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WAYS TO DIE IN AUSTRALIA
Shark
Croc
Blue Ring Octopus
Stone Fish
Stingray
JellyFish
Scorpian
Funnel Web Spider
Red Back Spider
Snake (choose out of 9 of the worlds 10 deadliest)
WAYS TO DIE IN ENGERLAND
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Correction, young Mat, in England people usually get murdered by chav scum. |
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And in Australia British backpackers are murdered by red-neck outbackers. |
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What is a "Chav"? i've heard the word, but not sure exactly what a chav would look like. please post a pic.
here is an Aussie Wog.
And here is an Aussie "Red Neck Outbacker"
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What do you call 15 australians watching the World Cup rugby final?
The Wallabies. |
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Ahahah. Love this thread.
I love England and think Pommies are great.
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Yes, your Queen.
HAHAHAHA!!! |
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Send her victorious.
A lot of good things come out of Oz especially for the Womens World Cup. Which would you choose?
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What a pleasant surprise this thread has become...
There's actually something created by a whinging Pom that has become funny and popular. |
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What, like the way you use the English language? |
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| What, like the way you use the English language? |
'Like' is officially an adverb now ? |
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Yes it is.
As in 'I like the way you think you're such a smartarse, you fanny'. |
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1838 Pre-paid postage - Colonial Postmaster-General of New South Wales, James Raymond introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system.
1843 Grain stripper - John Ridley and John Bull of South Australia developed the world's first grain stripper that cut the crop then removed and placed the grain into bins.
1856 Refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical refrigerator. He was commissioned by a brewery to build a machine that cooled beer.
1858 Football - In 1858 Tom Will and Henry Harrison wrote the first ten rules of Football, thus becoming the first people in the world to codify a kicking-ball game. These rules predate those of Rugby, Soccer and Gridiron. Football may have been inspired by the Aboriginal jumping/kicking game of Marn Grook.
1874 The underwater torpedo - Invented by Louis Brennan, the torpedo had two propellers, rotated by wires which were attached to winding engines on the shore station. By varying the speed at which the two wires were extracted, the torpedo could be steered to the left or right by an operator on the shore.
1876 Stump jump plough- Robert and Clarence Bowyer Smith developed a plough which could jump over stumps and stones, enabling newly-cleared land to be cultivated.
1885 Telpahane - The forerunner of the television. It was invented by Henry Sutton in Ballarat.
1879 Refrigeration - Credited with the manufacture of the first artificial ice, Eugene Nicolle and Thomas Sutcliffe Mort developed shipboard refrigeration that resulted in the export of meat from Australia to Great Britain.
1889 Electric Drill - Arthur James Arnot, patented the world's first electric drill on 20 August 1889 while he was an employee of the Union Electric Company in Melbourne. He designed it primarily to drill rock and to dig coal.
1894 First powered flight - Perhaps inspired by the boomerang, Lawrence Hargrave discovered that curved surfaces lift more than flat ones. He subsequently built the world's first box-kite, hitched four together, added an engine and flew five metres.
Hargrave corresponded freely with other aviation pioneers, including the Wright Brothers. But unlike the Americans who monopolised their ideas, Hargrave never patented his. Because it promised public access, Hargrave left all his research to the Munich Museum.
Had Hargrave gained local support to further develop his ideas and not been so generous in sharing his ideas with other aviation pioneers, he probably would have been the first person in the world to achieve sustained and controlled powered flight.
1897 Differential gears - David Shearer of South Australia built a steam car with a differential inside left rear wheel hub.
1902 Notepad -For 500 years, paper had been supplied in loose sheets. J A Birchall decided that it would be a good idea to cut the sheets into half, back them with cardboard and glue them together at the top.
1903 Froth flotation process- The process of separating minerals from rock by flotation was developed by Charles Potter and Guillaume Delprat of New South Wales.
1906 Feature film - The world's first feature length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was a little over an hour long.
1906 Surf life-saving reel - The first surf life-saving reel in the world was demonstrated at Bondi Beach on 23 December 1906 by its designer Lester Ormsby.
