Bruce Tuncks

Why are they exempt? Is it cos they are like quakers and are pacifists?

Thanks guys.... I never knew how hard it was to learn english.

An Australian was being shown around a farm in NZ, when they came upon a fence where a nice-looking ewe was caught by its neck. The NZ farmer said "here is what we always do here" and he got some lipstick out of the glovebox and applied it to the ewe. Then he proceeded to root the ewe. Afterwards, he said the the Australian.... " your turn now". The Australian said No, no,.... well maybe, ok yes but I'm not wearing that lipstick.

I tried but failed to separate islam from the secular even in my mind. I actually spent some time in Libya under Gaddafi, and I liked some aspects of the place. BUT every arrangement sentence finished with the word "inshallah " which means "god willing ". They really act as if there is nothing they can do without god being willing. They have the worst road fatalities in the world. Why wear a seatbelt if the day and time of your death has already been decided by allah?

It's just a story nev. the payment to the polly would normally be hidden as a "campaign donation" or something like that. The payment to the organizer would be hidden as "consulting fees " or similar.

I'd like to see a video of the robotic brickie in action.... or is it too early?

U are not so silly nev. In the Boer war, the negros supported the poms as they were a lot better than the dutch. As regards the current voice debate, I wonder if the Aborigines would have had it so good if another lot got here before the poms. Choose between Dutch, Spanish, Portugese French and German. One of the things about Darwin is how he decided that mankind was another animal when he went on punitive sorties in the Argentine. He was shocked at the behaviour of the soldiers he went with.

It's hard for somebody who grew up on Enid Blyton and then Biggles to be anti-pom. They is us so to speak. I really felt at home in London, and I almost forgave them for the nasty ordeal at Heathrow, where Australians had to line up with dusky turban-wearing undesirables, while greeks walked right in.

I have heard about a crow that wanted to eat the food of a big tied-up dog. The problem was that the dog's lead enabled it to protect its feed-bowl. The crow strutted around and wound the dog up, till it's lead was too short to reach the bowl of food anymore. Then the crow helped itself. If this is true, and I think it was, this shows amazing intelligence from the crow.

Congratulations spacy!

I have a mate who says that ww2 has, sadly. given us the stupid idea of a "just" war, and I always thought of it like this. I can be as stupid as the next guy. For example, I reckon declaring war on Hitler was the correct thing to do. But ww1 was a different matter, and Germany didn't deserve to be treated so badly after the "loss" that they turned to Hitler. Here's some trivia about the start of ww1: The poms were NOT WANTED as they were on the nose in Europe after the Boer War. They invented concentration camps in the modern world. They were lucky to be allowed into all the fun. The stupidity of the Germans in allowing their allegiance with Austria to overcome their common-sense is impressive , but I do believe the historian guy who said that germany ( 30% ) was not nearly as responsible for WW1 as the poms were, at 60%. Germany wanted out in 1915 but the poms were having too much fun.

Why don't "believers" leave more to their god in the punishment dept? Surely being tortured every day for eternity is a lot of punishment? Could it just be that inflicting hurt is good fun?

I still don't understand how it works. The new US senate leader says that teaching evolution causes gun violence, so he is a right-wing loony in my estimation. Yet the democrats could have got in a better person, gosh the outgoing guy was only thrown out by democrat votes. The only sense I can make of it is that the democrats really want the republicans to expose themselves and lose future elections.

On a similar note, did you know that genuine black-belt hari krishnas could levitate? Unfortunately, unbelievers give off bad vibes and so they can't show unbelievers. I am in awe of this logic.

Aha ! Silly me for thinking they were just unable to do so. Now if yours truly could only know, all the regulars to this forum would get rich, well after i did anyway.

Here's a bit of trivia...Q: How do you make extra-virgin olive oil? A: From extra-ugly olives.

Bugger, red, there is fine print as with all things. I never thought of that catch.

The trouble with real mystics is that they can't forsee the cross-lotto resuls.

I just googled esperanto and they are still going.

Well at least English has no genders attached.... German, for example, has 3 genders and if you get it wrong, the whole sentence is buggered. Is anybody old enough to remember Esperanto? It was an attempt to make a modern language but not enough people were interested.

It may actually have been $3,000 ...gosh, I don't remember yet I really owned one.

In South Australia, they ( the govt, led by a right-wing extremist guy called John Ohlsen) sold off the old housing trust houses for as little as $30,000 each. Then there was a terrible shortage of assisted houses, so they introduced priorities. You had to be a single parent with a drug problem and on parole to get a house. So these houses became part of areas where people were rightfully afraid of getting murdered by their neighbors. The "bodies in the barrels" cases came from this sort of place. I dunno what has happened lately, I hope somebody will tell me things are better now.

Death duties ( inheritance tax ) is a no-brainer. Of course we need one. In Australia, I remember well how silly old farts moved to Qld so as to keep their money away from the taxman. For awhile, Bjelke-Peterson's Qld was the only place in Aust where there was no inheritance tax. Even though we knew it was wrong, we all approved of our state govt giving up this tax. If you want to subsidize your kids, do it while you are alive says me. Then you will appreciate their gratitude. AND, there are cunning ways to avoid the tax anyway.... for example, a farm can become incorporated and the shares can be ownership shares ( give these to the kids ) and management shares ( keep these for yourself ).

There was a teacher who used to say "pull yourselves together boys" when we were unruly.

Yep Nev, suicide bombers ( I reckon they MIGHT pass the test if they were truly not coerced ) are about 17 years old. I dunno if they are reasonably counted though.... they might have been brainwashed.