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*grumble* Managed to screw up with one of the icon pics.
Put Sample 10 – Reputation6 – Emerald 1, twice

This is what Sample 11 – Reputation6 – Emerald 2 is supposed to be

Jenifur Charne

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Links and sites.

warning.
As at last month, The House Of Priscilla website was known to be carrying malware and trojans.

Soho Hair and Wigs has 2 branches,
http://www.sohohair.com.au/
104 Peilican St., Darlinghurst,
streetfront in the Paramount
and
127 Enmore Rd. Enmore.

Wig Affair
http://wigaffair.com.au/
Shop 11 Picadilly Arcade
210 Pitt St.

Suzanne’s Wigs
http://www.suzannewigs.com.au/
Bosch Chambers
Suite 3, Level 6,
114-120 Castlereagh St.

Jenifur Charne

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Whilst I’ve been full time for 17 years now, I’ve never had the cash for electrolysis, so I have to deal with the shaver and somewhat heavily applied makeup.

Here at home in Brisbane in summer, women’s shorts, tank tops, and sandals is ordinary around the house wear. It’s too hot and humid to wear more.

My place is in a block of flats built back in 1971, it’s on the top floor of the block, there’s no in-roof insulation, and my flat doesn’t have aircon, so I have 6 pedestal fans running 24/7 of a summer. Welcome to the oven.

Going grocery shopping of a summer, I wear a plain cotton t-shirt and 3/4 length linen pants or skirt.

Common sense dress for the climate is the most sensible move, IMO.

Jenifur Charne

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As a bonus, the products used are available from a number of .au stores including House of Priscilla on Oxford Street in Sydney (over the road from Independent Wigs)

Caution:
Microsoft Security Essentials flags The House Of Priscilla site as carrying the Javascript trojan BlacoleRef.RO

Jenifur Charne

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I can confirm that avast also has blocked trojans on http://www.houseofpriscilla.com.au.
Stay away!

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just thought I’d record a list of the underwear options available for males and females. Makes you realise why its so much more enjoyable being TG

is it any wonder that most of us enjoy the array of underwear that is available for women

Did I miss anything ?

Caroline

I can think of a few items you missed for women, Caronline.

Spencers worn in the winter
full briefs
Strapless bras
Soft-cup wire free bras

Jenifur Charne

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Thanks for the link Coral.
StockingsHQ has a better range of old fashioned stockings than any of the Australian eTailers.
Even better is that they also have a good range of suspender belts for the stockings. That is something sorely lacking in ranges offered by the Australian etailers.

Jenifur Charne

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The majority of my panties are always somewhat utalitarian as I buy for day in day out practicailty.
Bonds Cottontails bought at Coles supermarket are the mainstay of my collection, as well as some waist control panty-girdles bought at BiLo supermarket and Best and Less
That said, I do have some not so plain knickers as well. A few pairs of Kmart ‘Secret Love’ stretch lace french knickers. A few pairs of Today’s Woman stretch satin panties from Best and Less.

Jenifur Charne

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Helen, ‘hold ups’ stockings are the same as ‘stay ups’ stockings. The tops of these stockings are lined with a band of sticky stretchy silicone.
Proper old-fashioned stockings don’t have this. They need suspenders. Unfortunately it is now very difficult to find stockings stockists who DON’T solely carry ‘stay ups’.
The eTailers I listed and linked to in my earlier post in this thread all do carry current versions of proper old-fashioned stockings.

Jenifur Charne

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Amanda, thanks for the URL for Savers.

Jessica, going by what I saw at my local Target back in the new year, the only stockings Target now sell are no longer the proper old-fashioned ones. They are the modern sticky silicone topped stay-up designs.

Jenifiur Charne

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Nadesha, what is the URL for Savers, or is it a specific branch that carries the stock?

Jenifur Charne

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http://www.savers.com.au/ ??

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Janet’s Closet isn’t BFS, so they’ve always had different prices to the US BFS parent site. Looking at the US parent site, the Canadian site, and the EU sites, nearly all branches of BFS have stopped listing Hollisters on the tapes and adhesives page. Australia is the last branch of BFS still listing Hollisters there, and hunting online just after TransFormal 2012, BFS was the only place I could find carrying the Hollisters adhesive remover.
BFS US and Canada have a special running on a set of Hollisters adhesive and remover for use with the new Aphrodite forms, $62 USD or CDN. BFS Australia is still persisting with selling the adhesive and remover separately for $80AUD each.
Why we have such a savage Australia Tax on everything, when the $AUD has been at better than parity to the $USD for over 12 months now, is something that frustrates a lot of people.

