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We're behaving like any other animal population with an abundance of food and shelter. We will collapse just like any other animal population once we've exhausted our supply. It won't be the first time for civilisation to do so and it won't be the last. I'm not trying to be a defeatist and i'm not promoting the head in the sand method of dealing with things... I just don't think we will break out of the pattern that rules over ALL LIFE. edit: every civilisation has thought they they were the exception to the rule, after all who else in history has had more technology than us, or known more than us? It may have happened to every other civilization and animal population.... but we're different right?

Why?

If your jars mould it's either because of inadequate sterilising or introducing unsterile spawn, ie spores or liquid culture. Your jars should be kept sealed at all times so even if the inside of the jar is contaminated unless you open it you won't release the spores. Once your jars are contaminated you should either throw them out without opening them, or re pressure cook them without opening them, once they've been through the PC they'll be sterile again and you can scoop out the contents and re-use the jar/lid. So as far as that sorta stuff is concerned... if you're following procedure you have nothing to worry about. The other thing that can happen is mycotoxosis. This can happen in industrial scale oyster farms, oysters give off a ridiculous amount of spores that can potentially end up colonising your lungs. This generally only happens when people are exposed to more spores than someone should be in their lifetime and can be countered by wearing a dust particle mask and trying not to breathe in the spores when you start harvesting thousands of mushrooms. Hell, the most likely way your hobby can harm you is breathing in perlite dust Look that shit up if you're worried, much worse than what happens to people from growing mushrooms.

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/wa/a/20594583/activists-bid-to-stop-shark-cull/ Guess you're not the only one pissed off.

wait, what? You sign up to a register to buy pot and receive counseling? How much counseling would be required in order to buy an ounce? Seems odd. Maybe it will be like earning your motorbike license. Once you've applied you'll pay a $300 counseling fee so you can sit in an office with all the other stoner wannabes and watch a 4 hour film from the 80s about safe smoking procedures and reefer madness?

My housemate became really excited after finding out about this, from watching alex jones I think. He said it was using the 'official' symbol of the new world order. I had to roll my official symbols at him.

The truth is that was pretty hot.

Cubes enjoy fruiting around 20C. They've been found in SA, i've heard anecdotal evidence from pickers decades ago and also from someone last year. I produced a suitable micro climate last year by accident in my backyard in Adelaide.

I'm in the exact same boat, use $10 worth of credit a month but pay $30. If I pay $10 for a long expiry recharge i'll use it in 2 days. I've been very tempted to start using my credit on phone sex hotlines on the last day before my credit expires... just so i can get the most out of my money... then i think that's probably a waste of everything, why should i waste resources simply because I feel i'm entitled to? I just want a fair go

they can most definitely be used for something else and it shouldn't take you too long to figure out what that something could be. I think people ruin lives just like people smoke meth. Meth just sits there, don't blame the meth, blame the smoker!

The reasons businesses don't want you to dumpster dive are because sometimes people make a mess and can't be bothered to clean it up so it is then left to the business to clean up. Also people can potentially harm themselves while dumpster diving and then sue the people that allowed them to dumpster dive. Having said that no-one wants to go outside and tell someone off for going through the bins, it's too awkward, most people would prefer to look the other way. Most drinks are still fine, glass or can is the way to go, don't take home any drinks in plastic they have an awful taste to them. HD, my experience working in a bakery... we'd throw out between $600-$800 of bread each and every day... bakerys are hard to run a profit on due to the amount you have to bake without guaranteeing it can be sold during that day. Most bakerys give yesterdays away to charities or such... we gave ours away to some guy who fed everything to his farm animals. We didn't ask questions, it was just fine as long as he'd pick up between 4 and 8 massively packed 240L garbage bags each day without fail.

God bless this meth.

Someone needs to cultivate a spineless variety for easier handling.

Just gonna leave this here... quite interesting for Australia!

Did you mean Evil Dead? No-one mentioned dawn of the dead, wouldn't classify that as a blood and gore movie.

