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Things I Feel Strongly About.
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Big Brother Begins Again
The 2008 Australian Big Brother has begun and a guest is a boy who rose to fame on the back of an out of control party.
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Generation Gap
I've been watching a bit of telly lately and here are a few random thoughts concerning TV, advertising, reality shows, and the generation gap.
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Email Scams
I have a dead business email address and it is being targeted by scammers. What worries me is some of these emails are extremely convincing and I want to add my two cents worth to the warnings people can find online if they look.
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Syrnia Vs Runescape
Most of the new players who come into Syrnia, the online game I am playing, come from another game called Runescape. They come in all hyper and looking for trouble and wind up watching a timer count down and, maybe, doing a spot of homework while they wait.
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The Scam Game
I gave an unused email address to a free online game site and now I am being flooded with a range of emails designed to scam me.
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Taking Fantasy Too Far
The people playing in a world called Hollow were rude to my daughter and hurt her feelings so I don't play there any more.
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Teeth And Flouride
It is my belief that, without flouride, I would have nothing in my mouth now but dentures.
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Big Sister Watches Big Brother
Big Brother is watching the house mates in the 2007 series of Big Brother Australia but I am watching too and I see things differently.
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Fashion Prediction
I predict the future of fashion based on an interview I saw with an ex-editor of Vogue. The future does not look good.
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Fake eBay Perfume In The Markets
UPDATE 2019 Turns out the real scammers are the company who makes the perfume I used to use. They changed the formula and watered it down. The stuff I bought in this entry was, I think now, genuine but it does bear very little resemblance to the original product hence my belief it was fake. My kids and I went cruising the Easter day sales on Sunday and we ended up at the Victoria Markets in Victoria Street here in Melbourne. I have not bought any more perfume since I got scammed by a seller on eBay some time ago. I have been using their watered down, over-priced, forged perfume.…