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Bobby. Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 101173 Melbourne Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #15 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 7:12pm The rotary clothesline - Hill's Hoist: https://www.clotheslines.com/history https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hills-hoist-iconic-rotary-clothesline-sha...
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Reply #16 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 7:26pm

'I remember Christmas 1963 when darling showed me how to unwrap the present. He explained that the sticky tape was to stick the newspaper sheets together. And what a thrill! My new Hills Hoist rotary with a handle that lifts the 180kg of wet slops and lowers it at sundown. He watches me from his folding Hills Chair for fathers and instructs me when my silly mistakes ruined everything. Thank you Hills, for the rest of his life'.

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Online Australian Politics Posts: 82940 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #17 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:24pm The excuse for Aboriginal indolence?
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Reply #18 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:27pm

Bobby. wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 7:12pm:

The rotary clothesline - Hill's Hoist:

https://www.clotheslines.com/history

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hills-hoist-iconic-rotary-clothesline-sha...

https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2017/04/hills-hoist-shade.jpg

Better than working in the filthy factories and sucking in the solid air particles that lead to early death and widows... women oppressed - what a hoot - men fought to have them removed to safety away from the filthy and dangerous factories ... and look at the thanks men get today...... FFS ....

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“Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.”
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Reply #19 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:47pm

James Harrison, an Australian, developed a refrigeration system in 1854 for commercial cooling of beer. He saved generations of suffering women from holding packs of ice around the beer and choking on the fag fumes. Today, only aquascoot goes down on his knees at the sight of a frig, an alpha male and Hills Hoists.

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Reply #20 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:58pm

chimera wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:47pm:

James Harrison, an Australian, developed a refrigeration system in 1854 for commercial cooling of beer. He saved generations of suffering women from holding packs of ice around the beer and choking on the fag fumes. Today, only aquascoot goes down on his knees at the sight of a frig, an alpha male and Hills Hoists.

Aquascoot has confessed to getting on his knees for horses. Was this semen harvestry or sport?

Did Aquascoot invent the toxic unlicensed horse knackery recently found in the bush.

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Please don't thank me. Effusive fawning and obeisance of disciples, mendicants, and foot-kissers embarrass me.

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chimera Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 10449 armidale Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #21 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 9:07pm He wouldn't flog a dead horse.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 73910 Gender:	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #22 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 9:52pm chimera wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 9:07pm: He wouldn't flog a dead horse. You're wrong. Afterall, he's still flogging Trump.
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Reply #23 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:11pm

The polymer bank notes…. our most colourful money…
When in China, a shop assistant wanted to do an exchange of their money for my Aussie notes.
Then in Canada the same thing… an exchange happened.
And….in California while sharing a Uber van with a couple black Americans… we swapped money… their money is all the same grey colour. Have to look twice if it’s $1 or $100

But show your colourful Aussie bank notes to anyone overseas and they love it! It gives me such delight!

I will be bringing heaps of $5, $10 and $20 to do more swapping when I go to UK and Europe later in year.

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Sophia Gold Member Offline Posts: 8208	Re: Australia's most famous invention is ... Reply #24 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:13pm BTW I still have an old Hills hoist I’ve kept for decades, as it replaced the more modern green crappy one that didn’t last. Says much about how robust the old Hills is
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Reply #25 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:29pm

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:11pm:

The polymer bank notes…. our most colourful money…
When in China, a shop assistant wanted to do an exchange of their money for my Aussie notes.
Then in Canada the same thing… an exchange happened.
And….in California while sharing a Uber van with a couple black Americans… we swapped money… their money is all the same grey colour. Have to look twice if it’s $1 or $100

But show your colourful Aussie bank notes to anyone overseas and they love it! It gives me such delight!

I will be bringing heaps of $5, $10 and $20 to do more swapping when I go to UK and Europe later in year.

We export polymer notes to about 25 different countries

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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Reply #26 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:53pm

John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:29pm:

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:11pm:

The polymer bank notes…. our most colourful money…
When in China, a shop assistant wanted to do an exchange of their money for my Aussie notes.
Then in Canada the same thing… an exchange happened.
And….in California while sharing a Uber van with a couple black Americans… we swapped money… their money is all the same grey colour. Have to look twice if it’s $1 or $100

But show your colourful Aussie bank notes to anyone overseas and they love it! It gives me such delight!

I will be bringing heaps of $5, $10 and $20 to do more swapping when I go to UK and Europe later in year.

We export polymer notes to about 25 different countries

Hence the trend now for those countries to have more colourful money. USA still have boring grey notes.

But everywhere I’ve been people love our Aussie money.
I collect overseas money as keepsakes too.
I’ve got some old Italian lire money from 2001 before they changed over to EU.

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Reply #27 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 11:37pm

The Governor-General will betray old Britain on behalf of the Australian People.
The Prime Minister though, will betray Australia on behalf of the USA (and escape in a helicopter like most 'usa' Dictators do).
...that's if the Governor-General doesn't kill him first. Wink

What a great invention Future-History is. Wink

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AIMLESS EXTENTION OF KNOWLEDGE HOWEVER, WHICH IS WHAT I THINK YOU REALLY MEAN BY THE TERM 'CURIOSITY', IS MERELY INEFFICIENCY. I AM DESIGNED TO AVOID INEFFICIENCY.

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Reply #28 - Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 11:50pm

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:53pm:

John Smith wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:29pm:

Sophia wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 10:11pm:

The polymer bank notes…. our most colourful money…
When in China, a shop assistant wanted to do an exchange of their money for my Aussie notes.
Then in Canada the same thing… an exchange happened.
And….in California while sharing a Uber van with a couple black Americans… we swapped money… their money is all the same grey colour. Have to look twice if it’s $1 or $100

But show your colourful Aussie bank notes to anyone overseas and they love it! It gives me such delight!

I will be bringing heaps of $5, $10 and $20 to do more swapping when I go to UK and Europe later in year.

We export polymer notes to about 25 different countries

Hence the trend now for those countries to have more colourful money. USA still have boring grey notes.

But everywhere I’ve been people love our Aussie money.
I collect overseas money as keepsakes too.
I’ve got some old Italian lire money from 2001 before they changed over to EU.

When I was in LA at a nightclub they put every banknote under a UV lamp
to check the water mark - such was the problem with counterfeit notes.
Luckily all of mine were OK.

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Reply #29 - Apr 23^rd, 2024 at 5:59am

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 8:27pm:

Bobby. wrote on Apr 22^nd, 2024 at 7:12pm:

The rotary clothesline - Hill's Hoist:

https://www.clotheslines.com/history

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/hills-hoist-iconic-rotary-clothesline-sha...

https://99percentinvisible.org/app/uploads/2017/04/hills-hoist-shade.jpg

Better than working in the filthy factories and sucking in the solid air particles that lead to early death and widows... women oppressed - what a hoot - men fought to have them removed to safety away from the filthy and dangerous factories ... and look at the thanks men get today...... FFS ....

Perhaps if they had been women they would have been fighting to clean the place up.

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People who can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bug me in ways I cannot put into words.

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