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A promise from the Golden Years** The image today

A promise from the Golden Years** The image today for almost Friday post is a servo near the Brisbane CBD.
When it closed down permanently, they decided not to remove the sign displaying their key customer promise ... Today’s entry into #thisisbroken.
Or perhaps simply #notmyjob ... PS: how amazing are the winter skies in BrisVegas – zero photoshopping here …. ** for the trainspotters, the David Bowie song ‘Golden Years’ seemed an appropriate choice for riffing the title today, given it appear on the album ‘Station to Station’.

Testamentary Trust Tax Changes in place Forever (f

Testamentary Trust Tax Changes in place Forever (finally) Now**
The image today is from a View webinar from 2018 shortly after the 2018 Budget attack on excepted trust income via testamentary trusts was announced.
Over the last 48 hours those changes have finally been passed by both Houses of Parliament.
Game on for how the #ATO rolls from here, given the rules vest signifcant discretionary power with the Commissioner. ** for the trainspotters, the title today riffed from Cold Chisel and ‘Forever Now’.

PPPS: following image caught my attention ..

PPPS: following image caught my attention ..

Are we simply all part of a Ship of Fools** 3 step

Are we simply all part of a Ship of Fools** 3 steps of instructions from guide:

1. stay on this side of the barrier; it is a sheer cliff face on the other side of over 100 metres
2. remove your hats
3. do not chase after anything that blows away
Potential Darwin Award nominee here ignored all 3 steps and chased at full speed his hat straight to the cliff edge ... Bit like the instruction to make sure you observe 1.5M physical distancing to help manage Covid19; unless of course you are turning up to a protest ... PS: The Darwin Award nomination ultimately was denied; the gentleman somehow managed not to disappear over the edge ... PPS: In an unexpectedly happy ending, the recalcitrant hat was also retrieved ... PPPS: The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honouring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner ... Are we simply all part of a Ship of Fools** 3 steps of instructions from guide:

1. stay on this side of the barrier; it is a sheer cliff face on the other side of over 100 metres
2. remove your hats
3. do not chase after anything that blows away
Potential Darwin Award nominee here ignored all 3 steps and chased at full speed his hat straight to the cliff edge ... Bit like the instruction to make sure you observe 1.5M physical distancing to help manage Covid19; unless of course you are turning up to a protest ... PS: The Darwin Award nomination ultimately was denied; the gentleman somehow managed not to disappear over the edge ... PPS: In an unexpectedly happy ending, the recalcitrant hat was also retrieved ... PPS: The Darwin Awards salute the improvement of the human genome by honouring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner ... ** For the trainspotters, the title today riffed from the World Party song 'Ship of Fools'. ** or if you prefer, see the Doors song of the same name. potters, the title today riffed from the World Party song 'Ship of Fools'. ** or if you prefer, see the Doors song of the same name

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