Has anyone else noticed that when you have passport (or driver's licence) photos taken - you always end up looking like a criminal or a terrorist (or is it just me). I had some photos taken today to send off with my visa to go to Egypt and I am sure they wont let me in when they see my picture - probably throw me straight in the clink.

A.A.A.D.D.

KNOW THE SYMPTOMS

PLEASE READ!

Thank goodness there's a name for this disorder.
Somehow I feel better,even though I have it!!

Recently, I was diagnosed with A.A.A.D.D.

Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder.

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway,
I look over at my car and decide it needs washing.

As I start toward the garage,
I notice mail on the porch table that
I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys on the table,
put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table,
and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back
on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think,
since I'm going to be near the mailbox
when I take out the garbage anyway,
I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my cheque book off the table,
and see that there is only one cheque left.

My extra cheques are in my desk in the study,
so I go inside the house to my desk where
I find the can of Coke I'd been drinking.

I'm going to look for my new cheque book,
but first I need to push the Coke aside
so that I don't accidentally knock it over.

The Coke is getting warm,
and I decide to put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke,
a vase of flowers on the counter
catches my eye--they need water.

I put the Coke on the counter and
discover my reading glasses that
I've been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk,
but first I'm going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter,
fill a container with water and suddenly spot the TV remote.
Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV,
I'll be looking for the remote,
but I won't remember that it's on the kitchen table,
so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs,
but first I'll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers,
but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back on the table,
get some towels and wipe up the spill.

Then, I head down the hall trying to
remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:

the car isn't washed

the bills aren't paid

there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter

the flowers don't have enough water,

there is still only 1 cheque in my cheque book,

I can't find the remote,

I can't find my glasses,

and I don't remember what I did with the car keys.

Then, when I try to figure out why nothing got done today,
I'm really baffled because I know I was busy all damn day,
and I'm really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem,
and I'll try to get some help for it,
but first I'll check my e-mail....

Do me a favour.
Forward this message to everyone you know,
because I don't remember who the hell I've sent it to.

Don't laugh -- if this isn't you yet, your day is coming!!

Interesting Carassius!

Your input pn the Exmouth Reception thread made interesting reading - I wasn't aware that some of the T Shops where owned by T. (I worked for T for a few years in Internet Direct and Ecommerce - Tried to get a job down in Albany - no go) .

I recently moved to next G - no improvement on reception down here. I'd still like to see one network and govt controlled shared towers. I fear that the current situation does not give economies of scale and is duplicitously wasteful. Sometimes, competition does not deliver the best customer outcome or serve their interests. (And don't get me started on community obligation! LOL) 

I'd also like to see a move away from the deceptive 'xx%' of population - which means nothing and legislatively enforced (and more accurate and useful 'xx%' of Australia (geography). That 98% of the population (or whatever it is currently purported to be) means jack sh*t to me if I have lousy reception. (And yes, I have a 'ticked' phone).

I'm told metal roofs impede the signal. Is that correct? Can you get an external antennae, the house version of a car kit? Would it make a difference? if the answer to both of those questions are yes, does it come with blue tooth connectivity and is there range/signal barrier issue?

Went fishing today from Rockingham, headed out at 7.00am and went to the 5 fathom bank. Not long after we arrived we caught a samson fish.

A lot of bait fish were swimming around but no real surface action appeared until later in the day when a few fish started to jump.

After a few drifts over the ground we caught a couple of Snapper just under the size limit. Caught a few Black arse and skippy.

We went for a troll and hooked into the a yellow tail king fish, when we were bring into the boat a shark tried to take the kingfish, lucky for us we were quiker than the 1.5 mt shark.

All in all a good days fishing and we were back at the ramp by 12.30

just wondering what weather patterns I should be careful of in other areas with my rig?

eg what wind strength should i  avoid or swell conditions in any given area

I have a

15ft f/glass 1/2 cabin Voyager Pro-Fisher

60HP Mariner O/Board

safety gear:

EPIRB

InShore Flare kit

27mhz Radio

+ essentials (extinguisher, l/jackets, bailer)

Cheers, Carassius 

A man kills a deer and takes it home to cook for dinner.

Both he and his wife decide that they won't tell the kids what
Kind Of meat it is, but will give them a clue and let them guess.

The kids were eager to know what the meat was on their plates,
so they begged their dad for the clue.

"Well" he said, "It's what mommy calls me sometimes"
The little girl screams, "Don't eat it.... its a Asshole!"

This was pased on to me by an Irish friend.

THE IRISH DIET

> An Irishman was terribly overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet.

> "I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat

> this procedure for 2 weeks. The next time I see you, you should have

> lost at least 5 pounds.

> When the Irishman returned, he shocked the doctor by having lost

> nearly 60lbs!

> "Why, that's amazing!" the doctor said, "Did you follow my instructions?"

> The Irishman nodded... "I'll tell you though, by jaesuz, I t'aut I

> were going to drop dead on dat tir'd day."

> "From the hunger, you mean?" asked the doctor.

> "No, from the f**n' skippin".

