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Create New Blog EntryAustralia's government says some communities should consider limiting the sale of the popular Vegemite spread because it is being used to make alcohol.
It says the yeast-based product is contributing to anti-social behaviour in some remote communities.
Indigenous Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion described the salty spread as a "precursor to misery".
He said it was being bought in bulk to make moonshine.
Brewer's yeast is a key ingredient in the spread and is used in the production of beer and ale.
In communities where alcohol is banned because of addiction problems, Mr Scullion said Vegemite sales should also be restricted.
"Businesses in these communities... have a responsibility to report any purchase that may raise their own suspicions," he said.
The minister added that in some cases, children were failing to turn up to school because they were too hung-over, and that Vegemite was an increasingly common factor in domestic violence cases.
But Dr John Boffa of the People's Alcohol Action Coalition, who is based in Alice Springs, in Australia's Northern Territory, says the problem is not widespread.
"We're talking about an isolated problem in a couple of communities around a very large nation, and a nation where there is a very large number of Aboriginal communities, and every community is different," he told the BBC.
He said there might be a need for some local initiatives, but that these should be initiated by the communities themselves.
Vegemite started as a war-time substitute for Marmite, and is now something of an Australian culinary icon, says the BBC's Jon Donnison in Sydney.
I would like to try this someday :))))))
I just wanted to take a moment to thank @jackboy12 for posting his poems. So nice to see something wonderful, sweet and caring on the blogs. A welcome change from the nastiness of modern day politics. So I salute you @jackboy12 and thank you for sharing your talent and your poetry. Hugs...Thomas
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My friend is worried to show his erection because it bends down like a banana. I told him no one would care but I understand his fear. Any help out there? He's scared it will be a deal breaker for some reason if he was to get in a relationship. I told him I would try and prove him wrong.
Finally I'm ready with my living room decoration -good workers is so hard to find in these days.That's what my Mom said when she was paying for the workers.Now I have 100% privacy because she lives behind that wall and there is no door in between. What do you think of my taste of decor?
was nice to have got to know you, wish you all the best for the future, love, Scott
I use twitter under my published name. And true enough it is ultimately about keeping my published books afloat, as it is for many writers, artists, musicians. But I only put out a tweet about my books twice a week. The rest of the time I tweet about or retweet things I'm interested in (environment, art, books, culture, economics, gay issues, space, sci-fi, food, religion), and respond to readers, friends or other people. I take care to respond as a person, honestly, meaningfully. Sometimes I make comments or get into conversations (but never arguments or mindless vitriol, it's a waste of time).
Just as on GBT, I'll accept most 'follower' requests. I otherwise rarely follow someone first unless they really seem cool and I genuinely want their stuff in my feed. When I do I stick with them. Over time I get followers who I'll follow in return as a matter of courtesy, unless they're really unappealing (also like GBT). I won't unfollow most people unless their content gets really offensive or ridiculous (and even then I'm quite tolerant and patient).
Then I discover there's a certain kind of person - oodles of them - who follows me, but unfollows me within days of me following them back. I realize it's all just them mass fishing and they want to appear to have way more followers than people they follow cos it makes them look good. Usually, it's all automated. They're not even doing it themselves. Some kind of mindless software is. Then I get these followers who are biggest bores you can imagine. They tweet everyone, offering to 'build up your twitter following'. It's all a huge marketing exercise that has nothing in the way of content, a big balloon full of hollow following that offers nothing else. Empty meaningless following breeding more empty meaningless following just for numbers and clicks. They're being terribly 'time efficient', but also terribly shabby and annoying, and wasting your time completely.
Some people, if they follow you and you follow them back, don't unfollow you but barrage you with daily endless tweets and direct messages to buy their thing, whatever it is. You look at their feed and self-advertisement is all it is. Nothing that's about them as people, or shows interest in the real world. Like I said, I only tweet about my own books twice a week. I'd be embarrassed to do it more than that.
So yeah, twitter twits. People who use bots, go fishing, blitz everyone with advertising but offer nothing of value to the world. They have no original, thoughtful or amusing comment to put out there. They follow and automatically unfollow people to 'build up their following' and twitter status. They even want to create a for-pay business helping yet more shallow, superficial, shabby imbeciles become the same kind of annoying, vacuous twitter twits that they are.
I don't get it. I'd be ashamed to behave that way, the mindless grasping, boring indignity of it. I always think if you're going to be on social media be real, be human, spend some time genuinely interacting with people and offering something to people. So yeah. Twitter twits. Ugh. Glad I got that off my chest.
Hail and welcome! This is Huginn's Heathen Hof, with your Daily Hávamál.
Original-
Ósnotr maðr
hyggr sér alla vera
viðhlæjendr vini
þá þat fiðr
er at þingi kømr
at hann á formælendr fá
Translation-
The foolish man thinks
that all who laugh at him
are actually his friends,
but when he goes to the
Assembly, to ask for aid,
he finds few who are
willing to help.
-Hávamál: Stanza 25
Stanza 25 reinforces yesterdays message. It's important to surround yourself with good, reliable, people, so that when hard times come, you know you'll have support. There's a second lesson to be learned from these verses though. It's just as important to BE one of those reliable people. If we want to keep worthwhile friends, we need to be a worthwhile companion.
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