Bruce Tuncks

I reckon the seat looks ok, and I reckon it's a man's seat. I'd try it out, but my bike has electric boost, which is just great. Why are there not more electric bikes around?

Kg, I read that on the first day, army troops were unmet by defenders and wandered about everywhere before returning to the beaches for tea. I would like for somebody with your expertise to check this out.

Not really true.... sometimes I go on utube to find out how to do things.

Why would anybody use Twitter? This site here is as far as I go.

Thanks jerry. I still don't really understand but I can see it's my problem of not knowing enough programming. Don't you think that those like me are very trusting to deal in bitcoins? In the meantime, Jabiru maintenance is hard enough.

AND I just don't believe about them being homeless. I have asked why there is nobody around an outpost town, to be told that they had houses at other settlements and moved between them.

Well OME, you sure explained why Eddie Connellan was only allowed to import and fly pommy planes. It was because Menzies was an aviation-ignorant pommyphile. Around Alice Springs, there was more than one mutually-hating tribe. In fact, some of the harm being done at present is due to politically-correct ignorant fools who have swallowed their own nonsense about "peace-loving first nations". They try and kill each other, yet they are allocated housing next-door.

I should hate the poms, but in actual fact I reckon they were pretty good for their times.

I reckon they only had the beach and the cliffs. Here's what I wish they served the governor general etc on anzac day.... tins of beef which have sat in the sun for weeks and served on plates which have never been washed. Flies need constant shooing or you can't see your plate. With the "beef" you only have hard biscuits made from salt and water and flour. A young person could break their teeth on these biscuits. They could easily have a barge-load of vegetables from Cairo, but they were saving money. The pommy general in charge lived in a nice house on an island nearby. The legacy, such as it was, was that the army learned that you need to feed your troops better. This helped them in France. And, of course, as a result of breaker morant, the poms were no longer able to shoot australian troops for disciplinary reasons.

They were poorly led, jerry. They actually penetrated further on the first day than they did later. And yes, it was the ottoman empire which was fighting in Turkey in ww1. Turkey came afterwards, and they were the first country to beat a white army, so they were happy about that. Kemal Attaturk was their first leader, after having run the defence at gallipoli. The Australians were suffering badly from malnutrition, so much so that they were deemed "unfit to fight" by a visiting general. That this could have been the case when britain was by far the richest country on earth was a crime beyond comprehension.

I reckon that Churchill confiscating those ships was a very poor decision which may have been instrumental in Turkey joining with Germany. I love it how the Churchill family is angry about the things Gallipoli guides are saying. Ergodan annoyed me recently when he said how they ( the Turks ) whipped Australia and could do it again. Yes they did do better than the Anzacs did, but there was a lot more to it than Ergodan said. Actually, Turkey turned out to be maybe the only country that "won" WW1. They certainly came out of it better than when they entered.

I agree with nomad and that is exactly why I'm voting "no" even though I quite like Albanese. The ONLY things I have seen happen at the behest of Aborigines is the prohibition of whitefellers being able to climb hills. I hate that. If Aborigines were able to come up with some new ideas on how to stop the lawlessness in Alice Springs, I would like that.

Octave, I reckon its terrible that your son had to lobby hard to get ev's to race. Tell him goodonyer.

On the subject of Scottish shipbuilding, I reckon it was a long time ago that they were big in shipbuilding. Before WW1, they were the best in the world. In fact the Gallipoli campaign was caused by Churchill " confiscating " 2 ships that the Turks had ordered and foolishly thought were theirs. This was why they were persuaded by the Germans to enter the war against the British.

I'm not really surprised at the stuff on congress etc. The difference is that the church claims to be moral and to be everlastingly correct in all important matters. Yes, this is an impossibly high standard, but those few churchmen I have known have personally been ok.... One guy was a homosexual, but he never forced himself on anybody and so he was morally ok in my book. ( I hasten to say that I'm not religious at all myself )

I read that the biblical "eden" is in anatolia, a part of Turkey these days. I would have thought it too dry, but when you look carefully at rainfall figures, there is more water than I thought.

They made him too powerful. This power is just not logical.... for example, being all-powerful makes him responsible for all sorts of things. The same is true for the superman character from the comics. Mind you, I have spent time daydreaming about just what I'd like to do with super-powers. One thing i'd like to do would be to attend one of those islamic courts where they were throwing accused homosexuals off a flat roof. I'd throw a few judges and guards off instead.

If god doesn't like it, he can easily magic up some money for their safes. Maybe not money but gold or bitcoins?

Thanks guys, here I was thinking I was the only one.

I once read that the indians finished up with the worst of 2 worlds.... european bureaucracy and middle-eastern fatalism. There was an Australian guy who wanted to be able to fly gliders while posted to India. After a year of correspondence on the matter, he gave up trying.

Reading about how russians surrendering has increased, makes me even more sure that treating russians well if they surrender is a good idea. I would have them stay in a confiscated ukranian oligarch's mansion , wined and dined, and then repatriated to be treated cruelly by russians at the borders. ( on a prisoner exchange of course). Yes, the spies among them would wonder what to report.

I have it on good authority that gamblers are worse than alcoholics. A very rich bookie was being interviewed on his retirement, and the junior interviewer asked him his opinion of gamblers. He fixed the interviewer with a glare, and asked him did he really want his true opinion...the stupid tv man said "yes". "I would rather see my daughter go down the aisle with an alcoholic than with a gambler" the bookie said.

I reckon you are exactly correct OME. Misuse of position is what corruption is all about, and using money so misbegotten can buy a lot of influence. Personally, I reckon crooked judges are the worst of all.

I reckon we can add weak or non-existant protection for journalists and whistle blowers in general to the list of things Australia is doing poorly on.

You are a lucky guy Jerry. I didn't lose the instruction manual that came with a borehole pump, but I can't follow the main diagram and I can't find it on the net either. But, while looking, I did find something real important: the aquifer can't supply enough to keep the pump running. I had a valve shutting off part of the flow, but a much better way is to have a partially-open valve to return a %age back down the borehole. This avoids any overheat to the pump.