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10 O'Clock Live is dreadful. It actually has the potential to be a good TV show but it falls well short every time.

Brooker and Mitchell are pretty good but Laverne and Carr are awful and the little sketches before the adverts are cringeworthy.

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10 O'Clock Live is dreadful. It actually has the potential to be a good TV show but it falls well short every time.

I am genuinely surprised this has got a second run. I think it was the first two episodes (well one and a half) I watched last time around. It was dreadful. I can't stand Charlton 'Charlie' Brooker.

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Empty what??? House, sac, fridge, head???

We DEMAND to know!

to be fair. empty house, leads to an empty sack and an empty fridge.

just cant think if where the head comes in.

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Could well be, need to do a bit more investigating :)

This was the article written in a local newspaper when he died.

A profound feeling of regret was occasioned in the city this morning by a report, which unfortunately proved to be true, that Mr Dugald Macdougall, the town clerk of Sandhurst, and a gentleman who was held in very high esteem by his numerous friends, had died in a very sudden manner. It appears that the deceased gentleman, who for some years past had been suffering from heart disease, was at 5 o'clock this morning seized with a violent pain in his chest. The usual remedies were applied, but these having no effect, and Mr. Macdougall rapidly growing worse, Drs. Cruickshank and Landvoigt were sent for, but about 7 o'clock, before either of these gentlemen arrived, the patient died. He was 46 years of ago, and a native of Greenock, Scotland. Mr. Macdougall was one of the first and in earlier days most successful reefers of Bendigo. He arrived here in 1855, and was the first to erect powerful machinery on the Victoria Reef. His speculations for a period turned out very prosperously, but subsequently he had a long series of reverses in mining. In 1867 he was elected a member of the City Council, in which capacity he continued to act until 1876, when he resigned, and was appointed to the position of town clerk, which he occupied up to the time of his death. Tor the duties of this office he was peculiarly well fitted. He was also a member of the honorary Bench. The deceased gentleman was a brother of Mr Macdougall, of the firm of Sands and M'Dougall, of Melbourne. The funeral will take place on Sunday.

This notice was also published in the Tasmanian paper, The Mercury.

There were, in fact, refrigerated ships ( reefers ) in use in the early 1800s .

However, since your relative is described as a " most successful reefer ", who erected machinery on the Victoria Reef, then later had reverses in mining, it looks like the reference is to the Aussie slang word for someone who mined the Quartz reefs which supplied alluvial gold . :)

ETA. Just noticed that Swampy has already confirmed that Reefer ships were in use in early 1800s. :)

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