The bra from Janet’s Closet looks very similar to the Transform #7100
$56 AUD – http://www.thebreastformstore.com.au/
$30 USD – http://www.thebreastformstore.com/ Note just how many colours the bra is acutally available in, compared to how few we get here.

Pocketed bras are good, when you have an outfit that is suited to wearing a bra with straps.

Jenifur Charne

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my only problem (two actually) is that after wearing mine for over 48hrs, it tends to get a bit loose, luckily once washed, returns back to shape.

Wearing it too long will, over time, damage the fibres faster than wearing it for one day, then washing it.

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But that begs the question, which of the other six should I wear next???
pink x2, blue x2, white, beige, black are the colours I have.

Depends on how much their colours show through with the clothes you have.
I can’t wear my black bras under my pale colours tops, as those bras show through too much.

Jenifur Charne

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Amanda, if email and chat contribute equally towards a 100 opercent reputation under the new system, then where is the worth in Visiting keeping one’s Profile up to date?

Jenifur Charne

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CNN article on the subject, dated 14th April 2011.

Pakistan’s transgender tribe of tax collectors

By Nick Paton Walsh, CNN

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
[ul]In Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, authorities employ “transgender” tax collectors.
They are sent out with the aim of embarrassing debtors into paying up.
Barely 1 per cent of Pakistanis pay any income tax.[/ul]

video – http://cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2011/04/14/walsh.pakistan.transgender.cnn

Karachi, Pakistan (CNN) — Miss your tax deadline in the United States this weekend, and you might get a nasty letter at your door. In Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, you might get Riffee and the gang. They are “transgender” tax collectors — whose weapons include flamboyancy, surprise — and a little lipstick.

In a move that speaks volumes about the lengths to which Pakistan is going to tackle tax evasion, Karachi officials are using Riffee – who like many people in South Asia works under a single name – and her team as enforcers with a difference. They are sent to the businesses or houses of debtors. The aim — in this very conservative Muslim society — to embarrass tax debtors into paying up.

Riffee — like her tax-collector friends Sana and Kohan — is physically a man, but prefers to be called and dress as a woman. Their job is quite simple: each morning they turn up to work and get a list of missed payments. One by one, they make house-calls, causing trouble at each debtor’s home or office, trying to get them to pay up. It’s not clear how effective this tactic is, but officials insist they would not do it if it did not work.

“Their appearance causes great embarrassment amongst the people,” said Sajid Hussein Bhatti, the tax superintendent who gives Riffee her orders every morning.

When Riffee was a 10-year-old boy, she decided she wanted to be a woman. Since then, she says, she’s endured plenty of prejudice. “We’re trying to educate society and show them how we like ourselves, but if your parents don’t understand you or give you respect, how can you expect other people to?”

A Pakistani court ruling two years ago gave eunuchs — men who have been castrated — the right to be referred to as a “third gender.” Riffee believes the same right should extend to her and her friends, although they have not been castrated.

We followed them as they visit a series of electrical appliance shops. The first debtor insists there’s been a mistake and the bill’s been paid. The second is less amenable, so the team threaten to come back 24 hours later, half a dozen strong — and dance in the shop. That just may be enough to get a tax bill settled.

There is a serious side though to this theatrical tactic. Pakistan’s tax take is dire: barely 1 per cent of Pakistanis pay any income tax, and the government is frantically trying to increase its income — partially to placate the International Monetary Fund. Pakistan wants to borrow up to another $5 billion from the IMF, which insists the state improves its tax collection.

The government is seriously indebted — and only 1.9 million people in a country of 170 million filed tax returns at all last year. By some estimates 10 million people are registered to pay taxes in Pakistan; the great majority don’t pay a rupee.

In a country where many say the courts are weak and the police corruptible, Riffee and the team are a last, albeit striking, resort.

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The original article from The Guardian, which the Sydney Mourning Horrid copied almost entirely.

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I’ve deleted the rest of this article copy as you will see that the SMH did acknowledge the article was from Guardian news & media.