Stick to your sticky paged comic books and pre 70's junk silver, Johomo.

Quote from: Biggie Smiles on May 03, 2024, 11:53:03 PMI mean don't we have bigger things to worry about than the affordability of food for the lower income families in the state?

There are mens public bathrooms which do not provide taxpayer funded tampons !

and even more horrifying, there exists, in many areas of this country public women's bathrooms which do not have urinals!! Can you believe such a travesty of justice? So what is a transman do to when he needs to pee in front of little girls? Do his business sitting down in a toilet stall like the other women in that bathroom are doing?

Don't be ridiculous, he should be afforded carte blanche to piss in the bushes with the rest of the weirdos and tweakers. Don't you be abrogating his rainbow rights you white supremacist bigot!!!


Seventeen dollars for three fillet-o-fishes? It's a buck and a half more in Australia (source) and their minimum wage earners receive a hundred dollars a week less in their paypackets than their US cousins. And I don't see Aussies screaming on TikTok about getting ripped off by the Golden Arches during Lent.

Bitch needs to shut her hole and go hungry methinks. There are starving niggers in Australia (or Ethiopia mk II as I like to call it) who'd give their eye teeth for a fillet-o-fish at any price.

Especially if it came with a 44 gallon drum of Exxon's finest woobla. Tampon dispensers be damned, you can just let that shit slither down your legs, gives the flies something to feed on.

Quote from: Shen Li on Today at 01:07:39 AMI know a lot of Aussies in Singapore.  They say cracks are appearing in their health care system too. Not as bad as in Canada, where provincial governments are facing bankruptcy just to delay it's inevitable collapse, but still.

In Australia it is customary to simply jack up the taxes and add more bureaucratic red tape. Cigarette smokers for example are presently paying anything up to the equivalent of 100 USD a day for their habit with the excuse that it's to pay for the increased strain they will put on the system in coming years. To keep the tobacco and Big Pharma lobbies happy, changes have been made at the constitutional level (and without referendum for the Australian people) to make the safer alternative of vaping onerous to the point of near impossibility.

You are also not allowed to "grow your own" as you are in Canada and the fines and associated penalties are far in excess than growing an equivalent amount of cannabis or substances considered illicit by order of magnitude. One is left with the overwhelming conclusion the game is less about caring for the health of its citizens and more about maintaining the kinds of protectionist rackets that would make your average South American socialist shithole blush. Australia is as corrupt as they come and its people incentivized to turn to a thriving black market to make ends meet. Its entire way of life it set to collapse in on itself, it's only a matter of "when".

I would not like to be a retiree there when it does. The pension system the boomers paid into under the promise they too might collect on in their winter years collapsed long ago, the superannuation schemes instituted to prop it up are being rorted in weird and wonderful ways by successive governments. The Medicare system is no different, indeed it was effectively scrapped once already back when it was known as Medibank, the government of the day deciding to privatize the public and not for profit health system people had been paying tax levies to.

It happened once, it can happen again. Probably right around the time the amount of "died suddenly" cases gets too big to ignore and the victim class too overtaxed to pay for it. Do not be fooled by Caskur's optimistic jingoism and instead look to her increasingly strident shrieks regarding how her state's wealth is being milked by the greedy eastern states; there's a reason why the Australian dollar is collapsing and one look at the criminals Australians meekly put up with election after election tells you all you need to know.

Quote from: TheProwler on May 03, 2024, 04:08:25 AMMy wife transferred $30,000 into her trading account today.

We got too much cash kicking around.

I might buy another car.

What kind of car do you drive, Senile JOEJ?

I could throw $30,000 inta the stock market if I wanted TheProwlerT he Prowler

However....I don't know if this is the best time to be throwing money into the markets. I keep hearing that there will be a crash or no less a correction in 2025 after the US elections are over.


Now of course, these are only predictions by some forecasters.
They are also frequently wrong as well.

Nevertheless I'd still rather wait 'til 2025/26 to see where things really are headed and that will provide a clearer picture.

If it all falls, there may be some deals to be had.
No sense in buying too high ifya can buy it low at a later date.

Planning to be a car sometime. Didn't wanna spend too much.
Hopefully I'll get something which is economical and reliable.
Gonna look around.

Quote from: Lokmar on May 02, 2024, 06:25:19 PMBuy it up, josephine!

I think I'm gonna slow down in the Metals buying for a while LokmarL okmeer.

Gold 'n Silver have stalled lately, hit a ceiling & are going down at the moment.

But at least it seems ta be stable at the moment.

Gold at $2300? Silver at $25?

Actually when the price was higher & rising, about a month I spoke with an mining engineer & he thought that the gold price was reaching its limit this year at around $2400. $2500 very max

what he told me is that Gold costs about $1400 US to mine - which is its break even point or what he labelled its 'theoretical price'.

And then he said the 'practical price' of gold is $1900 US.
Maybe that's the retail price it normally trades at?

And anything beyond $1400 is all profit for the mining companies.

Mind you his figures may be dated. Say we kick in inflation & the break even price now might be $1600-1700? And the practical price is now $2100-2200?

So perhaps its current price of around $2300 is around where it should be trading at. Likewise $25 silver.

I suppose next year there might be a bump in the prices again. Possibly a conservative estimate/2025 projection of $2500 Gold and $30 silver?

Quote from: Shen Li on Today at 01:12:26 AMSE Asia is using their resources to adapt to climate change rather than follow Canada's failed climate policies of forcing poverty on it's citizens.

Indonesia is ripping out the rain forests... they are environmental vandals.

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Quote from: JOE on May 03, 2024, 10:02:50 PMAre pensions quite limited in Australia caskur askur?

I guess pensions stretch further in Spain than Australia eh?

Western Australia is really expensive. We are the mining state...  if you watch the lady the whole way through she explained her predicament. She never owned her own place and only held $60,000 in superannuation... that's a pittance. That won't last your retirement.

I am not 100 % sure what a full pension is. I think it's  around $500.00 a week.

Unless you live in a state housing place then your $500 a week isn't going very far... watch the video.... watch the whole lot... it's very, very informative.

We have many hundreds of thousand to top up our pension plus our mortgage was fully paid off over 15 years ago... that lady wasn't in our position and she's always lived the high life... to live the high life where I am you need maybe $1,500 or more a week. She wanted to live the high life and still does. Her Australian pension goes very far in Spain.

Quote from: Herman on May 03, 2024, 10:14:19 PMI have been to Spain dozens of times. My kid brother is an overseas toolpush living in Portugal with his Italian-Argie old lady and their kids.

Spain and Portugal are cheap by West European standards. So is Southern Italy. But, most of the countries that made up the former Yugoslavia are cheaper.

I wouldn't  go live in those fucking countries if you paid me a billion $. Women go missing all the time and they continually
War. Anyone getting rid of their monarchy are bad news.

Quote from: JOE on May 03, 2024, 10:02:50 PMAre pensions quite limited in Australia caskur askur?

I guess pensions stretch further in Spain than Australia eh?

I just wrote out a good posts and lost it.... I have to write another one so I am very pissed off about that. This forum doesn't cache so if you lose your post it's  gone forever.

Give me a bit of time to redo another one.