Brisbane Town is the greatest city in the world friends, and here's more conclusive proof. Y'all see, Neo-Soweto only has two of them fancy Apple stores and we are gettin a new one here which means we have three of them fancy stores.

Brisbane CBD Apple Store Better than London's

Just like I done told y'all, our city is better friends.

Brisbane is not remotely the best city in the world.

Then again given you aren't from there or probably even know where it is, you wouldn't know that.

Sir, it is the greatest city in the world. Y'all just don't know it yet. And suh, visit my url and y'all will see I know Brisbane Town even better than people living at the ass end of Clayfield know Brisbane Town. Why? Because I'm holed up here in the Heights of the CBD friend, the only way to fly.

Billy Jack wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:41am:

Sir, it is the greatest city in the world. Y'all just don't know it yet. And suh, visit my url and y'all will see I know Brisbane Town even better than people living at the ass end of Clayfield know Brisbane Town. Why? Because I'm holed up here in the Heights of the CBD friend, the only way to fly.

Mate, I know you aren't so let's just leave it at that right.

But feel free to talk about the south-land sometime y'all

Brisbane is a fine town and I had many a merry time there during my 20's, but London is one of those few cities that feel like the centre of the world.

While living may be easier in Brisbane with its climate and limited number of people, a young man should spend a few years in London because easier is not always better.

Doctor Jolly wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:49am:

Brisbane is a fine town and I had many a merry time there during my 20's, but London is one of those few cities that feel like the centre of the world. While living may be easier in Brisbane with its climate and limited number of people, a young man should spend a few years in London because easier is not always better.

Central London. Like Downtown Manhattan just feels like the centre of everything when you are there.

I remember coming out of a bar at 3am, stood in Leicester Square and you would have thought it was midday.
Buzzing, people everywhere, shops open, everything available.

Just like Time Square.

Friend, there aint anyone interested in South Land where ever the heck that is. And friend, y'all aint know nothing. Y'all see my friends son is fancy with them computers and such and has set up my new 5000 dollar computer and for the Internet Security and such he can make my computer look like it's posting from Timbuktu, because them securities on the computer are important friend, and the software and hardware and such is set up that way so I am glad it's working fine.

But one day if y'all wear a nice clothings and act with good manners, y'all might get an invite to my fancy CBD here in Brisbane Town.

brisbane would be a cool place to live but to visit it sucks theres nothing to do there

My fondest memory of Brisbane is the image of it in my mirrors as I departed.  :P

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:52am:

Doctor Jolly wrote on Dec 31st, 2013 at 9:49am: Brisbane is a fine town and I had many a merry time there during my 20's, but London is one of those few cities that feel like the centre of the world. While living may be easier in Brisbane with its climate and limited number of people, a young man should spend a few years in London because easier is not always better. Central London. Like Downtown Manhattan just feels like the centre of everything when you are there. I remember coming out of a bar at 3am, stood in Leicester Square and you would have thought it was midday. Buzzing, people everywhere, shops open, everything available. Just like Time Square.

To be honest, I never felt the same in New York. Full of corporate drones in my opinion.

LA and the west coast seem to encapsulate that "anything is possible" US attitude.

Both places you visit .... never want to stay/live there.

I've been to Brisbane once, and I have no inclination to go back.  I've been to London four times.....

Frances wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:54pm:

I've been to Brisbane once, and I have no inclination to go back.  I've been to London four times.....

I would say that suits us fine friend, but then again, we got good Qld manner up here so please come back and visit sometime.

London is one of the most important and premier cities in the world.

Brisbane is, well, irrelevant.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:47am:

Billy Jack wrote on Dec 31st, 2013 at 9:41am: Sir, it is the greatest city in the world. Y'all just don't know it yet. And suh, visit my url and y'all will see I know Brisbane Town even better than people living at the ass end of Clayfield know Brisbane Town. Why? Because I'm holed up here in the Heights of the CBD friend, the only way to fly. Mate, I know you aren't so let's just leave it at that right. But feel free to talk about the south-land sometime y'all

Awww andrei can see ips . . . . .  next he willl join anonymous . . . .

The guy was joking btw - why do you argue with jokes?

SOB

Kat wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 12:22pm:

My fondest memory of Brisbane is the image of it in my mirrors as I departed.  :P

Agree.

It is by far overrated. It's much like Melbourne, only the locals believe the trumped up image it has given itself.

Sir Spot of Borg wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 5:36am:

The guy is a joke btw - why do you argue with jokes? SOB

Error corrected.

Ex Dame Pansi wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 5:55am:

Kat wrote on Dec 31st, 2013 at 12:22pm: My fondest memory of Brisbane is the image of it in my mirrors as I departed.  :P Agree. It is by far overrated. It's much like Melbourne, only the locals believe the trumped up image it has given itself.

Apparently the population explosion in brisbane is from melbournians moving here anyway

SOB

Australian cities have states of being, they don't have culture. They don't have culture because they don't respect institutions. Let me explain.

Fashions come out of London, Paris and Rome, but ironically Londoner's, Parisian's and Romans are not fashionable. A market porter, banker, actor or crim from one of those cities obeys an unwritten style guide that endures. A few years ago in Perth's Royal Perth Hospital a couple of guys won a nobel prize. At the same time there was a push to close the hospital. That's a situation unthinkable in London. If it's not broken don't fix it! Institutions may get old, need revamping upgrading, but the foundation, the culture remains and strengthens. When a paediatrician walks into their new job at Great Ormond street they KNOW they're the best, because nothing less is acceptable. It doesn't matter where they've trained or lived, they walk through those doors two feet taller than they walked the day before and they're ready to be the culture. Same at New Scotland Yard, London airport, Saville row, The city even a London Taxi.

