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Put me down for twot.
Two please, with sauce.

 

....and it describes you so _well_, moike

Conehead
Twot

 

Look, as every manager knows when something needs to be done you should
grab it and ensure it's done*

JL
*by someone else while you take credit for it

 

I'll take that as a yes then

JL
(I dunno what the penalties for being a Pommie import are, you'll have
to ask Paulh and co.)

 

I think Medicare have exacted enough flesh TYVM. Reciprocal agreement my
arse.

 

Skin cancer already ? Didn't think you'd been here that long !

JL

 

I'm from the cover-yourself-in-cooking-oil for a tan generation.

 

Yebbut lying in 3minutes of sun on a rocky beach before it starts
raining again isn't going to be much of a cancer risk I'd have thought.

JL
(hypothermia on the other hand)

 

Yeeeesssss, but now live over here. Anyway, no I don't have skin cancer. But
amusingly a brit colleague and fellow biker/bikie/bikernaut/whatever, who
was bitten by a white tail about 8 months ago at the apple pie cafe in the
national park south of Sydney, went back to the hospital last week
complaining of feeling like crap, constant headaches etc. He was told his
liver was fucked and asked had he been bitten by a spider recently? He
replied in the affirmative, telling him about the bite, the (stupid) 2 weeks
he took to get it looked at, and the treatment received. Doctor advised a
CAT scan and informed him that it would cost $4000 or something crazy as it
wasn't covered by Medicare.

Anyway, he doesn't want to pay and has just been off for a 10 detox in
Thailand. He's come back with blue patterns in patches on his face and body
from where, it seems, the remnants of poison are working themselves out
through his skin.

The moral of the story? No idea, something to do with snakes, doctors and
Ladyboys I should imagine.

 

Ladyboys?
Bit late to suck the poison out now don't you think?

 

I expect they'd give it a damn good go for the right price.

 

Yeah you gave that away by smug pronouncements about sun

Robertson pie shop ?

He obviously didn't read the Bill Bryson or Douglas Adams write ups on
Australia then ?

http://www.smedg.org.au/DougAdamsOnOz.html

JL
(interestingly enough, apparently the whitetail is being blamed for all
sorts of things it's apparently innocent of)

http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/179_04_180803/whi10399_fm-2.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s926733.htm

 

Heh, I recommended Down Under to him and he bought a copy to read on the way
to Thailand. I bought myself a second copy after he left, because I enjoyed
it so much the first time and it seemed to make more sense to read it now
I'm here. When he returned he said he'd forgotten it and left it in his flat
(upstairs from mine) and I could have had it. He'd bought himself a second
copy at the airport and not actually got round to reading it at all.

Some kind of record I think there between us. It's an excellent read though,
and one of my favourite of Bryson's.

 

Having just scanned those articles, I forgot another element to the story of
Steve. He'd left it so long to go to the doctors, when they began treating
him he was one doctor's last-chance-hotel, hail Mary attempt away from
losing the arm altogether.

You should pop out sometime and meet the guy while you still can. If you're
lucky you'll get to hear about what happened to him /before/ the spider
bite, involving a rip tide and two lifeguards.

 

And blame you if it goes wrong.

Theo

 

Stay out of Sydney.

Gary (and watch out for the drop bears)

 

I think it's the cafe on the right between the southern park entrance and
Bald Hill,overlooking the ocean.

Postman Pat

 

That's the one. The pie's not bad.

 

Probably Helensburgh John

Al

 

Don't know that one - is that before or after the hotdog stand on the
cliff ?

JL