RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure

@RawBill1 (8531)

Gold Coast, Australia • Age 51

Joined myLot 15 years ago

Missed me? I have moved to hanging out at YouTube so you can find me there at http://www.youtube.com/MrAusadventure.

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure's Discussions

When things do not go to plan....

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 18 Aug 12

....but work out being better in the end anyway. Years ago I was travelling around the world for six months and found myself in London. I had an Aussie friend already living there so when my friend that I was...

accommodation

plans

travel

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3 people

Another reason to boycott the London Olympics

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 1 Aug 12

To me the Olympic Games should be all about promoting a fit and healthy lifestyle and encouraging young people to take part in actively looking after their health. As the world's largest sporting event I think that they have a...

health

london olympics

message

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2 people

Chocolate pudding for breakfast

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 30 Jul 12

Well, not quite. I had two Black Sapote this morning for breakfast. Black Sapote are otherwise known as Chocolate Pudding Fruit for their uncanny resemblance in both flavour and texture to a cooked chocolate...

black sapote

chocolate

fruit

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3 people

Challenging myself

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 24 Jul 12

I have decided that next year I am going to compete in a physically and mentally tough endurance event called The Kokoda Challenge. It is held on the Gold Coast close to where I live and is known as Australia's toughest endurance...

endurance

extreme

fitness

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4 people

Congratulations you made Apple's winner of the day

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 24 Jul 12

Yep, apparently I am a winner! This is a text message that I got on my phone today. All I have to do is go to a website url that is made to look like Apple's own website url, but is clearly not and then type in...

apple

phone

scams

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3 people

I was attacked!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 18 Jul 12

By Spyware! Some low life scammers managed to get through my computer defence and totally disabled my computer yesterday. I was happily working away, checking out websites of customers and...

computer

scam

spyware

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3 people

Songs that inspire action

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 6 Jul 12

Have you ever had a song inspire you to take action? One of those songs that just seems to hit the nail right on the head as if it was written just for your current situation? Back in 2006 I was inspired by such a song to...

leaving work

life changing

songs

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1 person

An earthquake hit the area I grew up in last night

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 19 Jun 12

I live interstate these days well away from this area so I did not feel a thing, but last night as I was just heading off to bed and turning off my phone when a Facebook post from my sister about the quake popped up on my screen....

australia

earthquake

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5 people

Would you buy a pizza from a vending machine?

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 14 Jun 12

Wow! Check out this amazing leap forward in technology! According to the manufacturer's website, you can get "Your pizza in 3 minutes from scratch, always made with fresh ingredients". Fresh...

junk food

poison pizza

vending machine

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7 people

You had better arrest me... I am eating Hemp!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 27 May 12

A healthy, nutritious food such as Hemp is not allowed to be legally eaten in Australia, meanwhile smoking tobacco, eating toxic chemicals in junk foods and drinking alcohol is legal. This makes absolutely no common sense...

hemp

legislation

omega 3

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3 people

My recent USA business trip (sorry, this is long!)

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 15 May 12

Some of my friends here have been asking me about my recent trip to the USA, so I thought I would start a discussion about it. Being Australian means that any trip to the USA is a pretty expensive trip as...

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1 person

Getting back on the horse

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 14 May 12

No, I am not talking about real life horses here. I try to stay away from them! What I am talking about is getting back into something after a while out of it. Recently I got back on my motorbike and went for a ride after 3...

active lifestyle

no horses here

recovery

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An interesting few months but I am back here again!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 9 Feb 12

Well, the last few months have seen me doing quite a few other things and not really spending any time here with my MyLot friends. I went into my discussions the other day and realised that it had been 5 months since I had started...

accident

back again

recovering

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1 person

The Plant Encyclopedia

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 3 Oct 11

I came across this website earlier today after I saw it on the profile page of one of my Twitter followers. I think it is an awesome reference site for gardeners, particularly ones like me who are into growing vegetables and...

gardening

plants

vegetables

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2 people

Terra Nova - Must See TV!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 26 Sep 11

Well, it is a must see for me anyway! I am not a very big TV watcher so I am surprised that I am actually starting a discussion in this "Watching Television" interest. I never thought I would!...

series

terra nova

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1 person

Instant Download Software

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 7 Sep 11

Hi guys, I am after some advice on Instant Download Software for my customers and was hoping that someone here might have some recommendations. I have been selling through my online store for a few years now...

advice

downloads

software

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2 people

Mad Bike Skills!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 6 Sep 11

This is too cool not to share. Check out this crazy video and let me know what you think. Pretty good music with it too. http://www.flixxy.com/danny-macaskill-industrial-revolutions-street-trials.htm If it...

biking

insane

tricks

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2 people

Fatal house fire kills eleven people from same family

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 26 Aug 11

This was horrific news during the week. Hearing about house fires that cause death on the radio news is not that uncommon, but to hear of eleven people all from the same extended family perishing in a house fire was very sad. This...

family

fire

tragedy

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4 people

Australia builds the worlds largest homes!

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 25 Aug 11

A recent report by the Australian Bureau of Statistics has found that Australia continues to build the biggest homes in the world! This is an average figure of all new homes built, not that we build massive structures the size of...

homes

lifestyle

living

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7 people

Do you believe in good luck?

RawBill AKA MrAusAdventure @RawBill1 (8531) • Gold Coast, Australia 24 Aug 11

Have you ever thought that some people are more lucky than others? Do you consider yourself to be a particularly lucky or unlucky person? I used to think that I was unlucky and that others were more lucky than me. In recent...

choice

life

luck

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3 people