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Asbjorn-phoenix wrote:
Ravensong wrote:yeah, like if i look at what I will earn as a waitress in London, I'm going to earn on average 200-250 pounds a week... that's nearly 5000 SA rands... except that accommodations will cost me roughly 100-120 pounds a week, groceries about 70 pounds a week and transport a fair amount...

that's gonna leave me very little money for myself...

comparing salaries with overseas just doesn't work well... there's far too much other stuff to take into account.
You should be able to get away with less than 70GBP a week for food unless you buy really decadently. My brother and sister in law spend that for 2 in a week.

Depending where you want to stay you could get accommodation a bit cheaper. I found sharing with the locals rather than the antipodeans and Saffas was cheaper.
I did exaggerate the food bill... I couldn't find my document which includes my shopping list. I've done my research and know how much my life is going to cost me. Also I'm going to end up staying in an area which is mostly expats and such so I have automatically budgeted extra.
I was merely trying to demonstrate a point to Sev.
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Ravensong wrote:
Asbjorn-phoenix wrote:
Ravensong wrote:yeah, like if i look at what I will earn as a waitress in London, I'm going to earn on average 200-250 pounds a week... that's nearly 5000 SA rands... except that accommodations will cost me roughly 100-120 pounds a week, groceries about 70 pounds a week and transport a fair amount...

that's gonna leave me very little money for myself...

comparing salaries with overseas just doesn't work well... there's far too much other stuff to take into account.
You should be able to get away with less than 70GBP a week for food unless you buy really decadently. My brother and sister in law spend that for 2 in a week.

Depending where you want to stay you could get accommodation a bit cheaper. I found sharing with the locals rather than the antipodeans and Saffas was cheaper.
I did exaggerate the food bill... I couldn't find my document which includes my shopping list. I've done my research and know how much my life is going to cost me. Also I'm going to end up staying in an area which is mostly expats and such so I have automatically budgeted extra.
I was merely trying to demonstrate a point to Sev.
Living overseas never works out the way you think it will or how someone else thinks it will. Unless the source is a direct expat currently living in the country you will be surprised. You'll soon learn where the cheap places are and be able to get away with not spending a fortune. Also you have the added benefit that your bubbliness and general demeanor will mean people will fall in love with you and want to take care of you!
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Why do dreamers dream but never achieve the stars they are aiming for?
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If I knew that I'd be there already. We dream because sometimes we know that we'll get there. Doors close and doors open sometimes dreamers are a bit blinded by the dream itself and thinking it may be unobtainable will make it so. I think it best at times to reconsider HOW one can achieve that dream rather than keeping it at arms length.

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What is the ultimate question of Life, The universe, and Everything, to which the answer is 42?
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The ultimate question is: how many jets can a televangelist buy in their life-time?
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Can jet fuel melt steal beams?
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Tocs wrote:Can jet fuel melt steal beams?
In truth, this:

FACT: Jet fuel burns at 800° to 1500°F, not hot enough to melt steel (2750°F). However, experts agree that for the towers to collapse, their steel frames didn't need to melt, they just had to lose some of their structural strength—and that required exposure to much less heat. "I have never seen melted steel in a building fire," says retired New York deputy fire chief Vincent Dunn, author of The Collapse Of Burning Buildings: A Guide To Fireground Safety. "But I've seen a lot of twisted, warped, bent and sagging steel. What happens is that the steel tries to expand at both ends, but when it can no longer expand, it sags and the surrounding concrete cracks."

Steel loses about 50 percent of its strength at 1100°F," notes senior engineer Farid Alfawak-hiri of the American Institute of Steel Construction. "And at 1800° it is probably at less than 10 percent." NIST also believes that a great deal of the spray-on fireproofing insulation was likely knocked off the steel beams that were in the path of the crashing jets, leaving the metal more vulnerable to the heat.

But jet fuel wasn't the only thing burning, notes Forman Williams, a professor of engineering at the University of California, San Diego, and one of seven structural engineers and fire experts that PM consulted. He says that while the jet fuel was the catalyst for the WTC fires, the resulting inferno was intensified by the combustible material inside the buildings, including rugs, curtains, furniture and paper. NIST reports that pockets of fire hit 1832°

http://www.popularmechanics.com/militar ... de-center/

And for that matter you can go to Superman and if you can get close to him see if he melts at 2750°F
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How many bears could Bear Grylls grill if Bear Grylls did grill bears?
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five hundred. Other than that, I'm assuming he doesn't grill bears and if he did then maybe 10 in realistic terms because he'd lose all rights to his show
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Which South African city has more extra - terrestrials and why do they tend to conglomerate there?
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Polokwane, only because, as is the lore, start in the smaller towns and work your way through the bigger cities towards world domination
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Why do some people randomly drive with their hazards on? They are not in a rush, they drive normally just with hazards on. Are they part of an exclusive hazards driving club or something?
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YoteFox wrote:Why do some people randomly drive with their hazards on? They are not in a rush, they drive normally just with hazards on. Are they part of an exclusive hazards driving club or something?
Sometimes I wish it was just people saying, "Watch out I tend to break harder than you're ready for." Other times I reckon they could have forgotten them on after saying 'thank you' to someone, add the idea that they may have some jamming tune in the car and don't hear the annoying 'ticktick'.

Otherwise it could just be a "Imma drive my way, so if you wanna pass, this lane is mine and I won't shift."

Or the most possible is that they're sending a message to the alien overlords to tell them that they have been assimilated into normal life and will continue to observe us from a careful 2-3 car lengths away.
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What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
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Dear Ivic, why do some people seem to take pleasure in deliberately misinterpreting and contradicting others, no matter how helpful, understanding and accommodating the other in question is trying to be?
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That sounds like a certain fur that used to frequent these parts.
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Tocs wrote:What happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object?
World War 3. Or possibly this:


Leeward wrote:Dear Ivic, why do some people seem to take pleasure in deliberately misinterpreting and contradicting others, no matter how helpful, understanding and accommodating the other in question is trying to be?
I doubt that some of them take actual pleasure in it, I think, sometimes, it's more of a trigger reaction.

OR! That some people don't necessarily know what kindness entails and probably see it as a challenge to see how far you would go before you break and give them the actual reaction they want, which is to tell them how they can sit on a middle finger and move like a rotisserie chicken.

As soon as the above has been achieved I assume they find pleasure in saying, "hah! Another kind soul corrupted by my incessantly persistent mood swings and lack of social decorum...and now I'm lonely again..."
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That sounds about right. In fact that sounds spot on.
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Can you give us an example of your jedi mind powers?
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*waves hoof* You don't want to ask that question.
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Mitania Welos wrote:*waves hoof* You don't want to ask that question.
I... I... *sticks my tongue out and drools*
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What would be a more terrifying end of our world of these 4?
1)Annialaser (the deathstar) fired at our world
2)The moon colliding with our world.
3)Ragnarok doomsday titan (drills down to the center of the world and blows it up from the inside.)
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4) Ponies
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It's happening, Ivic, it's happening.
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Sev wrote:It's happening, Ivic, it's happening.
You finally getting a likeable personality?
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I bought this Bantha for a few druggets and now the damn thing wont move anywhere!

do you know of any decent resale's lots I can trade him in or barring that, a decent butcher...
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Edna wrote:
Sev wrote:It's happening, Ivic, it's happening.
You finally getting a likeable personality?
That's rich coming from you.
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How can you contain the awesome of being both a MLP and a jedi? Surely this is too much coolness for one entity to contain.
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Why did you change your orientation to straight?
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