The knowledge of place resides in its institutions. In Europe the institutions are respected, in Australia they're not.

what's more...

Grey wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:35am:

Australian cities have states of being, they don't have culture. They don't have culture because they don't respect institutions. Let me explain. Fashions come out of London, Paris and Rome, but ironically Londoner's, Parisian's and Romans are not fashionable. A market porter, banker, actor or crim from one of those cities obeys an unwritten style guide that endures. A few years ago in Perth's Royal Perth Hospital a couple of guys won a nobel prize. At the same time there was a push to close the hospital. That's a situation unthinkable in London. If it's not broken don't fix it! Institutions may get old, need revamping upgrading, but the foundation, the culture remains and strengthens. When a paediatrician walks into their new job at Great Ormond street they KNOW they're the best, because nothing less is acceptable. It doesn't matter where they've trained or lived, they walk through those doors two feet taller than they walked the day before and they're ready to be the culture. Same at New Scotland Yard, London airport, Saville row, The city even a London Taxi. The knowledge of place resides in its institutions. In Europe the institutions are respected, in Australia they're not.

I don't believe y'all are right there friend. Institutions are respected here, but practical natures are respected even more. It don't matter how great them fancy institutions are if the patient aint being treated right. So them folks getting treatment count more than the institution, and the doctor providing the treatment answers to the patient, not some fancy idea of institution which don't mean nothing.

Nice apostrophes there friend. Are you a greengrocer?

And London airport? Do y'all mean Mumbai On The Thames, and them other things y'all mention from London Town - well, London aint nothing but an impoverished slum, everyone knows that friend except them young ones who read Harry Potter and such.

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 10:59am:

Grey wrote on Jan 9th, 2014 at 8:35am: Australian cities have states of being, they don't have culture. They don't have culture because they don't respect institutions. Let me explain. Fashions come out of London, Paris and Rome, but ironically Londoner's, Parisian's and Romans are not fashionable. A market porter, banker, actor or crim from one of those cities obeys an unwritten style guide that endures. A few years ago in Perth's Royal Perth Hospital a couple of guys won a nobel prize. At the same time there was a push to close the hospital. That's a situation unthinkable in London. If it's not broken don't fix it! Institutions may get old, need revamping upgrading, but the foundation, the culture remains and strengthens. When a paediatrician walks into their new job at Great Ormond street they KNOW they're the best, because nothing less is acceptable. It doesn't matter where they've trained or lived, they walk through those doors two feet taller than they walked the day before and they're ready to be the culture. Same at New Scotland Yard, London airport, Saville row, The city even a London Taxi. The knowledge of place resides in its institutions. In Europe the institutions are respected, in Australia they're not. I don't believe y'all are right there friend. Institutions are respected here, but practical natures are respected even more. It don't matter how great them fancy institutions are if the patient aint being treated right. So them folks getting treatment count more than the institution, and the doctor providing the treatment answers to the patient, not some fancy idea of institution which don't mean nothing. Nice apostrophes there friend. Are you a greengrocer? And London airport? Do y'all mean Mumbai On The Thames, and them other things y'all mention from London Town - well, London aint nothing but an impoverished slum, everyone knows that friend except them young ones who read Harry Potter and such.

Why I couild be hurt if you weren't an American. Let me start by saying London isn't impoverished and wont be as long as Yank blow hards are prepared to pay good money to gawk at Royals, Castles and the like. I'd point out that 'impoverished slums' is an oxymoron, but realise that in your country that isn't necessarily so. It's as a kindness and warning that I'll point out the word 'impoverished' will take on a whole new meaning for you, when China forecloses on you. At least you don't have 'subprime' real estate to worry about, right now it's all subprime.

Friend, I am an Australian now, but it's obvious you aint. You are batting for London, and if you use the Google and type in London Slum and Youtube y'all will see the truth out there about that fine city, which aint doing so good. And friend, y'all are missing the point, y'all wouldnt even exist if it werent for the countries like the US, Canada and Australia - y'all would be speaking German, because lets face it friend, Germany actually outcompeted y'all last century and makes things today that them folks in London cant. The problem with folks like y'all is that you've been brainwashed by your famous BBC into thinking your country is something special ,Sure, when y'all could beat down the natives and take the land, it was, today - not so much.

Grey wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:35am:

Australian cities have states of being, they don't have culture. They don't have culture because they don't respect institutions. Let me explain. Fashions come out of London, Paris and Rome, but ironically Londoner's, Parisian's and Romans are not fashionable. A market porter, banker, actor or crim from one of those cities obeys an unwritten style guide that endures. A few years ago in Perth's Royal Perth Hospital a couple of guys won a nobel prize. At the same time there was a push to close the hospital. That's a situation unthinkable in London. If it's not broken don't fix it! Institutions may get old, need revamping upgrading, but the foundation, the culture remains and strengthens. When a paediatrician walks into their new job at Great Ormond street they KNOW they're the best, because nothing less is acceptable. It doesn't matter where they've trained or lived, they walk through those doors two feet taller than they walked the day before and they're ready to be the culture. Same at New Scotland Yard, London airport, Saville row, The city even a London Taxi. The knowledge of place resides in its institutions. In Europe the institutions are respected, in Australia they're not.

WTF?...You made the soldier fall down in my avatar Grey!!! :-? ::)

Grey wrote on Jan 12^th, 2014 at 4:51pm:

Why I couild be hurt if you weren't an American.

