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Jan 20, 2024 06:44
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there is a cooked crypto version of higgins that gets posted (and usually quickly hidden) in the comments of bom tweets that i prefer
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Jan 20, 2024 07:00
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Airstream Driver posted:I hope you're not giving this flog money. Nah.
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Jan 20, 2024 12:37
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Who remembers Copperart? WTF was that about? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiG7gvxvMrs
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Jan 21, 2024 23:29
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Bill Posters posted:Who remembers Copperart? WTF was that about? Copper copper COPPER! One of my favourite Steve Vizard bits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNF7JIwXoWA We had a Copperart in town, eventually it turned into HOMEart with much less copper stuff, boring. Just found an ad without Pete Smith but with Melbourne drummer and "identity" Geoff Cox instead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyih38l8Z1g
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Jan 22, 2024 00:57
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Haha copperart - the ancient shinto symbols https://youtu.be/nKgzr41ucHo?si=PfGp66fb_4VN32Bf
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Jan 22, 2024 01:29
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Holy poo poo Copperart, what a flashback It’s amazing looking at that now, thinking that there was a store entirely selling poo poo. “Fire covers”? How many people in Australia have an actual fireplace?? And I can’t hear that guys voice without hearing “it’s saaaaaaaaaale of the century! And here’s your host, Tony Barber!”
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Jan 22, 2024 03:31
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My childhood home had a fireplace, my Dad got rid of it in the early 90's because he got sick of chopping wood for it. Maybe that's the cause of the Copperart demise, people just got sick of having to deal with fireplaces and didn't need those pokey stick things anymore
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Jan 22, 2024 03:40
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I'd like to have a fireplace it would be nice to sit in front of in winter. Like having your very own campfire but indoors.
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Jan 22, 2024 03:45
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Our house has 3 open fireplaces with cast iron inserts. Two back on to the same chimney but the third seems to be entirely decorative as there is no chimney behind it. I'm guessing it was removed when the extension was built. I wouldn't mind getting one going in winter but my much smarter wife doesn't want to deal with soot and ashes all over the furniture.
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Jan 22, 2024 03:59
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Don’t forget those giant novelty watch wall clocks! I guess these days our “pointless junk homewares” market is taken up by Daiso etc
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Jan 22, 2024 03:59
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Bill Posters posted:Our house has 3 open fireplaces with cast iron inserts. Two back on to the same chimney but the third seems to be entirely decorative as there is no chimney behind it. I'm guessing it was removed when the extension was built. Unless they are designed and engineered properly, fires in fireplaces tend to cool down a room, rather than heat it up.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:17
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webmeister posted:Holy poo poo Copperart, what a flashback Mine had a Burke and Will's copper fire cover. Not from Copperart though.
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Jan 22, 2024 04:20
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NPR Journalizard posted:Unless they are designed and engineered properly, fires in fireplaces tend to cool down a room, rather than heat it up. Also apparently all wood heaters are just pretty bad for you in general https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-01-15/wood-heater-smoke-death-study-prompts-call-for-ban/103321954
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Jan 22, 2024 04:28
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NPR Journalizard posted:Unless they are designed and engineered properly, fires in fireplaces tend to cool down a room, rather than heat it up. I mean, they've been there since 1910 so they must have done something at some point? But yeah, the health thing is a far bigger concern.
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Jan 22, 2024 06:10
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Funky See Funky Do posted:Mine had a Burke and Will's copper fire cover. Not from Copperart though. We had a rather grand copper fire cover depicting a grand old sailing ship in bas relief... in front of a glass fronted oil heater. Didn't stop me, I melted so many bread clips and lego pieces on that glass
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Jan 22, 2024 07:26
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Bill Posters posted:I mean, they've been there since 1910 so they must have done something at some point? Just because something has been done for the last 100 years doesnt mean it was correct. If you think about it, all the heat is just going up a chimney, which sucks in air from outside the room which is generally colder.
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Jan 22, 2024 07:30
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That's convection, which certainly makes them inefficient; but it's the radiant heat that heats the room. Not saying you're wrong or anything but it just strikes me that if that were strictly true, then in the 50-80 years before the ducted heating went in, someone would have cottoned on to the idea that the house got colder when they lit the fire.
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Jan 22, 2024 07:51
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Chrpno posted:We had a rather grand copper fire cover depicting a grand old sailing ship in bas relief... in front of a glass fronted oil heater. Didn't stop me, I melted so many bread clips and lego pieces on that glass For me it was straws.
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Jan 22, 2024 07:58
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We had a wood fireplace in the lounge and it warmed most of the house.
