Night Owl Chatterboxes - Part XXXVII!
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actually it's the same here.. whatever you bring back with you, over the amount allowed, you have to pay GST for it
Originally posted by Rhonda:Not going to buy anything here to bring over because horror of horrors, when I called up the shipping and freight companies, they all told me of the blardy Aussie customs charges, and on top of that, possible quarantine, plus you need to invoice your packing list because they'll charge you tax on the stuff despite them being your personal effects that are old and have been used!!
Darn Aussie customs... they're making it so blardy expensive and close to impossible to send stuff over!
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I'm talking shipment and freight, not excess baggage.Originally posted by the Bear:actually it's the same here.. whatever you bring back with you, over the amount allowed, you have to pay GST for it
The shipping companies I call will gladly ship personal effects from Melbourne to Singapore but refuse to do a Singapore to Melbourne shipment because it's much too troublesome and subject to too much paperwork and checks!
They even mentioned stuff like the possibility of quarantine and etc etc! It's just going to be blardy CD's and books and apparel and such!! Fumigate WHAT?!! -
of course..
being an isolated island, any bug or spore on the thing, may cause an ecological disaster..
goldfish from US is now killing the local frogs in the UK..
in the past, there was smallpox wiping out whole populations in the New World -
I'm not bringing in wood nor plants nor seed nor food! No flora, no fauna! Just books and CD's! Can forget about the apparel even.
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what are books made of?
Originally posted by Rhonda:I'm not bringing in wood nor plants nor seed nor food! No flora, no fauna! Just books and CD's! Can forget about the apparel even. -
Wood pulp that's been processed to death then coated with don't know how many layers of coating.Originally posted by the Bear:what are books made of?
Oh be fair! The books I'm bringing over, you can probably find in Borders or anyone of their bookshops can import them in! It's just that it's too costly to buy everything all over again!
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Read once that there's this iPod that got delivered to another country, when the guy opened the iPod, it had ants in it. -
they were processed.. what happens after they sit around?
mold, fungus, creepy crawlies start to eat the wood pulp
in other news.. go watch Planet Earth... amazing series!
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this is soooooo true!Originally posted by Rhonda:Wood pulp that's been processed to death then coated with don't know how many layers of coating.
Oh be fair! The books I'm bringing over, you can probably find in Borders or anyone of their bookshops can import them in! It's just that it's too costly to buy everything all over again! -
oh.. time to go swallow my pill for my eye
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ooo.. arctic fox trying to eat the geese
or the goslings or eggs i think -
he's stolen one!
burying the egg for later -
i downloaded Planet Earth...Originally posted by the Bear:they were processed.. what happens after they sit around?
mold, fungus, creepy crawlies start to eat the wood pulp
in other news.. go watch Planet Earth... amazing series!
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this is soooooo true!
the whole series.... -
What happened to my uncle's eye?
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hey mookie...
hope you change colour soon...
i'm looking to see if they have the DVDs.. it's amazing isn't it?
p.s. there's a blood clot in my right eye.. i think i rubbed it too hardOriginally posted by MooKu:i downloaded Planet Earth... the whole series.... -
banananboi bdae ?Originally posted by laurence82:ooh, can celebrate my birthday then
good idea
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awwww.. arctic fox stole a gosling for her cubs to eat..
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BBC's Planet Earth? I was going to wait for the boxed set to come out, then I'll go buy it during some crazy sale!
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I want my books!!!Originally posted by the Bear:they were processed.. what happens after they sit around?
mold, fungus, creepy crawlies start to eat the wood pulp
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rubbed it too hardOriginally posted by the Bear:hey mookie...
hope you change colour soon...
i'm looking to see if they have the DVDs.. it's amazing isn't it?
p.s. there's a blood clot in my right eye.. i think i rubbed it too hard
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so bad that u have to pop a pill for it?
hehe i'm blue cos i'm.. blue as in, the suffocating blue now... not the other blue... though i'm quite the other blue... but that's invisible and i'm coping fine with it... ahhblabberblabber.. -
Perchance Bear burst a fine blood vessel in his eye because he was peeking at stuff he shouldn't have and he got so excited his blood pressure shot up to the high heavens and then, POP! goes the vessel!!
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i get brown spots on my books after a whileOriginally posted by Rhonda:I want my books!!! -
Originally posted by Rhonda:Perchance Bear burst a fine blood vessel in his eye because he was peeking at stuff he shouldn't have and he got so excited his blood pressure shot up to the high heavens and then, POP! goes the vessel!!
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whatever it is, still, hope you change colour soon
the eye.. well, it'll go away eventually but yesterday, my office people freaked out, made me go see a doc.. i took the opportunity to get my 2nd Hep B jab too..
the pills are to clear out blood clots faster.. no other side effect except it gets rid of phlegm too.. since i don't have, doesn't matter, take the pills, fewer freakoutsOriginally posted by MooKu:rubbed it too hard
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so bad that u have to pop a pill for it?
hehe i'm blue cos i'm.. blue as in, the suffocating blue now... not the other blue... though i'm quite the other blue... but that's invisible and i'm coping fine with it... ahhblabberblabber.. -
I still want my beloved books!!Originally posted by MooKu:i get brown spots on my books after a while -
i went to sleep without and woke up with
seems like cult leaders mind is permanently in the gutterOriginally posted by Rhonda:Perchance Bear burst a fine blood vessel in his eye because he was peeking at stuff he shouldn't have and he got so excited his blood pressure shot up to the high heavens and then, POP! goes the vessel!!