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Footprints in the sands of time

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    Footprints in the sands of time

    The missus and I are off to Oz on sturday (at long last - its been an eternity). We are landing in Perth then driving up to Darwin through the outback then back along the coast, with a few long stops here and there.
    Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

    He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr






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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    The missus and I are off to Oz on sturday (at long last - its been an eternity). We are landing in Perth then driving up to Darwin through the outback then back along the coast, with a few long stops here and there.
    Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

    He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr:
    Sounds great! Be sure to post adventure stories with piccies. Avoid wrestling with the crocs if possible.

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      If you're a diver (and it's open), be sure to do the Navy Pier at Exmouth.

      Well worth booking a few days there as well as there are few things in this world as amazing a snorkelling with a Whale Shark.
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        Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
        The missus and I are off to Oz on sturday (at long last - its been an eternity). We are landing in Perth then driving up to Darwin through the outback then back along the coast, with a few long stops here and there.
        Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

        He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr






        Make sure you leave the heating on - wouldn't want a sharp frost to burst your pipes.

        Alternatively / additionally: tell him to stuff his liberal middle class guilt up his @rse and explain that change cannot be achieved through individual action but through paradigm shifts in class consciousness. Tell him that by arguing otherwise, he's contributing to the problem by promoting an ineffective solution and thus obscuring the only viable solution.

        Then stuff his carbon feet in concrete filled boots, leave him on the beach, and watch inexorably rising sea levels drown him. That'll teach the knut.

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          #5
          Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
          Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

          He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr
          Well tell him to get off his butt and do some carbon offsetting on ur behalf

          Anyone actually believe in the CO2 nonsense

          Enjoy your trip, like to do that one myself

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            if it bothers you that much offset it and send him a copy of your purchase along with an extremely hard to keep plant and ask how its going all the time
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              Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
              The missus and I are off to Oz on sturday (at long last - its been an eternity). We are landing in Perth then driving up to Darwin through the outback then back along the coast, with a few long stops here and there.
              Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

              He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr






              Buy him a bag of coal and tell him to go sequester it
              "Being nice costs nothing and sometimes gets you extra bacon" - Pondlife.

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                #8
                Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
                The missus and I are off to Oz on sturday (at long last - its been an eternity). We are landing in Perth then driving up to Darwin through the outback then back along the coast, with a few long stops here and there.
                Her son in law has now made some comment about our 'carbon footprint' which has cast a bit of a shadow over things.

                He'll have a size ten EO footprint up his butt next time I see him . grr






                Sounds fantastic. Are you using a campervan type accomodation or camping? Been to oz a couple of times, great country. Make sure you take a decent camera.

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                  Originally posted by downsouth View Post
                  Anyone actually believe in the CO2 nonsense
                  Just some scientists, apparently.

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                    Originally posted by ft101 View Post
                    Sounds fantastic. Are you using a campervan type accomodation or camping? Been to oz a couple of times, great country. Make sure you take a decent camera.
                    we are going to hire a saloon-type car and just head off.

                    no car booked, no accomodation booked, all we have is a route. (and a camera)




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