pilbara

@pilbara (1436)

Australia • Age 57

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Discussions (145)

pilbara's Discussions

What do you think of a no homework and no exam policy for High Schools?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 5 Dec 07

I know of a school where they have these policies in place for students up to and including Year 10 (for those in other countries Year 10 students are generally 16 years old and there are only 2 more years after this - Year 11 and...

high schools

student

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4 people

Should christmas lights on houses be reduced or limited in some way?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 27 Nov 07

I understand that many people like to have huge displays of christmas lights on their houses. However, at all other times of the year we are asked to use less electricity for a variety of reasons and in the period leading up to...

too many christmas lights

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3 people

If you could set the rules for political campaigns, what would you do?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 20 Nov 07

At the moment in Australia we are going to have the federal election on the weekend and we have had several weeks of back stabbing, muck raking, insulting, insincere friendliness, baby kissing etc. I could think of quite a few...

political campaigns

rules for campaigns

1 response

Should Santa be stopped from saying "Ho Ho Ho"

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 19 Nov 07

There was a recent debate about this. Apparently there are some people out there who think that Santa should not be allowed to say Ho Ho Ho anymore as it is disrespectful to women. This is a term that was used to express the...

people

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4 people

Vandalism - are penalties severe enough?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 25 Oct 07

There are groups of young people who fly into the city I live in with the express purpose of vandalising trains and buildings - mostly by covering them with grafitti. In the most recent case the magistrate handling the case...

grafitti

slap on the wrist

vandalism

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1 person

Really annoyed with credit card company - how weird is this?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 15 Oct 07

I opened a credit card about a year ago, provided the appropriate ID, used the card for about 3 months. My sister had borrowed some money from me and it was easiest for her to deposit the money into my card. Next thing I...

getting the run around

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1 person

What do you prefer for lunch - sandwiches or leftovers?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 11 Oct 07

Every day for lunch at school we had sandwiches and 13 years of school is a long time so now I prefer to have leftovers from dinner the night before. Which do you prefer?

lunch

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What are your thoughts on dual citizenship?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 9 Oct 07

Should it be allowed or not? If you choose to become a citizen of a country, should you have to renounce your citizenship of your birth country, Should you be allowed to be both? Do you think it's ok for people to change...

citizenship

dual citizenship

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2 people

Why do response numbers change for no reason?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 17 Sep 07

I have found that mine keep on changing. Two days I was at 838, the next it was decreased to 836 and now when I came in this morning it was 847. Does anyone understand what happens?

numbers keep changing

Men buying gifts for their partners for no reason - is it really that odd?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 12 Sep 07

My husband likes to buy me things, a couple of weeks ago it was a bunch of flowers. The florist asked him what he had done wrong. He said nothing - he just liked buying presents. A few other women in the shop commented that was...

men buying presents

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1 person

Whats your opinion on women taking their husbands last name?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 5 Sep 07

There was a discussion on this earlier and opinions ranged from why should women do this, it's old fashioned, chauvanistic and misogynistic and women should have better sense than to continue to do this just because it is...

traditions

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4 people

Would you let your child act like this?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 2 Sep 07

A friend has a 6yo boy and yesterday she gave him a cake to eat. It was an ordinary iced cupcake. He said "yuck I don't like this" and threw it on the floor. She then offered him a lolly (sweet) and he said he didn't want one...

boy hitting his mother

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1 person

I hate inflexibility about school uniforms

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 28 Aug 07

I am a teacher at a private school and a fair amount of importance is placed on uniform. At the moment all students are wearing winter uniform and will for the rest of the term. For the girls this means thick stockings or...

school uniform

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1 person

Who is really the homewrecker?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 28 Aug 07

There has been quite a few stories recently about women who are refered to as homewreckers. They are single women who get involved with a married man who subsequently leaves his wife for them. In some cases they knew the man...

single women

relationships

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7 people

Do you find complaining gets results?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 20 Aug 07

I really dislike having to complain about things such as faults with goods or poor service and I always try the polite approach to try to get things sorted out. However, it seems to be more common that complaining about things...

complaining

squeaky well gets the oil

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2 people

Should parents have the right to know their childrens school results?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 15 Aug 07

For example a family pays for their child to go to a private school. They complete their senior exams, the results of which are organised by the state and provided to the statement via mail. The school also gets a copy of the...

school results

I hate overseas call centres

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 14 Aug 07

It has become common for large companies to move their call centres overseas because of wages. This annoys me for several reasons, not just job loss. Often the people you talk to have strong accents and I can't understand...

overseas call centres

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6 people

Is the look of something or good functioning more important to you?

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 9 Aug 07

If you have a choice between 2 items that perform the same function. 1 looks really good but doesn't perform well. The other looks ok - not great, but not awful, but it performs much better. Assuming both cost about the...

style or substance

3 responses

If a team doesn't perform, it's the coaches fault.

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 7 Aug 07

What do you think of this? Recently there have been a few high profile coaches sacked because of the performance of their teams. Most people agree that the teams were pretty lack lustre to start with. In a way this is the...

blaming others for poor performance

passing the buck

taking responsibility

1 response

The top 10 things dogs hate about people

pilbara @pilbara (1436) • Australia 1 Aug 07

Some of you may find this funny 1 Blaming your farts on me not funny... not funny at all. Why don't you just own up? 2 Yelling at me for barking. I'M A DOG, YOU IDIOT! IT'S WHAT WE DO 3 Taking me for a walk, then not...

things dogs hate about people

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3 people