He probably isn't....

He is a complete fraud best left ignored.

He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama.

Billy Jack wrote on Dec 31^st, 2013 at 9:35am:

Brisbane Town is the greatest city in the world friends, and here's more conclusive proof. Y'all see, Neo-Soweto only has two of them fancy Apple stores and we are gettin a new one here which means we have three of them fancy stores. Brisbane CBD Apple Store Better than London's Just like I done told y'all, our city is better friends.

8-) neo-soweto lol  :D

Grey wrote on Jan 9^th, 2014 at 8:35am:

Australian cities have states of being, they don't have culture. They don't have culture because they don't respect institutions. Let me explain. Fashions come out of London, Paris and Rome, but ironically Londoner's, Parisian's and Romans are not fashionable. A market porter, banker, actor or crim from one of those cities obeys an unwritten style guide that endures. A few years ago in Perth's Royal Perth Hospital a couple of guys won a nobel prize. At the same time there was a push to close the hospital. That's a situation unthinkable in London. If it's not broken don't fix it! Institutions may get old, need revamping upgrading, but the foundation, the culture remains and strengthens. When a paediatrician walks into their new job at Great Ormond street they KNOW they're the best, because nothing less is acceptable. It doesn't matter where they've trained or lived, they walk through those doors two feet taller than they walked the day before and they're ready to be the culture. Same at New Scotland Yard, London airport, Saville row, The city even a London Taxi. The knowledge of place resides in its institutions. In Europe the institutions are respected, in Australia they're not.

We're anti-intellectual! Drinking is daily in Australia and i believe its physically addictive they say!

Like I done told y'all my friend here has a son who Knows About Computers and such, and makes his living from them, and y'all dont realize that I could be posting this here from one of them fancy computers y'all can carry around in a bag right from your fancy ghetto suburb, when in fact it looks On the Internet like I am posting it from the Wilds of Timbuktu, see? Them computers are real fancy in this Modern World in Which We Live. But I use one of them big ones here in my apartment, and it stays in one place.

But speaking of the Wilds of Timbuktu, I see that them fine folks over there in Neo-Soweto aint doing so good these days, and many are fleeing their Home, and living in great cities like Brisbane Town. Some of them integrate and assimilate, others think they are all fancy and better than the locals and post here about how superior they are and such, because they believe they all come from some superior society. Well, it aint superior now, and it weren't superior in the past when fine folks came from miles around to build this great city and country. Folks over there had dirty waters, and dirty cities, just like in China-Land today - its no wonder they all wanted to leave and still do. Take a look here at your grandma my friends (newly arrived from the Neo Soweto). : Folks from London Town are all superior and such I know

And that makes Billy Jack sad friends.

God I love this Internet. Mr Internet, *Holds up Keyboard* Can I have Some More Please?

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 11:23pm:

He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama.

Andrei.......this is the second time you've made that blunder.  Ask muso to inform you about proxy servers.  In fact, check my next post I'll make here.

*Poof*

I am in Holland!

:)

*Poof*

Back in Queensland.

Ask muso.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13^th, 2014 at 11:23pm:

He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama.

Doesn't bother me who, where or what posters are. What's said is what provides me with a platform to agree or disagree if I feel moved to.

In actual fact the truth is people are not a lot different from plants. What thrives in one place hasn't much hope of living well in another only a few hundred metres away. I grew up in NW London, if I'd grown up in SE London I probably wouldn't be me. One street is not like another.

That said of all Australia's cities I feel most at home in Melbourne and it's not just the weather. I like the real Australia too, the bush and bushies.

Grey wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 2:46pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13th, 2014 at 11:23pm: He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama. Doesn't bother me who, where or what posters are. What's said is what provides me with a platform to agree or disagree if I feel moved to. In actual fact the truth is people are not a lot different from plants. What thrives in one place hasn't much hope of living well in another only a few hundred metres away. I grew up in NW London, if I'd grown up in SE London I probably wouldn't be me. One street is not like another. That said of all Australia's cities I feel most at home in Melbourne and it's not just the weather. I like the real Australia too, the bush and bushies.

You got that last bit right.. Diff from those city centric D/H

;) ;)

Aussie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 1:58pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13th, 2014 at 11:23pm: He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama. Andrei.......this is the second time you've made that blunder.  Ask muso to inform you about proxy servers.  In fact, check my next post I'll make here.

Who is talking about proxy servers?
I said he is not Australian. I use proxy servers myself to watch US sportscasts only available for US people.

Billy Jack is a fraud best left ignored.
That's my last view on the subject.

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 8:49pm:

Aussie wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 1:58pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13th, 2014 at 11:23pm: He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama. Andrei.......this is the second time you've made that blunder.  Ask muso to inform you about proxy servers.  In fact, check my next post I'll make here. Who is talking about proxy servers? I said he is not Australian. I use proxy servers myself to watch US sportscasts only available for US people. Billy Jack is a fraud best left ignored. That's my last view on the subject.

Yeah......nice.

Did you observe how quickly I went from Australia and to Europe and then back again.....all within about five minutes?

Aussie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 9:24pm:

Did you observe how quickly I went from Australia and to Europe and then back again.....all within about five minutes?

