And the sound of Teawamutu had a truly sacred ring...

[gemfyre]

Waits for loababy to correct her spelling.

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Reach for the lasers with Antic's Sims-ulator!

Bloody Centerlink (yes again).

I went in to hand in the form about my rent arrangments, because the lease agreement is elsewhere while the powers that be figure out the new stamp duty stuff. I like how on the form if you tick that you have a lease agreement it then says you will need to produce it. "No, I'm handing this form in because at the moment I can't get HOLD of the bloody lease agreement! I have given it to you before, it hasn't changed, but nooo, you have to have it again by this date, which I cannot get the agreement by!"

Anyways, I was told beforehand that I could just hand this form in at the front desk. So I went to the front desk and gave the guy there the form.
"What payment are you on?"
"Newstart."
*Guy prints ticket*
"Please take a seat, hopefully the wait won't be too long." ("not too long" in Centerlink is 45 minutes!)
"But I was told I could hand this in at the front desk."
"There's no such thing as just handing form in anymore."
"Great, I wait an hour for a 2 minute consult."
"Yep!"

Dickhead. I take a seat and seethe awhile. I have better things to do than sit twiddling my thumbs. Once again Centerlink breeds resentment. After 20 minutes I get fed up and go back to the front desk and get a blonde woman.

"Hi, is there a suggestion or a complaint form I can fill out because it's ridiculous having to wait an hour just to hand in a form."
*Woman hands me suggestion form, which I shall fill out and send to the daft powers that be*
"Is that a fortnightly form?"
"No it's one of these..." *shows her form, I go to sit back down. Woman gets my attention again.*
"Is that all you have to do?"
"Yep."
"Just wait a second, I'll do that for you."

THANK YOU!!
I like that woman, she's actually helpful. So it was a happy ending kinda.

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[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

Hehe. I can help a bit there.

Monotremes (platypus and echidna) don't actually have nipples. The milk just oozes from a patch of skin and it's lapped up by the babies.

The bill of a platypus is pretty soft. It's like leather stretched over a frame of bone. I imagine the baby's bill is possibly even softer, but don't quote me on that.

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[just-laura.livejournal.com]

Thank you!! Now I can sleep. Though that could have been the Benadryl. ^_^

I was running around puzzling about this with Jon and Jason, and then I said, "You know, I should ask in my Livejournal; someone there always know the answer. . . actually, I know which of my friends would know. Gemfyre!" And off I went. ^_~