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Rudolph, I thought it was funny, even if nobody else did.
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Just wanted to make sure the new guys were clear on the DIESEL factor lol
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Ronnie Biggs wrote: Hey Cannon. Sorry MOMs for being quiet, but I'm busy trying to buy a house this week. So much paper, so much effort and so many dollars! A conveyancing solicitor just handed me a $1,400 invoice for what I estimate to be around 90 minutes work. A bit late in life I'm asking myself 'why the hell didn't I pay more attention at school?' ....
Oh well, at least I have more medals than him, and pride in serving my country......and buggered knees.....and a bad back.....and a metal elbow.....and a cheap car....
Oh wait, did I miss something?


I totally know the feeling!
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Ronnie Biggs wrote: Hey Cannon. Sorry MOMs for being quiet, but I'm busy trying to buy a house this week. So much paper, so much effort and so many dollars! A conveyancing solicitor just handed me a $1,400 invoice for what I estimate to be around 90 minutes work. A bit late in life I'm asking myself 'why the hell didn't I pay more attention at school?' ....
Oh well, at least I have more medals than him, and pride in serving my country......and buggered knees.....and a bad back.....and a metal elbow.....and a cheap car....
Oh wait, did I miss something?


That sucks.......I'm curious to know, by solicitor do you mean lawyer or realtor? Was the 1400 the only closing cost? In the states the closing costs can total 5k or more, not to mention the realtors commission, but you can usually get the seller to cover all those costs.
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Lego in neck? Woke up on morning, sat up and "bang" left shoulder locked and quite a bit of pain. Ended up at the hospital emergency. After they tried some tablets they gave up and shot me with morphine (that was actually realllllly nice) and then sent me home. Saw my usual doc who put me on morphine tabs while he tried to find me a specialist - took him 2 weeks. In the meantime, I tried to work, sweating profusely between pain and the morph and by lunch I had to go home because I was monger off my head. Bad dreams too.... Finally got to the specialist who got me an MRI and an appt with a surgeon. Disk had slipped in my neck and was pressing on the nerves (to the left hand). Started losing feeling in the hand so went for the surgery. Open my neck at the front, parted all the (important) pipes and used an extractor (pliers) to pull out the crappy disk - replaced it with a chunk of plastic (aka Lego). Good as new
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That makes sense, but can't have been very pleasant.
I imagined you with a little blue Lego brick lodged dangerously close to your spinal column, the result of some terrible Nerf gun accident. Perhaps your nephew had found a clandestine website that gave technical instructions to modify these supposedly innocent toys, increasing their power twenty fold and hardening the projectile warheads.
"Hey uncle Marco, stick e'm up!" ....Bam.....Bam...
"Mommy! Call 911! Uncle Marco's doing a weird dance and spitting blood!"
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Ronnie Biggs wrote: Hey Cannon. Sorry MOMs for being quiet, but I'm busy trying to buy a house this week. So much paper, so much effort and so many dollars! A conveyancing solicitor just handed me a $1,400 invoice for what I estimate to be around 90 minutes work. A bit late in life I'm asking myself 'why the hell didn't I pay more attention at school?' ....
Oh well, at least I have more medals than him, and pride in serving my country......and buggered knees.....and a bad back.....and a metal elbow.....and a cheap car....
Oh wait, did I miss something?


That sucks.......I'm curious to know, by solicitor do you mean lawyer or realtor? Was the 1400 the only closing cost? In the states the closing costs can total 5k or more, not to mention the realtors commission, but you can usually get the seller to cover all those costs.


As the buyer, I pay my own lawyer (conveyancer) to manage the transaction. In Australia that could be between $1100 and $1500 for a simple residential sale. I also pay the sales tax, or stamp duty, which depends on the State you're in, but could be up to 5% of the total value. The seller pays realtor costs and also conveyancing fees if they choose to use a lawyer. The seller will also pay capital gains tax if they sell for more than they bought. It's an expensive business for all!
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Ronnie Biggs wrote: Hey Cannon. Sorry MOMs for being quiet, but I'm busy trying to buy a house this week. So much paper, so much effort and so many dollars! A conveyancing solicitor just handed me a $1,400 invoice for what I estimate to be around 90 minutes work. A bit late in life I'm asking myself 'why the hell didn't I pay more attention at school?' ....
Oh well, at least I have more medals than him, and pride in serving my country......and buggered knees.....and a bad back.....and a metal elbow.....and a cheap car....
Oh wait, did I miss something?


