guybrush

@guybrush (4658)

Australia • Age 67

Joined myLot 16 years ago

Either you see it or you don't ...

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Discussions (20)

guybrush's Discussions

I'm an inadvertent spam-merchant! (Please spare the pandas and spank ME!)

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 6 Jun 09

I did a really silly thing a couple of weeks ago. After a couple of years of not receiving any emails for Viagra, penile implants, Nigerian prize inheritances, etc., I suddenly received about a dozen different money scams in one...

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6 people

I visited my childhood home today ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 19 Mar 09

I've been waiting for ages for England to have Google Street View - and I often check, in the hope it's been upgraded. Well, today I was SO excited to find London has been done - and Leeds, where I was born and spent my early...

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5 people

Plastic not so fantastic ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 29 Dec 08

I was sad and horrified to see a photograph in the paper this morning of a baby albatross who had been found dead - with 272 pieces of plastic (discarded by careless/lazy/stupid human beings) in his stomach. Littering is one of my...

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3 people

Red pens are too aggressive ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 2 Dec 08

I've just read an article whereby teachers (in Queensland, Australia) are being told not to use red pens anymore in marking students' work ... because it's too aggressive! What next? Sometimes I think it must be April Fool's day -...

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This really takes the cake ... and the ice-cream ... to another level!

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 26 Oct 08

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,24551636-5001021,00.html This was reported in Australia today. Go figure! The family is apparently going to sue the hotel concerned for $1M - but the hotel is denying...

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Disobedience ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 25 Sep 08

As I get older, I find myself increasingly frustrated with being told what to do. The world seems full of do-gooders intent on policing everything - what we eat, where we park, what we wear ... and it's appalling that our local...

bicycle

bikes

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4 people

We're all contributing to something horrible!

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 11 Aug 08

I was horrified to read in the weekend paper of something called the Great Pacific Garbage Patch - a swirling vortex of trash which is twice the size of the USA and consists of 100 MILLION tons of garbage circulating in a huge...

boats

hawaiian

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2 people

The best way to deal with a troll ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 27 Jul 08

What do you do when you know a troll has followed you and has made a new account (which is not allowed on myLot anyway)? Is it best to call their bluff and 'out' them - or merely report them and hope myLot will deal with them? I...

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10 people

A walk in the treetops ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 16 Jul 08

We've just spent a lovely day visiting the Illawarra Fly, which is a new treetop walk through a local rainforest. Apparently (according to the brochure), there are only four steel treetop walks in the world - all of which are in...

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5 people

Monitor - widescreen or not? Scrolling problem with new myLot format ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 13 Jul 08

I'm just wondering what type of computer monitor you have, as some people have mentioned the new myLot format is giving them a scrolling effect. I'm not getting that, and have a widescreen monitor - so I was wondering whether...

computer monitor

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2 people

If a movie was made of your life ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 9 Jul 08

who would play you? Who would you LIKE to play you? If they made a movie of my life they'd probably pick Roseanne Barr - but I'd like Sigrid Thornton. My husband would be played by Sideshow Bob - hahahaa!

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Strange anniversaries ...

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 6 Jul 08

I suppose our birthday is our most important individual date - but every year we pass the date of the day on which we are going to die. It's bizarre that we don't know what date that's going to be, and the day just passes without...

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2 people

Beware the exploding deodorant can!

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 2 Jul 08

About 18 months ago, my son came out of work and got in his car - only to find his windscreen was shattered to bits! After the initial shock, he discovered he'd left a deodorant can on the dashboard, and because it had been in the...

dashboard

lighters

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3 people

Do you use a hot water bottle in winter?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 30 Jun 08

I love my hot water bottle, and carry it around with me all day in winter! It's cosy to take it to bed rather than having an electric blanket (which I'm scared might catch fire), and it saves lighting a fire and either causing...

water bottles

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3 people

Have you ever had a leaking shower?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 26 Jun 08

We're in the process of pulling our shower out, because it has leaked so badly the whole wall was rotting behind the tiles! Not only that, it has been leaking into the back of my husband's half of the walk-in wardrobe, and a pile...

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3 people

Is there an appliance you simply refuse to ever own?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 23 Jun 08

With me, it's a dishwasher! I've never wanted one. I think stacking and unstacking them takes longer than actually standing at the sink washing dishes by hand - and from what I've seen, they don't do a very good job - not to...

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6 people

Do you still have adult children living at home?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 18 Jun 08

I found my three daughters were all eager to move out of home in their late teens and begin their independent lives, but my son is happy to remain at home. He's nearly 21, and admittedly not earning much on an apprenticeship ......

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2 people

Have you noticed as you get older you don't envy people anymore?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 10 Jun 08

Do you think jealousy is just for children? I was thinking the other day about what I would really envy ... and the answer is 'nothing'. Do you remember the last time you were jealous?

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5 people

Have you ever had a bad experience with your optometrist?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 3 Jun 08

My husband had new glasses prescribed last year, and when they arrived he told me he couldn't see through them at all. I told him he was being silly and he should persevere - but after a few weeks he took them back to the...

eyes

glasses

optometrists

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Have you played 'The Lost Crown' - and what did you think?

guybrush @guybrush (4658) • Australia 31 May 08

The Lost Crown is a PC game about ghosthunting.

games

ghosts

pc game