Grumpy Old Nasho

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.

Mine were on a 68'Falcon ute I had in my younger days. I was short of a quid but needed tyres so looked at retreads and checked how well the edges of the treads were bonded to the case. I found some with good bonding and gave them a go, half the price of new tyres, wide and sexy looking on the chrome wheels. The bonding was so good, it was hard to tell them from new tyres, and if I remember correctly, they were still on the ute when I sold it a couple of years later. I was quite impressed, and at least they didn't throw a tread like my brand new Toyo tyre did. I must have struck it lucky with a good retreader. who ever they were. Quality bonding I reckon was the secret to good retreads.

Even I'm laughing at that, (Bi-plane jet), it's quite funny. But when allies get the latest jets, they still must be able to afford to put them into the air. We can't, our budget is skint, and so is the RAAF's, I haven't seen many planes flying over my place lately, the RAAF flight path. Just a Hercules or two, nothing else. What ever the planes look like, we must still be able to afford to send then up, otherwise we may as well not have them. An economy based on mined dirt and how many Asian take-aways are sold each year is not the most reliable foundation for buying very expensive military equipment, and enough of it to protect our Southern Pacific patch. We need a lot more investment, Aussie investment, to make Australia greater than a chicken chow min take-away.

The Pilgrims and free settlers would be cheering for Trump.

The tyres I've bought over the years were pretty good. There was one new set though, Toyo, that had one faulty tyre that threw it's tread after 12 months. I never expected that to happen. I got the local newspaper to take a photo and do a write up about it. The news got around and when I went back to where I bought those tyres to get a replacement for the crook one, he said I could have a Bridgestone. He'd sent all his Toyo radials of that same type back to the wholesalers. He couldn't take chance on another one throwing a tread. Other than that, all other tyres held together, some lasting longer than others, some went hard and wouldn't wear out. The retreads I've had, not many, bought them for budget reasons, they were good too, that surprised me, they did some long trips,

How true is that "5 years"? Were there scientific tests done revealing tyres are dangerous after 5 years?. It's just that I've had tyres on my vehicles much longer than that, and they still seemed to be ok.