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Jan 22, 2024 08:12
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Ours was the enclosed combustion type with a little glass door on the front. I remember that it did a pretty decent job of warming up the house. You'd assume an enclosed fire would be more safe but my earliest memory is doing a forward roll in front of it, misjudging the distance and putting both my feet clean through the glass. It was summer at the time so I didn't burn myself and somehow didn't slide up my feet but my mum did slap the poo poo out of me for breaking it.
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Jan 22, 2024 08:37
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Before castleraegh there was brickies https://www.whichcar.com.au/features/archive-brickies-the-home-of-australias-illegal-street-racing-in-the-70s
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Jan 22, 2024 09:48
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Carlos Lantana posted:Before castleraegh there was brickies Top stuff Kooragang Island's the go tho, probably still happening out there
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Jan 22, 2024 10:06
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Side note: there's so many places around named "Castlereagh", generally after the Viscount Castlereagh as a tribute to his hand in the defeat of Napoleon. A troubled and divisive character to say the least, he seemed generally reviled in his later years, but I guess news travels slowly to the colonies.
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Jan 22, 2024 10:16
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Growing up we didn't have an electric or gas oven but a combustion fireplace. If you didn't light the fire then you didn't have hot water for the day either. At the time I thought we must have been really bloody poor to still be using such old tech but I grew up in one of the poorer places in Tasmania and we were the only ones so who knows. We didn't have a shower either or a bathroom sink so it was probably just my parents being weird.
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Jan 22, 2024 10:32
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Airstream Driver posted:We had a wood fireplace in the lounge and it warmed most of the house. Us too. Pretty fukken simple. Pete Smith must have made a motza off Copperart ads, they ran ad-fkn-nauseum during the late 80's into the late 90's.
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Jan 22, 2024 10:57
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Carlos Lantana posted:Before castleraegh there was brickies 
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Jan 22, 2024 11:12
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Carlos Lantana posted:Before castleraegh there was brickies Sick bit of poo poo you found here eh
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Jan 22, 2024 11:26
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Exciting Australiana news: corrupt cop and serial fuckwit Roger Rogerson has died. He murdered at least two people in cold blood, and probably a third too. Plus the two people he shot "in the line of duty". And the rival cop he tried to have murdered (who got shot multiple times but survived).
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Jan 22, 2024 11:42
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BastardAus posted:Us too. Pretty fukken simple. To say nothing of his time on Triple M in the mid/late 90s with Tony Martin and Mick Molloy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzgtIlVTlZc
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Jan 22, 2024 12:18
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We used to be a country https://youtu.be/pDUIIl_OUuo?si=GK-6qLQrZA8yFZzZ
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Jan 22, 2024 12:22
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I yeah I fucken remember my little brother (who was literally like 8-10) pawning all the game systems up until n94 one at a time(and I mean a master system, a couple of mega drives, a mega CD, an NES, an SNES or two, some game boys + accessories, and god knows how many games to buy loving pogs or something like that) for junkie prices at the local Cash Converters. I'd be over there every second weekend "Hey let's play street fighter where's the mega drive" "I pawned it at cash converts for $10". gently caress that shop.
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Jan 22, 2024 12:42
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Meh poo poo happens. I think I sold my SNES at a garage sale for like $30. No regrats I either emulate it on my PC or play it via switch online.
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Jan 22, 2024 12:48
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Maximum Sexy Pigeon posted:Sick bit of poo poo you found here eh
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Jan 22, 2024 12:51
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DPM posted:To say nothing of his time on Triple M in the mid/late 90s with Tony Martin and Mick Molloy Martin Molloy was pretty sick hey. Think Mick Molloy turned out to be a bit of a wanker but. Maybe Tony Martin too idk.
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Jan 22, 2024 12:52
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Aware posted:Meh poo poo happens. I think I sold my SNES at a garage sale for like $30. No regrats I either emulate it on my PC or play it via switch online. Wow this is the most only child post I ever read. If you have brothers or sisters you should go make sure because I don't believe you. "I would have just been happy to have a brother that sold all my loving game systems to cash converters." 
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Jan 22, 2024 12:57
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I was speaking more to the quality of the advertisement, but y'all go off , im here for it Cash converters zone I bought a banjo mandolin once, sick little instrument
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Jan 22, 2024 13:06
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I'm sorry but it's still a real sore spot to me. At the time I was furious at him but now how the hell could they let a 9 year old kid pawn their loving nintendo?!
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Jan 22, 2024 13:15
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Kids dumb man
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