Watched Wrestle Mania today, Floyd Mayweather survived to live another day. Plenty of other good fights too, Undertaker going 16-0 in Wrestle Mania for the World Heavy Weight Championship

Cheers
Dale

I'm not scared of banana's

Callsign: AS144

A 45 year old woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. While on the operating table she had a near death experience.

Seeing God she asked "Is my time up?"

God said, "No, you have another 43 years, 2 months and 8 days to live."

Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction, breast implants and a tummy tuck.

She even had someone come in and change her hair color and brighten her teeth!

Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well make the most of it.

After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. While crossing the street on her way home, she was killed by an ambulance.

Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 43 years? Why didn't you pull me from out of the path of the ambulance?"

God replied: "I didn't recognize you."

as quick as he came he went..... anyone know whats going on with colin?

Prince Charles decided to take up jogging.  Every day, he'd jog past a hooker standing on the same street corner.  He learned to brace himself as he approached her for what was almost certain to follow.

'One hundred and fifty pounds!' she'd shout from the curb.

'No! Five pounds!' He would fire back, just to shut her up.

This ritual between him and the hooker became a daily occurrence. He'd run by and she'd yell, 'One hundred and Fifty Pounds!'

He'd yell back, 'Five pounds!'

One day, Camilla decided that she wanted to accompany Charles on his jog.  As the jogging couple neared the working woman's street corner, Prince Charles realized she'd bark her £150 offer and Camilla would wonder what he'd really been doing on all his past outings. He figured he'd better have a good explanation for his wife.

As they jogged into the turn that would take them past the corner, he became even more apprehensive than usual. Sure enough, there was the hooker. He tried to avoid the prostitute's eyes as she watched the pair jog past.

Then, from her corner, the hooker yelled, 'See what you get for five pounds, you tight bastard?!'

Enjoy this sight (Mrs says I'm addicted??), thought live meetings with fellow boaties & fishies would be great, who would you suggest as a great fishing or trailerboat club worth joining?

Hi
Any body know wether there is any internet places in Exmouth?
Internet cafes,libary etc...?????????

went to get some goldfish to feed my fish in my fishtank today and the place i normally get them from in malaga now has put the price up to $1.25 each and they are pretty small, used to get them for like $1 each and sometimes 15 for $10, so wondering whether anyone knows of a decent place to buy them at a cheap price nor somewhere?

I thought this news report might lighten the mood after the Ministerial announcement of today.

Man sentenced over wombat rape claim

A New Zealand man has been sentenced to community service after telling police he had been raped by a wombat and the experience had caused him to start speaking "Australian".

Arthur Cradock, a 48-year-old orchard worker from Motueka on South Island, rang police on February 11 to say he was being raped by the slow-moving Australian marsupial at his home, The Nelson Mail reported.

He rang back soon afterwards to say he was withdrawing his complaint against the wombat, a court was told.

"Apart from speaking Australian now, I'm pretty all right you know," he told police in the second call.

Cradock pleaded guilty to using a phone for a fictitious purpose and was sentenced to 75 hours community work.

Prosecutors said alcohol played a large part in Cradock's life, although his defence lawyer said he was not drunk on the afternoon of the phone calls.

Article courtesy of - AFP

Got woken up to my Bull Mastiff going absolutely mental bout 3am this morning, some bugger was in my boat tryin to thieve my sounder! My faithful & loyal mate kept the would be thief entertained & stuck in the boat I think, untill stupid me turned on the kitchen light to which he jumped straight out over the fence (approx a 1.5m distance between them) tripped over the barbed wire top & face planted next doors front drive, got up & piss bolted!! wish I had of caught the f%$^&*. Got home this arvo from work & have now put up a 10000v electric fence!! Hope for a repeat attempt if he's game!!!!

Have to say, I have now removed all gear incl rods & sounder from boat when not in use!! A very lucky lesson learnt >8| 

Is anybody else aware of the polution in cockburn sound? of course you are, But a couple of weeks ago I was fishing in the evening near one of the jetties near cockburn cement I had my sand anchor out and it wasnt untill today that I noticed the mud stuck on the anchor, it was almost 100% CEMENT! I never realy give cockburn cement another thought until now in regards to what they are doing to the sound and how big an area it covers (the cement sediment) how the hell can they get away with poluting the water this way does the EPA think this is acceptable? I dont. It's surprising anything survives at all in this shit let alone reproduce.
Just felt like a rant!

JUST MY LUCK! HEADING TO EXMOUTH ON MONDAY AND I WATCH THE NEWS TONIGHT AND A BLOODY CYCLONE
IS ON THE BREW! WHAT DO YOU RECKON THE WEATHER WILL BE LIKE IN EXXY NEXT WEEK?

Hi Folks

Wanted to know if the fishing is decent down by Busselton?

The new development, Port Geo canal lots?  Those canals are man made right?  Do they silt up? 

Alfred 

Weather wasnt as i would have liked, but i needed to finish running in the new outboard before heading to exxy next week so we headed out for a fish.
Fished around the wall to garden island for a bit and got a good load of garfish for bait for up north. My mate had a good run only to end up being a ray! Got two good skippy also. Wind looked to die down so we did a quick trip out to the 5 fathom were we got a good size leather jacket and another larger skippy as well as plenty of the resident wrasse! All in all i got the hours up on the motor and i am ready for exxy next week.

