Chelan Simmons.

Yes.

Keep digging [at] that hole

That’s what Mick Jagger used to say.

To David Bowie.

I never knew conservatives were so incredibly gay.

It was gayness that got Barton the gig back in 1901.
Then even more gayness that got him on the High Court for the following two decades.
Conservatives = gayness.

The Hun:

Australia have been defeated 3-1

Is that good?

Commonwealth Bank are positioning themselves to CBDCs, bigly. Notice of changes to the t&c’s on my kids’ bank accounts-
– CommBank will move to electronic-only statements, apps and mobile phone access
– CommBank will block any transaction if “you seek to make a payment to an account which we reasonably believe may be owned or controlled by a cryptocurrency or digital asset exchange”
– CommBank will “fairly and reasonably” spike transactions, cancel cards, suspend access, or outright suspend or cancel accounts without liability for a customer’s loss or damage.
Any other lurkers get this bullsh*t?
More importantly, any advice where to move the money which I’ve been pumping to Commonwealth for the last thirteen years? I’m very tempted to cash out both accounts over the counter, and take it to the gold exchange. All I’ve taught the kids about regular saving and compound interest all of a sudden looks second order to the lessons I’m going to have to give them about the deathgrip of the financial-government complex.

We’ve been home for a few hours now. Attapuss over the moon. I glanced at the big game, thought the Englishers were playing rough, playing like men, says Hairy with some admiration. Then he moderated it down a bit to playing like women against girls.

Glad Albo didn’t get his public holiday, and his big promo after the game. My two little granddaughters in Brisbane will be very sad at the loss though, for their little hearts were given over to the Matildas. Anyway, they lost and everyone can calm down now.

I wonder if the craze about the Matildas is partly due to their name. Here’s a name that speaks to the Old Australia, to Waltzing Matilda, Billabongs and Squatters against the poor man in hard times. No aborigines in Waltzing Matilda note. Going for the Matildas is going for the true Australian heritage. Maybe that’s obvious but it’s worth saying.

Any other lurkers get this bullsh*t?

we all suffer from CBA domination of the banking sector and their low standards for stability, performance and customer “experience”. I’d suggest any smaller bank that doesn’t run their services on CBA platform will be better than CBA.

From my Singapore account I can transfer money in direct bank-bank transfer to other asian countries with zero fees in real time. Here we are given rubbish service and stupid “protection” we never asked for && people think its normal service.

Buy land

That’s not always an option depending upon what a person does for a living and what their financial situation is.

Banks are tightening lending requirements, cost of living is rising.
Unless your paying cash, it’s not going to be easy.

I’m working under the assumption that most people are in the situation where financing housing/land would be difficult.

Anyway, I’m done in with all the travel.

I drove first this morning and we had travelled 40km when we got a call from the apartments saying Hairy had left his ipad plugged in. So we had to turn around and go back ‘cos his life is on that and I had driven 80 km to get back to where we began. He took over then, and later I took another go. And so it went.

I can’t complain. I left my laptop on a counter top in the Novotel when I went to get the freebie coffees and we’d lugged everything down to the basement carpark before I suddenly shrieked ‘my laptop!’, for my life is on that. Hairy kindly went up to get it for me. Thus, today, one good turn etc …

“who wants to hang around someone whose only interest is the end of the world? Such people are not only depressed but depressing.”
Said it better than me. Take note all you climate change numpties. You need to get a life.