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Same here but I nearly find my 42 acres too small..Probably too near from the big smoke to be at its best, but beat the suburbs by a mile...
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Awesome.
Maybe another 10 years and get ourselves a 40 acre. Weed should be legalised by then too
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What are you not growing on there that it's too small?
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the distance buffer with barking dogs, crying kids and true blue aussies entertaining.
I need a few km radius!!!!
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the distance buffer with barking dogs, crying kids and true blue aussies entertaining.
I need a few km radius!!!!
Man you're spoilt
My neighbours are only a couple metre away, sometime they're right on their fence smoking or BBQ each week right next to the window. Have to close the entire side windows.
The other neighbour's kid got a sport car complete with sport exhaust, and also a motobike he doesn't use but once a week switch it on for a few minutes at 8 or 9PM... just because he can. Add the big carport they have and concrete all round really add to the surround sound effect.
But then we got a couple dogs that bark at everything so that kind of even it out by their book.
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Man you're spoilt
My neighbours are only a couple metre away, sometime they're right on their fence smoking or BBQ each week right next to the window. Have to close the entire side windows.
The other neighbour's kid got a sport car complete with sport exhaust, and also a motobike he doesn't use but once a week switch it on for a few minutes at 8 or 9PM... just because he can. Add the big carport they have and concrete all round really add to the surround sound effect.
But then we got a couple dogs that bark at everything so that kind of even it out by their book.
I think I'd rather listen to the motorbike for a few minutes than dogs that bark day and night.
Tisme
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Man you're spoilt
But then we got a couple dogs that bark at everything so that kind of even it out by their book.
and you wonder why your neighbours make the noises and have the activities they do?
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Yea I'm with you guys. Annoy the heck out of us too
Dont mind the sport car, bring back the good old days.. but not so good when you're putting your few months old to sleep.
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The hypocritical Chinese are at it again.
China expresses anger at US warship entering South China Sea, sends own destroyers in response
http://www.news.com.au/technology/i...yers-in-response/story-fnpjxnlk-1227584826436
What about China building islands in the first place. Flexing their economic power.
China cares about China and nothing else, they are not a good world citizen.
Good on the USA telling them to get nicked (fu...d).
China expresses anger at US warship entering South China Sea, sends own destroyers in response
http://www.news.com.au/technology/i...yers-in-response/story-fnpjxnlk-1227584826436
What about China building islands in the first place. Flexing their economic power.
China cares about China and nothing else, they are not a good world citizen.
Good on the USA telling them to get nicked (fu...d).
Tisme
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Drilling platforms?
CanOz
Home runs feel good, but base hits pay bills!
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These are sand islands, just popped up in the middle of nowhere in an area closer to a dozen other countries than bloody China (Spratley's). Even my wife couldn't believe it when i showed her on the map yesty....crazy stuff. The international community won't put up with this bullsh*t:frown:...Agree, good on the US!
lol. While I don't really condone the expansionist Chinese island building, let's be honest here, the US is in those waters protecting US interests and those of their satellites, hypocritical for them to act like they have any sort of moral high ground or that this is is merely them acting as the benevolent World Police.
As usual, students of history will be able to evaluate recent developments through the correct contextual lens, while others just lap up whatever crap the media is feeding on any given day.
Do yourself a favour and don't let yourself get whipped into a frenzy, think critically for yourself.
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I presume you mean "preferred" contextual lens, as I am unaware of a consensus among serious historians on any geopolitical issue, thus proving that everything is viewed through the preferred filters of the viewer.
I mean nothing of the sort. Start here and work your way through the references, assuming you actually care about the topic and not merely bringing up some trite point about how it's all relative or whatever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Territorial_disputes_in_the_South_China_Sea
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International waters are waters that are internationally recognised as belonging to no one and therefore free to be travelled through by any nation (military) or civilian vessel.
If the US warship kept to international waters then they had every right to be there, regardless of what China says about these islands "belonging" to them.
The less military vessels there are in any part of the world, the better, but if China acts provocatively like they have with these islands then the US should be able to redress the balance of power.
If the US warship kept to international waters then they had every right to be there, regardless of what China says about these islands "belonging" to them.
The less military vessels there are in any part of the world, the better, but if China acts provocatively like they have with these islands then the US should be able to redress the balance of power.
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If we were to be invaded, I think I 'd prefer the USA doing it.
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Yea I know. No need to learn a new language or how to use chopsticks.
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Or plant rice, drone work on a production line, inhaling unmitigated pollution, eating pets, looking after the parents like for ever .....
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Or learning to like cr@p TV
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Putting words in my mouth that I did not use. Again, whether we like it or not, history is assessed according to the biases of the assessor. If you assume your viewing lens is the correct and only lens, you are aligning yourself with the self righteous bigots that are the cause of so much problems in the world today. However, as soon as you come to the realisation that your views, even though you hold them as correct, may not in fact be correct but are a reflection of your personal biases, then you are in a position to start learning and becoming more informed. A bit of humility in your responses would go a long way.
