gareth lacey

Facthunter and all, were you brought up in the UK? As a person born in Wales and from a large family(eldest of8) i was discriminated against by the middle and higher class(what ever that means) looked down at school because i was a "Taffy" and from a large family , my father who came home from WW11 was so disgruntled with the way returned soldiers by the then Labor government were treated left Wales to pursue work other than the mines,we now understand why he could not settle down (PTSD) so the class system was used against the so called working class, he migrated to aus in 1968 and he loved Australia(he told us stories about Aus soldiers in Burma how they were great guys and didnt take the "chinless wonders" to seriously .I have called Australia home for 50+ years and am proud to call myself aussie, as for the indigenous people they do seem to have a chip on their shoulder, yes bad things happened to them in the early years and up to the seventies ,but it is time for them to get on with life , not hark back to days when most younger ones were not born, call me racist if you want but i have many non white friends and relatives and they are mostly good people, my very good friend is a Magistrate ,born into a Italian and 1/4 idigenous parents and he is adamant that they need to move on, and he is not a priveliged white person, but got up and worked his axxse off to get where he is ,so it can be done.Too many deaths in custody of unnatural causes should be investigated for non white and white prisoners. Cheers gareth

But no one is asking for a royal commission into these deaths , indigenous or not they should all be questioned but they are not, seems that its only the colour of your skin that matters, overtones of being racist the other way maybe.

2014 non indigenous people died in custody in the same period , are their deaths not a worry to us as well?

I was always led to believe that the majority ruled not the minority, we have too many of these groups feeling hard done by, to many individuals think that the world owes them, 1 program that i watch is the drum,its now becoming a farce,they drag up so called experts on every topic, one of my pet dislikes is the so called "aboriginal" persons for their take on issues,give me a break the ones that shout the loudest are mostly whiter than me ,but claim their rights as an indigenous person, ok lets say this I come from a an IRISH,Welsh,French background do i demand rights in these countries and do i identify as one of these NO, I am Australian, this is my country and my identity, the great actor Denzel Washington asked "why do you call me African American, I am American ,i was born here and have no affinity with Africa, political madness not correctness abounds , to many jump on the gravy train. end of rant Cheers gareth

Mate,as they say in the classics dont let the bastards get you down,they dont contribute much to this forum so please stay we all like you wit and your presentations on sciences cheers Gareth

Many years ago(1971 to 78 )i used to ride horses through all that area when Penfolds owned a huge acreage at leppington we used to hold 3 day events on many properties around there to Bringelly, was through there 2019 to see and old mate who had 10 acres at Rossmore the developers have offered him (9.5 million for 5 of his acres) now that rea is just part of greater Liverpool, as i have said before too many people making these areas undesirable.

It,s sport ,all it produces is overpaid atheletes who think they are above the law,just look at NRL, and some tennis players think that covid rules do not apply to them,some commentators call these nrl players heroe,s, give me a break, the real heroe,s are the front line nurses and doctors, never had much inerest in any sport certainly wont watch it on tv to much stuff to do and see, its all geared to advertising thats why they get paid stupid sums of money , no interest in the olympics at all winning sport for your country will not make us any better as a nation.

WE ,as a nation cannot afford 3 tiers of government, we have states with different road rules,and local rules differ everywhere , states and federal maybe , states only would be stupid and we have seen time and time again local government being greedy and sucking up to developers ,someone stated in another thread about using good fertile land to put housing, some developers are downright greedy and in collusion with local government, we have seen in my area good small acreage blocks(5,10,20 acres) snapped up because the local council has made it too costly to own acreage and the scumbags sell thae land and put boxes (houses) on 350 to 450 sq mtres blocks .slum dwellings in the making

And yet the oil companies are spending billions on exploration for more oil and gas , all of us on this forum wont see the end of oil in our lifetime ,electric cars are the future for cities ,but outback Australia will not see it for a long time .

Under J Howard s time i had the best years, under all others i went backwards, i would not feed any of the current crop especially albo and fryberg

No one has mentioned the elephant in the room regards climate change,too many humans, we are the ones creating the problem by not addressing that problem,no government will say it,no climate advocates will say it, time to look at that ,stop producing to many babies in all countries especially overcrowded cities, we produce to much garbage ,we use to repair stuff now we throw it away and buy more useless stuff, the amount of recycling that is happening is will never help the world from polluting, we just keep getting TOO MANY HUMANS for the planet to survive ,(if) the planet is overheating when it gets too hot for our species to survive that will be the tipping point for humans to die in droves , forget pandemics, they will be minor inconveniances compared to food and water diminishing to the point where humans will die from starvation, there will be a select few who will survive and it wont be the middle class or lower classes.

