Bruce Tuncks

Yes, I know that historically it is the libs that have been supporters of corruption..... I didn't say that the advice had to be fair did I ?

I reckon the greens are even fuller of s##t than the libs. I also think most of us on this site could tell the libs what to do to get back. Being totally anti-corruption is the big one. I would advise them to paint labor as being the party of corruption.

I wish I could go back in time and fix the fact that we "allowed" japan to invade China. Well I don't think we complained enough. But today, I wish we would be nice about the good things they ( the Chinese ) have done in space. Personally, I would praise them and give them money to help new space things along. And not only the Chinese, the Indians, the Russians and the Yanks are all deserving of this praise and help. There may be others, like the Japanese. Selfishly, this would be good for our own security since space things come directly out of military money, but I would do it for the principle of rewarding good stuff.

I reckon our Australian system can be improved. Personally, as a young hothead, I would have taken to the streets for Whitlam. Nowadays I reckon that would have been a big mistake though.

The biggest mystery of WW2 was about Hes. IN 1941, at the outset of the war, he was on a plane to see somebody very important in England. I think it was the King. Hess was so sure that the war declaration was an error that he risked everything to stop it. His target was not a murderer, the history of Hess's incarceration shows that. Further, he was never tried, so we never got to hear from him. It all points to the king .

I have seen suppositions about the world being a computer simulation, and I remember that this is not a new idea. In 1200 or so, there was a heresy that said the world was just a demon's dream. Does anybody know more about this story?

It doesn't have to cost money if you let those things stay as they are till their life has ended anyway.... of course that is not how they would do it. I voted republic the first time around and note that the kerr business would never have happened if the republican method of selecting the GG had been used.... 2/3 of the house would ensure that the GG was bi-partisan. The way Abbott lied through his teeth to get another few years of monarchy was dreadful, as was the gullibility of the voters.

Nice post onetrack. I'm only here because the aftermath of Breaker Morant stopped the poms from killing Australians. So what you have said is obvious to me.

My experiences mirror you guys surprisingly well. I'm also proud of how our guys learned to fight a war of ambush, quite unlike the Americans. Apparently the Americans would shoot off all their ammo as soon as they were well away from the base and then they could return.

Wonderful how people are getting older these days... king Charles 3rd has only got there well after many of his predecessors were dead first. And I'm still flying! Mind you, there are forces of darkness trying to stop me, they reckon 77 is old.

Creosote posts do not last as long as pressure-treated pine posts, where the best grade reaches 100 years. Apparently a longer life than concrete posts. But creosote posts you could make yourself. I think you needed to boil the stuff and then let it cool down with the posts sitting in it. But I've never made any myself... I have put in lots of treated pine posts though. We have what I call a driller donga machine on the tractor and the posts are hammered into an undersized bored hole. This compresses the soil around the post and increases the strength.

Gosh nev, I didn't know things were so bad. I'd want to catch up to that 4wd guy and beat him up and wreck his 4wd. I sure understand why bikers travel in groups, and here was I thinking it was because bikes were too heavy to lift up by yourself.

Legitimate businesses in those countries would have a genuine grievance against the scammers.

Our authorities could help a lot by specifying that country of origin needs clearly identifying on emails etc. We all would then know about Nigeria or Bangla Desh.

Gosh we sure need cheap storage of electricity. It doesn't have to be light or small, but it needs to be cheap.

Yep, there is not much hope in stopping climate change. Some of the countries ( eg china ) will be badly effected by climate change. I think that India is the worst-placed country.... well, when they come looking for assistance, we sure know what to tell them huh. I think more and more these days that us lot lived in the best of times in the best of countries, but all good things come to an end.

When we bought the farm, there was an old cow-shed which had gradually fallen over, and I was surprised it had not blown away. We did lose a dog-kennel from near the ( east-facing) back door. It was weighed down internally with a gas cylinder and it blew from the west across a paddock to be stopped by a fence. We sure do get some ferocious winds, but the effect of these winds on structures mystifies me. So you are right, onetrack. We need to assume the worst, and that is in the codes. We need to work on 42m/sec wind here.( Cat 2).

Thanks old K .... I knew that billy hughes was bad, but I didn't know just how bad. Was he the one who tried again and again to bring in conscription in Australia?

I agree that the yanks stuffed up in Afghanistan and Vietnam. But they did good with germany and Japan after ww2. Much better than the poms did after ww1, setting the stage up for Hitler and Stalin. I dunno if the poms have learned, but the yanks sure did and just look at Germany and Japan today. Did Australia have any influence? I doubt it, but if they did I hope it was on the side of the yanks after ww2.

Some people want something so much that they turn off reality . We see this with religion, and also with romantic scams. I read that 1/3 of the scamees continue to send money even after they have been told that their "lover" is a scammer working out of a big office building in Nigeria.

Amazingly, it is China who is the new enemy of the Vietnamese. They have dammed the Mekong river and the consequences of this are not yet apparent since the tibetan glaciers are melting and keeping the Mekong running.

You and me were lucky huh old K. I would have gone for sure but in hindsight I reckon that would have been a bad idea. At the time, I was mates with a Vietnamese who was helping me with maths. He sure didn't go home either. Only a friend of ours who went on a guided tour last year has really been there. Another mate said that while he was against us ( war protesters ) at the time, now he thought we had been correct all along.

I hope that after throwing out the russians, the ukranians turn their attention to the oligarchs. I sure wish we would do that here too.

There are the Darwin awards for those who kill themselves in the most stupid ways. Also, I have read, and believe, that 90% of road fatalities are caused by the most stupid 10% of people you let drive. I will be going to a funeral very soon for a couple of friends who were killed by a stupid truck driver who suddenly swerved onto their side of the road. But political correctness has ruled, and we will never know if this truck driver fitted the description or not. Should I complain at the coroner's or at the funeral?

Well in a population you will find any behavior possible. But I refuse to be included as one of the paint-throwing protesters. Me and my mates thought the opposite to them. I bet there was only one or two anyway. In fact, it was only because my marble didn't come up that I was not a conscript too. My main objection, then and now, was the unfairness of the whole conscription business. A class-mate of mine, who had an IQ of about 200, was conscripted, but they were too canny to send him off as a grunt. He stayed in Australia designing security systems for barracks etc. Another guy, who was crazy before and after service, is now a TPI because of his mental health problems. I personally thought he was worse before joining up, but he had plenty of psychiatrists to say otherwise. ( the second guy was not a conscript ).