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Post by dragrat on Sept 13, 2010 17:44:20 GMT -5
Oprah is coming to Australia!! To begin her 25th & final season, Oprah is bringing three hundred of her audience to Australia. The report says that the Opera House will become a Oprah House for two days, www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/09/14/3010772.htm?section=justinWhat interests me is what kind of reaction will this have on our tourism. With Oprah's goal reputation, she, not personally, may bring thousands of people to Australia after seeing her show in aired from the Opera House. hmmm, three hundred Americans in this!... Inside the concert hall Outside
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Post by sunfrog on Feb 19, 2011 8:37:52 GMT -5
How was Oprah? Did you go see her? Did she give you a car? LoOk, Australian internet is being censored as bad as Russia! bit.ly/gGXlYIWhat the heck? Why would Oz be censored? I thought you guys were nice. Hmm...
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Post by PigsnieLite on Feb 19, 2011 13:07:22 GMT -5
Why should Oztralia care about Oprah so much? Shes kinda mehh to me.
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Post by Avril on Feb 19, 2011 17:22:44 GMT -5
Charisma is mesmerising if we feel we lack it...
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Post by sunfrog on May 16, 2011 11:29:56 GMT -5
Uhm... what the?
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 16, 2011 12:15:52 GMT -5
Read a book, you crazy Oztralians! I even heard about an idjoot who died while trying to plank on a balcony. Sorry, Im not too sympathetic, am I?
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Post by Avril on May 16, 2011 14:27:50 GMT -5
<iframe src ="http://video.news.com.au/embed/1925965701/Qld-balcony-fall-linked-to-online-craze?player=narrow" width="330" height="335" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no"><p><a href="http://video.news.com.au/1925965701/Qld-balcony-fall-linked-to-online-craze">VIDEO: Qld balcony fall linked to online craze</a></p></iframe>A MAN who plunged to his death from a Brisbane unit balcony was planking, and police fear it will not be the last death due to the new craze.
Planking involves participants lying flat on their stomach in different and sometimes dangerous settings and sharing photographs of their efforts with fellow plankers.
Acton Beale, 20, fell from an innercity unit block in Kangaroo Point's Main Street and died at the scene shortly before 4.30am today.
Planking death fuelling dangerous craze.
Deputy Commissioner Ross Barnett said the man had been trying to lie on the balcony rail when he fell.
He said the man and another person had been planking in various spots on their way home from a night out.
"He has tragically lost his footing and fallen to the ground below," Mr Barnett said.
"It is what we've been fearing."
The deputy commissioner said he did not know whether it was Australia's first death from the recent craze.
However, he feared it would not be the last as plankers tried to out-do each other in more and more dangerous places.
"Police fear that as planking gains popularity there may be more injuries and, potentially, further deaths," Mr Barnett said.
He warned plankers they would be charged if they tried the fad in dangerous locations. A 20-year-old man was issued with a court appearance notice for trespass when he was found planking on a squad car in Gladstone last week.
"Accepting a risk of injury for yourself is one thing, but the potential is there for others to be injured as a result of your behaviour," he said.
"But no penalty will ever return this young man to his family and friends.
"This is a tragedy and our condolences go to the family."
media.news.com.au/news/2011/01-jan/link-icons/i_related.gif Warning over fad: Police urge Aussies not to be 'plankers'
Read more: www.news.com.au/national/fatal-balcony-fall-linked-to-planking/story-e6frfkwr-1226056214322#ixzz1MXjSNnyv
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Post by Avril on May 16, 2011 14:38:07 GMT -5
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 16, 2011 17:03:00 GMT -5
Is that Wombut? PS. Id like to see someone plank for 5 minutes across a Kahlua pig firepit while in use.
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Post by Avril on May 16, 2011 17:31:09 GMT -5
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 16, 2011 19:28:16 GMT -5
If its Oztralian .. probably. ;D
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Post by Avril on May 16, 2011 22:08:02 GMT -5
Hmm, it's been many liftetimes since I savoured long pig!
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Post by PigsnieLite on May 16, 2011 22:09:20 GMT -5
Oh? You were once a Papua New guinea pig? Bwahahahahaha!
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Post by Avril on May 17, 2011 2:50:46 GMT -5
South American, I think.
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Post by sunfrog on May 18, 2011 17:16:55 GMT -5
Someone else just planked to death. This one off the back of a fast moving car.
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