That sucks.......I'm curious to know, by solicitor do you mean lawyer or realtor? Was the 1400 the only closing cost? In the states the closing costs can total 5k or more, not to mention the realtors commission, but you can usually get the seller to cover all those costs.


As the buyer, I pay my own lawyer (conveyancer) to manage the transaction. In Australia that could be between $1100 and $1500 for a simple residential sale. I also pay the sales tax, or stamp duty, which depends on the State you're in, but could be up to 5% of the total value. The seller pays realtor costs and also conveyancing fees if they choose to use a lawyer. The seller will also pay capital gains tax if they sell for more than they bought. It's an expensive business for all!


Wow!!!!! Sales tax????? Ouch that's awful!!!!! We also have 2 years to re-invest the capital gains before any tax is assessed. We do pay property tax annually, but that's usually 1 percent or less of what the county values your property at. Commercial or income property is a different story though.


I would hate to see what the real estate prices themselves are like. In most of the US big cities aside, A start out home 3bdr 2ba, Will run you about 100,000. In that respect, I am fortunate enough to live in such a small community that that same house will only cost me 30 to 50.

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We just refinanced our home. Went from a 30 to a 15 year mortgage. I should conveniently be paid off right as I am scheduled to retire! :woohoo: It cost us about $1500 to close the second time around. Of course, I work security for the bank who was our lender, so they waived some fees!

Marko! Good to see you. I caught some games with Suxxor and Net Redding (flying as .N R). Good times. It is nice to see MOM returning to the skies!




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Ronnie Biggs wrote: Hey Cannon. Sorry MOMs for being quiet, but I'm busy trying to buy a house this week. So much paper, so much effort and so many dollars! A conveyancing solicitor just handed me a $1,400 invoice for what I estimate to be around 90 minutes work. A bit late in life I'm asking myself 'why the hell didn't I pay more attention at school?' ....
Oh well, at least I have more medals than him, and pride in serving my country......and buggered knees.....and a bad back.....and a metal elbow.....and a cheap car....
Oh wait, did I miss something?


That sucks.......I'm curious to know, by solicitor do you mean lawyer or realtor? Was the 1400 the only closing cost? In the states the closing costs can total 5k or more, not to mention the realtors commission, but you can usually get the seller to cover all those costs.


As the buyer, I pay my own lawyer (conveyancer) to manage the transaction. In Australia that could be between $1100 and $1500 for a simple residential sale. I also pay the sales tax, or stamp duty, which depends on the State you're in, but could be up to 5% of the total value. The seller pays realtor costs and also conveyancing fees if they choose to use a lawyer. The seller will also pay capital gains tax if they sell for more than they bought. It's an expensive business for all!


Wow!!!!! Sales tax????? Ouch that's awful!!!!! We also have 2 years to re-invest the capital gains before any tax is assessed. We do pay property tax annually, but that's usually 1 percent or less of what the county values your property at. Commercial or income property is a different story though.


I would hate to see what the real estate prices themselves are like. In most of the US big cities aside, A start out home 3bdr 2ba, Will run you about 100,000. In that respect, I am fortunate enough to live in such a small community that that same house will only cost me 30 to 50.


I guess a start out home here would be a lot more expensive. We're buying a semi detached 3br 2ba double garage town house on tiny block about 10 miles from Brisbane CBD for AU $450K, equivalent to US $325K.......plus sales tax! But it will earn us around AU $2,000 per month in rent. Australia is expensive and taxes are high, but so are wages and investment opportunities (ask CC Rider, who now lives it up in Bali). Real estate prices in the US slumped with the GFC, but Australia didn't really have a problem. The Australian banks, after being branded as pirates and brought into line in the 90s, were solvent and well regulated in the 00s, meaning there was no false economy or toxic debt. Australia also benefits from an old style commodity driven economy whereby we just dig ore and coal out of the ground and sell it to the Chinese as fast as we can. Yes, Chinese % growth is slowing, but from and ever increasing baseline. The volume of demand is still very healthy. We're sitting fat dumb and happy, pouring more coal into dirty Chinese power stations as Vanuatu and the Marshal Islands disappear under the waves....but that's another story.