1910 Humespun process -The Humespun process was developed by Walter Hume of Humes Ltd for making concrete pipes of high strength and low permeability. The process revolutionised pipe manufacture in 1910 and has since been used around the world.
1912 The tank - A South Australian named Lance de Mole submitted a proposal, to the British War Office, for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches'. The British war office liked the idea but then developed the tank themselves without paying royalties.
1913 Automatic totalisator -The world's first automatic totalisator for calculating horse-racing bets was made by Sir George Julius.
1917 Aspro - A pain reliever based on aspirin was developed in Melbourne by George Nicholas. By 1940 it had become the world's most widely used headache and pain treatment.
1922 Vegemite - One of the world's richest sources of vitamin B, vegemite was invented by Dr. Cyril P. Callister. It is made by the autolysis of expired brewer's yeast: a process where the yeast's own enzymes break it down.
1924 Car radio - The first car radio was fitted to an Australian car built by Kellys Motors in New South Wales.
1927 Speedo -In 1927 Speedo launched the revolutionary 'racer-back' style, which reduced fabric drag. In 1955, Speedo introduced the use of nylon for their racing swimwear. At the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics, more than 70 per cent of all swimming medals were won by competitors wearing Speedo.
1928 Flying Doctor Service - Reverend John Flynn founded the world's first Aerial Medical Service in 1928.
1934 Ute- The utility vehicle, with a front like a car and a rear like a truck was designed by Lewis Brandt at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong, Victoria.
1940 Zinc Cream - This white sun block made from zinc oxide was developed by the Fauldings pharmaceutical company.
1942 Transverse folding stroller - Designed by Harold Cornish, the sturdy, lightweight design of his Stoway Strollers made life easier for many parents using public transport as it could be folded and placed under a tram seat.
1944 Antibiotic penicillin- Produced by Howard Florey with help from a Pome named Ernst Chain.
1945 The Hills Hoist - A rotary clothes line with a winding mechanism allowing the frame to be lowered and raised with ease. Invented by Lance Hill.
1952 Victor mower - by Mervyn Victor Richardson, the two-stroke petrol lawn mower with rotary blades revolutionised mowing world wide.
1950s Lagerphone- The lagerphone is a musical instrument made by nailing beer caps onto a stick. It is not known who invented it, but in the 50s it was popularised by the Heathcote Bushwackers as an alternative to the American wobbleboard.
1952 Atomic absorption spectrophotometer -Atomic absorption spectrophotometer is a complex analytical instrument incorporating micro-computer electronics and precision optics and mechanics, used in chemical analysis to determine low concentrations of metals in a wide variety of substances. It was first developed by Sir Alan Walsh of the CSIRO.
1953 Solar hot water - Developed by R N Morse at the CSIRO
1957 Flame ionisation detector -The flame ionisation detector is one of the most accurate instruments ever developed for the detection of emissions. It was invented by Ian McWilliam. The instrument, which can measure one part in 10 million, has been used in chemical analysis in the petrochemical industry, medical and biochemical research, and in the monitoring of the environment.
1957 Trousers with a permeant crease - The process for producing permanently creased fabric was invented by Dr Arthur Farnworth of the CSIRO.
1958 Black box flight recorder - The 'black box' voice and instrument data recorder was invented by Dr David Warren in Melbourne.
1960 Plastic spectacle lenses - The world's first plastic spectacle lenses, 60 per cent lighter than glass lenses, were designed by Scientific Optical Laboratories.
1961 Ultrasound - David Robinson and George Kossoff's work at the Australian Department of Health, resulted in the first commercially practical water path ultrasonic scanner in 1961.
1965 Inflatable escape slide - The inflatable aircraft escape slide which doubles as a raft was invented by Jack Grant of Qantas.
1965 Wine cask -Invented by Thomas Angrove, the wine cask is a cardboard box housing a plastic container which collapses as the wine is drawn off, thus preventing contact with air.
1970 Variable rack and pinion steering - The variable ratio rack and pinion steering in motor vehicles was invented by Australian engineer, Arthur Bishop.
