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Jamu is a traditional Javanese health drink. It is refreshing, contains anti-oxidants and anti-inflammatories and is good for gut health. I suffer IBS and I find it to be most helpful. It’s also reputed to be great for immune support and I’ve found nothing to contradict that. Traditionally served cool or cold, I find it best comfortably above body temperature; warm but not hot. Traditional…

Here’s a draft plan for a series of ESL English lessons. I’d much appreciate your input and feedback, thank you. Feel free to pass it on. Explain Proverb concept ‘Don’t / best to’ Discussion: draw from experiences, impute storytelling. Pairs Practice: telling / listening: partner reduces story to proverb and reflects Write as proverb, pass to partner for grammar check and discuss. Review…

First, whilst the English are pretty good at racism and have been wonderfully blunt in spreading this shite across borders, they are not the first, best or most subtle. However, it doth need be said, that… https://www.facebook.com/share/p/194ByCFBCW/ My experience too, and why I hate racism in all its forms (including so called ‘casual’ racism) (Nenad). My 2 cents… There is no casual racism,…

The Conversation “Philistine” has generally been used by the cultured or elite to describe the ignorant or uncultured. The Philistines were from the Aegean, perhaps Crete, and arrived in what would be called Palestine around 1200 BC. They were cultured,  specialists in iron-making, advanced weaponry, olive oil, beer and wine production and had a distinctive style of pottery. So how did they…

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Hi, I’m putting together some English Wiki’s, student resources and trainer resources. You can find them at: wadmabbits.wordpress.com/english-as-a-second-language/ The resources include a trainer glossary of things TESOL, as well as wiki’s on phonetics. Enjoy!

A cost scam as old as startups and sales. A new product to market, untested really. So put it out there cheap to prove it and generate a customer base.  OK.  Tight but doable.  Then charge profitable fees based on real costs, demand and scalability once stable and secure. Oop, pain point. DILLIGAFF response (the Bird!). So.. Interesting that a bot now costs USD$13 a day, call it AUD$20 a day.…

One in the hand is worth two in the bush. .. or is it, really? https://www.facebook.com/share/18BBnV6GvA/

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Well, with the US dividing itself in rhetoric, in party, and now from its Beloved Leader, I wonder where AUKUS stands, really. Also, this Aussie deal. Awful. We s#at on the French with a fair deal we had with them. We have a deal, sort of, with the US, that, when they feel like it, will sell us used subs While Europe buys subs from the Swedes and smart countries now use submersible…

Is a little chaos actually good for us? Well, being a right pedantic arse, I find great comfort in my ‘neuro-divergant pit of planned experiences, predictable outcomes and flat responses. However, I get bored, jittery and sometimes just wanna shake things up y’know? I mean hell, why not? So waddy think? Stability; or Choas?

Caitlin Johnsone | Manipulators do not use language… OMG, spot on!

What, aren’t you honest enought to just say that you don’t give a shit about your customers? That you’re too cheap to hire enough call centre operatives? Or that your help systems or service sucks so much that you have that number of calls?

National Herald | It’s already happening in Australia, Jul 2026. History repeats itself, as it so often does. Inexorably. But do we need? Highlights The far right accusing the left of centre as communists. Trump called half of America vermin on its 259th birthday, along with ‘communist menace and ‘Eradicate’. the lunatic…beautiful idea that free people can govern themselves without slitting…