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Sir Turylon

02-07-2004, 21:11

@Turylon. It's imposible to discuss anything with you. You're like a wall and everything bouces out.

so untrue. I just like making sure more than one side of an argument is presented. What fun is a discussion if you are talking to yourself? lol.

Haegemon

03-07-2004, 04:33

I see your point...

Ok , let's figh...errr...discusse. :cheers:

Redback

03-07-2004, 05:46

Did you know?-
Australia comprises just five percent of the world's land area, yet it is the planet's sixth largest country. :)

Did you Know?-
Australia has sovereign rights over an area of ocean greater in size than its continental land mass. :)

Did you know?-The Australian coastline is-
Often deeply incised and fronting numerous seas and oceans, the coastline extends almost 60 000 kilometres in length with forty percent encircling islands. :)

Did you know?-
Kalgoorlie in Western Australia is the worlds largest electorate 2,255,278 sq km :)

Did you know?-
The famous "black box" flight recorder for recording aeroplane movements was invented in Australia in 1958. :)

Just a few facts about Down Under :) :cheers:

Haegemon

03-07-2004, 06:05

I only knew that Mel Gibson & Nicole Kidman are born in Australia.

That Mad Max was recorded there.

That Australia made some 80's series I saw when kid. "The valley" or something like this and another from a flying bus used to seek salamanders.

That of Crocodrile Dunde.

That there are kangaros and koalas. And plagues or rabits and mouses. And "coyotes".

That there was a kangaro tiguer, whatever its name, that become extinct but which some people seems to have found signals.

That fire is natural there first cos kaliptus are flamable.

That natives had few or non rights.

That the Opera house is the most photographed of the Sidney's bay.

That an important amount of Autralians, seems they like practice nudism in the beach, or at least topless. And surf...

Too much snakes, scorpions and aligators.

Redback

03-07-2004, 06:29

That natives had few or non rights.
That an important amount of Autralians, seems they like practice nudism in the beach, or at least topless. And surf...

Too much snakes, scorpions and aligators.
1}Sad :sad: But true but its slowly improving :)
Did you know?-Australia's Aboringinal population is 365,000 out of 20 million :sad:

2} A famous Australian pastime :D :D :cheers:

Did you Know?-
That Star Wars episodes I ,II,and soon III were/are being made Down Under :)

Did you know that more poisoness species live in Australia,than anywhere else in the World :cheers:

Haegemon

03-07-2004, 19:28

you know that more poisoness species live in Australia,than anywhere else in the World

Like I said too much snakes and scorpions. :cheers:
I like koalas and the tasmania's devil, little and noisy. :D (why this smilie now it's green? may it's feeling sick... :blob: )

Largefry07

04-07-2004, 21:19

Redback, do you know of a Shoevile in your country?

Redback

05-07-2004, 11:11

Redback, do you know of a Shoevile in your country?

Sorry ,Largefry-I'm not familiar with it.
Any particular reason?.

I like koalas and the tasmania's devil, little and noisy. :D (why this smilie now it's green? may it's feeling sick... :blob: )

Yeah,they are both really cute :) -don't know why they picked green,just that "Its not easy being green" :D :p ;)

Nike

08-07-2004, 16:46

Speed bumps in Jamaica are called sleeping policemen.

We call them "spiashti polizai" which means... sleeping policemen! :D

Hector

08-07-2004, 19:28

Russel Crowe is from Australia to right?

4zzY

08-07-2004, 21:55

[trying to stay ontopic]
the federal reserve ot the united states
thie institution which issues the new dollar bills
is established by the 12 biggest private banks in usa
it recieves 10% of each dollar it issues back to itself
and is the only institution which may issue new dollars

In 1963, President Kennedy passed an Executive Order calling for the printing of $450 Billion dollars in U.S. backed Debt-Free currency. Shortly after, he was killed and as soon as his successor, Lyndon Johnson took office, the first thing he did was suspend the executive order and the printing of the currency. If you look hard enough, you can find $2 bills from 1963 that say "U.S. Treasury" at the top instead of "Federal Reserve note".

in 1933 congressman Louis T. McFadden
made few speaches against the federal reserve
and critisized it for its criminal acts...
... he was killed after his third speach

"Mr. Chairman, we have in this Country one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever known. I refer to the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Reserve Banks, hereinafter called the Fed. The Fed has cheated the Government of these United States and the people of the United States out of enough money to pay the Nation's debt. The depredations and iniquities of the Fed has cost enough money to pay the National debt several times over.

"This evil institution has impoverished and ruined the people of these United States, has bankrupted itself, and has practically bankrupted our Government. It has done this through the defects of the law under which it operates, through the maladministration of that law by the Fed and through the corrupt practices of the moneyed vultures who control it.

"Some people who think that the Federal Reserve Banks United States Government institutions. They are private monopolies which prey upon the people of these United States for the benefit of themselves and their foreign customers; foreign and domestic speculators and swindlers; and rich and predatory money lender. In that dark crew of financial pirates there are those who would cut a man's throat to get a dollar out of his pocket; there are those who send money into states to buy votes to control our legislatures; there are those who maintain International propaganda for the purpose of deceiving us into granting of new concessions which will permit them to cover up their past misdeeds and set again in motion their gigantic train of crime.