1970 Staysharp knife- The self-sharpening knife was developed by Wiltshire.
1972 Orbital internal combustion engine - The orbital combustion process engine was invented by engineer Ralph Sarich of Perth, Western Australia. The engine uses a single triangular-shaped piston to create five combustion chambers as it orbits inside a single cylinder. It is 40 per cent lighter, 60 per cent smaller and 35 per cent more efficient than standard car engines. Today, it is used in two-stroke engines, boat engines, motorbikes, lawn mowers and some small cars
1972- Instream analysis - To speed-up analysis of metals during the recovery process, which used to take up to 24 hours, Amdel Limited developed an on-the-spot analysis equipment called the In-Stream Analysis System, for the processing of copper, zinc, lead and platinum - and the washing of coal. This computerised system allowed continuous analysis of key metals and meant greater productivity for the mineral industry worldwide.
1978 Plastic injection moulding software -Engineers at Moldflow Pty Ltd revolutionised the plastic injection process with a new computer aided engineering software, that simulated the injection moulding process and offered a design strategy to evaluate, refine and optimise successive simulations. The technique has been used widely in the automotive, whitegoods, computer, packaging, communications, aeronautical and photographic industries.
1979 Race-cam - Race Cam was developed by Geoff Healey, an engineer with Australian Television Network Seven in Sydney. The tiny lightweight camera is used in sports broadcasts and provides viewers with spectacular views of events such as motor racing, which are impossible with conventional cameras
1979 Bionic ear - The cochlear implant was invented by Professor Graeme Clark of the University of Melbourne.
1982 The dual flush toilet - As dunnies have a celebrated status in Australia, it is apt that Australia has taken a central role in their evolution. In 1982, the dual flush toilet was responsible for savings in excess of 32000 litres of water per household a year. Pretty important in the world's dries inhabited continent.
1980 Wave-piercing catamarans - The high speed catamarans were developed by Phillip Hercus and Robert Clifford of Incat in Tasmania.
1983 Winged Keel - Ben Lexen designed a winged keel that helped Australia II end the American's 132 ownership of the America's cup. The keel gave the yacht better steering and manoeuvrability in heavy winds.
1984 Frozen embryo baby- The world's first frozen embryo baby was born in Melbourne on 28th March 1984
1984 Baby Safety Capsule - Babies in a car crash used to bounce around like a soccer ball. In 1984, for the first time babies had a harness for their safe transportation in cars.
1986 Gene shears - The discovery of gene shears was made by CSIRO scientists, Wayne Gerlach and Jim Haseloff.
1992 Multi-focal contact lens- The world's first multi-focal contact lens was invented by optical research scientist, Stephen Newman in Queensland.
1992 Supersonic combustion - The University of Queensland demonstrated the world's first supersonic combustion in an atmospheric flight test at Woomera on July 30, 2002. The craft reached speeds of more than Mach 8, or 8 times the speed of sound.
1993 Scramjet - The University of Queensland reported for the first time the development of a scramjet that achieved more thrust than drag.
1993 Underwater pc - The world's first underwater computer with a five-button hand-held keypad was developed by Bruce Macdonald at the Australian Institute of Marine Science.
1995 EXELGRAM - The world's most sophisticated optical anti-counterfeiting technology was developed by the CSIRO.
1995 - Jindalee Radar System - The United States of America spent $11 billion developing an aeroplane that could not be detected by radar. Scientists at the CSIRO then concluded that if the plane could not be detected, perhaps the turbulance it makes passing through air could be. $1.5 million later, the Jindalee Radar system had transformed the stealth bomber into nothing more than an unusual looking aircraft. |
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1856 Refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical refrigerator. He was commissioned by a brewery to build a machine that cooled beer.
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Wow, what a big surprise....
The aussies invented a way to cool beer.
Revolutionary. |
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1856 Refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical refrigerator. He was commissioned by a brewery to build a machine that cooled beer.
