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Just had a fabulous offer from Voda.on int roaming. I can't wait until 23 April when it gets even better. In around 200 countries they will only charge $1 per MB for data. That's $1K a Gb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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rogerkambah said:
Just had a fabulous offer from Voda.on int roaming. I can't wait until 23 April when it gets even better. In around 200 countries they will only charge $1 per MB for data. That's $1K a Gb!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you with Voda their red roaming is hard to beat with all you can eat for $5 a day.
 
TheEmu said:
I presume you mean the dates that you drank them? :D
:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen: btw
Tasting notes...?
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Of course - they were on my birthdays.

Sorry, like Barry - no tasting notes. Damn they were good though. Have my 50th coming up in a few years, wondering whether I'll go and buy my birth year bottle or just drink another of the 3 Grange I have left.
 
Clearly there is nothing happening today in Adelaide or the world according to our local radio station. Lead item on 8am news was someone being caught for speeding and drink driving. Gosh we are so puerile in SA sometimes.

I don't much like Good Friday anyway. Especially when it's rainy like today. Not religious so that is lost on me. No newspaper. Just a day to wait until it's over.

I came from an Anglican family where on GF we would have this disgusting salty red English cod for dinner with parsley sauce and boiled potatoes. I could never understand why on every other Friday we'd have delicious whiting but not on GF. I never ate it and to this day it's one of those childhood memories.

MrP's family was Methodist. The first GF with him we had meat. I was waiting for the sky to fall in. It didn't.
 
I'm also guilty for eating meat on Good Friday... I once had a meat pie for lunch, thankfully these days, these no longer contain any meat :D

I'll be having a steak for dinner tonight, so if the sky falls in....its my fault sorry.

And yes Pushka, I also heard the lead headline on the news... other than the guy being a total fool... nothing much happening here is there...
 
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Pushka said:
Isn't that overkill? I'm assuming there are all sorts of fish and other creatures in the reservoir and they do far more than pee!

We are having pizza. Not vegetarian though. Won't be all your fault if it does.
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It does seem ridiculous. They've already invested $$ and energy in treating the water and they clearly don't seem to mind birds pooping in it or grunge from the sky falling in it.

In the UK they say every glass of water has been through 7 sets of kidneys already lol
 
Pushka said:
Isn't that overkill? I'm assuming there are all sorts of fish and other creatures in the reservoir and they do far more than pee!
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Technically, it is overkill.

But, it's likely a perception thing, noting that the populace's opinions have not been heard (apart from the one who urinated into the reservoir being sentenced to community service). I guess he would get a real social media buzz if he posted up, "LOL you're all drinking my pee" if they didn't do anything about it.

In Queensland in the Beattie days, there was a plan to alleviate drinking water concerns by treated recycled water. As soon as the images came up that we were essentially treating waste water, particularly the stuff that comes out of your toilet, no matter what else was said, there was a predominant rejection by communities. (Mind, the "trial" vote for the idea was in Toowoomba, and was 'only' defeated 60-40; rather dubious result overall).

Of course some perceptions stick and others don't. The fact that in Toowoomba, people get their water from old tanks which may have rusted by now on the inside, let alone taken on all the particulate as the water has coursed from where it was captured to the tank, whether this is actually better than treated recycled water, doesn't seem to enter their minds at all.

I remember someone for a news article poured apple juice into a sterilised bed pan - who clearly was told it was apple juice and that the bed pan was sterilised - and then offered to drink from it. No one did.
 
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