Do you wear a lycra suit? :-)

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-how-gangs-used-the-freemasons-to-corrupt-police-9054670.html

http://www.redicecreations.com/ul_img/28452freemasonscrime_678x320_front.jpg

Revealed: How gangs used the Freemasons to corrupt police

Gangsters able to recruit police officers through secret society, says investigation for Scotland Yard
TOM HARPER  Author Biography  INVESTIGATIONS REPORTER  Monday 13 January 2014

Secret networks of Freemasons have been used by organised crime gangs to corrupt the criminal justice system, according to a bombshell Metropolitan Police report leaked to The Independent.

Operation Tiberius, written in 2002, found underworld syndicates used their contacts in the controversial brotherhood to “recruit corrupted officers” inside Scotland Yard, and concluded it was one of “the most difficult aspects of organised crime corruption to proof against”.

The report – marked “Secret” – found serving officers in East Ham east London who were members of the Freemasons attempted to find out which detectives were suspected of links to organised crime from other police sources who were also members of the society.

Famous for its secret handshakes, Freemasonry has long been suspected of having members who work in the criminal justice system – notably the judiciary and the police.

The political establishment and much of the media often dismiss such ideas as the work of conspiracy theorists. However, Operation Tiberius is the second secret police report revealed by The Independent in the last six months to highlight the possible issue.

Project Riverside, a 2008 report on the rogue private investigations industry by the Serious Organised Crime Agency, also claimed criminals attempt to corrupt police officers through Freemason members in a bid to further their interests.

Concerns over the influence of freemasons on the criminal justice system in 1998 led former Home Secretary Jack Straw to order that all police officers and judges should declare membership of the organisation.

However, ten of Britain’s 43 police forces refused to take part and the policy was dropped under threat of legal action.  In England and Wales, the Grand Master of the Freemasons is Prince Edward, Duke of Kent. The United Grand Lodge of England declined to comment last night.

The Independent revealed last week that Operation Tiberius found that organised crime syndicates such as the Adams family and the gang led by David Hunt were able to infiltrate the Met “at will”.

Asked to comment on the Tiberius report, a spokesman for Scotland Yard said: “The Metropolitan Police Service will not tolerate any behaviour by our officers and staff which could damage the trust placed in police by the public.

“We are determined to pursue corruption in all its forms and with all possible vigour.”

Aussie wrote on Jan 14^th, 2014 at 9:24pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 8:49pm: Aussie wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 1:58pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13th, 2014 at 11:23pm: He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama. Andrei.......this is the second time you've made that blunder.  Ask muso to inform you about proxy servers.  In fact, check my next post I'll make here. Who is talking about proxy servers? I said he is not Australian. I use proxy servers myself to watch US sportscasts only available for US people. Billy Jack is a fraud best left ignored. That's my last view on the subject. Yeah......nice. Did you observe how quickly I went from Australia and to Europe and then back again.....all within about five minutes?

Friend, I don't think this fine gentleman understands and such. I know I am new at the computers but even I know that them folks I asked to install everything know what they are doing and they must have done a good job. By the way, I don't like folks who aint polite, and calling someone a fraud because y'all (except Aussie) don't understand the computers aint right friends.

By the way friends, here's some nice photos of London Town for y'all here in Brisbane Town, to make y'all realise you are living in the greatest city in the world friends.

Beautiful London

More Beautiful London.

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/06/01/1226380/912597-slum-landlord-ted-amos-and-some-of-his-run-down-properties.jpg


Quote:

He's the slum landlord of Brisbane's dress circle. For some battlers, Edward "Ted" Amos's run-down rentals are the last resort amid a public housing crisis and a daunting inner-city property market. But the state of these properties - located ironically in some of the city's most affluent suburbs - has Mr Amos, 71, back in Brisbane City Council's crosshairs almost three decades after it served his first defective building notice. The council has applied for court orders to have houses in Ascot, Clayfield, Wooloowin, Newmarket and Virginia declared "dangerous and dilapidated", forcing Mr Amos to pay builders to bring them up to scratch. Its officers believe he still rents out two of the properties - as well as a Clayfield flat that earned a "show cause notice" this month - despite council enforcement notices causing past tenants to leave. A family who moved out of the Clayfield house last year after the council told them the property was "dilapidated and infested with vermin" were slapped with a $2000 damages claim by Mr Amos. But the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the property was unfit for lease to begin with, and that Mr Amos "created an environment of intimidation" against "desperate" tenants. A month later, Mr Amos lost an appeal against a QCAT order to release the bond on the Clayfield flat he had withheld from ex-tenants as "compensation" for cleaning. New tenants told The Courier-Mail the location of the $300-a-week flat was appealing but "we have to wait 10 minutes after flushing the toilet to have a shower". Their lease contains the same "as is" condition, with "no promises to carry out any repairs", that Mr Amos was using in 1991 when then-councillor David Hinchliffe blasted him for "an appalling record with council in relation to the state of his premises". However, a longtime resident of Mr Amos' $150-a-room boarding house in Albion said the dearth of cheap inner-city accommodation meant "we need more people like Ted". "A slum's better than nothing. It's a roof over your head," he said. Mr Amos achieved notoriety as a real estate agent in 1988 when the Supreme Court found he "unconscionably" conned a mentally-ill widow into selling her Banyo house at below-market value. His long list of rental law breaches includes a $7000 fine in 2009 over a lease that allowed him to hike rent by a quarter without notice and "avoid his obligations to maintain and repair the premises". Asked about plans for his multimillion-dollar portfolio, Mr Amos said: "I can't make any comment on it because it's before the courts, you realise." His legal battles with the council, which is also pursuing him for half a million dollars in allegedly unpaid rates, include a failed personal injury claim in 2005 after he tripped over a water valve in Albion.

