You'll cope.

Only a mumford and sons fan does not get why people dislike mumford and sons so virulently

One time some mates made a makeshift pipe out of an apple and straws. I ended up inhaling the choof instead of smoke, resulting in a burned throat and coughing for the next hour or so.

This is actually a really good idea and was floated as possible policy by the Labor party not too long ago exempting the principle residence of a Pensioner in the instance that the individual had resided in the property for 25 years or longer.

However, the implementation of such a policy would create more problems than it would solve and I believe the monitoring of such a policy would cost more money than it would save. Many people use their principle residence as an investment property at least at some point in their lives, rural property owners sometimes have to move off their land when they can no longer physically care for it and alot of elderly people have to move from apartments where they find it difficult to walk up and down the stairs (but are physically and mentally well enough to not need Aged Care). And there are also those people who are forced to move from state to state for work purposes.

You could implement a policy where a person would receive a Principle residence exemption if they owned and lived in any property for longer than 25 years but in reality, that would lead to a situation almost identical to what we have now just with more bureaucracy.

Reverse mortgages are not a great alternative. I rarely recommend them and would only suggest them to a personal who intends to live out the rest of their life in their home (usually a single story home with relatives/children living close by) and can't maintain a comfortable standard of living of the Age Pension alone. Most Reverse mortgages will restrict your right to sell your home if you want to.

I think the simplest way to lessen the cost of providing social security to an ever aging population would be to change the classification of the principle residence to something similar to an investment property upon the recipient receiving their first Age Pension payment using the value of the home at the date of the first Age Pension payment as the effective Purchase Price. Upon death or sale of the property, the government could then recoup the lesser value of accumulated Age Pension payments or Capital Gain since first pension payment.

The reality of the situation is that there needs to be less intervention from the government so that investment banks/managers have the incentive to create some new products which will allow peopleto unlock the equity in their homes.

Edited by vanlassen: 21/5/2016 01:16:24 PM

Unpopular opinion, reporting of the behaviour at university colleges, this is the thing of colleges, people who go to college dont give a stuff about right and wrong, what else did they expect?

Story here

Im not sure why its reported on in the first place, other than fuel for the outrage culture

as much as I despise Nik Kyrgios as a brat, a person, and everything that is wrong with the young generation of today

The sport of tennis needs him, because without him tennis would be banal and beige

WWE wrestlers should be eligible for Emmy awards

Cold play are overated

I don't think he is typical of his generation... but he is typical of every self centered egotistical fuckwit tennis player that ever thought they were remotely good.

Case in point, just seeing a fourth round match from roland garros (doesnt matter which match), its as white as a golf tournament, and the players personalities are as banal as a snooker tournament (even though I do love snooker)

I second that motion!

Didn't even realise they were rated full stop aha

My wife is overweight

It's a parmi, not a parma.

I have no interest in pets- dogs, cats, whatever. I don't find them cute, i don't find them entertaining. Owning one would be a chore to me.

Who on fucking earth calls it a parmi? I've never heard anyone call it a parmi before.

Victoria is the only place I've heard it called a parma

I seriously thought parmi was an Australian wide term. It's called a parma in parts of Australia?! Crazy.

It is most definitely parmi cunts (although it looks weird typed).

Edited by milan_7: 2/6/2016 09:44:39 PM

Who the fuck calls it parmi. It's parma.

Lawyered

I can't recall ever ordering one when I've been out, honestly why would you eat that rubbish when you could get a good steak instead? :cool:

It's vagin-A not vagin-eey.

-PB

parmigiana

Of course Victorians say elbum instead of album so nothing surprises me

Its Parma.

Who says Parm ee san cheese? I've only ever heard Parm ah san.

The cheese is also from Parma.

My apparently unpopular opinion is chicken parmigiana isn't that great of a meal, and not worth the debate of how to pronounce it.

Give me a regular snitty with pepper sauce any and every day of the week over a parma/parmi.

South Australians know how to pronounce vowels sounds, eg the 'a' in dance is broad like the a in cart, not cat.

ie ' Are you taking your cousin or your sister to the da[size=3]r[/size]nce?' ;)

Parmigiana is an Italian meal made from eggplant:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parmigiana

According to Wikipedia it is "also parmigiana di melanzane, or melanzane alla parmigiana or parmi".

Chicken Parmigiana is a (delicious) American invention:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_parmigiana

Wikipedia wusses out on picking a preferred shortened version:

"Chicken parmigiana, or chicken parmesan (Italian Pollo alla parmigiana) (also referred to colloquially in the United States as 'chicken parm' and in Australia as a parmi or parma) is a popular Italian-American dish".

But the word is derived from Parmigiano

It's Italain

I speak Italian

Phonetically speaking it's MUCH MUCH closer to "ee"than "ah" in the context of the word parmigiano(a)



Sorry, this makes no sense anyway and just shows you hear/pronounce the word wrong anyway as even in english the cheese is parmEsan not parmAHsan

Edited by davide82: 3/6/2016 01:50:36 PM