Braindead and Bad Taste are Jacksons very early horrors, rather old and dated. Just watched the new 2013 version of Evil Dead, produced by Bruce Campbell! Definitely has a few cringe worthy scenes, people chopping their own limbs off etc. As far as I know Evil Dead 2 still holds the record for most fake blood ever used in a movie.

Aren't most banks closed on the weekends? how do you close your account and open another if both branches are closed? Seems pretty short sighted to me. i've never been with anz though so meh.

I know a lot of self diagnosed 'ocd' sufferers that really just have an annoying habit, or even worse just say they have ocd when they have nothing to do with anything. I'm OCD about being annoyed when people annoy me, when i'm annoyed i can't help but be annoyed, so annoying, DAMN MY OCD.

Amino acid treatment offers fresh hope for obsessive compulsive disorder Grant McArthur Herald Sun December 06, 2013 7:00PM Constant handwashing can be an example of obsessive compulsions. Source: Supplied OBSESSIVE-compulsive disorder sufferers are being ­offered fresh hope. A University of Melbourne study is adding amino acid to treatments to try to dampen the impact of obsessive compulsions such as constant handwashing or counting. The disorder affects about two in 100 Australians. Lead investigator Dr Jerome Sarris said tablets of amino acid could reduce symptoms in OCD by regulating the glutamate system in patients' brains. Small overseas [ censored ] nutrient-based compound N-acetylcysteine can reduce OCD behaviours. The Melbourne study is the first large-scale trial. "We know that this crippling condition can manifest in many forms. OCD obsessions are ­often repeated, persistent and unwanted ideas, thoughts, ­images or impulses that are ­involuntarily and intrusive," Dr Sarris said. "Current treatments often only have a limited effect, and we are seeking options to help a condition for which there is no known cure and current standard treatments are inconsistent." For Prahran man Tom, the trial may offer some freedom from his compulsions to ­repeatedly check his fly is done up, the tap is turned off, the handbrake of his car is on or to ask the same questions. "It impacts heavily on my life every day," he said. "It ­often involves in my mind scenes of disaster, even though it doesn't make sense. "One part of me knows it is an irrational proposition, but the other part of me thinks it's a real proposition and it is a tug of war." Tom says he can be aware his need to check is irrational, but the anxiety can only be eased by checking. Those interested in participating in a trial can contact Gina Oliver on 0422 529 432 or [email protected]

I'd neg you so hard right now jwerta you party pooper! I mainly have apocalyptic/zombie dreams. It's very rare for me to actually see a zombie in my dreams but i'm always on edge going from house to house or staying quiet at night trying not to be noticed. I've had to kill my cat multiple times by snapping its neck after it had turned but it is always half zombie half cat... so my normal friendly cat but every now and then starts becoming overly aggressive... can't risk that shit so poor kitty gets put out of his misery :/ Last week I came face to face with about three zombies, had to stab them through the temple to stop them. That sort of escalation was a first for me... to be honest most of my zombie dreams are more about trying to survive from other survivors that want to kill me for unknown reasons. edit: when i was a teenager the only dreams i had were being chased by people trying to kill me... cept I was always as strong as the hero in a First Person Shooter or crazy asian martial arts movie, I could take down multiple people while they were shooting at me, killed countless countless people in my dreams... Even if I was always under threat of death by people they were never nightmares, I was always confident in my actions and my ability to survive... that and if i was about to die i'd just make myself wake up. I don't pay too much attention to my dreams.... they're just survival practice for when the world goes to shit!

When the neg button went away and the only button left was the like button... and all the positives were turned into likes I suddenly saw a LOT of posts of mine that had a net total of 0 suddenly had a few likes. Some people just negged posts if it had +2 or +3 and some people just 'liked' posts because they were negatively scored. I think the negative could work again IF it showed who was doing it. The majority of people didn't even use the rating system in the way it was supposed to... you're meant to score someone's post lower if their information was incorrect not because you disagreed with their viewpoint.