"These twelve private credit monopolies were deceitfully and disloyally foisted upon this Country by the bankers who came here from Europe and repaid us our hospitality by undermining our American institutions. Those bankers took money out of this Country to finance Japan in a war against Russia. They created a reign of terror in Russia with our money in order to help that war along. They instigated the separate peace between Germany and Russia, and thus drove a wedge between the allies in World War. They financed Trotsky's passage from New York to Russia so that he might assist in the destruction of the Russian Empire. They fomented and instigated the Russian Revolution, and placed a large fund of American dollars at Trotsky's disposal in one of their branch banks in Sweden so that through him Russian homes might be thoroughly broken up and Russian children flung far and wide from their natural protectors. They have since begun breaking up of American homes and the dispersal of American children. "Mr. Chairman, there should be no partisanship in matters concerning banking and currency affairs in this Country, and I do not speak with any.

"In 1912 the National Monetary Association, under the chairmanship of the late Senator Nelson W. Aldrich, made a report and presented a vicious bill called the National Reserve Association bill. This bill is usually spoken of as the Aldrich bill. Senator Aldrich did not write the Aldrich bill. He was the tool, if not the accomplice, of the European bankers who for nearly twenty years had been scheming to set up a central bank in this Country and who in 1912 has spent and were continuing to spend vast sums of money to accomplish their purpose.

"We were opposed to the Aldrich plan for a central bank. The men who rule the Democratic Party then promised the people that if they were returned to power there would be no central bank established here while they held the reigns of government. Thirteen months later that promise was broken, and the Wilson administration, under the tutelage of those sinister Wall Street figures who stood behind Colonel House, established here in our free Country the worm-eaten monarchical institution of the "King's Bank" to control us from the top downward, and from the cradle to the grave.

"The Federal Reserve Bank destroyed our old and characteristic way of doing business. It discriminated against our 1-name commercial paper, the finest in the world, and it set up the antiquated 2-name paper, which is the present curse of this Country and which wrecked every country which has ever given it scope; it fastened down upon the Country the very tyranny from which the framers of the Constitution sough to save us.

Largefry07

08-07-2004, 23:05

4% of the salt that the US produces in one year is for eating.

4zzY

08-07-2004, 23:16

Drake Maethor

09-07-2004, 01:01

.....

[edit]
here is one fact which seems to be unknown only to americans :lol:
one ring to rule them all (http://szilagyi.us/images/blog/2003/01/bush_one_ring.jpg)

:lol: :p

Sir Turylon

09-07-2004, 01:07

the other 96% are used to corrupt politicians in poor african countries
lol

[edit]
here is one fact which seems to be unknown only to americans :lol:
one ring to rule them all (http://szilagyi.us/images/blog/2003/01/bush_one_ring.jpg)

hey. keep on topic...
stop bringing propaganda in here.

Largefry07

09-07-2004, 03:51

the other 96% are used to corrupt politicians in poor african countries
lol

[edit]
here is one fact which seems to be unknown only to americans :lol:
one ring to rule them all (http://szilagyi.us/images/blog/2003/01/bush_one_ring.jpg)
Actually 20% is used on roads, some of it is used for cleaning our water and the majority is use for industy. :go:

Sir Turylon

09-07-2004, 05:53

Actually 20% is used on roads, some of it is used for cleaning our water and the majority is use for industy. :go:
rock salt kills your car. it's better to use magnesium chloride. :)

Spudster

09-07-2004, 05:56

hey. keep on topic...
stop bringing propaganda in here.
please..of course it started with a law of phyics opinion. but anyway i've got some more....

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes.
Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second.
There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos. --hmm i wonder why :nono:
Every day 20 banks are robbed. The average take is $2,500.
Tourists visiting Iceland should know that tipping at a restaurant is considered an insult.
Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia.
A lightning bolt generates temperatures five times hotter than those found at the sun's surface.
It takes glass one million years to decompose, which means it never wears out and can be recycled an infinite amount of times.

Spudster

09-07-2004, 06:02

I was watching the History Channel about Salt Mines...

In Poland, There is a church built entirely in a Salt Mine and everything inside the Curch is made from salt--even the chandliers!...plus the floor is carved to look like cobblestones.

1 square kilometer of salt water- when the salt is extracted- can produce enough salt for all of North Amereica's needs for an entire year! --The world will never run our of salt!

Nearing the end of the war, Hitler took all of his stolen or original artwork from his home and stored them inside a salt mine so they would be kept nice.

Saltmines' temperature never changes. The constant temperature for most mines is 57 degrees Fareinheit.

Saltmines are good for the lungs and throat. Some saltimes have been converted to hospitals for asthema and bronchitis patients. But they are required to wear coats in their beds due to the temperature!

Largefry07

09-07-2004, 17:54