Grumpy Old Nasho

You did raise a family onetrack? I was only guessing there.

I'm meeting a potential girlfriend in a few days time, a long way from here, about 250ks, she's the most beautiful and wonderful lady I ever talked to. I simply don't deserve her, but I'm meeting her anyway. She's taking me out for lunch and I'll talk my head off attempting to persuade her to join me in a long term relationship. Her ex conscript husband died, R.I.P, great bloke from all accounts. He was a bit like onetrack, endured the setbacks, then got back on his feet to work and raise a family.

Australia is in a minority of compulsory voting nations. It's quite strange how we believe so fervently in majority rule, then shun that principle on an international basis. Why are we in the UN?

It's a different matter when the Govt (or AEC) creates a disadvantage. They make voting compulsory, but then make it unnecessarily difficult to carry out their order. It's not where I chose to live, it's the Govt's pigheadedness to lighten the load when we are under duress to obey their dictatorial demand.

It would work perhaps if a $50 bottle of wine and card are left in the letter box at Christmas time, suitably hidden so only the postie can find it. Otherwise the postie has the right to refuse to deliver mail back to the Center.

Ha Ha Ha Labor falls in it's own immigration trap. They brought them in, now they must suffer. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/mar/28/tony-burke-cancels-lakemba-mosque-speech-safety-concerns-western-sydney-ntwnfb

Why do think I'm advocating for a troubleshooting team? Highly paid and highly trained to deal with ugly situations in hospitals.

Yeah I get it, head in the sand approach, that's safest way.

No they refuse to, it's not their job to collect mail, only to delivery it. Don't you know anything about rural Australia? Time you did a course of hard knocks on it.

Vietnam is communist, so put on your democracy hat while walking around, and tell em we're so sorry the US spayed agent orange on your heads, and our boys were there to kill you.

No, I'll pay the fine, it does more good. I'm not going to do a 74km round trip to the nearest PO mailing box. How many times do I have to say it?

Yeah, we certainly have a worlds best hospital system, don't we? Would any of you guys defend that childish immature disrespectful process? I'd sack them all, then start working out a brand new way of how to run a hospital, in a human way, not the staff's insane way.

I won't vote, I'll pay the fine instead. A fine does more good than any politician can do, it goes towards helping victims of crime.

Albo called the election on my birthday, drat it! Who does he think he is, doing that? Memories came flooding back when my birthday marble was picked out of the barrel in '67. Politicians have no respect for anyone.

You didn't see the report of the little boy dying in his mother's arms in a hospital waiting room. For hours the mother was waiting there. So how cruel can you blokes get, honestly? With a Super Troubleshooting Team, the mother would have only to make one phone call and a team member or two would be on the spot in minutes, to take over, and get medical treatment for the little boy in an instant. No ifs or buts. Then the team members, using their power and authority, would investigate and sack the hospital staff responsible for the inhuman delay. Wake up fellas, this is not the only death in a hospital waiting room. Don't play politics about it, urgent medical care is far more important than selfish political nonsense. https://www.9news.com.au/national/grieving-parents-demand-urgent-investigation-into-sydney-hospital-after-death-of-twoyearold-son/a0de6011-adf3-49d2-8206-73ed21331c30

And here I am going through my 50c coins looking to see if there's any odd stamping marks that might increase their value by $10.

I haven't yet seen or heard anything about them bringing in a Big Beautiful Consumer Affairs Bureau, the likes of which we've never seen before .... or a Beautiful Super Medical Troubleshooting Team, of highly paid and highly trained medical personnel, hand picked for their human attributes towards others. Until they show signs of coming around to these policies, and other beautiful super policies I have in mind, I'll just ignore those parties completely.

Or it could be no early election, just a fixed term, without a manipulative PM or the GG getting involved.

No Prime Minister or political party should be allowed to decide when an election is going to be held. An election and the time it is held really should be a part of the democratic system. It should be separate from the decisions of dopey prime ministers seeking an advantage. Only a fixed three year date could make it legitimate and fairer for all concerned.

Why does Albanese have the sole privilege of choosing the date for the next Fed election? Why isn't the date fixed for every election?

“The question is, why are we so reliant on the US?” .... That's right .... We need to make Australia great.

Yeah, all while veterans and conscripts were committing suicide, or firing at police, or beating their wives followed by divorce. Fraser never gave a hoot.

Yes we all have a perpetual defeatist attitude. That's what's wrong with us. We couldn't even get on top of a few flaws in a light plane. Was the guy sacked who used thinner sheet aluminium? Why was he allowed to get away with that, or was he killed in the crash? Now we're too scared to even make a toy balsa plane, we wouldn't know how.

What I find strange is that our management/business inferiority status is perpetual. It's a sector always waiting for a foreign multinational to rise out of the Geny bottle .. "Oh Master, my wish is for an overseas multinational with plenty of knowhow and a big wad of money". Once it appears, the sector then brims with confidence, smiling from ear to ear, plenty of photo ops, and happily spruiks "We need foreign investment". We fall for it, then whinge about the pittance in tax they pay. But it stays perpetual, nothing changes. Exceptions are sole traders Forrest and Rhinehart. Not multinationals, but billionaires just the same, and they now really should branch out and become Aussie money lenders to Aussie entrepreneurial innovators. Remember the Nomad that Fraser put a stop to because a rivet came loose or something. Well that wasn't a failure of the Nomad, it was a failure of no-hoper Fraser. He simply didn't believe in Australian ownership, or pride in it. The Nomad project could and should have been handed over to the private sector to improve it and market it.

It was an XR, I had to think for a minute, the first one of that new shape. Their front suspension was a bit weak and they came out of wheel alignment fairly easily and had to be checked often, even if only by eye or a piece of string, to save money at the mechanics. But once out, it was off to the mechanic.