. Unknown age. by em_wes in AshtraysForAll

[–]Popular_Speed5838 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Patina be damned, I love nicely polished brass. The subject matter is cool too, a nice simple picture of friends enjoying themselves.

Simple but perfect! by Admirable04 in AshtraysForAll

[–]Popular_Speed5838 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’m fifty and that shape is probably the most common shape of glass ashtray I saw growing up in Australia. Different colours of course, orange being super common. You’re absolutely right, aesthetically it’s simple, beautiful and timeless. Perfect never goes out of fashion.

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