Lone Star Steakhouse at Mermaid Beach was a shocker!

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1. Lone Star Mermaid Beach

2. What is this disgusting thing served up at the Lone Star?

The decor was excellent, the free peanuts were great, the staff were friendly and the service was extra quick but that's where the Triple A rating ended at the Lone Star Steakhouse and Saloon on the main highway at Mermaid Beach on the Gold Coast.

The Wild Fire Shrimps were on the cold side and their main meal size for the two entrees did not exactly whet the appetite for the much-anticipated steaks which came hot and well-appointed.
There was a disappointment for the birthday boy in the group when his pumpkin soup arrived as a luke warm, funny-coloured liquid which gave every appearance of having just been siphoned out of a plastic pail.

Now, take a close look at the concoction in the second picture above.

How can this be said delicately? In fact, it looks exactly like what confronts a professional gynecologist every day.

Well done means well done and when a gastronomic connoisseur orders a well done steak, he or she doesn't expect some oozing, dripping, blood-filled piece of offal.

The picture shows why the steak was left on the plate to be feed to the dogs scrounging in the rubbish bins after midnight.

Here's hoping those Gold Coast stray mutts survived their meal as well as the Lone Star patrons.

The Lone Star staff didn't bother asking how the meal was - probably because they were fully aware it looked disgusting sitting, half-eaten on the plate.

Now for the finale.

The bill was as easy to read as War and Peace for a blind man.

It was put together with acronyms and hieroglyphics which would make it impossible for even Barry Jones to decipher.

The Wild Fire Shrimps appeared to have been overcharged but what seemed to have been a $9.92 ripoff was credited back AFTER the Invoice Total as "LocalStoreMarketing".

What a bizarre way of presenting the bill which simply causes embarrassment for customers and staff.

The Lone Star - not much of a star last night, more a big, black hole!

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Internet scams just keep on coming! When will the Federal Government stop this blight on the people of Australia?

The scams just keep on coming.

The latest is an email purporting to be from the Commonwealth Bank, seeking personal details via a bogus website link.

Once these are given, the individual's account is stripped of all its money within hours.

Ask your Federal Member today for immediate action by the Rudd Government to stop these bogus emails which are destroying many people financially.

If they can stop pornography, they can stop this!

This is the latest overnight scam:

From: CommonwealthBank

Subject: CommonwealthBank Notification

Dear Valued Customer,

This email is your official notification from Commonwealth Bank.

Your online NetBank has expired on 01-06-2009 ,if you want to continue using our service you have to renew your acount if not your account will be deactivated and deleted

To continue please click the link below:

http://ssl-netbankcommau.com

Many Thanks and Kind Regards - Commonwealth Bank Customer Department

© Commonwealth Bank of Australia 2009 ABN 48 123 123 124


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Internet scams hitting Australia are getting worse - Be alert and alarmed!

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Internet scams involving fake emails with offers of millions of dollars to unsuspecting recipients are now hitting Australia in an unprecedented blitz.

The latest comes overnight with a tear-jerking plea from a so-called cancer-ridden Mrs Dorothy Woodhall of London whose fabulously rich husband supposedly died in a plane crash in Salvador a year ago.

From her husband's diamond riches, Mrs Woodhall is now so generous she wants to give away £7.5 million GBP to anyone who applies.

Fair dinkum, you would wonder how these scammers keep going but unfortunately there are enough gullible and naïve citizens around the world to keep these scams alive.

The Australian Government has laws which it can invoke to stop these emails entering Australia. They can serve notices on ISP's which would eliminate almost all of this heinous activity at the stroke of a pen.

These bogus emails with offers of fabulous riches are hurting too many Australian families who cannot afford the money they fork out in these difficult economic times in the vain hope of securing a large pot of gold for their families.

This needs to be stopped.

The Prime Minister Kevin Rudd can stop it today.

Here is a copy of the scam email from Mrs Dorothy Woodhall supposely of 52 Oxford Street London which hit Australia overnight:

From: dorothywoodhall317@msn.com

Subject: DEAR BELOVE BRETHREN

From: Mrs. Dorothy Woodhall,52 Oxford Street,London, SW1Z1BV UK.

