Always wondered where I got the bulging eyes and rubbery lips from. About time you showed your face dad. Wot wif me big ears n' all I was mortified that I might be one of the rabbit family for a while. Wot a releaf.

Last time I could afford to go there was when Fraar won the Caulfield Cup.

Cheers.

Defending simplistic nonsense is obviously difficult but at least try and show a little fortitude in the face of adversity Maccamax. Some of us read many other forums so we know what we're dealing with. I'm not sure what your strength is but economics certainly ain't one of them.

Nice cast - caught a few lurking about.

lol .. Nice to know we gain by giving .
As a person running a community Title Complex I wondered why I had to go to the bottom of my quotes to get a cleaner into my Villa ...$40 an hour the cheapest and a terrible job done.
Can't get anyone to cut a bit of lawn / Hedge and paint 15x3 ft of lattice at $200 a day...All tools/ materials supplied.
Quotes $20000 - $30000 to paint 10 brick Villas with tile roof , colourbond guttering/fascia.
Am I out of touch with inflation or am I closer in saying we are lazy Bathplugs in the main who need to fly in workers from abroad.

Speaking of brothels - I'm pretty sure 'A Touch of Class' was the name of a brothel in the Cross or St Kilda, maybe both, years ago (yes I admit it, I read the Melb Sun and my mate's Daily Bellylaugh back in the dark ages). I'm also certain that those premises had more integrity and honesty that the 5 sentences apparently so highly valued by Maccamax.

'A Touch Of Class' Reminds me of Benny Hill's Chinese Cook skit.

'I have a big brothel in Hong Kong'
Interviewer: 'A big brothel?'
'Yes...and a riddle sister'

PIMPLINE JONES CBE

Cured my constipation.

Cheers.

Rule by Rentiers

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/10/opinion/10krugman.html

A rather primitive analysis, based on the quaint notion that the rich always work for their money.

Rentier capitalism is a term used in Marxism and sociology which refers to a type of capitalism where a large amount of profit-income generated takes the form of property income, received as interest, intellectual property rights, rents, dividends, fees, or capital gains.
The beneficiaries of rentier capitalism are a property-owning social class that play no productive role in the economy per se, but who monopolize the access to physical or financial assets and technologies. They can make money not from producing goods or services themselves, but purely from their ownership of property or investments (which provide a claim to a revenue stream) and dealing in that property.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rentier_capitalism

Send it to the Countries of

Greece

Italy

Spain etc

Trite

Actually, maccamax, while talk-back radio hosts and their disciples like to worry themselves about dole-bludgers, serious economic studies have found that the money that is given to them tends to go straight back into the community because they spend everything they're given, so the money isn't going into some kind of black hole, never to be seen again. You also go down a pretty dodgy road if you take the view that nothing needs to be done and you don't need to pay for anything. Did you see the story on ABC earlier in the week about the terrible state of the roads between the mining towns in Queensland. Absolute death trap. But, you know, you can't expect big mining companies to pay a bit more and fix a thing like that, can you?

Simplistic twaddle. What inferences do you want us to draw?