I guess if your in full time employment and financially secure, it doesn't matter which economy you're in. It balances out, like the universal cheeseburger index: a standard Mc cheeseburger will have a different dollar price the world over, but to each customer it has the same relative value.

I'm rambling now. Obviously not busy enough.
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Hey TX. Thanks for the welcome. Saw N R yesterday, though he mostly saw me first..... :-(
Hope to see you all soon!
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Think I might be in the skies tonight. I will be in Vimy around 2000 hrs CST.

For those interested, I have obtained a Zello account for the squad to use. It is an app that basically makes your phone a push to talk radio on our own network. It would allow voice communication real time in the game. It is what the Misfits are using. I'm not a big fan of the swarm that happens in some games with the Misfits, but it is only a minor annoyance. It is easily worth it from the squad camaraderie perspective. The app is free. If you want to start using it, PM me and I will give you our password. I figure we might even be able to partner with the Misfits occasionally as well. See you in the unfriendly digital skies!




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Hi guys, I'm back and I want my MOM tag back too.
What do I have to do?
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You sure you were a MOM Butterfly,I can't remember you,have you changed your name.

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Gizmo, ur kidding right? I mean, it's been more than a year since I've roamed, but u'd expect to be remembered more than that in a MOM crew :/ I remember u, for instance. Flying Muck and Wig too - btw, why is Wig banned at the forum?!
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I remember butterfly! But, since he wants demands from us. The price of retagging is a chocoflan cake, credit card numbers, and a shrubbery! Short story on Wig: he got cross with Zup, drew a line in the sand, and was banned from the game.




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I'll give u guys Zup's credit card numbers as soon as I have them >:-) I'm sure they'll benefit u more. Chocoflan cake served in Stoxkholm, anytime ur here. Now gime back my tag, and throw in tthat Zello thing too if it works on iPad2. And a bucket of virgin 's blood to go with that, pls.

P.S. Wig banned, is like Churchill banned from WW2. Regretable. Very.
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Very regrettable. Almost killed dear old M.O.M. Just apply in game and Muck (our new leader) will get you tagged up. As for the zello, put it on a phone, so it won't interfere on your game play device. I'll pm you our group name and password. So far it's just you and me there. Welcome back!




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Well this made me laugh. Hopefully they don't hack me now!






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Realy sorry Butterfly,but as you said it has been a year,there are days when I can't remember what I've had for breakfast,
Must be my age lol,but I'm pleased to see you back,hope to see you in the skies soon. :cheer:
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Hola MoM's...been good to see several in game...

finally cracked 30k kills and 7500 wins... some of the rust is coming off...lol


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Sux, you were far from Rusty. Until the Misfits swarmed to M.O.Ms home cooking, we were kicking ass!

Now ladies, I need an official ruling. This is the best place for this problem.

Cake or not cake






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Good fun game Ronnie, thanks. :cheer:
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Welcome back to Butterfly, now suitably tagged up.
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TXLAWMAN wrote: Sux, you were far from Rusty. Until the Misfits swarmed to M.O.Ms home cooking, we were kicking ass!

Now ladies, I need an official ruling. This is the best place for this problem.

Cake or not cake



It's pie.

Dean Martin's "That's amore"......."When the sun hits your eye like a big pizza-pie, that's amore."
Now it finally hits me what he meant. Normally pizza isn't a pie.

With such a pie I can imagine love turning into a foodfight real quick. :lol:
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Luv that pizza pie, cake, whatever it is....

Time for another inane movie quiz. The last was answered all too easily by the lawman, who obviously doesn't get out enough.

This one, I hope, is not so easy.

Name the actor, the character and the movie.

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Kirkwook smith, robocop


Hey RONNIE , be safe out there buddy, you've been on my mind lately. Not a nice world.

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I knew that was good ole red foreman, but I haven't seen the robocop remake
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Well done Crockett! I was listening to this on my morning workout. Kind of a variation on Ronnie's game. Who can name the movie and some cast from what this song is about? Should be easy!




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