old man emu

46 minutes ago, facthunter said:

Can't you cross it and mail it?  Nev

Luckily I can deposit it myself when I go to Sydney. I suppose I coud have mailed it to my son and got him to deposit it, but that would have been an inconvenience for his as he isn't near a branch during the day.

Here's an example of a disadvantage of a cashless society.

I picked up my mail today and there was a letter from Telstra. Inside was a cheque for $25 or so. No explanation, just a reference number on the paperwork. No details to use to contact and ask what it was for.

Well, $25 in my pocket is $25 that I didn't have yesterday. But here's the problem: my finances are through a Credit Union in Sydney. To access the money, I have to take the cheque to a branch and deposit it over the counter. I wasn't planning to go down to Sydney, but I have just been asked to do an audit, and I have to have a meeting with my kids to settle on a headstone for my wife and my grave. 

I don't know how I would be able to deposit the cheque if I wasn't in Sydney. As it is, I'm going to have to juggle my time to get to the branch while it is open.

1 hour ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

picked them up and caught up with her and handed them back

God will reward you for giving joy to another.

The Albanese Government has just announced that it won't be introducing a $4.00 per tonne export fee on our rubbish going overseas. It will still require exporters to purchase a permit to export.

I think that the Environmentalist lobby would gain more support from the Silent Majority if it backed off calling for a headlong rush into EVs and called on the government to promote the production of usable products from what we are diligently putting into our yellow-lidded bins. Afterall, we are paying for all the packaging around the crap that we are importing.

Obviously recycling need an energy source. That's a good use for renewables of which most people would approve. 

One can only say that their efforts do add to the recycling of the First World's waste. However, the energy inputs and pollutant outputs make it questionable if the efforts are of benefit to all of humanity.

And next time you dump a computer or other electronic device, think of this:

There are quite a number of videos of this type. Here's one involving sand casting water pump housings. Molten metal, sandals and even bare feet. Not a stitch of suitable protective clothing. This is what you get when the value of human life is so low.

19 minutes ago, red750 said:

Correct spelling is eveerything.

1 hour ago, nomadpete said:

Would it help if I go down the paddock and chop down an old gum tree, to carve my new porridge bowl?

Have you got the correct permit from your local Council and the EPA to undertake  such rampant deforestation?

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Gambling is a curse on society. Ruins many lives and relationships. Nev

Just another addiction for the weak-willed.

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

That's a Harley Knucklehead.   Nev

I knew that.

All the weeping, gnashing of teeth and self-flagellation we do in Australia does nothing for air pollution and global warming when you see what is happening in the emerging countries of Asia. 

Just have a look at the first two minutes of this video while thinking about the environmental impact of the process of making an aluminium pressure cooker for domestic use. If you have the time you could watch through further of it to get an idea of conditions the employees work in to make the cooker. 

Gambling from Two-up to Lotto is a matter of probabilities. The more the gambler is aware of the probabilities of an outcome of an event, the more often the gambler will be successful. As Kenny Rogers sang, "You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em".

I see gambling as an entertainment. I don't have any luck at all, but once in while I will spend some time getting one over on a one-armed bandit. I figure that I'm being entertained, so what I decide to lose is the price I am willing to pay for the entertainment, and be prepared to walk away at the end of the act. I was also taught to pocket any winnings equal to my initial stake, and then continue to gamble with the winnings. If luck holds out and winning accumulate, keep pocketing a portion and play on until time, interest, or stakes run out.

27 minutes ago, red750 said:

That would be a most suitable bumper sticker for my car. 

If you like to nibble Nobby's nuts .....

I think I grew up on a different planet. There was never violence with my parents, although Dad liked a beer at the club. It wasn't until much later in life that I found out that my sister suffered from it in her marriage.

1 hour ago, Marty_d said:

My two miniature Foxies would bite you on the ankle for suggesting that.

I think it's the way that you are brought up with dogs. I've had a dog most of my life, but my Mum's rule was no dogs inside, and as the twig is bent ..... The first dog I remember was a Fox Terrier, but after that all my dogs have been medium to large. I sometime wonder if I should get myself another dog, but the last one I had was a rescue dog that had to be put down because it had never been socialised and when it got out it got into fights. It was ether the needle or a fine for me and a muzzle for the dog as well as "Dangerous dog" warning signs at the gates.

Bikes, like dogs, should be kept outside.

1 hour ago, facthunter said:

Cows don't read clocks. They depend on other more natural signals. 

Funny that you should say that just now.

A few minutes ago I was looking at the horses in the paddock beside my place and thinking that they seemed to be growing their winter coats. It got me wondering if the length of daylight, or conversely length of darkness is the trigger (no pun intended) for the hormones that cause the growth and shedding of their coats. I know that in the egg producing business the shed lighting is used to keep the length of day and night in winter about 12 hours. The chook descends from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus) of Southeast Asia, mostly between the equator and Tropic of Cancer where the length of daylight is around 12 hours.

(Brown areas)

It also made me wonder if horses in southern Victoria and Tasmania begin to coat up earlier than my local horses, and do Queensland horses start growing later and start shedding earlier.

None committed.

I've been retired for two thirds as long as I was actually in The Job. My only regret is that I missed doing the 30 years that I hoped to do when I joined.

Here's an interesting bit of Australian transport history.

1 hour ago, red750 said:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13377481/waleed-aly-domestic-violence-crisis-Australia.html

That's because my academic work was studying the roots of violence, where research overwhelmingly identifies factors like humiliation, shame and guilt as motivating drivers, not a lack of respect.'

After thinking about it, I come the the conclusion that Waleed has identified the very seed of all violence done by males. I realised that for a male to be humiliated is the spark that ignites the bad things men do to themselves and others. I know I said that we shouldn't give personal examples in this discussion, by having read Waleed's words, I realise that I have been disrupting my relationship with my son by what I meant as joking, but was humiliating for him.

Basically, and I suppose I should take the blame, I never put the time into my son to teach him how to use tools. We spent too much time in the batting nets while he developed his batting skills. His wife got that knowledge through her relationship with her dad. So now I try to joke and say that my son wouldn't know which end of a spanner to hold onto. Over the past couple of years he has completed a few projects that show that he can swing a hammer and drive a screw.

I suppose that next time we are together I'd better apologise for being an R Sole.

3 hours ago, Marty_d said:

Unless I'm much mistaken,  OME is a retired policeman.

Make no mistake about it, OME is, but I shock myself when I realise that it's 18 years, but I went out on a pension and was only in my mid-50s.

8 hours ago, Jerry_Atrick said:

But, thinking about it, for chasing and wrestling down those whom they protect us from, it is probably easier in the new kit compared to that of old.

Before they introduced the cargo pants I wore trousers and a short sleeved shirt. In winter I also wore a clip-on ready-knotted tie and a leather jacket. The trousers didn't have knee or thigh pockets to be filled with stuff that would throw your legs out of their correct line of movement when running. The trousers were easy to wash and iron. I wore short-sleeved shirts because I felt restricted in movement by long-sleeves, but they were available to those who liked them. The leather jacket had a removable fleecy liner if you needed extra warmth.

The only good part of the current uniform is the appointments jerkin which allows one to carry a radio, spray and a Taser while having the weight of these items carried on the shoulders. The reason they were introduced was that police were getting lower back problems when all these appointments were being carried on an overbelt at the waist. 

1 hour ago, pmccarthy said:

How did you know what was on his bum cheeks? My excuse is that I worked in mines, where we had communal showers.

We did shower after PT training.

1 hour ago, red750 said:

The Mooney Anomoly

 

Gay Pride earns its wings.