http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/welcome-to-the-house-of-the-rising-slum/story-e6freon6-1226380954503

Frances wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 2:21pm:

http://resources1.news.com.au/images/2012/06/01/1226380/912597-slum-landlord-ted-amos-and-some-of-his-run-down-properties.jpg Quote: He's the slum landlord of Brisbane's dress circle. For some battlers, Edward "Ted" Amos's run-down rentals are the last resort amid a public housing crisis and a daunting inner-city property market. But the state of these properties - located ironically in some of the city's most affluent suburbs - has Mr Amos, 71, back in Brisbane City Council's crosshairs almost three decades after it served his first defective building notice. The council has applied for court orders to have houses in Ascot, Clayfield, Wooloowin, Newmarket and Virginia declared "dangerous and dilapidated", forcing Mr Amos to pay builders to bring them up to scratch. Its officers believe he still rents out two of the properties - as well as a Clayfield flat that earned a "show cause notice" this month - despite council enforcement notices causing past tenants to leave. A family who moved out of the Clayfield house last year after the council told them the property was "dilapidated and infested with vermin" were slapped with a $2000 damages claim by Mr Amos. But the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal found the property was unfit for lease to begin with, and that Mr Amos "created an environment of intimidation" against "desperate" tenants. A month later, Mr Amos lost an appeal against a QCAT order to release the bond on the Clayfield flat he had withheld from ex-tenants as "compensation" for cleaning. New tenants told The Courier-Mail the location of the $300-a-week flat was appealing but "we have to wait 10 minutes after flushing the toilet to have a shower". Their lease contains the same "as is" condition, with "no promises to carry out any repairs", that Mr Amos was using in 1991 when then-councillor David Hinchliffe blasted him for "an appalling record with council in relation to the state of his premises". However, a longtime resident of Mr Amos' $150-a-room boarding house in Albion said the dearth of cheap inner-city accommodation meant "we need more people like Ted". "A slum's better than nothing. It's a roof over your head," he said. Mr Amos achieved notoriety as a real estate agent in 1988 when the Supreme Court found he "unconscionably" conned a mentally-ill widow into selling her Banyo house at below-market value. His long list of rental law breaches includes a $7000 fine in 2009 over a lease that allowed him to hike rent by a quarter without notice and "avoid his obligations to maintain and repair the premises". Asked about plans for his multimillion-dollar portfolio, Mr Amos said: "I can't make any comment on it because it's before the courts, you realise." His legal battles with the council, which is also pursuing him for half a million dollars in allegedly unpaid rates, include a failed personal injury claim in 2005 after he tripped over a water valve in Albion. http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/welcome-to-the-house-of-the-rising-slum/story-e6freon6-1226380954503

Yeas.....that is a private Landlord's work in Brisbane.  The London images are of two parts ~ private Indian landlords ripping off Indians, and high rise public Council (Government) run ghettos.

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 2:13pm:

Aussie wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 9:24pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 8:49pm: Aussie wrote on Jan 14th, 2014 at 1:58pm: Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 13th, 2014 at 11:23pm: He is a complete fraud best left ignored. He is about as Australian and Australian based as Barack Obama. Andrei.......this is the second time you've made that blunder.  Ask muso to inform you about proxy servers.  In fact, check my next post I'll make here. Who is talking about proxy servers? I said he is not Australian. I use proxy servers myself to watch US sportscasts only available for US people. Billy Jack is a fraud best left ignored. That's my last view on the subject. Yeah......nice. Did you observe how quickly I went from Australia and to Europe and then back again.....all within about five minutes? Friend, I don't think this fine gentleman understands and such. I know I am new at the computers but even I know that them folks I asked to install everything know what they are doing and they must have done a good job. By the way, I don't like folks who aint polite, and calling someone a fraud because y'all (except Aussie) don't understand the computers aint right friends. By the way friends, here's some nice photos of London Town for y'all here in Brisbane Town, to make y'all realise you are living in the greatest city in the world friends. Beautiful London More Beautiful London.

Get one of your clevah www friends to take a photo of you at an obvious Brisbane landmark, holding that day's issue of the Courier Mail (back turned to camera if you like) and post the photo here.  That will shut Andrei up.

Friend, folks have demonstrated they aint no good at the computers and such, and aint worth my time or yours. If they send me a photo of their old lady's big old tittays, maybe I'll send them a photo of me, but y'all just got to click my link and y'all will see my photo anyway. Heck, I can see it here, can't yall? It is a bit old but that's me. And friends, all I know is that the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place?

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 9:41pm:

Friend, folks have demonstrated they aint no good at the computers and such, and aint worth my time or yours. If they send me a photo of their old lady's big old tittays, maybe I'll send them a photo of me, but y'all just got to click my link and y'all will see my photo anyway. Heck, I can see it here, can't yall? It is a bit old but that's me. And friends, all I know is that the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place?

Nice, irrelevant and evasive rant.  The simplest way to dispose of the allegation Andrei raises against you is to do what I suggested. 

Get on with it.

Like I done told y'all my photo is posted and friend, everyone around the Brisbane Town knows me, and I don't answer to the likes of you, or your silly suggestions, unless y'all show me some proof of who y'all are, or some fancy pants Internet Man who don't know stuff that even I know, and it is my fourth month here on the Internet with you fine folks.

Like I done told y'all, in the the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place?

London sure sounds like its dangerous to me friend.

London. Like England itself is a great place to live.

Brisbane just isn't for me. It comes across a but boring.

