you can put at least one of your prejudices on a shelf and actually read the article before making I'll-informed comments? Erick's uncle, Erick says: 09:21am | 14/09/11 B, lotsa critters quack like ducks that ain't ducks. In fact, humans have been known to quack like ducks on occasion. Truth be told, even I've quacked like a duck a couple of times. I'll leave it to others to judge if I'm a duck or not, but I'm quite certain that if a human quacks like a duck, that human cannot automatically be said to be a duck. In answer to your question; "how dumb do you think Australian's are???", I'd say some of them are very dumb. Very dumb indeed. Must waddle off, now. Quack, quack. Hang on, what if I really AM Erick? says: 09:38am | 14/09/11 B says "How dumb do you think Australian's (sic) are?" Well B, based on your grammar, pretty bloody stupid actually. And based on the comments on Mal's fairly sensible story, really, really dumb. I mean, you read The Punch and it's like half the nation woke up and took dumb pills. At least this one's on carbon pricing, so it's not like I have to wade through the usual racist sewage that passes for commentary on any asylum seeker story. Rose says: 09:42am | 14/09/11 Actually jf, my husband already passes on the costs of speeding fines or any other expense to his customers. As a contractor he just builds it into