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Because in 1855, they realized it's better to serve cold that which if served warmed tastes like piss. |
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| 1965 Wine cask -Invented by Thomas Angrove, the wine cask is a cardboard box housing a plastic container which collapses as the wine is drawn off, thus preventing contact with air. |
This one is great. God save Mr. Angrove! |
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| 1838 Pre-paid postage - Colonial Postmaster-General of New South Wales, James Raymond introduced the world's first pre-paid postal system. |
That’s bull to be honest. Postal services have been in existence since Romans times. Pigeon post and all that.
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| 1843 Grain stripper - John Ridley and John Bull of South Australia developed the world's first grain stripper that cut the crop then removed and placed the grain into bins. |
Rubbish. The combine was patented in 1834 by Hiram Moore.
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| 1856 Refrigerator - Using the principal of vapour compression, James Harrison produced the world's first practical refrigerator. He was commissioned by a brewery to build a machine that cooled beer. |
Bullsh*t. The first known artificial refrigeration was demonstrated by William Cullen at the University of Glasgow in 1748, and relied on the vapor-compression refrigeration process explained by Michael Faraday.
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| 1858 Football - In 1858 Tom Will and Henry Harrison wrote the first ten rules of Football, thus becoming the first people in the world to codify a kicking-ball game. These rules predate those of Rugby, Soccer and Gridiron. Football may have been inspired by the Aboriginal jumping/kicking game of Marn Grook. |
Bollocks. The Italians codified football in the 16th century and the English public schools were doing the same around the same time.
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Nonsense. Everyone knows the torpedo was invented by Robert Fulton in 1805…
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| 1876 Stump jump plough- Robert and Clarence Bowyer Smith developed a plough which could jump over stumps and stones, enabling newly-cleared land to be cultivated. |
Ok I’ll give you this. The stump jump plough….
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| 1885 Telpahane - The forerunner of the television. It was invented by Henry Sutton in Ballarat. |
Sorry I’m not buying that. The real origins of television can be traced back to Paul Gottlieb Nipkow. In 1884 he patented the first electromechanical television system in 1884. It was called the scanning disk.
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| 1879 Refrigeration - Credited with the manufacture of the first artificial ice, Eugene Nicolle and Thomas Sutcliffe Mort developed shipboard refrigeration that resulted in the export of meat from Australia to Great Britain. |
We’ve covered this already.
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| 1889 Electric Drill - Arthur James Arnot, patented the world's first electric drill on 20 August 1889 while he was an employee of the Union Electric Company in Melbourne. He designed it primarily to drill rock and to dig coal. |
Ok, that’s an Aussie first.
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Wrong. The first generally recognized human flight took place in Paris in 1783. Jean-Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Francois Laurent d'Arlandes went 5 miles (8 km) in a hot air balloon invented by the Montgolfier brothers. The balloon was powered by a wood fire, and was not steerable.
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| 1897 Differential gears - David Shearer of South Australia built a steam car with a differential inside left rear wheel hub. |
Not true. The differential gear was used by James Watt.
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| 1902 Notepad -For 500 years, paper had been supplied in loose sheets. J A Birchall decided that it would be a good idea to cut the sheets into half, back them with cardboard and glue them together at the top. |
This seems to be true but I reckon people have been using notebooks for years before this Aussie came along and took the credit for such a simple idea.
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| 1903 Froth flotation process- The process of separating minerals from rock by flotation was developed by Charles Potter and Guillaume Delprat of New South Wales. |
Actually Delprat developed it in Holland but the origins go back to 1869 when Wlliam Haynes patented a process for separating sulfide and gangue minerals using oil and called it bulk-oil flotation.
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| 1906 Feature film - The world's first feature length film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, was a little over an hour long. |
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| 1906 Surf life-saving reel - The first surf life-saving reel in the world was demonstrated at Bondi Beach on 23 December 1906 by its designer Lester Ormsby. |
Yeah big deal.
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| 1910 Humespun process -The Humespun process was developed by Walter Hume of Humes Ltd for making concrete pipes of high strength and low permeability. The process revolutionised pipe manufacture in 1910 and has since been used around the world. |
Probably true. Scraping the barrel a bit here.
