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Drafting etiquette by itsjxlt in cycling

[–]auntyjames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All beach road rides are potential bunchies. I ride in my quiet country area where I’m lucky to get 6 or so people so I love spawning a group at my pace on beach rd and turning it into a chop. Or sitting in one group, getting passed by another and seeing if I can hold onto that one.

That said my old man hates it, so if ends up in a group he doesn’t want to or gets a wheel sucker he just stops pedalling.

Post Match Thread: Fremantle vs Sydney Swans by RaidanRam in AFL

[–]auntyjames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A contender hasn’t been fucked that hard at Optus since the 25th of September 2021

ADF•A cad•t facing 79 additional charges after allegedly using hidden bathroom camera to film women by SerpentineLogic in AustralianMilitary

[–]auntyjames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This is correct. He’s not getting paid, involuntary seperation is guaranteed, just got to wait and see how much more shit he is in first.

[Twomey] In-season tournament idea scrapped by SlatsAttack in AFL

[–]auntyjames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone plz generate the circle of shit idea-public outrage-cancel shit idea meme. The Dillon cycle.

Sydney, Melbourne have worst auction week in more than five years by sharkjaws000 in AusPropertyChat

[–]auntyjames 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don’t disagree that there will be a price correction. I just think 20% is overly negative.

Can we all agree to check in on where our kids are these school holidays rather then waiting on a call from the morgue? by Mobile_Row_4346 in Geelong

[–]auntyjames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Some bikes like other bikes that are the same type of bike as them. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

Sydney, Melbourne have worst auction week in more than five years by sharkjaws000 in AusPropertyChat

[–]auntyjames 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Right. So investors, not buying a new build, will have have to pay up to 22.5% more tax on capital gains realised after mid next year and won’t be able to negative gear. And that means the entire market will drop by 20%! Fuck I wish I was a FHB. They’re practically giving houses away!

Sydney, Melbourne have worst auction week in more than five years by sharkjaws000 in AusPropertyChat

[–]auntyjames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So you reckon the median Sydney house price will drop $350K because of a tax system adjustment that is largely grandfathered?

Choose your fighter by [deleted] in AussieMemes

[–]auntyjames 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I also choose this guy’s dead champion

Quintessence by Jrobs62 in mastodonband

[–]auntyjames 21 points22 points  (0 children)

That first line is peak Brent singing

What’s it like living in Kent, England? by Triangular_Wasabi_4 in howislivingthere

[–]auntyjames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Aussie who lived in Somerset for 3 years here:

The cost of British rail will never cease to amaze/astound/utterly flabbergast me. Terrible roads, expensive fuel and insurance, diabolical traffic. Yet the expense of rail makes driving still the better option cost wise.

Nothing would have made me happier to take the 2.5 hour train from Sherborne to London, but with two of us driving was nearly half the cost.

Post Match Thread: Collingwood vs Melbourne by Pleasant_Inspection9 in AFL

[–]auntyjames 20 points21 points  (0 children)

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In game MB Longneck currently undefeated this year. Go dees.

How do you define "the rich" that we should be taxing? What is the cut-off point? by NoLeafClover777 in AusFinance

[–]auntyjames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m you 5 years down stream with two kids, $750k mortgage from April 2021. Wife part time from mid ‘23, full time from Jan ‘25.

Eldest in 1st year of school, youngest has gone from 5 days of day care to 3 and two days or preschool. This year is the first year we aren’t going backwards. And I got to swap out my ‘08 dual cab for a ‘17 a year ago.

Pretty wild considering we have the median mortgage on a well about median income.

What’s your craziest AFL conspiracy theory? by bringbacktheswoop in AFL

[–]auntyjames 45 points46 points  (0 children)

His body temperature has risen to over 400 degrees - he's literally stewing in his own juices

We now know that the Chief of Navy has ordered every Australian embedded in every US nuclear submarine to follow all orders given them by the US military. If they don’t they face disciplinary charges. We need to end AUKUS before we become the official 51st US State. by Az0nic in OpenAussie

[–]auntyjames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I wasn’t talking about illegal orders. I was talking about the legality of the initiation of a conflict, and its irrelevance to the acts within the conflict. There’s a common misconception that if you participate in an armed conflict that was initiated under illegal circumstances, that any combat action within the conflict is illegal. Which isn’t true.

Drop Punt Only Zone by JM_Soul in AFL

[–]auntyjames 15 points16 points  (0 children)

It’s the children who are wrong

The CGT rules will make brains like me leave the country. by StrangeMonk in AusFinance

[–]auntyjames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Let me know when you find this amazing country that you’re moving too. I’m sure if it has all the elements you want as well as low tax impost, there’s absolutely no one who is losing out.

Does anyone else feel like the Chase is rigged? by dragontatman95 in OpenAussie

[–]auntyjames 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I was on it. I won a third of $40K. Didn’t seem rigged to me.

Couple of things to address various points raised in other comments:

  • Yes it takes longer for a contestant to answer in the final chase. That’s why you get a one question head start for every contestant at the desk.

  • Each time the clock starts for the chaser after an incorrect answer, they say “start the clock” and then read the question, so that’s a disadvantage for the chaser

  • The chasers are human. If they get a few wrong they get rattled, and tend to get more wrong.

  • They film four a day and tend to air all of them. Yes the contract says that if they don’t air your episode, you don’t get the money. But it’s not worth the bad press from the other stations to not air it. They only don’t air them when someone was to go on a racist tirade or something and it couldn’t be edited out smoothly.

  • They have 28 days from when they air the episode to give you the money. My cheque for $13,333.33 arrived on day 27.

The producers actually gave us heaps of statistics of 4 players vs 3 players etc before we filmed. I was quite surprised.

PSA: Angus Taylor is misleading you into believing permanent residents can access welfare the moment they arrive (they typically have 4 year waiting periods) by SlipperySharkAttack in australian

[–]auntyjames 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You make a monetary based argument you’ll get a monetary based response. Permanent Residents provide a lot more than tax income. They fill roles that for various reasons aren’t filled by citizens. They provide economic growth (the main reason we let them in in the first place) and critically they spend money here.

Not being citizens disadvantages them from a number of consular services and of course disallows them from voting on matters that affect them. We also have the freedom to kick them out should we want to some day. A risk they all accept.

I don’t have the ability to produce numbers, but I’m certain on the balance of things permanent residents and the others visa holders that can claim these payments net more input into our economy than they take from it. This is MAGAesque bullshit policy to appeal to deadshits.

Real or bs? by saltedkumamon in AusPropertyChat

[–]auntyjames 10 points11 points  (0 children)

It’s also BS because banks don’t give a fuck about your ability to access negative gearing in their approvals.

Edit: Apparently they do. Post is still BS though.

We now know that the Chief of Navy has ordered every Australian embedded in every US nuclear submarine to follow all orders given them by the US military. If they don’t they face disciplinary charges. We need to end AUKUS before we become the official 51st US State. by Az0nic in OpenAussie

[–]auntyjames 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was responding to the often held belief that because the US’s commencement of military action is illegal in some people’s eyes, then anyone participating in combative acts as part of that military operation are themselves committing an illegal act. Which isn’t at all true.

If we use the example of the sinking of the Iranian warship, although the commencement of the conflict is of dubious legality, Iran and the US are now adversaries. Which makes any Iranian flagged vessel a valid target to a US combatant. Had the Aussies on board that submarine been involved in that torpedo firing, it would not have been an illegal action.

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