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 15^th, 2014 at 10:10pm:

Like I done told y'all my photo is posted and friend, everyone around the Brisbane Town knows me, and I don't answer to the likes of you, or your silly suggestions, unless y'all show me some proof of who y'all are, or some fancy pants Internet Man who don't know stuff that even I know, and it is my fourth month here on the Internet with you fine folks. Like I done told y'all, in the the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place? London sure sounds like its dangerous to me friend.

Doesn't matter if you're in Brisbane, Baltimore, London or New York, every body has an anus. Some places in london you don't reveal your Iphone, a lot of places in America you don't reveal you. Not even if you're a cop. I used to ring a pal in Oakland and every other night the streets were alive to the sound of gunfire. 

Billy's Crack sounds like some smacking kid who is trying unsuccessfully to take the p1ss. Read his posts, if he isn't a troubled kid who needs help, he's an adult idiot who will never grow up.

Y'all come back now, y'hear.......and y'all have a good day fuddermuckers!

viewpoint wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 8:53am:

Billy's Crack sounds like some smacking kid who is trying unsuccessfully to take the p1ss. Read his posts, if he isn't a troubled kid who needs help, he's an adult idiot who will never grow up. Y'all come back now, y'hear.......and y'all have a good day fuddermuckers!

Are you sure that Billy Jackoff is an adult?

Frances wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 9:01am:

viewpoint wrote on Jan 16th, 2014 at 8:53am: Billy's Crack sounds like some smacking kid who is trying unsuccessfully to take the p1ss. Read his posts, if he isn't a troubled kid who needs help, he's an adult idiot who will never grow up. Y'all come back now, y'hear.......and y'all have a good day fuddermuckers! Are you sure that Billy Jackoff is an adult?

Hard to say, he sounds like a kid.......but then there are quite a few on this forum who post infantile crap.....look at Crowshyte, imfeckedonit, rustynail etc etc......
::)

Whoops, almost forgot Greenslime and come_to_the_light......

Grey wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 8:49am:

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 15th, 2014 at 10:10pm: Like I done told y'all my photo is posted and friend, everyone around the Brisbane Town knows me, and I don't answer to the likes of you, or your silly suggestions, unless y'all show me some proof of who y'all are, or some fancy pants Internet Man who don't know stuff that even I know, and it is my fourth month here on the Internet with you fine folks. Like I done told y'all, in the the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place? London sure sounds like its dangerous to me friend. Doesn't matter if you're in Brisbane, Baltimore, London or New York, every body has an anus. Some places in london you don't reveal your Iphone, a lot of places in America you don't reveal you. Not even if you're a cop. I used to ring a pal in Oakland and every other night the streets were alive to the sound of gunfire.

Friend, I aint interested in your views all that much because y'all sure come across as an Apologist for Limey Land. I have seen it all friend, and I am probably one generation your senior. Y'all know that them folks are gangs and such and that ordinary folks are safer in the US than in London, which is an impoverished slum, from what I have seen and heard from a friend who lived there a long time, and y'all know that them folks like you come here and to the US and kiss the ground when y'all do, just look at this one friend.

London certainly beats Brisbane in sheer size. Its metro population of 15 million is not much smaller than Australia's population.

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 16^th, 2014 at 1:36pm:

Grey wrote on Jan 16th, 2014 at 8:49am: Billy Jack wrote on Jan 15th, 2014 at 10:10pm: Like I done told y'all my photo is posted and friend, everyone around the Brisbane Town knows me, and I don't answer to the likes of you, or your silly suggestions, unless y'all show me some proof of who y'all are, or some fancy pants Internet Man who don't know stuff that even I know, and it is my fourth month here on the Internet with you fine folks. Like I done told y'all, in the the Wilds of England aint no place to be if y'all have one of them fancy cellphones. My friend's son just got back from that fine place, and tells me there are warning signs everywhere not to get your phone out (one of them fancy ones you can keep in your bag) anywhere because it would make y'all a fine target. What the heck is that friends? Some kind of Mad Max place? London sure sounds like its dangerous to me friend. Doesn't matter if you're in Brisbane, Baltimore, London or New York, every body has an anus. Some places in london you don't reveal your Iphone, a lot of places in America you don't reveal you. Not even if you're a cop. I used to ring a pal in Oakland and every other night the streets were alive to the sound of gunfire.  Friend, I aint interested in your views all that much because y'all sure come across as an Apologist for Limey Land. I have seen it all friend, and I am probably one generation your senior. Y'all know that them folks are gangs and such and that ordinary folks are safer in the US than in London, which is an impoverished slum, from what I have seen and heard from a friend who lived there a long time, and y'all know that them folks like you come here and to the US and kiss the ground when y'all do, just look at this one friend.

I'm not your friend. If you don't want adverse comment on your idiotic views then you've come to the wrong place. I remember Notting Hill when all the houses had GAS OFF written in 20' letters, (which meant 'condemned'). But the houses survived and so did the people who still lived in them. But I'd guess most don't live in Notting Hill, king of the trendy suburbs, anymore. It's called 'urban renewal' it's happened to Harlem, it's happened to Notting Hill. Now you want to compare the homicide rate of LA to Notting Hill or some daft shyte?

