Hollywood Producers Decide To Just Reboot Another Bromance Themed 1980s Smash Hit
EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactProving that the age of spandex is well and truly back, Hollywood producers have been rushing to reboot bromance themed 1980s hits, which appear to be a winning formula.
Despite being a decade that was not known to be very socially progressive, 80s movies were chock full of bromances, with movies such as Lethal Weapon, Point Break, Wayne’s World...
ATO Boss Warns They’re Targeting Broke Small Business Owners Again This Year
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The Australian Tax Office has warned struggling small business owners that they are in their sights today as the financial year ends with a bang.
Interest rates are set to be jacked again today by the Reserve Bank, compounding pressure on families and people just out there having a go.
If you tell the ATO...
“You Gotta Start Somewhere” Says Old Man Who Never Paid Half A Week’s Wage To Shit In The Living Room
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With pressure growing across the Regional Queensland rental market, a local sexagenarian offered some unsolicited advice to this masthead that involved starting at the bottom and working your way up to his position.
Comments made by Betoota Heights resident Mark Redoman today were triggered by an advertisement in The Advocate's real estate lift-out, Buy Sell...
Millennials Compare Trying To Buy A Home Now With Finding A Graduate Position During The GFC
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A group of local 30-somethings have compared graduating during the 2007-2010 Global Financial Crisis to the current housing affordability crisis, telling The Advocate that both events have had their own effect on shaping their psyche moving forward.
In one of the function rooms above the Gelded Seahorse Hotel in the Old City, Stanley Coleman...
Chemist Warehouse Pharmacist Seen Disappearing Into A Black Hole After Woman Hands Over Prescription
EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactA Betoota Heights woman has today witnessed a very strange phenomenon, after attempting to get a prescription filled for some dermatitis cream.
Visiting her local Chemist Warehouse at roughly 3pm, as she’d long ago learnt that lunch time and after work was the worst possible time to go, Verity Hall had figured the task would take no longer...
La Niña Wraps Up Just In Time For Coldest And Darkest Part Of Winter
EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactThe Bureau of Meteorology has declared that La Nina is ‘officially over’ but states there’s a high chance it could be back to fuck up Spring.
Making sure to stop just as the country moves into the coldest and darkest part of winter, news that La Nina could be popping in for a visit during some of the best...
Fortitude Valley Cab Rank Chosen As The Official Judo Venue For 2032 Brisbane Olympics
EFFIE BATEMAN | Lifestyle | ContactIn some exciting news for Brisbanites, it’s now been announced that the Fortitude Valley cab rank will be the official judo venue for the 2032 Olympics, which has been described by committee leader John Hayes as a ‘natural decision.’
Though the original plan was to host the fights outside of the Treasury Casino, it’s alleged the tender documents were...
Now That Oil Heaters Are Too Expensive To Run, How Will People Burn Their Landlord’s House Down?
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A new crisis is emerging in the wake of energy prices skyrocketing with oil heaters becoming too expensive to run.
Typically the cheapest option when it comes to slightly warming a room that leaks heat like a cheap cotton jumper, oil bar heaters are usually the most expensive and inefficient way to heat a space.
Oil...
Goths Grieve Revlon Insolvency As They Look For New Ways To Dye Hair Black For $11.95
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The goths that sit on the steps out the front of the Betoota City Council Chambers are grieving the loss of Revlon this week after the multinational cosmetics giant filed for bankruptcy after decades of providing affordable hair dyes and other knick-knacks of that ilk to supermarket shoppers around the world.
With debts of over...
Man Chalks Up His Underlying Urge To Defecate In A Bunnings Display Toilet To Seeing Dave England’s Classic Prank In Jackass 1
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A seemingly normal young man from our town's north has spoken today of doing something not-so-normal by societal standards.
When Matt Deap was just a boy, his old boy took him to see the first Jackass "film" at the Reading Cinemas in the French Quarter. While his father was repulsed by nearly every stunt and...
