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This, I think, is one of the best things I’ve heard for a long time...

It could be worse... I could be living in Melbourne and joining you and your illustrious company.

The footy department have been wonderfully helpful every time I have contacted them, but they are hardly going to make an exception for you and provide a year patch to keep you on board. As for what you could do with the scarves, how about donating them to one of the charities that clothes and feeds the homeless... I'm sure a scarf (regardless of the team) would be greatly appreciated by some of those doing it tough during the winter months. As was stated by another poster, it is a pretty bizarre reason for not renewing.

No need to do that... just use a site like Hotels.com to find the best deals... my son and I always get a comfortable hotel in the middle of the city for around the $120 per night mark.

There's not much of a better recommendation for the film than this:

I thought Dunkirk was an excellent film... it left me exhausted. It's available on DVD/BluRay on the 18th of this month.

Even ENYAW called it in August in the Delistings at End of Season thread.

What the "beautiful" game has come to... even the ball boys are diving!

But he was hopping freely!

I made posts, but I’m not so concerned with how you regard them... I post things I find interesting and feel no need to defend them. If you want a dick measuring contest, I suggest you Look elsewhere.

Funny coming from someone who posts off the coattails of ProDee.

Well, he wasn’t, but whatever... there’s little doubt that he’s light years ahead of you in the area of climate change.

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I’m sure he’s less informed than you, having had so little contact with real world scenarios and not enough contact with faux scientists... you MUST be correct, after all, you ARE a conservative are you not?

I answered your question; you intimated that it is naturally occurring with the wording of your question. End of discussion.

Unlike you or I, he understands the science. How do you know it is naturally occurring?

Care to expand on just what exactly your “earth sciences background” is? I have a brother who was advisor to successive Labor environment ministers (Richardson, Kelly and Faulkner), was head of National Parks in NSW and most recently (until his recent retirement), was head of the Australian Antarctic operation. He will tell you that man made climate change is very real having seen first hand what it has done in many and varied environments. I’m sure there are those who will dismiss him as a leftist hack based purely on the fact he advised Labor ministers... but I can promise you that nothing could be further from the truth.

I'm not sure what you are hoping to gain from this... I will answer that I Don't Know. Now perhaps you can answer the my question with a response from the same range you requested (yes, no, maybe, don't know): Do you think the fossil fuel industry and the scientists that they employ, manipulate data to suit their own ends? Note that if you answer with a 'No', I will expect to see some sort of supporting evidence from reputable sources (not from the industry, not from scientists employed by the industry, and not from known or reputed deniers or supporters of the industry)... and just to save you asking the question later, I'm sitting on the fence and saying Maybe... this being based on the fact that they probably stand to lose a lot more than the climate change proponents (much like the tobacco industry who had numerous scientists on their books in a vain effort to disprove any causal links between smoking and cancer).

Sorry, but you still haven’t explained what “their own ends” are... what do they, NASA and NOAA hope to gain from this supposed manipulation... and once you’ve explained that, let’s apply the same question to the fossil fuel industry and the scientists they employ.

Maybe first define what “their own ends” means? And then perhaps ask the same question of the fossil fuel industry and the scientists they employ to play down the impact of global warming.

OD, these days I look at everything in terms of the cost of a cup of coffee. The GF Guarantee equates to about one and a half cups per week, or in my case having my son’s to cover as well, three cups. Weird I know, but somehow it helps me deal with the cost ?

Well, he will definitely have no injuries next year as he won’t be able to participate for 12 months from the date of the operation, meaning he will miss the entire 2018 season. Hopefully he will be good to go for the 2019 preseason, but he’s concerned that the jump in pace and physicality going from under 15s to under 17s may be a bridge too far.

I think you SHOULD be having a go at the club here... without members the club would be in dire financial straits, so if they want to ensure members stay within the fold, then it is their responsibility to keep us informed of any changes that are going to affect us financially; particularly in the case where memberships are set up for automatic renewal. Christ, even the emails welcoming my son and I back mention absolutely nothing about the costs (a receipt would be nice) let alone the break up of costs!! How hard is it???

I phoned them DC and gave them an earful over the fact it was taken for granted that I would be happy to part with $458 as opposed to the $240 I parted with this year - plus my usual membership fees. I was offered a refund, but as I explained to the membership person on the other end of the line, they had put me in a very difficult position with regards to the promise I made to my son (and now I can add the fact that after round 1 it increases to $299 each). Now, if I opted out (took the refund) and then decided to opt back in later, it would be even more expensive. I suppose the price increase is the thing that really rankled me - I wouldn't have minded so much if I had a steady income, but I don't.

Seriously??? That's a 150% increase on the cost of the GF guarantee last year!!!! I was angry enough over the fact that they automatically renewed that guarantee that I paid $120 for earlier this year, with my membership, but now I'm absolutely seething!!