Friend, I would rather point out that you do come across as an Apologist for Limey Land at All Costs, which is inherent in the nature of some people from European countries, acting superior and such toward others, but the article was about mugging, which is far more commonly experienced in a place, as murder usually happens between people who know each other, whether spouses or members of gangs, but muggings happen to strangers, like you or I walking down a street, and is much more common in London if you open your peepers and read the article, but then again, you want to make a comparison between LA and Notting Hill, and divert my and others' attention from the subject and such, and it is true that you can make no comparison between them as you say because the Watts riots were 50 years ago, and yet London had them only in recent memory, two years ago, and also that without some of them fine folks from LA, Notting Hill wouldn't be in English hands at all, because y'all had the worst diplomacy, and your armies ran away from those European cousins of yours y'all wanted to fight, ran away like little mice to fight another day, except y'all wouldnt have fought another day without them fine folks from LA, or Brisbane Town or the Wilds of Canada, and y'all have been relying on that good luck now for a century, and it aint happening again, and so now them cousins of yours on the Continent are eating your lunch, making cars and such that y'all cannot make no more, and making things in their economies, things that people want to buy, and things that aint little plastic Big Bens and ghetto slums like the ones in them videos.

Friend, I hope y'all open your peepers and realise one thing about our great country: we don't care much for folks who rely on invented traditions of yore, based on their own cultural superiorities and such, over practicalities and reality that people are people, and actually folks who aint got all great grandparents from the same valley, but who got them from all over the world are much healthier of mind and can use their peepers to read, and their minds to argue with rationales and such. It's a strange idea for you, I know friend, but I'm sure it's one y'all will consider in your own time, and come to agree with, even if y'all do feel a bit left out.

Cofgod wrote on Jan 17^th, 2014 at 12:58pm:

London certainly beats Brisbane in sheer size. Its metro population of 15 million is not much smaller than Australia's population.

Brisbane is bland and boring trust me.

Not much more than a cowboy town that has just grown in size but kept a red-neck population to grow with it.

London is dynamic and cosmopolitan.

I live about 30 miles from the CBD of London. Far enough to not be in amongst it all the time but close enough to get in there to enjoy it.

I like Sydney, I like New York - and my favourite place to live is San Diego - but London is awesome.

Brisbane is well, just a little bit too slow and redneck for me..

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 17^th, 2014 at 11:13pm:

Friend, I would rather point out that you do come across as an Apologist for Limey Land at All Costs, which is inherent in the nature of some people from European countries, acting superior and such toward others, but the article was about mugging, which is far more commonly experienced in a place, as murder usually happens between people who know each other, whether spouses or members of gangs, but muggings happen to strangers, like you or I walking down a street, and is much more common in London if you open your peepers and read the article, but then again, you want to make a comparison between LA and Notting Hill, and divert my and others' attention from the subject and such, and it is true that you can make no comparison between them as you say because the Watts riots were 50 years ago, and yet London had them only in recent memory, two years ago, and also that without some of them fine folks from LA, Notting Hill wouldn't be in English hands at all, because y'all had the worst diplomacy, and your armies ran away from those European cousins of yours y'all wanted to fight, ran away like little mice to fight another day, except y'all wouldnt have fought another day without them fine folks from LA, or Brisbane Town or the Wilds of Canada, and y'all have been relying on that good luck now for a century, and it aint happening again, and so now them cousins of yours on the Continent are eating your lunch, making cars and such that y'all cannot make no more, and making things in their economies, things that people want to buy, and things that aint little plastic Big Bens and ghetto slums like the ones in them videos. Friend, I hope y'all open your peepers and realise one thing about our great country: we don't care much for folks who rely on invented traditions of yore, based on their own cultural superiorities and such, over practicalities and reality that people are people, and actually folks who aint got all great grandparents from the same valley, but who got them from all over the world are much healthier of mind and can use their peepers to read, and their minds to argue with rationales and such. It's a strange idea for you, I know friend, but I'm sure it's one y'all will consider in your own time, and come to agree with, even if y'all do feel a bit left out.

If you want to compare mugging statistics between London and Harlem, it's entirely appropriate to compare the homicide statistics of LA and Notting Hill.

You cannot 'act superior' you either are or aren't. In this case I'm superior because I can out-think, outwrite, and outclass a dumb clunk like you anyday.

A whole lot of things happened before Americans stopped writing England off and switched allegiances. Having Nazis as a major trading partner meant nothing to the gutless profiteers. But becoming an unloved pariah state that nobody wanted to trade with did.

The things that happened before American involvement in the war against Germany, include:-

the Battle of Britain that took out the Luftwaffe.

'El Alameine', the battle that destroyed Rommel's Afrika Corp., despite our 'cousins' (spits) leaking military secrets to the Nazis. And more importantly, tieing up men and equipment that the Germans needed so badly at Stalingrad. After Stalingrad the war for Germans was over, nice of you guys to then drop by for the mop up and photo opportunities. 

 

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 17^th, 2014 at 11:21pm:

Cofgod wrote on Jan 17th, 2014 at 12:58pm: London certainly beats Brisbane in sheer size. Its metro population of 15 million is not much smaller than Australia's population. Brisbane is bland and boring trust me. Not much more than a cowboy town that has just grown in size but kept a red-neck population to grow with it. London is dynamic and cosmopolitan. I live about 30 miles from the CBD of London. Far enough to not be in amongst it all the time but close enough to get in there to enjoy it. I like Sydney, I like New York - and my favourite place to live is San Diego - but London is awesome. Brisbane is well, just a little bit too slow and redneck for me..

My mum and sister visited several cities in Australia last year.

Funnily enough they quite liked Brisbane.  They hated Melbourne, though, for some reason.