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| 1912 The tank - A South Australian named Lance de Mole submitted a proposal, to the British War Office, for a 'chain-rail vehicle which could be easily steered and carry heavy loads over rough ground and trenches'. The British war office liked the idea but then developed the tank themselves without paying royalties. |
No way man, Aussies didn’t invent the tank. Winston Churchill is responsible for the first prototype tank called ‘Little Willie’ in 1915.
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Yes, he was knighted for inventing the tote.
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| 1917 Aspro - A pain reliever based on aspirin was developed in Melbourne by George Nicholas. By 1940 it had become the world's most widely used headache and pain treatment. |
A French chemist, Charles Frederic Gerhardt, was first to prepare acetylsalicylic acid (named aspirin in 1899) in 1853. Actually, the ancient Greeks had figured out the healing effects of willow bark back in the day.
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| 1922 Vegemite - One of the world's richest sources of vitamin B, vegemite was invented by Dr. Cyril P. Callister. It is made by the autolysis of expired brewer's yeast: a process where the yeast's own enzymes break it down. |
The Brits beat you to it with the far superior product, Marmite in 1902.
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Ludicrous. The first car radio was fitted by Galvin Motors in 1930 by Paul Galvin, founder of Motorola.
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| 1927 Speedo -In 1927 Speedo launched the revolutionary 'racer-back' style, which reduced fabric drag. In 1955, Speedo introduced the use of nylon for their racing swimwear. |
Ridiculous
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| 1928 Flying Doctor Service - Reverend John Flynn founded the world's first Aerial Medical Service in 1928. |
Yeah big deal.
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| 1934 Ute- The utility vehicle, with a front like a car and a rear like a truck was designed by Lewis Brandt at the Ford Motor Company in Geelong, Victoria. |
Sorry, trucks had been around long since before 1934.
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| 1940 Zinc Cream - This white sun block made from zinc oxide was developed by the Fauldings pharmaceutical company. |
F*cks sake… this is scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
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| 1942 Transverse folding stroller - Designed by Harold Cornish, the sturdy, lightweight design of his Stoway Strollers made life easier for many parents using public transport as it could be folded and placed under a tram seat. |
Hardly a groundbreaking advancement.
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| 1944 Antibiotic penicillin- Produced by Howard Florey with help from a Pome named Ernst Chain. |
This is the most ridiculous one of the lot. Everyone knows penicillin was invented by Sir Alexander Fleming in 1928.
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| 1945 The Hills Hoist - A rotary clothes line with a winding mechanism allowing the frame to be lowered and raised with ease. Invented by Lance Hill. |
Aussies invented the clothes line? F*ck right off..
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| 1952 Victor mower - by Mervyn Victor Richardson, the two-stroke petrol lawn mower with rotary blades revolutionised mowing world wide. |
BS. The gasoline-powered rotary mower was produced by Power Specialties Ltd in the 1930s.
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| 1950s Lagerphone- The lagerphone is a musical instrument made by nailing beer caps onto a stick. It is not known who invented it, but in the 50s it was popularised by the Heathcote Bushwackers as an alternative to the American wobbleboard. |
Hahahah
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What about the wine cask? |
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So basically Aussies are good at telling porkies and saying 'G'day mate' and drinking beer and having bbq's. Big woo hoo!!
I mean it comes to something when I hear an American friend of mine say to me (while a bunch of Aussies are drinking at the next table): 'Shiit, I can't stand these people with their whining accents...'.
Australians - you are the new yanks. You are embarrassing to be with.
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1902 Notepad -For 500 years, paper had been supplied in loose sheets. J A Birchall decided that it would be a good idea to cut the sheets into half, back them with cardboard and glue them together at the top.
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I concur- you're not telling me that the ship's Captain wrote down the names of all of those convicts on a 10 yard long roll of paper. |
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| I fiddle. what a freak country, you white can in play towards the black in AmeriCAN? SEE YOUR NBA! we other people knows that |
...and I play the violin, but I don't see what that has to do with Rick James and whites in the NBA?! |
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