Does anyone have a recipe for pickled/marinated occy they swear by?

I've been searching but not having much joy. One including a couple of chillies would be perfect!!

Now this is very sweet!

http://www.lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=13314

Click ^^

**Diary of a Karratha Summer (by a Pom****)**
>
> *August 31st*
>
> *Just got transferred with work into our new home in Karratha,
> Western Australia now this is a town that knows how to live!!
> Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! I
> watched the sunset from a deck chair on the verandah It was
> beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.*
>
> *September 13th:*
>
> *Really heating up. Got to 35 today. Not a problem. Live in an
> air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure
> to see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun
> worshiper.*
>
> *September 30th:*
>
> *Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of
> palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing lawn for
> me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.*
>
> *October 10th*
>
> *The temperature hasn't been below 35 all week. How do people get
> used to this kind of heat? At least today it's kind of windy though.
> But getting used to the heat is taking longer than I expected.*
>
> *October 15th:*
>
> *Fell asleep by the pool. Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.
> Missed 3 days of work. What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson
> though. Got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.*
>
> *October 20th:*
>
> *I missed Kitty (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this
> morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Kitty had died
> and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $3,000
> leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now
> smells like Wiskettes and cat sh*t. I learned my lesson though.
>No
> more pets in this heat.*
>
> *October 25th:*
>
> *The wind sucks. It feels like a giant f**kin blow dryer!! And it's
> hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is on the blink and the AC
> repairman charged $200 just to drive over and tell me he needed to
> order parts.*
>
> *October 30th:*
>
> *Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. Bloody
> $600,000 house and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come
> here?*
>
> *November 4th:*
>
> *It's 38 degrees. Finally got the ol' air-conditioner fixed today.
> It cost $1,500 and gets the temperature down to 25, but the bloody
> humidity makes the house feel like it's about 30. Stupid repairman.
> I hate this stupid f**kin place.** *
>
> *November 8th:*
>
> *If another wise arse cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going
> to f**kin throttle him. F**kin heat! By the time I get to work the
> car's radiator was boiling over, my clothes are soakin f**kin wet,
> and I smell like baked cat!!*
>
> *November 9th:*
>
> *Tried to run some messages after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the
> black leather seats in the ol' car. I thought my f**kin arse was
> on fire. I lost 2 layers of flesh and all the hair on the back of my
> legs and my f**kin arse. Now my car smells like burnt hair, fried
> arse, and baked cat.*
>
> *November 10th:*
>
> *The weather report might as well be a f**kin recording. Hot and
> sunny. Hot and sunny. Hot and f**kin sunny. It's been too hot to
> do anything for 2 damn months and the weatherman says it might
> really warm up next week. Doesn't it ever rain in this damn f**kin
> place? Water rationing will be next, so my $5,000 worth of palms
> just might dry up and blow into the f**kin pool. Even the palms
> can't live in this f*kin heat.*
>
> *November 14th:*
>
> *Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 41 today. Now the
> air-conditioner's gone in my car. The repairman came to fix it and
> said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $2,500
> mortgage payment to bail my arse out of jail for assulting the
> stupid f**ker. F**k Karratha! What kind of a sick demented f**kin
> idiot would want to live here?*
>
> *December 1st:*
>
> *WHAT????? This is the first day of Summer???? You are f**kin
> kiddin*

Hi all

Has anyone fished on the south west bank?
Is it worth a fish? what have you caught on it?
Any info appreciated.
Thanks

Im looking for a good company that makes up trailers need one made to suit all our quad bikes Papas trailers is the only one ive looked into so far any others you can recommend would be great

Can someone please explain to me how a wet box transducer is mounted, and the advantages of it.

just looking for any advise if anyone can help, looking at buying a fridge/freezer, either a engel or waeco looking at getting about a 40ltr one but don't no which one is better and price is not an issue just want to no if any one has either and what anyone could give me advise on as i am very confused on which one to go for.

On a tour of Australia, the Pope took a few days off to visit the coast for some sightseeing.





He was cruising along the beach in the Pope-mobile when there was a frantic commotion just off shore. A helpless man, wearing an All Black rugby jersey, was struggling frantically to free himself from the jaws of a 25 foot shark. As the Pope watched in horror, a speedboat pulled up with three men wearing Wallabies rugby jerseys.





One quickly fired a harpoon into the shark's side while the other two reached out and pulled the blue semiconscious Kiwi fan from the water. Then, using long clubs, the three beat the shark to death and hauled it into the boat.





Immediately the Pope shouted and summoned them to him. "I give you my blessing for your brave actions. I heard that there were some bitter hatreds between Australian and NZ rugby fans, but now I have seen with my own eyes that this is not true."





As the Pope drove off, the harpooner asked his buddies, "Who was that?"





"It was the Pope", one replied. "He is in direct contact with God and has access to all of God's wisdom."





"Well", the harpooner said, "He may have access to God and his wisdom, but he doesn't know s**t about shark fishing. Is the bait holding up OK or do we need to get another one?"