Grey wrote on Jan 18^th, 2014 at 4:53pm:

Billy Jack wrote on Jan 17th, 2014 at 11:13pm: Friend, I would rather point out that you do come across as an Apologist for Limey Land at All Costs, which is inherent in the nature of some people from European countries, acting superior and such toward others, but the article was about mugging, which is far more commonly experienced in a place, as murder usually happens between people who know each other, whether spouses or members of gangs, but muggings happen to strangers, like you or I walking down a street, and is much more common in London if you open your peepers and read the article, but then again, you want to make a comparison between LA and Notting Hill, and divert my and others' attention from the subject and such, and it is true that you can make no comparison between them as you say because the Watts riots were 50 years ago, and yet London had them only in recent memory, two years ago, and also that without some of them fine folks from LA, Notting Hill wouldn't be in English hands at all, because y'all had the worst diplomacy, and your armies ran away from those European cousins of yours y'all wanted to fight, ran away like little mice to fight another day, except y'all wouldnt have fought another day without them fine folks from LA, or Brisbane Town or the Wilds of Canada, and y'all have been relying on that good luck now for a century, and it aint happening again, and so now them cousins of yours on the Continent are eating your lunch, making cars and such that y'all cannot make no more, and making things in their economies, things that people want to buy, and things that aint little plastic Big Bens and ghetto slums like the ones in them videos. Friend, I hope y'all open your peepers and realise one thing about our great country: we don't care much for folks who rely on invented traditions of yore, based on their own cultural superiorities and such, over practicalities and reality that people are people, and actually folks who aint got all great grandparents from the same valley, but who got them from all over the world are much healthier of mind and can use their peepers to read, and their minds to argue with rationales and such. It's a strange idea for you, I know friend, but I'm sure it's one y'all will consider in your own time, and come to agree with, even if y'all do feel a bit left out. If you want to compare mugging statistics between London and Harlem, it's entirely appropriate to compare the homicide statistics of LA and Notting Hill. You cannot 'act superior' you either are or aren't. In this case I'm superior because I can out-think, outwrite, and outclass a dumb clunk like you anyday. A whole lot of things happened before Americans stopped writing England off and switched allegiances. Having Nazis as a major trading partner meant nothing to the gutless profiteers. But becoming an unloved pariah state that nobody wanted to trade with did. The things that happened before American involvement in the war against Germany, include:- the Battle of Britain that took out the Luftwaffe. 'El Alameine', the battle that destroyed Rommel's Afrika Corp., despite our 'cousins' (spits) leaking military secrets to the Nazis. And more importantly, tieing up men and equipment that the Germans needed so badly at Stalingrad. After Stalingrad the war for Germans was over, nice of you guys to then drop by for the mop up and photo opportunities.

Friend, now I understand. Sure, I may not have them fancy degrees and such, but I hear you. You are a man with a heart, and we should all be polite and such to y'all, because it is obvious y'all have much pride in your old country, and like many folks from your old country, known to many here as The Mexico of Australia, for many of y'all come here to seek a better life and such, y'all have conceptions of Past Glories from Days of Yore and such, and would like to bring your past battles with y'all to our fine country, which does not recognize them as being valid, because (to get off the topic of Brisbane vs London Apple Stores and Living for a moment, sorry), we are a nation made up of many folks here, and I am one of them, just like y'all, but do not bring my past battles to this great country, because that aint right friend. And by the way, all them fine folks here in Brisbane Town, and LA and the Wilds of Alberta and such - well y'all should be kissing the ground and thanking them, because their old folks went out of their way to help y'all in your failings of diplomacy last century, worshipping your BBCs mantras and fat-cigar chompin' leaders and such, and y'all were hoodwinked, and y'all now have a ghetto because of it, and that aint good, but they felt sorry for y'all and went across and saved your a**es, because they were good Christian folks, and obviously y'all like to thank them by saying that y'all are superior and such. Well, we just turn the other cheek, because superiority aint something we recognize. Well friend, today with the Internet, we all can see how folks from nations there in the Old World think and think about their neighbours and such, much like Africa and the Middle East today do, and it makes us sad friend, because it only brings poverty. Y'all should watch this video and realise...

...and realise that we all felt sorry for y'all and such , and pulled your a**es out of the furnace. You're welcome, by the way.

And back onto the topic, because if y'all want to get all Royale on us here about your fabulous country of origine, the Mexico of Australia, and tell us how much you still have both feet in that country, then do it in another thread please Sire, because we are all talking about something else here:

And to make a comparison between London using Notting Hill, and then LA, just speaks to your lack of logic, even if y'all have fancy educations and such as y'all say y'all do, because murders do not matter with these statistics, as murders happen between folks who already know each other, it is the muggings and random violences statistics y'all need to look at because that will show y'all that there is a big "YOOF" problem there in London, and y'all dont have that here in Brisbane because it aint nearly as bad, and we don't have that "BENNIE" culture, as y'all call it there in the Mexico of Australia, because we all had to build this country from scratch, even long before I came here, to work together in the Sun and such, and build it. And friend, them riots y'all had over there in Neo-Soweto some years ago, well, I aint seen nothing like that since Watts in the 1960s, so y'all are still 50 years looking back into the past, and that aint good for the soul friend.

London has three Apple stores, just like Brisbane now, well, I didn't see that - thank y'all, and I wonder now what other things make Brisbane Town better than London, other than what I have described above, that Neo-Soweto is the capital of the Mexico of Australia, and that Brisbane Town is the capital of the fine wonderful state of Queensland.

How the phark did you end up as an 'Aussie?'

Some folks came here from the Wilds of Europe. Well, I did too, but my family also came here via an extra 100 years in the Wilds of Americas first friend.  ;)