Dear Friend,

Here writes Mrs. Dorothy Woodhall suffering from cancerous ailment.

I am married to Mr. Sean Woodhall, an Englishman who died in plane crash, he died in a plane crash when he was going for his business proposal in Ilhéus flew through Salvador on Friday 2nd of May 2008.

Please copy and paste this Internet link for more information on the incident:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/may/05/britons.missing.after.brazil.plane.crash

My late dear husband was into Diamond Business Practice all his life before his death.

Our life together as a man and wife lasted for three decades without child.

My husband and I made a vow to uplift the down-trodden and the less-privileged individuals as he had passion for persons who can not help themselves due to physical disability or financial predicament.

I can adduce this to the fact that he needed a Child from this relationship, which never came.

When my late husband was alive he deposited the sum of 7.5 Million(Seven Million, Five hundred thousand Great Britain Pounds) Sterling which were derived from his vast diamond business, real  estates and investment in capital market with his bank here in UK.

Presently, this money is still with the Bank.

Before his death, my Doctor told me that I have limited days to live due to the cancerous problems I am suffering from.

Though what bothers me most is the stroke that I have in addition to the cancer. With this hard eality that has befallen my family, and me I have decided to donate this fund to you and want you to use this gift which comes from my husbands effort to fund the upkeep of less previlege, and the destitutes.

Please contact me to enable me instruct you on how you are to go about distributing these funds on my behalf.

May God Almighty bless you as well as the nurse (Miss Whitney Merck) who helped me to typed this message.

reply to this email,

dorothy.woodhall008@gmail.com

Hope to hear from you soon.

Warmest Regards,

Mrs. Dorothy Woodhall

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Consumer warning as another internet scam hits Australia

Beware of the latest scam email targetting Australia with the promise of a £1,000,000,00 - an amount which will never be paid by these scammers.

This is a copy of this latest scam:

From: PREMIER LEAGUE GRANT, BARCLAYS

Attention Dear Beneficiary contact(barclaysgrantdpt01@live.com)

BPL:MLC/A12/09
TICKET:DV/01109

We are delighted to inform you of your grant award release on the 22th May
2009 from the Barclays Premier League Grant programme.
You hereby have been approved a sum of £1,000,000,00.GBP in cash credit
for more info contact Mr Alex Gabriel.at Email:barclaysgrantdpt01@live.com
with Your
TICKET Number.
BPL Number.
Your Name.
Telephone Number..
Country.

Sincerely,
Mrs.Elizabeth Martin.

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Give Mars the Ars with their healthy claptrap!

PIC: Mars Bars go up in unit price as the company declares concerns for Australians' health.


Full page ads by the Mars Snackfood Company in Sunday papers around Australia would almost reduce a sceptic to tears.

Crocodile tears that is!

The ads say that the 60g Mars Bar will be reduced in size by 11.6% to 53g to tackle the problems of big food for Australians "by reducing portion size".

Just when you thought the Mars Bar Company had become a loving, caring, sharing multi-national corporation, the company has been forced to admit there will be no reduction in the $1.70 price tag of a Mars Bar.

With national sales of 30 million a year, that represents more than a $5.9 million annual boost to the company's profits, just from the sales of the iconic Mars Bar.

With their other lines set to go the same way, the magnitude of this corporate greed - wrapped up as concerns for our health - soon becomes apparent.

The Company's General Manager Peter West couldn't help himself with his cherubic image splashed across the company's full-page ads in today's Sunday papers across Australia.

It's a pity he couldn't admit that the current tough economic times demanded innovative ways to improve his company's profits.

Claiming that the Mars Bar Company is genuinely interested in our health and well-being is much smarter marketing, even though they are loaded with fat and sugar.

Quick, Peter. Look out the window and snap a picture of those pigs flying across the sky. Maybe, you should even get an Order of Australia out of all of this for being such a decent chap.

Australian consumers are not dills, despite what Peter West and his merry band of Mars purveyors might believe.

The company's latest anti-consumer move will induce sensible Aussies to simply give Mars the Ars!

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