Bruce Tuncks

Yep, the Iowa result reinforced to me that the republicans are in big trouble. To get onto the ticket, you need to support Trump. But supporting Trump will cost you 5 percent of the real vote. Gosh, I hope that this is correct.

Getting back to the real subject, the issue is not about giving your life for your offspring, but giving it up for somebody else's offspring.

Nope, no collection of my own stethoscopes. But I once borrowed one and heard nothing come through it. They sure do look convincing tho, the doctors I mean.

How do they turn a promise to give you money into a request that you send them some?

I want to listen to hearts. Just like they pretend to do with a real stethoscope.

The presentation of a fake email as genuine is the skill of the scammer. They have got pretty good lately.

Good onyer red. There can't be a penalty for treating a genuine communication as a scam, can there? Not that I am implying that the email was genuine.

On the show about border guards, none of the smugglers of diseased fruit etc had Google Translate in their purses. They all used the excuse that " they didn't understand" , even though they were given the written stuff in their own language. I reckon it is possible that women, in particular, are illiterate in some countries. One of the few good things Howard did was to put the question " where is your spouse learning english?" into some sort of questionnaire related to immigration. I can imagine the horror that question would be viewed with by a typical Taliban. Why people should be brought in without housing is a mystery to me.

There is one country in the world that has never had an ethnic bloodletting, and it is Japan. Why is this? Because the Japanese immigration rules are very easy on race and religion, they matter not at all. BUT you have to pass a test in the local language, and this eliminates a lot.

South Australia ( Adelaide) is still back in the days where building a freeway makes the lands where the freeway passes more valuable for developers. One freeway passes right through the Gawler Gliding Club, on down to join up with the Adelaide freeway system. We ( the gliding club) said you could not do that for aircraft safety reasons. So they got consultants to show that we were going to be left with more than most had to start with. Well we did have the ability to say " go away and set us back as if you never came" when they said how we got unfairly-well treated. Personally, my house in Gawler was bought under the misapprehension that walking to the railway station would be worth money one day.... well this never happened from 1974 to 2000.

Are there people in Australia who only speak russian yet have australian citizenship? Who allowed this?

This guy down the street thought that his deceased mother had a buried lot of money in the backyard. He sure did a lot of fruitless digging.

Yep, that's the risk you take when replanting. How to know what will be the in variety in five years time is the challenge. Personally, I like Merlot and chardonnay too and shiraz as well. Not fussy is my thing.

Your money would be in a metal box connected to the mains and with lots of plastic separating the metal box from the earth. The mains connection would not be obvious to somebody digging from the top. Please don't mention my name if you really do this.

I like the idea of electrifying your money-bin but I reckon it's illegal.

Red, I couldn't scroll with your posted thing, so this maybe odd for you to understand. How can they take your money when it looks like they are giving you about 450 dollars? Once I was the subject of a pfishing email and I should have noticed that the email was a fake, but they were using the paypal website stuff and I didn't notice that the originating country was Italy! They sure knew how to appeal to a cheapskate, they said that some person had used my details to buy oil filters in Ballarat, and I would be charged for them if I didn't act.

I'm hoping to get a letter from the real ATO just so I can treat it like a scam.

Fake glass huh nev. I never knew about that stuff. Anyway, I hasten to report that the young guy who answered the phone at the BoM actually didn't know about the phone call cost on account of never trying to ring it himself. He also said that the Edenhope rainfall readings were "pending", and could be so for a month. I should have asked him why they lied about the rainfall with their zero figure when it had clearly rained a lot, but I was too slow to think of this. Maybe I'll call him back, depending on who is paying for the calls. gosh it's hard being a cheapskate, and you get no sympathy either.

I'm trying to buy a cheap amplifier stethoscope, but there are sites used to selling to the medical profession and they are too expensive for me.... any assistance would be welcome. ( cheap for me is less than $100 for a good-quality thing)

Here's another thing I've noticed.... the river areas are getting much better at producing good wines. Or maybe as the alcohol has bitten, I have become less choosy?

Plenty of changes going on in established areas over here Nev. I reckon the main reason is to change the variety.... years ago, chardonnay was the in variety, now I reckon it may be Merlot. I reckon it's the hardest decision of all to make. Changing the rootstock at the same time would be quite easy in comparison.

Well I did ring that number and the phone was answered by a young guy who told me NOTHING. He sort of said that the rainfall could be held back for more than a month, and he couldn't tell me if the phone call would be billed to me or not.

I don't believe in prophets nev. When one can prophesise the next cross-lotto numbers, i will change my mind.

A telephone..... for which I may be the payer! bugger, this is not fair. They are the ones I am trying to correct..... gosh, we got zero rain when Heathcote got 180mm in one day, surely this must have got somebodies attention. In fact the rain at edenhope is above average for this time of the year. q: is the call a free one?

About the rainfall at edenhope west wimmera victoria. The "official " sites say that NO rain has fallen this month, but it is actually about 60mm. I would like to tell them about this but their sites have no way to tell them..... advice needed please.