ClintonB

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Parents of all of the feral kids need to become responsible for the criminal activity their kids participate in. Welfare cuts for repeat offences. Once is a mistake. Ten times is BS, they know how to play the system until they are 18, some parents and older ones influence this for their own gain. the system of food cards, auto rent and power payments is not racist, it should be applied across the board. Welfare for out of work, unemployed, single parents is not for the latest iPhone, tattoos and drugs. It is there as a help up, you should aspire to have more by earning it working if you want these things. I was an involuntary sole parent when I made it to NSW. I had more money and help from the government than I earn working before hand. I just couldn’t sit and do nothing. It did take the help of my now wife to raise kids and create what we now have. Life can be good with a bit of hard yakka, which doesn’t kill you contrary to some beliefs.

Aw crap, it’s the summer bay police

All of the lemmings whom have followed blindly the strife going on in the US protesting and damaging property here in Australia should be locked up and have any welfare cut off. It has nothing to do with how things are done here. Being a cop in the US must be a hard job, politics play too big a roll in their system. You have a huge number of untreated “crazies” out in the field. Guns are every where with no real regulation and a massive drug problem. Watch Discovery ID channel or Crime Investigation channel any day of the week to see the horrific things they face every day. They could have handled the Floyd arrest better and we wouldn’t be going through this BS. For every bad cop there must be a 1000’s of good ones that don’t get thanks for the good that they do. And I still don’t understand why damaging $$$$$$ worth of Private business property fixes anything. this is just my 2c worth on the matter.

My great Wally was run on E10 most of the time for 8 years. When I did put premium in it I got less mileage. Same with our family car Kia carnival with 3.5V6 i run the wife’s Honda on premium because it’s a little high performance engine and all mowers, boat motor, whipper snippets and the Bushbaby 582. some 30c litre difference in country or when we travel to the coast.

Dirty scoundrels have all offered loans to be put on hold, but little asterisk denotes we will add around $6500 in interest for the privilege. With 2 large mortgages and a small one, this is going to hurt at the end. Then in the first month of coved 19 they told us use cards and cash was like poison at the shops. I got a $12 fee for 24 excess transacations On card. If you counted all the customers and charged them that much each month, imagine how much they are raking in. Merchants are still paying fees for the terminal and each use, extra charges apply for each tap and go transaction. Would be a good time to be a caring bank.

I cant believe with the "unemployment" in this country that we still need to import Asian and islander workers to pick fruit, work in meatworks and other agricultural jobs. I have first hand seen people that have been sent by job agencies to Chicken processors and meatworks here in Tamworth- that refused to work there because it smells. If you don't have a job and one is there I don't think we should have to support you. When I worked at a factory in Tasmania, I spent my holidays picking peas by hand on steep hillsides. I made more money then than my regular job. Fruit picking does not last forever, if you have to sacrifice a few weeks at a time away from girlfriend and kids so be it. Working outside with plants were some of my more enjoyable times, less stress, no overheads and fresh air. I think it is these people don't want to commit to "having a go" because it takes effort. One friend recently commented that with the doubling of payments for 6 months he had no incentive to go pick apples, as the extra $7150 over six months that it provides makes him comfortable for no effort.

We need a WTF? In the like bar

Round Tamworth there are lots of houses that had shops built into the front of them, when looking for them they are only a handful of blocks between them, the same with little service stations-the type that had a mechanic on duty and fuel/oils. Progress is not always great for us, the big guys may start cheap by comparison but once they have the monopoly UP goes everything, usually with tags stating "down from this in 2016" etc.

Coming back from that is going to be hard. It is hard enough as is to compete with online business with no "real" overheads that a brick and mortar business has. We cop it all the time. A lot of inferior copy parts or incomplete sets sold with "upgrades" required to install. sometimes they sell customers goods they don't have in their possession and place on back order. You have paid straight away and the wholesaler has no stock for up to 3 months or worse obsolete but still in older catalogues. At least when ordering for someone I make sure it is available and can be supplied before taking any money. I'm just hoping to survive this period with limited travellers on the road. Maybe every one will holiday in Australia more afterwards and need servicing and repairs to caravans.

one of my favourite simpson's episodes. I thought of it as soon as I read mouse milk last week.

and the stickers for shop floors, how many of them would have been printed for woolworths alone.

It’s like going back to school, only more useful?

I got an email from The Star earlier this week with free online games and “credits” to play them, just so you don’t forget how to press mindlessly.

My wife put the date inside my wedding ring cause she recons she can see the mental arithmetic going on every time she or some one else asks.

Congrats pmccarthy, shame about visits. but better safe than sorry. At least we have video calls etc now.

does anyone else find it ironic that Boat people from Australia are our biggest threat now days, Bring back Tony!, Just Kidding, Don't:laugh:

I looked around today driving down the hill to the shops and was deep in thought about how the planet is just getting on with its business, the day was beautiful, birds were still flying, critters still around. It seems the most invasive species on earth having a problem is just a blip on the horizon In the great scheme of things. Besides ourselves taking this serious we have no one to bail us out. Watching the news and still seeing people gathering or being in close proximity unnecessarily just irritates me. Our household is limited to me being the designated to go get things we need, since I am still trying to work for as long as I have something to do.

Why does that story work in the uk and australia. We must be suckers for the way we support bludgers that have learnt to suck the system dry.

All of the TP situation has brought back childhood memories for me. When we were kids a chap called Col Elliott was like the wiggles for us, we would listen to his cassettes on road trips in the old falcon 500. one of my favorites and was (as close as I can remember) An Aussie is on holidays in Indonesia and needs the toilet badly, he runs in and drops his strides and dumps a load, then starts looking for toilet paper. He panics when he cant see any, but spots a small sign above a slot in the wall. It reads: We do not believe in cutting trees down and wasting paper, so wipe your rear with your hand, then kindly place your hands through this slot, where they will be licked clean by human lips. He was hesitant but had to do something. so here goes nothing, he wiped, placed his hands in the slot. Bamm!, somebody on the others side hit his fingers with a hammer`. His hands were promptly withdrawn and stuck straight in his mouth. Job Done. Col did this one really well, 35 years later it still makes me chuckle. I am also go and dig through my Dad's stuff and find the tapes. hoping I still have a tape player that works.

I think we should all do our bit to save Corona and drink more, the light one is my pick with lemon or lime. as for toilet paper has every one for gotten it is a relatively modern invention, there has always been crapping and somehow we survived. Sticks, leaves, bark, Newspaper (if not extinct).

Full on tasering for some clown @ 50 years old in Tamworth today being bad in big W Over TP. What is the world coming to.

Very English to be so polite about it.

My wife laughs at my device history. Planes, cars and this forum and weatherzone. i watch you tube when nothing else on, usually Aussie dash cams, flight chops and other aviation ones. i like books in my hand over reading at length on iPad or phone. 2 or 3 novels a week if good ones, only problem is storage, the walk in robe is chockers with books. if I am with people the phone stays away. My kids barely lift their heads from phones and tablets. I couldn’t be kept inside from daylight to dark at their age. They tell us that things are different now.

I like Pauly's humor, especially in Houso's. It's almost a doco in some areas.