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Bit more to it....We had my daughters wedding planned for Palm Cove in Qld late August...not our idea but her husband to be has a flash well paid job and wanted a more upmarket affair. That of course was cancelled due to CoVid but family concerned have this idea we were paying for this wedding and now have X amount of dollars spare after it was cancelled.
My daughter doesnt want to disclose what hubby to be does or gets paid to anyone so everyone else has the idea we have money to throw around for fancy weddings and they can hit us up.
Another family member was the mortgage broker who arranged them the loan after other financial institutions said No....of course he is keeping a very low profile.....same bloke got my wifes nephew who is in his 1st year after his apprenticeship as an Electrician,newly married and not on big money a large housing loan which he is struggling to pay off after being talked into it.
If interest rates go up he will be in trouble too.....
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08-06-2021, 01:18 AM
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I’d tell a white lie and say the fiancé’s family were footing the bill for the wedding. That would mean you wouldn’t be putting your daughter and her fiancé in the gun. But that would only work if the in-laws-to-be aren’t known to your extended family. If they’re from the same community, they’d be on the phone immediately.
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Sheesh EB .... really poorly thought out investments if I may say.
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(08-04-2021, 11:36 PM)flyboy77 link Wrote:Meanwhile, on the ground in Sweden, daily deaths from (with +PCR test) or with CV19 have averaged less than 1 (yes, one) per day for at least a month.
As we all know (by now) that PCR tests do not determine, or diagnose, illness.
Sure sniffs of herd immunity to me.
Oh and you also failed to mentioned, the minority party likely to lead is far right.
Think BNF.
Funny, how you omit, when likely you know full well, the inconvenient truths.
Nothing to do with the virus. Try disdain for the long standing multi-culturist policies!
(note, checking a few web sites seldom beats talking to people on the ground)
The only serious metric of Sweden's success or failure is their excess death count. Both against their own past and other Euro/global nations. noting, their crisis was a nursing home crisis too.
If you need a hand interpreting the data, happy to assist.
But carry on.
I'm not sure that excess death count is the only metric, but:
Quote:Countries in northern Europe have generally experienced much lower mortality rates throughout the pandemic. Some Nordic nations have experienced almost no excess deaths at all. The exception is Sweden, which imposed some of the continent’s least restrictive social-distancing measures during the first wave.
https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail...hs-tracker
Of its north Europe neighbours, only Estonia comes close to both Sweden's excess deaths and deaths (per 100,000) officially attributed to COVID-19 for the 12 months to March 2021.
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Gee EB afaic those relos have huge and unrealistic expectations of you as cousins of your wife! Must be a cultural thing? I wouldn’t consider the financial affairs of a cousin to be any of my business let alone lending/giving them money. Sorry to hear that you have been placed under such pressure. Not helpful I know but I would be telling them to feck off.
Reality always wins in the end.
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(08-06-2021, 01:18 AM)Mav link Wrote:I’d tell a white lie and say the fiancé’s family were footing the bill for the wedding. That would mean you wouldn’t be putting your daughter and her fiancé in the gun. But that would only work if the in-laws-to-be aren’t known to your extended family. If they’re from the same community, they’d be on the phone immediately. They are not that cashed up and coming off a major feckup regarding a land sale they got ripped off from....long story
so that wont work unfortunately.
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(08-06-2021, 01:34 AM)capcom link Wrote:Sheesh EB .... really poorly thought out investments if I may say. Cap, Got another story thats even worse but I'll save that for a later day.....
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According to 7News:
Quote:In what appeared to be a shift in tone, NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian told reporters “we now have to live with Delta one way or another”.
Just weeks earlier, she had said the community “couldn’t live reasonably” with the highly transmissible variant.
An admission of sorts that she didn’t lock down hard or fast enough and it’s now out of control. Interesting to see where she goes with it. Is she now going to echo SloMo’s “we have to open up and learn to live with Covid” approach? Wouldn’t put it past her to try to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.
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(08-06-2021, 02:05 AM)dodge link Wrote:That's messy, EB! Dodge, You can pick your friends and you can pick your wife but you cant pick the family that come with them...not that I can talk my relo's are equally as dismal in most cases. There should be a trade week for relo's....
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