War songs
Playlist by Algernon
Reflections of My Life – The Marmalade
The Living Years – Mike and the Mechanics
Brothers in Arms – Dire Straits
Goodnight Saigon – Billy Joel
Sky Pilot – Eric Burdon and the Animals
We gotta get out of this place – Eric Burdon and the Animals
Fortunate Son – Creedance Clearwater Revival
The night the drove old Dixie down – Joan Baez
The Eve of Destruction – Eddie Maguire
The end – the Doors
Window Dresser's Arms, Pig & Whistle 
Good music as always. I had a thing with Telstra when my IPhone run amok and seemed to have a will of its own downloading an upgrade without any input. I had a 24/7 chat-line with Telstra and it turned out that at home I should have used WiFi. I had overrun my $45 a month by $120.- and I did not even look at the bloody thing. Anyway, they forgave me the extra amount and guided me through on setting the IPhone on WiFi. It is all so loaded against the consumer though. Did you read that Apple IPhone generally have a life span of 2 years and have an inbuilt redundancy at about the time the 24 months plan runs out and the gullible cuntstomer goes for an updated model and more mullah for the Telstra or Optus et all.
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Interesting how they back down and offer discounts these Telcos.
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My son, a couple of years back, racked up 600 bucks talking to his gf. He told them to F%^& off, so they forgave the debt, and gave him a better deal. Perhaps people need to be told to f#$% off more often?
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I’m amazed a bureaucratic nonsense that goes on currently at every turn. The Elder went for a passport interview this week. Got her boyfriend to sign the the photos etc. He asked if they were in a de facto relationship, no they were bf-gf. Stopped the interview there because he didn’t know what de facto meant nd din’t bother to check that the rest of the application was in order.
With our internet problem I asked to be escalated to someone with competence not a desk jockey. Lot easier to negotiate with their legal branch. But why should it need to get to that.
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Some I love and know. Clever again Algy.
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Thought you’d have known them all vivienne. Many favourites of mine here.
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Yes actually – couple I had forgotten.
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Of course, the Doors’ “the end” – in Apocalypse Now – a standout in another great selection, Algy.
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Indeed it is Therese and a worthy ending as well.
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Absolutely love Sky Pilot
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Its one of those enduring songs Hung
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One of my favorites as a young kid. Lots of good stuff on this list. Have been slowed so will go through it tomorrow when it resets.
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Yes we got the warning yesterday saying we were at 85%. Resets for us at midnight tonight not that we’ll go over.
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I never get slowed. On a thing called DN Cobalt for $39 a month and get 15GB. Two computers for the two adults, used every day. Have no idea what happens if I go over. Got transferred from Dragnet when Eftel bought them out.
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I only get 5 gig Viv but I have been going over regularly in the last 6 months so I think it’s time for an upgrade.
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Isn’t that a great name – Eftel, Viv ? It reminds me of that other major killer brand name Pig-Tel !
At our end – we pay $89 a month – for $200GB – over Foxtel cable. We don’t have Foxtel – just the cable to Telstra. We also have the luxury of a wireless speed here that runs at 30Mbsec download but only 1Mb upload speed. So it takes maybe a minute or so (with big clips or photos) to upload a new PA article, but only 1-2 seconds to download one.
200GB sounds like a lot, but FM and I work online here and Tim the Cabin boy can easily chew 100GB a month playing online multi-player games and Skyping to his mates hour after hour. We could drop the monthly allowance a bit, but there’s not a lot of point if all we save is $20 and it costs a fortune if we run over the limit – like 15c a MB – or becomes a pain in the bum if we get slowed and we’re trying to work.
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We have 200GB here more for the students than for Mrs A and I. We pay $79 a month which should have been $99 however after they f#*k up with the modem they’ve knocked $20 per month. We’ve been choked at that until we discovered one of juniors devices continually updating. since that was fixed we’ve gone close on two occasions
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It is all very interesting. I’ve gone to the Eftel website and can’t find any plan that matches mine there. It was their offer in the takeover of Dragnet – they gave me something similar but actually they gave me 15GB when I used to get 5GB and charge me $10 less. So I’m not complaining. Hubby does a fair bit of downloading of videos (car racing, missed programs and a great assortment of I don’t know what). There is no slowing – I’m on 512 which translates to 3000kps (whatever that is !) as per speed tests I’ve done. None of us play on line games.
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PS – I’d never heard of Eftel before. Could it be short for fracking-tel-off?
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