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  2. DesDownunder

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    Thanks BruinYour Fire Fox is showing the same as my IE 7.Likewise my CRT and LCD show the same.So I think it is probably consistent, which points to the skin.Hopefully Ben will find this helpful when he finds a moment to look at the problem.Interestingly, I did a 'Quick edit' of one of my replies above and when I submitted the text it was white on white background. :shock: So I then did a full edit and resubmitted it and it went back to black text on the white background.What fun...not! :wacko:

  5. EleCivil

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    Let me know when they remove the trans fatty acids from Coffee-Mate and I might try it. :hehe:Never-the-less I won't judge EleCivil by his partaking of such substances in his coffee. I think it might be preferable though, if he can find someone to cream his coffee for him.I must confess that like Wibby, there are little hunks (pun intended) of me in my stories.Of course most of those hunks are imaginary or at least done over (I wish) to disguise the horrible innocence of my youth. :icon6:

  7. DesDownunder

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    Well yes I can sympathise as the connection seems to be effectively about the same as your 26.4.My normal ADSL speed is 8Mbps, so yes I was being sarcastic, sorry... :hug: I can only hope for some massive improvement for both of us.I find sarcasm helps me survive the day.I had another 2 hour episode with the Telco today, when I couldn't register to view my account online. It only took three calls including one disconnection and two transfers. The staff were really polite and had lovely sexy voices. (No, I am not referring to the robot lady.) Finally after they completed the registration for me to access the usage graph for my account, they told me I would be able to use it in 5 days. 5 DAYS! -I rang the telecommunication ombudsman complaints line, and they told me that they are very concerned about the 5 days as it seemed to be too long to them too. Then they told me that they cannot do anything for 10 days. :wacko: Then this afternoon, my telephone bill arrived and they had charge me for diverting my phone calls from the faulty land-line to the cell phone.They have corrected the bill and apologized as it was meant to be a free service, that only took 15 minutes, so things are getting better. :icon1::stare::icon6::icon6::sick:

  8. Camy

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    As for your bed, does it come with you in it? :lol:
    It's not the bed that's coming, but the emu. And probably ON it and not IN it, considering it's a bed. But with an emu who knows?
    I was trying to be subtle, but I should have known better with a raccoon and an emu running around. :icon_rabbit::lol: The emu could have been coming all over the bed for all we know. :wink:
  9. Camy

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    Elbow is a breath of fresh air. I could even understand the words.They have a certain ethereal quality while also being down to Earth.Thanks for the links, but the "Bones of you" only goes to a photo.As for your bed, does it come with you in it? :icon_rabbit: I do house work every 5 years whether the place needs it or not.

  11. R.J.

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    At the risk of being accused of being self-promoting, have you read my story Everything a Boy could Want at my hosted pages at Codey's World? Much of this story takes place in highschool and I didn't use any of the cliques as part of the plot line except for the "ever present" bullies.Seriously RJ I don't think the cliques need be used to make a story readable at all. If the story is about people the cliques will arise only if needed.

  12. R.J.

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    Interesting post.Australia is a western style democracy with a very multi-cultural population, however we are rooted in our Westminster system style of government.We're severely influenced by Hollywood movies and American TV. We have pockets of many cultures from different lands all living together somewhat in harmony. One Muslim woman said to me a year or two ago that she wished her homeland (in the Middle East) could learn to live in peace with their neighbours as we do in Australia. She said she saw Australia as an example of cultural diversity, peacefully living together without attacking each other. I think we are changing lately to a more intolerant society, but still cling to our own pragmatic view of encouraging everyone to "live and let live". I would put us in the same group of nations as Canada, UK, and US where personal freedom to express thoughts and where to freely dissent from the beliefs and views of others is not a crime. As to highschool cliques, I don't think we have them as they are represented in the Nifty stories to which you refer. It isn't that we don't have such things as jocks and nerds, but rather that they don't form exclusive groups as depicted in the stories.We do however have a predominant pecking order of sorts. Sport plays a big part in Australian society and schools.My own congenital dislike of competitive sport meant I was doomed to be an outsider at highschool, but the outsiders never really formed a group or clique of their own. You were a sports fanatic who excelled at sport, a sports fanatic who excelled at school work, or you were a student who excelled at school work and loved sport. I didn't belong to any of these. Even so socially, it was only possible to divide the school population into groups who attended different schools. The rich went to private (mainly Christian) schools. The poorer families sent their teens to the public state run schools to be taught to be slaves for the kids who would graduate from the private schools. A few would escape slavery however and become masters despite their attending public highschools.School bullies were everywhere; both as teachers and students. We did have groups of kids by culture of origin, but eventually even they seem to be absorbed into the school structure to become good Aussie sports fanatics.Socially outside the school there were more divisions. In the 1950s we had Bodgies and their female companions, Widgies. Then we had Rock and Rollers. The sixties brought Peacenics and surfers and in the seventies, we had Punks. In addition today, there are Skaters, Goths, etc., oh, and of course Gays. The gay community has the largest number of cliques. Everything from the Bears through to drag queens, not to mention the closeted. As to your question as to whether anyone would believe you if you wrote a story that didn't highlight the cliques we see so often in Nifty (and other) stories, I hope you can see from what I have written, that I certainly would.In fact I implore you to throw out these cliched cliques and concentrate on showing us human characters with human problems regardless of the social allegiances. Your story would be a breath of fresh air.I think the stories which feature cliques have become a fashion, an easy way for lazy authors to bypass the intricacies of character building which give good stories their interest and strength, while lumping the characters into either of the two most horrifyingly overused cliques: the bad guys and the good guys.You might be right about long tables, but I have always favoured round tables with lots of very handsome knights, but they are another clique altogether. :icon_rabbit:

  15. DesDownunder

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    Your doctor specializes in armpit hair? What kind of a quack do you go to, and why does he spend his time playing with your armpits?Is that really your most interesting and beguiling feature? :wink: C
    Obviously we orangutans are very concerned with our armpit hair. We like to run our fingers through it while going "Uh, uh, uh!"So naturally my doctor is an armpitologist, who specialises in making sure my life is the pits.That doesn't sound quite right...uh! :icon_rabbit:
  21. EleCivil

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    Unfortunately we have the same consensus of opinion in Australia. People just don't seem to realise how much work goes into to being a teacher. I guess the teachers aren't allowed to teach the students about what they do as that would be seen as some kind of conflict of interest.We wouldn't want our future politicians to be taught about the work load teachers have, because after they get elected, they might actually want to pay the teachers a decent wage.I am dismayed at the public comments here in Oz. I suspect the same is happening in the US from your comments Cole.

  22. EleCivil

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    What are you saying, Des? Are you suggesting that teachers cannot write?
    No I am not saying that teachers cannot write.I am certain Ele is quite capable of doing both, but just maybe his talent for writing is deserving of being his full time occupation.I certainly don't mean to dissuade Ele from doing whatever he wants. I just wanted to make sure he knows his writing is most worthy of his endeavours.

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