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I think it would be better to convey your disgust through interpretive dance - you might qualify for the Olympics and then go on to win gold!

When the kids from next door lose their ball over the fence and try and retrieve it they're gonna get a face full of flame!

They paint their houses those bright colours because of the long, brutally cold, depressing, grey, sun-starved winters. But great place to visit in the summer months.

See how confusing it's going to be. Thanks, Elon Musk, thanks for nothing you jerk!

Does this mean I won't be able to use the letter 'x' anymore because a multi-billion dollar company has trademarked it:

• Two people fighting will now be boing.
• When I want to bake some bread I will mi the ingredients together.
• When I want to leave a building I will eit it.
• I will now look up to the stars at night to see the magnificent epance of the Milkyway galay.

The m-dash doesn't really replace any other punctuation--they all have their proper and distinct place.

e.g
The difference between the m-dash in pairs and parentheses is that what's inside parentheses add additional information that can be ignored altogether in the sentence, whereas m-dash pairs introduce an aside point that relates more closely to the sentence proper.

"Think of m-dashes in pairs as the opposite of parentheses. Where parentheses indicate that the reader should put less emphasis on the enclosed material, m-dashes indicate that the reader should pay more attention to the material between the dashes. "
Source: https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/semi-colons-colons-and-dashes/]

Don't be fooled, you just have to delve into the differences that, when you get down to it, aren't that subtle.

I'm not a fan of advice that says when the writing is more informal to replace the semi-colon or parentheses, etc, with the m-dash, because it seems to be an excuse to not look into the details and be precise with your punctuation.

Yeah, all imgur.com images for me are blank, and I can't figure out why.

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Close, but still good enough for second prize. Good effort.

You win a life-sized cardboard cutout of Donald Trump with touch activated audio loops of all his most memorable Presidential quotes, such as: “And yet I’ve gone decades, decades without a war. The first president to do it for that long a period.”, and “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK? It’s, like, incredible.” and “Despite the constant negative press covfefe”. Look for it in the mail.

Someone should just start putting out fake Trump articles with super-weird headlines and no-one would notice - anything is plausible with this guy.

1. 'Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House'
2. ‘Trump admits that he expects servicemen to be rapists’
3. 'Trump kicked a child in the face while campaigning in Iowa.'
4. ‘Donald Trump just literally made the Republican race about his penis’
5. 'Donald Trump likes rough sex with prostitutes who only have one leg.'
6. 'Trump visited church before election day and walked out with a wooden pew under his arm and a gold alter crucifix concealed in his jacket.'
7. 'Trump was spotted Thursday cartwheeling down Santa Monica beach in a mankini.'
8. 'Trump just called Hillary Clinton Beelzubub, the eater of souls.'
9. 'Donald Trump stole classified documents, stored them in his bathroom in Mar-a-Lago, then sent copies via bike courier to the Russian and Saudi embassies for a cash exchange of $2 million per page.'
10. 'Donald Trump seen naked at 3am in Central Park humping a chihuahua.'

Challenge: 50% of these headlines are real, can you spot which ones?

From the image in this link: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-17/gabba-stadium-redevelopment-funding-2032-olympics-infrastructure/101988206
...looks to me like they will be linking the river by sinking the roads surrounding and capping them with pedestrian walking areas, or some of them anyway . $2.7 billion price tag. The walkway links look like they are trying to give access to southbank/ the rocks but also river frontage at Mowbrow Park on other side of Kangaroo point.

With the Gabba I think it's all about increasing the oval size and stand capacity so they can complete with other large stadiums in Australia for events.

Here's another article: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/feb/17/brisbane-2032-olympics-live-arena-gabba-rebuild-redevelopment-queensland
...which says the proposed new stadium will only add another 8000 seats. There's also pics of an alternate and cheaper proposal to have demountable stadium then reuse the materials from that after games for other infrastructure. Insteresting.

The Olympic Committee specifically asked for bids that emphasized no-budget-blowouts due to many previous Olympics essentially bankrupting cities and the bad rep that was causing to the Olympics brand, and Brisbane's bid was the only one that stacked up to scrutiny, is what I understand. So at least it wasn't just politicians by themselves blowing smoke up are collective arses for a change - there was some kind of scrutiny.

I think the Gabba is a special case. They have been wanting to expand/fix the Gabba district for ages - the two 4-lane roads on either side that the back of the stands over-hang has been a problem forever. Olympics has given them a chance to fix the whole thing, link it up with the river better. They put in the bus tunnels to fix access fairly recently. Adelaide Oval had similar growing pains - that stadium put in large sail structures back in the 2000's that were completely redone only 5 or 10 years later. The Gabba is a signature bit of infrastructure in the inner city worth doing - they will probably use it for big concerts and so on. The whole of the inner Brisbane city is coming along nicely, Southbank and bikeway upgrades and bridges, docks - it's getting there.

The Olympics aren't the Commonwealth games, it's a global audience - think commonwealth games + china, north and south america, the rest of Europe. And Brisbane is an obscure city on the world stage, but has amazing weather and natural tourists attraction, theme parks - I think Brisbane will get value for money, put it on the map.