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Re: The Concept Of A Mansion Tax
Reply #30 - Jun 7^th, 2026 at 4:00pm

Sophia wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 1:53pm:

Well I’m guilty Tallowood, I’m not a fan of all spiders, blow flies and European wasps.
Not even animals are non violent towards other animals or humans either.
Recently my son’s wife sent me a photo of a beautiful owl I think it was, and I saw a chain … this is in Bali. That upset me and I was vocal about it. About 9 years ago my daughter and I were sightseeing in Bali and came across this coffee made from Civets they had in cages, we stood there saying how wrong and cruel it was. I don’t know their customs well or laws to do anything but my daughter is involving herself freeing Beagles from experiments still happening to animals testing products on them!
I greeted her at the door yesterday, she opens door with a cupped container and let a little lizard out in garden. I said … it not payin the rent?

she never squashed a spider or fly that I recall since she was a Bub. Oh and the very last tik Tok shows how innocence is.

These tik Toks are some of my absolute faves. Oh my heart. I’m feeling inspired to do more photography again. It’s a big Nikon D750 and I hardly use it because the mobile phone is so small and convenient, and I’ve captured sone great pics with it ….but many times I’m somewhere interesting and wished I had my big digi zoom lens camera!

Enjoy these….

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYGqXCU/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYGWH9V/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYWdpyH/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQY7rdxQ/

Last photo … is it chained or tied? I’m not impressed and I will ask some questions when kids get back home!

Yes, it is beautiful bird, probably a Barred eagle-owl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_eagle-owl
I've never seen them in Australia.

There are plenty of Frogmouth where I live they look like owls and hunt at night like owls keeping rodents down, which is good, but apparently they are not owls.
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals/tawny-frogmouth

BTW, Owl is symbol of wisdom.

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Re: The Concept Of A Mansion Tax
Reply #31 - Jun 14^th, 2026 at 6:26pm

tallowood wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 4:00pm:

Sophia wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 1:53pm:

Well I’m guilty Tallowood, I’m not a fan of all spiders, blow flies and European wasps.
Not even animals are non violent towards other animals or humans either.
Recently my son’s wife sent me a photo of a beautiful owl I think it was, and I saw a chain … this is in Bali. That upset me and I was vocal about it. About 9 years ago my daughter and I were sightseeing in Bali and came across this coffee made from Civets they had in cages, we stood there saying how wrong and cruel it was. I don’t know their customs well or laws to do anything but my daughter is involving herself freeing Beagles from experiments still happening to animals testing products on them!
I greeted her at the door yesterday, she opens door with a cupped container and let a little lizard out in garden. I said … it not payin the rent?

she never squashed a spider or fly that I recall since she was a Bub. Oh and the very last tik Tok shows how innocence is.

These tik Toks are some of my absolute faves. Oh my heart. I’m feeling inspired to do more photography again. It’s a big Nikon D750 and I hardly use it because the mobile phone is so small and convenient, and I’ve captured sone great pics with it ….but many times I’m somewhere interesting and wished I had my big digi zoom lens camera!

Enjoy these….

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYGqXCU/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYGWH9V/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQYWdpyH/

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSQY7rdxQ/

Last photo … is it chained or tied? I’m not impressed and I will ask some questions when kids get back home!

Yes, it is beautiful bird, probably a Barred eagle-owl
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_eagle-owl
I've never seen them in Australia.

There are plenty of Frogmouth where I live they look like owls and hunt at night like owls keeping rodents down, which is good, but apparently they are not owls.
https://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/plants-and-animals/tawny-frogmouth

BTW, Owl is symbol of wisdom.
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/640x480q70/924/4aWPF3.jpg

Barred eagle-owls can look like that as a baby but grow extended ear like feathers as they age. This also looks like a variety of barn owl.

Frogmouths have their eyes on the side and owls have a flat face with eyes at the front, Owls hunt with strong large claws and frogmouth have small weak claws, the owls beak is pointed and sharp for tearing and the frogmouth has a wise beak and large mouth for swallowing bugs and things. I also wondered about why a frogmouth isn't an owl.

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Re: The Concept Of A Mansion Tax
Reply #32 - Jun 14^th, 2026 at 6:34pm

Dnarever wrote on Jun 14^th, 2026 at 6:26pm:

Barred eagle-owls can look like that as a baby but grow extended ear like feathers as they age. This also looks like a variety of barn owl.

Frogmouths have their eyes on the side and owls have a flat face with eyes at the front, Owls hunt with strong large claws and frogmouth have small weak claws, the owls beak is pointed and sharp for tearing and the frogmouth has a wise beak and large mouth for swallowing bugs and things. I also wondered about why a frogmouth isn't an owl.

Frogmouths belong to the nightjar family, we rarely see other nightjars.

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Re: The Concept Of A Mansion Tax
Reply #33 - Jun 14^th, 2026 at 8:54pm

Dnarever wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 3:00pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 2:50pm:

freediver wrote on Jun 7^th, 2026 at 1:18pm:

It would be a tax on people in Sydney and Melbourne who already have to pay an absurd price for the family home.

It's communism - you no longer own your own home -
you pay rent to the Govt. for living there.

I've told this story many times -
I know someone who was $38,000 in arrears for rates - in Brighton -
he had to sell his home to pay the rates as the council sent him a lawyer's letter
saying they would go to court, freeze his home asset and sell it.
He couldn't work anymore to get money for rates - due to illness,
but the council didn't care -
they just wanted "their" money.

Pretty sure that if you looked at a block of cheese on a supermarket shelf you would see communism ?

You should get that fixed, no not everything or not anything is communism and no everything else isn't socialism and the cerial isle isn't marxism either.

Are you a communist? -

they tell you all the time what to do, what to think, what to feel -
you wanna work 8, 10 hours a day - you've got nothing, you own nothing? -
you want a "chivato", an informer on every corner,
watching everything you do, everything you say?

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