Yes , early on, also worked on the boilers in power stations,and also replaced many tubes in boilers so i can call myself a BOILERMAKER, my son is a Metalworker/fabricator/welder not many actual boilermakers around now.

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Hey, i was a boilermaker and NO moron LOL

As a former squaddie i agree, to many hooray henry,s get gongs for simply doing their job, the real heroes are the front line lads, and the special ops guys , and dont forget the NCO,s , some of these guys have so much experience and leadership that leaves officers floundering, my NCo was a veteran of WW11 and Korea and he was very good a career soldier , a soldiers soldier . No pollie deserves a gong the are mostly mealy mouthed cowards. British army, i have no insight of Aus army

My mother died in a home ,full blown dementia ,her weight was 38 kilo when she passed, she was like this for 12 months and the last six was like a vegetable, it was horrible watching her like that in the last days of her life , society, religious doctrine and the law is an ass, in extreme case,s she should have had the option of going with dignity ,not a shrivelled up ,blind ,deaf, organs failing,and in pain human, do that to an animal and you will be up on charges, so Red i agree

His brother is a professor and does a lot of work in the Aboriginal community,they come from a family of eight,the other six are as he say,s all on the gravy train and blaming everyone else for thier woes, i wont mention his name because he is well known,he is very proud of his heritage (italian,british,irish,Aboriginal) but he say,s the community at large can never win the argument,to many bleeding hearts pushing agendas (non indigenous) and while we have this misguided sense of guilt it will be around for a long time, for sure that some horrible things were done to them but i am not responsible for those time , we are not a predominant racist people,but there are elements of racist people around.

I often watch some of these so called indigenous people talking about the the crimes the white invaders did,most of these people have as much Aboriginal in them as I do and they claim affinity to "country" so do I emigrated when I was 21 and this is my country and my sons and daughter are indigenous to Australia and my grandkids are they were born here ,the so called indigenous need to get off the bandwagon and get on with life, ask Warren Mundine in a recent article basically saying that these people need someone to blame and get paid to sit on their axxses .My wife works in education and the indigenous mob get a lot more help than other people so how far do we take this so called guilt trip, I say move on ,I for one will never say sorry, My very good friend is a 1/4 aboriginal,great footy player,bartender ,barrister and now one of the states judges, he did not waste his time on feeling sorry for his self, his remarks are "get over yourself and move on, don't blame everyone else for your insecurity and bias and lets all get on together. Cheers Gareth

Hi all ,anyone out there have a nosewheel for sale ,5.500 to suit aRv ish type aircraft used is ok i will refurbish, with or without tyre ,see what you have , US to aus dollar and postage from US is ridiculous Cheers Gareth

I lived in a place called Gornal in the Midlands when about 16,lower Gornal was 1 mile away and they spoke a different dialect, from my memory lots of places in Uk are like that,but over the years withe migration there i would think it has all changed, when i was in UK last year mostly heard foreign dialects

I played many a round of pontoon in the 60s in the barracks

I am a pensioner, and this lockdown has only affected my coffee times at some of the best coffee houses in australia(brisbane) i am still building,still looking after my grandkids,still going shopping,still going to buy stuff for my build,lockdown,what lockdown(admittingly not talking to many people life still goers on,and at 72 i am enjoying life

I retired at 62 ,allbiet i still do the odd 2 or 3 weeks project work for clients about 3 times a year (this year i wont) am self funded but i have a pension card i take my funds 3 times a year in lump , cash it out and live of that(my wife still works for education dept 3 days a week) although i dont get the pension can still access all that the pensioners get so i will get the $750 ,my super is not that grand ,compared to my son who in 14 years of work has $500,000 in super, i draw about 30k a year sometimes more i can live of it,fly and am building again,Nomadpete ,your super must be HUGE LOL,even so i think you should get the benifits of a pension card ,you have paid your dues Cheers gareth

But why are these morons stocking up on TP it wont stop the virus,flu,coughs etc etc ,if you have the runs ok you will use more but this pandemic rubbish is a beat up and these people just look stupid

Octave, as an adult teaching children do you require a blue card for this , in Qld we do when i was President of a soccer club all commitee members required this , i also do breakfast with the chaplain in a school , blue card required and also drive a bus for an aged care facility(volunteer) and require a blue card this does not completely keep kids and elderly safe but an extensive police check some pedos will still get through